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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 182 169
Rank change year-on-year +34 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing Use Case 693 351 516
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.77% 1.44% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.58% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 219 341
10th Percentile £400 £381 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £728 £675
90th Percentile £750 £881 £800
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 10
10th Percentile £41.94 £30.22 -
25th Percentile £49.86 £43.74 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.40 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +2.27% -16.03%
75th Percentile £80.19 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £93.28 - £62.30
UK median hourly rate £57.40 £38.85 £55.00
% change year-on-year +47.77% -29.37% -16.03%

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 33,552 22,163 32,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.95% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,495 14,584 21,337
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £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 2,072 874 2,199
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.91
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £58.70
90th Percentile £78.70 £75.43 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £34.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% -9.40% -5.88%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +51 427 £525 -15.32% 185
North of England -21 104 £475 -9.52% 40
North West -14 54 £475 -11.63% 21
South East -44 53 £503 -12.61% 61
Midlands -30 45 £500 +5.26% 29
Yorkshire -34 38 £475 +5.56% 17
South West -20 24 £438 -23.91% 21
East Midlands -15 23 £438 -38.38% 13
West Midlands -49 22 £538 +79.17% 16
North East - 14 £425 - 2
East of England -41 12 £550 +32.69% 9
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 39 (5.63%) Confluence
2 26 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.02%) Jupyter
5 11 (1.59%) Apache
6 8 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.58%) SAS
8 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.03%) Chatbot
3 18 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.14%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.72%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.43%) Maximo
5 3 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.29%) Actimize
6 2 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.29%) Endur
6 2 (0.29%) Findur
6 2 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.29%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.29%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 210 (30.30%) Azure
2 129 (18.61%) AWS
3 72 (10.39%) Power Platform
4 62 (8.95%) GCP
5 40 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (5.34%) Azure AI
7 27 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.61%) Snowflake
9 22 (3.17%) Amazon Bedrock
9 22 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 22 (3.17%) GitHub
10 21 (3.03%) dbt
10 21 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
10 21 (3.03%) Serverless
11 19 (2.74%) Vertex AI
12 17 (2.45%) Azure Machine Learning
12 17 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (2.31%) Amazon SageMaker
13 16 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.62%) Firewall
2 16 (2.31%) Network Security
3 9 (1.30%) VPN
4 6 (0.87%) DNS
4 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.72%) CTI
5 5 (0.72%) RTP
5 5 (0.72%) VoIP
6 4 (0.58%) BGP
6 4 (0.58%) Internet
6 4 (0.58%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.43%) 5G
7 3 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.43%) SSH
8 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.29%) IPFIX
8 2 (0.29%) Modbus
8 2 (0.29%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (7.50%) Power BI
3 28 (4.04%) Metadata
4 24 (3.46%) Tableau
5 21 (3.03%) Big Data
6 20 (2.89%) Data Lake
7 19 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 16 (2.31%) Weaviate
9 15 (2.16%) Pinecone
10 14 (2.02%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.73%) BigQuery
11 12 (1.73%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.59%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.30%) Spark SQL
14 8 (1.15%) Hadoop
15 7 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.01%) KDB
16 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.87%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 51 (7.36%) JIRA
2 26 (3.75%) Git
3 12 (1.73%) MLflow
4 8 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.01%) GitLab
6 5 (0.72%) ERwin
7 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.43%) XCTest
8 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.29%) JUnit
8 2 (0.29%) PyCharm
8 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.14%) Ant
9 1 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.14%) Maven
General
1 199 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 193 (27.85%) Finance
3 135 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.54%) Banking
5 63 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 32 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.75%) Retail
8 22 (3.17%) Legal
9 17 (2.45%) Marketing
10 16 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.02%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.73%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.59%) Front Office
14 9 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.15%) Back Office
