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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 140 151
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 +68
Contract jobs citing Use Case 539 284 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.65% 2.10% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.27% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 184 184
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -0.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £574
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.50% +4.32%
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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 -7 54 £500 -12.66% 85
West London - 14 £800 - 35
South London -6 6 £689 -8.13% 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 21 (3.90%) Confluence
2 17 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.48%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.30%) Apache
7 5 (0.93%) CMS
8 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.56%) SAS
9 2 (0.37%) Kentico
9 2 (0.37%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Appian
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
10 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Chatbot
2 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.11%) 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 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Findur
2 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Workfront
3 2 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.37%) Summit
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.19%) Endur
4 1 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 154 (28.57%) Azure
2 98 (18.18%) AWS
3 53 (9.83%) Power Platform
4 39 (7.24%) GCP
5 34 (6.31%) Microsoft Copilot
5 34 (6.31%) Snowflake
6 27 (5.01%) Azure AI
7 25 (4.64%) GitHub
8 22 (4.08%) dbt
9 21 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.15%) SaaS
12 16 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (2.97%) Copilot Studio
12 16 (2.97%) Entra ID
13 15 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (2.78%) Azure Databricks
13 15 (2.78%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.41%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.23%) Firewall
2 11 (2.04%) BGP
3 8 (1.48%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.48%) Multicast
3 8 (1.48%) VLAN
3 8 (1.48%) Wireless
4 7 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (1.11%) Network Security
6 4 (0.74%) SMS
7 3 (0.56%) DNS
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.56%) HTTP
7 3 (0.56%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.56%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.37%) 5G
8 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.98%) Metadata
2 38 (7.05%) Power BI
3 35 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.08%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.15%) Tableau
6 13 (2.41%) Delta Lake
6 13 (2.41%) Pinecone
6 13 (2.41%) Weaviate
7 12 (2.23%) Chroma
8 11 (2.04%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.86%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.48%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.11%) Redis
13 5 (0.93%) Big Data
13 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (6.49%) JIRA
2 17 (3.15%) Git
3 9 (1.67%) ERwin
4 7 (1.30%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.11%) MLflow
6 5 (0.93%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.93%) GitLab
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (38.03%) Finance
2 134 (24.86%) Social Skills
3 99 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (14.10%) Banking
5 41 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.82%) Retail
7 25 (4.64%) Marketing
8 24 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.90%) Front Office
10 20 (3.71%) Investment Banking
11 17 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.15%) Legal
12 16 (2.97%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.41%) Law
14 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.48%) Back Office
16 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.11%) French Language
17 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (16.33%) Analyst
2 79 (14.66%) Architect
3 66 (12.24%) Business Analyst
4 64 (11.87%) Data Engineer
5 58 (10.76%) Senior
6 46 (8.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 44 (8.16%) Lead
8 37 (6.86%) Consultant
9 32 (5.94%) Developer
10 22 (4.08%) Data Architect
11 17 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 17 (3.15%) Data Scientist
12 15 (2.78%) Data Analyst
13 14 (2.60%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 13 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Architect
16 10 (1.86%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
16 10 (1.86%) Implementation Engineer
16 10 (1.86%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (7.05%) Terraform
2 32 (5.94%) PySpark
3 24 (4.45%) REST
4 23 (4.27%) LangChain
5 16 (2.97%) LlamaIndex
6 15 (2.78%) Model Context Protocol
7 14 (2.60%) .NET
7 14 (2.60%) Pandas
8 10 (1.86%) JSON
8 10 (1.86%) RESTful
9 8 (1.48%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.30%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.30%) Kafka
10 7 (1.30%) NumPy
11 6 (1.11%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.11%) Semantic Kernel
11 6 (1.11%) vLLM
12 4 (0.74%) Node.js
12 4 (0.74%) pytest
12 4 (0.74%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.80%) AI Agents
2 54 (10.02%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.24%) Cloud Native
3 39 (7.24%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.71%) Data Structures
5 16 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.23%) Taxonomies
8 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.48%) Digital Signage
10 8 (1.48%) Life Science
10 8 (1.48%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
11 7 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.97%) Linux
2 12 (2.23%) Windows
3 8 (1.48%) Unix
4 7 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (52.50%) AI
2 173 (32.10%) Analytics
3 131 (24.30%) Machine Learning
4 127 (23.56%) Agile
5 115 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 111 (20.59%) LLM
7 109 (20.22%) Data Pipeline
8 106 (19.67%) Data Modelling
9 97 (18.00%) Generative AI
10 90 (16.70%) Data Engineering
11 81 (15.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 80 (14.84%) Data Governance
13 75 (13.91%) CI/CD
14 73 (13.54%) Roadmaps
15 72 (13.36%) Data Science
15 72 (13.36%) DevOps
16 69 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
17 68 (12.62%) Data Architecture
18 67 (12.43%) Validation
19 65 (12.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 136 (25.23%) Python
2 116 (21.52%) SQL
3 15 (2.78%) C#
3 15 (2.78%) Java
4 13 (2.41%) PowerShell
4 13 (2.41%) R
5 7 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.30%) TypeScript
6 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (0.93%) Scala
7 4 (0.74%) Bash
7 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
7 4 (0.74%) VBA
8 3 (0.56%) Bicep
8 3 (0.56%) Go
8 3 (0.56%) SHACL
9 2 (0.37%) Elixir
9 2 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 89 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.42%) Degree
4 15 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.23%) CISSP
7 11 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.04%) PMI Certification
8 9 (1.67%) CBAP
8 9 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.30%) PMP
11 6 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.11%) GIAC
12 5 (0.93%) CCSP
12 5 (0.93%) IIBA
12 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (17.63%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.19%) GDPR
3 27 (5.01%) QA
4 16 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.41%) NIST
6 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.93%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.74%) GRC
8 4 (0.74%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.74%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (2.97%) Docker
2 12 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.37%) IAG
3 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco Prime
3 6 (1.11%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.56%) Ansible
4 3 (0.56%) QRadar
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.69%) Databricks
3 41 (7.61%) OpenAI
4 25 (4.64%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.71%) Splunk
6 15 (2.78%) Cisco
6 15 (2.78%) Foundry
7 14 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.41%) SAP
9 12 (2.23%) Oracle
10 9 (1.67%) Adobe
11 8 (1.48%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.30%) Google
12 7 (1.30%) Pega
13 6 (1.11%) F5
13 6 (1.11%) Informatica
14 4 (0.74%) OpenLink
14 4 (0.74%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 4 (0.74%) VMware