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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 194 161
Rank change year-on-year +51 -33 +22
Contract jobs citing Use Case 731 345 544
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.78% 1.42% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.55% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 211 358
10th Percentile £400 £363 £416
25th Percentile £450 £460 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £748 £658
90th Percentile £750 £881 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -5.55% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 £40.00
25th Percentile £47.22 £43.74 £46.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83.77 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £100.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £38.85 £60.00
% change year-on-year +48.02% -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 34,728 22,194 31,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 91.24% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,149 14,504 20,626
10th Percentile £322 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 949 2,251
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.38 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.46% -21.77% +0.06%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +58 449 £550 -15.38% 302
North of England -17 107 £475 -9.52% 86
North West -20 54 £475 -13.64% 37
South East -45 51 £500 -4.76% 114
Midlands -32 47 £538 +38.71% 35
Yorkshire -29 41 £519 +12.22% 35
South West -5 36 £500 -13.04% 51
East Midlands -10 27 £525 +40.00% 16
West Midlands -46 20 £538 +34.38% 19
East of England -26 16 £550 +21.15% 19
North East -8 14 £425 - 16
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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 27 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (2.33%) Jupyter
5 11 (1.50%) Apache
6 8 (1.09%) 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
Applications
1 27 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (2.46%) Chatbot
3 16 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (2.87%) 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%) Findur
4 3 (0.41%) Maximo
5 2 (0.27%) Actimize
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 225 (30.78%) Azure
2 136 (18.60%) AWS
3 81 (11.08%) Power Platform
4 74 (10.12%) GCP
5 39 (5.34%) Azure AI
6 31 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 25 (3.42%) Snowflake
9 24 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 22 (3.01%) Amazon Bedrock
10 22 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (2.87%) Serverless
12 20 (2.74%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.46%) dbt
13 18 (2.46%) GitHub
14 16 (2.19%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.19%) Amazon SageMaker
15 15 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (1.92%) WhatsApp
17 13 (1.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.97%) Firewall
2 16 (2.19%) Network Security
3 9 (1.23%) VPN
4 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.68%) BGP
5 5 (0.68%) DNS
5 5 (0.68%) RTP
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
7 3 (0.41%) Wireless
8 2 (0.27%) 3GPP
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%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.93%) Power BI
2 54 (7.39%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.97%) Metadata
4 24 (3.28%) Tableau
5 22 (3.01%) Big Data
6 19 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 17 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
7 17 (2.33%) Weaviate
8 16 (2.19%) Pinecone
9 14 (1.92%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.50%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.09%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.96%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.96%) KDB
12 7 (0.96%) Looker
13 6 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.82%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 55 (7.52%) JIRA
2 28 (3.83%) Git
3 13 (1.78%) MLflow
4 10 (1.37%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) ERwin
5 5 (0.68%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.41%) XCTest
7 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.27%) JUnit
7 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.14%) Travis CI
General
1 210 (28.73%) Finance
2 205 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 123 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.49%) Banking
5 67 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.97%) Retail
7 25 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.42%) Legal
8 21 (2.87%) Marketing
9 18 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.46%) Investment Banking
10 16 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.92%) Front Office
13 13 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.96%) Military
16 6 (0.82%) Back Office
16 6 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 136 (18.60%) Analyst
2 106 (14.50%) Business Analyst
3 93 (12.72%) Architect
4 73 (9.99%) Senior
5 69 (9.44%) Data Engineer
5 69 (9.44%) Lead
6 51 (6.98%) Developer
7 45 (6.16%) Consultant
8 33 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 29 (3.97%) Project Manager
