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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 155 175
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 +38
Contract jobs citing Use Case 936 528 474
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 1.88% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.06% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 340 292
10th Percentile £406 £356 £382
25th Percentile £475 £440 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £663
90th Percentile £775 £771 £775
UK median daily rate £551 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +5.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £26.18 £36.28 £50.00
25th Percentile £32.44 £41.94 £56.25
Median hourly rate £81.08 £56.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.50% -5.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £88.35 £77.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £101.01 £87.25 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £81.08 £49.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year +64.73% -17.97% -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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +20 571 £575 +0.44% 126
South East +9 123 £600 +14.29% 47
North of England -50 101 £531 +11.79% 38
Yorkshire -13 59 £537 +7.19% 12
South West +1 55 £545 +9.55% 23
North West -53 41 £538 +19.44% 22
Midlands -59 39 £500 +17.65% 13
West Midlands -56 27 £500 +11.11% 9
East of England -30 19 £540 +2.86% 3
East Midlands -10 12 £500 +29.03% 4
North East -36 1 £425 - 4
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 26 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 22 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.50%) Apache
6 10 (1.07%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.64%) CMS
7 6 (0.64%) SAS
8 5 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.32%) Kentico
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
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 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.53%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.32%) Workfront
5 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.21%) 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%) Findur
6 1 (0.11%) OpenLink RightAngle
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 272 (29.06%) Azure
2 178 (19.02%) AWS
3 101 (10.79%) Power Platform
4 71 (7.59%) GCP
5 64 (6.84%) Microsoft Copilot
6 45 (4.81%) Snowflake
7 43 (4.59%) GitHub
8 42 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (4.17%) Azure AI
10 39 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
11 31 (3.31%) SaaS
12 30 (3.21%) Amazon S3
13 29 (3.10%) dbt
13 29 (3.10%) Power Automate
14 25 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
15 23 (2.46%) Entra ID
15 23 (2.46%) PowerApps
16 22 (2.35%) Serverless
17 21 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.03%) Firewall
2 13 (1.39%) Network Security
3 11 (1.18%) BGP
4 10 (1.07%) Wireless
5 8 (0.85%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (0.85%) Multicast
5 8 (0.85%) VLAN
6 7 (0.75%) DNS
6 7 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.64%) SNMP
8 5 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.43%) Broadband
9 4 (0.43%) SMS
9 4 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.43%) VPN
10 3 (0.32%) ATM
10 3 (0.32%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.32%) HTTP
10 3 (0.32%) Internet
10 3 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (7.80%) Metadata
2 61 (6.52%) Power BI
3 51 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 22 (2.35%) Tableau
6 20 (2.14%) Delta Lake
7 17 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
8 15 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (1.50%) Big Data
10 13 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 13 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.39%) SQL Server
11 12 (1.28%) Neo4j
12 11 (1.18%) Pinecone
13 10 (1.07%) Chroma
13 10 (1.07%) NoSQL
13 10 (1.07%) Redis
13 10 (1.07%) Weaviate
14 9 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 59 (6.30%) JIRA
2 25 (2.67%) Git
3 23 (2.46%) GitLab
4 15 (1.60%) MLflow
5 14 (1.50%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.85%) ERwin
7 6 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 6 (0.64%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.21%) Postman
8 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.11%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) Snyk
General
1 286 (30.56%) Finance
2 269 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 164 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (9.94%) Banking
5 92 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.81%) Marketing
7 34 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (3.10%) Retail
10 28 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (2.88%) Legal
12 21 (2.24%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.82%) Front Office
14 15 (1.60%) Law
15 14 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.50%) Military
16 13 (1.39%) Publishing
17 11 (1.18%) Back Office
17 11 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (17.63%) Analyst
2 138 (14.74%) Architect
3 119 (12.71%) Senior
4 107 (11.43%) Business Analyst
5 85 (9.08%) Data Engineer
5 85 (9.08%) Lead
6 82 (8.76%) Consultant
7 61 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 39 (4.17%) Data Architect
