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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 151 163
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 +48
Contract jobs citing Use Case 901 524 495
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 1.87% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.06% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 328 304
10th Percentile £405 £356 £375
25th Percentile £463 £446 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -6.46% +2.05%
75th Percentile £668 £650 £652
90th Percentile £750 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £560
% change year-on-year +5.77% -7.14% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £26.18 £25.72 £50.50
25th Percentile £32.44 £32.50 -
Median hourly rate £76.18 £41.94 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.65% -30.10% -12.77%
75th Percentile £87.16 £61.25 -
90th Percentile £101.01 £71.00 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £76.18 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +96.12% -35.26% -11.19%

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 39,417 25,490 28,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.96% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,890 16,169 17,141
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,564 1,197
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.59 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +19 551 £575 +1.32% 1,660
South East +7 106 £600 +14.29% 243
North of England -51 102 £525 +10.53% 221
Yorkshire -13 56 £531 +11.79% 70
South West +1 53 £540 +13.68% 124
North West -52 45 £519 +12.77% 123
Midlands -53 42 £500 +11.86% 103
West Midlands -49 29 £500 +11.11% 59
East of England -30 18 £500 -4.76% 97
East Midlands -12 13 £500 +33.33% 44
North East -45 1 £425 - 30
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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 28 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.33%) Apache
6 10 (1.11%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.67%) 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 (1.33%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.22%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.55%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.33%) Workfront
5 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.22%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.22%) Findur
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%) DELMIA
6 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Endur
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
1 263 (29.19%) Azure
2 170 (18.87%) AWS
3 95 (10.54%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.77%) GCP
5 63 (6.99%) Microsoft Copilot
6 45 (4.99%) Snowflake
7 43 (4.77%) GitHub
8 39 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (4.11%) Copilot Studio
10 36 (4.00%) Azure AI
11 34 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (3.55%) SaaS
13 31 (3.44%) dbt
14 29 (3.22%) Amazon S3
15 27 (3.00%) Power Automate
16 22 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (2.44%) PowerApps
16 22 (2.44%) Serverless
17 21 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
17 21 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.11%) Firewall
2 13 (1.44%) Network Security
3 11 (1.22%) BGP
4 10 (1.11%) Wireless
5 8 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.89%) Multicast
5 8 (0.89%) VLAN
6 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.67%) SNMP
8 5 (0.55%) DNS
8 5 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.55%) VPN
9 4 (0.44%) SMS
9 4 (0.44%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.33%) ATM
10 3 (0.33%) Broadband
10 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.33%) HTTP
10 3 (0.33%) Internet
10 3 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.21%) Metadata
2 58 (6.44%) Power BI
3 49 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (3.88%) Data Lake
5 23 (2.55%) Tableau
6 17 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
7 16 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (1.78%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.66%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.55%) Big Data
10 13 (1.44%) Pinecone
11 12 (1.33%) Chroma
11 12 (1.33%) Weaviate
12 11 (1.22%) Neo4j
12 11 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.22%) SQL Server
13 10 (1.11%) Redis
14 9 (1.00%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (6.33%) JIRA
2 25 (2.77%) Git
3 23 (2.55%) GitLab
4 14 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.55%) MLflow
5 10 (1.11%) ERwin
6 6 (0.67%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.67%) 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 (30.30%) Finance
2 263 (29.19%) Social Skills
3 160 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (10.99%) Banking
5 82 (9.10%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.77%) Marketing
7 36 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.44%) Retail
9 28 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (3.11%) Legal
10 25 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (2.33%) Investment Banking
12 20 (2.22%) Front Office
13 16 (1.78%) Law
14 15 (1.66%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.44%) Military
16 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.22%) Publishing
