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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 194 165
Rank change year-on-year +62 -29 +22
Contract jobs citing Use Case 851 364 550
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.96% 1.45% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.59% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 229 363
10th Percentile £405 £358 £406
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £643 £725 £650
90th Percentile £738 £840 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile £41.94 £33.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £54.23 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 - -
90th Percentile £100.85 £70.50 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +73.77% -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 37,051 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +62 533 £550 -8.33% 126
North of England -17 114 £496 -4.39% 27
South East -26 64 £525 - 81
North West -24 57 £475 -9.52% 14
South West +3 49 £525 -6.67% 21
Midlands -20 49 £500 +23.46% 11
Yorkshire -21 47 £535 +15.68% 8
East Midlands +3 26 £525 +40.00% 4
West Midlands -43 23 £500 +17.65% 7
East of England -30 14 £545 +70.36% 13
North East -26 10 £450 - 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 43 (5.05%) Confluence
2 30 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.12%) Jupyter
5 11 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.06%) Apache
7 6 (0.71%) CMS
8 5 (0.59%) SAS
9 3 (0.35%) Kentico
9 3 (0.35%) WordPress
10 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.24%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) 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 28 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.23%) Chatbot
3 15 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) CATIA
7 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.59%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.59%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.35%) Actimize
5 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.35%) Findur
5 3 (0.35%) Maximo
5 3 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.24%) Summit
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 253 (29.73%) Azure
2 167 (19.62%) AWS
3 98 (11.52%) Power Platform
4 86 (10.11%) GCP
5 42 (4.94%) Azure AI
6 36 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 35 (4.11%) Snowflake
8 30 (3.53%) Amazon Bedrock
8 30 (3.53%) Serverless
9 26 (3.06%) Amazon S3
10 25 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (2.94%) Entra ID
10 25 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (2.82%) dbt
12 23 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (2.70%) GitHub
13 20 (2.35%) SaaS
14 17 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
15 16 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.17%) Firewall
2 18 (2.12%) Network Security
3 7 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (0.82%) VPN
4 6 (0.71%) DNS
4 6 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.59%) BGP
5 5 (0.59%) RTP
6 4 (0.47%) Internet
6 4 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (0.47%) SNMP
7 3 (0.35%) 5G
7 3 (0.35%) DHCP
7 3 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.35%) SMS
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) 4G
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (8.23%) Power BI
2 67 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (4.82%) Metadata
4 31 (3.64%) Data Lake
5 28 (3.29%) Tableau
6 25 (2.94%) Big Data
7 19 (2.23%) BigQuery
7 19 (2.23%) Weaviate
8 18 (2.12%) Pinecone
9 17 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (1.88%) Delta Lake
10 16 (1.88%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.41%) Spark SQL
13 9 (1.06%) Looker
13 9 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
14 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.82%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.71%) KDB
Development Applications
1 62 (7.29%) JIRA
2 32 (3.76%) Git
3 18 (2.12%) GitLab
3 18 (2.12%) MLflow
4 8 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.71%) ERwin
6 4 (0.47%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.35%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.35%) XCTest
8 2 (0.24%) Postman
8 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.12%) Deequ
9 1 (0.12%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.12%) Gradle
9 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
General
1 250 (29.38%) Finance
2 236 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 143 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (12.22%) Banking
5 86 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.76%) Retail
7 30 (3.53%) Marketing
8 28 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (2.94%) Legal
10 21 (2.47%) Front Office
10 21 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 17 (2.00%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.18%) Law
15 9 (1.06%) Military
16 6 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 143 (16.80%) Analyst
2 120 (14.10%) Architect
3 105 (12.34%) Business Analyst
4 96 (11.28%) Senior
5 84 (9.87%) Data Engineer
6 78 (9.17%) Lead
7 61 (7.17%) Developer
8 57 (6.70%) Consultant
