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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 194 158
Rank change year-on-year +57 -36 +30
Contract jobs citing Use Case 814 359 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.46% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.60% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 223 370
10th Percentile £400 £359 £410
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £650
90th Percentile £743 £838 £739
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile £41.94 £33.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £47.22 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -17.24%
75th Percentile £82.85 - -
90th Percentile £100.85 £70.50 -
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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £407 £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 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,273 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +61 508 £550 -12.00% 229
North of England -14 117 £500 -4.76% 36
North West -10 59 £475 -13.64% 20
South East -49 56 £500 -2.44% 87
Midlands -30 49 £500 +23.46% 24
Yorkshire -21 47 £530 +14.59% 13
South West +7 45 £500 -11.11% 46
East Midlands 0 28 £500 +27.39% 9
West Midlands -47 21 £500 +21.21% 14
East of England -25 15 £550 +57.96% 11
North East -24 11 £463 - 4
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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 28 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.33%) Jupyter
5 10 (1.23%) Apache
6 9 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.74%) CMS
8 5 (0.61%) SAS
9 3 (0.37%) Kentico
9 3 (0.37%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Appian
11 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.12%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 27 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.21%) Chatbot
3 15 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.61%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.61%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.37%) Actimize
5 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.37%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.37%) Findur
5 3 (0.37%) Maximo
5 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 232 (28.50%) Azure
2 150 (18.43%) AWS
3 91 (11.18%) Power Platform
4 77 (9.46%) GCP
5 39 (4.79%) Azure AI
6 31 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (3.81%) Microsoft Copilot
6 31 (3.81%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.69%) Amazon Bedrock
7 30 (3.69%) Serverless
8 26 (3.19%) Amazon S3
9 23 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (2.83%) Entra ID
9 23 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (2.70%) dbt
11 19 (2.33%) GitHub
12 17 (2.09%) SaaS
13 16 (1.97%) Amazon SageMaker
14 14 (1.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.32%) Firewall
2 18 (2.21%) Network Security
3 7 (0.86%) TCP/IP
3 7 (0.86%) VPN
4 6 (0.74%) DNS
5 5 (0.61%) BGP
5 5 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.61%) RTP
6 4 (0.49%) Internet
6 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.49%) SNMP
7 3 (0.37%) 5G
7 3 (0.37%) DHCP
7 3 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.37%) SMS
7 3 (0.37%) Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) 4G
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
1 66 (8.11%) Power BI
2 35 (4.30%) Metadata
3 30 (3.69%) Data Lake
4 26 (3.19%) Tableau
5 24 (2.95%) Big Data
6 19 (2.33%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.33%) Weaviate
7 18 (2.21%) Pinecone
8 17 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (1.97%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.84%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.47%) Spark SQL
13 8 (0.98%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.86%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.86%) Looker
14 7 (0.86%) Semantic Layer
15 6 (0.74%) KDB
Development Applications
1 61 (7.49%) JIRA
2 31 (3.81%) Git
3 15 (1.84%) MLflow
4 12 (1.47%) GitLab
5 7 (0.86%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.74%) ERwin
7 4 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.37%) XCTest
9 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Deequ
10 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.12%) Gradle
10 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 238 (29.24%) Finance
2 223 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 136 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (11.92%) Banking
5 84 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.81%) Retail
7 28 (3.44%) Marketing
8 25 (3.07%) Legal
9 23 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.58%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.33%) Front Office
12 18 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.97%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.47%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.11%) Law
17 9 (1.11%) Military
18 6 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 147 (18.06%) Analyst
2 110 (13.51%) Business Analyst
3 107 (13.14%) Architect
4 90 (11.06%) Senior
5 79 (9.71%) Data Engineer
6 77 (9.46%) Lead
