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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 166 209
Rank change year-on-year +20 +43 +1
Contract jobs citing Use Case 577 419 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 1.56% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.75% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 254 258
10th Percentile £375 £394 £404
25th Percentile £446 £473 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £675
90th Percentile £739 £819 £779
UK median daily rate £517 £575 £564
% change year-on-year -10.09% +1.95% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile - - £40.67
25th Percentile £41.94 £69.00 £67.56
Median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £86.66
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% -19.22% +44.43%
75th Percentile £83.13 £71.00 £90.25
90th Percentile £93.75 - £92.35
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £86.66
% change year-on-year -19.29% -19.22% +44.43%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +30 331 £550 -7.17% 139
North of England -5 94 £450 -26.53% 65
North West -16 49 £445 -15.24% 23
South East +6 47 £525 -4.55% 160
Midlands -35 43 £418 -20.48% 43
Yorkshire -22 42 £468 -33.14% 32
West Midlands -27 30 £490 -12.26% 14
South West -15 23 £500 -16.67% 36
East of England -7 19 £588 +3.07% 53
East Midlands -20 13 £413 - 28
North East -6 5 £410 -49.69% 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 38 (6.59%) Confluence
2 20 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 12 (2.08%) Apache
6 6 (1.04%) Appian
6 6 (1.04%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.04%) Smallworld
7 5 (0.87%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.69%) SAS
9 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.35%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.35%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.35%) Luigi
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.47%) MS Visio
3 16 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.43%) Chatbot
5 12 (2.08%) Siemens NX
6 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (1.04%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (3.12%) Teamcenter
2 16 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.52%) Endur
5 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.52%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.35%) Primavera
6 2 (0.35%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) iTrent
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle BRM
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle CRM
7 1 (0.17%) PORTIA
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 159 (27.56%) Azure
2 99 (17.16%) AWS
3 49 (8.49%) GCP
4 42 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.16%) GitHub
7 23 (3.99%) Snowflake
8 15 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (2.60%) Serverless
8 15 (2.60%) Vertex AI
9 13 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (2.25%) dbt
9 13 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (2.25%) SaaS
10 12 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
10 12 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (1.91%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.91%) Azure AI
12 10 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.20%) Firewall
2 7 (1.21%) Internet
2 7 (1.21%) Network Security
3 6 (1.04%) VoIP
4 5 (0.87%) CTI
4 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.69%) DNS
5 4 (0.69%) VPN
6 3 (0.52%) BGP
6 3 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.52%) Modbus
6 3 (0.52%) NAS
6 3 (0.52%) SSH
6 3 (0.52%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.35%) Broadband
7 2 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.35%) IPFIX
7 2 (0.35%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.17%) GPRS
8 1 (0.17%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.24%) Power BI
2 30 (5.20%) Metadata
3 25 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.99%) Data Lake
5 16 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.77%) Tableau
6 15 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (2.43%) Big Data
7 14 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.08%) Hadoop
8 12 (2.08%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.91%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.39%) Data Vault
10 8 (1.39%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.39%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.39%) SAP HANA
10 8 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.21%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.04%) GIS
12 6 (1.04%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 54 (9.36%) JIRA
2 35 (6.07%) Git
3 12 (2.08%) MLflow
4 9 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 9 (1.56%) Selenium
5 8 (1.39%) GitLab
5 8 (1.39%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.04%) ERwin
6 6 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.04%) JUnit
6 6 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (1.04%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.69%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.52%) Postman
8 3 (0.52%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.35%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.35%) Pylint
10 1 (0.17%) Travis CI
General
1 195 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 158 (27.38%) Finance
3 134 (23.22%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.40%) Banking
5 41 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.29%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.12%) Legal
8 18 (3.12%) Marketing
9 17 (2.95%) Aerospace
9 17 (2.95%) Manufacturing
9 17 (2.95%) Retail
10 16 (2.77%) Back Office
11 14 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.43%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.08%) Front Office
