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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 152 164
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +48
Contract jobs citing Use Case 890 520 492
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.87% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.06% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 328 300
10th Percentile £405 £356 £375
25th Percentile £463 £447 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £566
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.28% +2.95%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £652
90th Percentile £750 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £566
% change year-on-year +5.77% -8.17% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 13
10th Percentile £26.10 £25.72 £50.50
25th Percentile £26.25 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £77.37 £41.94 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.47% -30.10% -11.19%
75th Percentile £87.16 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £101.18 £71.00 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £77.37 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -35.26% -9.47%

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 39,415 25,251 27,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.00% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,982 16,042 16,911
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -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 2,873 1,537 1,195
10th Percentile £13.88 £14.39 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £47.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +54.51% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +12 542 £575 +1.77% 1,343
South East +10 103 £588 +11.90% 155
North of England -61 103 £525 +10.53% 145
Yorkshire -19 57 £531 +8.81% 44
South West +1 55 £540 +13.68% 79
North West -51 45 £519 +12.77% 88
Midlands -47 38 £500 +11.86% 75
West Midlands -59 25 £500 +11.11% 48
East of England -31 18 £500 -6.98% 52
East Midlands -12 13 £500 +33.33% 27
North East -39 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 41 (4.61%) Confluence
2 27 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.12%) Apache
5 10 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.67%) 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 13 (1.46%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Simulink
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.67%) 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 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.22%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.22%) Findur
5 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.22%) 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
1 258 (28.99%) Azure
2 166 (18.65%) AWS
3 93 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.75%) GCP
5 62 (6.97%) Microsoft Copilot
6 42 (4.72%) Snowflake
7 40 (4.49%) GitHub
8 39 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (4.16%) Copilot Studio
10 35 (3.93%) Azure AI
10 35 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (3.60%) SaaS
12 30 (3.37%) dbt
13 29 (3.26%) Amazon S3
14 26 (2.92%) Power Automate
15 23 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.36%) Amazon Bedrock
17 21 (2.36%) PowerApps
17 21 (2.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.25%) Firewall
2 14 (1.57%) Network Security
3 11 (1.24%) BGP
4 10 (1.12%) 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 (0.67%) 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 (6.97%) Metadata
2 57 (6.40%) Power BI
3 49 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (3.82%) Data Lake
5 23 (2.58%) Tableau
6 17 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.80%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.80%) Semantic Layer
8 15 (1.69%) Big Data
8 15 (1.69%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.57%) Pinecone
10 13 (1.46%) Chroma
10 13 (1.46%) Weaviate
11 11 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.24%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.12%) Neo4j
12 10 (1.12%) Redis
13 9 (1.01%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (6.18%) JIRA
2 24 (2.70%) Git
3 23 (2.58%) GitLab
4 14 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.57%) MLflow
5 10 (1.12%) ERwin
6 7 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.67%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.22%) Postman
8 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 267 (30.00%) Finance
2 257 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 159 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (11.24%) Banking
5 79 (8.88%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.83%) Marketing
7 38 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.48%) Retail
9 27 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (2.81%) Legal
11 22 (2.47%) Investment Banking
12 21 (2.36%) Front Office
13 16 (1.80%) Law
13 16 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.46%) Military
15 11 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.24%) Publishing
16 10 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.01%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 153 (17.19%) Analyst
2 119 (13.37%) Architect
3 102 (11.46%) Senior
4 97 (10.90%) Business Analyst
5 82 (9.21%) Lead
6 81 (9.10%) Consultant
7 77 (8.65%) Data Engineer
8 61 (6.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 41 (4.61%) Developer
10 36 (4.04%) Data Architect
11 28 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.36%) SOC Analyst
13 21 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (2.25%) Product Owner
15 19 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 19 (2.13%) Data Analyst
16 18 (2.02%) Data Scientist
17 16 (1.80%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
18 14 (1.57%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.85%) Terraform
2 36 (4.04%) PySpark
3 33 (3.71%) REST
4 25 (2.81%) LangChain
5 23 (2.58%) Model Context Protocol
6 21 (2.36%) JSON
7 17 (1.91%) .NET
8 15 (1.69%) Kafka
8 15 (1.69%) LlamaIndex
8 15 (1.69%) Pandas
9 11 (1.24%) LangGraph
9 11 (1.24%) RESTful
10 9 (1.01%) scikit-learn
11 8 (0.90%) GraphQL
11 8 (0.90%) vLLM
12 7 (0.79%) NumPy
12 7 (0.79%) PyTorch
12 7 (0.79%) Semantic Kernel
13 6 (0.67%) OAuth
13 6 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.57%) AI Agents
2 88 (9.89%) Onboarding
3 77 (8.65%) Product Ownership
4 57 (6.40%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.48%) Security Operations Centre
6 25 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
7 24 (2.70%) Data Structures
8 21 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.91%) Taxonomies
10 16 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.46%) CSOC
11 13 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.24%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
13 10 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.12%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.72%) Linux
2 23 (2.58%) 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 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (50.45%) AI
2 253 (28.43%) Analytics
3 198 (22.25%) Machine Learning
4 191 (21.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 182 (20.45%) Agile
6 164 (18.43%) LLM
7 157 (17.64%) Data Pipeline
7 157 (17.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 155 (17.42%) Generative AI
9 152 (17.08%) Roadmaps
10 150 (16.85%) Data Modelling
11 133 (14.94%) CI/CD
12 130 (14.61%) Data Engineering
13 126 (14.16%) Data Governance
14 124 (13.93%) DevOps
15 117 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 116 (13.03%) Decision-Making
17 112 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
18 111 (12.47%) Validation
19 103 (11.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 209 (23.48%) Python
2 169 (18.99%) SQL
3 36 (4.04%) Kusto Query Language
4 28 (3.15%) PowerShell
5 25 (2.81%) Java
6 23 (2.58%) Bash
7 20 (2.25%) C#
8 13 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (1.01%) R
9 9 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.79%) Scala
12 6 (0.67%) JavaScript
13 5 (0.56%) Bicep
13 5 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
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
1 190 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 150 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.76%) Degree
4 40 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 35 (3.93%) CISSP
6 25 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.46%) GCIH
11 12 (1.35%) CBAP
11 12 (1.35%) PMI Certification
12 11 (1.24%) SANS
12 11 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.01%) AWS Certification
13 9 (1.01%) CISM
13 9 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (15.62%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.39%) GDPR
3 41 (4.61%) QA
4 23 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.25%) NIST
6 17 (1.91%) NCSC
7 16 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.79%) GRC
9 6 (0.67%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.22%) PERC
13 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (2.47%) Docker
2 21 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.12%) IAG
4 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.70%) Ansible
3 8 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.90%) Grafana
3 8 (0.90%) Kubeflow
3 8 (0.90%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.90%) QRadar
4 6 (0.67%) OPNET
5 4 (0.45%) CASB
5 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
5 4 (0.45%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.22%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.22%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) Control-M
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Nessus
7 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 182 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.66%) Databricks
3 50 (5.62%) OpenAI
3 50 (5.62%) Splunk
4 36 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 32 (3.60%) Google
7 20 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.13%) Cisco
8 19 (2.13%) Foundry
8 19 (2.13%) SAP
9 18 (2.02%) Oracle
10 17 (1.91%) Adobe
11 10 (1.12%) Cribl.io
11 10 (1.12%) Nexthink
11 10 (1.12%) Pega
12 9 (1.01%) Informatica
13 8 (0.90%) ArcSight
14 7 (0.79%) F5
15 6 (0.67%) CyberArk