16 7 (1.01%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.72%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 143 (20.63%) Analyst
2 110 (15.87%) Business Analyst
3 90 (12.99%) Architect
4 66 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 63 (9.09%) Lead
5 63 (9.09%) Senior
6 50 (7.22%) Developer
7 33 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 29 (4.18%) Consultant
8 29 (4.18%) Data Scientist
8 29 (4.18%) Project Manager
9 26 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 18 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (2.60%) Data Architect
10 18 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
11 17 (2.45%) Data Analyst
11 17 (2.45%) Security Engineer
12 16 (2.31%) Senior Business Analyst
12 16 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (2.31%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.75%) REST
2 25 (3.61%) LangChain
3 23 (3.32%) PySpark
3 23 (3.32%) PyTorch
4 22 (3.17%) TensorFlow
5 21 (3.03%) scikit-learn
6 20 (2.89%) Node.js
7 17 (2.45%) .NET
8 16 (2.31%) Pandas
9 15 (2.16%) JSON
10 14 (2.02%) LangGraph
10 14 (2.02%) OAuth
11 13 (1.88%) Kafka
11 13 (1.88%) Middleware
11 13 (1.88%) XML
12 12 (1.73%) Model Context Protocol
12 12 (1.73%) SOAP
12 12 (1.73%) YAML
13 11 (1.59%) NumPy
14 10 (1.44%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.23%) AI Agents
1 57 (8.23%) Product Ownership
2 44 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 41 (5.92%) Onboarding
4 19 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.02%) PMI
8 13 (1.88%) Beowulf
8 13 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.88%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
10 10 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.30%) Life Science
11 9 (1.30%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.61%) Linux
2 23 (3.32%) Windows
3 10 (1.44%) Unix
4 6 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (38.82%) AI
2 199 (28.72%) Analytics
3 190 (27.42%) Agile
4 153 (22.08%) Machine Learning
5 149 (21.50%) Data Modelling
6 126 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 126 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 118 (17.03%) DevOps
9 113 (16.31%) Data Science
10 111 (16.02%) Data Pipeline
11 107 (15.44%) Validation
12 106 (15.30%) Data Engineering
13 105 (15.15%) Workshop Facilitation
14 104 (15.01%) Generative AI
15 103 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 100 (14.43%) LLM
17 90 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 89 (12.84%) Business Analysis
18 89 (12.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 183 (26.41%) Python
2 123 (17.75%) SQL
3 24 (3.46%) Java
4 18 (2.60%) C#
5 17 (2.45%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (2.02%) R
8 12 (1.73%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.44%) Bicep
10 9 (1.30%) Scala
11 7 (1.01%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.72%) Bash
12 5 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.58%) C++
13 4 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.43%) Swift
14 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 141 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 110 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 93 (13.42%) Degree
4 30 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.17%) CBAP
7 20 (2.89%) CISSP
8 19 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (2.31%) PMI Certification
10 15 (2.16%) Azure Certification
10 15 (2.16%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.44%) IIBA
12 8 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.01%) CISM
14 6 (0.87%) ISEB
14 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.72%) AWS Certification
16 4 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (13.13%) Data Quality
2 45 (6.49%) QA
3 25 (3.61%) GDPR
3 25 (3.61%) NIST
4 16 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.15%) GRC
7 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.01%) PSD2
8 6 (0.87%) EU AI Act
8 6 (0.87%) ISO 8583
9 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.58%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.58%) NCSC
10 4 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.43%) HL7
11 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.43%) PMO
12 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (4.76%) Docker
2 25 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.60%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 4 (0.58%) Snort
7 3 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.29%) vCloud
8 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) IAG
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (8.08%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.91%) Terraform
3 13 (1.88%) Podman
4 9 (1.30%) Ansible
5 8 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 5 (0.72%) CSIRT
6 5 (0.72%) Nessus
6 5 (0.72%) QRadar
7 3 (0.43%) logstash
8 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.29%) Kibana
8 2 (0.29%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) Argo
9 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.14%) Istio
9 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 120 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.66%) Databricks
3 52 (7.50%) OpenAI
4 31 (4.47%) Google
5 27 (3.90%) Foundry
6 26 (3.75%) SAP
7 25 (3.61%) Salesforce
8 24 (3.46%) Splunk
9 20 (2.89%) VMware
10 16 (2.31%) Pega
10 16 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 14 (2.02%) Oracle
12 9 (1.30%) IBM
13 8 (1.15%) Adobe
13 8 (1.15%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.15%) NVIDIA
13 8 (1.15%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 7 (1.01%) Workday
15 6 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud