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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 153 155
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 +52
Contract jobs citing Use Case 561 239 274
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.82% 1.76% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 1.91% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 155 182
10th Percentile £409 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £498 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £555
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +3.60% +0.91%
75th Percentile £673 £733 £650
90th Percentile £750 £815 £809
England median daily rate £550 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +2.61% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 - £67.50
75th Percentile £78.55 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.26 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% - -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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £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 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +19 61 £544 -5.43% 25
West London - 13 £800 - 8
South London -15 3 £550 -26.67% 3
East London +3 2 £717 +21.63% 2
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 (4.28%) Confluence
2 16 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.07%) Apache
4 6 (1.07%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.89%) CMS
5 5 (0.89%) SAS
6 3 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Kentico
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 18 (3.21%) Chatbot
2 16 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.53%) Actimize
3 3 (0.53%) Findur
3 3 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.53%) Workfront
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
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
1 187 (33.33%) Azure
2 110 (19.61%) AWS
3 56 (9.98%) Power Platform
4 48 (8.56%) GCP
5 42 (7.49%) Azure AI
6 28 (4.99%) Microsoft Copilot
7 27 (4.81%) Snowflake
8 25 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (4.28%) GitHub
10 23 (4.10%) Amazon Bedrock
10 23 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.74%) dbt
12 19 (3.39%) Entra ID
13 18 (3.21%) Amazon S3
13 18 (3.21%) SaaS
14 17 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.03%) Serverless
15 16 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.03%) Firewall
2 7 (1.25%) Network Security
3 6 (1.07%) BGP
4 5 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (0.89%) Multicast
4 5 (0.89%) VLAN
4 5 (0.89%) Wireless
5 4 (0.71%) DNS
5 4 (0.71%) SMS
5 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.53%) 5G
6 3 (0.53%) Internet
6 3 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.53%) RTP
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.84%) Power BI
2 43 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (6.95%) Metadata
4 21 (3.74%) Tableau
5 18 (3.21%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.67%) Weaviate
8 14 (2.50%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.50%) Pinecone
9 12 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
11 10 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.78%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.60%) Big Data
12 9 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.25%) Redis
13 7 (1.25%) Spark SQL
14 5 (0.89%) Looker
14 5 (0.89%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (6.77%) JIRA
2 23 (4.10%) Git
3 9 (1.60%) ERwin
4 8 (1.43%) GitLab
4 8 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.43%) MLflow
5 7 (1.25%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.53%) XCTest
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) Ant
9 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 207 (36.90%) Finance
2 147 (26.20%) Social Skills
3 96 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.55%) Banking
5 54 (9.63%) Public Sector
6 30 (5.35%) Retail
7 27 (4.81%) Marketing
8 24 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.74%) Front Office
9 21 (3.74%) Investment Banking
10 20 (3.57%) Legal
11 16 (2.85%) Financial Institution
12 15 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (2.32%) Law
14 11 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.07%) French Language
18 5 (0.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 88 (15.69%) Architect
2 71 (12.66%) Data Engineer
3 70 (12.48%) Analyst
4 58 (10.34%) Senior
5 56 (9.98%) Lead
6 55 (9.80%) Business Analyst
7 42 (7.49%) Developer
8 38 (6.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 32 (5.70%) Consultant
10 22 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 21 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 19 (3.39%) Data Scientist
13 16 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.50%) Data Analyst
16 12 (2.14%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
17 9 (1.60%) AWS Engineer
17 9 (1.60%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 9 (1.60%) Senior Data Engineer
17 9 (1.60%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.35%) PySpark
2 29 (5.17%) REST
3 25 (4.46%) LangChain
4 20 (3.57%) LlamaIndex
5 19 (3.39%) .NET
6 15 (2.67%) Pandas
7 14 (2.50%) JSON
8 10 (1.78%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.43%) LangGraph
9 8 (1.43%) Middleware
9 8 (1.43%) Model Context Protocol
9 8 (1.43%) NumPy
9 8 (1.43%) RESTful
10 7 (1.25%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.25%) Node.js
11 6 (1.07%) Kafka
11 6 (1.07%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.07%) SOAP
12 5 (0.89%) OAuth
12 5 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.48%) AI Agents
2 48 (8.56%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 40 (7.13%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.39%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.14%) Taxonomies
9 11 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.96%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.78%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.60%) Life Science
11 9 (1.60%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.25%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.21%) Linux
2 15 (2.67%) Windows
3 9 (1.60%) Unix
4 8 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (48.84%) AI
2 192 (34.22%) Analytics
3 140 (24.96%) Machine Learning
4 129 (22.99%) Agile
5 118 (21.03%) Data Pipeline
6 116 (20.68%) Data Modelling
7 109 (19.43%) Data Engineering
8 107 (19.07%) LLM
9 92 (16.40%) Generative AI
10 91 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 89 (15.86%) CI/CD
12 87 (15.51%) DevOps
13 82 (14.62%) Data Governance
13 82 (14.62%) Decision-Making
14 77 (13.73%) Data Science
15 76 (13.55%) Roadmaps
16 73 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 72 (12.83%) Validation
18 71 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
19 66 (11.76%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 153 (27.27%) Python
2 118 (21.03%) SQL
3 20 (3.57%) C#
4 15 (2.67%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.50%) Java
5 14 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.32%) R
7 9 (1.60%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.07%) Scala
9 5 (0.89%) Bash
9 5 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.71%) Go
10 4 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.71%) SPARQL
10 4 (0.71%) VBA
11 3 (0.53%) Bicep
11 3 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.53%) SHACL
11 3 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 92 (16.40%) Security Cleared
2 77 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.49%) Degree
4 17 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.85%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.50%) CISSP
8 12 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.43%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.25%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.25%) CBAP
12 6 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.89%) GCIH
13 5 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.71%) CEH
14 4 (0.71%) CISM
14 4 (0.71%) GCIA
14 4 (0.71%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (17.29%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.06%) GDPR
3 32 (5.70%) QA
4 17 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.50%) NIST
6 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.89%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.71%) NCSC
9 3 (0.53%) 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%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) PMO
11 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (3.74%) Docker
2 18 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) IAG
4 3 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (6.77%) Terraform
2 31 (5.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.07%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.89%) Ansible
5 5 (0.89%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (0.53%) QRadar
7 2 (0.36%) Grafana
7 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.18%) Istio
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 58 (10.34%) Databricks
3 55 (9.80%) OpenAI
4 29 (5.17%) Foundry
5 22 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.39%) Google
7 15 (2.67%) Splunk
8 12 (2.14%) Pega
8 12 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.96%) Cisco
9 11 (1.96%) Oracle
10 9 (1.60%) Adobe
10 9 (1.60%) SAP
11 8 (1.43%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.25%) VMware
13 5 (0.89%) F5
13 5 (0.89%) Informatica
13 5 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud