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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 159 157
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 +56
Contract jobs citing Use Case 882 474 515
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 1.71% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 1.88% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 299 329
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £658 £666
90th Percentile £750 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £514 £563
% change year-on-year +7.06% -8.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 16
10th Percentile £26.10 £27.98 £51.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £41.88 £52.50
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 £66.88
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 38,995 25,146 28,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.84% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,229 16,020 18,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 1,434 1,645
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.60 £50.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -39.40% -1.19%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +38 543 £575 +0.44% 1,160
North of England -41 104 £525 +10.53% 88
South East -14 92 £575 +12.20% 112
Yorkshire -12 59 £531 +14.81% 25
South West -6 56 £540 -4.00% 47
Midlands -41 43 £525 +24.63% 36
North West -57 42 £492 +3.58% 57
West Midlands -49 28 £513 +14.65% 28
East Midlands -6 15 £550 +46.67% 8
East of England -30 12 £488 -2.50% 46
North East -41 3 £488 - 6
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 42 (4.76%) Confluence
2 27 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 8 (0.91%) Apache
6 6 (0.68%) CMS
7 5 (0.57%) SAS
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.34%) Kentico
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 16 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.70%) Chatbot
3 14 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.34%) Actimize
5 3 (0.34%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.34%) Findur
5 3 (0.34%) Workfront
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.23%) Maximo
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Summit
7 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
7 1 (0.11%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 267 (30.27%) Azure
2 162 (18.37%) AWS
3 98 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 76 (8.62%) GCP
5 58 (6.58%) Microsoft Copilot
6 47 (5.33%) Azure AI
7 41 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (4.08%) Snowflake
9 35 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
9 35 (3.97%) GitHub
10 31 (3.51%) SaaS
11 28 (3.17%) Copilot Studio
12 26 (2.95%) Amazon Bedrock
13 23 (2.61%) dbt
13 23 (2.61%) Entra ID
13 23 (2.61%) Power Automate
14 22 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (2.27%) Amazon S3
16 19 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 18 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.27%) Firewall
2 15 (1.70%) Network Security
3 7 (0.79%) BGP
3 7 (0.79%) Wireless
4 6 (0.68%) SNMP
5 5 (0.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (0.57%) DNS
5 5 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (0.57%) Multicast
5 5 (0.57%) VLAN
6 4 (0.45%) SMS
6 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.45%) VPN
6 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.34%) 5G
7 3 (0.34%) ATM
7 3 (0.34%) HTTP
7 3 (0.34%) Internet
7 3 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.37%) Power BI
2 55 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (5.78%) Metadata
4 29 (3.29%) Data Lake
4 29 (3.29%) Tableau
5 20 (2.27%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.15%) Big Data
7 17 (1.93%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (1.70%) Delta Lake
9 15 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.47%) Pinecone
11 13 (1.47%) Weaviate
12 9 (1.02%) Looker
12 9 (1.02%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.02%) Redis
12 9 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (1.02%) SQL Server
13 8 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (6.46%) JIRA
2 24 (2.72%) Git
3 21 (2.38%) GitLab
4 15 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.36%) MLflow
6 9 (1.02%) ERwin
7 7 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 7 (0.79%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Deequ
10 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 256 (29.02%) Finance
2 245 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 161 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.02%) Banking
5 75 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.65%) Marketing
7 36 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (3.40%) Retail
9 28 (3.17%) Legal
10 27 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.27%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.15%) Front Office
13 18 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.81%) Law
15 14 (1.59%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.47%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.13%) Military
