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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 161 160
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +61
Contract jobs citing Use Case 876 490 487
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.79% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.97% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 303 303
10th Percentile £408 £351 £375
25th Percentile £463 £431 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £748
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +6.80% -8.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £26.10 £27.98 £50.75
25th Percentile £26.25 £41.88 £54.38
Median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.93% -5.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 £60.63 -
90th Percentile £101.18 £67.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £77.37 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -35.26% -14.29%

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 39,005 24,820 27,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 90.75% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,032 15,769 17,764
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £637 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £752
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,622 1,447 1,355
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.28 £14.84
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.87 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.38 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% +3.24%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +31 533 £575 - 1,513
North of England -48 105 £518 +15.11% 138
South East -10 95 £581 +10.71% 154
South West +3 60 £540 +35.00% 97
Yorkshire -10 58 £525 +10.53% 29
North West -58 45 £475 +5.56% 94
Midlands -59 41 £500 +17.65% 64
West Midlands -57 26 £500 +11.11% 39
East Midlands -5 15 £500 +33.33% 25
East of England -36 13 £550 +10.00% 49
North East -41 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 40 (4.57%) Confluence
2 26 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.03%) Apache
5 9 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
7 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.46%) 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%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 15 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.37%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.11%) Simulink
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Findur
4 3 (0.34%) Workfront
5 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
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%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 250 (28.54%) Azure
2 157 (17.92%) AWS
3 97 (11.07%) Power Platform
4 74 (8.45%) GCP
5 58 (6.62%) Microsoft Copilot
6 40 (4.57%) GitHub
7 38 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (4.22%) Snowflake
9 36 (4.11%) Azure AI
10 35 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (3.77%) SaaS
12 30 (3.42%) Copilot Studio
13 26 (2.97%) Power Automate
14 23 (2.63%) Amazon S3
14 23 (2.63%) dbt
15 22 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 21 (2.40%) Entra ID
16 21 (2.40%) PowerApps
17 20 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.05%) Firewall
2 16 (1.83%) Network Security
3 10 (1.14%) BGP
4 9 (1.03%) Wireless
5 7 (0.80%) Cisco Wireless
5 7 (0.80%) Multicast
5 7 (0.80%) VLAN
6 6 (0.68%) SNMP
6 6 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.57%) DNS
8 4 (0.46%) HTTP
8 4 (0.46%) SMS
8 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.46%) VPN
9 3 (0.34%) ATM
9 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.34%) InfiniBand
9 3 (0.34%) Internet
9 3 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.19%) Power BI
2 59 (6.74%) Metadata
3 51 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 26 (2.97%) Tableau
6 17 (1.94%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.83%) Big Data
8 15 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.71%) Delta Lake
8 15 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (1.48%) Pinecone
9 13 (1.48%) Weaviate
10 12 (1.37%) Chroma
11 11 (1.26%) Relational Database
11 11 (1.26%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (1.14%) Redis
13 8 (0.91%) Spark SQL
14 7 (0.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (6.28%) JIRA
2 25 (2.85%) Git
3 22 (2.51%) GitLab
4 15 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.71%) MLflow
5 9 (1.03%) ERwin
6 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
6 7 (0.80%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.23%) Postman
7 2 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Deequ
8 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 253 (28.88%) Finance
2 242 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 164 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.87%) Banking
5 68 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.34%) Marketing
7 37 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (3.42%) Retail
9 27 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.74%) Legal
11 21 (2.40%) Front Office
12 20 (2.28%) Investment Banking
13 19 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.83%) Law
15 15 (1.71%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.71%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.48%) Military
17 11 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
18 9 (1.03%) Publishing
18 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 150 (17.12%) Analyst
