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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 132 144
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 +81
Contract jobs citing Use Case 550 298 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.70% 2.21% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.39% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 195 182
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £466 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £569
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -0.66% +3.41%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +1.82%
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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -10 56 £513 -10.48% 129
West London - 14 £650 - 36
South London -8 3 £698 -6.93% 2
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 23 (4.18%) Confluence
2 18 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.82%) Jupyter
5 9 (1.64%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.09%) Apache
7 5 (0.91%) CMS
8 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.55%) SAS
10 2 (0.36%) Kentico
10 2 (0.36%) WordPress
11 1 (0.18%) Appian
11 1 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.00%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.55%) Workfront
3 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.36%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.36%) Findur
3 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.36%) Summit
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 160 (29.09%) Azure
2 104 (18.91%) AWS
3 50 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.91%) Microsoft Copilot
5 37 (6.73%) GCP
6 34 (6.18%) Snowflake
7 28 (5.09%) Azure AI
8 26 (4.73%) dbt
9 24 (4.36%) GitHub
10 21 (3.82%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (3.45%) Copilot Studio
13 17 (3.09%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.91%) Amazon Bedrock
14 16 (2.91%) SaaS
15 15 (2.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (2.73%) Serverless
16 14 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (2.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.18%) Firewall
2 11 (2.00%) BGP
3 8 (1.45%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.45%) Multicast
3 8 (1.45%) VLAN
3 8 (1.45%) Wireless
4 7 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.91%) Network Security
6 4 (0.73%) SMS
7 3 (0.55%) DNS
7 3 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.55%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.36%) DHCP
8 2 (0.36%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.00%) Metadata
2 33 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (6.00%) Power BI
3 21 (3.82%) Data Lake
4 14 (2.55%) Tableau
5 13 (2.36%) Delta Lake
5 13 (2.36%) Pinecone
5 13 (2.36%) Semantic Layer
6 12 (2.18%) Chroma
6 12 (2.18%) Weaviate
7 11 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (1.64%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.45%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.09%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.09%) Redis
12 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 37 (6.73%) JIRA
2 18 (3.27%) Git
3 9 (1.64%) ERwin
4 6 (1.09%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.09%) GitLab
4 6 (1.09%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.91%) MLflow
6 4 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 215 (39.09%) Finance
2 145 (26.36%) Social Skills
3 98 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (13.64%) Banking
5 47 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.27%) Marketing
7 26 (4.73%) Retail
8 25 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
9 22 (4.00%) Legal
10 21 (3.82%) Investment Banking
11 20 (3.64%) Front Office
12 17 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.55%) Law
14 11 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.82%) Back Office
15 10 (1.82%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.27%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.09%) French Language
17 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 96 (17.45%) Analyst
2 85 (15.45%) Architect
3 69 (12.55%) Business Analyst
3 69 (12.55%) Senior
4 59 (10.73%) Data Engineer
5 53 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 49 (8.91%) Lead
7 40 (7.27%) Consultant
8 28 (5.09%) Developer
9 23 (4.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 22 (4.00%) Data Architect
11 17 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.73%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.55%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 14 (2.55%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.18%) Data Scientist
14 12 (2.18%) Enterprise Architect
15 11 (2.00%) Senior Business Analyst
15 11 (2.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.09%) Terraform
2 27 (4.91%) PySpark
3 26 (4.73%) REST
4 23 (4.18%) LangChain
5 19 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (2.73%) LlamaIndex
7 13 (2.36%) .NET
7 13 (2.36%) JSON
8 12 (2.18%) Pandas
9 11 (2.00%) LangGraph
10 10 (1.82%) RESTful
11 9 (1.64%) Kafka
12 8 (1.45%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.45%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.45%) Semantic Kernel
12 8 (1.45%) vLLM
13 7 (1.27%) PyTorch
13 7 (1.27%) Web Services
14 6 (1.09%) NumPy
15 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.27%) AI Agents
2 52 (9.45%) Product Ownership
3 41 (7.45%) Cloud Native
4 39 (7.09%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.73%) Taxonomies
8 14 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.64%) Life Science
12 8 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.45%) Digital Signage
13 7 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.27%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.91%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.36%) Linux
2 12 (2.18%) Windows
3 7 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.73%) Unix
5 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (54.55%) AI
2 165 (30.00%) Analytics
3 131 (23.82%) Machine Learning
3 131 (23.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 128 (23.27%) Agile
5 122 (22.18%) LLM
6 107 (19.45%) Generative AI
7 106 (19.27%) Data Pipeline
8 104 (18.91%) Data Modelling
9 86 (15.64%) Data Engineering
9 86 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 85 (15.45%) Data Governance
11 83 (15.09%) Roadmaps
12 75 (13.64%) CI/CD
13 69 (12.55%) DevOps
13 69 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
14 67 (12.18%) Data Science
15 65 (11.82%) Data Architecture
15 65 (11.82%) Workshop Facilitation
16 63 (11.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 136 (24.73%) Python
2 111 (20.18%) SQL
3 17 (3.09%) Java
4 15 (2.73%) C#
5 14 (2.55%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.64%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.45%) R
8 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.91%) Bash
9 5 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.91%) Scala
10 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
11 3 (0.55%) Bicep
11 3 (0.55%) Go
11 3 (0.55%) SHACL
12 2 (0.36%) Elixir
12 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.36%) Rust
12 2 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 88 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.09%) Degree
4 20 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.00%) CBAP
8 11 (2.00%) CISSP
8 11 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.27%) PMP
12 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.91%) CCSP
12 5 (0.91%) GCIH
12 5 (0.91%) GIAC
12 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (17.09%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.27%) GDPR
3 24 (4.36%) QA
4 15 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.82%) NIST
6 7 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.09%) GRC
8 5 (0.91%) EU AI Act
8 5 (0.91%) NCSC
9 4 (0.73%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.73%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.36%) MiFID
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) PERC
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (2.73%) Docker
2 11 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.36%) IAG
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.45%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (1.45%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.91%) QRadar
4 4 (0.73%) Ansible
5 2 (0.36%) Grafana
5 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) Argo
6 1 (0.18%) Control-M
6 1 (0.18%) Kibana
6 1 (0.18%) logstash
Vendors
1 106 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.09%) Databricks
3 43 (7.82%) OpenAI
4 28 (5.09%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.64%) Splunk
6 17 (3.09%) Google
7 16 (2.91%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.73%) Cisco
9 13 (2.36%) Foundry
10 12 (2.18%) SAP
11 11 (2.00%) Adobe
11 11 (2.00%) Oracle
12 7 (1.27%) Informatica
13 6 (1.09%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.09%) F5
14 5 (0.91%) Pega
15 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.73%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 4 (0.73%) VMware