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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 157 159
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +63
Contract jobs citing Use Case 893 508 496
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.83% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.01% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 322 305
10th Percentile £405 £351 £378
25th Percentile £463 £440 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £666
90th Percentile £750 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £566
% change year-on-year +5.77% -8.17% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £26.18 £26.85 £50.25
25th Percentile £32.44 £34.86 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.43 £49.22 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.16% -17.97% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 £60.94 -
90th Percentile £101.01 £69.38 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £72.43 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +86.47% -35.26% -11.11%

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 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +21 539 £575 +0.88% 1,606
North of England -41 108 £525 +10.53% 179
South East +8 101 £588 +13.25% 200
Yorkshire -9 60 £537 +10.04% 58
South West +3 55 £540 +20.00% 101
North West -53 46 £513 +12.64% 106
Midlands -51 42 £500 +14.68% 95
West Midlands -55 28 £500 +11.11% 60
East of England -36 18 £500 -6.98% 74
East Midlands -12 14 £500 +33.33% 35
North East -43 2 £425 - 15
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 (4.48%) Confluence
2 27 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 18 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.23%) Apache
6 9 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.45%) SAS
10 3 (0.34%) Kentico
10 3 (0.34%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.57%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.23%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.56%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Workfront
5 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.22%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.22%) Findur
5 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.22%) Summit
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 255 (28.56%) Azure
2 162 (18.14%) AWS
3 99 (11.09%) Power Platform
4 72 (8.06%) GCP
5 65 (7.28%) Microsoft Copilot
6 45 (5.04%) Snowflake
7 41 (4.59%) GitHub
8 40 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (4.14%) Copilot Studio
10 35 (3.92%) Azure AI
11 34 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (3.58%) SaaS
13 30 (3.36%) dbt
14 28 (3.14%) Amazon S3
14 28 (3.14%) Power Automate
15 22 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
16 21 (2.35%) Amazon Bedrock
16 21 (2.35%) PowerApps
17 20 (2.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.24%) Firewall
2 14 (1.57%) Network Security
3 11 (1.23%) BGP
4 10 (1.12%) Wireless
5 8 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.90%) Multicast
5 8 (0.90%) VLAN
6 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.67%) SNMP
8 5 (0.56%) DNS
8 5 (0.56%) VPN
9 4 (0.45%) SMS
9 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.34%) ATM
10 3 (0.34%) Broadband
10 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.34%) HTTP
10 3 (0.34%) Internet
10 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.94%) Power BI
2 61 (6.83%) Metadata
3 50 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (3.81%) Data Lake
5 24 (2.69%) Tableau
6 19 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 17 (1.90%) Big Data
8 16 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
9 14 (1.57%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.57%) Pinecone
10 13 (1.46%) Chroma
10 13 (1.46%) Weaviate
11 11 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.23%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.12%) Neo4j
12 10 (1.12%) Redis
12 10 (1.12%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (6.05%) JIRA
2 24 (2.69%) Git
3 22 (2.46%) GitLab
4 14 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.57%) MLflow
5 10 (1.12%) ERwin
6 7 (0.78%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.67%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.22%) Postman
8 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.11%) Snyk
9 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 262 (29.34%) Finance
2 252 (28.22%) Social Skills
3 157 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.53%) Banking
5 75 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.70%) Marketing
7 37 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.70%) Retail
9 29 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (3.02%) Legal
11 23 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.35%) Front Office
13 20 (2.24%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.90%) Law
15 15 (1.68%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.46%) Military
17 12 (1.34%) Financial Institution
18 11 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.23%) Publishing
