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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 150 165
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +53
Contract jobs citing Use Case 911 524 485
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.97% 1.89% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.08% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 327 300
10th Percentile £405 £356 £375
25th Percentile £475 £447 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £671 £650 £658
90th Percentile £775 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £560
% change year-on-year +6.80% -8.04% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 11
10th Percentile £26.25 £25.72 £50.00
25th Percentile £38.63 £32.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 £41.94 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.47% -30.10% -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.96 £61.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £100.85 £71.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £77.37 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -35.26% -12.77%

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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +12 548 £575 +0.88% 1,721
South East +20 120 £600 +14.29% 265
North of England -57 100 £525 +10.53% 218
South West +6 56 £540 +13.68% 83
Yorkshire -19 54 £531 +6.09% 65
North West -49 45 £525 +14.13% 124
Midlands -48 41 £500 +11.48% 99
West Midlands -58 28 £500 +11.11% 53
East of England -29 19 £525 - 94
East Midlands -3 13 £500 +33.33% 46
North East -37 1 £425 - 29
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 (4.61%) Confluence
2 27 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.32%) Apache
6 9 (0.99%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.66%) CMS
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.44%) SAS
10 3 (0.33%) Kentico
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.11%) nginx
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 11 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.55%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.33%) Workfront
5 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.22%) Summit
6 1 (0.11%) Actimize
6 1 (0.11%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.11%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.11%) Findur
6 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 265 (29.09%) Azure
2 169 (18.55%) AWS
3 96 (10.54%) Power Platform
4 71 (7.79%) GCP
5 63 (6.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 44 (4.83%) Snowflake
7 43 (4.72%) GitHub
8 40 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (4.06%) Copilot Studio
10 36 (3.95%) Azure AI
11 35 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (3.40%) SaaS
13 30 (3.29%) dbt
14 27 (2.96%) Amazon S3
14 27 (2.96%) Power Automate
15 22 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
15 22 (2.41%) PowerApps
16 21 (2.31%) Amazon Bedrock
17 20 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.09%) Firewall
2 13 (1.43%) Network Security
3 11 (1.21%) BGP
4 10 (1.10%) Wireless
5 8 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.88%) Multicast
5 8 (0.88%) VLAN
6 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.66%) SNMP
8 5 (0.55%) DNS
8 5 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.55%) VPN
9 4 (0.44%) Broadband
9 4 (0.44%) SMS
9 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.33%) ATM
10 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.33%) HTTP
10 3 (0.33%) Internet
10 3 (0.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (7.24%) Metadata
2 58 (6.37%) Power BI
3 48 (5.27%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (3.84%) Data Lake
5 20 (2.20%) Tableau
6 17 (1.87%) Semantic Layer
7 16 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.65%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.65%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.43%) Big Data
10 13 (1.43%) Pinecone
11 12 (1.32%) Chroma
11 12 (1.32%) Neo4j
11 12 (1.32%) Weaviate
12 11 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.21%) SQL Server
13 10 (1.10%) Redis
14 9 (0.99%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (6.37%) JIRA
2 25 (2.74%) Git
3 24 (2.63%) GitLab
4 14 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.54%) MLflow
5 10 (1.10%) ERwin
6 6 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.66%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.22%) Postman
7 2 (0.22%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Deequ
8 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 273 (29.97%) Finance
2 262 (28.76%) Social Skills
3 160 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (10.76%) Banking
5 90 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.94%) Marketing
7 36 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.40%) Retail
9 28 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (3.07%) Legal
10 27 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.52%) Investment Banking
12 19 (2.09%) Front Office
13 16 (1.76%) Law
14 15 (1.65%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.43%) Military
16 11 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.21%) Publishing
17 10 (1.10%) Back Office
18 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (17.67%) Analyst
2 130 (14.27%) Architect
3 108 (11.86%) Senior
