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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 161 159
Rank change year-on-year +25 -2 +49
Contract jobs citing Use Case 875 467 524
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.92% 1.69% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.86% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 295 328
10th Percentile £413 £356 £400
25th Percentile £463 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.46% +2.05%
75th Percentile £656 £668 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 19
10th Percentile £26.10 £27.98 £40.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £41.88 £51.25
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 £65.75
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 38,794 25,132 28,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,129 16,058 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,653
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +39 548 £575 - 1,234
North of England -46 102 £519 +9.26% 128
South East -16 88 £568 +10.73% 121
Yorkshire -13 56 £525 +13.51% 32
South West -1 52 £540 -4.00% 64
Midlands -45 43 £525 +23.53% 47
North West -52 42 £484 +1.79% 87
West Midlands -49 28 £513 +14.27% 37
East Midlands +2 15 £550 +46.67% 10
East of England -28 12 £488 -2.50% 55
North East -39 4 £425 - 10
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 42 (4.80%) Confluence
2 28 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.03%) Jupyter
5 8 (0.91%) Apache
6 6 (0.69%) CMS
7 5 (0.57%) SAS
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) Kentico
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 17 (1.94%) Chatbot
1 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.57%) 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 13 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.34%) Actimize
5 3 (0.34%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.34%) Findur
5 3 (0.34%) Workfront
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.23%) Maximo
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Summit
7 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.11%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 265 (30.29%) Azure
2 161 (18.40%) AWS
3 100 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 75 (8.57%) GCP
5 54 (6.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 50 (5.71%) Azure AI
7 41 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (4.00%) Snowflake
9 34 (3.89%) GitHub
10 32 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (3.43%) SaaS
12 28 (3.20%) Amazon Bedrock
13 25 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
13 25 (2.86%) dbt
13 25 (2.86%) Entra ID
14 22 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (2.51%) Power Automate
15 21 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 20 (2.29%) Amazon S3
17 18 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.17%) Firewall
2 14 (1.60%) Network Security
3 7 (0.80%) Wireless
4 6 (0.69%) SNMP
5 5 (0.57%) BGP
5 5 (0.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.57%) Multicast
5 5 (0.57%) VLAN
6 4 (0.46%) DNS
6 4 (0.46%) SMS
6 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
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%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 2 (0.23%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.66%) Power BI
2 58 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (5.71%) Metadata
4 29 (3.31%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.20%) Tableau
6 21 (2.40%) BigQuery
7 20 (2.29%) Big Data
8 17 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (1.83%) Semantic Layer
10 15 (1.71%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.49%) Pinecone
12 13 (1.49%) Weaviate
13 10 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (1.03%) Looker
14 9 (1.03%) Spark SQL
15 8 (0.91%) SQL Server
16 7 (0.80%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.80%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (6.63%) JIRA
2 27 (3.09%) Git
3 20 (2.29%) GitLab
4 13 (1.49%) MLflow
5 12 (1.37%) Jenkins
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 DOORS
10 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 257 (29.37%) Finance
2 248 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 164 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (12.23%) Banking
5 78 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.80%) Marketing
7 36 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.66%) Retail
9 28 (3.20%) Legal
10 26 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.29%) Front Office
11 20 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 16 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.83%) Law
13 14 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.03%) Military
16 7 (0.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 147 (16.80%) Analyst
2 119 (13.60%) Architect
3 93 (10.63%) Business Analyst
4 90 (10.29%) Lead
5 80 (9.14%) Senior
6 79 (9.03%) Data Engineer
7 70 (8.00%) Consultant
8 57 (6.51%) Developer
9 48 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 36 (4.11%) Data Architect
11 26 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 23 (2.63%) Data Analyst
13 22 (2.51%) Data Scientist
14 21 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (2.06%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 18 (2.06%) SOC Analyst
16 16 (1.83%) Pega Developer
16 16 (1.83%) Security Engineer
17 14 (1.60%) Product Owner
17 14 (1.60%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.11%) PySpark
2 30 (3.43%) REST
3 25 (2.86%) LangChain
4 20 (2.29%) .NET
5 17 (1.94%) JSON
5 17 (1.94%) Pandas
6 15 (1.71%) LlamaIndex
7 11 (1.26%) Kafka
7 11 (1.26%) Model Context Protocol
7 11 (1.26%) scikit-learn
8 10 (1.14%) RESTful
9 8 (0.91%) LangGraph
9 8 (0.91%) NumPy
9 8 (0.91%) YAML
10 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
10 7 (0.80%) HTML
10 7 (0.80%) Middleware
10 7 (0.80%) OAuth
10 7 (0.80%) SOAP
10 7 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.63%) AI Agents
2 75 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 68 (7.77%) Product Ownership
4 63 (7.20%) Cloud Native
5 25 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 21 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
9 19 (2.17%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.06%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.60%) Taxonomies
14 13 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
14 13 (1.49%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
16 11 (1.26%) CSOC
17 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.03%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.34%) Linux
2 25 (2.86%) 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
1 421 (48.11%) AI
2 261 (29.83%) Analytics
3 207 (23.66%) Machine Learning
4 188 (21.49%) Agile
5 164 (18.74%) Data Pipeline
6 159 (18.17%) Data Modelling
7 155 (17.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 150 (17.14%) LLM
9 148 (16.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 135 (15.43%) Generative AI
11 133 (15.20%) CI/CD
11 133 (15.20%) Data Engineering
12 124 (14.17%) Roadmaps
13 123 (14.06%) Decision-Making
14 120 (13.71%) DevOps
15 116 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
16 110 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (12.57%) Validation
17 108 (12.34%) Data Governance
17 108 (12.34%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 210 (24.00%) Python
2 169 (19.31%) SQL
3 30 (3.43%) Kusto Query Language
4 24 (2.74%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.63%) Bash
6 22 (2.51%) C#
7 21 (2.40%) Java
8 14 (1.60%) R
9 11 (1.26%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.14%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.69%) Scala
13 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.46%) Bicep
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 184 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 143 (16.34%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.54%) Degree
4 40 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.66%) CISSP
6 20 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.60%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (1.14%) GCIH
12 10 (1.14%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.91%) CBAP
13 8 (0.91%) CISM
13 8 (0.91%) SANS
14 7 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.80%) CEH
14 7 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (15.31%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.49%) GDPR
3 47 (5.37%) QA
4 23 (2.63%) NIST
5 19 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.49%) NCSC
8 8 (0.91%) GRC
9 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
13 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.86%) 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
6 2 (0.23%) Snort
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (6.40%) Terraform
2 55 (6.29%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.40%) 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
6 4 (0.46%) CSIRT
6 4 (0.46%) OPNET
6 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.46%) Proxmox
6 4 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.34%) CASB
8 2 (0.23%) Istio
8 2 (0.23%) Nessus
8 2 (0.23%) Podman
8 2 (0.23%) Puppet
8 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 170 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 77 (8.80%) Databricks
3 53 (6.06%) OpenAI
4 39 (4.46%) Foundry
4 39 (4.46%) Splunk
5 32 (3.66%) Salesforce
5 32 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 31 (3.54%) Google
7 23 (2.63%) SAP
8 21 (2.40%) Oracle
8 21 (2.40%) Pega
9 18 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.83%) Adobe
11 15 (1.71%) Cisco
12 9 (1.03%) Cribl.io
13 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.91%) IBM
13 8 (0.91%) Nexthink
13 8 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 7 (0.80%) ArcSight