19 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (16.91%) Analyst
2 121 (13.55%) Architect
3 99 (11.09%) Senior
4 96 (10.75%) Business Analyst
5 85 (9.52%) Lead
6 79 (8.85%) Consultant
7 78 (8.73%) Data Engineer
8 58 (6.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 46 (5.15%) Developer
10 39 (4.37%) Data Architect
11 25 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.35%) SOC Analyst
14 20 (2.24%) Product Owner
14 20 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 19 (2.13%) Data Analyst
16 18 (2.02%) Data Scientist
17 17 (1.90%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
18 14 (1.57%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.83%) Terraform
2 37 (4.14%) PySpark
3 34 (3.81%) REST
4 25 (2.80%) LangChain
5 21 (2.35%) Model Context Protocol
6 20 (2.24%) JSON
7 17 (1.90%) .NET
8 15 (1.68%) Kafka
8 15 (1.68%) LlamaIndex
8 15 (1.68%) Pandas
9 12 (1.34%) RESTful
10 10 (1.12%) LangGraph
11 9 (1.01%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.90%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.78%) NumPy
13 7 (0.78%) PyTorch
13 7 (0.78%) Semantic Kernel
13 7 (0.78%) vLLM
14 6 (0.67%) SLSA
14 6 (0.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.86%) AI Agents
2 87 (9.74%) Onboarding
3 78 (8.73%) Product Ownership
4 57 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 28 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (2.91%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
8 23 (2.58%) Management Information System
9 20 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.79%) Taxonomies
11 12 (1.34%) CSOC
11 12 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.12%) CMDB
13 10 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.59%) Linux
2 23 (2.58%) Windows
3 8 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.45%) Unix
5 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (50.28%) AI
2 259 (29.00%) Analytics
3 199 (22.28%) Machine Learning
4 185 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 182 (20.38%) Agile
6 160 (17.92%) Data Pipeline
7 157 (17.58%) LLM
8 156 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 155 (17.36%) Data Modelling
10 151 (16.91%) Generative AI
11 149 (16.69%) Roadmaps
12 134 (15.01%) CI/CD
12 134 (15.01%) Data Engineering
13 129 (14.45%) Data Governance
14 122 (13.66%) DevOps
15 117 (13.10%) Decision-Making
16 115 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 112 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
18 107 (11.98%) Validation
19 100 (11.20%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 207 (23.18%) Python
2 172 (19.26%) SQL
3 36 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 28 (3.14%) Java
4 28 (3.14%) PowerShell
5 22 (2.46%) Bash
6 20 (2.24%) C#
7 13 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
8 11 (1.23%) R
9 9 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.78%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.78%) Scala
12 5 (0.56%) Bicep
13 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.34%) Go
14 3 (0.34%) Perl
14 3 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 192 (21.50%) Security Cleared
2 149 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.29%) Degree
4 40 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 36 (4.03%) CISSP
6 22 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.46%) GCIH
10 12 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.23%) SANS
11 11 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (1.12%) CBAP
13 9 (1.01%) CISM
13 9 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.01%) PMP
14 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.38%) GDPR
3 41 (4.59%) QA
4 23 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.24%) NIST
6 17 (1.90%) NCSC
7 16 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.01%) GRC
9 8 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.56%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (2.46%) Active Directory
1 22 (2.46%) Docker
2 10 (1.12%) IAG
3 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.58%) Ansible
3 8 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.90%) Grafana
3 8 (0.90%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.78%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.67%) OPNET
5 6 (0.67%) QRadar
6 4 (0.45%) CASB
6 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
6 4 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.22%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Control-M
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Nessus
8 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 181 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.97%) Databricks
3 48 (5.38%) Splunk
4 47 (5.26%) OpenAI
5 36 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 35 (3.92%) Salesforce
7 29 (3.25%) Google
8 21 (2.35%) Foundry
8 21 (2.35%) SAP
9 20 (2.24%) Dynatrace
10 19 (2.13%) Cisco
11 18 (2.02%) Oracle
12 17 (1.90%) Adobe
13 12 (1.34%) Pega
14 10 (1.12%) Cribl.io
14 10 (1.12%) Nexthink
15 9 (1.01%) Informatica
16 7 (0.78%) ArcSight
16 7 (0.78%) F5
17 6 (0.67%) CyberArk