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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 156 162
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +53
Contract jobs citing Use Case 871 498 496
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.89% 1.81% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.99% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 309 307
10th Percentile £406 £355 £375
25th Percentile £463 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £772 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +6.80% -8.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £26.10 £27.98 £50.75
25th Percentile £26.25 £41.88 £54.38
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 £63.50
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 38,948 25,051 28,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.90% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,873 15,912 17,703
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,701 1,483 1,330
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.65 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.73 £66.58
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +22 528 £575 - 1,905
North of England -53 105 £522 +9.89% 170
South East +10 98 £588 +13.25% 193
Yorkshire -5 58 £537 +10.04% 39
South West -4 56 £540 +21.69% 111
North West -58 45 £492 +9.33% 116
Midlands -51 40 £500 +17.65% 98
West Midlands -57 26 £500 +11.11% 66
East Midlands -9 14 £500 +33.33% 32
East of England -42 14 £488 -2.50% 82
North East -38 2 £425 - 15
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 (4.48%) Confluence
2 26 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.03%) Apache
6 8 (0.92%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.69%) CMS
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.46%) SAS
9 3 (0.34%) Kentico
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.34%) Findur
5 3 (0.34%) Workfront
6 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.23%) Summit
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.11%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 247 (28.36%) Azure
2 156 (17.91%) AWS
3 98 (11.25%) Power Platform
4 72 (8.27%) GCP
5 61 (7.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 40 (4.59%) Snowflake
7 39 (4.48%) GitHub
8 38 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (4.02%) Azure AI
10 33 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (3.79%) Copilot Studio
10 33 (3.79%) SaaS
11 27 (3.10%) dbt
11 27 (3.10%) Power Automate
12 26 (2.99%) Amazon S3
13 21 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (2.41%) Entra ID
13 21 (2.41%) PowerApps
14 20 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.07%) Firewall
2 15 (1.72%) Network Security
3 11 (1.26%) BGP
4 10 (1.15%) Wireless
5 8 (0.92%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.92%) Multicast
5 8 (0.92%) VLAN
6 7 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.69%) SNMP
8 5 (0.57%) DNS
9 4 (0.46%) SMS
9 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.46%) VPN
10 3 (0.34%) ATM
10 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.34%) HTTP
10 3 (0.34%) InfiniBand
10 3 (0.34%) Internet
10 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.23%) Power BI
2 56 (6.43%) Metadata
3 50 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.67%) Data Lake
5 24 (2.76%) Tableau
6 19 (2.18%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.84%) Big Data
8 15 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
9 14 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.49%) Pinecone
10 13 (1.49%) Weaviate
11 12 (1.38%) Chroma
12 11 (1.26%) SQL Server
13 10 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (1.15%) Redis
13 10 (1.15%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
15 8 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (6.20%) JIRA
2 25 (2.87%) Git
3 22 (2.53%) GitLab
4 15 (1.72%) MLflow
5 14 (1.61%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.92%) ERwin
7 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
8 6 (0.69%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.11%) Deequ
10 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 255 (29.28%) Finance
2 237 (27.21%) Social Skills
3 159 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.83%) Banking
5 71 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.48%) Marketing
7 37 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.56%) Retail
9 29 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.76%) Legal
11 21 (2.41%) Front Office
11 21 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.30%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.84%) Law
14 15 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.61%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.49%) Military
17 12 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.26%) Publishing
19 8 (0.92%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 148 (16.99%) Analyst
2 113 (12.97%) Architect
3 94 (10.79%) Business Analyst
4 87 (9.99%) Senior
5 83 (9.53%) Lead
6 79 (9.07%) Consultant
7 74 (8.50%) Data Engineer
