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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 158 152
Rank change year-on-year +51 -6 +64
Contract jobs citing Use Case 557 246 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.78% 1.81% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 1.96% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 164 181
10th Percentile £412 £400 £400
25th Percentile £455 £493 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £750 £784 £800
England median daily rate £550 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 £51.75 £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.93% -16.30% -25.00%
75th Percentile £78.55 £61.25 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.26 £58.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +41.22% -2.92% -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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +15 61 £538 -6.52% 57
West London - 14 £800 - 12
South London -13 3 £550 -26.67% 8
East London +3 2 £717 +21.63% 5
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 24 (4.31%) Confluence
2 17 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) Apache
4 6 (1.08%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.90%) CMS
5 5 (0.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Kentico
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 18 (3.23%) Chatbot
2 15 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Actimize
3 3 (0.54%) Findur
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Workfront
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.36%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 181 (32.50%) Azure
2 110 (19.75%) AWS
3 53 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 45 (8.08%) GCP
5 40 (7.18%) Azure AI
6 29 (5.21%) Microsoft Copilot
7 28 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 26 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (4.31%) GitHub
10 23 (4.13%) Amazon Bedrock
11 22 (3.95%) dbt
12 20 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (3.41%) Entra ID
14 18 (3.23%) SaaS
15 17 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (2.87%) Amazon S3
17 15 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
18 14 (2.51%) Anthropic Claude
19 13 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
19 13 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.69%) Firewall
2 7 (1.26%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) BGP
4 5 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (0.90%) Multicast
4 5 (0.90%) VLAN
4 5 (0.90%) Wireless
5 4 (0.72%) DNS
5 4 (0.72%) SMS
5 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.54%) 5G
6 3 (0.54%) Internet
6 3 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.36%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.36%) 4G
7 2 (0.36%) DHCP
7 2 (0.36%) HTTP
7 2 (0.36%) LTE
7 2 (0.36%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
1 43 (7.72%) Power BI
2 37 (6.64%) Metadata
3 21 (3.77%) Tableau
4 18 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 16 (2.87%) BigQuery
6 14 (2.51%) Pinecone
6 14 (2.51%) Weaviate
7 12 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.15%) Delta Lake
8 11 (1.97%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.62%) Big Data
11 8 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.26%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.08%) Redis
14 5 (0.90%) Looker
14 5 (0.90%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (6.82%) JIRA
2 22 (3.95%) Git
3 8 (1.44%) ERwin
3 8 (1.44%) GitLab
3 8 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.44%) MLflow
4 6 (1.08%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.54%) XCTest
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 209 (37.52%) Finance
2 148 (26.57%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.77%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (14.00%) Banking
5 54 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.21%) Retail
7 27 (4.85%) Marketing
8 24 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.77%) Front Office
9 21 (3.77%) Investment Banking
9 21 (3.77%) Legal
10 15 (2.69%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.33%) Law
12 11 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.08%) French Language
17 5 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 85 (15.26%) Architect
2 76 (13.64%) Analyst
3 70 (12.57%) Data Engineer
4 61 (10.95%) Business Analyst
5 58 (10.41%) Senior
6 56 (10.05%) Lead
7 42 (7.54%) Developer
8 39 (7.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 34 (6.10%) Consultant
10 22 (3.95%) Data Architect
11 21 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 19 (3.41%) Data Scientist
13 16 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.51%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 12 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
16 9 (1.62%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 9 (1.62%) Senior Data Engineer
16 9 (1.62%) SOC Engineer
16 9 (1.62%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.39%) PySpark
2 25 (4.49%) REST
3 23 (4.13%) LangChain
4 19 (3.41%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (3.23%) .NET
6 15 (2.69%) Pandas
7 12 (2.15%) JSON
8 10 (1.80%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.44%) Model Context Protocol
9 8 (1.44%) NumPy
9 8 (1.44%) RESTful
10 7 (1.26%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.26%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.08%) Kafka
11 6 (1.08%) Middleware
12 5 (0.90%) OAuth
12 5 (0.90%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.90%) XML
13 4 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
13 4 (0.72%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.93%) AI Agents
2 49 (8.80%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.72%) Cloud Native
4 39 (7.00%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.15%) Taxonomies
9 11 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.80%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.44%) Life Science
12 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.08%) Reference Data
15 5 (0.90%) Digital Signage
15 5 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.05%) Linux
2 15 (2.69%) Windows
3 8 (1.44%) Unix
3 8 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (49.73%) AI
2 183 (32.85%) Analytics
3 139 (24.96%) Machine Learning
4 134 (24.06%) Agile
5 118 (21.18%) Data Pipeline
6 110 (19.75%) Data Modelling
7 107 (19.21%) LLM
8 106 (19.03%) Data Engineering
9 97 (17.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 93 (16.70%) Generative AI
11 86 (15.44%) CI/CD
12 83 (14.90%) Decision-Making
13 81 (14.54%) DevOps
14 79 (14.18%) Data Governance
15 77 (13.82%) Data Science
16 73 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 72 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
17 72 (12.93%) Roadmaps
18 70 (12.57%) Validation
19 67 (12.03%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 150 (26.93%) Python
2 118 (21.18%) SQL
3 18 (3.23%) C#
4 15 (2.69%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.51%) Java
5 14 (2.51%) R
6 12 (2.15%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.08%) Scala
9 5 (0.90%) Bash
9 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.72%) Go
10 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.72%) SPARQL
10 4 (0.72%) VBA
11 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.54%) Bicep
11 3 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.54%) SHACL
11 3 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 92 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 77 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.72%) Degree
4 17 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.51%) CISSP
7 11 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.26%) CBAP
11 6 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.90%) GCIH
12 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.72%) CEH
13 4 (0.72%) CISM
13 4 (0.72%) GCIA
13 4 (0.72%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.10%) QA
3 32 (5.75%) GDPR
4 17 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.51%) NIST
6 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.72%) NCSC
9 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.36%) GRC
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.36%) MiFID
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) PERC
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (3.59%) Docker
2 18 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) IAG
4 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (6.82%) Terraform
2 31 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.08%) Kubeflow
3 6 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (0.90%) Ansible
4 5 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (0.54%) QRadar
6 2 (0.36%) Grafana
6 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.05%) Databricks
3 51 (9.16%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.85%) Foundry
5 22 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.87%) Google
7 15 (2.69%) Splunk
8 13 (2.33%) Pega
9 12 (2.15%) Oracle
9 12 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.97%) Cisco
11 10 (1.80%) SAP
12 9 (1.62%) Adobe
13 8 (1.44%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.90%) Informatica
14 5 (0.90%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 5 (0.90%) VMware
14 5 (0.90%) Workday