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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 186 163
Rank change year-on-year +47 -23 +20
Contract jobs citing Use Case 785 356 551
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.87% 1.47% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.61% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 222 364
10th Percentile £400 £358 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.86% +2.64%
75th Percentile £638 £743 £653
90th Percentile £750 £861 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £44.58 £43.74 £49.38
Median hourly rate £57.40 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £76.10 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £101.01 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.40 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +47.77% -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 35,715 22,116 31,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.31% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,658 14,376 20,600
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,231 961 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% -0.73%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +55 484 £550 -12.07% 120
North of England -24 113 £475 -9.52% 51
North West -25 56 £475 -13.64% 24
South East -36 54 £500 -2.44% 84
Midlands -23 49 £500 +25.00% 15
Yorkshire -31 45 £519 +12.22% 16
South West -5 43 £500 -13.04% 25
East Midlands -2 28 £500 +27.39% 7
West Midlands -49 21 £500 +25.00% 7
East of England -30 15 £550 +46.67% 6
North East -10 14 £425 - 13
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 (5.35%) Confluence
2 28 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.29%) Jupyter
5 10 (1.27%) Apache
6 8 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.64%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) Kentico
8 3 (0.38%) SAS
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.25%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 28 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.29%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) CATIA
6 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.64%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.38%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.38%) Findur
4 3 (0.38%) Maximo
4 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.25%) Actimize
5 2 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 226 (28.79%) Azure
2 138 (17.58%) AWS
3 86 (10.96%) Power Platform
4 76 (9.68%) GCP
5 38 (4.84%) Azure AI
6 31 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
8 27 (3.44%) Snowflake
9 25 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (2.68%) Amazon Bedrock
12 20 (2.55%) Entra ID
12 20 (2.55%) Serverless
13 19 (2.42%) dbt
13 19 (2.42%) GitHub
14 15 (1.91%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.91%) Amazon SageMaker
14 15 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (1.91%) SaaS
15 14 (1.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.69%) Firewall
2 16 (2.04%) Network Security
3 9 (1.15%) VPN
4 6 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.64%) BGP
5 5 (0.64%) DNS
5 5 (0.64%) RTP
6 4 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.51%) SNMP
7 3 (0.38%) 5G
7 3 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.38%) Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) 4G
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.25%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.25%) SMS
8 2 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.90%) Power BI
2 55 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (4.08%) Metadata
4 25 (3.18%) Tableau
5 24 (3.06%) Big Data
6 21 (2.68%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.29%) BigQuery
7 18 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 18 (2.29%) Weaviate
8 17 (2.17%) Pinecone
9 15 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.78%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.53%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.02%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.89%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.89%) Looker
14 6 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.76%) KDB
15 5 (0.64%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 56 (7.13%) JIRA
2 28 (3.57%) Git
3 14 (1.78%) MLflow
4 10 (1.27%) GitLab
5 6 (0.76%) ERwin
6 5 (0.64%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.38%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.38%) XCTest
8 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) Postman
8 2 (0.25%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.13%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.13%) Gradle
9 1 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 225 (28.66%) Finance
2 217 (27.64%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (11.97%) Banking
5 71 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.69%) Retail
7 25 (3.18%) Legal
7 25 (3.18%) Marketing
8 23 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 16 (2.04%) Front Office
10 16 (2.04%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 12 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.15%) Military
15 6 (0.76%) Back Office
15 6 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 147 (18.73%) Analyst
