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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 158 161
Rank change year-on-year +52 +3 +37
Contract jobs citing Use Case 534 218 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.77% 1.70% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 1.84% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 137 184
10th Percentile £413 £400 £405
25th Percentile £461 £504 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.01% -1.57%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £675
90th Percentile £762 £878 £825
England median daily rate £538 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -2.27% -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 £57.50
% change year-on-year +20.72% +4.35% -17.86%

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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
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 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 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 30 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 +14 60 £550 -4.35% 17
West London - 13 £523 - 3
South London -4 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 29 (5.43%) Confluence
2 18 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.94%) CMS
6 5 (0.94%) SAS
7 3 (0.56%) Apache
8 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.37%) Kentico
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.18%) Chatbot
3 13 (2.43%) 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 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Summit
4 2 (0.37%) 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
1 174 (32.58%) Azure
2 116 (21.72%) AWS
3 57 (10.67%) Power Platform
4 53 (9.93%) GCP
5 33 (6.18%) Azure AI
6 25 (4.68%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.31%) Amazon Bedrock
9 21 (3.93%) dbt
9 21 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (3.93%) Serverless
10 19 (3.56%) Amazon S3
10 19 (3.56%) GitHub
11 16 (3.00%) Amazon SageMaker
11 16 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (2.81%) Entra ID
12 15 (2.81%) SaaS
13 14 (2.62%) WhatsApp
14 12 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.00%) Firewall
2 6 (1.12%) 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 (0.37%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) BGP
6 2 (0.37%) DHCP
6 2 (0.37%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) Broadband
7 1 (0.19%) DMZ
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
7 1 (0.19%) LAN
7 1 (0.19%) OSPF
7 1 (0.19%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.80%) Power BI
2 44 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (6.55%) Metadata
4 25 (4.68%) Tableau
5 19 (3.56%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.18%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.81%) Weaviate
8 14 (2.62%) 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 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.50%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.12%) KDB
13 6 (1.12%) Looker
14 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.94%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 43 (8.05%) JIRA
2 27 (5.06%) 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 (0.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.37%) 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
1 194 (36.33%) Finance
2 142 (26.59%) Social Skills
3 85 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.67%) Banking
5 53 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.43%) Retail
7 22 (4.12%) Marketing
8 21 (3.93%) Front Office
8 21 (3.93%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.75%) Legal
10 18 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.81%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.31%) Law
16 5 (0.94%) Back Office
16 5 (0.94%) French Language
Job Titles
1 87 (16.29%) Architect
2 76 (14.23%) Analyst
3 66 (12.36%) Data Engineer
4 65 (12.17%) Business Analyst
5 63 (11.80%) Senior
6 57 (10.67%) Lead
7 41 (7.68%) Developer
8 31 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (4.31%) Consultant
9 23 (4.31%) Data Scientist
10 21 (3.93%) 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
14 11 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
15 9 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 9 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.87%) PySpark
2 23 (4.31%) LangChain
3 20 (3.75%) .NET
3 20 (3.75%) REST
4 19 (3.56%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (3.37%) Pandas
6 16 (3.00%) scikit-learn
7 12 (2.25%) JSON
8 10 (1.87%) NumPy
8 10 (1.87%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.69%) Middleware
10 8 (1.50%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.31%) Kafka
11 7 (1.31%) RESTful
12 6 (1.12%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.12%) LangGraph
12 6 (1.12%) Node.js
12 6 (1.12%) SOAP
13 5 (0.94%) FastAPI
13 5 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.17%) AI Agents
2 44 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.87%) Cloud Native
4 27 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.81%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.62%) Algorithms
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%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.12%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.12%) PMI
12 6 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.43%) Linux
2 10 (1.87%) Unix
3 9 (1.69%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (50.94%) AI
2 185 (34.64%) Analytics
3 146 (27.34%) Machine Learning
4 142 (26.59%) Agile
5 119 (22.28%) Data Modelling
6 110 (20.60%) Data Pipeline
7 105 (19.66%) LLM
8 103 (19.29%) Data Engineering
9 96 (17.98%) CI/CD
10 93 (17.42%) DevOps
10 93 (17.42%) Generative AI
11 87 (16.29%) Data Science
12 85 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 79 (14.79%) Decision-Making
14 77 (14.42%) Data Governance
14 77 (14.42%) Roadmaps
15 69 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
16 68 (12.73%) Validation
17 62 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 61 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 159 (29.78%) Python
2 118 (22.10%) SQL
3 21 (3.93%) C#
4 15 (2.81%) R
4 15 (2.81%) TypeScript
5 14 (2.62%) Java
6 10 (1.87%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.87%) Scala
7 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.94%) Bicep
9 4 (0.75%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.75%) Bash
9 4 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.75%) SPARQL
9 4 (0.75%) VBA
10 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.56%) Go
10 3 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.56%) SHACL
10 3 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 93 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.18%) Degree
4 17 (3.18%) Master's Degree
5 14 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.06%) CBAP
8 10 (1.87%) CISSP
8 10 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.50%) IIBA
11 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.56%) CISM
13 3 (0.56%) GCIA
13 3 (0.56%) GIAC
13 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.99%) QA
3 31 (5.81%) GDPR
4 12 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.25%) NIST
5 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.94%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) GxP
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (5.43%) Docker
2 13 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.37%) IAG
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.55%) Terraform
3 7 (1.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.12%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.56%) Ansible
5 3 (0.56%) QRadar
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.19%) Istio
6 1 (0.19%) logstash
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.74%) OpenAI
3 51 (9.55%) Databricks
4 23 (4.31%) Foundry
5 21 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.56%) Google
7 12 (2.25%) Pega
7 12 (2.25%) Splunk
8 10 (1.87%) SAP
8 10 (1.87%) VMware
9 8 (1.50%) Oracle
10 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.12%) 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