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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 197 164
Rank change year-on-year +59 -33 +18
Contract jobs citing Use Case 823 359 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.45% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.59% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 226 367
10th Percentile £400 £360 £408
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -0.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £650
90th Percentile £738 £838 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile £41.94 £33.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £47.22 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £82.85 - -
90th Percentile £100.85 £70.50 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +48.02% -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 36,463 22,562 32,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.37% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,069 14,583 20,746
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,280 1,047 2,378
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.75 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.34% -28.05% +6.23%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +58 515 £550 -12.00% 431
North of England -17 116 £500 -4.76% 48
North West -22 58 £475 -13.64% 30
South East -36 57 £500 -2.44% 100
Midlands -22 49 £500 +23.46% 33
Yorkshire -21 47 £530 +14.59% 14
South West +4 46 £500 -11.11% 47
East Midlands 0 28 £500 +27.39% 10
West Midlands -50 21 £500 +21.21% 22
East of England -32 16 £545 +56.52% 14
North East -23 11 £463 - 5
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 45 (5.47%) Confluence
2 28 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.31%) Jupyter
5 10 (1.22%) Apache
6 9 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.73%) CMS
8 5 (0.61%) SAS
9 3 (0.36%) Kentico
9 3 (0.36%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Appian
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.12%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 27 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.19%) Chatbot
3 15 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.61%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.61%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.36%) Actimize
5 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.36%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.36%) Findur
5 3 (0.36%) Maximo
5 3 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 237 (28.80%) Azure
2 154 (18.71%) AWS
3 91 (11.06%) Power Platform
4 78 (9.48%) GCP
5 39 (4.74%) Azure AI
6 33 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (4.01%) Snowflake
7 32 (3.89%) Microsoft Copilot
8 30 (3.65%) Amazon Bedrock
8 30 (3.65%) Serverless
9 26 (3.16%) Amazon S3
10 24 (2.92%) dbt
11 23 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.79%) Entra ID
11 23 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (2.55%) GitHub
14 18 (2.19%) SaaS
15 17 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
16 14 (1.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.28%) Firewall
2 18 (2.19%) Network Security
3 7 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.85%) VPN
4 6 (0.73%) DNS
4 6 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.61%) BGP
5 5 (0.61%) RTP
6 4 (0.49%) Internet
6 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.49%) SNMP
7 3 (0.36%) 5G
7 3 (0.36%) DHCP
7 3 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.36%) SMS
7 3 (0.36%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.24%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.24%) OSPF
8 2 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (8.02%) Power BI
3 36 (4.37%) Metadata
4 30 (3.65%) Data Lake
5 26 (3.16%) Tableau
6 24 (2.92%) Big Data
7 19 (2.31%) BigQuery
7 19 (2.31%) Weaviate
8 18 (2.19%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 15 (1.82%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.46%) Spark SQL
14 8 (0.97%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.85%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.85%) Looker
15 7 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
16 6 (0.73%) KDB
Development Applications
1 62 (7.53%) JIRA
2 31 (3.77%) Git
3 15 (1.82%) MLflow
4 13 (1.58%) GitLab
5 8 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.73%) ERwin
7 4 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.36%) XCTest
9 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.24%) JUnit
9 2 (0.24%) Postman
9 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.12%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 242 (29.40%) Finance
2 224 (27.22%) Social Skills
3 137 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.91%) Banking
5 84 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.89%) Retail
7 28 (3.40%) Marketing
8 26 (3.16%) Legal
9 23 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.55%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.31%) Front Office
12 18 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (2.07%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.94%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (1.46%) Telecoms
18 10 (1.22%) Law
19 9 (1.09%) Military
