Use Case Contracts in England

Use Cases
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Use Case skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Use Case over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 168 192
Rank change year-on-year -31 +24 +2
Contract jobs citing Use Case 371 544 631
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.42% 1.46% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.70% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 356 430
10th Percentile £358 £408 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £716 £650 £675
90th Percentile £825 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 11
10th Percentile £33.22 £40.00 £60.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +29.63%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.50 - £77.75
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -32.44% -17.86% +40.00%

All Process and 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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in England.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in England.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 0 221 £600 +6.67% 2,013
North of England -13 50 £513 -10.09% 236
North West +9 34 £525 -6.25% 146
South East +25 30 £525 +5.00% 293
Midlands -3 19 £410 -29.31% 154
East of England +22 17 £320 -24.73% 136
Yorkshire -18 15 £463 -25.64% 78
South West -43 14 £563 -0.62% 130
West Midlands -8 13 £438 -20.45% 99
East Midlands +4 6 £375 -48.45% 52
North East +1 1 - - 12
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.04%) Confluence
2 8 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.08%) Apache
5 3 (0.81%) CMS
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.27%) Smallworld
Applications
1 17 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.96%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.81%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.54%) Simulink
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.27%) InDesign
8 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.23%) Endur
3 9 (2.43%) SAP PS
4 7 (1.89%) SAP PP
5 4 (1.08%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.81%) Maximo
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.54%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.54%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.54%) SAP LE
7 2 (0.54%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.27%) Aligne
8 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.27%) Primavera
8 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.27%) Shopify
8 1 (0.27%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 87 (23.45%) Azure
2 68 (18.33%) AWS
3 33 (8.89%) GCP
4 31 (8.36%) SaaS
5 28 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 26 (7.01%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (5.12%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.70%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.43%) Vertex AI
13 8 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (1.62%) dbt
15 6 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
16 4 (1.08%) Collibra
16 4 (1.08%) GitHub
17 3 (0.81%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.28%) Firewall
2 11 (2.96%) Network Security
3 5 (1.35%) HTTP
3 5 (1.35%) VPN
4 4 (1.08%) BGP
4 4 (1.08%) MPLS
4 4 (1.08%) OSPF
4 4 (1.08%) VLAN
5 3 (0.81%) NAS
5 3 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.27%) DNS
6 1 (0.27%) DSL
6 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) NGFW
6 1 (0.27%) SMS
6 1 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.27%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (5.66%) Power BI
3 15 (4.04%) Big Data
4 14 (3.77%) Tableau
5 11 (2.96%) Metadata
6 6 (1.62%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.62%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.62%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.62%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.08%) GIS
7 4 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.81%) Apache Hive
8 3 (0.81%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.81%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.81%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.81%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (6.47%) JIRA
2 16 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.96%) Git
4 6 (1.62%) MLflow
5 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.54%) JUnit
7 2 (0.54%) Mockito
7 2 (0.54%) Postman
7 2 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.54%) Selenium
7 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.27%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.27%) ERwin
8 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 111 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 95 (25.61%) Finance
3 81 (21.83%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.43%) Banking
5 26 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.31%) Legal
7 16 (4.31%) Marketing
7 16 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.77%) Investment Banking
10 12 (3.23%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.96%) Back Office
12 9 (2.43%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.16%) French Language
13 8 (2.16%) Retail
14 7 (1.89%) Front Office
