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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 156 167
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +52
Contract jobs citing Use Case 881 502 496
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.82% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.00% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 318 308
10th Percentile £405 £350 £375
25th Percentile £463 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £571
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.10% +3.86%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £665
90th Percentile £750 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £570
% change year-on-year +5.77% -8.77% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £26.18 £26.85 £50.25
25th Percentile £32.44 £34.86 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.43 £49.22 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.16% -17.97% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 £60.94 -
90th Percentile £101.01 £69.38 £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 38,989 25,060 28,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.56% 90.87% 86.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,802 15,892 17,554
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 £627 £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 2,803 1,513 1,284
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.71 £66.61
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% +0.58%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +22 532 £575 - 1,850
North of England -43 107 £525 +10.53% 171
South East +8 101 £588 +13.25% 196
Yorkshire -13 59 £537 +10.04% 46
South West +2 55 £540 +20.00% 108
North West -51 46 £513 +12.64% 108
Midlands -52 41 £500 +14.68% 96
West Midlands -58 27 £500 +11.11% 59
East of England -36 15 £500 -6.98% 86
East Midlands -8 14 £500 +33.33% 37
North East -39 2 £425 - 17
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 (4.43%) Confluence
2 25 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.82%) 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 11 (1.25%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Workfront
5 2 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.23%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.23%) Findur
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%) 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
1 251 (28.49%) Azure
2 157 (17.82%) AWS
3 98 (11.12%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.95%) GCP
5 64 (7.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 41 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 40 (4.54%) GitHub
8 39 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
9 36 (4.09%) Copilot Studio
10 35 (3.97%) Azure AI
11 34 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (3.75%) SaaS
13 29 (3.29%) dbt
14 28 (3.18%) Power Automate
15 27 (3.06%) Amazon S3
16 22 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
17 21 (2.38%) PowerApps
18 20 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 20 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.27%) Firewall
2 14 (1.59%) Network Security
3 11 (1.25%) BGP
4 10 (1.14%) 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
8 5 (0.57%) VPN
9 4 (0.45%) SMS
9 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.34%) ATM
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%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.04%) Power BI
2 59 (6.70%) Metadata
3 50 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.75%) Data Lake
5 24 (2.72%) Tableau
6 19 (2.16%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.82%) Big Data
8 15 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
9 14 (1.59%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.59%) Pinecone
10 13 (1.48%) Weaviate
11 12 (1.36%) Chroma
12 11 (1.25%) SQL Server
13 10 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (1.14%) Redis
13 10 (1.14%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.02%) Neo4j
14 9 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (6.02%) JIRA
2 24 (2.72%) Git
3 22 (2.50%) GitLab
4 14 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.59%) MLflow
5 9 (1.02%) 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 (29.17%) Finance
2 243 (27.58%) Social Skills
3 156 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (11.46%) Banking
5 74 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.54%) Marketing
7 37 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.52%) Retail
9 29 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.95%) Legal
11 23 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.38%) Front Office
13 20 (2.27%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.93%) Law
15 15 (1.70%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.48%) Military
17 12 (1.36%) Financial Institution
18 11 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.25%) Publishing
19 8 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 148 (16.80%) Analyst
2 118 (13.39%) Architect
3 94 (10.67%) Business Analyst
3 94 (10.67%) Senior
4 83 (9.42%) Lead
5 80 (9.08%) Consultant
6 76 (8.63%) Data Engineer
7 58 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 47 (5.33%) Developer
9 37 (4.20%) Data Architect
10 23 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 21 (2.38%) SOC Analyst
12 20 (2.27%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 20 (2.27%) Product Owner
12 20 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (2.16%) Data Analyst
13 19 (2.16%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (2.04%) Data Scientist
15 17 (1.93%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
16 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.92%) Terraform
2 37 (4.20%) PySpark
3 34 (3.86%) REST
4 24 (2.72%) LangChain
5 20 (2.27%) Model Context Protocol
6 18 (2.04%) JSON
7 17 (1.93%) .NET
8 16 (1.82%) LlamaIndex
9 15 (1.70%) Kafka
9 15 (1.70%) Pandas
10 10 (1.14%) RESTful
11 9 (1.02%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.91%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.91%) LangGraph
13 7 (0.79%) NumPy
13 7 (0.79%) PyTorch
13 7 (0.79%) vLLM
14 6 (0.68%) HTML
14 6 (0.68%) Spring
14 6 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.78%) AI Agents
2 84 (9.53%) Onboarding
3 79 (8.97%) Product Ownership
4 55 (6.24%) Cloud Native
5 27 (3.06%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 23 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
9 22 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.82%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.59%) Taxonomies
13 12 (1.36%) CSOC
13 12 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
14 11 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 10 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.14%) CMDB
15 10 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.65%) Linux
2 23 (2.61%) Windows
3 8 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.45%) 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
1 443 (50.28%) AI
2 252 (28.60%) Analytics
3 198 (22.47%) Machine Learning
4 181 (20.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 180 (20.43%) Agile
6 161 (18.27%) Data Pipeline
7 157 (17.82%) LLM
8 151 (17.14%) Data Modelling
8 151 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 150 (17.03%) Generative AI
10 142 (16.12%) Roadmaps
11 136 (15.44%) CI/CD
12 131 (14.87%) Data Engineering
13 124 (14.07%) Data Governance
13 124 (14.07%) DevOps
14 114 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 114 (12.94%) Decision-Making
15 112 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
16 105 (11.92%) Validation
17 98 (11.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 205 (23.27%) Python
2 168 (19.07%) SQL
3 35 (3.97%) Kusto Query Language
4 27 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 26 (2.95%) Java
6 22 (2.50%) Bash
7 19 (2.16%) C#
8 13 (1.48%) Search Processing Language
9 11 (1.25%) R
10 8 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.91%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.91%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.68%) Scala
12 5 (0.57%) Bicep
13 4 (0.45%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.34%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.34%) Go
14 3 (0.34%) Perl
14 3 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 191 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 148 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.17%) Degree
4 40 (4.54%) DV Cleared
5 36 (4.09%) CISSP
6 22 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.36%) GCIH
9 12 (1.36%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.25%) SANS
10 11 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 10 (1.14%) CBAP
12 9 (1.02%) CISM
12 9 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.02%) PMP
13 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.33%) GDPR
3 41 (4.65%) QA
4 23 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.27%) 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%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.23%) PERC
13 2 (0.23%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (2.61%) Docker
2 21 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.14%) 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 54 (6.13%) 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
5 6 (0.68%) OPNET
5 6 (0.68%) QRadar
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
8 1 (0.11%) Control-M
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
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
1 177 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.76%) Databricks
3 49 (5.56%) Splunk
4 46 (5.22%) OpenAI
5 36 (4.09%) ServiceNow
6 35 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 28 (3.18%) Google
8 21 (2.38%) Foundry
8 21 (2.38%) SAP
9 20 (2.27%) Dynatrace
10 19 (2.16%) Cisco
11 18 (2.04%) Oracle
12 15 (1.70%) Adobe
13 13 (1.48%) Pega
14 10 (1.14%) Cribl.io
14 10 (1.14%) Nexthink
15 9 (1.02%) Informatica
16 7 (0.79%) ArcSight
16 7 (0.79%) CyberArk
16 7 (0.79%) F5