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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 178 207
Rank change year-on-year +32 +29 -12
Contract jobs citing Use Case 635 376 440
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 1.45% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.62% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 231 290
10th Percentile £379 £340 £413
25th Percentile £439 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £570 £566
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +0.80% -1.65%
75th Percentile £638 £691 £675
90th Percentile £750 £850 £825
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile - - £29.65
25th Percentile £41.94 £69.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £67.56
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +3.61% +3.15%
75th Percentile £80.19 £71.00 £90.25
90th Percentile £93.28 - £92.35
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £67.56
% change year-on-year -18.14% +3.61% +3.15%

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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +34 370 £540 -10.00% 161
North of England +2 97 £468 -9.78% 52
South East -14 59 £538 -0.05% 89
North West -8 47 £448 -14.76% 28
Midlands -38 46 £450 -8.16% 21
Yorkshire -23 41 £468 -2.75% 15
South West -21 24 £495 -15.74% 9
West Midlands -42 24 £504 -4.10% 14
East Midlands -11 22 £413 +16.01% 7
East of England -17 16 £550 +46.67% 13
North East - 11 £425 - 9
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 39 (6.14%) Confluence
2 25 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.20%) Apache
5 12 (1.89%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.10%) Appian
7 6 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.94%) Smallworld
8 5 (0.79%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.63%) SAS
10 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.31%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Luigi
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.36%) Chatbot
5 13 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.31%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.16%) CATIA
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.47%) Endur
4 3 (0.47%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.31%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.31%) Primavera
5 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.31%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 2 (0.31%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) iTrent
6 1 (0.16%) Maximo
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 192 (30.24%) Azure
2 114 (17.95%) AWS
3 57 (8.98%) GCP
4 53 (8.35%) Power Platform
5 35 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.41%) GitHub
7 24 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.78%) Snowflake
8 22 (3.46%) Serverless
9 19 (2.99%) Vertex AI
10 18 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
11 17 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.52%) Azure AI
12 16 (2.52%) Entra ID
13 14 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (2.05%) Amazon S3
14 13 (2.05%) dbt
15 12 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
15 12 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.51%) Firewall
2 14 (2.20%) Network Security
3 8 (1.26%) Internet
4 7 (1.10%) DNS
4 7 (1.10%) VPN
5 6 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.94%) VoIP
6 5 (0.79%) CTI
7 4 (0.63%) BGP
8 3 (0.47%) Broadband
8 3 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.47%) Modbus
8 3 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.47%) RTP
8 3 (0.47%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) IPFIX
9 2 (0.31%) NAS
9 2 (0.31%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.31%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.14%) Power BI
2 31 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (4.41%) Metadata
4 23 (3.62%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
6 18 (2.83%) Tableau
7 17 (2.68%) Big Data
8 14 (2.20%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.20%) Pinecone
9 13 (2.05%) Hadoop
9 13 (2.05%) Weaviate
10 11 (1.73%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.73%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (1.26%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.10%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.94%) GIS
14 6 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (8.19%) JIRA
2 29 (4.57%) Git
3 13 (2.05%) MLflow
4 10 (1.57%) GitLab
5 8 (1.26%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.26%) Selenium
5 8 (1.26%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.10%) ERwin
6 7 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.94%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.79%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.47%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.31%) Balsamiq
10 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.31%) Hardhat
10 2 (0.31%) Postman
10 2 (0.31%) Pylint
10 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
General
1 215 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 176 (27.72%) Finance
3 130 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.71%) Banking
5 49 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.31%) Retail
8 19 (2.99%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.99%) Legal
9 18 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.36%) Marketing
12 14 (2.20%) Back Office
12 14 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.89%) Front Office