2 116 (13.24%) Architect
3 94 (10.73%) Business Analyst
4 80 (9.13%) Senior
5 79 (9.02%) Lead
6 77 (8.79%) Consultant
7 74 (8.45%) Data Engineer
8 53 (6.05%) Developer
9 51 (5.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 38 (4.34%) Data Architect
11 22 (2.51%) Data Scientist
12 21 (2.40%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 20 (2.28%) Data Analyst
13 20 (2.28%) SOC Analyst
14 19 (2.17%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 19 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
16 17 (1.94%) Product Owner
17 13 (1.48%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
17 13 (1.48%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.62%) Terraform
2 39 (4.45%) PySpark
3 32 (3.65%) REST
4 25 (2.85%) LangChain
5 19 (2.17%) JSON
6 18 (2.05%) .NET
7 17 (1.94%) Model Context Protocol
7 17 (1.94%) Pandas
8 16 (1.83%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (1.60%) Kafka
10 11 (1.26%) RESTful
11 10 (1.14%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.91%) NumPy
13 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
13 7 (0.80%) YAML
14 6 (0.68%) HTML
14 6 (0.68%) Semantic Kernel
14 6 (0.68%) Spring
14 6 (0.68%) Spring Boot
14 6 (0.68%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 88 (10.05%) AI Agents
2 85 (9.70%) Onboarding
3 74 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 56 (6.39%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (3.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 24 (2.74%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
7 23 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.71%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.48%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.37%) CSOC
12 12 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.14%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.14%) CMDB
15 9 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.68%) Linux
2 23 (2.63%) Windows
3 8 (0.91%) Unix
3 8 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (48.29%) AI
2 256 (29.22%) Analytics
3 194 (22.15%) Machine Learning
4 183 (20.89%) Agile
5 169 (19.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 158 (18.04%) Data Pipeline
7 154 (17.58%) Data Modelling
8 152 (17.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 150 (17.12%) LLM
10 140 (15.98%) Generative AI
11 131 (14.95%) CI/CD
12 130 (14.84%) Roadmaps
13 129 (14.73%) Data Engineering
14 121 (13.81%) DevOps
15 116 (13.24%) Data Governance
16 115 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
17 114 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 113 (12.90%) Decision-Making
19 106 (12.10%) Validation
20 100 (11.42%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 204 (23.29%) Python
2 168 (19.18%) SQL
3 32 (3.65%) Kusto Query Language
4 25 (2.85%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.63%) Bash
5 23 (2.63%) Java
6 20 (2.28%) C#
7 12 (1.37%) R
8 10 (1.14%) Search Processing Language
9 8 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.80%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.80%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.68%) Scala
12 4 (0.46%) Bicep
12 4 (0.46%) Go
12 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.46%) VBA
13 3 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 192 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 148 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.76%) Degree
4 41 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.00%) CISSP
6 17 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.26%) GCIH
11 10 (1.14%) CBAP
11 10 (1.14%) SANS
12 9 (1.03%) CISM
12 9 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.03%) PMP
13 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.80%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (15.07%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.59%) GDPR
3 44 (5.02%) QA
4 22 (2.51%) NIST
5 21 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.94%) NCSC
7 15 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.03%) GRC
9 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.57%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.46%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.46%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) MiFID
13 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
13 2 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (2.63%) Docker
2 21 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.14%) IAG
4 4 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.63%) Ansible
3 8 (0.91%) Grafana
3 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.91%) QRadar
4 7 (0.80%) Cisco Prime
5 6 (0.68%) Kubeflow
5 6 (0.68%) OPNET
6 4 (0.46%) CASB
6 4 (0.46%) Kustomize
6 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.46%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.23%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.23%) Istio
7 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
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
1 165 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 84 (9.59%) Databricks
3 46 (5.25%) OpenAI
3 46 (5.25%) Splunk
4 34 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 32 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 26 (2.97%) Google
7 23 (2.63%) Foundry
8 21 (2.40%) SAP
9 20 (2.28%) Dynatrace
10 19 (2.17%) Cisco
10 19 (2.17%) Oracle
11 17 (1.94%) Pega
12 14 (1.60%) Adobe
13 10 (1.14%) Cribl.io
13 10 (1.14%) Nexthink
14 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.91%) Informatica
15 7 (0.80%) ArcSight
15 7 (0.80%) F5