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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 164 214
Rank change year-on-year +7 +50 -15
Contract jobs citing Use Case 500 493 496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.82% 1.52% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.76% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 306 315
10th Percentile £356 £375 £413
25th Percentile £440 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -3.30%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £650
90th Percentile £772 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £515 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.05% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 5
10th Percentile £27.98 £50.25 £60.50
25th Percentile £41.88 £58.13 £65.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £60.63 - -
90th Percentile £67.75 £64.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £60.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -35.26% -11.11% +22.73%

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 25,024 27,970 37,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.03% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,893 17,419 26,295
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,490 1,309 1,438
10th Percentile £14.37 £14.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%
75th Percentile £49.31 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +11 284 £575 - 327
North of England +7 81 £475 -24.00% 64
North West +8 51 £450 -8.86% 36
Midlands +3 45 £436 -21.97% 45
West Midlands +7 37 £450 -10.00% 25
South East +15 30 £519 +3.75% 193
Yorkshire -13 29 £488 -24.34% 27
East of England +8 25 £538 +2.38% 40
South West +2 13 £444 -31.73% 39
East Midlands -6 8 £375 +5.34% 17
North East -7 1 - - 2
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 28 (5.60%) Confluence
2 14 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.60%) Apache
5 4 (0.80%) Appian
6 2 (0.40%) CMS
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.40%) Luigi
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.20%) Smallworld
Applications
1 27 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.20%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.60%) Siemens NX
5 8 (1.60%) Chatbot
5 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (1.20%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.40%) Simulink
8 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.20%) InDesign
9 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 25 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (3.80%) Teamcenter
3 10 (2.00%) SAP PS
4 9 (1.80%) Endur
5 7 (1.40%) SAP PP
6 5 (1.00%) SAP PM
7 4 (0.80%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.80%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.40%) Maximo
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle CRM
9 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.20%) Aligne
10 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.20%) Findur
10 1 (0.20%) PORTIA
10 1 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 126 (25.20%) Azure
2 94 (18.80%) AWS
3 44 (8.80%) GCP
4 33 (6.60%) Amazon S3
4 33 (6.60%) Power Platform
5 31 (6.20%) SaaS
6 23 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (3.20%) Snowflake
10 13 (2.60%) Vertex AI
11 10 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (1.80%) Amazon Bedrock
12 9 (1.80%) dbt
13 8 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.40%) Azure AI
14 7 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.40%) Collibra
14 7 (1.40%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.40%) Firewall
2 11 (2.20%) Network Security
3 5 (1.00%) BGP
3 5 (1.00%) VLAN
3 5 (1.00%) VPN
4 4 (0.80%) DNS
4 4 (0.80%) HTTP
4 4 (0.80%) MPLS
4 4 (0.80%) NAS
4 4 (0.80%) OSPF
5 3 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.40%) Internet
6 2 (0.40%) LAN
6 2 (0.40%) VoIP
6 2 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.20%) Broadband
7 1 (0.20%) DSL
7 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.20%) SMS
7 1 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.80%) Power BI
2 19 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.00%) Metadata
4 14 (2.80%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.80%) Tableau
5 13 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.40%) Big Data
7 11 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.00%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.80%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.60%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.60%) SAP HANA
11 7 (1.40%) Apache Hive
11 7 (1.40%) Data Vault
11 7 (1.40%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.20%) Pinecone
13 5 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (9.20%) JIRA
2 29 (5.80%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) MLflow
4 7 (1.40%) JUnit
4 7 (1.40%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.20%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.20%) Selenium
6 4 (0.80%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.80%) GitLab
6 4 (0.80%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.60%) ERwin
7 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.60%) Postman
7 3 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Mockito
8 2 (0.40%) Pylint
8 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 178 (35.60%) Social Skills
2 121 (24.20%) Finance
3 110 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.00%) Banking
5 38 (7.60%) Public Sector
6 35 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (5.20%) Manufacturing
8 20 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (3.80%) Aerospace
