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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 179 206
Rank change year-on-year +29 +27 -10
Contract jobs citing Use Case 617 386 434
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 1.47% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.64% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 233 288
10th Percentile £375 £356 £413
25th Percentile £442 £454 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +0.88% +1.33%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £848 £825
UK median daily rate £524 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.77% -1.79% +1.82%
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 29,230 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.56% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,709 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £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 1,843 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 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 8 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 8 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 +32 360 £550 -8.33% 166
North of England -10 94 £468 -9.78% 48
South East -4 57 £525 +4.90% 91
North West -13 45 £450 -14.29% 29
Midlands -30 44 £450 -9.09% 23
Yorkshire -22 40 £468 -2.75% 10
South West -17 24 £495 -15.74% 10
West Midlands -38 24 £504 -8.45% 16
East Midlands -13 20 £413 +16.01% 7
East of England -14 16 £550 +21.15% 12
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 (6.32%) Confluence
2 24 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.11%) Apache
5 10 (1.62%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.13%) Appian
7 6 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.97%) Smallworld
8 5 (0.81%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.65%) SAS
10 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Luigi
11 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.08%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.43%) Chatbot
5 13 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.32%) 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 15 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.49%) Endur
4 3 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.32%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.32%) Primavera
5 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.32%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.32%) Shopify
5 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
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
1 182 (29.50%) Azure
2 110 (17.83%) AWS
3 53 (8.59%) GCP
3 53 (8.59%) Power Platform
4 30 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.54%) GitHub
6 24 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (3.89%) Snowflake
7 21 (3.40%) Serverless
8 17 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (2.59%) Entra ID
10 15 (2.43%) Azure AI
10 15 (2.43%) Azure Machine Learning
11 14 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (2.27%) Vertex AI
12 13 (2.11%) dbt
12 13 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (1.94%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.94%) SaaS
14 11 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.67%) Firewall
2 14 (2.27%) Network Security
3 8 (1.30%) Internet
4 7 (1.13%) DNS
4 7 (1.13%) VPN
5 6 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.97%) VoIP
6 5 (0.81%) CTI
7 4 (0.65%) BGP
8 3 (0.49%) Broadband
8 3 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.49%) Modbus
8 3 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.49%) RTP
8 3 (0.49%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.32%) IPFIX
9 2 (0.32%) NAS
9 2 (0.32%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.32%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.32%) Power BI
2 32 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (4.54%) Metadata
4 23 (3.73%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.24%) Snowflake Schema
6 18 (2.92%) Tableau
7 16 (2.59%) Big Data
8 14 (2.27%) Delta Lake
9 12 (1.94%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.78%) Pinecone
10 11 (1.78%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.62%) Weaviate
12 9 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.30%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.13%) Star Schema
15 6 (0.97%) GIS
15 6 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (8.43%) JIRA
2 28 (4.54%) Git
3 11 (1.78%) MLflow
4 10 (1.62%) GitLab
5 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.30%) Selenium
5 8 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.13%) ERwin
7 6 (0.97%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
7 6 (0.97%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.81%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.49%) PyCharm
10 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.32%) Hardhat
10 2 (0.32%) JUnit
10 2 (0.32%) Postman
10 2 (0.32%) Pylint
10 2 (0.32%) REST Assured
General
1 208 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 172 (27.88%) Finance
3 126 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (10.70%) Banking
5 46 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 32 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.40%) Retail
8 19 (3.08%) Legal
9 18 (2.92%) Investment Banking
9 18 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.59%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.43%) Back Office
11 15 (2.43%) Marketing
12 14 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.78%) Front Office