13 11 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (22.53%) Analyst
2 100 (17.33%) Business Analyst
3 69 (11.96%) Architect
4 53 (9.19%) Senior
5 46 (7.97%) Lead
6 44 (7.63%) Developer
7 34 (5.89%) Consultant
8 31 (5.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 28 (4.85%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.33%) Technical Analyst
11 22 (3.81%) Data Scientist
12 20 (3.47%) Technical Business Analyst
13 18 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.77%) Security Engineer
14 16 (2.77%) Senior Business Analyst
15 15 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 15 (2.60%) Data Architect
15 15 (2.60%) Project Manager
16 14 (2.43%) Data Analyst
17 12 (2.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.68%) PyTorch
2 25 (4.33%) TensorFlow
3 23 (3.99%) LangChain
3 23 (3.99%) REST
4 22 (3.81%) scikit-learn
5 19 (3.29%) XML
6 18 (3.12%) .NET
7 17 (2.95%) JSON
7 17 (2.95%) Pandas
8 15 (2.60%) LangGraph
9 14 (2.43%) Node.js
10 13 (2.25%) NumPy
11 12 (2.08%) PySpark
12 10 (1.73%) Faiss
12 10 (1.73%) OAuth
12 10 (1.73%) YAML
13 9 (1.56%) HTML
13 9 (1.56%) Hugging Face
13 9 (1.56%) SOAP
14 8 (1.39%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.49%) Product Ownership
2 41 (7.11%) Onboarding
3 29 (5.03%) AI Agents
4 22 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 21 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.12%) PMI
7 16 (2.77%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.77%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.43%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (2.25%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.08%) Life Science
12 10 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.73%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
13 9 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.89%) Linux
2 25 (4.33%) Windows
3 8 (1.39%) Android
3 8 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.21%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.52%) Unix
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (31.20%) AI
2 178 (30.85%) Agile
3 138 (23.92%) Analytics
4 120 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (18.89%) Machine Learning
6 105 (18.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 103 (17.85%) Data Modelling
8 99 (17.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 89 (15.42%) CI/CD
10 88 (15.25%) Data Science
11 82 (14.21%) Data Governance
12 81 (14.04%) DevOps
12 81 (14.04%) LLM
13 80 (13.86%) User Stories
14 79 (13.69%) Validation
15 77 (13.34%) Roadmaps
16 74 (12.82%) Business Analysis
17 72 (12.48%) Data Pipeline
17 72 (12.48%) Generative AI
18 69 (11.96%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 154 (26.69%) Python
2 96 (16.64%) SQL
3 31 (5.37%) Java
4 22 (3.81%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.29%) C#
6 16 (2.77%) Bash
7 15 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 15 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.91%) C++
9 9 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.04%) Bicep
10 6 (1.04%) R
11 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.52%) Scala
12 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.52%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 102 (17.68%) Degree
2 93 (16.12%) Security Cleared
3 67 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (5.20%) Master's Degree
6 23 (3.99%) CBAP
7 21 (3.64%) PMI Certification
8 17 (2.95%) MCP
9 15 (2.60%) CISSP
10 10 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (1.39%) Azure Certification
13 7 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.21%) IIBA
14 6 (1.04%) PhD
15 5 (0.87%) CFA
15 5 (0.87%) ISEB
16 4 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.69%) GCFA
16 4 (0.69%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.84%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.07%) QA
3 23 (3.99%) NIST
4 18 (3.12%) GDPR
5 17 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.25%) Accessibility
7 12 (2.08%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.39%) EU AI Act
8 8 (1.39%) PSD2
9 7 (1.21%) GRC
9 7 (1.21%) ISO 19650
10 6 (1.04%) ISO 8583
10 6 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.87%) GxP
12 4 (0.69%) NCSC
13 3 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.52%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.35%) FIPS 140-2
14 2 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (5.89%) Docker
2 21 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.73%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.39%) zsh
5 7 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.69%) HDFS
7 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 29 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 23 (3.99%) Terraform
3 15 (2.60%) Ansible
4 6 (1.04%) Grafana
4 6 (1.04%) QRadar
5 5 (0.87%) Podman
5 5 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.69%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.69%) Puppet
7 3 (0.52%) Kibana
7 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.35%) logstash
8 2 (0.35%) Nessus
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.17%) Nmap
9 1 (0.17%) SELinux
9 1 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 74 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.93%) Databricks
3 28 (4.85%) Google
4 24 (4.16%) SAP
4 24 (4.16%) Splunk
5 23 (3.99%) OpenAI
6 22 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.08%) Siemens
8 11 (1.91%) VMware
9 10 (1.73%) Oracle
10 9 (1.56%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.39%) Cisco
11 8 (1.39%) NVIDIA
12 7 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (1.21%) GoldenSource
12 7 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.04%) Adobe
13 6 (1.04%) Genesys
13 6 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.04%) Veracode