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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 194 166
Rank change year-on-year +52 -28 +23
Contract jobs citing Use Case 733 340 546
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 1.39% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.53% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 207 365
10th Percentile £399 £370 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £741 £663
90th Percentile £750 £881 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 13
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.74 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £89.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £99.43 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £38.85 £55.00
% change year-on-year +73.77% -29.37% -21.43%

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 34,525 22,234 32,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.79% 91.21% 86.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,016 14,552 21,077
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,153 931 2,253
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.66 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -17.43% -2.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +62 451 £538 -14.07% 265
North of England -7 107 £475 -9.52% 56
North West -16 56 £475 -11.72% 24
South East -24 55 £503 -6.51% 94
Midlands -42 45 £550 +37.50% 28
Yorkshire -31 39 £525 +16.67% 20
South West -18 29 £500 -13.04% 25
East Midlands -9 26 £550 +26.44% 16
East of England -29 19 £550 +21.15% 22
West Midlands -50 19 £538 +34.38% 12
North East -3 14 £425 - 12
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 45 (6.14%) Confluence
2 28 (3.82%) Apache Spark
3 25 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.18%) Jupyter
5 12 (1.64%) Apache
6 7 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.55%) CMS
7 4 (0.55%) SAS
8 3 (0.41%) Kentico
8 3 (0.41%) WordPress
9 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.59%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.41%) Maximo
4 3 (0.41%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.27%) Actimize
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.27%) Findur
5 2 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.27%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Endur
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 232 (31.65%) Azure
2 139 (18.96%) AWS
3 81 (11.05%) Power Platform
4 72 (9.82%) GCP
5 39 (5.32%) Azure AI
6 33 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (3.55%) Snowflake
9 24 (3.27%) Microsoft Copilot
10 22 (3.00%) Amazon Bedrock
10 22 (3.00%) dbt
10 22 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (3.00%) Serverless
11 20 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (2.59%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.59%) GitHub
13 18 (2.46%) Vertex AI
14 17 (2.32%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.32%) Azure Machine Learning
15 16 (2.18%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.96%) Firewall
2 17 (2.32%) Network Security
3 11 (1.50%) VPN
4 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.68%) DNS
5 5 (0.68%) RTP
6 4 (0.55%) BGP
6 4 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.55%) SNMP
7 3 (0.41%) 5G
7 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.27%) 4G
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.27%) LTE
8 2 (0.27%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.27%) OSPF
8 2 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.91%) Data Warehouse
1 58 (7.91%) Power BI
2 31 (4.23%) Metadata
3 24 (3.27%) Tableau
4 22 (3.00%) Big Data
5 21 (2.86%) Weaviate
6 20 (2.73%) Data Lake
6 20 (2.73%) Pinecone
6 20 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (2.05%) BigQuery
8 14 (1.91%) Delta Lake
9 12 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.50%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.09%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.95%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.95%) KDB
13 6 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.82%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 56 (7.64%) JIRA
2 29 (3.96%) Git
3 13 (1.77%) MLflow
4 10 (1.36%) GitLab
5 6 (0.82%) ERwin
5 6 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.41%) XCTest
8 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.27%) JUnit
8 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.14%) Gradle
9 1 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 215 (29.33%) Finance
2 201 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 133 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.87%) Banking
5 64 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 31 (4.23%) Retail
7 30 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (3.41%) Legal
9 19 (2.59%) Marketing
10 17 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (2.18%) Investment Banking
12 15 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.91%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.77%) Front Office
14 13 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.64%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.95%) Law
