Use Case Contract Job Trends in England

Use Cases
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 171 215
Rank change year-on-year +24 +44 -19
Contract jobs citing Use Case 598 395 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.82% 1.49% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.67% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 238 279
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £471 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +2.70%
75th Percentile £638 £693 £675
90th Percentile £750 £841 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £563
% change year-on-year -7.89% +1.24% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 4
10th Percentile - - £36.19
25th Percentile £41.94 £69.00 £56.36
Median hourly rate £56.90 £70.00 £78.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -10.29% +20.05%
75th Percentile £73.25 £71.00 £91.13
90th Percentile £92.33 - £92.70
UK median hourly rate £56.90 £70.00 £78.03
% change year-on-year -18.71% -10.29% +20.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Use Case falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,849 23,705 33,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.71% 89.48% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 14,499 22,354
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,790 754 1,912
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Use Case relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Use Case job vacancy trend in England

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Use Case

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the England region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +35 354 £550 -9.39% 254
North of England -12 89 £468 -9.78% 46
South East +5 54 £525 - 118
North West -16 44 £473 -10.00% 24
Midlands -39 44 £450 -14.29% 31
Yorkshire -19 40 £468 -2.75% 14
West Midlands -35 25 £504 -9.85% 13
South West -24 23 £500 -16.67% 28
East Midlands -14 19 £413 - 18
East of England -13 16 £600 +32.16% 31
North East - 7 £410 - 8
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (6.52%) Confluence
2 23 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.17%) Apache
5 9 (1.51%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.17%) Appian
7 6 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.00%) Smallworld
8 5 (0.84%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.67%) SAS
10 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.33%) Luigi
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.18%) MS Visio
3 15 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.17%) Chatbot
4 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.50%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.50%) Endur
4 3 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.33%) Primavera
5 2 (0.33%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.33%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) iTrent
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 173 (28.93%) Azure
2 103 (17.22%) AWS
3 51 (8.53%) Power Platform
4 50 (8.36%) GCP
5 31 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.52%) GitHub
7 23 (3.85%) Snowflake
8 21 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (3.01%) Serverless
10 16 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.51%) Azure Machine Learning
11 15 (2.51%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (2.17%) Azure AI
13 13 (2.17%) dbt
13 13 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (2.01%) Vertex AI
15 11 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (1.67%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.85%) Firewall
2 14 (2.34%) Network Security
3 8 (1.34%) Internet
4 7 (1.17%) DNS
4 7 (1.17%) VPN
5 6 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.00%) VoIP
6 5 (0.84%) CTI
7 4 (0.67%) BGP
8 3 (0.50%) Broadband
8 3 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.50%) Modbus
8 3 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.50%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.33%) IPFIX
9 2 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.33%) NAS
9 2 (0.33%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.35%) Power BI
2 31 (5.18%) Metadata
3 29 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.68%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.18%) Tableau
6 18 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (2.51%) Big Data
8 12 (2.01%) Delta Lake
8 12 (2.01%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.84%) Pinecone
9 11 (1.84%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.67%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (1.51%) Weaviate
12 8 (1.34%) Data Vault
13 7 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.17%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 52 (8.70%) JIRA
2 29 (4.85%) Git
3 11 (1.84%) MLflow
4 10 (1.67%) GitLab
5 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.34%) Selenium
5 8 (1.34%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.17%) ERwin
7 6 (1.00%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.00%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (1.00%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.84%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.50%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) Hardhat
10 2 (0.33%) JUnit
10 2 (0.33%) Postman
10 2 (0.33%) Pylint
11 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 206 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 166 (27.76%) Finance
3 130 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.70%) Banking
5 44 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (3.34%) Retail
8 19 (3.18%) Legal
8 19 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (3.01%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.51%) Back Office