20 6 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 149 (18.10%) Analyst
2 110 (13.37%) Business Analyst
3 107 (13.00%) Architect
4 94 (11.42%) Senior
5 80 (9.72%) Data Engineer
6 78 (9.48%) Lead
7 61 (7.41%) Developer
8 51 (6.20%) Consultant
9 39 (4.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (3.52%) Data Architect
10 29 (3.52%) Project Manager
11 26 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 23 (2.79%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.67%) Data Analyst
13 22 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (2.43%) Product Owner
15 18 (2.19%) Senior Business Analyst
16 17 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (1.94%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (1.94%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.89%) PySpark
2 29 (3.52%) LangChain
3 25 (3.04%) REST
4 23 (2.79%) .NET
5 19 (2.31%) scikit-learn
6 18 (2.19%) LlamaIndex
6 18 (2.19%) Pandas
7 17 (2.07%) Kafka
8 15 (1.82%) JSON
8 15 (1.82%) PyTorch
9 13 (1.58%) TensorFlow
10 12 (1.46%) Middleware
11 11 (1.34%) OAuth
11 11 (1.34%) SOAP
12 10 (1.22%) Node.js
13 9 (1.09%) NumPy
14 8 (0.97%) LangGraph
14 8 (0.97%) XML
15 7 (0.85%) A2A Protocol
15 7 (0.85%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.60%) AI Agents
2 74 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 55 (6.68%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.22%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 19 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
9 16 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.70%) Life Science
11 13 (1.58%) Beowulf
12 12 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.34%) CSOC
13 11 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.09%) PMI
14 9 (1.09%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.52%) Linux
2 22 (2.67%) Windows
3 10 (1.22%) Unix
4 8 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (43.99%) AI
2 259 (31.47%) Analytics
3 197 (23.94%) Agile
4 189 (22.96%) Machine Learning
5 166 (20.17%) Data Modelling
6 151 (18.35%) Data Pipeline
7 144 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 139 (16.89%) DevOps
9 137 (16.65%) Generative AI
10 136 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 134 (16.28%) LLM
12 131 (15.92%) Data Science
13 129 (15.67%) Data Engineering
14 123 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
15 120 (14.58%) Decision-Making
16 118 (14.34%) Roadmaps
17 113 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 109 (13.24%) Validation
19 104 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
20 103 (12.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 209 (25.39%) Python
2 159 (19.32%) SQL
3 23 (2.79%) C#
4 19 (2.31%) Java
4 19 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (1.94%) PowerShell
5 16 (1.94%) R
6 14 (1.70%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.46%) Bash
7 12 (1.46%) Scala
8 10 (1.22%) Bicep
9 8 (0.97%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.73%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.36%) C++
13 3 (0.36%) SOQL
13 3 (0.36%) Swift
14 2 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 181 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 138 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.23%) Degree
4 30 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.55%) CISSP
7 20 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.07%) CBAP
10 11 (1.34%) CISM
10 11 (1.34%) IIBA
10 11 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.85%) SANS
13 6 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.61%) ISEB
15 4 (0.49%) GIAC
15 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (16.40%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.22%) GDPR
3 36 (4.37%) QA
4 21 (2.55%) NIST
5 13 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.22%) GRC
8 8 (0.97%) NCSC
9 6 (0.73%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.36%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.36%) PMO
11 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 39 (4.74%) Docker
2 21 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.49%) Snort
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.24%) vCloud
9 1 (0.12%) HDFS
9 1 (0.12%) IAG
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (7.90%) Kubernetes
2 55 (6.68%) Terraform
3 13 (1.58%) Ansible
3 13 (1.58%) Podman
4 8 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 7 (0.85%) QRadar
6 6 (0.73%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.61%) Grafana
7 5 (0.61%) Nessus
7 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.49%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) Puppet
9 2 (0.24%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
10 1 (0.12%) logstash
10 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 155 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.87%) Databricks
3 61 (7.41%) OpenAI
4 34 (4.13%) Foundry
4 34 (4.13%) SAP
4 34 (4.13%) Splunk
5 29 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.40%) Google
7 20 (2.43%) Pega
8 17 (2.07%) VMware
9 16 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.46%) Oracle
11 10 (1.22%) IBM
12 9 (1.09%) Cisco
12 9 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.97%) NVIDIA
14 7 (0.85%) Adobe
14 7 (0.85%) Informatica