9 19 (3.80%) Marketing
10 16 (3.20%) Legal
11 15 (3.00%) Back Office
12 14 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.60%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.40%) Investment Banking
14 12 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.80%) French Language
16 9 (1.80%) Retail
17 7 (1.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 109 (21.80%) Analyst
2 87 (17.40%) Architect
3 80 (16.00%) Business Analyst
4 45 (9.00%) Consultant
5 42 (8.40%) Senior
6 34 (6.80%) Developer
7 33 (6.60%) Lead
8 30 (6.00%) Security Architect
9 21 (4.20%) Security Engineer
10 15 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (3.00%) Data Analyst
10 15 (3.00%) Data Architect
10 15 (3.00%) Product Manager
11 14 (2.80%) SAP Consultant
12 13 (2.60%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.20%) Data Scientist
14 11 (2.20%) Designer
14 11 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.20%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.00%) .NET
2 14 (2.80%) CSS
2 14 (2.80%) HTML
3 13 (2.60%) LangChain
4 12 (2.40%) PyTorch
5 11 (2.20%) Pandas
6 9 (1.80%) React
7 8 (1.60%) Hugging Face
7 8 (1.60%) NumPy
7 8 (1.60%) scikit-learn
8 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (1.40%) jQuery
8 7 (1.40%) JSON
8 7 (1.40%) Kafka
8 7 (1.40%) PySpark
8 7 (1.40%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.20%) MIDP
10 5 (1.00%) JNI
10 5 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.60%) Onboarding
2 41 (8.20%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 25 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 22 (4.40%) CSOC
6 21 (4.20%) Cloud Native
7 15 (3.00%) AI Agents
7 15 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (2.80%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (2.80%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.60%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.40%) Life Science
11 11 (2.20%) Security Posture
12 10 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.80%) Operational Technology
13 9 (1.80%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.20%) Linux
2 21 (4.20%) Windows
3 11 (2.20%) Mac OS
4 8 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.40%) Android
6 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (27.60%) Agile
2 108 (21.60%) Analytics
3 96 (19.20%) Artificial Intelligence
4 88 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (15.60%) Cybersecurity
7 69 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 67 (13.40%) Machine Learning
9 66 (13.20%) User Stories
10 62 (12.40%) Data Modelling
11 61 (12.20%) SIEM
12 59 (11.80%) Roadmaps
13 58 (11.60%) Business Analysis
14 57 (11.40%) DevOps
15 51 (10.20%) Visualisation
16 48 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
16 48 (9.60%) CI/CD
16 48 (9.60%) Data Governance
16 48 (9.60%) Migration
17 47 (9.40%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.40%) Python
2 68 (13.60%) SQL
3 23 (4.60%) Java
4 20 (4.00%) Bash
4 20 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.40%) C#
6 12 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (2.00%) C++
8 8 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.80%) PHP
11 3 (0.60%) R
12 2 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.40%) Korn
12 2 (0.40%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 70 (14.00%) Degree
4 20 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.00%) CISSP
6 12 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.20%) CBAP
7 11 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 10 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.40%) MCP
11 6 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.00%) CEH
12 5 (1.00%) GCIA
13 4 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.80%) GCIH
13 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.80%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.60%) GDPR
3 27 (5.40%) QA
4 24 (4.80%) NIST
5 15 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.60%) EU AI Act
8 7 (1.40%) ISO 19650
8 7 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.20%) GxP
10 5 (1.00%) GRC
10 5 (1.00%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.60%) PSD2
12 2 (0.40%) FIPS 140-2
12 2 (0.40%) GMP
12 2 (0.40%) PMO
12 2 (0.40%) SEPA
12 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.60%) Docker
2 12 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.60%) zsh
4 4 (0.80%) HDFS
4 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.00%) Kubernetes
1 15 (3.00%) Terraform
2 14 (2.80%) Ansible
3 7 (1.40%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.80%) Hadoop YARN
4 4 (0.80%) Kibana
4 4 (0.80%) QRadar
4 4 (0.80%) SELinux
5 3 (0.60%) logstash
5 3 (0.60%) Puppet
5 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.40%) Grafana
6 2 (0.40%) HP Data Protector
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.40%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.40%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) Graphite
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 79 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.00%) SAP
3 40 (8.00%) Splunk
4 27 (5.40%) Databricks
5 19 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.60%) Google
7 13 (2.60%) Cisco
7 13 (2.60%) Siemens
8 12 (2.40%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.40%) Oracle
9 10 (2.00%) Citrix
10 7 (1.40%) GoldenSource
10 7 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.20%) Adobe
11 6 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (1.20%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.20%) OpenLink
12 5 (1.00%) IBM
12 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.80%) Informatica