13 12 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.26%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.10%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 136 (21.42%) Analyst
2 108 (17.01%) Business Analyst
3 84 (13.23%) Architect
4 63 (9.92%) Senior
5 56 (8.82%) Lead
6 46 (7.24%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.61%) Developer
8 37 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 29 (4.57%) Consultant
10 26 (4.09%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.94%) Data Scientist
12 22 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 20 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
14 18 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.83%) Senior Business Analyst
14 18 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.36%) Technical Business Analyst
16 14 (2.20%) Data Architect
17 13 (2.05%) Azure Engineer
17 13 (2.05%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.72%) PyTorch
2 28 (4.41%) TensorFlow
3 27 (4.25%) REST
4 25 (3.94%) LangChain
5 21 (3.31%) scikit-learn
6 20 (3.15%) JSON
6 20 (3.15%) Node.js
7 19 (2.99%) XML
8 17 (2.68%) Model Context Protocol
9 16 (2.52%) LangGraph
9 16 (2.52%) Pandas
10 14 (2.20%) .NET
11 13 (2.05%) Faiss
11 13 (2.05%) OAuth
12 12 (1.89%) PySpark
13 11 (1.73%) Kafka
13 11 (1.73%) Middleware
13 11 (1.73%) NumPy
13 11 (1.73%) SOAP
14 10 (1.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.45%) Product Ownership
2 43 (6.77%) Onboarding
3 34 (5.35%) AI Agents
4 24 (3.78%) Cloud Native
5 23 (3.62%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.68%) PMI
7 16 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.89%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.89%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.89%) Life Science
11 12 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
12 11 (1.73%) Beowulf
12 11 (1.73%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.57%) Linux
2 28 (4.41%) Windows
3 7 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.94%) Unix
5 5 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (35.91%) AI
2 185 (29.13%) Agile
3 174 (27.40%) Analytics
4 131 (20.63%) Machine Learning
5 127 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (19.37%) Data Modelling
7 120 (18.90%) CI/CD
8 116 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 107 (16.85%) Data Science
10 106 (16.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 101 (15.91%) DevOps
12 99 (15.59%) Validation
13 97 (15.28%) Generative AI
14 93 (14.65%) LLM
14 93 (14.65%) Roadmaps
15 90 (14.17%) Data Governance
15 90 (14.17%) User Stories
16 89 (14.02%) Data Pipeline
17 83 (13.07%) Workshop Facilitation
18 80 (12.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 172 (27.09%) Python
2 106 (16.69%) SQL
3 26 (4.09%) Java
4 15 (2.36%) Bash
4 15 (2.36%) C#
4 15 (2.36%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.36%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (1.57%) Bicep
8 8 (1.26%) Scala
9 6 (0.94%) R
10 5 (0.79%) C++
11 4 (0.63%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
12 3 (0.47%) Swift
13 2 (0.31%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 114 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 109 (17.17%) Degree
3 87 (13.70%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (5.51%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.09%) CBAP
7 20 (3.15%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.20%) CISSP
9 13 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.89%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.73%) IIBA
12 6 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.94%) PhD
13 5 (0.79%) CFA
13 5 (0.79%) CISM
13 5 (0.79%) ISEB
14 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.46%) QA
3 22 (3.46%) GDPR
3 22 (3.46%) NIST
4 17 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.05%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.73%) GRC
8 8 (1.26%) PSD2
9 7 (1.10%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.94%) ISO 8583
10 6 (0.94%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.79%) NCSC
12 4 (0.63%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.47%) GxP
13 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.47%) PMO
13 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 45 (7.09%) Docker
2 21 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.83%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 6 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.94%) zsh
7 5 (0.79%) HDFS
7 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.31%) vCloud
9 1 (0.16%) Snort
9 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.25%) Terraform
3 18 (2.83%) Ansible
4 11 (1.73%) Podman
5 8 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.79%) Grafana
6 5 (0.79%) QRadar
7 4 (0.63%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.63%) Puppet
7 4 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.47%) Kibana
8 3 (0.47%) logstash
8 3 (0.47%) Nessus
9 2 (0.31%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.16%) SCCM
10 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 91 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 51 (8.03%) Databricks
3 39 (6.14%) OpenAI
4 31 (4.88%) Google
5 25 (3.94%) Splunk
6 23 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.62%) SAP
7 20 (3.15%) VMware
8 11 (1.73%) Oracle
9 10 (1.57%) Cisco
9 10 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.26%) NVIDIA
11 6 (0.94%) Genesys
11 6 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.94%) Veracode
12 5 (0.79%) Adobe
12 5 (0.79%) Citrix
12 5 (0.79%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.79%) IBM