15 10 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.30%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 134 (21.72%) Analyst
2 106 (17.18%) Business Analyst
3 79 (12.80%) Architect
4 63 (10.21%) Senior
5 54 (8.75%) Lead
6 45 (7.29%) Data Engineer
7 37 (6.00%) Developer
8 35 (5.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 29 (4.70%) Consultant
10 25 (4.05%) Data Scientist
10 25 (4.05%) Project Manager
11 21 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 20 (3.24%) Technical Analyst
13 17 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
13 17 (2.76%) Senior Business Analyst
14 15 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.43%) Technical Business Analyst
15 13 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.11%) Data Analyst
15 13 (2.11%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.86%) PyTorch
2 28 (4.54%) TensorFlow
3 27 (4.38%) REST
4 23 (3.73%) LangChain
5 22 (3.57%) scikit-learn
6 20 (3.24%) JSON
6 20 (3.24%) Node.js
7 19 (3.08%) XML
8 17 (2.76%) Pandas
9 16 (2.59%) Model Context Protocol
10 15 (2.43%) LangGraph
11 13 (2.11%) .NET
11 13 (2.11%) OAuth
12 12 (1.94%) NumPy
12 12 (1.94%) PySpark
13 11 (1.78%) Faiss
13 11 (1.78%) Hugging Face
13 11 (1.78%) Kafka
13 11 (1.78%) SOAP
14 10 (1.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.56%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.13%) Onboarding
3 33 (5.35%) AI Agents
4 22 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.76%) PMI
6 15 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 13 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.94%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.94%) Life Science
9 12 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
10 11 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.46%) Beowulf
13 8 (1.30%) Clustering
13 8 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.70%) Linux
2 27 (4.38%) Windows
3 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.97%) Unix
5 3 (0.49%) Android
5 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (35.17%) AI
2 180 (29.17%) Agile
3 166 (26.90%) Analytics
4 126 (20.42%) Machine Learning
5 120 (19.45%) Data Modelling
6 119 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (18.48%) CI/CD
7 114 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 101 (16.37%) Data Science
8 101 (16.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 98 (15.88%) Validation
10 97 (15.72%) DevOps
11 92 (14.91%) Generative AI
12 91 (14.75%) Roadmaps
13 88 (14.26%) LLM
13 88 (14.26%) User Stories
14 87 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
15 86 (13.94%) Data Governance
16 80 (12.97%) Requirements Gathering
17 79 (12.80%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 168 (27.23%) Python
2 106 (17.18%) SQL
3 26 (4.21%) Java
4 15 (2.43%) Bash
4 15 (2.43%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.27%) C#
6 12 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.62%) Bicep
9 7 (1.13%) Scala
10 6 (0.97%) R
11 5 (0.81%) C++
12 4 (0.65%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.32%) Korn
14 2 (0.32%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 109 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 107 (17.34%) Degree
3 84 (13.61%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.51%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.21%) CBAP
7 20 (3.24%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.27%) CISSP
9 12 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.78%) IIBA
11 6 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (0.97%) PhD
12 5 (0.81%) CFA
12 5 (0.81%) CISM
12 5 (0.81%) ISEB
12 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 37 (6.00%) QA
3 22 (3.57%) GDPR
3 22 (3.57%) NIST
4 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.78%) GRC
7 8 (1.30%) PSD2
8 6 (0.97%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.97%) ISO 8583
8 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.81%) NCSC
10 3 (0.49%) GxP
10 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.49%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.49%) PMO
10 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.32%) MiFID
11 2 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (6.97%) Docker
2 21 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.92%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 6 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.97%) zsh
7 5 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.65%) HDFS
9 2 (0.32%) vCloud
10 1 (0.16%) Snort
10 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.54%) Terraform
3 18 (2.92%) Ansible
4 9 (1.46%) Podman
5 8 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.97%) Grafana
6 6 (0.97%) QRadar
7 5 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.65%) Puppet
8 4 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.49%) Kibana
9 3 (0.49%) logstash
10 2 (0.32%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.32%) Nessus
11 1 (0.16%) Nmap
11 1 (0.16%) SCCM
11 1 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 86 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.62%) Databricks
3 33 (5.35%) OpenAI
4 30 (4.86%) Google
5 26 (4.21%) Splunk
6 23 (3.73%) Salesforce
7 22 (3.57%) SAP
8 20 (3.24%) VMware
9 11 (1.78%) Oracle
10 10 (1.62%) Cisco
10 10 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.30%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.97%) Genesys
12 6 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.97%) Veracode
13 5 (0.81%) Adobe
13 5 (0.81%) Citrix
13 5 (0.81%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.81%) IBM