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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 156 170
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +43
Contract jobs citing Use Case 880 504 495
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.81% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.99% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 313 306
10th Percentile £407 £356 £375
25th Percentile £463 £438 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £574
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.50% +4.32%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £661
90th Percentile £750 £774 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £570
% change year-on-year +6.80% -9.65% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £26.10 £27.98 £50.75
25th Percentile £26.25 £41.88 £54.38
Median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.93% -5.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £101.18 £67.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £77.37 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -35.26% -14.29%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +22 536 £575 - 1,062
North of England -50 103 £519 +12.83% 79
South East +5 98 £588 +11.90% 136
South West -2 59 £540 +20.00% 57
Yorkshire -10 58 £537 +13.05% 18
North West -48 43 £475 +5.56% 47
Midlands -52 40 £500 +17.65% 55
West Midlands -58 26 £500 +11.11% 35
East Midlands -6 14 £500 +33.33% 20
East of England -44 14 £488 -2.50% 40
North East -45 2 £425 - 14
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 40 (4.55%) Confluence
2 26 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.39%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.02%) Apache
6 8 (0.91%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.45%) SAS
9 3 (0.34%) Kentico
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 15 (1.70%) MS Visio
2 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.25%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Findur
4 3 (0.34%) Workfront
5 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.23%) Summit
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 252 (28.64%) Azure
2 159 (18.07%) AWS
3 99 (11.25%) Power Platform
4 71 (8.07%) GCP
5 61 (6.93%) Microsoft Copilot
6 41 (4.66%) GitHub
7 40 (4.55%) Snowflake
8 39 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (4.09%) Azure AI
10 35 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (3.75%) Copilot Studio
11 33 (3.75%) SaaS
12 27 (3.07%) Power Automate
13 26 (2.95%) dbt
14 25 (2.84%) Amazon S3
15 22 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 21 (2.39%) Entra ID
16 21 (2.39%) PowerApps
17 20 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.05%) Firewall
2 15 (1.70%) Network Security
3 11 (1.25%) BGP
4 10 (1.14%) Wireless
5 8 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.91%) Multicast
5 8 (0.91%) VLAN
6 7 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.68%) SNMP
8 5 (0.57%) DNS
9 4 (0.45%) HTTP
9 4 (0.45%) SMS
9 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.45%) VPN
10 3 (0.34%) ATM
10 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.34%) Internet
10 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (7.27%) Power BI
2 58 (6.59%) Metadata
3 51 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.75%) Data Lake
5 26 (2.95%) Tableau
6 17 (1.93%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.82%) Big Data
8 15 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.70%) Delta Lake
8 15 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (1.48%) Pinecone
9 13 (1.48%) Weaviate
10 12 (1.36%) Chroma
11 11 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.25%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (1.14%) Redis
13 9 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 55 (6.25%) JIRA
2 24 (2.73%) Git
3 22 (2.50%) GitLab
4 15 (1.70%) MLflow
5 14 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.02%) ERwin
7 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.80%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 258 (29.32%) Finance
2 241 (27.39%) Social Skills
3 164 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.70%) Banking
5 70 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.43%) Marketing
7 37 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.64%) Retail
9 29 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.73%) Legal
11 21 (2.39%) Front Office
11 21 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.27%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.82%) Law
14 15 (1.70%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.59%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.48%) Military
17 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.25%) Publishing
18 9 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (17.16%) Analyst
2 116 (13.18%) Architect
3 95 (10.80%) Business Analyst
4 86 (9.77%) Senior
5 82 (9.32%) Lead
6 78 (8.86%) Consultant
7 75 (8.52%) Data Engineer
8 55 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 48 (5.45%) Developer
10 38 (4.32%) Data Architect
11 21 (2.39%) Data Scientist
12 20 (2.27%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 20 (2.27%) Data Analyst
12 20 (2.27%) SOC Analyst
13 19 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 19 (2.16%) Product Owner
13 19 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (1.59%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
15 13 (1.48%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.82%) Terraform
2 39 (4.43%) PySpark
3 32 (3.64%) REST
4 23 (2.61%) LangChain
5 18 (2.05%) JSON
5 18 (2.05%) Model Context Protocol
6 17 (1.93%) .NET
6 17 (1.93%) Pandas
7 15 (1.70%) LlamaIndex
8 14 (1.59%) Kafka
9 11 (1.25%) RESTful
10 10 (1.14%) scikit-learn
11 8 (0.91%) NumPy
12 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
13 6 (0.68%) HTML
13 6 (0.68%) Semantic Kernel
13 6 (0.68%) Spring
13 6 (0.68%) Spring Boot
13 6 (0.68%) vLLM
13 6 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.34%) AI Agents
2 85 (9.66%) Onboarding
3 77 (8.75%) Product Ownership
4 58 (6.59%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (3.07%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (2.73%) Cyber Threat
7 23 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.70%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (1.48%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.36%) CSOC
13 12 (1.36%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.14%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.14%) CMDB
15 9 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.55%) Linux
2 22 (2.50%) Windows
3 7 (0.80%) Unix
3 7 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (48.98%) AI
2 259 (29.43%) Analytics
3 199 (22.61%) Machine Learning
4 187 (21.25%) Agile
5 175 (19.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 157 (17.84%) Data Pipeline
7 156 (17.73%) Data Modelling
8 153 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 151 (17.16%) LLM
10 145 (16.48%) Generative AI
11 135 (15.34%) CI/CD
12 134 (15.23%) Roadmaps
13 130 (14.77%) Data Engineering
14 124 (14.09%) DevOps
15 119 (13.52%) Decision-Making
16 116 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
16 116 (13.18%) Data Governance
16 116 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
17 106 (12.05%) Validation
18 102 (11.59%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 207 (23.52%) Python
2 172 (19.55%) SQL
3 33 (3.75%) Kusto Query Language
4 26 (2.95%) Java
5 25 (2.84%) PowerShell
6 22 (2.50%) Bash
7 19 (2.16%) C#
8 13 (1.48%) R
9 10 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.80%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.80%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.68%) Scala
13 4 (0.45%) Bicep
13 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.45%) VBA
14 3 (0.34%) Perl
14 3 (0.34%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 193 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 148 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.95%) Degree
4 41 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 35 (3.98%) CISSP
6 20 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 12 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
9 11 (1.25%) GCIH
10 10 (1.14%) CBAP
10 10 (1.14%) SANS
11 9 (1.02%) CISM
11 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.02%) PMP
12 7 (0.80%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.57%) GDPR
3 44 (5.00%) QA
4 22 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.39%) NIST
6 17 (1.93%) NCSC
7 14 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.02%) GRC
9 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.45%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) HL7
13 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.23%) MiFID
13 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (2.73%) Docker
2 21 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.14%) IAG
4 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.61%) Ansible
3 8 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.91%) Grafana
3 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.91%) QRadar
4 6 (0.68%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.68%) OPNET
5 4 (0.45%) CASB
5 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
5 4 (0.45%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Control-M
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 169 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.77%) Databricks
3 47 (5.34%) Splunk
4 45 (5.11%) OpenAI
5 34 (3.86%) ServiceNow
6 33 (3.75%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.61%) Foundry
7 23 (2.61%) Google
8 20 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.27%) SAP
9 19 (2.16%) Cisco
9 19 (2.16%) Oracle
10 14 (1.59%) Adobe
10 14 (1.59%) Pega
11 10 (1.14%) Cribl.io
11 10 (1.14%) Nexthink
12 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
12 8 (0.91%) Informatica
13 7 (0.80%) ArcSight
13 7 (0.80%) F5