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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 195 163
Rank change year-on-year +68 -32 +35
Contract jobs citing Use Case 901 393 543
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 1.45% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.60% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 244 351
10th Percentile £410 £359 £405
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £715 £650
90th Percentile £738 £818 £738
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 20
10th Percentile £55.26 £33.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £77.37 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.94% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £87.16 - -
90th Percentile £101.18 £70.50 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £77.37 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -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 38,339 24,527 31,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.54% 90.74% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,173 15,771 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.48% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,262 2,268
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.21 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 +60 551 £550 -7.41% 386
North of England -25 114 £519 -1.24% 60
South East -8 89 £550 +7.32% 73
Yorkshire -11 54 £536 +12.84% 22
Midlands -30 51 £513 +20.59% 28
South West +5 50 £530 -5.78% 90
North West -29 50 £475 -11.63% 29
West Midlands -57 29 £500 +11.48% 19
East Midlands +2 22 £550 +46.67% 9
East of England -34 15 £550 +71.92% 9
North East -28 10 £450 - 9
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 46 (5.11%) Confluence
2 32 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.55%) Jupyter
5 13 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.22%) Apache
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
8 5 (0.55%) SAS
9 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.33%) Kentico
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Appian
12 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 30 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.11%) Chatbot
3 16 (1.78%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.11%) CATIA
7 1 (0.11%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.55%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.55%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.33%) Actimize
5 3 (0.33%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.33%) Findur
5 3 (0.33%) Maximo
5 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.33%) Workfront
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.22%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Summit
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 273 (30.30%) Azure
2 172 (19.09%) AWS
3 103 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 86 (9.54%) GCP
5 47 (5.22%) Azure AI
6 44 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 39 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (3.88%) Snowflake
9 32 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 30 (3.33%) GitHub
11 28 (3.11%) Amazon Bedrock
12 27 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (2.89%) dbt
14 25 (2.77%) SaaS
15 24 (2.66%) Serverless
16 23 (2.55%) Amazon S3
17 21 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
18 20 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 20 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.44%) Firewall
2 19 (2.11%) Network Security
3 8 (0.89%) DNS
4 7 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 7 (0.78%) VPN
5 6 (0.67%) SNMP
5 6 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.55%) RTP
7 4 (0.44%) BGP
7 4 (0.44%) Internet
7 4 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.44%) Wireless
8 3 (0.33%) 5G
8 3 (0.33%) DHCP
8 3 (0.33%) HTTP
8 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.33%) SMS
9 2 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.77%) Power BI
2 66 (7.33%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (4.88%) Metadata
4 30 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 30 (3.33%) Tableau
5 23 (2.55%) Big Data
6 19 (2.11%) BigQuery
6 19 (2.11%) Weaviate
7 18 (2.00%) Pinecone
8 17 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (1.89%) Delta Lake
9 16 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 14 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
13 10 (1.11%) Spark SQL
14 9 (1.00%) Looker
15 8 (0.89%) SQL Server
16 7 (0.78%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (6.88%) JIRA
2 34 (3.77%) Git
3 20 (2.22%) GitLab
4 18 (2.00%) MLflow
5 9 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.67%) ERwin
7 4 (0.44%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.44%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.33%) XCTest
9 2 (0.22%) Postman
9 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.11%) Deequ
10 1 (0.11%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 266 (29.52%) Finance
2 261 (28.97%) Social Skills
3 159 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (11.99%) Banking
5 90 (9.99%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.33%) Marketing
7 35 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.77%) Retail
9 26 (2.89%) Legal
10 22 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.33%) Front Office
11 21 (2.33%) Investment Banking
12 18 (2.00%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.22%) Law
16 11 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.78%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (16.43%) Analyst
