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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 194 176
Rank change year-on-year +40 -18 +11
Contract jobs citing Use Case 662 337 510
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.84% 1.35% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.49% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 223 331
10th Percentile £387 £377 £413
25th Percentile £442 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £675
90th Percentile £750 £881 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 10
10th Percentile - - £38.28
25th Percentile £41.94 £69.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +47.37% -27.48%
75th Percentile £80.19 £71.00 £79.14
90th Percentile £93.28 - £90.60
UK median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.14% +47.37% -27.48%

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 31,205 22,550 33,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.68% 90.54% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,990 14,548 21,873
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,928 809 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.26 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.44 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +63 401 £525 -12.50% 160
North of England +6 100 £472 -14.27% 89
South East -31 56 £513 -10.87% 134
North West -7 45 £458 -16.73% 36
Yorkshire -21 44 £475 -1.30% 47
Midlands -38 44 £475 -13.64% 55
East Midlands -16 22 £438 -38.38% 28
South West -29 22 £498 -15.32% 33
West Midlands -49 22 £550 +4.76% 25
North East - 13 £425 - 6
East of England -32 12 £550 +46.67% 37
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 38 (5.74%) Confluence
2 24 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.96%) Jupyter
5 10 (1.51%) Apache
6 6 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.91%) Smallworld
7 5 (0.76%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.60%) Appian
8 4 (0.60%) SAS
9 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.87%) Chatbot
3 17 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.57%) MS Visio
4 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.15%) CATIA
6 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 17 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.45%) BambooHR
4 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.45%) Endur
4 3 (0.45%) Maximo
4 3 (0.45%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.30%) Actimize
5 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.30%) Primavera
5 2 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.30%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle BRM
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 215 (32.48%) Azure
2 135 (20.39%) AWS
3 67 (10.12%) GCP
4 58 (8.76%) Power Platform
5 37 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (4.68%) Azure AI
7 27 (4.08%) GitHub
7 27 (4.08%) Snowflake
8 25 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (3.17%) dbt
9 21 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.02%) Serverless
10 20 (3.02%) Vertex AI
11 19 (2.87%) Amazon Bedrock
11 19 (2.87%) Entra ID
12 18 (2.72%) Azure Machine Learning
13 17 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
15 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.74%) Firewall
2 14 (2.11%) Network Security
3 8 (1.21%) VPN
4 7 (1.06%) Internet
4 7 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.91%) DNS
6 5 (0.76%) BGP
6 5 (0.76%) CTI
6 5 (0.76%) VoIP
7 4 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.45%) RTP
8 3 (0.45%) SSH
8 3 (0.45%) SSL
8 3 (0.45%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) IPFIX
9 2 (0.30%) Modbus
9 2 (0.30%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (6.19%) Power BI
3 29 (4.38%) Metadata
4 22 (3.32%) Snowflake Schema
5 20 (3.02%) Big Data
5 20 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.72%) Tableau
7 16 (2.42%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.11%) Pinecone
8 14 (2.11%) Weaviate
9 13 (1.96%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.36%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.36%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.21%) Data Vault
11 8 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.21%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.06%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.06%) Star Schema
13 6 (0.91%) GIS
Development Applications
1 50 (7.55%) JIRA
2 31 (4.68%) Git
3 14 (2.11%) MLflow
4 10 (1.51%) GitLab
5 8 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.06%) ERwin
7 6 (0.91%) PowerDesigner
8 5 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.76%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.76%) Selenium
9 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.45%) PyCharm
10 3 (0.45%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.45%) XCTest
11 2 (0.30%) Hardhat
11 2 (0.30%) JUnit
11 2 (0.30%) Postman
11 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 216 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 184 (27.79%) Finance
3 122 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.12%) Banking
5 62 (9.37%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.78%) Retail
8 20 (3.02%) Marketing
9 19 (2.87%) Legal
10 17 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.11%) Investment Banking
13 12 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.66%) Back Office
15 10 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.36%) Front Office