18 8 (0.91%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 147 (16.67%) Analyst
2 117 (13.27%) Architect
3 94 (10.66%) Business Analyst
4 87 (9.86%) Lead
5 80 (9.07%) Senior
6 76 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 74 (8.39%) Consultant
8 57 (6.46%) Developer
9 49 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 35 (3.97%) Data Architect
11 25 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 23 (2.61%) Data Analyst
13 22 (2.49%) Data Scientist
14 21 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 20 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (2.04%) SOC Analyst
17 16 (1.81%) Pega Developer
18 15 (1.70%) Senior Analyst
19 14 (1.59%) Product Owner
19 14 (1.59%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.97%) PySpark
2 33 (3.74%) REST
3 25 (2.83%) LangChain
4 20 (2.27%) .NET
5 19 (2.15%) JSON
6 16 (1.81%) Pandas
7 15 (1.70%) LlamaIndex
8 12 (1.36%) Kafka
8 12 (1.36%) Model Context Protocol
9 10 (1.13%) RESTful
9 10 (1.13%) scikit-learn
10 8 (0.91%) LangGraph
10 8 (0.91%) YAML
11 7 (0.79%) GraphQL
11 7 (0.79%) HTML
11 7 (0.79%) NumPy
11 7 (0.79%) OAuth
11 7 (0.79%) SOAP
11 7 (0.79%) XML
12 6 (0.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 94 (10.66%) AI Agents
2 79 (8.96%) Onboarding
3 66 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 62 (7.03%) Cloud Native
5 28 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
10 18 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.59%) CSOC
13 14 (1.59%) Taxonomies
14 13 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
15 11 (1.25%) Marketing Technology
15 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.13%) Algorithms
17 9 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.31%) Linux
2 25 (2.83%) 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
1 425 (48.19%) AI
2 260 (29.48%) Analytics
3 205 (23.24%) Machine Learning
4 190 (21.54%) Agile
5 161 (18.25%) Data Pipeline
6 156 (17.69%) Data Modelling
7 155 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 152 (17.23%) LLM
9 151 (17.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 137 (15.53%) CI/CD
11 135 (15.31%) Generative AI
12 130 (14.74%) Data Engineering
13 124 (14.06%) Roadmaps
14 122 (13.83%) DevOps
15 119 (13.49%) Decision-Making
16 114 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
17 111 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 111 (12.59%) Validation
18 107 (12.13%) Data Science
19 106 (12.02%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 207 (23.47%) Python
2 168 (19.05%) SQL
3 34 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 25 (2.83%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.61%) Bash
5 23 (2.61%) Java
6 22 (2.49%) C#
7 14 (1.59%) R
8 10 (1.13%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.68%) Scala
11 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.45%) Bicep
12 4 (0.45%) Go
12 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 193 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 149 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.60%) Degree
4 41 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.85%) CISSP
6 17 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (1.25%) GCIH
12 10 (1.13%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.02%) CBAP
13 9 (1.02%) CISM
14 8 (0.91%) SANS
15 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.79%) CEH
15 7 (0.79%) IIBA
15 7 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (15.19%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.90%) GDPR
3 47 (5.33%) QA
4 24 (2.72%) NIST
5 19 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.93%) NCSC
7 16 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.91%) GRC
9 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.23%) HL7
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.61%) Docker
3 9 (1.02%) IAG
4 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.23%) Snort
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (6.35%) Kubernetes
1 56 (6.35%) Terraform
2 22 (2.49%) Ansible
3 8 (0.91%) Grafana
3 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.91%) QRadar
4 5 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (0.57%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.57%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.45%) CASB
5 4 (0.45%) CSIRT
5 4 (0.45%) OPNET
5 4 (0.45%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.34%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.23%) Istio
7 2 (0.23%) Podman
7 2 (0.23%) Puppet
7 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 172 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.96%) Databricks
3 52 (5.90%) OpenAI
4 40 (4.54%) Splunk
5 37 (4.20%) Foundry
6 34 (3.85%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.63%) ServiceNow
8 28 (3.17%) Google
9 22 (2.49%) Oracle
9 22 (2.49%) Pega
9 22 (2.49%) SAP
10 18 (2.04%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.93%) Cisco
12 16 (1.81%) Adobe
13 10 (1.13%) Cribl.io
14 8 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 8 (0.91%) Nexthink
14 8 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 7 (0.79%) ArcSight
15 7 (0.79%) IBM