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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 153 155
Rank change year-on-year +46 +2 +62
Contract jobs citing Use Case 557 252 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.76% 1.86% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.01% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 167 178
10th Percentile £413 £390 £400
25th Percentile £462 £478 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £783
England median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £34.43 -
25th Percentile £76.18 £37.31 £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 £45.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.10% -32.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £58.88 -
England median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +36.93% -5.83% -14.29%

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 18,001 12,519 14,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.32% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,856 8,363 10,133
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 250 198
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.01
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.89% -14.11%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.03 £71.44
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +13 61 £538 -6.52% 68
West London - 14 £800 - 9
South London -16 3 £550 -26.67% 7
East London +1 2 £717 +21.63% 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 24 (4.31%) Confluence
2 17 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) Apache
4 6 (1.08%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.90%) CMS
5 5 (0.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Kentico
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 16 (2.87%) Chatbot
2 14 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Actimize
3 3 (0.54%) Findur
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Workfront
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.36%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 179 (32.14%) Azure
2 111 (19.93%) AWS
3 52 (9.34%) Power Platform
4 45 (8.08%) GCP
5 40 (7.18%) Azure AI
6 29 (5.21%) Microsoft Copilot
7 28 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 26 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (4.13%) Amazon Bedrock
9 23 (4.13%) GitHub
10 22 (3.95%) dbt
11 20 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.41%) Entra ID
13 17 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (3.05%) SaaS
14 16 (2.87%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.51%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
16 13 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.69%) Firewall
2 7 (1.26%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) BGP
4 5 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (0.90%) Multicast
4 5 (0.90%) VLAN
4 5 (0.90%) Wireless
5 4 (0.72%) DNS
5 4 (0.72%) SMS
5 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.54%) 5G
6 3 (0.54%) Internet
6 3 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.36%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.36%) 4G
7 2 (0.36%) DHCP
7 2 (0.36%) HTTP
7 2 (0.36%) LTE
7 2 (0.36%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.54%) Power BI
2 41 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (7.00%) Metadata
4 21 (3.77%) Tableau
5 18 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.87%) BigQuery
7 14 (2.51%) Pinecone
7 14 (2.51%) Weaviate
8 13 (2.33%) Delta Lake
9 12 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (2.15%) Semantic Layer
10 11 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.62%) Big Data
13 7 (1.26%) Spark SQL
14 6 (1.08%) Redis
14 6 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
15 5 (0.90%) Looker
15 5 (0.90%) SQL Server
16 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (6.82%) JIRA
2 22 (3.95%) Git
3 8 (1.44%) ERwin
3 8 (1.44%) GitLab
3 8 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.44%) MLflow
4 6 (1.08%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.54%) XCTest
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (36.80%) Finance
2 147 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.77%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (14.18%) Banking
5 53 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.85%) Retail
7 25 (4.49%) Marketing
8 24 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.77%) Front Office
9 21 (3.77%) Investment Banking
9 21 (3.77%) Legal
10 15 (2.69%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.33%) Law
12 11 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.08%) French Language
17 5 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 87 (15.62%) Architect
2 77 (13.82%) Analyst
3 68 (12.21%) Data Engineer
4 61 (10.95%) Business Analyst
5 58 (10.41%) Senior
6 56 (10.05%) Lead
7 42 (7.54%) Developer
8 40 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 34 (6.10%) Consultant
10 22 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 22 (3.95%) Data Architect
11 19 (3.41%) Data Scientist
12 17 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (2.69%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.15%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 12 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (1.62%) Senior Developer
16 9 (1.62%) Technical Analyst
16 9 (1.62%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.39%) PySpark
2 25 (4.49%) REST
3 23 (4.13%) LangChain
4 19 (3.41%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (3.23%) .NET
6 15 (2.69%) Pandas
7 12 (2.15%) JSON
8 10 (1.80%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.44%) Model Context Protocol
9 8 (1.44%) NumPy
9 8 (1.44%) RESTful
10 7 (1.26%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.26%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.08%) Kafka
11 6 (1.08%) Middleware
12 5 (0.90%) OAuth
12 5 (0.90%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.90%) XML
13 4 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
13 4 (0.72%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.93%) AI Agents
2 50 (8.98%) Product Ownership
3 44 (7.90%) Cloud Native
4 38 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.33%) Taxonomies
8 11 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.44%) Life Science
10 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.90%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.05%) Linux
2 15 (2.69%) Windows
3 8 (1.44%) Unix
3 8 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (50.81%) AI
2 183 (32.85%) Analytics
3 143 (25.67%) Machine Learning
4 135 (24.24%) Agile
5 117 (21.01%) Data Pipeline
6 110 (19.75%) Data Modelling
7 108 (19.39%) LLM
8 103 (18.49%) Data Engineering
9 99 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
10 93 (16.70%) Generative AI
11 84 (15.08%) CI/CD
12 82 (14.72%) DevOps
13 80 (14.36%) Data Governance
13 80 (14.36%) Decision-Making
14 78 (14.00%) Data Science
15 73 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 72 (12.93%) Roadmaps
17 69 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
17 69 (12.39%) Validation
18 64 (11.49%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 148 (26.57%) Python
2 116 (20.83%) SQL
3 18 (3.23%) C#
4 15 (2.69%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.51%) Java
5 14 (2.51%) R
6 12 (2.15%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.08%) Scala
9 5 (0.90%) Bash
9 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.72%) Go
10 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.72%) SPARQL
10 4 (0.72%) VBA
11 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.54%) Bicep
11 3 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.54%) SHACL
11 3 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 91 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 76 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.54%) Degree
4 17 (3.05%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.51%) CISSP
7 10 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.62%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.26%) CBAP
11 6 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.90%) GCIH
12 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.90%) PMP
13 4 (0.72%) CEH
13 4 (0.72%) CISM
13 4 (0.72%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.10%) QA
3 31 (5.57%) GDPR
4 16 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.51%) NIST
6 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.72%) NCSC
9 3 (0.54%) GRC
9 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.36%) MiFID
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (3.41%) Docker
2 18 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) IAG
4 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (6.82%) Terraform
2 31 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.08%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.90%) Ansible
4 5 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.54%) QRadar
7 2 (0.36%) Grafana
7 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) Istio
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.23%) Databricks
3 51 (9.16%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.85%) Foundry
5 22 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.87%) Splunk
7 14 (2.51%) Google
8 13 (2.33%) Pega
8 13 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.15%) Oracle
10 11 (1.97%) Cisco
11 10 (1.80%) SAP
12 9 (1.62%) Adobe
13 8 (1.44%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.90%) Informatica
14 5 (0.90%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 5 (0.90%) VMware
14 5 (0.90%) Workday