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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 191 195
Rank change year-on-year +44 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Use Case 654 356 463
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.38% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.53% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 214 300
10th Percentile £389 £333 £417
25th Percentile £441 £450 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £559 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -0.71% -
75th Percentile £638 £699 £675
90th Percentile £750 £875 £825
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 9
10th Percentile - - £36.55
25th Percentile £41.94 £69.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +75.00% -38.93%
75th Percentile £80.19 £71.00 £67.56
90th Percentile £93.28 - £90.95
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.14% +75.00% -38.93%

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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +40 384 £540 -6.49% 147
North of England +6 101 £468 -10.86% 48
South East -3 61 £515 -17.60% 85
Midlands -34 48 £475 -3.06% 30
North West -9 47 £450 -14.29% 22
Yorkshire -16 43 £484 +0.57% 18
West Midlands -40 26 £531 +1.19% 19
South West -20 23 £495 -15.74% 15
East Midlands -10 22 £413 +16.01% 11
East of England -23 15 £550 +46.67% 15
North East - 13 £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 39 (5.96%) Confluence
2 26 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.14%) Apache
5 12 (1.83%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.92%) Appian
6 6 (0.92%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.92%) Smallworld
7 5 (0.76%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.61%) SAS
9 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.31%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.75%) Chatbot
2 18 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 17 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.15%) CATIA
6 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.15%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.92%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.46%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.46%) Endur
4 3 (0.46%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.46%) 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
6 1 (0.15%) iTrent
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.15%) Summit
6 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 203 (31.04%) Azure
2 124 (18.96%) AWS
3 61 (9.33%) GCP
4 57 (8.72%) Power Platform
5 35 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (4.43%) GitHub
7 25 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (3.67%) Snowflake
9 22 (3.36%) Serverless
10 21 (3.21%) Azure AI
11 20 (3.06%) Vertex AI
12 19 (2.91%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.75%) Azure Machine Learning
13 18 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (2.45%) dbt
16 13 (1.99%) Amazon Bedrock
16 13 (1.99%) Amazon S3
16 13 (1.99%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.66%) Firewall
2 15 (2.29%) Network Security
3 8 (1.22%) DNS
3 8 (1.22%) VPN
4 7 (1.07%) Internet
4 7 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.92%) VoIP
6 5 (0.76%) BGP
6 5 (0.76%) CTI
7 4 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.46%) RTP
8 3 (0.46%) SSL
8 3 (0.46%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) IPFIX
9 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.31%) Modbus
9 2 (0.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.42%) Power BI
2 38 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (4.43%) Metadata
4 24 (3.67%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
6 19 (2.91%) Big Data
7 18 (2.75%) Delta Lake
7 18 (2.75%) Tableau
8 15 (2.29%) Pinecone
9 14 (2.14%) Weaviate
10 13 (1.99%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.68%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.68%) SQL Server
12 9 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.22%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.07%) Star Schema
15 6 (0.92%) GIS
Development Applications
1 53 (8.10%) JIRA
2 33 (5.05%) Git
3 14 (2.14%) MLflow
4 12 (1.83%) GitLab
5 7 (1.07%) Cucumber
5 7 (1.07%) ERwin
5 7 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.07%) Selenium
5 7 (1.07%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
7 5 (0.76%) ER Studio
7 5 (0.76%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.46%) PyCharm
8 3 (0.46%) XCTest
9 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.31%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.31%) Postman
9 2 (0.31%) Pylint
9 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
General
1 216 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 177 (27.06%) Finance
3 128 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.24%) Banking
5 53 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 32 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (3.52%) Retail
8 20 (3.06%) Marketing
9 19 (2.91%) Legal
10 18 (2.75%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.14%) Back Office
12 14 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.83%) Front Office
14 11 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.22%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 138 (21.10%) Analyst