8 54 (6.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 49 (5.63%) Developer
10 36 (4.13%) Data Architect
11 21 (2.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 20 (2.30%) Data Scientist
12 20 (2.30%) Product Owner
12 20 (2.30%) SOC Analyst
13 19 (2.18%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 19 (2.18%) Data Analyst
13 19 (2.18%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (1.72%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
16 13 (1.49%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.77%) Terraform
2 38 (4.36%) PySpark
3 32 (3.67%) REST
4 23 (2.64%) LangChain
5 19 (2.18%) Model Context Protocol
6 18 (2.07%) JSON
7 17 (1.95%) .NET
8 16 (1.84%) Pandas
9 15 (1.72%) LlamaIndex
10 14 (1.61%) Kafka
11 10 (1.15%) RESTful
11 10 (1.15%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.92%) NumPy
13 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.80%) LangGraph
14 6 (0.69%) HTML
14 6 (0.69%) Semantic Kernel
14 6 (0.69%) SLSA
14 6 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 6 (0.69%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.22%) AI Agents
2 84 (9.64%) Onboarding
3 77 (8.84%) Product Ownership
4 54 (6.20%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
8 23 (2.64%) Data Structures
9 21 (2.41%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.72%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
13 13 (1.49%) Taxonomies
14 12 (1.38%) CSOC
15 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.15%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.15%) CMDB
16 10 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.36%) Linux
2 22 (2.53%) Windows
3 7 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.57%) Unix
5 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (49.25%) AI
2 256 (29.39%) Analytics
3 195 (22.39%) Machine Learning
4 181 (20.78%) Agile
5 178 (20.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 157 (18.03%) Data Pipeline
7 151 (17.34%) Data Modelling
7 151 (17.34%) LLM
7 151 (17.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 144 (16.53%) Generative AI
9 138 (15.84%) Roadmaps
10 132 (15.15%) Data Engineering
11 131 (15.04%) CI/CD
12 120 (13.78%) DevOps
13 119 (13.66%) Data Governance
14 116 (13.32%) Decision-Making
15 115 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 114 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
17 106 (12.17%) Validation
18 98 (11.25%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 203 (23.31%) Python
2 170 (19.52%) SQL
3 33 (3.79%) Kusto Query Language
4 25 (2.87%) Java
4 25 (2.87%) PowerShell
5 22 (2.53%) Bash
6 19 (2.18%) C#
7 12 (1.38%) R
8 10 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
9 8 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.80%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.69%) Scala
12 4 (0.46%) Bicep
12 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.34%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.34%) Go
13 3 (0.34%) SHACL
13 3 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 191 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 146 (16.76%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.04%) Degree
4 41 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.02%) CISSP
6 21 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.26%) GCIH
9 11 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (1.15%) CBAP
10 10 (1.15%) SANS
11 9 (1.03%) CISM
11 9 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (1.03%) PMP
12 7 (0.80%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.40%) GDPR
3 44 (5.05%) QA
4 23 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.41%) NIST
6 17 (1.95%) NCSC
7 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.03%) GRC
9 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.46%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.23%) MiFID
12 2 (0.23%) SLA
12 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (2.64%) Docker
2 20 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.15%) IAG
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.64%) Ansible
3 8 (0.92%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.92%) Grafana
3 8 (0.92%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.92%) QRadar
4 6 (0.69%) Kubeflow
4 6 (0.69%) OPNET
5 4 (0.46%) CASB
5 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
5 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.46%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.23%) Puppet
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.11%) Control-M
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 169 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 85 (9.76%) Databricks
3 47 (5.40%) Splunk
4 44 (5.05%) OpenAI
5 35 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 33 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.99%) Google
8 22 (2.53%) Foundry
9 20 (2.30%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.30%) SAP
10 19 (2.18%) Cisco
10 19 (2.18%) Oracle
11 15 (1.72%) Adobe
12 14 (1.61%) Pega
13 10 (1.15%) Cribl.io
13 10 (1.15%) Nexthink
14 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.92%) Informatica
15 7 (0.80%) ArcSight
15 7 (0.80%) F5