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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 141 162
Rank change year-on-year +32 +21 +48
Contract jobs citing Use Case 543 262 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.70% 1.93% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 2.09% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 176 177
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £473 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £712 £650
90th Percentile £771 £775 £785
England median daily rate £550 £525 £566
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.24% +2.91%
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% -25.00%
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £58.88 -
England median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +36.93% -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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -2 58 £525 -8.70% 46
West London - 13 £800 - 7
South London -5 6 £689 -8.13% 3
East London +1 2 £717 +21.63% 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 21 (3.87%) Confluence
2 16 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.29%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.92%) Apache
5 5 (0.92%) CMS
5 5 (0.92%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.37%) Kentico
7 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 15 (2.76%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Actimize
3 3 (0.55%) Findur
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.55%) Workfront
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.37%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 168 (30.94%) Azure
2 101 (18.60%) AWS
3 50 (9.21%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.37%) Azure AI
4 40 (7.37%) GCP
5 29 (5.34%) Microsoft Copilot
5 29 (5.34%) Snowflake
6 26 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (4.05%) Amazon Bedrock
7 22 (4.05%) GitHub
8 20 (3.68%) dbt
9 19 (3.50%) Entra ID
10 17 (3.13%) SaaS
11 16 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (2.76%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (2.58%) Anthropic Claude
13 14 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.39%) Copilot Studio
15 12 (2.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Firewall
2 7 (1.29%) BGP
3 6 (1.10%) Network Security
4 5 (0.92%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (0.92%) Multicast
4 5 (0.92%) VLAN
4 5 (0.92%) Wireless
5 4 (0.74%) SMS
5 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.55%) 5G
6 3 (0.55%) DNS
6 3 (0.55%) Internet
6 3 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.37%) DHCP
7 2 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.37%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.37%) RTP
7 2 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.18%) Power BI
2 38 (7.00%) Metadata
3 36 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.87%) Tableau
5 17 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.76%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.21%) Pinecone
7 12 (2.21%) Weaviate
8 11 (2.03%) Delta Lake
8 11 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.47%) Big Data
11 6 (1.10%) Redis
11 6 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.92%) Looker
12 5 (0.92%) Spark SQL
12 5 (0.92%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (6.45%) JIRA
2 18 (3.31%) Git
3 8 (1.47%) ERwin
3 8 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.10%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.10%) GitLab
5 5 (0.92%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.74%) MLflow
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 199 (36.65%) Finance
2 143 (26.34%) Social Skills
3 97 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (14.00%) Banking
5 48 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.79%) Retail
7 25 (4.60%) Marketing
8 23 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.87%) Legal
10 20 (3.68%) Front Office
10 20 (3.68%) Investment Banking
11 15 (2.76%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.39%) Law
13 11 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.10%) French Language
18 5 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 79 (14.55%) Architect
2 76 (14.00%) Analyst
3 62 (11.42%) Data Engineer
4 60 (11.05%) Business Analyst
5 53 (9.76%) Lead
6 52 (9.58%) Senior
7 42 (7.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 38 (7.00%) Developer
9 36 (6.63%) Consultant
10 21 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 20 (3.68%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.31%) Data Scientist
13 15 (2.76%) Data Analyst
14 14 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 13 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
16 10 (1.84%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (1.84%) SOC Engineer
17 9 (1.66%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 9 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
17 9 (1.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.16%) PySpark
2 25 (4.60%) REST
3 22 (4.05%) LangChain
4 17 (3.13%) .NET
5 15 (2.76%) LlamaIndex
6 14 (2.58%) Pandas
7 12 (2.21%) JSON
8 9 (1.66%) Model Context Protocol
8 9 (1.66%) RESTful
8 9 (1.66%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.47%) LangGraph
10 7 (1.29%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.29%) NumPy
11 5 (0.92%) Kafka
11 5 (0.92%) Middleware
11 5 (0.92%) OAuth
11 5 (0.92%) Semantic Kernel
11 5 (0.92%) vLLM
11 5 (0.92%) XML
12 4 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.63%) AI Agents
2 49 (9.02%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.73%) Cloud Native
4 38 (7.00%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.50%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.39%) Taxonomies
8 11 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.47%) Life Science
10 8 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.10%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.13%) Linux
2 14 (2.58%) Windows
3 8 (1.47%) Unix
3 8 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (52.12%) AI
2 171 (31.49%) Analytics
3 138 (25.41%) Machine Learning
4 127 (23.39%) Agile
5 109 (20.07%) Data Pipeline
6 108 (19.89%) LLM
7 103 (18.97%) Data Modelling
8 99 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 92 (16.94%) Data Engineering
10 90 (16.57%) Generative AI
11 77 (14.18%) CI/CD
12 75 (13.81%) DevOps
13 74 (13.63%) Data Governance
13 74 (13.63%) Data Science
14 72 (13.26%) Decision-Making
14 72 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 70 (12.89%) Roadmaps
16 68 (12.52%) Validation
17 65 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
18 64 (11.79%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 142 (26.15%) Python
2 112 (20.63%) SQL
3 18 (3.31%) C#
4 16 (2.95%) Java
5 14 (2.58%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.58%) R
6 11 (2.03%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.92%) Bash
8 5 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.92%) Scala
9 4 (0.74%) Go
9 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
9 4 (0.74%) VBA
10 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.55%) Bicep
10 3 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.55%) SHACL
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.37%) Degree
4 17 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.58%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.39%) CISSP
7 10 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.66%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.29%) CBAP
11 6 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.92%) GCIH
12 5 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.92%) PMP
13 4 (0.74%) CEH
13 4 (0.74%) CISM
13 4 (0.74%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (16.94%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.89%) GDPR
3 30 (5.52%) QA
4 15 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.76%) NIST
5 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.74%) NCSC
7 3 (0.55%) GRC
7 3 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) PERC
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.58%) Docker
3 3 (0.55%) IAG
4 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (6.45%) Terraform
2 28 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.92%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (0.92%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.74%) Ansible
5 3 (0.55%) QRadar
5 3 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.37%) Grafana
6 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.13%) Databricks
3 48 (8.84%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.97%) Foundry
5 23 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.95%) Splunk
7 13 (2.39%) Cisco
7 13 (2.39%) Pega
7 13 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.21%) Google
8 12 (2.21%) Oracle
9 11 (2.03%) SAP
10 9 (1.66%) Adobe
11 8 (1.47%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.92%) F5
12 5 (0.92%) Informatica
12 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) Workday