Use Case Contracts in England

Use Cases
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Use Case skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Use Case over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 165 193
Rank change year-on-year -26 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Use Case 343 537 691
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.41% 1.44% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.67% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 357 457
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £468 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £741 £675 £688
90th Percentile £881 £775 £780
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 19
10th Percentile £30.22 - £54.25
25th Percentile £43.74 £40.00 £61.38
Median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -21.43% +20.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £78.20
UK median hourly rate £38.85 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -29.37% -21.43% +23.89%

All Process and 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Use Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Use Case in England.

Daily rate trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in England

Use Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Use Case in England.

Hourly rate trend for Use Case in England

Use Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -22 190 £625 +4.21% 635
North of England -5 52 £525 -5.41% 130
South East +52 41 £593 +24.74% 213
North West +9 33 £538 +7.50% 67
Yorkshire -5 19 £450 -28.00% 50
South West -27 18 £575 +4.55% 77
East of England +31 14 £415 -17.10% 95
Midlands -5 12 £350 -39.66% 107
West Midlands -8 7 £300 -44.24% 63
East Midlands +8 5 £710 +15.92% 37
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (6.41%) Confluence
2 6 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.87%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) CMS
6 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.58%) Appian
6 2 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (3.50%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (5.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.21%) Endur
3 7 (2.04%) SAP PS
4 6 (1.75%) SAP LE
4 6 (1.75%) SAP PP
5 4 (1.17%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.58%) Kondor
6 2 (0.58%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.58%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.29%) Aligne
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.29%) Maximo
7 1 (0.29%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.29%) Primavera
7 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (16.03%) Azure
2 39 (11.37%) AWS
3 29 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 19 (5.54%) GCP
5 18 (5.25%) SaaS
6 15 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.92%) IaaS
7 10 (2.92%) PaaS
8 7 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.46%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.46%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.17%) Collibra
11 4 (1.17%) GitHub
11 4 (1.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.87%) Firewall
2 14 (4.08%) Network Security
3 8 (2.33%) VSAN
4 4 (1.17%) DNS
4 4 (1.17%) VPN
5 3 (0.87%) HTTP
5 3 (0.87%) NAS
5 3 (0.87%) OSPF
5 3 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.87%) VLAN
6 2 (0.58%) BGP
6 2 (0.58%) MPLS
7 1 (0.29%) DSL
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) LAN
7 1 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.29%) Wireless
7 1 (0.29%) WLAN
7 1 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
1 22 (6.41%) Power BI
2 19 (5.54%) Tableau
3 17 (4.96%) Big Data
4 10 (2.92%) Metadata
5 8 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.46%) Data Mart
7 5 (1.46%) Data Vault
7 5 (1.46%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.17%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.58%) NewSQL
10 2 (0.58%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (8.75%) JIRA
2 29 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.75%) Git
4 4 (1.17%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.29%) Postman
6 1 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 91 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
1 91 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 87 (25.36%) Finance
3 47 (13.70%) Banking
4 25 (7.29%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (7.00%) Investment Banking
6 16 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.37%) Marketing
8 14 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.79%) Front Office
9 13 (3.79%) Public Sector
10 12 (3.50%) Legal
11 9 (2.62%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.33%) French Language
12 8 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.33%) Retail
13 7 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (2.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 72 (20.99%) Analyst
2 64 (18.66%) Architect
3 53 (15.45%) Business Analyst
4 45 (13.12%) Developer
5 41 (11.95%) Consultant
6 28 (8.16%) Python Developer
7 27 (7.87%) Senior
8 26 (7.58%) Gen AI Developer
9 24 (7.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 21 (6.12%) Lead
11 18 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (4.37%) SAP Consultant
13 12 (3.50%) Data Architect
14 11 (3.21%) Technical Architect
15 10 (2.92%) Security Engineer
15 10 (2.92%) Senior Architect
16 8 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 8 (2.33%) Data Engineer
16 8 (2.33%) Gen AI Engineer
16 8 (2.33%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.91%) React
2 31 (9.04%) FastAPI
3 28 (8.16%) Django
4 26 (7.58%) .NET
5 8 (2.33%) HTML
5 8 (2.33%) LangChain
5 8 (2.33%) Node.js
5 8 (2.33%) NumPy
5 8 (2.33%) Pandas
6 7 (2.04%) CSS
7 6 (1.75%) LDAP
7 6 (1.75%) PySpark
8 5 (1.46%) Dask
8 5 (1.46%) Kafka
9 4 (1.17%) Bootstrap
9 4 (1.17%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.17%) REST
9 4 (1.17%) Web Services
9 4 (1.17%) XML
10 3 (0.87%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.54%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (4.66%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.62%) PKI
7 8 (2.33%) Life Science
8 6 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.17%) PMI
10 4 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.54%) Windows
2 16 (4.66%) Linux
3 6 (1.75%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.87%) Android
5 3 (0.87%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) SUSE
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (32.94%) Agile
2 69 (20.12%) Artificial Intelligence
3 59 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (15.74%) Machine Learning
5 53 (15.45%) CI/CD
5 53 (15.45%) DevOps
6 48 (13.99%) Generative AI
7 44 (12.83%) User Stories
8 42 (12.24%) Analytics
9 38 (11.08%) Migration
9 38 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (10.79%) SDLC
11 35 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (10.20%) LLM
12 34 (9.91%) Business Analysis
13 30 (8.75%) Technical Analysis
14 29 (8.45%) Roadmaps
15 28 (8.16%) Decision-Making
15 28 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 84 (24.49%) Python
2 77 (22.45%) SQL
3 33 (9.62%) Java
4 31 (9.04%) TypeScript
5 25 (7.29%) C#
6 8 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.04%) Bash
8 6 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.46%) R
9 5 (1.46%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.87%) C++
11 3 (0.87%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
12 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 2 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.58%) VB
12 2 (0.58%) VBScript
13 1 (0.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 69 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.83%) Degree
4 13 (3.79%) DV Cleared
4 13 (3.79%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.50%) CISSP
5 12 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.92%) MCSE
8 9 (2.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (2.33%) CBAP
10 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.75%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.17%) CISA
11 4 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.87%) CISM
12 3 (0.87%) MCSA
12 3 (0.87%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.96%) NIST
2 16 (4.66%) GDPR
3 13 (3.79%) QA
4 11 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.92%) NCSC
6 9 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.46%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.87%) GRC
11 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 33 (9.62%) Docker
2 12 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.50%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.58%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (12.54%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.37%) Ansible
3 12 (3.50%) Terraform
4 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.46%) SCCM
6 3 (0.87%) logstash
6 3 (0.87%) PowerCLI
6 3 (0.87%) QRadar
6 3 (0.87%) SELinux
6 3 (0.87%) vRealize
7 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.58%) Grafana
7 2 (0.58%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (0.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.58%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.29%) OPNET
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.29%) Rancher
8 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 55 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.79%) SAP
3 17 (4.96%) Cisco
3 17 (4.96%) VMware
4 16 (4.66%) Splunk
5 11 (3.21%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.92%) Oracle
7 9 (2.62%) Google
7 9 (2.62%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.33%) Databricks
9 7 (2.04%) Adobe
9 7 (2.04%) IBM
10 6 (1.75%) F5
10 6 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.75%) OpenLink
11 5 (1.46%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.17%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.17%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.17%) Workday