11 15 (2.51%) Marketing
12 14 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.84%) Front Office
15 10 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.17%) Aerospace
17 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 137 (22.91%) Analyst
2 107 (17.89%) Business Analyst
3 76 (12.71%) Architect
4 61 (10.20%) Senior
5 52 (8.70%) Lead
6 36 (6.02%) Developer
7 35 (5.85%) Data Engineer
8 34 (5.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 34 (5.69%) Consultant
9 24 (4.01%) Data Scientist
9 24 (4.01%) Project Manager
10 20 (3.34%) Technical Analyst
11 19 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 18 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (3.01%) Senior Business Analyst
13 15 (2.51%) Data Analyst
13 15 (2.51%) Technical Business Analyst
14 14 (2.34%) Data Architect
14 14 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (2.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.85%) PyTorch
2 27 (4.52%) TensorFlow
3 26 (4.35%) REST
4 22 (3.68%) scikit-learn
5 21 (3.51%) LangChain
6 20 (3.34%) JSON
7 19 (3.18%) Node.js
7 19 (3.18%) XML
8 17 (2.84%) Pandas
9 15 (2.51%) Model Context Protocol
10 14 (2.34%) LangGraph
11 13 (2.17%) OAuth
12 12 (2.01%) NumPy
12 12 (2.01%) PySpark
13 11 (1.84%) .NET
13 11 (1.84%) Faiss
13 11 (1.84%) YAML
14 10 (1.67%) Hugging Face
14 10 (1.67%) Kafka
14 10 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.03%) Product Ownership
2 46 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 30 (5.02%) AI Agents
4 21 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.34%) Cloud Native
6 18 (3.01%) PMI
7 15 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.84%) Life Science
11 11 (1.84%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
12 8 (1.34%) Beowulf
12 8 (1.34%) Clustering
12 8 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (1.34%) Replication
12 8 (1.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.02%) Linux
2 28 (4.68%) Windows
3 7 (1.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.84%) Unix
5 4 (0.67%) Android
5 4 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (34.45%) AI
2 180 (30.10%) Agile
3 157 (26.25%) Analytics
4 120 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
5 119 (19.90%) Data Modelling
6 118 (19.73%) Machine Learning
7 114 (19.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 109 (18.23%) CI/CD
9 99 (16.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 98 (16.39%) Validation
11 97 (16.22%) DevOps
12 95 (15.89%) Data Science
13 87 (14.55%) Data Governance
14 86 (14.38%) Data Pipeline
14 86 (14.38%) Generative AI
15 84 (14.05%) LLM
15 84 (14.05%) Roadmaps
16 83 (13.88%) User Stories
17 79 (13.21%) Requirements Gathering
18 76 (12.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 163 (27.26%) Python
2 101 (16.89%) SQL
3 28 (4.68%) Java
4 16 (2.68%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.51%) Bash
5 15 (2.51%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.34%) C#
7 13 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.67%) Bicep
8 10 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.17%) Scala
10 6 (1.00%) C++
10 6 (1.00%) R
11 4 (0.67%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.33%) Solidity
13 2 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 106 (17.73%) Degree
2 102 (17.06%) Security Cleared
3 77 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.69%) Master's Degree
6 27 (4.52%) CBAP
7 21 (3.51%) PMI Certification
8 15 (2.51%) CISSP
9 12 (2.01%) Azure Certification
9 12 (2.01%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.84%) IIBA
11 8 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (1.00%) PhD
14 5 (0.84%) CFA
14 5 (0.84%) CISM
14 5 (0.84%) ISEB
14 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.36%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.02%) QA
3 24 (4.01%) NIST
4 20 (3.34%) GDPR
5 18 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 12 (2.01%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.84%) GRC
9 8 (1.34%) PSD2
10 7 (1.17%) EU AI Act
11 6 (1.00%) ISO 8583
11 6 (1.00%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.84%) NCSC
13 3 (0.50%) GxP
13 3 (0.50%) ISO 19650
13 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.50%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (6.86%) Docker
2 22 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.68%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 6 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (1.00%) zsh
7 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.67%) HDFS
9 2 (0.33%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Snort
10 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.68%) Terraform
3 18 (3.01%) Ansible
4 8 (1.34%) Podman
4 8 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.00%) Grafana
5 6 (1.00%) QRadar
6 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.67%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (0.67%) Puppet
8 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.50%) Kibana
8 3 (0.50%) logstash
9 2 (0.33%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.33%) Nessus
9 2 (0.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.17%) Nmap
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 85 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.36%) Databricks
3 29 (4.85%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.52%) Splunk
5 26 (4.35%) Google
6 25 (4.18%) Salesforce
7 24 (4.01%) SAP
8 18 (3.01%) VMware
9 11 (1.84%) Oracle
10 10 (1.67%) Cisco
10 10 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.51%) ServiceNow
12 8 (1.34%) NVIDIA
13 6 (1.00%) Genesys
13 6 (1.00%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.00%) Veracode
14 5 (0.84%) Adobe
14 5 (0.84%) Citrix
14 5 (0.84%) ESRI
14 5 (0.84%) Intergraph