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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 172 220
Rank change year-on-year +19 +48 -8
Contract jobs citing Use Case 577 405 401
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.81% 1.51% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.69% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 244 252
10th Percentile £358 £376 £408
25th Percentile £439 £472 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +0.44% -0.43%
75th Percentile £638 £696 £675
90th Percentile £749 £829 £799
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -9.65% +2.68% +1.82%
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 28,048 23,994 32,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.18% 89.29% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,911 14,725 21,701
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 1,747 781 1,610
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.29 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +35 336 £550 -8.33% 157
North of England -11 90 £448 -14.76% 96
South East -4 49 £525 - 235
Yorkshire -17 44 £468 -37.60% 50
North West -24 42 £440 -16.19% 28
Midlands -40 42 £418 -24.09% 71
West Midlands -36 27 £488 -14.02% 17
South West -5 23 £500 -16.67% 74
East of England -4 19 £588 +29.41% 103
East Midlands -17 15 £413 - 51
North East -10 6 £410 -49.69% 18
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 (7.45%) Confluence
2 20 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.08%) Apache
5 7 (1.21%) Appian
5 7 (1.21%) 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%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.47%) MS Visio
3 14 (2.43%) Chatbot
3 14 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.04%) ProjectWise
6 3 (0.52%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.56%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.52%) Endur
4 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.52%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.35%) Primavera
5 2 (0.35%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.35%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.35%) Shopify
5 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.17%) iTrent
6 1 (0.17%) PORTIA
6 1 (0.17%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 159 (27.56%) Azure
2 100 (17.33%) AWS
3 48 (8.32%) GCP
4 44 (7.63%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.16%) GitHub
7 22 (3.81%) Snowflake
8 17 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (2.95%) Vertex AI
9 15 (2.60%) Serverless
10 13 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
10 13 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (2.25%) dbt
10 13 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.91%) Azure AI
13 10 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.73%) Entra ID
13 10 (1.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.20%) Firewall
2 8 (1.39%) Network Security
3 7 (1.21%) Internet
4 6 (1.04%) VoIP
5 5 (0.87%) CTI
5 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.69%) DNS
6 4 (0.69%) VPN
7 3 (0.52%) BGP
7 3 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.52%) Modbus
7 3 (0.52%) NAS
7 3 (0.52%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.35%) Broadband
8 2 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.35%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.35%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.35%) SSH
9 1 (0.17%) GPRS
9 1 (0.17%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.59%) Power BI
2 28 (4.85%) Metadata
3 27 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.99%) Data Lake
5 17 (2.95%) Tableau
6 15 (2.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (2.43%) Big Data
8 13 (2.25%) Pinecone
9 12 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (2.08%) SQL Server
10 11 (1.91%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.91%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.73%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.56%) Data Vault
12 9 (1.56%) Weaviate
13 8 (1.39%) SAP HANA
13 8 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.21%) Star Schema
15 6 (1.04%) GIS
Development Applications
1 59 (10.23%) JIRA
2 27 (4.68%) Git
3 12 (2.08%) MLflow
4 8 (1.39%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.39%) GitLab
4 8 (1.39%) Selenium
4 8 (1.39%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.04%) ERwin
5 6 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.04%) JUnit
5 6 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
5 6 (1.04%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.69%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.52%) PyCharm
8 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.35%) Hardhat
8 2 (0.35%) Postman
8 2 (0.35%) Pylint
9 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 200 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 159 (27.56%) Finance
3 128 (22.18%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.40%) Banking
5 44 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (3.47%) Legal
8 19 (3.29%) Marketing
8 19 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (3.12%) Investment Banking
9 18 (3.12%) Retail
10 16 (2.77%) Back Office
