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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 161 157
Rank change year-on-year +62 -4 +29
Contract jobs citing Use Case 482 204 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.63% 1.68% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 1.82% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 127 180
10th Percentile £412 £400 £412
25th Percentile £451 £508 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £626 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +8.78% -3.36%
75th Percentile £650 £813 £675
90th Percentile £762 £881 £852
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.18% +2.32%
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 £57.40 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.25% -17.24%

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 16,221 11,218 15,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.28% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,826 7,519 11,090
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 192 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.92 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.63 £63.23 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%

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 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 2 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 +20 64 £563 -16.67% 64
West London - 11 £523 - 4
South London -8 4 £575 -23.33% 1
East London -6 2 £717 +22.56% 1
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 26 (5.39%) Confluence
2 16 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.83%) Apache
5 4 (0.83%) CMS
6 3 (0.62%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) Kentico
7 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.41%) WordPress
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 24 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.11%) Chatbot
2 15 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.62%) Findur
3 3 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.41%) Actimize
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 158 (32.78%) Azure
2 99 (20.54%) AWS
3 50 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 47 (9.75%) GCP
5 33 (6.85%) Azure AI
6 23 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.15%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.94%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (3.94%) Serverless
9 17 (3.53%) dbt
10 15 (3.11%) Amazon SageMaker
10 15 (3.11%) GitHub
11 14 (2.90%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.90%) WhatsApp
12 13 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (2.49%) Entra ID
14 11 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.73%) Firewall
2 5 (1.04%) Network Security
2 5 (1.04%) RTP
3 3 (0.62%) 5G
3 3 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.41%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.41%) 4G
4 2 (0.41%) BGP
4 2 (0.41%) Internet
4 2 (0.41%) LTE
4 2 (0.41%) SMS
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) IPsec
5 1 (0.21%) OSPF
5 1 (0.21%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.51%) Power BI
2 39 (8.09%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.98%) Metadata
4 21 (4.36%) Tableau
5 16 (3.32%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.90%) Weaviate
8 13 (2.70%) Pinecone
9 11 (2.28%) Big Data
10 9 (1.87%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.87%) Spark SQL
11 6 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.24%) KDB
11 6 (1.24%) Looker
12 5 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (1.04%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (7.47%) JIRA
2 22 (4.56%) Git
3 13 (2.70%) MLflow
4 5 (1.04%) ERwin
4 5 (1.04%) GitLab
5 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.62%) XCTest
7 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.41%) JUnit
7 2 (0.41%) Postman
7 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.21%) Ant
8 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.21%) Maven
8 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 169 (35.06%) Finance
2 128 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 79 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (13.69%) Banking
5 47 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.98%) Retail
7 19 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.94%) Legal
8 18 (3.73%) Marketing
9 16 (3.32%) Front Office
10 14 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.49%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.07%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.24%) Back Office
16 5 (1.04%) Law
17 3 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (16.18%) Analyst
2 70 (14.52%) Architect
3 67 (13.90%) Business Analyst
4 62 (12.86%) Data Engineer
5 60 (12.45%) Senior
6 50 (10.37%) Lead
7 35 (7.26%) Developer
8 27 (5.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (4.77%) Data Scientist
10 21 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 17 (3.53%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.32%) Consultant
13 15 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.11%) Senior Business Analyst
14 13 (2.70%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
17 9 (1.87%) Cybersecurity Specialist
18 8 (1.66%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 8 (1.66%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.19%) PySpark
2 22 (4.56%) LangChain
3 20 (4.15%) .NET
4 18 (3.73%) Pandas
4 18 (3.73%) scikit-learn
5 17 (3.53%) LlamaIndex
6 16 (3.32%) PyTorch
7 13 (2.70%) REST
7 13 (2.70%) TensorFlow
8 10 (2.07%) NumPy
9 9 (1.87%) LangGraph
9 9 (1.87%) Middleware
10 8 (1.66%) JSON
11 7 (1.45%) Kafka
12 6 (1.24%) Node.js
12 6 (1.24%) React
13 5 (1.04%) FastAPI
13 5 (1.04%) Flask
13 5 (1.04%) Model Context Protocol
14 4 (0.83%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.41%) AI Agents
2 42 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.64%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.56%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.49%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.66%) Life Science
10 7 (1.45%) PMI
10 7 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.04%) Derivative
12 5 (1.04%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.83%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.49%) Linux
2 8 (1.66%) Unix
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (46.89%) AI
2 158 (32.78%) Analytics
3 124 (25.73%) Machine Learning
4 123 (25.52%) Agile
5 111 (23.03%) Data Modelling
6 99 (20.54%) Data Pipeline
7 94 (19.50%) LLM
8 92 (19.09%) Data Engineering
9 85 (17.63%) DevOps
10 81 (16.80%) Generative AI
11 80 (16.60%) Data Science
12 78 (16.18%) CI/CD
13 76 (15.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 69 (14.32%) Roadmaps
15 67 (13.90%) Decision-Making
16 66 (13.69%) Data Governance
17 62 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
17 62 (12.86%) Validation
18 57 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (11.83%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 146 (30.29%) Python
2 97 (20.12%) SQL
3 21 (4.36%) C#
4 14 (2.90%) Java
5 13 (2.70%) R
5 13 (2.70%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.28%) Scala
7 9 (1.87%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.04%) Bicep
8 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.83%) Bash
10 3 (0.62%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.62%) Swift
11 2 (0.41%) C++
11 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.41%) Go
11 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 74 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.00%) Degree
4 16 (3.32%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.11%) CBAP
6 12 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.07%) IIBA
9 9 (1.87%) CISSP
9 9 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.87%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.04%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.83%) GCIA
12 4 (0.83%) ISEB
12 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.62%) GCIH
13 3 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.77%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.22%) QA
3 23 (4.77%) GDPR
4 12 (2.49%) NIST
5 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.04%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.62%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.21%) EMIR
10 1 (0.21%) GxP
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (4.77%) Docker
2 11 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.07%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.60%) Terraform
3 8 (1.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (1.04%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.41%) QRadar
6 1 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.21%) Istio
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.17%) OpenAI
3 47 (9.75%) Databricks
4 22 (4.56%) Foundry
5 20 (4.15%) Google
6 13 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.28%) Pega
7 11 (2.28%) VMware
8 10 (2.07%) Splunk
9 7 (1.45%) Oracle
9 7 (1.45%) SAP
10 6 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.04%) Informatica
11 5 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (1.04%) Workday
12 3 (0.62%) Adobe
12 3 (0.62%) Ariba
12 3 (0.62%) Cisco
12 3 (0.62%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.62%) Red Hat