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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 135 138
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 +90
Contract jobs citing Use Case 536 284 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.63% 2.11% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.28% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 188 188
10th Percentile £409 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £650
90th Percentile £791 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £566
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.28% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £34.43 -
25th Percentile £76.18 £37.31 £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 £45.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.10% -32.22% -
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £58.88 -
England median hourly rate £72.43 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.20% -5.83% -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 18,107 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.93% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,868 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £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 £675 £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 306 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -8 55 £500 -12.28% 129
West London - 12 £800 - 37
South London -6 4 £698 -6.93% 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 20 (3.73%) Confluence
2 16 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.68%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.31%) Apache
7 5 (0.93%) CMS
8 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.56%) SAS
9 2 (0.37%) Kentico
9 2 (0.37%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Appian
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.05%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Findur
2 3 (0.56%) Workfront
3 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.37%) Summit
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.19%) Endur
4 1 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 153 (28.54%) Azure
2 96 (17.91%) AWS
3 53 (9.89%) Power Platform
4 38 (7.09%) GCP
5 37 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
6 36 (6.72%) Snowflake
7 26 (4.85%) Azure AI
8 24 (4.48%) dbt
9 22 (4.10%) GitHub
10 21 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (3.73%) Amazon S3
12 19 (3.54%) Copilot Studio
13 17 (3.17%) SaaS
14 16 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (2.99%) Entra ID
14 16 (2.99%) Power Automate
15 14 (2.61%) Amazon Bedrock
15 14 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (2.43%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.24%) Firewall
2 11 (2.05%) BGP
3 8 (1.49%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.49%) Multicast
3 8 (1.49%) VLAN
3 8 (1.49%) Wireless
4 7 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.93%) Network Security
6 4 (0.75%) SMS
7 3 (0.56%) DNS
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.56%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.56%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.37%) DHCP
8 2 (0.37%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.65%) Metadata
2 37 (6.90%) Power BI
3 33 (6.16%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.10%) Data Lake
5 15 (2.80%) Tableau
6 14 (2.61%) Pinecone
7 13 (2.43%) Weaviate
8 12 (2.24%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.24%) Chroma
8 12 (2.24%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.05%) Semantic Layer
10 10 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.68%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.49%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.12%) Redis
15 5 (0.93%) Big Data
15 5 (0.93%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (6.34%) JIRA
2 17 (3.17%) Git
3 9 (1.68%) ERwin
4 6 (1.12%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.93%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
5 5 (0.93%) MLflow
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 206 (38.43%) Finance
2 133 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 95 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (13.43%) Banking
5 42 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.04%) Marketing
7 25 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.66%) Retail
8 21 (3.92%) Front Office
9 20 (3.73%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.36%) Legal
11 17 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.61%) Law
13 12 (2.24%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.49%) Back Office
16 7 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.12%) French Language
17 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (16.42%) Analyst
2 81 (15.11%) Architect
3 67 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 63 (11.75%) Senior
5 61 (11.38%) Data Engineer
6 51 (9.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 48 (8.96%) Lead
8 38 (7.09%) Consultant
9 30 (5.60%) Developer
10 23 (4.29%) Data Architect
11 19 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 14 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 14 (2.61%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.43%) Data Scientist
13 13 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.24%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
14 12 (2.24%) Enterprise Architect
15 10 (1.87%) Implementation Engineer
15 10 (1.87%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.28%) Terraform
2 29 (5.41%) PySpark
3 26 (4.85%) REST
4 23 (4.29%) LangChain
5 17 (3.17%) Model Context Protocol
6 16 (2.99%) LlamaIndex
7 14 (2.61%) .NET
8 12 (2.24%) Pandas
9 10 (1.87%) JSON
10 9 (1.68%) RESTful
11 8 (1.49%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.49%) Kafka
11 8 (1.49%) LangGraph
12 7 (1.31%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.31%) vLLM
13 6 (1.12%) NumPy
13 6 (1.12%) PyTorch
13 6 (1.12%) Semantic Kernel
14 5 (0.93%) Node.js
15 4 (0.75%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.06%) AI Agents
2 54 (10.07%) Product Ownership
3 38 (7.09%) Cloud Native
4 37 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.24%) Taxonomies
9 11 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.05%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.68%) Life Science
11 8 (1.49%) Digital Signage
12 7 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.31%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.24%) Linux
1 12 (2.24%) Windows
2 7 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (54.48%) AI
2 164 (30.60%) Analytics
3 132 (24.63%) Machine Learning
4 125 (23.32%) Agile
5 119 (22.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 118 (22.01%) LLM
7 108 (20.15%) Data Pipeline
8 104 (19.40%) Generative AI
9 102 (19.03%) Data Modelling
10 87 (16.23%) Data Engineering
11 83 (15.49%) Data Governance
12 81 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 76 (14.18%) Roadmaps
14 75 (13.99%) CI/CD
15 68 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (12.50%) Data Architecture
16 67 (12.50%) DevOps
17 66 (12.31%) Data Science
18 62 (11.57%) Validation
19 61 (11.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (25.00%) Python
2 110 (20.52%) SQL
3 18 (3.36%) Java
4 15 (2.80%) C#
5 13 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.05%) R
7 8 (1.49%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.93%) Scala
10 4 (0.75%) Bash
10 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.75%) SPARQL
11 3 (0.56%) Bicep
11 3 (0.56%) Go
11 3 (0.56%) SHACL
11 3 (0.56%) VBA
12 2 (0.37%) Elixir
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 88 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 43 (8.02%) Degree
4 16 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.24%) CISSP
8 11 (2.05%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.68%) CBAP
10 9 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.31%) PMP
13 6 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.12%) GIAC
14 5 (0.93%) CCSP
14 5 (0.93%) IIBA
14 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (17.16%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.41%) GDPR
3 26 (4.85%) QA
4 15 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.24%) NIST
6 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.93%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.75%) GRC
8 4 (0.75%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.75%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 15 (2.80%) Docker
2 11 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.37%) IAG
3 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.49%) Cisco Prime
3 7 (1.31%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.56%) Ansible
4 3 (0.56%) QRadar
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.75%) Databricks
3 41 (7.65%) OpenAI
4 28 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.73%) Splunk
6 16 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.80%) Cisco
8 14 (2.61%) SAP
9 12 (2.24%) Foundry
9 12 (2.24%) Google
9 12 (2.24%) Oracle
10 9 (1.68%) Adobe
11 8 (1.49%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.31%) Informatica
13 6 (1.12%) F5
13 6 (1.12%) Pega
14 5 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 4 (0.75%) BeyondTrust
15 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.75%) Red Hat