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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 148 160
Rank change year-on-year +42 +12 +59
Contract jobs citing Use Case 539 262 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.68% 1.94% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.10% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 176 178
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £467 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -0.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £803
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 -2 56 £513 -10.87% 43
West London - 13 £800 - 7
South London -5 6 £689 -8.13% 3
East London 0 2 £717 +21.63% 4
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 20 (3.71%) Confluence
2 16 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.30%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.93%) Apache
5 5 (0.93%) CMS
5 5 (0.93%) SAS
6 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.37%) Kentico
7 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 14 (2.60%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.93%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Actimize
3 3 (0.56%) Findur
3 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Workfront
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.37%) Summit
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
5 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 164 (30.43%) Azure
2 101 (18.74%) AWS
3 49 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.42%) GCP
5 37 (6.86%) Azure AI
6 30 (5.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 29 (5.38%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.08%) GitHub
10 20 (3.71%) Amazon Bedrock
11 19 (3.53%) dbt
12 18 (3.34%) Entra ID
13 17 (3.15%) SaaS
14 16 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.78%) Amazon S3
16 14 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 13 (2.41%) Copilot Studio
18 12 (2.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.41%) Firewall
2 7 (1.30%) BGP
3 6 (1.11%) Network Security
4 5 (0.93%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (0.93%) Multicast
4 5 (0.93%) VLAN
4 5 (0.93%) Wireless
5 4 (0.74%) SMS
5 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.56%) 5G
6 3 (0.56%) DNS
6 3 (0.56%) Internet
6 3 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.37%) 4G
7 2 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.37%) InfiniBand
7 2 (0.37%) LTE
7 2 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.42%) Metadata
2 38 (7.05%) Power BI
3 35 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.90%) Tableau
5 17 (3.15%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.23%) Delta Lake
7 12 (2.23%) Pinecone
7 12 (2.23%) Weaviate
8 11 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.30%) Big Data
11 6 (1.11%) Redis
11 6 (1.11%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.93%) Looker
12 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (0.74%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (6.31%) JIRA
2 17 (3.15%) Git
3 8 (1.48%) ERwin
3 8 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.11%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.93%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
6 4 (0.74%) MLflow
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 198 (36.73%) Finance
2 141 (26.16%) Social Skills
3 97 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (13.91%) Banking
5 48 (8.91%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.64%) Retail
7 24 (4.45%) Marketing
8 23 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.90%) Legal
10 20 (3.71%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.53%) Front Office
12 16 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (2.78%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.41%) Law
15 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
18 6 (1.11%) French Language
19 5 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (14.47%) Architect
2 75 (13.91%) Analyst
3 62 (11.50%) Data Engineer
4 59 (10.95%) Business Analyst
5 53 (9.83%) Senior
6 52 (9.65%) Lead
7 42 (7.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 38 (7.05%) Developer
9 37 (6.86%) Consultant
10 20 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 20 (3.71%) Data Architect
11 18 (3.34%) Data Scientist
12 15 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 15 (2.78%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.86%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (1.86%) SOC Engineer
15 9 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (1.67%) Senior Developer
15 9 (1.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.19%) PySpark
2 26 (4.82%) REST
3 22 (4.08%) LangChain
4 17 (3.15%) .NET
5 15 (2.78%) LlamaIndex
6 14 (2.60%) Pandas
7 12 (2.23%) JSON
8 9 (1.67%) Model Context Protocol
8 9 (1.67%) RESTful
8 9 (1.67%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.48%) LangGraph
10 7 (1.30%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.30%) NumPy
11 5 (0.93%) Kafka
11 5 (0.93%) OAuth
11 5 (0.93%) Semantic Kernel
11 5 (0.93%) vLLM
11 5 (0.93%) XML
12 4 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (0.74%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.36%) AI Agents
2 48 (8.91%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.79%) Cloud Native
4 39 (7.24%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.53%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.41%) Taxonomies
8 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.48%) Life Science
9 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.11%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.15%) Linux
2 14 (2.60%) Windows
3 8 (1.48%) Unix
3 8 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (52.13%) AI
2 171 (31.73%) Analytics
3 137 (25.42%) Machine Learning
4 128 (23.75%) Agile
5 109 (20.22%) Data Pipeline
6 107 (19.85%) LLM
7 101 (18.74%) Data Modelling
8 98 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 91 (16.88%) Data Engineering
10 90 (16.70%) Generative AI
11 78 (14.47%) CI/CD
12 74 (13.73%) Data Governance
12 74 (13.73%) Data Science
12 74 (13.73%) DevOps
13 72 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 71 (13.17%) Decision-Making
15 70 (12.99%) Roadmaps
16 68 (12.62%) Validation
17 65 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
18 64 (11.87%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 140 (25.97%) Python
2 112 (20.78%) SQL
3 18 (3.34%) C#
4 16 (2.97%) Java
5 14 (2.60%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.60%) R
6 10 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.86%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.93%) Bash
7 5 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (0.93%) Scala
8 4 (0.74%) Go
8 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
8 4 (0.74%) VBA
9 3 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.56%) Bicep
9 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.56%) SHACL
10 2 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 89 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.91%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.61%) Degree
4 17 (3.15%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.41%) CISSP
7 10 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.30%) CBAP
11 6 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.93%) GCIH
12 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.93%) PMP
13 4 (0.74%) CISM
13 4 (0.74%) GCIA
13 4 (0.74%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (17.25%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.94%) GDPR
3 30 (5.57%) QA
4 15 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.78%) NIST
5 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.74%) NCSC
7 3 (0.56%) GRC
7 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) GxP
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (3.15%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.60%) Docker
3 3 (0.56%) IAG
4 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (6.49%) Terraform
2 28 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (0.93%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.74%) Ansible
5 3 (0.56%) QRadar
6 2 (0.37%) Grafana
6 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) Istio
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.58%) Databricks
3 46 (8.53%) OpenAI
4 25 (4.64%) Foundry
5 23 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.97%) Splunk
7 13 (2.41%) Cisco
7 13 (2.41%) Oracle
7 13 (2.41%) Pega
7 13 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.04%) Google
8 11 (2.04%) SAP
9 9 (1.67%) Adobe
10 8 (1.48%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.93%) F5
11 5 (0.93%) Informatica
11 5 (0.93%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.93%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (0.93%) Workday