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

6 months to
18 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 532 284 301
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 326 188 188
10th Percentile £413 £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 £794 £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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 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 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £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 £57.50 £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 18 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 18 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 -5 55 £500 -12.28% 130
West London - 12 £800 - 37
South London -6 4 £698 -6.93% 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 20 (3.76%) Confluence
2 16 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.69%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.32%) Apache
7 5 (0.94%) CMS
8 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.56%) SAS
9 2 (0.38%) Kentico
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Appian
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (1.88%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) 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 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.38%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.38%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.38%) Summit
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.19%) Endur
4 1 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 152 (28.57%) Azure
2 96 (18.05%) AWS
3 52 (9.77%) Power Platform
4 38 (7.14%) GCP
5 36 (6.77%) Microsoft Copilot
5 36 (6.77%) Snowflake
6 26 (4.89%) Azure AI
7 24 (4.51%) dbt
8 22 (4.14%) GitHub
9 20 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (3.38%) Copilot Studio
11 17 (3.20%) SaaS
12 16 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (3.01%) Entra ID
12 16 (3.01%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.63%) Amazon Bedrock
13 14 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
13 14 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (2.44%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.26%) Firewall
2 11 (2.07%) BGP
3 8 (1.50%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.50%) Multicast
3 8 (1.50%) VLAN
3 8 (1.50%) Wireless
4 7 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.94%) 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 (0.38%) DHCP
8 2 (0.38%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.71%) Metadata
2 37 (6.95%) Power BI
3 33 (6.20%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 15 (2.82%) Tableau
6 14 (2.63%) Pinecone
7 13 (2.44%) Weaviate
8 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.26%) Chroma
8 12 (2.26%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.07%) Semantic Layer
10 10 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.69%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.50%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (1.13%) Redis
15 5 (0.94%) Big Data
15 5 (0.94%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (6.39%) JIRA
2 17 (3.20%) Git
3 9 (1.69%) ERwin
4 6 (1.13%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.94%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.94%) GitLab
5 5 (0.94%) MLflow
6 2 (0.38%) Postman
6 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (38.53%) Finance
2 131 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 95 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (13.53%) Banking
5 42 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.08%) Marketing
7 25 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.70%) Retail
8 21 (3.95%) Front Office
9 20 (3.76%) Investment Banking
10 18 (3.38%) Legal
11 17 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.63%) Law
13 12 (2.26%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.50%) Back Office
16 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.13%) French Language
17 6 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (16.35%) Analyst
2 81 (15.23%) Architect
3 66 (12.41%) Business Analyst
4 61 (11.47%) Data Engineer
4 61 (11.47%) Senior
5 49 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 48 (9.02%) Lead
7 38 (7.14%) Consultant
8 30 (5.64%) Developer
9 23 (4.32%) Data Architect
10 19 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 14 (2.63%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 14 (2.63%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.44%) Data Scientist
12 13 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.26%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
13 12 (2.26%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (1.88%) Implementation Engineer
14 10 (1.88%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.33%) Terraform
2 29 (5.45%) PySpark
3 26 (4.89%) REST
4 23 (4.32%) LangChain
5 17 (3.20%) Model Context Protocol
6 16 (3.01%) LlamaIndex
7 14 (2.63%) .NET
8 12 (2.26%) Pandas
9 10 (1.88%) JSON
10 9 (1.69%) RESTful
11 8 (1.50%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.50%) Kafka
11 8 (1.50%) LangGraph
12 7 (1.32%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.32%) vLLM
13 6 (1.13%) NumPy
13 6 (1.13%) Semantic Kernel
14 5 (0.94%) Node.js
15 4 (0.75%) OAuth
15 4 (0.75%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.97%) AI Agents
2 54 (10.15%) Product Ownership
3 38 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 37 (6.95%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.95%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.26%) Taxonomies
9 11 (2.07%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.69%) Life Science
12 8 (1.50%) Digital Signage
13 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.32%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.94%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.26%) Linux
1 12 (2.26%) Windows
2 7 (1.32%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (54.14%) AI
2 164 (30.83%) Analytics
3 130 (24.44%) Machine Learning
4 125 (23.50%) Agile
5 118 (22.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 115 (21.62%) LLM
7 106 (19.92%) Data Pipeline
8 102 (19.17%) Data Modelling
9 101 (18.98%) Generative AI
10 87 (16.35%) Data Engineering
11 82 (15.41%) Data Governance
12 81 (15.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 75 (14.10%) Roadmaps
14 73 (13.72%) CI/CD
15 68 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (12.59%) Data Architecture
16 67 (12.59%) DevOps
17 66 (12.41%) Data Science
18 62 (11.65%) Validation
19 61 (11.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 132 (24.81%) Python
2 110 (20.68%) SQL
3 18 (3.38%) Java
4 15 (2.82%) C#
5 13 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.07%) R
7 8 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.94%) 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 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.38%) Rust
12 2 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 88 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 43 (8.08%) Degree
4 16 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.26%) CISSP
8 11 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.69%) CBAP
10 9 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.50%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.32%) PMP
13 6 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (1.13%) GIAC
14 5 (0.94%) CCSP
14 5 (0.94%) IIBA
14 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (17.29%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.45%) GDPR
3 26 (4.89%) QA
4 15 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.26%) NIST
6 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.94%) 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 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.38%) MiFID
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) PERC
System Software
1 15 (2.82%) Docker
2 11 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.38%) IAG
3 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.50%) Cisco Prime
3 7 (1.32%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.56%) Ansible
4 3 (0.56%) QRadar
5 2 (0.38%) Grafana
5 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.84%) Databricks
3 41 (7.71%) OpenAI
4 27 (5.08%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.76%) Splunk
6 15 (2.82%) Cisco
6 15 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.63%) SAP
8 12 (2.26%) Foundry
8 12 (2.26%) Google
8 12 (2.26%) Oracle
9 9 (1.69%) Adobe
10 8 (1.50%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.32%) Informatica
12 6 (1.13%) F5
12 6 (1.13%) Pega
13 5 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 4 (0.75%) BeyondTrust
14 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.75%) Red Hat