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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 187 167
Rank change year-on-year +45 -20 +27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 712 344 534
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.41% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.55% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 212 356
10th Percentile £400 £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 £739 £675
90th Percentile £750 £881 £775
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 11
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 -
25th Percentile £47.22 £43.74 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £77.90 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £38.85 £55.00
% change year-on-year +48.02% -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 34,270 22,183 32,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,910 14,537 21,121
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,134 920 2,242
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.75 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.95% -16.94% -6.17%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +67 439 £538 -14.07% 163
North of England -28 105 £475 -9.62% 51
North West -16 56 £475 -11.72% 23
South East -43 49 £501 -12.83% 66
Midlands -37 44 £550 +57.14% 24
Yorkshire -38 37 £475 +5.56% 21
South West -20 29 £500 -13.04% 23
East Midlands -9 24 £550 -22.54% 18
West Midlands -46 20 £550 +83.33% 6
East of England -33 19 £550 +32.69% 18
North East - 14 £425 - 7
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 (5.76%) Confluence
2 27 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.11%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.69%) Apache
6 8 (1.12%) 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 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.81%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.70%) 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 20 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.70%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
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
4 3 (0.42%) Teamcenter
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%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 219 (30.76%) Azure
2 135 (18.96%) AWS
3 74 (10.39%) Power Platform
4 70 (9.83%) GCP
5 36 (5.06%) Azure AI
6 34 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.93%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.79%) Snowflake
9 22 (3.09%) dbt
10 21 (2.95%) Amazon Bedrock
10 21 (2.95%) Serverless
11 20 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 20 (2.81%) GitHub
12 19 (2.67%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (2.67%) Vertex AI
13 17 (2.39%) Azure Machine Learning
14 16 (2.25%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.25%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.21%) Firewall
2 17 (2.39%) Network Security
3 11 (1.54%) 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%) Modbus
8 2 (0.28%) NAS
8 2 (0.28%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.01%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (7.72%) Power BI
3 28 (3.93%) Metadata
4 22 (3.09%) Tableau
5 21 (2.95%) Big Data
6 20 (2.81%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
7 19 (2.67%) Weaviate
8 18 (2.53%) Pinecone
9 15 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.97%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.54%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.40%) Spark SQL
13 9 (1.26%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.98%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.98%) KDB
15 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.84%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 52 (7.30%) JIRA
2 30 (4.21%) Git
3 13 (1.83%) MLflow
4 10 (1.40%) GitLab
5 7 (0.98%) 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
9 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Gradle
10 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 202 (28.37%) Finance
2 196 (27.53%) Social Skills
3 126 (17.70%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (12.08%) Banking
5 61 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 30 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.21%) Retail
7 21 (2.95%) Legal
8 17 (2.39%) Marketing
9 16 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.11%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (1.69%) Front Office
14 11 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.84%) Back Office
17 4 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 137 (19.24%) Analyst
2 110 (15.45%) Business Analyst
3 93 (13.06%) Architect
4 72 (10.11%) Data Engineer
5 67 (9.41%) Senior
6 62 (8.71%) Lead
7 49 (6.88%) Developer
8 40 (5.62%) Consultant
9 34 (4.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (4.07%) Data Scientist
11 28 (3.93%) Project Manager
12 27 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 18 (2.53%) Data Architect
14 17 (2.39%) Security Engineer
14 17 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
15 16 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (2.25%) Pega Developer
15 16 (2.25%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.79%) LangChain
2 25 (3.51%) PySpark
3 24 (3.37%) REST
4 23 (3.23%) PyTorch
5 22 (3.09%) scikit-learn
6 21 (2.95%) TensorFlow
7 20 (2.81%) .NET
8 17 (2.39%) Pandas
9 16 (2.25%) Node.js
10 14 (1.97%) JSON
10 14 (1.97%) Kafka
11 13 (1.83%) LangGraph
11 13 (1.83%) LlamaIndex
12 12 (1.69%) OAuth
12 12 (1.69%) SOAP
13 11 (1.54%) Middleware
13 11 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
13 11 (1.54%) NumPy
13 11 (1.54%) XML
14 10 (1.40%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 59 (8.29%) AI Agents
3 50 (7.02%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.78%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.25%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.83%) Beowulf
9 12 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.54%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (1.40%) Life Science
11 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.26%) PMI
12 9 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.23%) Linux
2 16 (2.25%) Windows
3 8 (1.12%) 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
1 282 (39.61%) AI
2 212 (29.78%) Analytics
3 186 (26.12%) Agile
4 162 (22.75%) Machine Learning
5 147 (20.65%) Data Modelling
6 129 (18.12%) CI/CD
7 125 (17.56%) Data Pipeline
8 123 (17.28%) DevOps
9 122 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 117 (16.43%) Data Science
11 116 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (15.87%) Generative AI
13 111 (15.59%) Data Engineering
14 109 (15.31%) Validation
15 105 (14.75%) LLM
16 102 (14.33%) Workshop Facilitation
17 101 (14.19%) Roadmaps
18 98 (13.76%) Decision-Making
19 97 (13.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 91 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 191 (26.83%) Python
2 120 (16.85%) SQL
3 24 (3.37%) Java
4 22 (3.09%) C#
5 15 (2.11%) R
5 15 (2.11%) TypeScript
6 13 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 13 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.40%) Bash
7 10 (1.40%) Bicep
7 10 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.40%) Scala
8 6 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.56%) C++
11 3 (0.42%) Swift
11 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.28%) Go
12 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 150 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 116 (16.29%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.66%) Degree
4 29 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.53%) CISSP
7 17 (2.39%) CBAP
8 15 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.40%) IIBA
11 9 (1.26%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.12%) CISM
13 7 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.56%) ISEB
16 4 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (12.78%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.76%) QA
3 28 (3.93%) GDPR
4 25 (3.51%) NIST
5 15 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.12%) GRC
7 7 (0.98%) 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 (4.63%) Docker
2 19 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.53%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.83%) 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 (7.87%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.62%) Terraform
3 15 (2.11%) Ansible
4 13 (1.83%) Podman
5 8 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.98%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.84%) Grafana
8 5 (0.70%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.70%) Nessus
8 5 (0.70%) QRadar
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
1 122 (17.13%) Microsoft
2 65 (9.13%) Databricks
3 54 (7.58%) OpenAI
4 28 (3.93%) Google
4 28 (3.93%) SAP
4 28 (3.93%) Splunk
5 27 (3.79%) Foundry
6 21 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.81%) VMware
8 18 (2.53%) Pega
9 15 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.26%) Adobe
11 8 (1.12%) Cisco
11 8 (1.12%) IBM
11 8 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.12%) NVIDIA
11 8 (1.12%) Oracle
11 8 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.98%) Palo Alto
12 7 (0.98%) Workday