Use Case Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Use Cases
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Use Case 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.58% - 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.64%
75th Percentile £575 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £501 £450
% change year-on-year +4.90% +11.22% -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 144 77 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 84.21% 85.56% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 47 118
10th Percentile £198 £250 £148
25th Percentile £263 £406 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -4.89%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £538
90th Percentile £626 £659 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £511
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.96% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 2 26
10th Percentile £15.62 £44.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.42 £47.50 £16.15
Median hourly rate £20.18 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.31% +182.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £25.08 £62.50 £26.00
90th Percentile £27.03 £65.50 £41.88
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Use Case relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Use Case job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Use Case

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Use Case

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft