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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 155 164
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +53
Contract jobs citing Use Case 882 503 494
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.90% 1.81% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.99% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 311 307
10th Percentile £406 £356 £375
25th Percentile £463 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £771 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £566
% change year-on-year +6.80% -9.05% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 12
10th Percentile £26.18 £27.98 £50.25
25th Percentile £32.44 £41.88 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.43 £56.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.20% -5.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £101.01 £67.75 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £72.43 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +86.47% -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 39,349 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.76% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,108 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
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 2,747 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +18 534 £575 - 1,635
North of England -55 106 £525 +10.53% 152
South East -2 99 £588 +13.25% 202
Yorkshire -18 59 £537 +10.04% 44
South West -1 56 £540 +20.00% 87
North West -47 45 £502 +11.61% 93
Midlands -51 41 £500 +14.68% 94
West Midlands -62 27 £500 +11.11% 59
East of England -39 15 £500 -6.98% 77
East Midlands -1 14 £500 +33.33% 35
North East -40 2 £425 - 15
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 39 (4.42%) Confluence
2 25 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.02%) Apache
5 9 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
7 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.45%) SAS
8 3 (0.34%) Kentico
8 3 (0.34%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Appian
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 14 (1.59%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.13%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.57%) 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 9 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.34%) Findur
5 3 (0.34%) Workfront
6 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.23%) Summit
7 1 (0.11%) Actimize
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 1 (0.11%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 252 (28.57%) Azure
2 157 (17.80%) AWS
3 98 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 71 (8.05%) GCP
5 63 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
6 40 (4.54%) GitHub
6 40 (4.54%) Snowflake
7 39 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (3.97%) Azure AI
8 35 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (3.97%) Copilot Studio
9 33 (3.74%) SaaS
10 28 (3.17%) dbt
10 28 (3.17%) Power Automate
11 27 (3.06%) Amazon S3
12 22 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (2.38%) Entra ID
13 21 (2.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.15%) Firewall
2 14 (1.59%) Network Security
3 11 (1.25%) BGP
4 10 (1.13%) Wireless
5 8 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.91%) Multicast
5 8 (0.91%) VLAN
6 7 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.68%) SNMP
8 5 (0.57%) DNS
9 4 (0.45%) SMS
9 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.45%) VPN
10 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.34%) HTTP
10 3 (0.34%) InfiniBand
10 3 (0.34%) Internet
10 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.14%) Power BI
2 59 (6.69%) Metadata
3 51 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.74%) Data Lake
5 24 (2.72%) Tableau
6 19 (2.15%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.81%) Big Data
8 15 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
9 14 (1.59%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.59%) Pinecone
10 13 (1.47%) Weaviate
11 12 (1.36%) Chroma
12 11 (1.25%) SQL Server
13 10 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (1.13%) Redis
13 10 (1.13%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.02%) Neo4j
14 9 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 54 (6.12%) JIRA
2 24 (2.72%) Git
3 22 (2.49%) GitLab
4 14 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.59%) MLflow
5 8 (0.91%) 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%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.11%) Snyk
9 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 257 (29.14%) Finance
2 244 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 160 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (11.56%) Banking
5 71 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.65%) Marketing
7 38 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.51%) Retail
9 29 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.95%) Legal
11 21 (2.38%) Front Office
11 21 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.27%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.93%) Law
14 15 (1.70%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.59%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.47%) Military
17 12 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.25%) Publishing
19 8 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 148 (16.78%) Analyst
2 115 (13.04%) Architect
3 94 (10.66%) Business Analyst
4 90 (10.20%) Senior
5 84 (9.52%) Lead
6 80 (9.07%) Consultant
7 75 (8.50%) Data Engineer
8 56 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 48 (5.44%) Developer
10 36 (4.08%) Data Architect
11 22 (2.49%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 21 (2.38%) SOC Analyst
13 20 (2.27%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 20 (2.27%) Product Owner
13 20 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
14 19 (2.15%) Data Analyst
14 19 (2.15%) Data Scientist
14 19 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (1.70%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
16 13 (1.47%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.92%) Terraform
2 38 (4.31%) PySpark
3 33 (3.74%) REST
4 24 (2.72%) LangChain
5 19 (2.15%) Model Context Protocol
6 18 (2.04%) JSON
7 17 (1.93%) .NET
8 16 (1.81%) LlamaIndex
9 15 (1.70%) Pandas
10 14 (1.59%) Kafka
11 10 (1.13%) RESTful
12 9 (1.02%) scikit-learn
13 8 (0.91%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.79%) LangGraph
14 7 (0.79%) NumPy
14 7 (0.79%) vLLM
15 6 (0.68%) Semantic Kernel
15 6 (0.68%) SLSA
15 6 (0.68%) Spring
15 6 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.54%) AI Agents
2 85 (9.64%) Onboarding
3 78 (8.84%) Product Ownership
4 53 (6.01%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
9 22 (2.49%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.81%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.70%) Taxonomies
13 13 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
14 12 (1.36%) CSOC
15 11 (1.25%) Data Centre
16 10 (1.13%) CMDB
16 10 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
17 9 (1.02%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.42%) Linux
2 22 (2.49%) Windows
3 7 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.57%) 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
1 439 (49.77%) AI
2 259 (29.37%) Analytics
3 196 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 181 (20.52%) Agile
5 179 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 158 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
7 155 (17.57%) LLM
8 154 (17.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 153 (17.35%) Data Modelling
10 146 (16.55%) Generative AI
11 139 (15.76%) Roadmaps
12 134 (15.19%) CI/CD
13 132 (14.97%) Data Engineering
14 122 (13.83%) Data Governance
14 122 (13.83%) DevOps
15 118 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 117 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
17 115 (13.04%) Decision-Making
18 105 (11.90%) Validation
19 98 (11.11%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 204 (23.13%) Python
2 170 (19.27%) SQL
3 35 (3.97%) Kusto Query Language
4 26 (2.95%) Java
4 26 (2.95%) PowerShell
5 22 (2.49%) Bash
6 19 (2.15%) C#
7 12 (1.36%) R
8 11 (1.25%) Search Processing Language
9 8 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
9 8 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.79%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.68%) Scala
12 5 (0.57%) Bicep
13 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) Go
14 3 (0.34%) Ruby
14 3 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 192 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 148 (16.78%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.94%) Degree
4 41 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 36 (4.08%) CISSP
6 21 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.36%) GCIH
9 12 (1.36%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.25%) SANS
10 11 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 10 (1.13%) CBAP
12 9 (1.02%) CISM
12 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.02%) PMP
13 7 (0.79%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (15.53%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.33%) GDPR
3 43 (4.88%) QA
4 24 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.49%) NIST
6 17 (1.93%) NCSC
7 15 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.02%) GRC
9 7 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.23%) MiFID
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (2.61%) Docker
2 20 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.13%) IAG
4 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.61%) Ansible
3 8 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.91%) Grafana
3 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.79%) Kubeflow
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
7 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 177 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 85 (9.64%) Databricks
3 48 (5.44%) Splunk
4 46 (5.22%) OpenAI
5 35 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.97%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.06%) Google
7 22 (2.49%) Foundry
8 21 (2.38%) SAP
9 20 (2.27%) Dynatrace
10 19 (2.15%) Cisco
10 19 (2.15%) Oracle
11 15 (1.70%) Adobe
12 13 (1.47%) Pega
13 10 (1.13%) Cribl.io
13 10 (1.13%) Nexthink
14 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.91%) Informatica
15 7 (0.79%) ArcSight
15 7 (0.79%) F5