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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 184 170
Rank change year-on-year +31 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing Use Case 695 353 528
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.44% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.58% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 216 351
10th Percentile £396 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £726 £675
90th Percentile £750 £881 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -7.73% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 10
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 -
25th Percentile £47.22 £43.74 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -16.03%
75th Percentile £77.90 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £62.30
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £38.85 £55.00
% change year-on-year +48.02% -29.37% -16.03%

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 33,832 22,384 32,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.08% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,627 14,686 21,247
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,111 905 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.79 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.91
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.47
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £29.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.11% -14.57% -6.67%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +58 427 £525 -15.32% 185
North of England -14 105 £475 -9.52% 43
North West -14 55 £475 -11.63% 22
South East -47 49 £508 -11.74% 92
Midlands -28 44 £538 +34.38% 23
Yorkshire -33 38 £475 +5.56% 16
South West -21 28 £500 -13.04% 24
East Midlands -14 23 £525 -26.06% 16
West Midlands -46 21 £538 +79.17% 7
East of England -24 16 £550 +32.69% 28
North East - 14 £425 - 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 42 (6.04%) Confluence
2 27 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.16%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.73%) Apache
6 8 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.58%) SAS
8 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.02%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) Maximo
4 3 (0.43%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.29%) Endur
5 2 (0.29%) Findur
5 2 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.29%) Shopify
5 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 213 (30.65%) Azure
2 132 (18.99%) AWS
3 73 (10.50%) Power Platform
4 67 (9.64%) GCP
5 36 (5.18%) Azure AI
5 36 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (4.03%) Snowflake
7 23 (3.31%) dbt
8 22 (3.17%) GitHub
9 21 (3.02%) Amazon Bedrock
9 21 (3.02%) Entra ID
9 21 (3.02%) Serverless
10 20 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (2.73%) Vertex AI
12 17 (2.45%) Azure Machine Learning
13 16 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
14 15 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.46%) Firewall
2 16 (2.30%) Network Security
3 9 (1.29%) VPN
4 6 (0.86%) DNS
4 6 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) RTP
5 5 (0.72%) VoIP
6 4 (0.58%) BGP
6 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.43%) 5G
7 3 (0.43%) Internet
7 3 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.29%) 4G
8 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.29%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.29%) Modbus
8 2 (0.29%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.35%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (7.77%) Power BI
3 30 (4.32%) Metadata
4 24 (3.45%) Tableau
5 22 (3.17%) Big Data
6 21 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
7 20 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.59%) Weaviate
9 17 (2.45%) Pinecone
10 14 (2.01%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.01%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.58%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.29%) Spark SQL
14 7 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.01%) Data Vault
14 7 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.01%) KDB
15 6 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 51 (7.34%) JIRA
2 28 (4.03%) Git
3 12 (1.73%) MLflow
4 9 (1.29%) GitLab
5 8 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.01%) ERwin
7 5 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.43%) XCTest
9 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.29%) JUnit
9 2 (0.29%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 198 (28.49%) Finance
1 198 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 130 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (12.23%) Banking
4 61 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (3.88%) Retail
7 21 (3.02%) Legal
8 16 (2.30%) Marketing
8 16 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.87%) Front Office
11 13 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.15%) Back Office
12 8 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (19.57%) Analyst
2 104 (14.96%) Business Analyst
3 92 (13.24%) Architect
4 69 (9.93%) Data Engineer
5 66 (9.50%) Senior
6 64 (9.21%) Lead
7 49 (7.05%) Developer
8 36 (5.18%) Consultant
9 34 (4.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (4.17%) Data Scientist
11 28 (4.03%) Project Manager
12 27 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 19 (2.73%) Data Architect
13 19 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
14 18 (2.59%) Security Engineer
15 17 (2.45%) Senior Business Analyst
16 16 (2.30%) Pega Developer
16 16 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
16 16 (2.30%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.74%) LangChain
2 24 (3.45%) REST
3 23 (3.31%) PySpark
3 23 (3.31%) PyTorch
4 22 (3.17%) TensorFlow
5 21 (3.02%) scikit-learn
6 18 (2.59%) .NET
7 17 (2.45%) Node.js
7 17 (2.45%) Pandas
8 15 (2.16%) JSON
9 14 (2.01%) Kafka
10 13 (1.87%) LangGraph
10 13 (1.87%) OAuth
11 12 (1.73%) LlamaIndex
11 12 (1.73%) NumPy
11 12 (1.73%) SOAP
11 12 (1.73%) XML
12 11 (1.58%) Middleware
12 11 (1.58%) Model Context Protocol
13 10 (1.44%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.06%) AI Agents
2 55 (7.91%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 33 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.59%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.87%) Beowulf
9 13 (1.87%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.73%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.58%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.44%) Life Science
12 10 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
13 9 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.29%) PMI
14 7 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.31%) Linux
2 18 (2.59%) Windows
3 8 (1.15%) Unix
4 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (39.28%) AI
2 204 (29.35%) Analytics
3 185 (26.62%) Agile
4 156 (22.45%) Machine Learning
5 150 (21.58%) Data Modelling
6 128 (18.42%) CI/CD
7 122 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 119 (17.12%) Data Pipeline
8 119 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (16.98%) DevOps
10 117 (16.83%) Data Science
11 108 (15.54%) Data Engineering
11 108 (15.54%) Validation
12 104 (14.96%) Generative AI
13 102 (14.68%) LLM
14 99 (14.24%) Workshop Facilitation
15 96 (13.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 94 (13.53%) Decision-Making
16 94 (13.53%) Roadmaps
17 89 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 190 (27.34%) Python
2 124 (17.84%) SQL
3 24 (3.45%) Java
4 21 (3.02%) C#
5 16 (2.30%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 15 (2.16%) R
7 11 (1.58%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.44%) Bicep
9 9 (1.29%) Scala
10 8 (1.15%) Bash
11 5 (0.72%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.58%) C++
13 3 (0.43%) Swift
13 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.29%) Go
14 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 110 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 86 (12.37%) Degree
4 32 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.73%) CISSP
7 17 (2.45%) CBAP
8 16 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 14 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.44%) IIBA
10 10 (1.44%) PMI Certification
11 8 (1.15%) CISM
12 7 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.72%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.72%) PhD
15 4 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (13.24%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.90%) QA
3 29 (4.17%) GDPR
4 24 (3.45%) NIST
5 16 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.15%) GRC
7 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.86%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.58%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.58%) NCSC
10 4 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.43%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.43%) PMO
11 3 (0.43%) PSD2
12 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.29%) GxP
12 2 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 32 (4.60%) Docker
2 21 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.59%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.58%) Snort
7 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.29%) vCloud
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) IAG
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (7.91%) Kubernetes
2 37 (5.32%) Terraform
3 13 (1.87%) Podman
4 12 (1.73%) Ansible
5 8 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (0.72%) CSIRT
6 5 (0.72%) Nessus
6 5 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.72%) QRadar
7 4 (0.58%) Grafana
8 3 (0.43%) Kibana
8 3 (0.43%) logstash
9 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.29%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.29%) Puppet
10 1 (0.14%) Argo
10 1 (0.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 121 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.92%) Databricks
3 53 (7.63%) OpenAI
4 28 (4.03%) Google
5 27 (3.88%) Foundry
6 26 (3.74%) SAP
6 26 (3.74%) Splunk
7 22 (3.17%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.88%) VMware
9 18 (2.59%) Pega
10 14 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.29%) Adobe
11 9 (1.29%) Oracle
12 8 (1.15%) IBM
12 8 (1.15%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.15%) NVIDIA
12 8 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 7 (1.01%) Workday
14 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud