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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 147 204
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 -32
Contract jobs citing Use Case 326 263 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 1.77% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.97% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 170 134
10th Percentile £400 £400 £452
25th Percentile £463 £476 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.21% -0.21%
75th Percentile £671 £692 £687
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
England median daily rate £510 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -11.30% +1.77% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.43 £66.53 -
25th Percentile £37.31 £66.94 £91.25
Median hourly rate £45.75 £68.75 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.45% -25.68% +55.46%
75th Percentile £55.31 £70.44 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 £70.78 -
England median hourly rate £56.90 £66.25 £77.11
% change year-on-year -14.11% -14.08% +28.52%

All Process and 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 13,190 13,384 16,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.13% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 8,584 11,883
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%
75th Percentile £53.44 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

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 27 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in London

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 27 December 2025. 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 42 £594 -1.04% 147
South London +1 3 £475 -17.39% 8
East London -6 1 - - 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 24 (7.36%) Confluence
2 14 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.76%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.53%) Apache
6 3 (0.92%) Appian
7 2 (0.61%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.61%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.61%) Luigi
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (3.07%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.53%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.53%) ProjectWise
4 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Endur
1 5 (1.53%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Findur
4 1 (0.31%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.31%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.31%) Shopify
4 1 (0.31%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 110 (33.74%) Azure
2 63 (19.33%) AWS
3 32 (9.82%) GCP
4 27 (8.28%) Power Platform
5 23 (7.06%) Snowflake
6 22 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.60%) GitHub
8 14 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (3.68%) dbt
9 12 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.07%) Azure AI
10 10 (3.07%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (3.07%) Serverless
11 8 (2.45%) SaaS
11 8 (2.45%) Vertex AI
12 7 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.15%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.84%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.45%) Firewall
2 5 (1.53%) CTI
2 5 (1.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.92%) SSH
4 2 (0.61%) NAS
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.31%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.44%) Power BI
2 20 (6.13%) Metadata
3 19 (5.83%) Data Lake
4 15 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.99%) Snowflake Schema
5 13 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.99%) Tableau
6 9 (2.76%) Delta Lake
6 9 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.45%) Big Data
7 8 (2.45%) Data Vault
8 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.15%) Star Schema
9 5 (1.53%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.92%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.92%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (0.92%) Redis
10 3 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (10.74%) JIRA
2 20 (6.13%) Git
3 9 (2.76%) MLflow
4 6 (1.84%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.84%) ERwin
4 6 (1.84%) JUnit
4 6 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
4 6 (1.84%) Selenium
5 4 (1.23%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.92%) GitLab
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.92%) Postman
6 3 (0.92%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.61%) Hardhat
8 1 (0.31%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (35.58%) Finance
2 108 (33.13%) Social Skills
3 80 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (14.72%) Banking
5 19 (5.83%) Investment Banking
5 19 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.21%) Back Office
7 14 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.68%) Front Office
8 12 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.37%) Marketing
9 11 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.07%) Legal
11 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.45%) Retail
12 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (20.55%) Analyst
2 54 (16.56%) Business Analyst
3 33 (10.12%) Developer
4 31 (9.51%) Senior
5 28 (8.59%) Architect
6 23 (7.06%) Lead
7 21 (6.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 20 (6.13%) Consultant
9 17 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.99%) Data Scientist
11 11 (3.37%) Data Analyst
12 10 (3.07%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.76%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.76%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.76%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (2.76%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.45%) Programme Manager
14 8 (2.45%) Risk Analyst
15 7 (2.15%) IT Business Analyst
15 7 (2.15%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.13%) PyTorch
2 16 (4.91%) LangChain
3 15 (4.60%) TensorFlow
4 12 (3.68%) scikit-learn
5 11 (3.37%) .NET
6 10 (3.07%) LangGraph
7 9 (2.76%) Pandas
7 9 (2.76%) XML
8 8 (2.45%) Hugging Face
8 8 (2.45%) Node.js
8 8 (2.45%) PySpark
9 7 (2.15%) REST
10 6 (1.84%) Android NDK
10 6 (1.84%) Android SDK
10 6 (1.84%) iOS SDK
10 6 (1.84%) JNI
10 6 (1.84%) Kafka
10 6 (1.84%) YAML
11 5 (1.53%) JSON
11 5 (1.53%) MIDP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.51%) Onboarding
1 31 (9.51%) Product Ownership
2 21 (6.44%) AI Agents
3 14 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.99%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.07%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.07%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.07%) PMI
6 9 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.84%) Augmented Reality
8 6 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.84%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (1.53%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.53%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.06%) Linux
2 15 (4.60%) Windows
3 6 (1.84%) Android
3 6 (1.84%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.84%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (33.74%) AI
2 91 (27.91%) Agile
3 88 (26.99%) Analytics
4 72 (22.09%) Machine Learning
5 71 (21.78%) Data Modelling
5 71 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (18.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (17.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 54 (16.56%) CI/CD
9 53 (16.26%) LLM
10 52 (15.95%) Data Governance
11 48 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
11 48 (14.72%) Data Science
11 48 (14.72%) Roadmaps
12 47 (14.42%) User Stories
13 45 (13.80%) Generative AI
14 41 (12.58%) DevOps
15 40 (12.27%) Business Analysis
15 40 (12.27%) Requirements Gathering
16 38 (11.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (29.75%) Python
2 73 (22.39%) SQL
3 24 (7.36%) Java
4 14 (4.29%) Bash
5 10 (3.07%) C#
5 10 (3.07%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.15%) C++
7 7 (2.15%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.23%) Bicep
9 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.23%) R
10 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.92%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.61%) Korn
11 2 (0.61%) Solidity
11 2 (0.61%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (20.25%) Degree
2 38 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 30 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.13%) Master's Degree
5 16 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.99%) CBAP
6 13 (3.99%) PMI Certification
7 12 (3.68%) MCP
8 6 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.84%) PhD
9 5 (1.53%) CFA
9 5 (1.53%) CISSP
9 5 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.23%) IIBA
10 4 (1.23%) ISEB
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (12.27%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.36%) QA
3 12 (3.68%) GDPR
4 9 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.76%) NIST
5 8 (2.45%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.84%) ISO 19650
8 4 (1.23%) PSD2
9 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.61%) HL7
10 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.61%) MiFID
10 2 (0.61%) PMO
10 2 (0.61%) SEPA
10 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.61%) WCAG
11 1 (0.31%) FINRA
11 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (5.83%) Docker
2 10 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.45%) zsh
4 5 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (4.60%) Terraform
2 12 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.53%) Ansible
3 5 (1.53%) Grafana
4 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.31%) Argo
6 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.31%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.31%) QRadar
6 1 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 42 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.43%) Databricks
3 15 (4.60%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.68%) Splunk
5 10 (3.07%) Google
6 7 (2.15%) Citrix
6 7 (2.15%) Oracle
6 7 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.84%) Adobe
7 6 (1.84%) Genesys
7 6 (1.84%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.53%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.23%) UiPath
10 3 (0.92%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.92%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.92%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.92%) SAP
10 3 (0.92%) Tenable
10 3 (0.92%) Veracode