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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 165 155
Rank change year-on-year +63 -10 +26
Contract jobs citing Use Case 513 204 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.72% 1.66% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 1.80% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 129 188
10th Percentile £412 £400 £409
25th Percentile £450 £504 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £574
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.93% -2.34%
75th Percentile £665 £775 £675
90th Percentile £761 £881 £845
England median daily rate £525 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% +2.27%
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 £57.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -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 16,739 11,333 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,153 7,596 11,160
10th Percentile £359 £344 £341
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 201 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%
75th Percentile £58.96 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 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 13 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 +14 63 £550 -18.52% 56
West London - 11 £523 - 29
South London -6 3 £550 -26.67%
East London -4 2 £717 +22.56% 2
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 29 (5.65%) Confluence
2 17 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.12%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.17%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.97%) CMS
5 5 (0.97%) SAS
5 5 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
7 2 (0.39%) Kentico
7 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.39%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.12%) Chatbot
3 14 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) Actimize
3 3 (0.58%) Findur
3 3 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 166 (32.36%) Azure
2 109 (21.25%) AWS
3 53 (10.33%) Power Platform
4 49 (9.55%) GCP
5 30 (5.85%) Azure AI
6 25 (4.87%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.68%) Amazon Bedrock
7 24 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (4.68%) Serverless
8 20 (3.90%) Amazon S3
8 20 (3.90%) dbt
8 20 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
9 19 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (3.51%) GitHub
11 17 (3.31%) Amazon SageMaker
11 17 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.73%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.73%) WhatsApp
13 13 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.31%) Firewall
2 6 (1.17%) Network Security
3 5 (0.97%) RTP
4 4 (0.78%) Internet
5 3 (0.58%) 5G
5 3 (0.58%) DNS
5 3 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.58%) SMS
5 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.39%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.39%) 4G
6 2 (0.39%) BGP
6 2 (0.39%) DHCP
6 2 (0.39%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.19%) SSH
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
1 45 (8.77%) Power BI
2 27 (5.26%) Metadata
3 22 (4.29%) Tableau
4 19 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.31%) BigQuery
6 15 (2.92%) Weaviate
7 14 (2.73%) Pinecone
8 12 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (2.14%) Big Data
10 10 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.95%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.95%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.75%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (1.17%) KDB
13 6 (1.17%) Looker
14 5 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 42 (8.19%) JIRA
2 25 (4.87%) Git
3 14 (2.73%) MLflow
4 8 (1.56%) GitLab
4 8 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.97%) ERwin
6 3 (0.58%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.58%) XCTest
7 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Postman
7 2 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) Ant
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 182 (35.48%) Finance
2 129 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 79 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (13.45%) Banking
5 54 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.46%) Retail
7 21 (4.09%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.09%) Marketing
8 19 (3.70%) Front Office
8 19 (3.70%) Legal
9 14 (2.73%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.36%) Law
15 6 (1.17%) Back Office
16 4 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (16.18%) Analyst
2 76 (14.81%) Architect
3 71 (13.84%) Business Analyst
4 65 (12.67%) Data Engineer
4 65 (12.67%) Senior
5 54 (10.53%) Lead
6 42 (8.19%) Developer
7 30 (5.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (4.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 21 (4.09%) Data Scientist
9 19 (3.70%) Data Architect
10 17 (3.31%) Consultant
11 15 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (2.92%) Senior Business Analyst
12 13 (2.53%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.34%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.75%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (1.75%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 9 (1.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.46%) PySpark
2 22 (4.29%) LangChain
3 21 (4.09%) .NET
4 18 (3.51%) LlamaIndex
4 18 (3.51%) scikit-learn
5 17 (3.31%) Pandas
6 16 (3.12%) REST
7 13 (2.53%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.14%) TensorFlow
9 9 (1.75%) Kafka
9 9 (1.75%) Middleware
9 9 (1.75%) NumPy
10 8 (1.56%) JSON
11 6 (1.17%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.17%) Flask
11 6 (1.17%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.17%) React
11 6 (1.17%) RESTful
12 5 (0.97%) Node.js
12 5 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.09%) AI Agents
2 44 (8.58%) Product Ownership
3 36 (7.02%) Cloud Native
4 25 (4.87%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.14%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.75%) Life Science
9 9 (1.75%) PMI
10 8 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.36%) Taxonomies
12 6 (1.17%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.78%) Graphic Design
13 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.73%) Linux
2 10 (1.95%) Unix
3 8 (1.56%) Windows
4 4 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Android
6 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (48.73%) AI
2 172 (33.53%) Analytics
3 136 (26.51%) Agile
4 135 (26.32%) Machine Learning
5 115 (22.42%) Data Modelling
6 103 (20.08%) Data Pipeline
7 100 (19.49%) LLM
8 98 (19.10%) Data Engineering
9 94 (18.32%) CI/CD
10 93 (18.13%) DevOps
11 89 (17.35%) Generative AI
12 84 (16.37%) Data Science
13 83 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 74 (14.42%) Decision-Making
15 73 (14.23%) Roadmaps
16 69 (13.45%) Data Governance
17 66 (12.87%) Validation
18 65 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
19 59 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
20 58 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 155 (30.21%) Python
2 112 (21.83%) SQL
3 21 (4.09%) C#
4 14 (2.73%) Java
4 14 (2.73%) R
5 13 (2.53%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.14%) Scala
7 8 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.17%) Bicep
9 4 (0.78%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.78%) Bash
9 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.58%) Swift
11 2 (0.39%) Go
11 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.39%) SOQL
11 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.75%) Degree
4 17 (3.31%) CBAP
5 14 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.14%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.95%) IIBA
10 9 (1.75%) CISSP
11 8 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.36%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.78%) ISEB
15 3 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.58%) CISM
15 3 (0.58%) GCIA
15 3 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (17.35%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.85%) QA
3 28 (5.46%) GDPR
4 12 (2.34%) NIST
5 8 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.97%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) MiFID
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 28 (5.46%) Docker
2 13 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.95%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) IAG
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (7.02%) Kubernetes
1 36 (7.02%) Terraform
2 8 (1.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (1.17%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.39%) Ansible
4 2 (0.39%) QRadar
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.19%) Istio
5 1 (0.19%) logstash
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.14%) OpenAI
3 48 (9.36%) Databricks
4 22 (4.29%) Foundry
5 19 (3.70%) Google
6 18 (3.51%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.34%) Pega
8 11 (2.14%) VMware
9 10 (1.95%) Splunk
10 9 (1.75%) SAP
11 8 (1.56%) Oracle
12 6 (1.17%) Informatica
12 6 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.97%) Workday
14 4 (0.78%) IBM
14 4 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.58%) Adobe
15 3 (0.58%) Ariba
15 3 (0.58%) Cisco