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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 165 159
Rank change year-on-year +27 -6 +48
Contract jobs citing Use Case 889 457 525
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 1.65% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.81% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 286 332
10th Percentile £410 £356 £400
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £674 £653
90th Percentile £738 £775 £749
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 20
10th Percentile £26.03 £36.23 £40.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.38 £47.50
Median hourly rate £82.26 £58.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.22% -2.92% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90.58 £60.94 -
90th Percentile £101.34 £69.38 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £82.26 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +111.77% -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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +52 555 £563 -2.17% 522
North of England -49 99 £519 +9.21% 68
South East -22 89 £568 +12.10% 78
South West +6 54 £535 -2.73% 33
Yorkshire -18 54 £530 +14.59% 19
Midlands -39 44 £550 +29.41% 36
North West -60 40 £475 - 43
West Midlands -62 28 £538 +19.84% 25
East Midlands -5 16 £550 +46.67% 11
East of England -23 14 £483 +13.53% 30
North East -34 5 £488 - 6
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 (4.72%) Confluence
2 29 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.24%) Jupyter
6 10 (1.12%) Apache
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 5 (0.56%) SAS
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.34%) Kentico
10 3 (0.34%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) 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%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 20 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 14 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.56%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.56%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.34%) Actimize
5 3 (0.34%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.34%) Findur
5 3 (0.34%) Maximo
5 3 (0.34%) Workfront
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Summit
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.11%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 272 (30.60%) Azure
2 163 (18.34%) AWS
3 101 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 79 (8.89%) GCP
5 51 (5.74%) Azure AI
6 50 (5.62%) Microsoft Copilot
7 37 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (4.05%) Snowflake
9 35 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (3.49%) GitHub
11 29 (3.26%) Amazon Bedrock
12 27 (3.04%) SaaS
13 26 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (2.92%) dbt
14 25 (2.81%) Entra ID
15 22 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 22 (2.47%) Copilot Studio
16 21 (2.36%) Amazon S3
17 20 (2.25%) Power Automate
18 19 (2.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.02%) Firewall
2 11 (1.24%) Network Security
3 7 (0.79%) Wireless
4 6 (0.67%) BGP
4 6 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (0.67%) SNMP
5 5 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (0.56%) DNS
5 5 (0.56%) Multicast
5 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.56%) VLAN
6 4 (0.45%) SMS
6 4 (0.45%) VPN
6 4 (0.45%) 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
8 2 (0.22%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.99%) Power BI
2 65 (7.31%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (5.17%) Metadata
4 30 (3.37%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.15%) Tableau
6 21 (2.36%) BigQuery
7 20 (2.25%) Big Data
8 16 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (1.80%) Delta Lake
8 16 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.80%) Weaviate
9 15 (1.69%) Pinecone
9 15 (1.69%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (1.12%) Spark SQL
13 9 (1.01%) Looker
14 8 (0.90%) Redis
14 8 (0.90%) SQL Server
15 7 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (6.64%) JIRA
2 29 (3.26%) Git
3 18 (2.02%) GitLab
4 16 (1.80%) MLflow
5 9 (1.01%) ERwin
5 9 (1.01%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.79%) ER Studio
7 6 (0.67%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.34%) XCTest
9 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.11%) Deequ
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 261 (29.36%) Finance
2 249 (28.01%) Social Skills
3 161 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (12.15%) Banking
5 83 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.95%) Marketing
7 34 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.82%) Retail
8 28 (3.15%) Legal
9 25 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.36%) Front Office
10 21 (2.36%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.80%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.80%) Law
12 15 (1.69%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (16.65%) Analyst
