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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 162 162
Rank change year-on-year +58 0 +28
Contract jobs citing Use Case 533 218 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.78% 1.71% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 1.85% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 138 186
10th Percentile £413 £400 £405
25th Percentile £458 £501 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.01% -1.57%
75th Percentile £672 £775 £675
90th Percentile £762 £877 £825
England median daily rate £537 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -2.32% -1.79% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.43 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.72% - -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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 June 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 27 June 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 +11 61 £550 -10.20% 16
West London - 13 £523 - 4
South London -6 3 £550 -26.67% 1
East London -1 2 £717 +22.56% 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 28 (5.25%) Confluence
2 18 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.13%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.94%) CMS
6 5 (0.94%) SAS
7 3 (0.56%) Apache
8 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.38%) Kentico
8 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.38%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.19%) Chatbot
3 13 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Actimize
3 3 (0.56%) Findur
3 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.38%) Summit
4 2 (0.38%) Workfront
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (32.27%) Azure
2 116 (21.76%) AWS
3 56 (10.51%) Power Platform
4 53 (9.94%) GCP
5 33 (6.19%) Azure AI
6 25 (4.69%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.32%) Amazon Bedrock
8 23 (4.32%) Microsoft Copilot
9 21 (3.94%) dbt
9 21 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (3.94%) Serverless
10 19 (3.56%) Amazon S3
11 18 (3.38%) GitHub
12 16 (3.00%) Amazon SageMaker
12 16 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (2.81%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.63%) SaaS
14 14 (2.63%) WhatsApp
15 12 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.19%) Firewall
2 6 (1.13%) Network Security
3 5 (0.94%) RTP
4 4 (0.75%) Internet
5 3 (0.56%) 5G
5 3 (0.56%) DNS
5 3 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.56%) SMS
5 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.38%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.38%) 4G
6 2 (0.38%) BGP
6 2 (0.38%) DHCP
6 2 (0.38%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) OSPF
7 1 (0.19%) SSH
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.82%) Power BI
2 44 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (6.57%) Metadata
4 25 (4.69%) Tableau
5 19 (3.56%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.19%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.81%) Weaviate
8 14 (2.63%) Pinecone
9 12 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
10 11 (2.06%) Big Data
10 11 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
11 10 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.88%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.88%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.50%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.13%) KDB
13 6 (1.13%) Looker
14 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.94%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 43 (8.07%) JIRA
2 26 (4.88%) Git
3 12 (2.25%) MLflow
4 8 (1.50%) GitLab
4 8 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.94%) ERwin
6 3 (0.56%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.56%) XCTest
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) Ant
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 193 (36.21%) Finance
2 143 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 85 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (13.88%) Banking
5 54 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.44%) Retail
7 22 (4.13%) Marketing
8 21 (3.94%) Front Office
8 21 (3.94%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.56%) Legal
10 17 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.63%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.31%) Law
17 5 (0.94%) Back Office
17 5 (0.94%) French Language
Job Titles
1 86 (16.14%) Architect
2 76 (14.26%) Analyst
3 67 (12.57%) Data Engineer
4 65 (12.20%) Business Analyst
5 64 (12.01%) Senior
6 56 (10.51%) Lead
7 41 (7.69%) Developer
8 31 (5.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (4.32%) Consultant
9 23 (4.32%) Data Scientist
10 21 (3.94%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 16 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (2.25%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (2.25%) Senior Business Analyst
14 9 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 9 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.88%) PySpark
2 23 (4.32%) LangChain
3 20 (3.75%) .NET
4 19 (3.56%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (3.38%) Pandas
5 18 (3.38%) REST
6 16 (3.00%) scikit-learn
7 12 (2.25%) JSON
8 10 (1.88%) NumPy
8 10 (1.88%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.69%) Middleware
10 8 (1.50%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.31%) Kafka
12 6 (1.13%) LangGraph
12 6 (1.13%) RESTful
12 6 (1.13%) SOAP
13 5 (0.94%) FastAPI
13 5 (0.94%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (0.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.01%) AI Agents
2 44 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.88%) Cloud Native
4 27 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.06%) Taxonomies
9 9 (1.69%) Life Science
10 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.31%) PMI
11 7 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.44%) Linux
2 10 (1.88%) Unix
3 9 (1.69%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (50.47%) AI
2 185 (34.71%) Analytics
3 146 (27.39%) Machine Learning
4 141 (26.45%) Agile
5 119 (22.33%) Data Modelling
6 111 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
7 105 (19.70%) LLM
8 104 (19.51%) Data Engineering
9 96 (18.01%) CI/CD
10 93 (17.45%) DevOps
11 92 (17.26%) Generative AI
12 87 (16.32%) Data Science
13 86 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 79 (14.82%) Decision-Making
15 78 (14.63%) Data Governance
16 75 (14.07%) Roadmaps
17 69 (12.95%) Validation
18 68 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
19 61 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 159 (29.83%) Python
2 118 (22.14%) SQL
3 20 (3.75%) C#
4 15 (2.81%) R
5 14 (2.63%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.44%) Java
7 11 (2.06%) Scala
8 10 (1.88%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.94%) Bicep
11 4 (0.75%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.75%) Bash
11 4 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.75%) SPARQL
11 4 (0.75%) VBA
12 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.56%) SHACL
12 3 (0.56%) Swift
13 2 (0.38%) LookML
Qualifications
1 94 (17.64%) Security Cleared
2 77 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.19%) Degree
4 18 (3.38%) Master's Degree
5 14 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.25%) CBAP
8 10 (1.88%) CISSP
8 10 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.31%) IIBA
11 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.56%) CISM
12 3 (0.56%) GCIA
12 3 (0.56%) GIAC
12 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (16.70%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.00%) QA
3 31 (5.82%) GDPR
4 12 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.25%) NIST
5 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.94%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.38%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.38%) MiFID
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
8 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) PSD2
9 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (5.44%) Docker
2 13 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.38%) IAG
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.38%) Terraform
3 7 (1.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.13%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.56%) Ansible
5 3 (0.56%) QRadar
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.19%) Istio
6 1 (0.19%) logstash
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 103 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.76%) Databricks
2 52 (9.76%) OpenAI
3 23 (4.32%) Foundry
4 21 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.56%) Google
6 12 (2.25%) Pega
7 11 (2.06%) Splunk
7 11 (2.06%) VMware
8 10 (1.88%) SAP
9 8 (1.50%) Oracle
10 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.13%) Informatica
12 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (0.94%) Workday
13 4 (0.75%) Adobe
13 4 (0.75%) Cisco
13 4 (0.75%) IBM
14 3 (0.56%) Ariba