9 41 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (3.41%) Data Architect
10 29 (3.41%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 25 (2.94%) Data Scientist
13 23 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (2.47%) Data Analyst
16 20 (2.35%) Product Owner
17 18 (2.12%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (2.12%) Senior Business Analyst
18 16 (1.88%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.76%) PySpark
2 29 (3.41%) LangChain
3 27 (3.17%) REST
4 23 (2.70%) .NET
5 19 (2.23%) LlamaIndex
5 19 (2.23%) Pandas
6 18 (2.12%) scikit-learn
7 17 (2.00%) JSON
8 16 (1.88%) Kafka
9 13 (1.53%) Middleware
9 13 (1.53%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.41%) OAuth
10 12 (1.41%) SOAP
11 11 (1.29%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.29%) YAML
12 10 (1.18%) Node.js
12 10 (1.18%) NumPy
13 9 (1.06%) XML
14 8 (0.94%) OpenID
14 8 (0.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.64%) AI Agents
2 75 (8.81%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.93%) Cloud Native
4 45 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 24 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
6 21 (2.47%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
9 16 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.53%) CSOC
12 12 (1.41%) Beowulf
12 12 (1.41%) Life Science
13 11 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.29%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.11%) Linux
2 25 (2.94%) Windows
3 10 (1.18%) Unix
4 8 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (45.12%) AI
2 270 (31.73%) Analytics
3 208 (24.44%) Machine Learning
4 202 (23.74%) Agile
5 167 (19.62%) Data Modelling
6 161 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
7 151 (17.74%) CI/CD
8 145 (17.04%) Generative AI
9 144 (16.92%) DevOps
9 144 (16.92%) LLM
10 138 (16.22%) Data Engineering
10 138 (16.22%) Data Science
10 138 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 126 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 123 (14.45%) Decision-Making
14 119 (13.98%) Roadmaps
15 113 (13.28%) Validation
16 109 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 104 (12.22%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 223 (26.20%) Python
2 168 (19.74%) SQL
3 22 (2.59%) C#
4 20 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 18 (2.12%) Bash
5 18 (2.12%) Java
5 18 (2.12%) PowerShell
6 17 (2.00%) R
7 16 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.41%) Bicep
8 12 (1.41%) Scala
9 10 (1.18%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.47%) VBA
13 3 (0.35%) Perl
13 3 (0.35%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 190 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 146 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.93%) Degree
4 34 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.59%) CISSP
8 20 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 18 (2.12%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.76%) CBAP
11 11 (1.29%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.18%) CISM
13 9 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.94%) IIBA
15 7 (0.82%) SANS
16 6 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.59%) GCIA
18 4 (0.47%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (15.86%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.94%) GDPR
2 42 (4.94%) QA
3 22 (2.59%) NIST
4 15 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.18%) GRC
7 9 (1.06%) NCSC
8 6 (0.71%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.35%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.35%) PMO
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.24%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 44 (5.17%) Docker
2 22 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.76%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.47%) Snort
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.35%) IAG
9 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.24%) vCloud
10 1 (0.12%) HDFS
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (8.58%) Kubernetes
2 56 (6.58%) Terraform
3 15 (1.76%) Ansible
4 12 (1.41%) Podman
5 7 (0.82%) QRadar
5 7 (0.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (0.71%) Kubeflow
6 6 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.59%) Grafana
7 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.47%) CSIRT
8 4 (0.47%) Nessus
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) OPNET
9 2 (0.24%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.24%) Puppet
9 2 (0.24%) SCCM
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
10 1 (0.12%) logstash
10 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 160 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.93%) Databricks
3 64 (7.52%) OpenAI
4 35 (4.11%) Foundry
5 34 (4.00%) Google
5 34 (4.00%) Splunk
6 32 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.76%) SAP
7 20 (2.35%) Pega
8 18 (2.12%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.12%) VMware
9 14 (1.65%) Oracle
10 10 (1.18%) Cisco
10 10 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.18%) IBM
11 9 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 7 (0.82%) Adobe
13 7 (0.82%) Informatica
13 7 (0.82%) Red Hat