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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 189 165
Rank change year-on-year +41 -24 +28
Contract jobs citing Use Case 718 343 537
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 1.41% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.54% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 211 357
10th Percentile £391 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £741 £675
90th Percentile £750 £881 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 11
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 -
25th Percentile £49.86 £43.74 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £81.16 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £93.28 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £38.85 £55.00
% change year-on-year +60.90% -29.37% -21.43%

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 34,314 22,202 32,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.20% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,947 14,537 21,107
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 918 2,248
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.69 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +66 443 £538 -14.03% 212
North of England -19 105 £475 -9.62% 59
North West -18 56 £475 -11.72% 28
South East -46 51 £503 -15.19% 72
Midlands -44 44 £550 +57.14% 31
Yorkshire -34 37 £475 +5.56% 23
South West -19 29 £500 -13.04% 24
East Midlands -11 24 £550 -22.54% 19
West Midlands -49 20 £538 +79.17% 12
East of England -22 19 £550 +32.69% 20
North East - 14 £425 - 8
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 (5.99%) Confluence
2 27 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.09%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.67%) Apache
6 8 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.56%) SAS
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Kentico
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.79%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.70%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.56%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.42%) Maximo
4 3 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.28%) Actimize
5 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) Findur
5 2 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.28%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.28%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 224 (31.20%) Azure
2 136 (18.94%) AWS
3 77 (10.72%) Power Platform
4 71 (9.89%) GCP
5 38 (5.29%) Azure AI
6 34 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.76%) Snowflake
9 22 (3.06%) dbt
10 21 (2.92%) Amazon Bedrock
10 21 (2.92%) GitHub
10 21 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (2.92%) Serverless
11 20 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (2.65%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.65%) Vertex AI
13 17 (2.37%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (2.23%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.23%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.18%) Firewall
2 18 (2.51%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) VPN
4 6 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.70%) DNS
5 5 (0.70%) RTP
6 4 (0.56%) BGP
6 4 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.56%) SNMP
7 3 (0.42%) 5G
7 3 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.28%) 4G
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.28%) LTE
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (7.66%) Power BI
3 29 (4.04%) Metadata
4 23 (3.20%) Tableau
5 21 (2.92%) Big Data
6 19 (2.65%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
6 19 (2.65%) Weaviate
7 18 (2.51%) Pinecone
8 15 (2.09%) BigQuery
9 14 (1.95%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.39%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.25%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.97%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.97%) KDB
14 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.84%) Looker
Development Applications
1 54 (7.52%) JIRA
2 30 (4.18%) Git
3 13 (1.81%) MLflow
4 10 (1.39%) GitLab
5 7 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.84%) ERwin
7 4 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.42%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.42%) XCTest
9 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.28%) JUnit
9 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Gradle
10 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 204 (28.41%) Finance
2 199 (27.72%) Social Skills
3 129 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (11.98%) Banking
5 63 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 30 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.18%) Retail
7 23 (3.20%) Legal
8 19 (2.65%) Marketing
9 16 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.09%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.67%) Front Office
13 11 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.84%) Back Office
14 6 (0.84%) Law
15 4 (0.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 140 (19.50%) Analyst
2 113 (15.74%) Business Analyst
3 92 (12.81%) Architect
4 74 (10.31%) Data Engineer
5 67 (9.33%) Senior
6 65 (9.05%) Lead
7 48 (6.69%) Developer
8 41 (5.71%) Consultant
9 34 (4.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (4.04%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.90%) Data Scientist
12 27 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 18 (2.51%) Data Architect
14 17 (2.37%) Security Engineer
14 17 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.37%) Technical Analyst
15 16 (2.23%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (2.23%) Data Analyst
15 16 (2.23%) Product Owner
15 16 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.76%) LangChain
2 24 (3.34%) PySpark
2 24 (3.34%) REST
3 23 (3.20%) PyTorch
4 22 (3.06%) scikit-learn
5 21 (2.92%) TensorFlow
6 20 (2.79%) .NET
7 17 (2.37%) Pandas
8 16 (2.23%) Node.js
9 15 (2.09%) JSON
9 15 (2.09%) Kafka
10 13 (1.81%) LangGraph
10 13 (1.81%) LlamaIndex
11 12 (1.67%) OAuth
11 12 (1.67%) SOAP
11 12 (1.67%) XML
12 11 (1.53%) Middleware
12 11 (1.53%) NumPy
13 10 (1.39%) Faiss
13 10 (1.39%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 59 (8.22%) AI Agents
3 50 (6.96%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.23%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.09%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.81%) Beowulf
9 13 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.67%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.39%) Life Science
12 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
13 9 (1.25%) PMI
14 7 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.34%) Linux
2 17 (2.37%) Windows
3 8 (1.11%) Unix
4 6 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (39.69%) AI
2 214 (29.81%) Analytics
3 188 (26.18%) Agile
4 162 (22.56%) Machine Learning
5 149 (20.75%) Data Modelling
6 129 (17.97%) CI/CD
7 127 (17.69%) Data Pipeline
8 123 (17.13%) DevOps
9 122 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 118 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (16.16%) Data Science
12 112 (15.60%) Data Engineering
12 112 (15.60%) Generative AI
13 110 (15.32%) Validation
14 106 (14.76%) LLM
15 104 (14.48%) Workshop Facilitation
16 103 (14.35%) Roadmaps
17 97 (13.51%) Decision-Making
18 96 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 92 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 195 (27.16%) Python
2 123 (17.13%) SQL
3 24 (3.34%) Java
4 22 (3.06%) C#
5 15 (2.09%) R
5 15 (2.09%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.95%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.39%) Bash
7 10 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.39%) Scala
8 9 (1.25%) Bicep
9 5 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.56%) C++
11 3 (0.42%) Swift
12 2 (0.28%) Go
12 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 152 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 118 (16.43%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.70%) Degree
4 29 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.51%) CISSP
7 17 (2.37%) CBAP
8 15 (2.09%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.39%) IIBA
10 10 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.25%) CISM
12 7 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.56%) ISEB
15 4 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (12.95%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.71%) QA
3 28 (3.90%) GDPR
4 24 (3.34%) NIST
5 15 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.11%) GRC
7 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.84%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.56%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.56%) NCSC
10 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.42%) PSD2
12 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.28%) PMO
12 2 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (4.60%) Docker
2 19 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.51%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.56%) Snort
7 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) vCloud
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) IAG
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.57%) Terraform
3 15 (2.09%) Ansible
4 13 (1.81%) Podman
5 8 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.84%) Grafana
7 6 (0.84%) QRadar
8 5 (0.70%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.70%) Nessus
9 3 (0.42%) Kibana
9 3 (0.42%) logstash
9 3 (0.42%) Puppet
10 2 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 126 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.19%) Databricks
3 55 (7.66%) OpenAI
4 29 (4.04%) SAP
4 29 (4.04%) Splunk
5 28 (3.90%) Foundry
5 28 (3.90%) Google
6 21 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.79%) VMware
8 18 (2.51%) Pega
9 16 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.25%) Adobe
11 8 (1.11%) Cisco
11 8 (1.11%) IBM
11 8 (1.11%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.11%) NVIDIA
11 8 (1.11%) Oracle
11 8 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.97%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.97%) Workday