17 5 (0.68%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 143 (19.51%) Analyst
2 114 (15.55%) Business Analyst
3 94 (12.82%) Architect
4 76 (10.37%) Data Engineer
5 70 (9.55%) Senior
6 68 (9.28%) Lead
7 45 (6.14%) Developer
8 43 (5.87%) Consultant
9 37 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 29 (3.96%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.82%) Data Scientist
12 27 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 19 (2.59%) Data Architect
14 18 (2.46%) Data Analyst
15 17 (2.32%) Product Owner
15 17 (2.32%) Security Engineer
15 17 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.32%) Technical Analyst
16 16 (2.18%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.09%) LangChain
2 26 (3.55%) PySpark
3 25 (3.41%) REST
4 23 (3.14%) PyTorch
5 22 (3.00%) scikit-learn
6 21 (2.86%) .NET
7 20 (2.73%) TensorFlow
8 17 (2.32%) Pandas
9 16 (2.18%) Node.js
10 15 (2.05%) JSON
10 15 (2.05%) Kafka
10 15 (2.05%) LlamaIndex
11 13 (1.77%) LangGraph
12 12 (1.64%) OAuth
12 12 (1.64%) SOAP
12 12 (1.64%) XML
13 11 (1.50%) Middleware
14 10 (1.36%) Faiss
14 10 (1.36%) Model Context Protocol
14 10 (1.36%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.87%) Product Ownership
2 64 (8.73%) AI Agents
3 52 (7.09%) Cloud Native
4 33 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.05%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.77%) Beowulf
9 13 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 13 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.36%) Life Science
12 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.36%) PMI
12 10 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.27%) Linux
2 17 (2.32%) Windows
3 8 (1.09%) Unix
4 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (40.38%) AI
2 219 (29.88%) Analytics
3 197 (26.88%) Agile
4 164 (22.37%) Machine Learning
5 149 (20.33%) Data Modelling
6 131 (17.87%) Data Pipeline
7 128 (17.46%) CI/CD
8 124 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 123 (16.78%) DevOps
10 119 (16.23%) Data Science
11 116 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
12 115 (15.69%) Generative AI
13 114 (15.55%) Data Engineering
13 114 (15.55%) LLM
14 111 (15.14%) Validation
15 106 (14.46%) Roadmaps
16 105 (14.32%) Workshop Facilitation
17 101 (13.78%) Decision-Making
18 100 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 93 (12.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 199 (27.15%) Python
2 127 (17.33%) SQL
3 23 (3.14%) Java
4 22 (3.00%) C#
5 15 (2.05%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.05%) R
6 14 (1.91%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.36%) Bash
8 10 (1.36%) Bicep
8 10 (1.36%) Scala
9 9 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.55%) C++
12 3 (0.41%) Swift
13 2 (0.27%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 154 (21.01%) Security Cleared
2 120 (16.37%) SC Cleared
3 80 (10.91%) Degree
4 26 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.46%) CBAP
6 18 (2.46%) CISSP
7 17 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.77%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.50%) IIBA
9 11 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.23%) CISM
11 7 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.68%) ISEB
14 4 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.59%) QA
3 29 (3.96%) GDPR
4 25 (3.41%) NIST
5 15 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.09%) GRC
7 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.82%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.55%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.41%) NCSC
11 3 (0.41%) PMO
11 3 (0.41%) PSD2
12 2 (0.27%) HL7
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (4.50%) Docker
2 18 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.46%) VMware NSX
3 16 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.77%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (0.55%) Snort
6 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.27%) vCloud
8 1 (0.14%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.73%) Terraform
3 15 (2.05%) Ansible
4 13 (1.77%) Podman
5 8 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.82%) Grafana
7 6 (0.82%) QRadar
8 5 (0.68%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.68%) Nessus
9 3 (0.41%) Kibana
9 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.41%) logstash
9 3 (0.41%) Puppet
10 2 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.14%) SCCM
11 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 129 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 67 (9.14%) Databricks
3 57 (7.78%) OpenAI
4 30 (4.09%) Foundry
4 30 (4.09%) SAP
5 29 (3.96%) Splunk
6 28 (3.82%) Google
7 21 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 20 (2.73%) VMware
9 18 (2.46%) Pega
10 15 (2.05%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.23%) Adobe
11 9 (1.23%) Oracle
12 8 (1.09%) Cisco
12 8 (1.09%) IBM
12 8 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.09%) NVIDIA
12 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.95%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.95%) Workday