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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 189 161
Rank change year-on-year +49 -28 +25
Contract jobs citing Use Case 798 354 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.88% 1.45% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.59% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 220 372
10th Percentile £400 £358 £410
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.18% +2.32%
75th Percentile £638 £746 £653
90th Percentile £750 £851 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 16
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £47.22 £43.74 £49.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% -17.24%
75th Percentile £82.85 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £100.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +48.02% -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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +66 495 £550 -12.00% 216
North of England -18 115 £500 -4.76% 49
North West -14 58 £475 -13.64% 31
South East -34 56 £500 -2.44% 86
Midlands -27 49 £500 +23.46% 24
Yorkshire -31 46 £530 +14.59% 11
South West +2 43 £500 -13.04% 30
East Midlands -6 28 £500 +27.39% 8
West Midlands -47 21 £500 +21.21% 15
East of England -33 15 £550 +57.96% 7
North East -15 11 £463 - 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 (5.51%) Confluence
2 28 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.38%) Jupyter
5 10 (1.25%) Apache
6 9 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.75%) CMS
8 5 (0.63%) SAS
9 3 (0.38%) Kentico
9 3 (0.38%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 27 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.01%) Chatbot
3 15 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.63%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.63%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.38%) Actimize
5 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.38%) Findur
5 3 (0.38%) Maximo
5 3 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) Shopify
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 227 (28.45%) Azure
2 147 (18.42%) AWS
3 88 (11.03%) Power Platform
4 76 (9.52%) GCP
5 39 (4.89%) Azure AI
6 30 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
7 29 (3.63%) Snowflake
8 28 (3.51%) Amazon Bedrock
8 28 (3.51%) Serverless
9 24 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 23 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (2.88%) dbt
10 23 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (2.76%) Entra ID
12 21 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
13 17 (2.13%) SaaS
14 16 (2.01%) GitHub
15 14 (1.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.51%) Firewall
2 18 (2.26%) Network Security
3 7 (0.88%) VPN
4 6 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.63%) BGP
5 5 (0.63%) DNS
5 5 (0.63%) RTP
6 4 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.50%) SNMP
7 3 (0.38%) 5G
7 3 (0.38%) Internet
7 3 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.38%) SMS
7 3 (0.38%) Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.25%) DHCP
8 2 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.25%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (7.89%) Power BI
3 34 (4.26%) Metadata
4 26 (3.26%) Data Lake
4 26 (3.26%) Tableau
5 24 (3.01%) Big Data
6 19 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.38%) Weaviate
7 18 (2.26%) Pinecone
8 16 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
9 15 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.88%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.75%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.50%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.88%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.88%) Looker
14 6 (0.75%) KDB
15 5 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 58 (7.27%) JIRA
2 30 (3.76%) Git
3 14 (1.75%) MLflow
4 11 (1.38%) GitLab
5 6 (0.75%) ERwin
6 4 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.38%) XCTest
8 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Postman
8 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) Ant
9 1 (0.13%) Deequ
9 1 (0.13%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 228 (28.57%) Finance
2 222 (27.82%) Social Skills
3 134 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (12.16%) Banking
5 83 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.63%) Retail
7 27 (3.38%) Marketing
8 26 (3.26%) Legal
9 23 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (2.51%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (2.26%) Front Office
13 16 (2.01%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.75%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (1.13%) Military
19 8 (1.00%) Law
20 6 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 145 (18.17%) Analyst
2 110 (13.78%) Business Analyst
3 102 (12.78%) Architect
4 86 (10.78%) Senior
5 76 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 76 (9.52%) Lead
