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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 158 161
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +45
Contract jobs citing Use Case 876 472 513
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.71% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.88% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 297 330
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £666
90th Percentile £750 £775 £742
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £563
% change year-on-year +7.32% -8.89% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 15
10th Percentile £26.10 £27.98 £51.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £41.88 £56.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.93% -5.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £101.18 £67.75 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £77.37 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -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 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +37 544 £575 +0.44% 855
North of England -54 102 £519 +9.26% 96
South East -23 88 £594 +15.85% 118
Yorkshire -14 58 £525 +13.51% 19
South West +2 56 £540 -1.82% 51
North West -54 42 £492 +3.58% 65
Midlands -49 41 £500 +18.69% 34
West Midlands -52 26 £500 +11.86% 25
East Midlands -9 15 £550 +46.67% 9
East of England -34 12 £488 -2.50% 43
North East -38 2 £425 - 12
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 43 (4.91%) Confluence
2 26 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.80%) Apache
7 6 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.57%) SAS
9 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.34%) Kentico
10 3 (0.34%) WordPress
11 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Appian
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.11%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 16 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 14 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.34%) Actimize
4 3 (0.34%) Findur
4 3 (0.34%) Workfront
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.23%) Maximo
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.23%) Summit
6 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 264 (30.14%) Azure
2 160 (18.26%) AWS
3 98 (11.19%) Power Platform
4 74 (8.45%) GCP
5 58 (6.62%) Microsoft Copilot
6 46 (5.25%) Azure AI
7 40 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (4.11%) Snowflake
10 35 (4.00%) GitHub
11 31 (3.54%) SaaS
12 28 (3.20%) Copilot Studio
13 24 (2.74%) Amazon Bedrock
14 23 (2.63%) dbt
14 23 (2.63%) Power Automate
15 22 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (2.51%) Entra ID
16 20 (2.28%) Amazon S3
16 20 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 18 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.17%) Firewall
2 15 (1.71%) Network Security
3 7 (0.80%) BGP
3 7 (0.80%) Wireless
4 6 (0.68%) SNMP
5 5 (0.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (0.57%) DNS
5 5 (0.57%) Multicast
5 5 (0.57%) VLAN
6 4 (0.46%) SMS
6 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.46%) VPN
6 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.34%) 5G
7 3 (0.34%) ATM
7 3 (0.34%) HTTP
7 3 (0.34%) Internet
7 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.53%) Power BI
2 56 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (5.94%) Metadata
4 30 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 29 (3.31%) Tableau
6 20 (2.28%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.05%) Big Data
8 16 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.60%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.37%) Pinecone
11 12 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.37%) Weaviate
12 9 (1.03%) Looker
12 9 (1.03%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.03%) Redis
12 9 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (1.03%) SQL Server
13 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (6.62%) JIRA
2 24 (2.74%) Git
3 21 (2.40%) GitLab
4 15 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.48%) MLflow
6 9 (1.03%) ERwin
7 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.80%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Deequ
10 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 257 (29.34%) Finance
2 244 (27.85%) Social Skills
3 162 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.10%) Banking
5 76 (8.68%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
6 37 (4.22%) Marketing
7 31 (3.54%) Retail
8 28 (3.20%) Legal
9 27 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.40%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.17%) Front Office
11 19 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.83%) Law
13 15 (1.71%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.14%) Military
17 8 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 142 (16.21%) Analyst
2 117 (13.36%) Architect
3 91 (10.39%) Business Analyst
4 86 (9.82%) Lead
5 81 (9.25%) Senior
6 75 (8.56%) Data Engineer
7 74 (8.45%) Consultant
8 57 (6.51%) Developer
9 50 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 36 (4.11%) Data Architect
11 24 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (2.51%) Data Scientist
13 21 (2.40%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 20 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.17%) Data Analyst
16 18 (2.05%) SOC Analyst
17 16 (1.83%) Pega Developer
17 16 (1.83%) Senior Analyst
18 15 (1.71%) Security Engineer
19 14 (1.60%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.11%) PySpark
2 33 (3.77%) REST
3 24 (2.74%) LangChain
4 20 (2.28%) .NET
5 19 (2.17%) JSON
6 16 (1.83%) Pandas
7 15 (1.71%) LlamaIndex
8 13 (1.48%) Model Context Protocol
9 11 (1.26%) Kafka
10 10 (1.14%) RESTful
10 10 (1.14%) scikit-learn
11 8 (0.91%) LangGraph
11 8 (0.91%) YAML
12 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
12 7 (0.80%) HTML
12 7 (0.80%) NumPy
12 7 (0.80%) OAuth
12 7 (0.80%) SOAP
12 7 (0.80%) XML
13 6 (0.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.62%) AI Agents
2 79 (9.02%) Onboarding
3 67 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 60 (6.85%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.97%) Security Operations Centre
6 22 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 21 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
7 21 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.60%) Taxonomies
12 13 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
13 12 (1.37%) CSOC
14 11 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.14%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.11%) Linux
2 23 (2.63%) Windows
3 8 (0.91%) Unix
3 8 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (48.17%) AI
2 258 (29.45%) Analytics
3 205 (23.40%) Machine Learning
4 189 (21.58%) Agile
5 160 (18.26%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 152 (17.35%) LLM
7 152 (17.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 151 (17.24%) Data Modelling
9 137 (15.64%) CI/CD
10 133 (15.18%) Generative AI
11 130 (14.84%) Data Engineering
12 125 (14.27%) Roadmaps
13 124 (14.16%) DevOps
14 120 (13.70%) Decision-Making
15 113 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
16 111 (12.67%) Validation
17 109 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
18 107 (12.21%) Data Science
19 106 (12.10%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 207 (23.63%) Python
2 169 (19.29%) SQL
3 32 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 25 (2.85%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.63%) Bash
5 23 (2.63%) Java
6 22 (2.51%) C#
7 14 (1.60%) R
8 10 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.68%) Scala
11 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.46%) Bicep
12 4 (0.46%) Go
12 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 190 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 146 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.76%) Degree
4 41 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.88%) CISSP
6 17 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (1.26%) GCIH
12 10 (1.14%) CBAP
12 10 (1.14%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.03%) CISM
14 8 (0.91%) SANS
15 7 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.80%) CEH
15 7 (0.80%) IIBA
15 7 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (14.84%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.94%) GDPR
3 46 (5.25%) QA
4 24 (2.74%) NIST
5 19 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.94%) NCSC
7 16 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.91%) GRC
9 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.23%) HL7
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 25 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.63%) Docker
3 9 (1.03%) IAG
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (6.51%) Terraform
2 54 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.51%) Ansible
4 8 (0.91%) Grafana
4 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.91%) QRadar
5 5 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (0.57%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.46%) CASB
6 4 (0.46%) OPNET
6 4 (0.46%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.34%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.23%) Istio
8 2 (0.23%) Podman
8 2 (0.23%) Puppet
8 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 169 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.02%) Databricks
3 51 (5.82%) OpenAI
4 38 (4.34%) Splunk
5 36 (4.11%) Foundry
6 32 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 31 (3.54%) Salesforce
8 27 (3.08%) Google
9 22 (2.51%) Pega
9 22 (2.51%) SAP
10 19 (2.17%) Oracle
11 18 (2.05%) Dynatrace
12 17 (1.94%) Cisco
13 12 (1.37%) Adobe
14 10 (1.14%) Cribl.io
15 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.91%) Nexthink
16 7 (0.80%) ArcSight
16 7 (0.80%) IBM
17 6 (0.68%) Informatica