14 7 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.62%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 87 (23.45%) Analyst
2 68 (18.33%) Architect
3 64 (17.25%) Business Analyst
4 44 (11.86%) Consultant
5 38 (10.24%) Developer
6 29 (7.82%) Senior
7 26 (7.01%) Security Architect
8 23 (6.20%) Lead
9 17 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (4.31%) Python Developer
11 15 (4.04%) Data Analyst
12 14 (3.77%) SAP Consultant
13 13 (3.50%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.50%) Gen AI Developer
13 13 (3.50%) Security Engineer
14 12 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
15 11 (2.96%) Product Manager
15 11 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
16 8 (2.16%) Data Architect
16 8 (2.16%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.47%) React
2 18 (4.85%) FastAPI
3 17 (4.58%) .NET
4 14 (3.77%) Django
5 11 (2.96%) CSS
5 11 (2.96%) HTML
6 8 (2.16%) LangChain
6 8 (2.16%) PySpark
7 7 (1.89%) Kafka
8 6 (1.62%) Node.js
8 6 (1.62%) Pandas
8 6 (1.62%) PyTorch
9 5 (1.35%) LDAP
9 5 (1.35%) NumPy
9 5 (1.35%) TensorFlow
10 4 (1.08%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.08%) REST
10 4 (1.08%) RFC 2544
10 4 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.78%) Onboarding
2 26 (7.01%) Security Operations Centre
3 22 (5.93%) CSOC
4 21 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.85%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.58%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.96%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.43%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.16%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.62%) Data Fabric
12 6 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.62%) Life Science
12 6 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.35%) PMI
13 5 (1.35%) Reinsurance
14 4 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.31%) Linux
2 15 (4.04%) Windows
3 4 (1.08%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.81%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (29.65%) Agile
2 71 (19.14%) Artificial Intelligence
3 60 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (15.63%) Analytics
4 58 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (14.82%) DevOps
6 52 (14.02%) Cybersecurity
6 52 (14.02%) Machine Learning
7 48 (12.94%) User Stories
8 47 (12.67%) SIEM
9 46 (12.40%) CI/CD
10 41 (11.05%) Business Analysis
10 41 (11.05%) Migration
11 37 (9.97%) Generative AI
11 37 (9.97%) Security Operations
12 36 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (9.16%) Roadmaps
14 31 (8.36%) Requirements Gathering
15 30 (8.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.49%) Python
2 66 (17.79%) SQL
3 30 (8.09%) Java
4 21 (5.66%) TypeScript
5 14 (3.77%) C#
6 13 (3.50%) Bash
7 12 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.08%) C++
10 4 (1.08%) PHP
11 3 (0.81%) Scala
12 2 (0.54%) Bicep
12 2 (0.54%) R
12 2 (0.54%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.54%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) COBOL
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 63 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.21%) Degree
4 20 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.77%) Master's Degree
6 13 (3.50%) CISSP
7 10 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.89%) CBAP
8 7 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.35%) CEH
10 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.08%) CCIE
10 4 (1.08%) CCNP
10 4 (1.08%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.08%) VCAP
11 3 (0.81%) CISM
11 3 (0.81%) GCIA
12 2 (0.54%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.74%) QA
2 19 (5.12%) GDPR
3 16 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.96%) NIST
5 9 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.16%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.08%) GRC
9 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.27%) EMIR
10 1 (0.27%) FINRA
10 1 (0.27%) GMP
10 1 (0.27%) GxP
10 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.27%) MiFID
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (5.12%) Docker
2 9 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.08%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.54%) zsh
6 1 (0.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.47%) Ansible
3 13 (3.50%) Terraform
4 4 (1.08%) Kubeflow
4 4 (1.08%) logstash
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.08%) QRadar
5 3 (0.81%) Kibana
5 3 (0.81%) PowerCLI
5 3 (0.81%) SCCM
5 3 (0.81%) SELinux
5 3 (0.81%) vRealize
6 2 (0.54%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.54%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Graphite
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 58 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.97%) Splunk
3 35 (9.43%) SAP
4 15 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.50%) Google
5 13 (3.50%) Oracle
6 11 (2.96%) Databricks
7 10 (2.70%) Cisco
8 9 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.89%) Adobe
9 7 (1.89%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.89%) IBM
9 7 (1.89%) OpenLink
9 7 (1.89%) VMware
10 4 (1.08%) Citrix
10 4 (1.08%) F5
10 4 (1.08%) Informatica
10 4 (1.08%) Palantir
10 4 (1.08%) Red Hat