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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 124 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 +74
Contract jobs citing Use Case 534 295 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 2.22% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 2.40% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 195 181
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £466 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £681 £673 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
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% -
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £70.44
90th Percentile - £58.88 £70.78
England median hourly rate £77.37 £41.94 £60.00
% change year-on-year +84.47% -30.10% -11.19%

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 17,952 12,291 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.58% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,781 8,116 9,426
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £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 321 240 179
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.89 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.01 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.13 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -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 29 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 29 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 -9 54 £500 -12.66% 128
West London - 12 £800 - 38
South London -6 3 £698 -6.93% 3
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 22 (4.12%) Confluence
2 17 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.87%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.12%) Apache
7 5 (0.94%) CMS
8 4 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.56%) SAS
10 2 (0.37%) Kentico
10 2 (0.37%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) Appian
11 1 (0.19%) Camunda
11 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (1.87%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Workfront
3 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.37%) Findur
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
1 154 (28.84%) Azure
2 98 (18.35%) AWS
3 49 (9.18%) Power Platform
4 37 (6.93%) Microsoft Copilot
5 35 (6.55%) GCP
6 34 (6.37%) Snowflake
7 25 (4.68%) Azure AI
7 25 (4.68%) dbt
8 22 (4.12%) GitHub
9 21 (3.93%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (3.56%) Copilot Studio
12 16 (3.00%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (2.81%) SaaS
14 14 (2.62%) Amazon Bedrock
14 14 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (2.43%) Azure Databricks
15 13 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (2.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.25%) Firewall
2 11 (2.06%) BGP
3 8 (1.50%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.50%) Multicast
3 8 (1.50%) VLAN
3 8 (1.50%) Wireless
4 7 (1.31%) 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 (0.37%) DHCP
8 2 (0.37%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.05%) Metadata
2 33 (6.18%) Power BI
3 32 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.93%) Data Lake
5 14 (2.62%) Pinecone
5 14 (2.62%) Tableau
6 13 (2.43%) Chroma
6 13 (2.43%) Delta Lake
6 13 (2.43%) Weaviate
7 12 (2.25%) Semantic Layer
8 11 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.50%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.12%) Neo4j
12 6 (1.12%) Redis
13 5 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 35 (6.55%) JIRA
2 17 (3.18%) Git
3 9 (1.69%) ERwin
4 6 (1.12%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.12%) GitLab
4 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.94%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.94%) MLflow
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (38.39%) Finance
2 137 (25.66%) Social Skills
3 94 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (13.86%) Banking
5 43 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.24%) Marketing
7 25 (4.68%) Retail
8 24 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.93%) Front Office
9 21 (3.93%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.56%) Legal
11 17 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.62%) Law
13 11 (2.06%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.31%) Back Office
15 7 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.12%) French Language
16 6 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (17.23%) Analyst
2 79 (14.79%) Architect
3 68 (12.73%) Business Analyst
3 68 (12.73%) Senior
4 60 (11.24%) Data Engineer
5 53 (9.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 47 (8.80%) Lead
7 39 (7.30%) Consultant
8 28 (5.24%) Developer
9 21 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 21 (3.93%) Data Architect
10 15 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (2.62%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (2.43%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
12 13 (2.43%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 13 (2.43%) Data Scientist
13 12 (2.25%) Enterprise Architect
14 11 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
14 11 (2.06%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.30%) Terraform
2 28 (5.24%) PySpark
3 25 (4.68%) REST
4 23 (4.31%) LangChain
5 18 (3.37%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (2.81%) LlamaIndex
7 14 (2.62%) .NET
8 12 (2.25%) JSON
8 12 (2.25%) Pandas
9 10 (1.87%) RESTful
10 9 (1.69%) LangGraph
11 8 (1.50%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.50%) Kafka
11 8 (1.50%) vLLM
12 7 (1.31%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.31%) Semantic Kernel
13 6 (1.12%) NumPy
13 6 (1.12%) PyTorch
13 6 (1.12%) Web Services
14 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.11%) AI Agents
2 52 (9.74%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.30%) Onboarding
4 38 (7.12%) Cloud Native
5 20 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.81%) Taxonomies
8 14 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (2.43%) Management Information System
10 12 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.69%) Life Science
11 9 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
12 8 (1.50%) Digital Signage
13 7 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.31%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.94%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.43%) Linux
2 12 (2.25%) Windows
3 7 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.75%) Unix
5 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (54.31%) AI
2 162 (30.34%) Analytics
3 126 (23.60%) Machine Learning
4 125 (23.41%) Agile
5 122 (22.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 119 (22.28%) LLM
7 104 (19.48%) Data Pipeline
7 104 (19.48%) Generative AI
8 103 (19.29%) Data Modelling
9 85 (15.92%) Data Engineering
10 82 (15.36%) Data Governance
11 81 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 80 (14.98%) Roadmaps
13 74 (13.86%) CI/CD
14 67 (12.55%) Data Science
15 66 (12.36%) DevOps
16 65 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
17 64 (11.99%) Data Architecture
18 62 (11.61%) Validation
19 61 (11.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 136 (25.47%) Python
2 109 (20.41%) SQL
3 17 (3.18%) Java
4 16 (3.00%) C#
5 14 (2.62%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.69%) R
6 9 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.94%) Bash
8 5 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.94%) Scala
9 4 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.75%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.56%) Bicep
10 3 (0.56%) Go
10 3 (0.56%) SHACL
11 2 (0.37%) Elixir
11 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.37%) Rust
11 2 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 86 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.80%) Degree
4 17 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.06%) CISSP
7 11 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.87%) CBAP
9 8 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.31%) PMP
11 5 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.94%) CCSP
11 5 (0.94%) GCIH
11 5 (0.94%) GIAC
11 5 (0.94%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (17.42%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.43%) GDPR
3 24 (4.49%) QA
4 15 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.06%) NIST
6 7 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.75%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.75%) GRC
7 4 (0.75%) ISO 15022
7 4 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.75%) NCSC
8 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.62%) Docker
2 11 (2.06%) 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 28 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.50%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (1.50%) Kubeflow
3 4 (0.75%) Ansible
3 4 (0.75%) QRadar
4 2 (0.37%) Grafana
4 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) Argo
5 1 (0.19%) Control-M
5 1 (0.19%) Kibana
5 1 (0.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 101 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.42%) Databricks
3 42 (7.87%) OpenAI
4 27 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.75%) Splunk
6 16 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.81%) Cisco
8 14 (2.62%) Google
9 12 (2.25%) SAP
10 11 (2.06%) Adobe
10 11 (2.06%) Foundry
10 11 (2.06%) Oracle
11 7 (1.31%) Informatica
12 6 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.12%) F5
13 5 (0.94%) Pega
14 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 4 (0.75%) VMware