17 10 (1.11%) Back Office
17 10 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (16.98%) Analyst
2 125 (13.87%) Architect
3 106 (11.76%) Senior
4 97 (10.77%) Business Analyst
5 84 (9.32%) Lead
6 81 (8.99%) Consultant
7 79 (8.77%) Data Engineer
8 62 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 40 (4.44%) Developer
10 36 (4.00%) Data Architect
11 29 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 25 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (2.55%) SOC Analyst
15 20 (2.22%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 20 (2.22%) Product Owner
16 19 (2.11%) Data Analyst
17 17 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
17 17 (1.89%) Data Scientist
18 14 (1.55%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.66%) Terraform
2 35 (3.88%) PySpark
3 34 (3.77%) REST
4 24 (2.66%) LangChain
5 23 (2.55%) Model Context Protocol
6 22 (2.44%) JSON
7 17 (1.89%) Kafka
8 15 (1.66%) .NET
8 15 (1.66%) LlamaIndex
8 15 (1.66%) Pandas
9 12 (1.33%) LangGraph
10 11 (1.22%) RESTful
11 10 (1.11%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.89%) GraphQL
12 8 (0.89%) PyTorch
12 8 (0.89%) Semantic Kernel
12 8 (0.89%) vLLM
12 8 (0.89%) Web Services
13 7 (0.78%) NumPy
14 6 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 104 (11.54%) AI Agents
2 88 (9.77%) Onboarding
3 77 (8.55%) Product Ownership
4 59 (6.55%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 26 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
8 24 (2.66%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.89%) Taxonomies
10 16 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.44%) CSOC
12 12 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
14 10 (1.11%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.55%) Linux
2 22 (2.44%) Windows
3 8 (0.89%) 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
1 457 (50.72%) AI
2 256 (28.41%) Analytics
3 202 (22.42%) Machine Learning
4 193 (21.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 185 (20.53%) Agile
6 164 (18.20%) LLM
7 158 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 157 (17.43%) Data Pipeline
9 156 (17.31%) Generative AI
9 156 (17.31%) Roadmaps
10 152 (16.87%) Data Modelling
11 137 (15.21%) CI/CD
12 131 (14.54%) Data Engineering
13 127 (14.10%) Data Governance
14 126 (13.98%) DevOps
15 123 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 115 (12.76%) Decision-Making
16 115 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
17 113 (12.54%) Validation
18 106 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 208 (23.09%) Python
2 171 (18.98%) SQL
3 36 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 27 (3.00%) PowerShell
5 26 (2.89%) Java
6 23 (2.55%) Bash
7 18 (2.00%) C#
8 13 (1.44%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.89%) R
10 8 (0.89%) Scala
10 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.67%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.55%) Bicep
12 5 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.44%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.33%) C++
14 3 (0.33%) Go
14 3 (0.33%) Perl
14 3 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 190 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 151 (16.76%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.55%) Degree
4 41 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.66%) CISSP
6 26 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.66%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.55%) GCIH
10 12 (1.33%) CBAP
10 12 (1.33%) PMI Certification
11 11 (1.22%) SANS
11 11 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
12 10 (1.11%) AWS Certification
13 9 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.00%) PMP
14 8 (0.89%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (15.76%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.33%) GDPR
3 42 (4.66%) QA
4 23 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.11%) NCSC
6 17 (1.89%) NIST
7 14 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.89%) GRC
9 6 (0.67%) 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
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.22%) PERC
13 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (2.44%) Docker
2 20 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.11%) IAG
4 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.66%) Ansible
3 8 (0.89%) Cisco Prime
3 8 (0.89%) Grafana
3 8 (0.89%) Kubeflow
3 8 (0.89%) Prometheus
3 8 (0.89%) QRadar
4 6 (0.67%) OPNET
5 4 (0.44%) CASB
5 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
5 4 (0.44%) Progress Chef
5 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
6 2 (0.22%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.22%) Kibana
6 2 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) Control-M
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 188 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.54%) Databricks
3 49 (5.44%) OpenAI
4 48 (5.33%) Splunk
5 36 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 33 (3.66%) Google
6 33 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.22%) Foundry
7 20 (2.22%) SAP
8 19 (2.11%) Cisco
8 19 (2.11%) Dynatrace
9 18 (2.00%) Oracle
10 17 (1.89%) Adobe
11 10 (1.11%) Cribl.io
11 10 (1.11%) Nexthink
11 10 (1.11%) Pega
12 9 (1.00%) Informatica
13 8 (0.89%) ArcSight
14 7 (0.78%) F5
15 6 (0.67%) CyberArk