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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 148 149
Rank change year-on-year +40 +1 +66
Contract jobs citing Use Case 554 258 274
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.75% 1.89% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.04% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 173 181
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year - +0.44% +4.09%
75th Percentile £675 £719 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £550 £533 £561
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.12% +2.05%
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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
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 £663 £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 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 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 10 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 60 £525 -8.70% 69
West London - 14 £800 - 8
South London -13 3 £550 -26.67% 4
East London +2 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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 17 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.08%) Apache
5 6 (1.08%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.90%) CMS
6 5 (0.90%) SAS
7 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.36%) Kentico
8 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.36%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Appian
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 16 (2.89%) Chatbot
2 13 (2.35%) 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%) DELMIA
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 176 (31.77%) Azure
2 108 (19.49%) AWS
3 53 (9.57%) Power Platform
4 43 (7.76%) GCP
5 41 (7.40%) Azure AI
6 29 (5.23%) Microsoft Copilot
7 28 (5.05%) Snowflake
8 26 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (4.33%) GitHub
10 23 (4.15%) Amazon Bedrock
11 22 (3.97%) dbt
12 20 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (3.43%) Entra ID
14 17 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (3.07%) SaaS
15 16 (2.89%) Amazon S3
16 15 (2.71%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (2.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.53%) 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 (7.58%) Power BI
2 41 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (7.04%) Metadata
4 21 (3.79%) Tableau
5 18 (3.25%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.89%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.35%) Delta Lake
7 13 (2.35%) Pinecone
7 13 (2.35%) Weaviate
8 12 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
9 11 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.62%) Big Data
12 7 (1.26%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.08%) Redis
13 6 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.90%) Looker
14 5 (0.90%) SQL Server
15 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (6.86%) JIRA
2 22 (3.97%) Git
3 9 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.44%) ERwin
4 8 (1.44%) GitLab
5 6 (1.08%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.90%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.90%) MLflow
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.36%) XCTest
8 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 203 (36.64%) Finance
2 145 (26.17%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (13.90%) Banking
5 51 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.87%) Retail
7 25 (4.51%) Marketing
8 24 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.79%) Front Office
9 21 (3.79%) Investment Banking
9 21 (3.79%) Legal
10 15 (2.71%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.35%) Law
12 11 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.81%) 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 83 (14.98%) Architect
2 77 (13.90%) Analyst
3 67 (12.09%) Data Engineer
4 61 (11.01%) Business Analyst
5 57 (10.29%) Senior
6 56 (10.11%) Lead
7 42 (7.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 41 (7.40%) Developer
9 34 (6.14%) Consultant
10 22 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 22 (3.97%) Data Architect
11 19 (3.43%) Data Scientist
12 15 (2.71%) Data Analyst
13 14 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.17%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 12 (2.17%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (1.62%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 9 (1.62%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (1.62%) Senior Developer
15 9 (1.62%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.42%) PySpark
2 25 (4.51%) REST
3 22 (3.97%) LangChain
4 18 (3.25%) .NET
5 16 (2.89%) LlamaIndex
6 15 (2.71%) Pandas
7 12 (2.17%) JSON
8 10 (1.81%) Model Context Protocol
8 10 (1.81%) scikit-learn
9 9 (1.62%) LangGraph
9 9 (1.62%) RESTful
10 8 (1.44%) NumPy
11 7 (1.26%) GraphQL
12 6 (1.08%) Kafka
12 6 (1.08%) Middleware
13 5 (0.90%) OAuth
13 5 (0.90%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.90%) Semantic Kernel
13 5 (0.90%) XML
14 4 (0.72%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.18%) AI Agents
2 50 (9.03%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.76%) Cloud Native
4 38 (6.86%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.43%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.35%) Taxonomies
8 11 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.44%) Life Science
11 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.26%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.90%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.07%) Linux
2 15 (2.71%) Windows
3 8 (1.44%) Unix
3 8 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (51.62%) AI
2 181 (32.67%) Analytics
3 142 (25.63%) Machine Learning
4 133 (24.01%) Agile
5 117 (21.12%) Data Pipeline
6 109 (19.68%) Data Modelling
7 108 (19.49%) LLM
8 100 (18.05%) Data Engineering
9 99 (17.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 92 (16.61%) Generative AI
11 84 (15.16%) CI/CD
12 82 (14.80%) DevOps
13 78 (14.08%) Data Governance
14 77 (13.90%) Data Science
14 77 (13.90%) Decision-Making
15 72 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 71 (12.82%) Roadmaps
17 68 (12.27%) Validation
18 66 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
19 64 (11.55%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 149 (26.90%) Python
2 116 (20.94%) SQL
3 19 (3.43%) C#
4 15 (2.71%) Java
4 15 (2.71%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.53%) R
6 12 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.81%) 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
12 2 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 91 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 77 (13.90%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.58%) Degree
4 17 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.89%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.53%) CISSP
7 13 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.62%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.26%) CBAP
12 6 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.90%) GCIH
13 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.90%) PMP
14 4 (0.72%) CEH
14 4 (0.72%) CISM
14 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.78%) QA
3 31 (5.60%) GDPR
4 15 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.53%) 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%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) PERC
11 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (3.25%) Active Directory
1 18 (3.25%) Docker
2 3 (0.54%) IAG
3 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.18%) HDFS
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (7.04%) Terraform
2 30 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.90%) Ansible
3 5 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (0.72%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.54%) QRadar
6 2 (0.36%) Grafana
6 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.29%) Databricks
3 51 (9.21%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.87%) Foundry
5 23 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.89%) Splunk
7 14 (2.53%) Google
8 13 (2.35%) Pega
8 13 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.17%) Oracle
10 11 (1.99%) Cisco
10 11 (1.99%) SAP
11 9 (1.62%) Adobe
12 8 (1.44%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.90%) F5
13 5 (0.90%) Informatica
13 5 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.90%) Workday