2 125 (14.06%) Architect
3 94 (10.57%) Business Analyst
4 91 (10.24%) Lead
5 88 (9.90%) Data Engineer
6 85 (9.56%) Senior
7 68 (7.65%) Consultant
8 62 (6.97%) Developer
9 46 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 37 (4.16%) Data Architect
11 27 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 24 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (2.47%) Data Analyst
14 21 (2.36%) Data Scientist
15 18 (2.02%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 18 (2.02%) SOC Analyst
16 17 (1.91%) Azure Engineer
17 16 (1.80%) Pega Developer
18 15 (1.69%) Security Engineer
19 14 (1.57%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.94%) PySpark
2 29 (3.26%) REST
3 27 (3.04%) LangChain
4 22 (2.47%) .NET
5 19 (2.14%) LlamaIndex
6 17 (1.91%) JSON
6 17 (1.91%) Pandas
7 12 (1.35%) Kafka
8 11 (1.24%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.12%) Model Context Protocol
10 9 (1.01%) RESTful
11 8 (0.90%) Middleware
11 8 (0.90%) NumPy
11 8 (0.90%) YAML
12 7 (0.79%) GraphQL
12 7 (0.79%) HTML
12 7 (0.79%) LangGraph
12 7 (0.79%) OAuth
12 7 (0.79%) XML
13 6 (0.67%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 90 (10.12%) AI Agents
2 76 (8.55%) Onboarding
3 66 (7.42%) Product Ownership
4 63 (7.09%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
7 22 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 20 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.25%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.46%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.35%) CSOC
12 12 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
13 11 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.16%) Linux
2 27 (3.04%) Windows
3 8 (0.90%) Unix
3 8 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (46.68%) AI
2 271 (30.48%) Analytics
3 209 (23.51%) Machine Learning
4 193 (21.71%) Agile
5 169 (19.01%) Data Pipeline
6 164 (18.45%) Data Modelling
7 154 (17.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 149 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 146 (16.42%) Data Engineering
9 146 (16.42%) LLM
10 136 (15.30%) CI/CD
10 136 (15.30%) Generative AI
11 132 (14.85%) Decision-Making
12 124 (13.95%) Roadmaps
13 123 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (13.72%) DevOps
15 116 (13.05%) Data Science
16 113 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (12.71%) Validation
17 112 (12.60%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 210 (23.62%) Python
2 168 (18.90%) SQL
3 26 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
4 21 (2.36%) Bash
5 20 (2.25%) C#
5 20 (2.25%) PowerShell
6 17 (1.91%) Java
7 14 (1.57%) R
7 14 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.79%) Scala
9 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.45%) Bicep
12 4 (0.45%) Go
12 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.45%) VBA
13 3 (0.34%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 193 (21.71%) Security Cleared
2 150 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.31%) Degree
4 40 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.37%) CISSP
6 19 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.01%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.90%) CBAP
13 8 (0.90%) CISM
14 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.79%) GCIH
14 7 (0.79%) SANS
15 6 (0.67%) CEH
15 6 (0.67%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (15.86%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.74%) QA
3 45 (5.06%) GDPR
4 21 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.36%) NIST
5 15 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.46%) NCSC
7 7 (0.79%) GRC
8 6 (0.67%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.22%) HL7
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.22%) MiFID
11 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (3.37%) Docker
2 26 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.79%) IAG
4 5 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Snort
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 55 (6.19%) Terraform
3 17 (1.91%) Ansible
4 8 (0.90%) Grafana
4 8 (0.90%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.90%) QRadar
5 6 (0.67%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
6 5 (0.56%) CSIRT
6 5 (0.56%) Podman
7 4 (0.45%) OPNET
7 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.34%) Nessus
9 2 (0.22%) Puppet
9 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) Argo
10 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.11%) Istio
10 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 172 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 80 (9.00%) Databricks
3 59 (6.64%) OpenAI
4 39 (4.39%) Foundry
5 37 (4.16%) Splunk
6 34 (3.82%) Google
7 31 (3.49%) Salesforce
8 29 (3.26%) ServiceNow
9 23 (2.59%) SAP
10 21 (2.36%) Pega
11 20 (2.25%) Oracle
12 16 (1.80%) Adobe
12 16 (1.80%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.57%) Cisco
14 9 (1.01%) IBM
15 8 (0.90%) CyberArk
15 8 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 7 (0.79%) ArcSight
16 7 (0.79%) VMware
17 6 (0.67%) Informatica