11 15 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.08%) Front Office
13 11 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (1.73%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (22.53%) Analyst
2 103 (17.85%) Business Analyst
3 68 (11.79%) Architect
4 54 (9.36%) Senior
5 51 (8.84%) Lead
6 39 (6.76%) Developer
7 33 (5.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 33 (5.72%) Consultant
8 31 (5.37%) Data Engineer
9 25 (4.33%) Technical Analyst
10 21 (3.64%) Data Scientist
11 20 (3.47%) Technical Business Analyst
12 17 (2.95%) Project Manager
12 17 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 17 (2.95%) Senior Business Analyst
13 16 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 16 (2.77%) Data Architect
14 14 (2.43%) Security Engineer
15 13 (2.25%) Data Analyst
16 12 (2.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.20%) PyTorch
2 28 (4.85%) TensorFlow
3 24 (4.16%) LangChain
4 23 (3.99%) REST
5 20 (3.47%) scikit-learn
6 19 (3.29%) XML
7 17 (2.95%) JSON
8 16 (2.77%) Node.js
9 15 (2.60%) LangGraph
10 13 (2.25%) .NET
10 13 (2.25%) Pandas
10 13 (2.25%) PySpark
11 12 (2.08%) Faiss
12 11 (1.91%) Hugging Face
12 11 (1.91%) OAuth
13 10 (1.73%) NumPy
13 10 (1.73%) YAML
14 9 (1.56%) SOAP
15 8 (1.39%) FastAPI
16 7 (1.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.53%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 31 (5.37%) AI Agents
4 20 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.12%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.12%) PMI
6 16 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.43%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.25%) Life Science
9 13 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.56%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.39%) Replication
14 7 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.37%) Linux
2 24 (4.16%) 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
1 190 (32.93%) AI
2 177 (30.68%) Agile
3 144 (24.96%) Analytics
4 113 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
5 112 (19.41%) Machine Learning
6 108 (18.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 104 (18.02%) Data Modelling
8 98 (16.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 97 (16.81%) CI/CD
10 95 (16.46%) Data Science
11 86 (14.90%) Validation
12 85 (14.73%) DevOps
13 84 (14.56%) Data Governance
14 82 (14.21%) Roadmaps
15 81 (14.04%) LLM
16 80 (13.86%) User Stories
17 78 (13.52%) Generative AI
18 77 (13.34%) Data Pipeline
19 72 (12.48%) Business Analysis
19 72 (12.48%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 156 (27.04%) Python
2 97 (16.81%) SQL
3 34 (5.89%) Java
4 18 (3.12%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.60%) Bash
6 14 (2.43%) C#
6 14 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (1.91%) C++
9 9 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.21%) Bicep
10 7 (1.21%) R
11 5 (0.87%) Scala
12 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.35%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 102 (17.68%) Degree
2 93 (16.12%) Security Cleared
3 68 (11.79%) SC Cleared
4 34 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (5.55%) Master's Degree
6 23 (3.99%) CBAP
7 21 (3.64%) PMI Certification
8 17 (2.95%) MCP
9 14 (2.43%) CISSP
10 11 (1.91%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (1.21%) IIBA
13 6 (1.04%) PhD
14 5 (0.87%) CFA
14 5 (0.87%) ISEB
15 4 (0.69%) CISM
16 3 (0.52%) GCIA
16 3 (0.52%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.19%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.24%) QA
3 22 (3.81%) NIST
4 19 (3.29%) GDPR
5 17 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.25%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.91%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.39%) EU AI Act
8 8 (1.39%) GRC
8 8 (1.39%) PSD2
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
12 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.52%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.35%) HL7
14 2 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (6.24%) Docker
2 20 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.08%) VMware NSX
4 9 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.21%) zsh
6 6 (1.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.69%) HDFS
8 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 31 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.16%) Terraform
3 16 (2.77%) Ansible
4 6 (1.04%) Grafana
4 6 (1.04%) Podman
4 6 (1.04%) QRadar
4 6 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.69%) Puppet
6 3 (0.52%) Kibana
6 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.35%) logstash
7 2 (0.35%) Nessus
8 1 (0.17%) Nmap
8 1 (0.17%) SCCM
8 1 (0.17%) SELinux
8 1 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 69 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.28%) Databricks
3 26 (4.51%) Google
4 25 (4.33%) OpenAI
4 25 (4.33%) SAP
4 25 (4.33%) Splunk
5 24 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.25%) VMware
7 10 (1.73%) Oracle
7 10 (1.73%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.39%) Cisco
8 8 (1.39%) NVIDIA
8 8 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.04%) Adobe
10 6 (1.04%) Citrix
10 6 (1.04%) Genesys
10 6 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.04%) Veracode
11 5 (0.87%) ESRI