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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 159 166
Rank change year-on-year +55 +7 +31
Contract jobs citing Use Case 542 222 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.79% 1.67% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 1.81% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 139 180
10th Percentile £413 £400 £405
25th Percentile £463 £502 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £668 £775 £650
90th Percentile £762 £865 £825
England median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -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 £77.37 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +28.94% +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 17,240 12,243 15,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.20% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,454 8,171 11,099
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £439 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 229 295
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +15 62 £544 -5.43% 67
West London - 14 £523 - 11
South London -3 3 £550 -26.67% 2
East London -1 2 £717 +22.56% 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 28 (5.17%) Confluence
2 18 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.92%) CMS
6 5 (0.92%) SAS
7 4 (0.74%) Apache
8 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.37%) Kentico
9 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.37%) WordPress
10 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
10 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.14%) Chatbot
3 12 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.55%) Actimize
3 3 (0.55%) Findur
3 3 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.55%) Workfront
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (31.73%) Azure
2 115 (21.22%) AWS
3 56 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 52 (9.59%) GCP
5 34 (6.27%) Azure AI
6 26 (4.80%) Snowflake
7 25 (4.61%) Microsoft Copilot
8 23 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.06%) Amazon Bedrock
9 22 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.87%) dbt
10 21 (3.87%) GitHub
11 18 (3.32%) Serverless
12 17 (3.14%) Amazon S3
12 17 (3.14%) SaaS
13 16 (2.95%) Entra ID
14 15 (2.77%) Amazon SageMaker
14 15 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.58%) WhatsApp
16 13 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.95%) Firewall
2 7 (1.29%) Network Security
3 5 (0.92%) RTP
4 4 (0.74%) DNS
4 4 (0.74%) Internet
4 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.55%) 5G
5 3 (0.55%) BGP
5 3 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.55%) SMS
6 2 (0.37%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (0.37%) DHCP
6 2 (0.37%) HTTP
6 2 (0.37%) LTE
6 2 (0.37%) Multicast
6 2 (0.37%) VLAN
6 2 (0.37%) Wireless
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.49%) Power BI
2 43 (7.93%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (6.64%) Metadata
4 25 (4.61%) Tableau
5 17 (3.14%) BigQuery
5 17 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.77%) Weaviate
7 14 (2.58%) Pinecone
8 12 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
9 11 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.85%) Big Data
10 10 (1.85%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.29%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.11%) KDB
12 6 (1.11%) Looker
13 5 (0.92%) Kdb+
13 5 (0.92%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 42 (7.75%) JIRA
2 26 (4.80%) Git
3 11 (2.03%) MLflow
4 8 (1.48%) GitLab
4 8 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.92%) ERwin
6 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.55%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.55%) XCTest
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) Ant
8 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.18%) JUnit
8 1 (0.18%) Maven
8 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 205 (37.82%) Finance
2 145 (26.75%) Social Skills
3 88 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (13.65%) Banking
5 54 (9.96%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.35%) Retail
7 24 (4.43%) Marketing
8 21 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (3.87%) Front Office
8 21 (3.87%) Investment Banking
8 21 (3.87%) Legal
9 15 (2.77%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.48%) Law
12 8 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.11%) French Language
15 4 (0.74%) German Language
Job Titles
1 87 (16.05%) Architect
2 75 (13.84%) Analyst
3 66 (12.18%) Data Engineer
4 62 (11.44%) Business Analyst
5 58 (10.70%) Senior
6 57 (10.52%) Lead
7 40 (7.38%) Developer
8 34 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 26 (4.80%) Consultant
10 24 (4.43%) Data Scientist
11 22 (4.06%) Data Architect
12 18 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 16 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.40%) Data Analyst
15 11 (2.03%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (1.85%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
17 9 (1.66%) AWS Engineer
17 9 (1.66%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 9 (1.66%) Senior Developer
18 8 (1.48%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.61%) PySpark
2 24 (4.43%) LangChain
3 23 (4.24%) REST
4 20 (3.69%) LlamaIndex
5 19 (3.51%) .NET
5 19 (3.51%) Pandas
6 14 (2.58%) scikit-learn
7 12 (2.21%) JSON
8 10 (1.85%) NumPy
9 9 (1.66%) Middleware
10 8 (1.48%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.29%) RESTful
12 6 (1.11%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.11%) Kafka
12 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
12 6 (1.11%) Node.js
12 6 (1.11%) SOAP
12 6 (1.11%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (0.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.81%) AI Agents
2 44 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.93%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.54%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.77%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.21%) Taxonomies
8 12 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 11 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.66%) Life Science
11 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.77%) Linux
2 11 (2.03%) Unix
3 10 (1.85%) Windows
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (50.37%) AI
2 188 (34.69%) Analytics
3 145 (26.75%) Machine Learning
4 136 (25.09%) Agile
5 118 (21.77%) Data Modelling
6 111 (20.48%) Data Pipeline
7 104 (19.19%) LLM
8 102 (18.82%) Data Engineering
9 93 (17.16%) CI/CD
10 92 (16.97%) Generative AI
11 89 (16.42%) DevOps
12 87 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 83 (15.31%) Data Science
14 80 (14.76%) Decision-Making
15 79 (14.58%) Roadmaps
16 77 (14.21%) Data Governance
17 69 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
18 67 (12.36%) Validation
19 66 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 61 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 159 (29.34%) Python
2 115 (21.22%) SQL
3 20 (3.69%) C#
4 14 (2.58%) Java
5 13 (2.40%) R
5 13 (2.40%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.21%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.66%) Scala
8 8 (1.48%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.74%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.74%) Bash
10 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
10 4 (0.74%) VBA
11 3 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.55%) Go
11 3 (0.55%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.55%) SHACL
11 3 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 81 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.30%) Degree
4 17 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 16 (2.95%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.03%) CISSP
9 10 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.48%) CBAP
11 7 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.29%) IIBA
12 6 (1.11%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.92%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.74%) CISM
14 4 (0.74%) GCIA
14 4 (0.74%) GIAC
15 3 (0.55%) GCIH
15 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.27%) GDPR
3 31 (5.72%) QA
4 14 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.58%) NIST
5 7 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.92%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.74%) NCSC
8 3 (0.55%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 27 (4.98%) Docker
2 15 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.48%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.37%) IAG
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (6.64%) Terraform
2 34 (6.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.11%) Kubeflow
5 4 (0.74%) Ansible
6 3 (0.55%) QRadar
7 2 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.18%) Istio
8 1 (0.18%) logstash
8 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 106 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 51 (9.41%) OpenAI
3 50 (9.23%) Databricks
4 24 (4.43%) Foundry
5 22 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.51%) Google
7 15 (2.77%) Splunk
8 12 (2.21%) Pega
9 10 (1.85%) SAP
10 9 (1.66%) Oracle
10 9 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.66%) VMware
11 6 (1.11%) Informatica
12 5 (0.92%) Adobe
12 5 (0.92%) Cisco
12 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) Workday
13 4 (0.74%) IBM
14 3 (0.55%) Ariba