2 129 (14.32%) Architect
3 100 (11.10%) Business Analyst
4 88 (9.77%) Data Engineer
4 88 (9.77%) Senior
5 86 (9.54%) Lead
6 62 (6.88%) Consultant
7 60 (6.66%) Developer
8 46 (5.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 34 (3.77%) Data Architect
10 26 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 26 (2.89%) Data Scientist
10 26 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
11 25 (2.77%) Project Manager
12 24 (2.66%) Data Analyst
13 21 (2.33%) Product Owner
14 18 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
15 17 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
16 16 (1.78%) Pega Developer
17 15 (1.66%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.44%) PySpark
2 30 (3.33%) LangChain
2 30 (3.33%) REST
3 24 (2.66%) .NET
4 20 (2.22%) LlamaIndex
4 20 (2.22%) Pandas
5 18 (2.00%) JSON
6 15 (1.66%) Kafka
7 14 (1.55%) scikit-learn
8 12 (1.33%) Middleware
9 10 (1.11%) Node.js
9 10 (1.11%) NumPy
9 10 (1.11%) OAuth
9 10 (1.11%) YAML
10 9 (1.00%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.00%) RESTful
10 9 (1.00%) SAML
10 9 (1.00%) SOAP
11 8 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (0.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.43%) AI Agents
2 72 (7.99%) Product Ownership
3 69 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 67 (7.44%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 23 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.22%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 19 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (1.89%) Virtual Team
10 16 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.66%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.44%) CSOC
12 13 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.33%) Life Science
13 12 (1.33%) Taxonomies
14 11 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
15 10 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.33%) Linux
2 27 (3.00%) Windows
3 11 (1.22%) Unix
4 7 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (46.39%) AI
2 286 (31.74%) Analytics
3 221 (24.53%) Machine Learning
4 204 (22.64%) Agile
5 171 (18.98%) Data Modelling
6 169 (18.76%) Data Pipeline
7 158 (17.54%) CI/CD
8 149 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 147 (16.32%) LLM
10 145 (16.09%) DevOps
10 145 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 144 (15.98%) Data Engineering
12 141 (15.65%) Generative AI
13 138 (15.32%) Roadmaps
14 134 (14.87%) Decision-Making
14 134 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (14.21%) Data Science
16 118 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 117 (12.99%) Validation
18 107 (11.88%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 226 (25.08%) Python
2 169 (18.76%) SQL
3 28 (3.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 23 (2.55%) C#
5 21 (2.33%) Bash
5 21 (2.33%) Java
6 20 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.66%) R
7 15 (1.66%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.11%) Scala
9 8 (0.89%) Bicep
9 8 (0.89%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.44%) Go
12 4 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.44%) SPARQL
12 4 (0.44%) VBA
13 3 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 203 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 156 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.88%) Degree
4 41 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 26 (2.89%) CISSP
6 23 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 20 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.11%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.22%) CBAP
12 9 (1.00%) CISM
12 9 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.89%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.89%) IIBA
14 7 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.78%) SANS
15 6 (0.67%) CCNA
15 6 (0.67%) GIAC
15 6 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (15.54%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.44%) GDPR
3 47 (5.22%) QA
4 25 (2.77%) NIST
5 20 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 18 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.55%) NCSC
8 10 (1.11%) GRC
9 6 (0.67%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.33%) PMO
11 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.22%) PERC
System Software
1 39 (4.33%) Docker
2 27 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 6 (0.67%) IAG
6 6 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.44%) Snort
7 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (7.88%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.55%) Terraform
3 19 (2.11%) Ansible
4 8 (0.89%) Podman
4 8 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.89%) QRadar
5 7 (0.78%) Grafana
5 7 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 6 (0.67%) CSIRT
6 6 (0.67%) Kubeflow
7 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.44%) OPNET
8 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.33%) Nessus
10 2 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.22%) Puppet
10 2 (0.22%) SCCM
11 1 (0.11%) logstash
11 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 181 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 78 (8.66%) Databricks
3 60 (6.66%) OpenAI
4 41 (4.55%) Splunk
5 39 (4.33%) Foundry
6 36 (4.00%) Google
7 32 (3.55%) Salesforce
8 28 (3.11%) SAP
9 25 (2.77%) ServiceNow
10 20 (2.22%) Oracle
10 20 (2.22%) Pega
11 14 (1.55%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.33%) Adobe
12 12 (1.33%) VMware
13 11 (1.22%) Cisco
14 10 (1.11%) IBM
15 8 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 7 (0.78%) ArcSight
16 7 (0.78%) Informatica
17 6 (0.67%) CyberArk