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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 121 148
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 +71
Contract jobs citing Use Case 554 308 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.74% 2.29% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 2.48% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 197 182
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year - +1.10% +3.41%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
England median daily rate £564 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +7.38% -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £34.43 £66.53
25th Percentile £76.18 £37.31 £66.94
Median hourly rate £77.37 £45.75 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +69.10% -33.45% -25.68%
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £70.44
90th Percentile - £58.88 £70.78
England median hourly rate £77.37 £49.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year +57.18% -17.97% -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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +4 58 £525 -8.70% 128
West London - 13 £638 - 19
South London -10 3 £698 -6.93% 4
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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 17 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.62%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.26%) Apache
6 5 (0.90%) CMS
7 4 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.54%) SAS
9 2 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.36%) WordPress
10 1 (0.18%) Appian
10 1 (0.18%) Camunda
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (1.99%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.54%) Workfront
3 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.36%) Summit
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Findur
4 1 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 166 (29.96%) Azure
2 110 (19.86%) AWS
3 49 (8.84%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.86%) GCP
5 35 (6.32%) Microsoft Copilot
6 34 (6.14%) Snowflake
7 29 (5.23%) Azure AI
8 25 (4.51%) dbt
9 24 (4.33%) GitHub
10 20 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (3.43%) Amazon S3
12 17 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (3.07%) Copilot Studio
13 16 (2.89%) Amazon Bedrock
13 16 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (2.89%) Power Automate
14 15 (2.71%) Entra ID
14 15 (2.71%) SaaS
15 14 (2.53%) Anthropic Claude
16 13 (2.35%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.17%) Firewall
2 11 (1.99%) BGP
3 8 (1.44%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.44%) Multicast
3 8 (1.44%) VLAN
3 8 (1.44%) Wireless
4 7 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.90%) Network Security
6 4 (0.72%) SMS
7 3 (0.54%) DNS
7 3 (0.54%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.54%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.54%) Internet
7 3 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.54%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.36%) DHCP
8 2 (0.36%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.21%) Metadata
2 34 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (5.96%) Power BI
4 21 (3.79%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.07%) Delta Lake
6 13 (2.35%) Semantic Layer
7 12 (2.17%) Pinecone
8 11 (1.99%) Chroma
8 11 (1.99%) Weaviate
9 10 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.81%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.81%) Tableau
10 8 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.26%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.26%) Neo4j
11 7 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.08%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.08%) Redis
13 5 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (6.86%) JIRA
2 18 (3.25%) Git
3 9 (1.62%) ERwin
4 7 (1.26%) GitLab
5 6 (1.08%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.90%) MLflow
7 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
General
1 215 (38.81%) Finance
2 142 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 98 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (13.36%) Banking
5 48 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.23%) Marketing
7 26 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.69%) Retail
8 22 (3.97%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.61%) Legal
10 19 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (3.25%) Front Office
12 13 (2.35%) Law
13 11 (1.99%) Back Office
14 10 (1.81%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.08%) French Language
17 5 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (17.15%) Analyst
2 90 (16.25%) Architect
3 72 (13.00%) Senior
4 68 (12.27%) Business Analyst
5 60 (10.83%) Data Engineer
6 54 (9.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 49 (8.84%) Lead
8 40 (7.22%) Consultant
9 27 (4.87%) Developer
10 24 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 24 (4.33%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
12 16 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 13 (2.35%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.17%) Enterprise Architect
14 12 (2.17%) Senior Business Analyst
14 12 (2.17%) Technical Analyst
15 10 (1.81%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.40%) Terraform
2 28 (5.05%) PySpark
2 28 (5.05%) REST
3 22 (3.97%) LangChain
4 19 (3.43%) Model Context Protocol
5 14 (2.53%) LlamaIndex
6 13 (2.35%) JSON
7 11 (1.99%) .NET
7 11 (1.99%) LangGraph
8 10 (1.81%) Kafka
8 10 (1.81%) RESTful
9 9 (1.62%) Pandas
10 8 (1.44%) GraphQL
10 8 (1.44%) Semantic Kernel
10 8 (1.44%) vLLM
10 8 (1.44%) Web Services
11 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
11 6 (1.08%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.90%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.36%) AI Agents
2 52 (9.39%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.58%) Cloud Native
4 40 (7.22%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.61%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.71%) Taxonomies
9 14 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.81%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (1.62%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.62%) Life Science
13 8 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.44%) Digital Signage
14 7 (1.26%) Reference Data
15 6 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
15 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.53%) Linux
2 12 (2.17%) Windows
3 7 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.72%) Unix
5 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (55.60%) AI
2 167 (30.14%) Analytics
3 136 (24.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 135 (24.37%) Machine Learning
5 131 (23.65%) Agile
6 124 (22.38%) LLM
7 109 (19.68%) Generative AI
8 106 (19.13%) Data Pipeline
9 105 (18.95%) Data Modelling
10 87 (15.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 86 (15.52%) Data Governance
12 85 (15.34%) Data Engineering
13 84 (15.16%) Roadmaps
14 82 (14.80%) CI/CD
15 73 (13.18%) DevOps
16 70 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
17 67 (12.09%) Data Architecture
17 67 (12.09%) Validation
17 67 (12.09%) Workshop Facilitation
18 64 (11.55%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 132 (23.83%) Python
2 110 (19.86%) SQL
3 19 (3.43%) Java
4 15 (2.71%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.35%) C#
6 9 (1.62%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.08%) Bash
7 6 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.08%) R
8 5 (0.90%) Scala
9 4 (0.72%) Bicep
9 4 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.72%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.54%) Go
10 3 (0.54%) SHACL
11 2 (0.36%) Elixir
11 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.36%) Rust
11 2 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 82 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.93%) Degree
4 21 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.35%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.17%) CBAP
6 12 (2.17%) CISSP
7 11 (1.99%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.99%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.26%) PMP
11 6 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.90%) CCSP
12 5 (0.90%) GCIH
12 5 (0.90%) GIAC
12 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.87%) GDPR
3 24 (4.33%) QA
4 14 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.81%) NIST
6 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.08%) GRC
8 5 (0.90%) EU AI Act
8 5 (0.90%) NCSC
9 4 (0.72%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.72%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.54%) MiFID
11 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.36%) EMIR
11 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 14 (2.53%) Docker
2 12 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.36%) IAG
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.44%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (1.44%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.90%) Ansible
3 5 (0.90%) QRadar
4 2 (0.36%) Argo
4 2 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.36%) Kibana
4 2 (0.36%) logstash
4 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) Control-M
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 109 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 66 (11.91%) Databricks
3 43 (7.76%) OpenAI
4 30 (5.42%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.43%) Splunk
6 18 (3.25%) Google
7 16 (2.89%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.71%) Cisco
8 15 (2.71%) Oracle
9 13 (2.35%) Foundry
10 12 (2.17%) SAP
11 11 (1.99%) Adobe
12 7 (1.26%) Informatica
13 6 (1.08%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.08%) F5
14 5 (0.90%) VMware
15 4 (0.72%) Pega
15 4 (0.72%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 3 (0.54%) Pardot