Use Case Contract Job Trends in London

Use Cases
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 172 161
Rank change year-on-year +72 -11 +21
Contract jobs citing Use Case 518 207 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.74% 1.67% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 1.81% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 131 189
10th Percentile £413 £400 £405
25th Percentile £457 £502 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £775 £675
90th Percentile £756 £881 £839
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.50% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in London

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in London over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in London

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Central London +16 63 £550 -15.38% 32
West London - 12 £523 - 10
South London -6 3 £550 -26.67% 1
East London -3 2 £717 +22.56% 6
Use Case
England

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 28 (5.41%) Confluence
2 17 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.16%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.97%) CMS
5 5 (0.97%) SAS
6 4 (0.77%) Apache
7 2 (0.39%) Kentico
7 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.39%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 25 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.28%) Chatbot
3 14 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) Actimize
3 3 (0.58%) Findur
3 3 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.39%) Summit
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 168 (32.43%) Azure
2 111 (21.43%) AWS
3 55 (10.62%) Power Platform
4 51 (9.85%) GCP
5 31 (5.98%) Azure AI
6 25 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.83%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.63%) Amazon Bedrock
7 24 (4.63%) Serverless
8 22 (4.25%) Microsoft Copilot
9 20 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.86%) dbt
9 20 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (3.47%) GitHub
11 17 (3.28%) Amazon SageMaker
11 17 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.70%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.70%) WhatsApp
13 13 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.28%) Firewall
2 6 (1.16%) Network Security
3 5 (0.97%) RTP
4 4 (0.77%) Internet
5 3 (0.58%) 5G
5 3 (0.58%) DNS
5 3 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.58%) SMS
5 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.39%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.39%) 4G
6 2 (0.39%) BGP
6 2 (0.39%) DHCP
6 2 (0.39%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) Broadband
7 1 (0.19%) DMZ
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) OSPF
7 1 (0.19%) SAN
7 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.07%) Power BI
2 45 (8.69%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (5.60%) Metadata
4 23 (4.44%) Tableau
5 19 (3.67%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.28%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.90%) Weaviate
8 14 (2.70%) Pinecone
9 12 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
10 11 (2.12%) Big Data
11 10 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.93%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.93%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.74%) Spark SQL
13 8 (1.54%) Semantic Layer
14 6 (1.16%) KDB
14 6 (1.16%) Looker
15 5 (0.97%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.97%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 41 (7.92%) JIRA
2 26 (5.02%) Git
3 13 (2.51%) MLflow
4 8 (1.54%) GitLab
4 8 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.97%) ERwin
6 3 (0.58%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.58%) XCTest
7 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.39%) Postman
7 2 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) Ant
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 186 (35.91%) Finance
2 134 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 81 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (13.51%) Banking
5 53 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.60%) Retail
7 21 (4.05%) Front Office
7 21 (4.05%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.05%) Marketing
8 19 (3.67%) Legal
9 16 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.70%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.54%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.35%) Law
15 6 (1.16%) Back Office
16 4 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (15.44%) Analyst
2 77 (14.86%) Architect
3 69 (13.32%) Business Analyst
4 66 (12.74%) Data Engineer
5 65 (12.55%) Senior
6 55 (10.62%) Lead
7 42 (8.11%) Developer
8 30 (5.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 22 (4.25%) Data Scientist
10 21 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 20 (3.86%) Consultant
12 19 (3.67%) Data Architect
13 15 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.90%) Senior Business Analyst
14 13 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.32%) Data Analyst
16 9 (1.74%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (1.74%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 9 (1.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.41%) PySpark
2 22 (4.25%) LangChain
3 21 (4.05%) .NET
4 18 (3.47%) LlamaIndex
4 18 (3.47%) REST
5 17 (3.28%) Pandas
5 17 (3.28%) scikit-learn
6 12 (2.32%) PyTorch
7 10 (1.93%) JSON
7 10 (1.93%) Middleware
7 10 (1.93%) TensorFlow
8 9 (1.74%) Kafka
8 9 (1.74%) NumPy
9 6 (1.16%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.16%) Flask
9 6 (1.16%) LangGraph
9 6 (1.16%) React
9 6 (1.16%) RESTful
9 6 (1.16%) SOAP
10 5 (0.97%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.36%) AI Agents
2 43 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.95%) Cloud Native
4 24 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.90%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.74%) PMI
9 9 (1.74%) Taxonomies
10 8 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.54%) Life Science
11 7 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.16%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.97%) Management Information System
14 4 (0.77%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.51%) Linux
2 10 (1.93%) Unix
3 8 (1.54%) Windows
4 4 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (50.00%) AI
2 174 (33.59%) Analytics
3 138 (26.64%) Agile
3 138 (26.64%) Machine Learning
4 113 (21.81%) Data Modelling
5 107 (20.66%) Data Pipeline
6 104 (20.08%) LLM
7 101 (19.50%) Data Engineering
8 96 (18.53%) CI/CD
9 94 (18.15%) Generative AI
10 93 (17.95%) DevOps
11 87 (16.80%) Data Science
12 84 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 77 (14.86%) Decision-Making
14 71 (13.71%) Data Governance
15 69 (13.32%) Roadmaps
15 69 (13.32%) Validation
16 65 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
17 61 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (11.58%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 158 (30.50%) Python
2 116 (22.39%) SQL
3 21 (4.05%) C#
4 15 (2.90%) R
4 15 (2.90%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.51%) Java
6 11 (2.12%) Scala
7 10 (1.93%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.35%) Bicep
10 4 (0.77%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.77%) Bash
10 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.77%) VBA
11 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.58%) Swift
12 2 (0.39%) Go
12 2 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 91 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 74 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.27%) Degree
4 15 (2.90%) CBAP
5 14 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.12%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.74%) CISSP
10 8 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.54%) IIBA
11 7 (1.35%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.58%) CISM
13 3 (0.58%) GCIA
13 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (17.18%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.37%) QA
3 28 (5.41%) GDPR
4 12 (2.32%) NIST
5 10 (1.93%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.97%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.39%) MiFID
9 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (5.60%) Docker
2 13 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.93%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) IAG
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.95%) Terraform
3 7 (1.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.16%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.39%) Ansible
5 2 (0.39%) QRadar
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.19%) Istio
6 1 (0.19%) logstash
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.04%) OpenAI
3 48 (9.27%) Databricks
4 22 (4.25%) Foundry
5 19 (3.67%) Google
6 18 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.32%) Pega
8 11 (2.12%) VMware
9 10 (1.93%) Splunk
10 9 (1.74%) SAP
11 8 (1.54%) Oracle
12 6 (1.16%) Informatica
12 6 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.97%) Workday
14 4 (0.77%) IBM
15 3 (0.58%) Ariba
15 3 (0.58%) OpenLink
15 3 (0.58%) Red Hat