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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 150 196
Rank change year-on-year +27 +46 -26
Contract jobs citing Use Case 326 270 229
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.28% 1.73% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.93% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 174 147
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £671 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £808
England median daily rate £515 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.65% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.43 £66.53 -
25th Percentile £37.31 £66.94 £91.25
Median hourly rate £45.75 £68.75 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.45% -25.68% +61.57%
75th Percentile £55.31 £70.44 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 £70.78 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £67.56
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.79% +12.60%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 12 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in London over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in London

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 12 December 2025. 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 -5 37 £570 +3.64% 15
South London -5 2 £450 -21.74% 9
East London -3 1 - - 6
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 (6.44%) Confluence
2 14 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.84%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.23%) Apache
6 3 (0.92%) Appian
7 2 (0.61%) CMS
7 2 (0.61%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.61%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.61%) Luigi
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.37%) MS Visio
3 10 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.53%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.53%) ProjectWise
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Endur
1 5 (1.53%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Findur
4 1 (0.31%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.31%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (31.90%) Azure
2 66 (20.25%) AWS
3 34 (10.43%) GCP
4 28 (8.59%) Power Platform
5 23 (7.06%) Snowflake
6 20 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.29%) GitHub
8 12 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.37%) dbt
9 11 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (3.37%) SaaS
10 10 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.76%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.76%) Azure AI
11 9 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (2.76%) Vertex AI
12 7 (2.15%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (2.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) Firewall
2 5 (1.53%) CTI
2 5 (1.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.92%) SSH
3 3 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.61%) NAS
5 1 (0.31%) HTTP
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.31%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.44%) Metadata
1 21 (6.44%) Power BI
2 17 (5.21%) Data Lake
3 15 (4.60%) Tableau
4 13 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.37%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (2.76%) Delta Lake
6 9 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.45%) Big Data
7 8 (2.45%) Data Vault
8 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.15%) Star Schema
9 5 (1.53%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.92%) Redis
11 3 (0.92%) Weaviate
12 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 34 (10.43%) JIRA
2 21 (6.44%) Git
3 8 (2.45%) MLflow
4 7 (2.15%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.15%) Selenium
5 6 (1.84%) ERwin
5 6 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.53%) JUnit
7 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.23%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.23%) Postman
7 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.92%) GitLab
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.92%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.61%) Hardhat
10 1 (0.31%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 108 (33.13%) Finance
3 83 (25.46%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (14.42%) Banking
5 23 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.83%) Investment Banking
7 18 (5.52%) Back Office
7 18 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.68%) Front Office
8 12 (3.68%) Marketing
9 11 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.07%) Retail
11 9 (2.76%) Legal
12 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (19.94%) Analyst
2 51 (15.64%) Business Analyst
3 37 (11.35%) Architect
4 36 (11.04%) Developer
5 30 (9.20%) Senior
6 22 (6.75%) Consultant
7 20 (6.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 20 (6.13%) Lead
8 15 (4.60%) Data Engineer
9 13 (3.99%) Data Scientist
10 11 (3.37%) Data Analyst
10 11 (3.37%) Product Manager
10 11 (3.37%) Security Engineer
11 10 (3.07%) Data Architect
12 8 (2.45%) Programme Manager
12 8 (2.45%) Risk Analyst
12 8 (2.45%) Security Architect
12 8 (2.45%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.15%) Data Modeller
14 6 (1.84%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.60%) LangChain
1 15 (4.60%) PyTorch
2 12 (3.68%) .NET
3 10 (3.07%) TensorFlow
4 9 (2.76%) Pandas
4 9 (2.76%) XML
5 8 (2.45%) LangGraph
5 8 (2.45%) scikit-learn
6 7 (2.15%) Hugging Face
6 7 (2.15%) Node.js
6 7 (2.15%) REST
7 6 (1.84%) Faiss
7 6 (1.84%) PySpark
8 5 (1.53%) Android NDK
8 5 (1.53%) Android SDK
8 5 (1.53%) FastAPI
8 5 (1.53%) iOS SDK
8 5 (1.53%) Kafka
8 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.74%) Onboarding
2 30 (9.20%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.13%) AI Agents
4 14 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.99%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.68%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.37%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.45%) PMI
11 7 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.84%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.53%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (1.53%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.53%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.53%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.75%) Linux
2 16 (4.91%) Windows
3 5 (1.53%) Android
3 5 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.53%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.98%) AI
2 90 (27.61%) Agile
3 85 (26.07%) Analytics
4 69 (21.17%) Machine Learning
4 69 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (20.86%) Data Modelling
6 60 (18.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 58 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (15.34%) CI/CD
9 49 (15.03%) Data Governance
10 48 (14.72%) LLM
11 47 (14.42%) Roadmaps
12 45 (13.80%) Requirements Gathering
13 44 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
13 44 (13.50%) User Stories
14 42 (12.88%) Data Science
15 40 (12.27%) Business Analysis
16 38 (11.66%) DevOps
16 38 (11.66%) Generative AI
17 35 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 90 (27.61%) Python
2 69 (21.17%) SQL
3 24 (7.36%) Java
4 17 (5.21%) Bash
5 10 (3.07%) C#
6 9 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.84%) C++
8 6 (1.84%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.23%) R
9 4 (1.23%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Bicep
11 2 (0.61%) Korn
11 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.61%) Solidity
11 2 (0.61%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (19.02%) Degree
2 37 (11.35%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.83%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.37%) MCP
5 11 (3.37%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.45%) CBAP
7 7 (2.15%) CISSP
8 6 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.53%) CFA
9 5 (1.53%) PhD
10 4 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.92%) PMP
12 2 (0.61%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.66%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.75%) QA
3 14 (4.29%) GDPR
4 9 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.76%) NIST
5 8 (2.45%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.84%) ISO 19650
8 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.23%) PSD2
9 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.61%) GRC
10 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.61%) HL7
10 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.61%) PMO
10 2 (0.61%) SEPA
10 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.61%) WCAG
11 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (5.83%) Docker
2 10 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.45%) zsh
4 5 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.99%) Terraform
2 12 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.53%) Ansible
3 5 (1.53%) Grafana
4 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.31%) Argo
6 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.31%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.20%) Databricks
3 17 (5.21%) Splunk
4 13 (3.99%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.07%) Google
7 9 (2.76%) Oracle
8 8 (2.45%) Citrix
9 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.84%) Genesys
11 5 (1.53%) Adobe
11 5 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.53%) UiPath
12 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.23%) SAP
13 3 (0.92%) Cisco
13 3 (0.92%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.92%) Tenable
13 3 (0.92%) Veracode
14 2 (0.61%) Conga