9 36 (3.85%) Developer
10 32 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 29 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
12 28 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 22 (2.35%) SOC Analyst
14 20 (2.14%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 19 (2.03%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
15 19 (2.03%) Data Analyst
16 18 (1.92%) Product Owner
16 18 (1.92%) Senior Business Analyst
17 16 (1.71%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (6.84%) Terraform
2 38 (4.06%) REST
3 37 (3.95%) PySpark
4 23 (2.46%) Model Context Protocol
5 22 (2.35%) LangChain
6 21 (2.24%) JSON
7 17 (1.82%) Kafka
8 15 (1.60%) .NET
9 13 (1.39%) LlamaIndex
10 12 (1.28%) LangGraph
10 12 (1.28%) Pandas
11 11 (1.18%) RESTful
12 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (0.96%) vLLM
14 8 (0.85%) GraphQL
14 8 (0.85%) OpenID
14 8 (0.85%) scikit-learn
14 8 (0.85%) Semantic Kernel
14 8 (0.85%) Web Services
15 7 (0.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.18%) AI Agents
2 93 (9.94%) Onboarding
3 78 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 63 (6.73%) Cloud Native
5 31 (3.31%) Security Operations Centre
6 27 (2.88%) Cyber Threat
7 26 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (2.03%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.82%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.60%) Data Fabric
14 13 (1.39%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.39%) CSOC
14 13 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
15 11 (1.18%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.38%) Linux
2 23 (2.46%) Windows
3 8 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.43%) Unix
5 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (51.71%) AI
2 264 (28.21%) Analytics
3 214 (22.86%) Machine Learning
4 206 (22.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 191 (20.41%) Agile
6 166 (17.74%) Roadmaps
7 165 (17.63%) LLM
8 164 (17.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 162 (17.31%) Generative AI
10 161 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
11 157 (16.77%) Data Modelling
12 151 (16.13%) CI/CD
13 136 (14.53%) DevOps
14 134 (14.32%) Data Engineering
15 133 (14.21%) Data Governance
16 130 (13.89%) Validation
17 126 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 126 (13.46%) Workshop Facilitation
18 115 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
19 113 (12.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 211 (22.54%) Python
2 181 (19.34%) SQL
3 37 (3.95%) Kusto Query Language
4 29 (3.10%) Java
5 28 (2.99%) PowerShell
6 23 (2.46%) Bash
7 16 (1.71%) C#
8 13 (1.39%) Search Processing Language
9 9 (0.96%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.85%) Bicep
10 8 (0.85%) R
10 8 (0.85%) Scala
10 8 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.64%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.43%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.32%) Go
14 3 (0.32%) Perl
14 3 (0.32%) Ruby
14 3 (0.32%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 202 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 164 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.76%) Degree
4 40 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 34 (3.63%) CISSP
6 26 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.50%) GCIH
11 13 (1.39%) CBAP
12 12 (1.28%) PMI Certification
13 11 (1.18%) SANS
13 11 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (1.07%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.96%) PMP
16 8 (0.85%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (15.92%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.81%) GDPR
3 41 (4.38%) QA
4 22 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.03%) NCSC
6 18 (1.92%) NIST
7 14 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.85%) GRC
9 6 (0.64%) EU AI Act
9 6 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.43%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.32%) MiFID
13 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.21%) PERC
13 2 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (2.56%) Docker
2 21 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.07%) IAG
4 8 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 66 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.56%) Ansible
3 9 (0.96%) Kubeflow
3 9 (0.96%) QRadar
4 8 (0.85%) Cisco Prime
4 8 (0.85%) Grafana
4 8 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.64%) OPNET
6 4 (0.43%) CASB
6 4 (0.43%) Kustomize
6 4 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.43%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.32%) Kibana
8 2 (0.21%) Argo
8 2 (0.21%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.21%) logstash
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Control-M
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 195 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 94 (10.04%) Databricks
3 50 (5.34%) OpenAI
4 46 (4.91%) Splunk
5 40 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 35 (3.74%) Google
6 35 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.56%) Oracle
8 22 (2.35%) Foundry
9 20 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 20 (2.14%) SAP
10 19 (2.03%) Cisco
11 17 (1.82%) Adobe
12 11 (1.18%) Informatica
12 11 (1.18%) VMware
13 10 (1.07%) Cribl.io
13 10 (1.07%) Nexthink
14 9 (0.96%) ArcSight
15 7 (0.75%) F5
16 6 (0.64%) CyberArk