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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 162 167
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +50
Contract jobs citing Use Case 871 482 496
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.91% 1.76% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.94% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 302 308
10th Percentile £410 £351 £374
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £775 £744
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £560
% change year-on-year +7.32% -8.48% +1.82%
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 38,700 24,856 28,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,864 15,818 18,112
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 £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,605 1,463 1,438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +32 535 £575 - 1,473
North of England -53 102 £518 +8.95% 151
South East -9 95 £581 +14.81% 154
South West +6 58 £540 +35.00% 106
Yorkshire -9 57 £525 +10.53% 31
North West -57 43 £475 +1.60% 105
Midlands -58 41 £500 +17.65% 58
West Midlands -58 26 £500 +11.11% 35
East Midlands -7 15 £500 +33.33% 23
East of England -35 12 £488 -2.50% 47
North East -44 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 41 (4.71%) Confluence
2 25 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.92%) Apache
7 6 (0.69%) CMS
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.46%) SAS
9 3 (0.34%) Kentico
9 3 (0.34%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 15 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.38%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.69%) 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 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.34%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.34%) Findur
4 3 (0.34%) Workfront
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%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 252 (28.93%) Azure
2 161 (18.48%) AWS
3 96 (11.02%) Power Platform
4 73 (8.38%) GCP
5 58 (6.66%) Microsoft Copilot
6 39 (4.48%) GitHub
6 39 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (4.36%) Azure AI
8 37 (4.25%) Snowflake
9 35 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (3.79%) SaaS
11 30 (3.44%) Copilot Studio
12 26 (2.99%) Power Automate
13 23 (2.64%) Amazon S3
13 23 (2.64%) dbt
14 22 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 21 (2.41%) Entra ID
15 21 (2.41%) PowerApps
16 20 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.07%) Firewall
2 16 (1.84%) Network Security
3 9 (1.03%) BGP
4 8 (0.92%) Wireless
5 6 (0.69%) Cisco Wireless
5 6 (0.69%) Multicast
5 6 (0.69%) SNMP
5 6 (0.69%) VLAN
6 5 (0.57%) DNS
6 5 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.46%) HTTP
7 4 (0.46%) SMS
7 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.46%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) ATM
8 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.34%) Internet
8 3 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.12%) Power BI
2 57 (6.54%) Metadata
3 52 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.67%) Data Lake
5 26 (2.99%) Tableau
6 17 (1.95%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.84%) Big Data
8 15 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.72%) Delta Lake
8 15 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (1.49%) Pinecone
9 13 (1.49%) Weaviate
10 12 (1.38%) Chroma
10 12 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (1.15%) Redis
11 10 (1.15%) SQL Server
12 7 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (6.43%) JIRA
2 24 (2.76%) Git
3 22 (2.53%) GitLab
4 15 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.72%) 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
1 248 (28.47%) Finance
2 244 (28.01%) Social Skills
3 165 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.94%) Banking
5 70 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
6 37 (4.25%) Marketing
7 28 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (3.21%) Retail
8 25 (2.87%) Legal
9 21 (2.41%) Front Office
10 20 (2.30%) Investment Banking
11 19 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.84%) Law
13 15 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.72%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.38%) Military
16 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.92%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 147 (16.88%) Analyst
2 118 (13.55%) Architect
3 93 (10.68%) Business Analyst
4 81 (9.30%) Lead
5 78 (8.96%) Senior
6 77 (8.84%) Consultant
7 69 (7.92%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.97%) Developer
9 50 (5.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 38 (4.36%) Data Architect
11 23 (2.64%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (2.53%) Data Scientist
13 20 (2.30%) Data Analyst
13 20 (2.30%) SOC Analyst
14 19 (2.18%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 19 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
16 16 (1.84%) Product Owner
17 13 (1.49%) SOC Engineer
17 13 (1.49%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.66%) Terraform
2 37 (4.25%) PySpark
3 31 (3.56%) REST
4 24 (2.76%) LangChain
5 19 (2.18%) JSON
6 18 (2.07%) .NET
7 17 (1.95%) Model Context Protocol
7 17 (1.95%) Pandas
8 15 (1.72%) LlamaIndex
9 12 (1.38%) Kafka
10 11 (1.26%) RESTful
11 10 (1.15%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.92%) NumPy
12 8 (0.92%) YAML
13 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 6 (0.69%) HTML
14 6 (0.69%) LangGraph
14 6 (0.69%) Spring
14 6 (0.69%) Spring Boot
14 6 (0.69%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 90 (10.33%) AI Agents
2 83 (9.53%) Onboarding
3 71 (8.15%) Product Ownership
4 56 (6.43%) Cloud Native
5 28 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
7 23 (2.64%) Cyber Threat
7 23 (2.64%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.53%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.84%) Security Posture
10 14 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.49%) Taxonomies
12 12 (1.38%) CSOC
13 10 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.15%) CMDB
13 10 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.71%) Linux
2 24 (2.76%) Windows
3 8 (0.92%) Unix
3 8 (0.92%) 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 (48.56%) AI
2 253 (29.05%) Analytics
3 193 (22.16%) Machine Learning
4 184 (21.13%) Agile
5 170 (19.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 156 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
7 152 (17.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 150 (17.22%) LLM
9 149 (17.11%) Data Modelling
10 140 (16.07%) Generative AI
11 130 (14.93%) CI/CD
12 129 (14.81%) Roadmaps
13 125 (14.35%) Data Engineering
14 122 (14.01%) DevOps
15 114 (13.09%) Decision-Making
15 114 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
16 112 (12.86%) Data Governance
17 111 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 107 (12.28%) Validation
19 98 (11.25%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 202 (23.19%) Python
2 164 (18.83%) SQL
3 33 (3.79%) Kusto Query Language
4 26 (2.99%) PowerShell
5 24 (2.76%) Java
6 23 (2.64%) Bash
7 20 (2.30%) C#
8 12 (1.38%) R
9 9 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
10 8 (0.92%) JavaScript
11 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.80%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.69%) Scala
13 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.46%) Bicep
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.46%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 194 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 151 (17.34%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.92%) Degree
4 41 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 37 (4.25%) CISSP
6 18 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.38%) GCIH
10 12 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 12 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.15%) CBAP
12 10 (1.15%) CISM
12 10 (1.15%) SANS
13 9 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.03%) PMP
14 8 (0.92%) CEH
14 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.86%) GDPR
3 44 (5.05%) QA
4 24 (2.76%) NIST
5 21 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.95%) NCSC
7 16 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.03%) GRC
9 6 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.57%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) HL7
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (2.64%) Active Directory
2 22 (2.53%) Docker
3 10 (1.15%) 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 53 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 23 (2.64%) Ansible
3 8 (0.92%) Grafana
3 8 (0.92%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.92%) QRadar
4 6 (0.69%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (0.69%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.57%) 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%) Control-M
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 164 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 82 (9.41%) Databricks
3 46 (5.28%) OpenAI
4 45 (5.17%) Splunk
5 34 (3.90%) Salesforce
5 34 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.87%) Foundry
6 25 (2.87%) Google
7 20 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 20 (2.30%) SAP
8 19 (2.18%) Oracle
9 18 (2.07%) Cisco
10 17 (1.95%) Pega
11 14 (1.61%) Adobe
12 10 (1.15%) Cribl.io
12 10 (1.15%) Nexthink
13 8 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.92%) Informatica
14 7 (0.80%) ArcSight
15 6 (0.69%) F5