2 107 (13.63%) Business Analyst
3 98 (12.48%) Architect
4 83 (10.57%) Senior
5 74 (9.43%) Lead
6 73 (9.30%) Data Engineer
7 51 (6.50%) Developer
8 47 (5.99%) Consultant
9 35 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 30 (3.82%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.44%) Data Scientist
12 26 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 26 (3.31%) Data Architect
13 23 (2.93%) Data Analyst
14 20 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (2.29%) Product Owner
15 18 (2.29%) Security Engineer
15 18 (2.29%) Senior Business Analyst
16 17 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (2.04%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.82%) LangChain
2 28 (3.57%) PySpark
3 23 (2.93%) REST
4 22 (2.80%) .NET
5 20 (2.55%) Pandas
5 20 (2.55%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.42%) PyTorch
7 17 (2.17%) LlamaIndex
8 16 (2.04%) TensorFlow
9 15 (1.91%) JSON
10 14 (1.78%) Kafka
11 12 (1.53%) LangGraph
12 11 (1.40%) Middleware
12 11 (1.40%) Node.js
12 11 (1.40%) NumPy
13 10 (1.27%) OAuth
13 10 (1.27%) SOAP
14 8 (1.02%) Model Context Protocol
14 8 (1.02%) XML
14 8 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.04%) AI Agents
1 71 (9.04%) Product Ownership
2 50 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.97%) Onboarding
4 21 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
6 17 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 15 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
8 14 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.66%) Beowulf
9 13 (1.66%) Life Science
9 13 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.15%) CSOC
12 7 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.18%) Linux
2 17 (2.17%) Windows
3 8 (1.02%) Unix
4 5 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (41.53%) AI
2 240 (30.57%) Analytics
3 183 (23.31%) Agile
4 172 (21.91%) Machine Learning
5 158 (20.13%) Data Modelling
6 140 (17.83%) Data Pipeline
7 130 (16.56%) DevOps
8 129 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 126 (16.05%) Data Science
10 125 (15.92%) LLM
11 124 (15.80%) CI/CD
12 121 (15.41%) Generative AI
13 116 (14.78%) Data Engineering
13 116 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (14.52%) Decision-Making
15 109 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 108 (13.76%) Roadmaps
17 105 (13.38%) Validation
18 103 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (13.12%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 194 (24.71%) Python
2 133 (16.94%) SQL
3 23 (2.93%) C#
4 20 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
5 19 (2.42%) Java
6 15 (1.91%) R
7 14 (1.78%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.78%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.53%) Scala
9 11 (1.40%) Bash
10 9 (1.15%) Bicep
10 9 (1.15%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.51%) C++
12 4 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.38%) Swift
14 2 (0.25%) Go
14 2 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 172 (21.91%) Security Cleared
2 133 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.94%) Degree
4 25 (3.18%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.55%) CISSP
5 20 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.91%) CBAP
7 11 (1.40%) IIBA
8 10 (1.27%) CISM
9 9 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (0.89%) SANS
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.64%) GCIA
11 5 (0.64%) ISEB
12 4 (0.51%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (14.39%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.10%) QA
3 38 (4.84%) GDPR
4 22 (2.80%) NIST
5 11 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.02%) GRC
7 8 (1.02%) NCSC
8 6 (0.76%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.38%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.38%) PMO
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (4.33%) Docker
2 19 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.04%) VMware NSX
4 13 (1.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (0.51%) Snort
6 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.25%) vCloud
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.13%) HDFS
8 1 (0.13%) IAG
8 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.35%) Terraform
3 14 (1.78%) Ansible
4 13 (1.66%) Podman
5 8 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.89%) QRadar
7 6 (0.76%) Grafana
7 6 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.64%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.64%) Kubeflow
8 5 (0.64%) Nessus
9 3 (0.38%) Puppet
10 2 (0.25%) Kibana
10 2 (0.25%) logstash
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.25%) SCCM
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 148 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.04%) Databricks
3 58 (7.39%) OpenAI
4 33 (4.20%) Splunk
5 31 (3.95%) Foundry
5 31 (3.95%) Google
6 29 (3.69%) SAP
7 24 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.42%) Pega
9 18 (2.29%) VMware
10 15 (1.91%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.40%) Oracle
12 9 (1.15%) Cisco
13 8 (1.02%) Adobe
13 8 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.02%) IBM
13 8 (1.02%) NVIDIA
13 8 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 7 (0.89%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.89%) Workday