17 8 (1.21%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.21%) Financial Institution
18 7 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
19 4 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 138 (20.85%) Analyst
2 107 (16.16%) Business Analyst
3 87 (13.14%) Architect
4 66 (9.97%) Lead
4 66 (9.97%) Senior
5 58 (8.76%) Data Engineer
6 40 (6.04%) Developer
7 36 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 32 (4.83%) Consultant
9 28 (4.23%) Project Manager
10 26 (3.93%) Data Scientist
11 24 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 21 (3.17%) Technical Analyst
13 18 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (2.57%) Data Analyst
14 17 (2.57%) Technical Business Analyst
15 16 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
16 15 (2.27%) Security Engineer
16 15 (2.27%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.38%) PyTorch
1 29 (4.38%) REST
2 27 (4.08%) TensorFlow
3 24 (3.63%) LangChain
4 23 (3.47%) scikit-learn
5 20 (3.02%) Node.js
6 18 (2.72%) JSON
6 18 (2.72%) XML
7 17 (2.57%) PySpark
8 16 (2.42%) .NET
8 16 (2.42%) LangGraph
8 16 (2.42%) Pandas
9 15 (2.27%) Model Context Protocol
9 15 (2.27%) OAuth
10 13 (1.96%) Kafka
10 13 (1.96%) Middleware
10 13 (1.96%) SOAP
11 12 (1.81%) Faiss
11 12 (1.81%) NumPy
12 11 (1.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 48 (7.25%) AI Agents
3 36 (5.44%) Cloud Native
4 35 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.63%) Algorithms
6 15 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 15 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.11%) PMI
8 13 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
8 13 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.81%) Beowulf
9 12 (1.81%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.36%) Life Science
12 8 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.21%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.08%) Windows
2 25 (3.78%) Linux
3 6 (0.91%) Unix
3 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (37.31%) AI
2 195 (29.46%) Agile
3 183 (27.64%) Analytics
4 150 (22.66%) Machine Learning
5 136 (20.54%) Data Modelling
6 127 (19.18%) CI/CD
7 122 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
8 117 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 114 (17.22%) DevOps
10 113 (17.07%) Data Science
11 105 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 99 (14.95%) Validation
13 98 (14.80%) LLM
14 97 (14.65%) Generative AI
15 96 (14.50%) Data Pipeline
15 96 (14.50%) Workshop Facilitation
16 93 (14.05%) Data Engineering
17 91 (13.75%) Roadmaps
18 87 (13.14%) User Stories
19 85 (12.84%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 177 (26.74%) Python
2 114 (17.22%) SQL
3 28 (4.23%) Java
4 18 (2.72%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.57%) C#
6 15 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.51%) Bash
8 10 (1.51%) Bicep
9 8 (1.21%) R
9 8 (1.21%) Scala
10 6 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.76%) C++
12 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
13 3 (0.45%) Swift
13 3 (0.45%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.30%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 128 (19.34%) Security Cleared
2 102 (15.41%) Degree
3 100 (15.11%) SC Cleared
4 36 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.14%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.32%) CBAP
7 17 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.57%) CISSP
7 17 (2.57%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.96%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.66%) IIBA
11 8 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.91%) CISM
12 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.91%) PhD
13 5 (0.76%) ISEB
14 4 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.60%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (12.08%) Data Quality
2 44 (6.65%) QA
3 22 (3.32%) GDPR
4 19 (2.87%) NIST
5 15 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.66%) GRC
8 10 (1.51%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.91%) ISO 8583
9 6 (0.91%) PSD2
10 5 (0.76%) NCSC
11 4 (0.60%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.45%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.45%) PMO
13 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (6.80%) Docker
2 25 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.72%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.60%) Snort
7 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.30%) vCloud
8 2 (0.30%) zsh
9 1 (0.15%) HDFS
9 1 (0.15%) IAG
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.44%) Terraform
3 14 (2.11%) Ansible
4 12 (1.81%) Podman
5 8 (1.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.76%) CSIRT
7 5 (0.76%) QRadar
8 4 (0.60%) Grafana
8 4 (0.60%) Nessus
9 3 (0.45%) logstash
9 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.30%) Kibana
10 2 (0.30%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) Nmap
11 1 (0.15%) SCCM
11 1 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 109 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.70%) Databricks
3 45 (6.80%) OpenAI
4 39 (5.89%) Google
5 27 (4.08%) Splunk
6 24 (3.63%) SAP
7 22 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 21 (3.17%) Foundry
9 20 (3.02%) VMware
10 14 (2.11%) Oracle
11 12 (1.81%) ServiceNow
12 10 (1.51%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.36%) Adobe
14 8 (1.21%) Cisco
14 8 (1.21%) MuleSoft
14 8 (1.21%) NVIDIA
15 7 (1.06%) IBM
16 6 (0.91%) Genesys
16 6 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.91%) Pega