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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 156 171
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +49
Contract jobs citing Use Case 885 518 496
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.86% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.04% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 326 305
10th Percentile £405 £356 £375
25th Percentile £463 £447 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £663
90th Percentile £748 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £570
% change year-on-year +5.77% -8.77% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 12
10th Percentile £26.10 £26.85 £50.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £34.86 £58.13
Median hourly rate £77.37 £49.22 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.18% -17.97% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 £60.94 -
90th Percentile £101.18 £69.38 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £77.37 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -35.26% -11.11%

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 39,218 25,382 28,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.59% 90.90% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 16,110 17,293
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,852 1,550 1,234
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -40.82% -

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +16 535 £575 +1.32% 1,447
North of England -42 107 £525 +10.53% 158
South East +2 103 £588 +11.90% 196
Yorkshire -19 60 £537 +10.04% 53
South West +6 54 £540 +13.68% 87
North West -53 46 £513 +11.41% 92
Midlands -45 38 £500 +11.86% 82
West Midlands -58 25 £500 +11.11% 52
East of England -26 18 £500 -6.98% 62
East Midlands -10 13 £500 +33.33% 30
North East -37 1 £425 - 13
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 38 (4.29%) Confluence
2 27 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 18 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.13%) Apache
5 10 (1.13%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.45%) SAS
9 3 (0.34%) Kentico
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.58%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.24%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.23%) 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 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.56%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Workfront
5 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.23%) Findur
5 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.23%) Summit
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 254 (28.70%) Azure
2 161 (18.19%) AWS
3 97 (10.96%) Power Platform
4 67 (7.57%) GCP
5 64 (7.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 42 (4.75%) Snowflake
7 41 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (4.52%) GitHub
9 38 (4.29%) Copilot Studio
10 35 (3.95%) Azure AI
11 33 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (3.50%) SaaS
13 30 (3.39%) dbt
14 29 (3.28%) Amazon S3
15 26 (2.94%) Power Automate
16 22 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
17 21 (2.37%) Amazon Bedrock
17 21 (2.37%) PowerApps
17 21 (2.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.26%) Firewall
2 14 (1.58%) Network Security
3 11 (1.24%) BGP
4 10 (1.13%) Wireless
5 8 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.90%) Multicast
5 8 (0.90%) VLAN
6 7 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.68%) SNMP
8 5 (0.56%) DNS
8 5 (0.56%) VPN
9 4 (0.45%) SMS
9 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.34%) ATM
10 3 (0.34%) Broadband
10 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.34%) HTTP
10 3 (0.34%) Internet
10 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.01%) Metadata
2 59 (6.67%) Power BI
3 47 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (3.84%) Data Lake
5 24 (2.71%) Tableau
6 17 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.81%) Big Data
7 16 (1.81%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
8 15 (1.69%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.58%) Pinecone
10 13 (1.47%) Chroma
10 13 (1.47%) Weaviate
11 11 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.24%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.13%) Neo4j
12 10 (1.13%) Redis
13 9 (1.02%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (5.88%) JIRA
2 24 (2.71%) Git
3 22 (2.49%) GitLab
4 14 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.58%) MLflow
5 10 (1.13%) ERwin
6 7 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.68%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) Postman
8 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 262 (29.60%) Finance
2 254 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 155 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (11.19%) Banking
5 77 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.75%) Marketing
7 36 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.50%) Retail
9 29 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (3.05%) Legal
11 25 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.37%) Front Office
13 20 (2.26%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.92%) Law
15 15 (1.69%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.47%) Military
17 12 (1.36%) Financial Institution
