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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 192 163
Rank change year-on-year +46 -29 +27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 719 337 542
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 1.38% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.52% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 207 362
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £748 £662
90th Percentile £750 £881 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 12
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.74 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.17% -17.86%
75th Percentile £89.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £99.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £38.85 £57.50
% change year-on-year +73.77% -32.44% -17.86%

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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +67 442 £525 -19.23% 267
North of England -14 106 £475 -9.52% 68
North West -14 56 £475 -11.72% 32
South East -37 53 £508 -5.58% 79
Midlands -39 44 £550 +57.14% 33
Yorkshire -28 38 £500 +11.11% 26
South West -23 28 £500 -13.04% 29
East Midlands -11 25 £550 +26.44% 22
East of England -32 19 £550 +21.15% 19
West Midlands -50 19 £538 +53.57% 11
North East - 14 £425 - 10
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 43 (5.98%) Confluence
2 27 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.09%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.67%) Apache
6 8 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.56%) SAS
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.28%) Kentico
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) Smallworld
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.78%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.70%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.70%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.42%) Maximo
4 3 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.28%) Actimize
5 2 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) Findur
5 2 (0.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.28%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.28%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 227 (31.57%) Azure
2 137 (19.05%) AWS
3 80 (11.13%) Power Platform
4 71 (9.87%) GCP
5 40 (5.56%) Azure AI
6 34 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.76%) Snowflake
9 23 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (3.20%) Microsoft Copilot
10 22 (3.06%) dbt
11 21 (2.92%) Amazon Bedrock
11 21 (2.92%) GitHub
11 21 (2.92%) Serverless
12 20 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (2.64%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.64%) Vertex AI
14 17 (2.36%) Azure Machine Learning
15 16 (2.23%) Amazon S3
15 16 (2.23%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.03%) Firewall
2 17 (2.36%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) VPN
4 6 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.70%) DNS
5 5 (0.70%) RTP
6 4 (0.56%) BGP
6 4 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.56%) SNMP
7 3 (0.42%) 5G
7 3 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.28%) 4G
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) HTTP
8 2 (0.28%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.28%) LTE
8 2 (0.28%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.93%) Data Warehouse
2 56 (7.79%) Power BI
3 31 (4.31%) Metadata
4 24 (3.34%) Tableau
5 21 (2.92%) Big Data
6 19 (2.64%) Data Lake
6 19 (2.64%) Snowflake Schema
6 19 (2.64%) Weaviate
7 18 (2.50%) Pinecone
8 15 (2.09%) BigQuery
9 14 (1.95%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.81%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.39%) Spark SQL
12 9 (1.25%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.97%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.97%) KDB
14 6 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.83%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 54 (7.51%) JIRA
2 29 (4.03%) Git
3 13 (1.81%) MLflow
4 10 (1.39%) GitLab
5 7 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.83%) ERwin
7 4 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.42%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.42%) XCTest
9 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.28%) JUnit
9 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.14%) Gradle
10 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 206 (28.65%) Finance
2 199 (27.68%) Social Skills
3 128 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.68%) Banking
5 63 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 30 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (4.17%) Retail
7 24 (3.34%) Legal
8 19 (2.64%) Marketing
9 16 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.53%) Front Office
14 7 (0.97%) Law
15 5 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 140 (19.47%) Analyst
2 112 (15.58%) Business Analyst
3 92 (12.80%) Architect
4 75 (10.43%) Data Engineer
5 68 (9.46%) Senior
6 67 (9.32%) Lead
7 46 (6.40%) Developer
8 43 (5.98%) Consultant
9 34 (4.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (4.03%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.89%) Data Scientist
12 27 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 18 (2.50%) Data Architect
14 17 (2.36%) Data Analyst
14 17 (2.36%) Security Engineer
14 17 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.36%) Technical Analyst
15 16 (2.23%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (2.23%) Product Owner
15 16 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.76%) LangChain
2 24 (3.34%) PySpark
2 24 (3.34%) REST
3 23 (3.20%) PyTorch
4 22 (3.06%) scikit-learn
5 21 (2.92%) TensorFlow
6 19 (2.64%) .NET
7 18 (2.50%) Pandas
8 16 (2.23%) Node.js
9 15 (2.09%) JSON
9 15 (2.09%) Kafka
10 13 (1.81%) LangGraph
10 13 (1.81%) LlamaIndex
11 12 (1.67%) OAuth
11 12 (1.67%) SOAP
11 12 (1.67%) XML
12 11 (1.53%) Middleware
12 11 (1.53%) NumPy
13 10 (1.39%) Faiss
13 10 (1.39%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 61 (8.48%) AI Agents
3 50 (6.95%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.23%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (1.81%) Beowulf
7 13 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.81%) Security Posture
8 12 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
10 10 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.39%) Life Science
10 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.25%) PMI
12 7 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.34%) Linux
2 17 (2.36%) Windows
3 8 (1.11%) Unix
4 6 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (40.06%) AI
2 216 (30.04%) Analytics
3 189 (26.29%) Agile
4 162 (22.53%) Machine Learning
5 148 (20.58%) Data Modelling
6 128 (17.80%) CI/CD
6 128 (17.80%) Data Pipeline
7 123 (17.11%) DevOps
8 120 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 118 (16.41%) Data Science
10 115 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (15.86%) Generative AI
12 113 (15.72%) Data Engineering
13 110 (15.30%) Validation
14 107 (14.88%) LLM
15 105 (14.60%) Workshop Facilitation
16 104 (14.46%) Roadmaps
17 101 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 98 (13.63%) Decision-Making
19 92 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 196 (27.26%) Python
2 124 (17.25%) SQL
3 23 (3.20%) Java
4 21 (2.92%) C#
5 15 (2.09%) R
5 15 (2.09%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.39%) Bash
8 10 (1.39%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.39%) Scala
9 9 (1.25%) Bicep
10 5 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.56%) C++
12 3 (0.42%) Swift
13 2 (0.28%) Go
13 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 152 (21.14%) Security Cleared
2 118 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 81 (11.27%) Degree
4 26 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.50%) CISSP
7 17 (2.36%) CBAP
8 16 (2.23%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.39%) IIBA
10 10 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.25%) CISM
12 7 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.56%) ISEB
15 4 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (13.21%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.56%) QA
3 28 (3.89%) GDPR
4 24 (3.34%) NIST
5 14 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.11%) GRC
7 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.83%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.56%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.42%) NCSC
11 3 (0.42%) PMO
11 3 (0.42%) PSD2
12 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.28%) MiFID
12 2 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (4.59%) Docker
2 19 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.81%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.56%) Snort
7 3 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.28%) vCloud
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) IAG
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.56%) Terraform
3 15 (2.09%) Ansible
4 13 (1.81%) Podman
5 8 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.83%) Grafana
7 6 (0.83%) QRadar
8 5 (0.70%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.70%) Nessus
9 3 (0.42%) Kibana
9 3 (0.42%) logstash
9 3 (0.42%) Puppet
10 2 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 128 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.18%) Databricks
3 55 (7.65%) OpenAI
4 30 (4.17%) SAP
5 29 (4.03%) Foundry
5 29 (4.03%) Splunk
6 28 (3.89%) Google
7 21 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.78%) VMware
9 18 (2.50%) Pega
10 16 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.25%) Adobe
12 8 (1.11%) Cisco
12 8 (1.11%) IBM
12 8 (1.11%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.11%) NVIDIA
12 8 (1.11%) Oracle
12 8 (1.11%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.97%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.97%) Workday