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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 185 160
Rank change year-on-year +44 -25 +26
Contract jobs citing Use Case 780 357 556
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 1.50% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.64% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 222 369
10th Percentile £400 £356 £411
25th Percentile £450 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £743 £650
90th Percentile £750 £861 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £44.58 £43.74 £49.38
Median hourly rate £57.40 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £76.10 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £101.01 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.40 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +47.77% -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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +57 481 £550 -12.07% 339
North of England -20 113 £475 -9.52% 66
North West -20 55 £475 -13.64% 33
South East -38 52 £500 -3.61% 100
Midlands -28 49 £500 +25.00% 17
Yorkshire -30 46 £519 +12.22% 20
South West +2 43 £500 -13.04% 30
East Midlands -3 28 £500 +33.33% 6
West Midlands -50 21 £513 +28.13% 10
East of England -28 15 £550 +46.67% 10
North East -15 14 £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 43 (5.51%) Confluence
2 28 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.31%) Jupyter
5 10 (1.28%) Apache
6 8 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.64%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Kentico
8 3 (0.38%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 28 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.31%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) CATIA
6 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.64%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.38%) Findur
4 3 (0.38%) Maximo
4 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) Actimize
5 2 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 227 (29.10%) Azure
2 138 (17.69%) AWS
3 86 (11.03%) Power Platform
4 76 (9.74%) GCP
5 38 (4.87%) Azure AI
6 31 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
8 26 (3.33%) Snowflake
9 25 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (2.69%) Amazon Bedrock
12 20 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 20 (2.56%) Serverless
13 19 (2.44%) GitHub
14 18 (2.31%) dbt
15 15 (1.92%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
15 15 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (1.92%) SaaS
16 14 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.72%) Firewall
2 16 (2.05%) Network Security
3 9 (1.15%) VPN
4 6 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.64%) BGP
5 5 (0.64%) DNS
5 5 (0.64%) RTP
6 4 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.51%) SNMP
7 3 (0.38%) 5G
7 3 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.38%) Wireless
8 2 (0.26%) 4G
8 2 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.26%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.26%) LTE
8 2 (0.26%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.95%) Power BI
2 54 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.10%) Metadata
4 25 (3.21%) Tableau
5 24 (3.08%) Big Data
6 21 (2.69%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
7 18 (2.31%) Weaviate
8 17 (2.18%) BigQuery
8 17 (2.18%) Pinecone
9 15 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.79%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.54%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.03%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.90%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.90%) Looker
14 6 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.77%) KDB
15 5 (0.64%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 56 (7.18%) JIRA
2 28 (3.59%) Git
3 14 (1.79%) MLflow
4 10 (1.28%) GitLab
5 6 (0.77%) ERwin
6 5 (0.64%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.38%) XCTest
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) JUnit
8 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) Ant
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 219 (28.08%) Finance
2 217 (27.82%) Social Skills
3 134 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (11.54%) Banking
5 73 (9.36%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.72%) Retail
7 25 (3.21%) Legal
8 24 (3.08%) Marketing
9 23 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (2.44%) Investment Banking
11 16 (2.05%) Front Office
11 16 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.67%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.15%) Military
17 6 (0.77%) Back Office
17 6 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 147 (18.85%) Analyst
2 108 (13.85%) Business Analyst
3 96 (12.31%) Architect
4 82 (10.51%) Senior
5 73 (9.36%) Data Engineer
6 72 (9.23%) Lead
7 51 (6.54%) Developer
8 48 (6.15%) Consultant
9 35 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 30 (3.85%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.46%) Data Scientist
12 26 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 22 (2.82%) Data Analyst
13 22 (2.82%) Data Architect
14 20 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
15 19 (2.44%) Product Owner
16 18 (2.31%) Senior Business Analyst
17 17 (2.18%) Security Engineer
17 17 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.05%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.85%) LangChain
2 28 (3.59%) PySpark
3 22 (2.82%) .NET
3 22 (2.82%) REST
4 20 (2.56%) Pandas
4 20 (2.56%) scikit-learn
5 19 (2.44%) PyTorch
6 17 (2.18%) LlamaIndex
7 16 (2.05%) TensorFlow
8 14 (1.79%) JSON
8 14 (1.79%) Kafka
9 12 (1.54%) LangGraph
10 11 (1.41%) Middleware
10 11 (1.41%) Node.js
10 11 (1.41%) NumPy
11 10 (1.28%) OAuth
11 10 (1.28%) SOAP
12 8 (1.03%) Model Context Protocol
12 8 (1.03%) XML
12 8 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 68 (8.72%) AI Agents
3 51 (6.54%) Cloud Native
4 39 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
7 17 (2.18%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.67%) Beowulf
11 13 (1.67%) Life Science
11 13 (1.67%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.54%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.15%) CSOC
14 8 (1.03%) PMI
15 7 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.21%) Linux
2 17 (2.18%) Windows
3 8 (1.03%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (41.15%) AI
2 238 (30.51%) Analytics
3 185 (23.72%) Agile
4 171 (21.92%) Machine Learning
5 154 (19.74%) Data Modelling
6 139 (17.82%) Data Pipeline
7 130 (16.67%) DevOps
7 130 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 126 (16.15%) Data Science
9 125 (16.03%) LLM
10 123 (15.77%) CI/CD
11 119 (15.26%) Generative AI
12 116 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
13 115 (14.74%) Data Engineering
14 114 (14.62%) Decision-Making
15 109 (13.97%) Roadmaps
16 107 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 103 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 102 (13.08%) Validation
18 102 (13.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 194 (24.87%) Python
2 131 (16.79%) SQL
3 23 (2.95%) C#
4 19 (2.44%) Java
4 19 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (1.92%) R
6 14 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.54%) Scala
8 11 (1.41%) Bash
9 9 (1.15%) Bicep
9 9 (1.15%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.51%) C++
11 4 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.38%) Swift
13 2 (0.26%) Go
13 2 (0.26%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 174 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 135 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 78 (10.00%) Degree
4 25 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.56%) CISSP
5 20 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.56%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (2.05%) CBAP
8 15 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.41%) IIBA
10 10 (1.28%) CISM
10 10 (1.28%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (0.90%) SANS
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.64%) GCIA
12 5 (0.64%) ISEB
13 4 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (14.23%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.13%) QA
3 38 (4.87%) GDPR
4 23 (2.95%) NIST
5 12 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.03%) GRC
7 8 (1.03%) NCSC
8 6 (0.77%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.38%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.38%) PMO
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.26%) MiFID
11 2 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (4.36%) Docker
2 19 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.05%) VMware NSX
4 13 (1.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (0.51%) Snort
6 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.26%) vCloud
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) IAG
8 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.26%) Terraform
3 14 (1.79%) Ansible
4 13 (1.67%) Podman
5 8 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.90%) QRadar
7 6 (0.77%) Grafana
7 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.64%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.64%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.64%) Nessus
9 3 (0.38%) Kibana
9 3 (0.38%) logstash
9 3 (0.38%) Puppet
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.26%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 146 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.46%) Databricks
3 58 (7.44%) OpenAI
4 33 (4.23%) Splunk
5 31 (3.97%) Foundry
6 30 (3.85%) Google
7 29 (3.72%) SAP
8 24 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.44%) Pega
10 18 (2.31%) VMware
11 16 (2.05%) ServiceNow
12 10 (1.28%) Oracle
13 9 (1.15%) Cisco
14 8 (1.03%) Adobe
14 8 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 8 (1.03%) IBM
14 8 (1.03%) NVIDIA
14 8 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 7 (0.90%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.90%) Workday