4 103 (11.31%) Business Analyst
5 85 (9.33%) Lead
6 82 (9.00%) Consultant
7 77 (8.45%) Data Engineer
8 62 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 36 (3.95%) Data Architect
9 36 (3.95%) Developer
10 30 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 24 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
13 23 (2.52%) SOC Analyst
14 20 (2.20%) Product Owner
15 19 (2.09%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
16 18 (1.98%) Data Analyst
17 17 (1.87%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
18 16 (1.76%) Technical Analyst
19 15 (1.65%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.37%) Terraform
2 34 (3.73%) PySpark
2 34 (3.73%) REST
3 24 (2.63%) LangChain
4 23 (2.52%) Model Context Protocol
5 21 (2.31%) JSON
6 17 (1.87%) Kafka
7 15 (1.65%) .NET
7 15 (1.65%) LlamaIndex
8 12 (1.32%) LangGraph
8 12 (1.32%) Pandas
9 11 (1.21%) RESTful
10 8 (0.88%) GraphQL
10 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (0.88%) scikit-learn
10 8 (0.88%) Semantic Kernel
10 8 (0.88%) vLLM
10 8 (0.88%) Web Services
11 6 (0.66%) TensorFlow
11 6 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (11.86%) AI Agents
2 87 (9.55%) Onboarding
3 76 (8.34%) Product Ownership
4 60 (6.59%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.40%) Security Operations Centre
6 27 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
8 24 (2.63%) Data Structures
9 23 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.87%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.87%) Taxonomies
11 14 (1.54%) Data Fabric
12 13 (1.43%) CSOC
13 12 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
13 12 (1.32%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (4.61%) Linux
2 22 (2.41%) Windows
3 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.44%) Unix
5 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (50.49%) AI
2 251 (27.55%) Analytics
3 201 (22.06%) Machine Learning
4 200 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 184 (20.20%) Agile
6 164 (18.00%) LLM
6 164 (18.00%) Roadmaps
6 164 (18.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 156 (17.12%) Generative AI
8 152 (16.68%) Data Pipeline
9 151 (16.58%) Data Modelling
10 141 (15.48%) CI/CD
11 130 (14.27%) Data Engineering
12 129 (14.16%) DevOps
13 127 (13.94%) Data Governance
14 124 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 117 (12.84%) Validation
16 116 (12.73%) Workshop Facilitation
17 114 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
18 113 (12.40%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 203 (22.28%) Python
2 171 (18.77%) SQL
3 36 (3.95%) Kusto Query Language
4 27 (2.96%) PowerShell
5 26 (2.85%) Java
6 24 (2.63%) Bash
7 18 (1.98%) C#
8 13 (1.43%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (0.99%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.77%) R
11 7 (0.77%) Scala
12 6 (0.66%) JavaScript
13 5 (0.55%) Bicep
13 5 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.44%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.33%) C++
15 3 (0.33%) Go
15 3 (0.33%) Perl
15 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 202 (22.17%) Security Cleared
2 163 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.56%) Degree
4 41 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.62%) CISSP
6 27 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.76%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.54%) GCIH
11 13 (1.43%) CBAP
12 12 (1.32%) PMI Certification
13 11 (1.21%) SANS
13 11 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (1.10%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.99%) PMP
16 8 (0.88%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (15.37%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.27%) GDPR
3 42 (4.61%) QA
4 22 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.09%) NCSC
6 17 (1.87%) NIST
7 14 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.88%) GRC
9 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.55%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.33%) MiFID
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) EMIR
13 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (2.41%) Docker
2 20 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.10%) IAG
4 7 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 25 (2.74%) Ansible
3 8 (0.88%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.88%) Grafana
3 8 (0.88%) Kubeflow
3 8 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.88%) QRadar
4 6 (0.66%) OPNET
5 4 (0.44%) CASB
5 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
5 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.33%) Kibana
7 2 (0.22%) Argo
7 2 (0.22%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.22%) logstash
7 2 (0.22%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Control-M
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 188 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.44%) Databricks
3 50 (5.49%) OpenAI
4 47 (5.16%) Splunk
5 36 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.73%) Google
7 33 (3.62%) ServiceNow
8 20 (2.20%) Foundry
8 20 (2.20%) SAP
9 19 (2.09%) Cisco
9 19 (2.09%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.98%) Oracle
11 17 (1.87%) Adobe
12 11 (1.21%) VMware
13 10 (1.10%) Cribl.io
13 10 (1.10%) Nexthink
14 9 (0.99%) Informatica
15 8 (0.88%) ArcSight
16 7 (0.77%) F5
16 7 (0.77%) Pega