10 26 (3.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 25 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 20 (2.74%) Data Architect
13 19 (2.60%) Data Analyst
14 18 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.33%) Product Owner
16 16 (2.19%) Pega Developer
16 16 (2.19%) Security Engineer
16 16 (2.19%) Senior Business Analyst
16 16 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.10%) LangChain
2 25 (3.42%) PySpark
3 23 (3.15%) REST
4 22 (3.01%) .NET
5 20 (2.74%) PyTorch
5 20 (2.74%) scikit-learn
6 19 (2.60%) Pandas
7 17 (2.33%) TensorFlow
8 16 (2.19%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (1.92%) Kafka
10 13 (1.78%) JSON
10 13 (1.78%) LangGraph
11 12 (1.64%) Middleware
12 11 (1.50%) Node.js
12 11 (1.50%) NumPy
12 11 (1.50%) SOAP
13 9 (1.23%) Model Context Protocol
13 9 (1.23%) OAuth
14 8 (1.09%) A2A Protocol
14 8 (1.09%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.03%) Product Ownership
2 64 (8.76%) AI Agents
3 50 (6.84%) Cloud Native
4 35 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
7 15 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 13 (1.78%) Beowulf
9 13 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
10 12 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.64%) Life Science
11 10 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.09%) CSOC
12 8 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.09%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.28%) Linux
2 18 (2.46%) Windows
3 8 (1.09%) Unix
4 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.41%) Android
7 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (40.22%) AI
2 214 (29.27%) Analytics
3 179 (24.49%) Agile
4 157 (21.48%) Machine Learning
5 147 (20.11%) Data Modelling
6 128 (17.51%) Data Pipeline
7 123 (16.83%) DevOps
8 122 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 121 (16.55%) CI/CD
10 115 (15.73%) LLM
11 114 (15.60%) Data Science
12 111 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (15.05%) Generative AI
14 108 (14.77%) Data Engineering
15 105 (14.36%) Decision-Making
16 101 (13.82%) Workshop Facilitation
17 99 (13.54%) Roadmaps
18 98 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 95 (13.00%) Validation
20 93 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 190 (25.99%) Python
2 125 (17.10%) SQL
3 23 (3.15%) C#
4 17 (2.33%) Java
5 15 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
5 15 (2.05%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.92%) R
6 14 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.50%) Bash
8 10 (1.37%) Scala
9 9 (1.23%) Bicep
9 9 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.55%) C++
11 4 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.41%) Swift
12 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) Go
13 2 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (21.89%) Security Cleared
2 128 (17.51%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.71%) Degree
4 20 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (2.74%) DV Cleared
4 20 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 18 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (2.46%) CISSP
6 16 (2.19%) CBAP
7 14 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.50%) IIBA
9 10 (1.37%) CISM
10 9 (1.23%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.68%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.68%) ISEB
12 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.34%) QA
3 33 (4.51%) GDPR
4 22 (3.01%) NIST
5 12 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.09%) GRC
7 7 (0.96%) NCSC
8 6 (0.82%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.82%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.41%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.41%) PMO
11 2 (0.27%) HL7
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (4.51%) Docker
2 19 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.19%) VMware NSX
4 13 (1.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 4 (0.55%) Snort
6 3 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.27%) vCloud
7 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.14%) HDFS
8 1 (0.14%) IAG
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 40 (5.47%) Terraform
3 15 (2.05%) Ansible
4 13 (1.78%) Podman
5 8 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.96%) QRadar
7 6 (0.82%) Grafana
7 6 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.68%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.68%) Nessus
9 4 (0.55%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.41%) Kibana
10 3 (0.41%) logstash
10 3 (0.41%) Puppet
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.27%) SCCM
12 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 135 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.76%) Databricks
3 58 (7.93%) OpenAI
4 31 (4.24%) Google
4 31 (4.24%) Splunk
5 30 (4.10%) Foundry
6 29 (3.97%) SAP
7 24 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.46%) Pega
8 18 (2.46%) VMware
9 15 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.23%) Cisco
10 9 (1.23%) IBM
11 8 (1.09%) Adobe
11 8 (1.09%) NVIDIA
11 8 (1.09%) Oracle
11 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (0.96%) Workday