6 55 (6.89%) Developer
7 49 (6.14%) Consultant
8 36 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 28 (3.51%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.38%) Data Architect
11 24 (3.01%) Data Scientist
12 23 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 21 (2.63%) Data Analyst
14 20 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (2.26%) Product Owner
15 18 (2.26%) Senior Business Analyst
16 17 (2.13%) Security Engineer
16 17 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.01%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.76%) PySpark
2 28 (3.51%) LangChain
3 23 (2.88%) .NET
4 22 (2.76%) REST
5 18 (2.26%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (2.26%) Pandas
5 18 (2.26%) scikit-learn
6 17 (2.13%) PyTorch
7 15 (1.88%) JSON
7 15 (1.88%) Kafka
8 14 (1.75%) TensorFlow
9 11 (1.38%) Middleware
9 11 (1.38%) Node.js
9 11 (1.38%) OAuth
10 10 (1.25%) SOAP
11 9 (1.13%) LangGraph
11 9 (1.13%) NumPy
12 8 (1.00%) XML
13 7 (0.88%) A2A Protocol
13 7 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (9.15%) AI Agents
2 71 (8.90%) Product Ownership
3 54 (6.77%) Cloud Native
4 40 (5.01%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.63%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.63%) Beowulf
11 13 (1.63%) Life Science
12 12 (1.50%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.13%) CSOC
15 7 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.13%) Linux
2 19 (2.38%) Windows
3 8 (1.00%) Unix
4 7 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (42.61%) AI
2 250 (31.33%) Analytics
3 189 (23.68%) Agile
4 180 (22.56%) Machine Learning
5 160 (20.05%) Data Modelling
6 147 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
7 132 (16.54%) DevOps
8 131 (16.42%) CI/CD
9 129 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 128 (16.04%) Data Science
11 126 (15.79%) Generative AI
12 125 (15.66%) LLM
13 124 (15.54%) Data Engineering
14 119 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
15 115 (14.41%) Roadmaps
16 113 (14.16%) Decision-Making
17 108 (13.53%) Validation
18 107 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 103 (12.91%) Continuous Improvement
19 103 (12.91%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 201 (25.19%) Python
2 151 (18.92%) SQL
3 24 (3.01%) C#
4 20 (2.51%) Kusto Query Language
5 18 (2.26%) Java
6 16 (2.01%) R
7 14 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.50%) Scala
9 10 (1.25%) Bash
10 9 (1.13%) Bicep
10 9 (1.13%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.63%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.50%) C++
12 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.38%) Swift
14 2 (0.25%) Go
14 2 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 180 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 140 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.52%) Degree
4 28 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.76%) CISSP
7 21 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.26%) Master's Degree
9 16 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.88%) CBAP
11 11 (1.38%) CISM
11 11 (1.38%) IIBA
12 9 (1.13%) PMI Certification
13 8 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (0.88%) SANS
15 5 (0.63%) GCIA
15 5 (0.63%) ISEB
16 4 (0.50%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (16.29%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.14%) GDPR
3 40 (5.01%) QA
4 22 (2.76%) NIST
5 11 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.00%) GRC
6 8 (1.00%) NCSC
7 6 (0.75%) EU AI Act
7 6 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.38%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.38%) PMO
9 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 36 (4.51%) Docker
2 21 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.88%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.50%) Snort
7 3 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.25%) vCloud
9 1 (0.13%) HDFS
9 1 (0.13%) IAG
9 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 51 (6.39%) Terraform
3 13 (1.63%) Ansible
3 13 (1.63%) Podman
4 8 (1.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 7 (0.88%) QRadar
6 6 (0.75%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.63%) Grafana
7 5 (0.63%) Nessus
7 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.50%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.25%) Puppet
9 2 (0.25%) SCCM
10 1 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.13%) Kibana
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 148 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.02%) Databricks
3 58 (7.27%) OpenAI
4 34 (4.26%) Splunk
5 33 (4.14%) Foundry
6 30 (3.76%) SAP
7 29 (3.63%) Google
8 26 (3.26%) Salesforce
9 20 (2.51%) Pega
10 17 (2.13%) VMware
11 16 (2.01%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.50%) Oracle
13 10 (1.25%) IBM
14 9 (1.13%) Cisco
14 9 (1.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (1.00%) Dynatrace
15 8 (1.00%) NVIDIA
16 7 (0.88%) Adobe
16 7 (0.88%) Informatica
16 7 (0.88%) MuleSoft