18 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.24%) Publishing
19 7 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 152 (17.18%) Analyst
2 116 (13.11%) Architect
3 102 (11.53%) Senior
4 97 (10.96%) Business Analyst
5 83 (9.38%) Lead
6 80 (9.04%) Consultant
7 77 (8.70%) Data Engineer
8 59 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 42 (4.75%) Developer
10 35 (3.95%) Data Architect
11 26 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.37%) SOC Analyst
14 20 (2.26%) Data Analyst
14 20 (2.26%) Product Owner
14 20 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
16 18 (2.03%) Data Scientist
17 17 (1.92%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
18 14 (1.58%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.89%) Terraform
2 36 (4.07%) PySpark
3 33 (3.73%) REST
4 25 (2.82%) LangChain
5 22 (2.49%) Model Context Protocol
6 20 (2.26%) JSON
7 17 (1.92%) .NET
8 15 (1.69%) LlamaIndex
8 15 (1.69%) Pandas
9 14 (1.58%) Kafka
10 11 (1.24%) RESTful
11 10 (1.13%) LangGraph
12 9 (1.02%) scikit-learn
13 8 (0.90%) GraphQL
13 8 (0.90%) vLLM
14 7 (0.79%) NumPy
14 7 (0.79%) PyTorch
14 7 (0.79%) Semantic Kernel
15 6 (0.68%) OAuth
15 6 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.19%) AI Agents
2 88 (9.94%) Onboarding
3 78 (8.81%) Product Ownership
4 55 (6.21%) Cloud Native
5 28 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
7 25 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (2.60%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.81%) Taxonomies
12 15 (1.69%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.36%) CSOC
13 12 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
14 11 (1.24%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
15 10 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.13%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.63%) Linux
2 23 (2.60%) Windows
3 8 (0.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.45%) 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
1 446 (50.40%) AI
2 253 (28.59%) Analytics
3 197 (22.26%) Machine Learning
4 187 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 180 (20.34%) Agile
6 159 (17.97%) LLM
7 156 (17.63%) Data Pipeline
8 152 (17.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 151 (17.06%) Data Modelling
10 150 (16.95%) Generative AI
11 149 (16.84%) Roadmaps
12 132 (14.92%) CI/CD
13 130 (14.69%) Data Engineering
14 127 (14.35%) Data Governance
15 121 (13.67%) DevOps
16 117 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 115 (12.99%) Decision-Making
18 110 (12.43%) Validation
19 109 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
20 102 (11.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 206 (23.28%) Python
2 168 (18.98%) SQL
3 36 (4.07%) Kusto Query Language
4 28 (3.16%) PowerShell
5 25 (2.82%) Java
6 22 (2.49%) Bash
7 20 (2.26%) C#
8 13 (1.47%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (1.02%) R
9 9 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.79%) Scala
12 6 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.68%) JavaScript
13 5 (0.56%) Bicep
14 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.34%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.34%) Go
15 3 (0.34%) Perl
15 3 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 186 (21.02%) Security Cleared
2 146 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.36%) Degree
4 40 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 35 (3.95%) CISSP
6 22 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.47%) GCIH
10 12 (1.36%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.24%) SANS
11 11 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (1.13%) CBAP
13 9 (1.02%) CISM
13 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.02%) PMP
14 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (15.93%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.42%) GDPR
3 42 (4.75%) QA
4 23 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.26%) NIST
6 17 (1.92%) NCSC
7 16 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 7 (0.79%) GRC
10 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.56%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.23%) PERC
14 2 (0.23%) SLA
14 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (2.49%) Active Directory
1 22 (2.49%) Docker
2 10 (1.13%) IAG
3 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.60%) Ansible
3 8 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.90%) Grafana
3 8 (0.90%) Kubeflow
3 8 (0.90%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.79%) QRadar
5 6 (0.68%) OPNET
6 4 (0.45%) CASB
6 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
6 4 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.23%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Control-M
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Nessus
8 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 183 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.72%) Databricks
3 49 (5.54%) Splunk
4 47 (5.31%) OpenAI
5 35 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.28%) Google
7 21 (2.37%) Foundry
8 20 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 20 (2.26%) SAP
9 19 (2.15%) Cisco
10 18 (2.03%) Oracle
11 17 (1.92%) Adobe
12 11 (1.24%) Pega
13 10 (1.13%) Cribl.io
13 10 (1.13%) Nexthink
14 9 (1.02%) Informatica
15 8 (0.90%) ArcSight
16 7 (0.79%) F5
17 6 (0.68%) CyberArk