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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 191 170
Rank change year-on-year +51 -21 +19
Contract jobs citing Use Case 731 339 535
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.40% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.53% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 206 355
10th Percentile £400 £369 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £749 £669
90th Percentile £750 £881 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -6.82% -0.90% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 14
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.74 £43.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.17% -17.86%
75th Percentile £89.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £99.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £38.85 £57.50
% change year-on-year +73.77% -32.44% -17.86%

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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +63 448 £538 -17.31% 237
North of England -17 106 £475 -9.52% 50
South East -45 55 £503 -6.51% 87
North West -20 54 £475 -11.72% 20
Midlands -36 47 £550 +37.50% 22
Yorkshire -27 39 £525 +13.51% 22
South West -24 29 £500 -13.04% 20
East Midlands -6 26 £550 +26.44% 13
West Midlands -45 21 £538 +34.38% 9
East of England -26 19 £550 +21.15% 11
North East -2 15 £425 - 8
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 44 (6.02%) Confluence
2 28 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.19%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.64%) Apache
6 7 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.55%) CMS
7 4 (0.55%) SAS
8 3 (0.41%) Kentico
8 3 (0.41%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.60%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) Maximo
4 3 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.27%) Actimize
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.27%) Findur
5 2 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 232 (31.74%) Azure
2 138 (18.88%) AWS
3 81 (11.08%) Power Platform
4 72 (9.85%) GCP
5 39 (5.34%) Azure AI
6 33 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (3.56%) Snowflake
9 24 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
10 22 (3.01%) Amazon Bedrock
10 22 (3.01%) dbt
10 22 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (3.01%) Serverless
11 20 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (2.60%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.60%) GitHub
13 18 (2.46%) Vertex AI
14 17 (2.33%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
15 16 (2.19%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.97%) Firewall
2 17 (2.33%) Network Security
3 11 (1.50%) VPN
4 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.68%) DNS
5 5 (0.68%) RTP
6 4 (0.55%) BGP
6 4 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.55%) SNMP
7 3 (0.41%) 5G
7 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.27%) 4G
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) HTTP
8 2 (0.27%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.27%) LTE
8 2 (0.27%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.93%) Data Warehouse
1 58 (7.93%) Power BI
2 31 (4.24%) Metadata
3 24 (3.28%) Tableau
4 23 (3.15%) Big Data
5 21 (2.87%) Weaviate
6 20 (2.74%) Pinecone
7 19 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
8 15 (2.05%) BigQuery
9 14 (1.92%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.64%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.50%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.09%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.96%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.96%) KDB
14 6 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.82%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 55 (7.52%) JIRA
2 29 (3.97%) Git
3 13 (1.78%) MLflow
4 10 (1.37%) GitLab
5 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.68%) ERwin
7 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.41%) XCTest
8 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.27%) JUnit
8 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 214 (29.27%) Finance
2 199 (27.22%) Social Skills
3 132 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.90%) Banking
5 64 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 30 (4.10%) Retail
7 29 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.42%) Legal
9 17 (2.33%) Marketing
10 16 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.19%) Investment Banking
10 16 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.05%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.92%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.78%) Front Office
13 13 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.64%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.96%) Law
16 5 (0.68%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 141 (19.29%) Analyst
2 113 (15.46%) Business Analyst
3 93 (12.72%) Architect
4 76 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 71 (9.71%) Senior
6 68 (9.30%) Lead
7 45 (6.16%) Consultant
7 45 (6.16%) Developer
8 37 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 29 (3.97%) Project Manager
10 28 (3.83%) Data Scientist
11 27 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 18 (2.46%) Data Analyst
12 18 (2.46%) Data Architect
12 18 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
13 17 (2.33%) Product Owner
14 16 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (2.19%) Senior Business Analyst
14 16 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.19%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.10%) LangChain
2 26 (3.56%) PySpark
3 24 (3.28%) REST
4 23 (3.15%) PyTorch
5 22 (3.01%) scikit-learn
6 21 (2.87%) .NET
7 20 (2.74%) TensorFlow
8 17 (2.33%) Pandas
9 16 (2.19%) Node.js
10 15 (2.05%) Kafka
10 15 (2.05%) LlamaIndex
11 14 (1.92%) JSON
12 13 (1.78%) LangGraph
13 11 (1.50%) Middleware
13 11 (1.50%) OAuth
13 11 (1.50%) SOAP
13 11 (1.50%) XML
14 10 (1.37%) Faiss
14 10 (1.37%) Model Context Protocol
14 10 (1.37%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.76%) AI Agents
1 64 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 52 (7.11%) Cloud Native
3 34 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.92%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.78%) Beowulf
8 13 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.64%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 10 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.37%) Life Science
11 10 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.37%) PMI
12 7 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.28%) Linux
2 17 (2.33%) Windows
3 8 (1.09%) Unix
4 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (40.49%) AI
2 220 (30.10%) Analytics
3 195 (26.68%) Agile
4 165 (22.57%) Machine Learning
5 148 (20.25%) Data Modelling
6 131 (17.92%) Data Pipeline
7 128 (17.51%) CI/CD
8 122 (16.69%) DevOps
8 122 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 120 (16.42%) Data Science
10 116 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (15.73%) Data Engineering
11 115 (15.73%) Generative AI
11 115 (15.73%) LLM
12 110 (15.05%) Validation
13 106 (14.50%) Roadmaps
14 103 (14.09%) Workshop Facilitation
15 101 (13.82%) Decision-Making
16 99 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 93 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 200 (27.36%) Python
2 127 (17.37%) SQL
3 23 (3.15%) Java
4 22 (3.01%) C#
5 15 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.05%) R
6 14 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.37%) Bash
7 10 (1.37%) Bicep
7 10 (1.37%) Scala
8 9 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.55%) C++
11 3 (0.41%) Swift
12 2 (0.27%) Go
12 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 153 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 119 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 79 (10.81%) Degree
4 25 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.46%) CBAP
6 18 (2.46%) CISSP
7 16 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.50%) IIBA
9 11 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.23%) CISM
11 7 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.68%) ISEB
14 4 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (13.13%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.61%) QA
3 29 (3.97%) GDPR
4 24 (3.28%) NIST
5 14 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.09%) GRC
7 7 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.82%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.55%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.41%) NCSC
11 3 (0.41%) PMO
11 3 (0.41%) PSD2
12 2 (0.27%) HL7
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (4.51%) Docker
2 18 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.46%) VMware NSX
3 16 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (0.55%) Snort
6 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.27%) vCloud
8 1 (0.14%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.75%) Terraform
3 15 (2.05%) Ansible
4 13 (1.78%) Podman
5 8 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.96%) QRadar
7 6 (0.82%) Grafana
8 5 (0.68%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.68%) Nessus
9 3 (0.41%) Kibana
9 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.41%) logstash
9 3 (0.41%) Puppet
10 2 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) SCCM
11 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 131 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.17%) Databricks
3 57 (7.80%) OpenAI
4 30 (4.10%) Foundry
4 30 (4.10%) SAP
5 28 (3.83%) Google
5 28 (3.83%) Splunk
6 20 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 20 (2.74%) VMware
7 18 (2.46%) Pega
8 15 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.23%) IBM
9 9 (1.23%) Oracle
10 8 (1.09%) Adobe
10 8 (1.09%) Cisco
10 8 (1.09%) NVIDIA
10 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.96%) Workday