2 107 (16.36%) Business Analyst
3 87 (13.30%) Architect
4 69 (10.55%) Senior
5 61 (9.33%) Lead
6 53 (8.10%) Data Engineer
7 42 (6.42%) Developer
8 36 (5.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 29 (4.43%) Consultant
10 26 (3.98%) Data Scientist
10 26 (3.98%) Project Manager
11 24 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 20 (3.06%) Technical Analyst
13 19 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.75%) Senior Business Analyst
15 17 (2.60%) Data Analyst
16 15 (2.29%) Technical Business Analyst
17 14 (2.14%) Azure Engineer
18 13 (1.99%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.59%) PyTorch
2 28 (4.28%) TensorFlow
3 27 (4.13%) REST
4 26 (3.98%) LangChain
5 22 (3.36%) scikit-learn
6 20 (3.06%) Node.js
7 19 (2.91%) JSON
8 18 (2.75%) XML
9 17 (2.60%) Model Context Protocol
9 17 (2.60%) Pandas
10 16 (2.45%) LangGraph
11 15 (2.29%) PySpark
12 14 (2.14%) .NET
13 13 (1.99%) Faiss
13 13 (1.99%) Kafka
13 13 (1.99%) OAuth
14 12 (1.83%) Middleware
14 12 (1.83%) NumPy
15 11 (1.68%) SOAP
16 10 (1.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.02%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 38 (5.81%) AI Agents
4 29 (4.43%) Cloud Native
5 24 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 15 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.29%) PMI
6 15 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
7 14 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.83%) Life Science
9 12 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.68%) Beowulf
10 11 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.53%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.89%) Linux
2 31 (4.74%) Windows
3 7 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.92%) Unix
5 3 (0.46%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (36.54%) AI
2 190 (29.05%) Agile
3 187 (28.59%) Analytics
4 137 (20.95%) Machine Learning
5 133 (20.34%) Data Modelling
6 126 (19.27%) CI/CD
6 126 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 110 (16.82%) Data Science
9 106 (16.21%) DevOps
10 104 (15.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 101 (15.44%) Generative AI
12 100 (15.29%) Validation
13 96 (14.68%) Data Pipeline
14 94 (14.37%) LLM
15 93 (14.22%) Data Governance
15 93 (14.22%) User Stories
16 92 (14.07%) Roadmaps
17 89 (13.61%) Workshop Facilitation
18 88 (13.46%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 179 (27.37%) Python
2 114 (17.43%) SQL
3 27 (4.13%) Java
4 15 (2.29%) C#
4 15 (2.29%) PowerShell
4 15 (2.29%) TypeScript
5 14 (2.14%) Bash
5 14 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (1.53%) Bicep
7 8 (1.22%) Scala
8 6 (0.92%) R
9 5 (0.76%) C++
10 4 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.61%) Swift
10 4 (0.61%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 121 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 106 (16.21%) Degree
3 94 (14.37%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (5.50%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.67%) CBAP
7 18 (2.75%) PMI Certification
8 17 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (2.29%) CISSP
10 14 (2.14%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.68%) IIBA
13 7 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (0.92%) PhD
15 5 (0.76%) CFA
15 5 (0.76%) CISM
15 5 (0.76%) ISEB
16 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.47%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.27%) QA
3 22 (3.36%) GDPR
3 22 (3.36%) NIST
4 17 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.68%) GRC
8 6 (0.92%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.92%) ISO 8583
8 6 (0.92%) PSD2
8 6 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.76%) NCSC
10 4 (0.61%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.46%) GxP
11 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.46%) PMO
11 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (7.03%) Docker
2 23 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.75%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 6 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.92%) zsh
7 5 (0.76%) HDFS
8 4 (0.61%) Snort
9 2 (0.31%) vCloud
10 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.05%) Terraform
3 18 (2.75%) Ansible
4 11 (1.68%) Podman
5 8 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (0.76%) CSIRT
7 5 (0.76%) Grafana
7 5 (0.76%) QRadar
8 4 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
8 4 (0.61%) Nessus
8 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.61%) Puppet
9 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.46%) Kibana
9 3 (0.46%) logstash
10 2 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.15%) SCCM
11 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 98 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.10%) Databricks
3 42 (6.42%) OpenAI
4 35 (5.35%) Google
5 28 (4.28%) Splunk
6 26 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 24 (3.67%) SAP
8 20 (3.06%) VMware
9 14 (2.14%) Oracle
10 11 (1.68%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.38%) Adobe
11 9 (1.38%) Cisco
11 9 (1.38%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.22%) Foundry
12 8 (1.22%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.92%) Genesys
13 6 (0.92%) IBM
13 6 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.76%) Citrix
14 5 (0.76%) ESRI