7 60 (7.37%) Developer
8 49 (6.02%) Consultant
9 39 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 28 (3.44%) Data Architect
10 28 (3.44%) Project Manager
11 25 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 23 (2.83%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.70%) Data Analyst
14 21 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (2.46%) Product Owner
16 18 (2.21%) Senior Business Analyst
17 17 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (1.97%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (1.97%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.93%) PySpark
2 28 (3.44%) LangChain
3 25 (3.07%) REST
4 23 (2.83%) .NET
5 18 (2.21%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (2.21%) Pandas
5 18 (2.21%) scikit-learn
6 16 (1.97%) Kafka
7 15 (1.84%) JSON
8 14 (1.72%) PyTorch
9 12 (1.47%) Middleware
9 12 (1.47%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.35%) OAuth
10 11 (1.35%) SOAP
11 10 (1.23%) Node.js
12 9 (1.11%) NumPy
13 8 (0.98%) LangGraph
13 8 (0.98%) XML
14 7 (0.86%) A2A Protocol
14 7 (0.86%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.71%) AI Agents
2 73 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 54 (6.63%) Cloud Native
4 42 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
6 18 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.21%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
8 15 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.60%) Beowulf
9 13 (1.60%) Life Science
10 12 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.23%) CSOC
12 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.11%) Taxonomies
14 8 (0.98%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.32%) Linux
2 20 (2.46%) Windows
3 10 (1.23%) Unix
4 8 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (43.86%) AI
2 256 (31.45%) Analytics
3 194 (23.83%) Agile
4 186 (22.85%) Machine Learning
5 164 (20.15%) Data Modelling
6 150 (18.43%) Data Pipeline
7 142 (17.44%) CI/CD
8 136 (16.71%) DevOps
9 133 (16.34%) Generative AI
10 132 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 131 (16.09%) LLM
12 130 (15.97%) Data Science
13 127 (15.60%) Data Engineering
14 120 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (14.62%) Decision-Making
16 117 (14.37%) Roadmaps
17 112 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 107 (13.14%) Validation
19 101 (12.41%) Workshop Facilitation
20 100 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 206 (25.31%) Python
2 158 (19.41%) SQL
3 23 (2.83%) C#
4 19 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 17 (2.09%) Java
6 16 (1.97%) R
7 15 (1.84%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.47%) Scala
10 11 (1.35%) Bash
11 9 (1.11%) Bicep
12 8 (0.98%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.74%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.37%) C++
16 3 (0.37%) SOQL
16 3 (0.37%) Swift
17 2 (0.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 179 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 137 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.21%) Degree
4 29 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.58%) CISSP
7 20 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.97%) CBAP
10 11 (1.35%) CISM
10 11 (1.35%) IIBA
11 10 (1.23%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.86%) SANS
14 6 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.61%) ISEB
16 4 (0.49%) GIAC
16 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (16.46%) Data Quality
2 43 (5.28%) GDPR
3 36 (4.42%) QA
4 21 (2.58%) NIST
5 12 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.11%) GRC
8 8 (0.98%) NCSC
9 6 (0.74%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.37%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.37%) PMO
11 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (4.67%) Docker
2 20 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.84%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.49%) Snort
6 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.25%) vCloud
9 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.12%) HDFS
9 1 (0.12%) IAG
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 54 (6.63%) Terraform
3 13 (1.60%) Ansible
3 13 (1.60%) Podman
4 8 (0.98%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 7 (0.86%) QRadar
6 6 (0.74%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.61%) Grafana
7 5 (0.61%) Nessus
7 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.49%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.25%) Puppet
9 2 (0.25%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
10 1 (0.12%) logstash
10 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 151 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.72%) Databricks
3 59 (7.25%) OpenAI
4 34 (4.18%) Foundry
4 34 (4.18%) Splunk
5 32 (3.93%) SAP
6 28 (3.44%) Google
6 28 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.46%) Pega
8 17 (2.09%) VMware
9 16 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.47%) Oracle
11 10 (1.23%) IBM
12 9 (1.11%) Cisco
12 9 (1.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 8 (0.98%) Dynatrace
13 8 (0.98%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.98%) NVIDIA
14 7 (0.86%) Adobe
14 7 (0.86%) Informatica