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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 163 157
Rank change year-on-year +58 -6 +27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 487 202 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.65% 1.67% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 1.81% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 126 179
10th Percentile £412 £400 £411
25th Percentile £453 £506 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £626 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +8.78% -2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £794 £675
90th Percentile £762 £881 £853
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +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 £57.40 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.25% -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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 4 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 4 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 +19 63 £550 -18.52% 68
West London - 11 £523 - 5
South London -10 4 £575 -23.33%
East London -6 2 £717 +22.56% 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 28 (5.75%) Confluence
2 16 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) CMS
4 5 (1.03%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.82%) Apache
5 4 (0.82%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) Kentico
6 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.41%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.87%) Chatbot
2 14 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.62%) Findur
3 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.41%) Actimize
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 156 (32.03%) Azure
2 100 (20.53%) AWS
3 50 (10.27%) Power Platform
4 47 (9.65%) GCP
5 31 (6.37%) Azure AI
6 23 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.11%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.90%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (3.90%) dbt
8 19 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (3.90%) Serverless
9 15 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
10 14 (2.87%) GitHub
10 14 (2.87%) WhatsApp
11 13 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.67%) Entra ID
12 12 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.70%) Firewall
2 6 (1.23%) Network Security
3 5 (1.03%) RTP
4 3 (0.62%) 5G
4 3 (0.62%) Internet
4 3 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.62%) SMS
5 2 (0.41%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.41%) 4G
5 2 (0.41%) BGP
5 2 (0.41%) LTE
6 1 (0.21%) Broadband
6 1 (0.21%) DMZ
6 1 (0.21%) DNS
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.21%) OSPF
6 1 (0.21%) SAN
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.62%) Power BI
2 41 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.93%) Metadata
4 21 (4.31%) Tableau
5 16 (3.29%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.08%) Weaviate
7 14 (2.87%) Pinecone
7 14 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
8 13 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.26%) Big Data
10 9 (1.85%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.85%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.23%) KDB
12 6 (1.23%) Looker
13 5 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.03%) Kdb+
13 5 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (7.80%) JIRA
2 23 (4.72%) Git
3 13 (2.67%) MLflow
4 6 (1.23%) GitLab
5 5 (1.03%) ERwin
6 4 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.62%) XCTest
8 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Ant
9 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.21%) Maven
9 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 171 (35.11%) Finance
2 130 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 78 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (13.35%) Banking
5 52 (10.68%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.93%) Retail
7 19 (3.90%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.90%) Legal
7 19 (3.90%) Marketing
8 17 (3.49%) Front Office
9 14 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.46%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.05%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.23%) Back Office
15 5 (1.03%) Law
16 3 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (16.43%) Analyst
2 70 (14.37%) Business Analyst
3 69 (14.17%) Architect
4 64 (13.14%) Data Engineer
5 60 (12.32%) Senior
6 52 (10.68%) Lead
7 36 (7.39%) Developer
8 27 (5.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 22 (4.52%) Data Scientist
10 18 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 17 (3.49%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.29%) Consultant
13 15 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.08%) Senior Business Analyst
14 12 (2.46%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
16 9 (1.85%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 9 (1.85%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 8 (1.64%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.34%) PySpark
2 21 (4.31%) .NET
2 21 (4.31%) LangChain
3 18 (3.70%) LlamaIndex
4 17 (3.49%) Pandas
4 17 (3.49%) scikit-learn
5 15 (3.08%) PyTorch
6 13 (2.67%) REST
7 12 (2.46%) TensorFlow
8 9 (1.85%) NumPy
9 8 (1.64%) JSON
9 8 (1.64%) Middleware
10 7 (1.44%) Kafka
10 7 (1.44%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.23%) Node.js
11 6 (1.23%) React
12 5 (1.03%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.03%) Flask
13 4 (0.82%) boto
13 4 (0.82%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.50%) AI Agents
2 41 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.64%) Life Science
10 7 (1.44%) PMI
10 7 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.23%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.82%) Derivative
12 4 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.46%) Linux
2 8 (1.64%) Unix
3 6 (1.23%) Windows
4 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (46.00%) AI
2 160 (32.85%) Analytics
3 129 (26.49%) Agile
4 123 (25.26%) Machine Learning
5 111 (22.79%) Data Modelling
6 99 (20.33%) Data Pipeline
7 92 (18.89%) Data Engineering
7 92 (18.89%) LLM
8 87 (17.86%) DevOps
9 80 (16.43%) CI/CD
10 79 (16.22%) Data Science
10 79 (16.22%) Generative AI
11 76 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (14.17%) Roadmaps
13 68 (13.96%) Data Governance
14 67 (13.76%) Decision-Making
15 65 (13.35%) Validation
16 61 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
17 58 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (11.91%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 147 (30.18%) Python
2 102 (20.94%) SQL
3 22 (4.52%) C#
4 14 (2.87%) Java
4 14 (2.87%) R
5 13 (2.67%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.26%) Scala
7 9 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.03%) Bicep
10 4 (0.82%) Bash
11 3 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.62%) Swift
12 2 (0.41%) C++
12 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.41%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 94 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.27%) Degree
4 15 (3.08%) CBAP
5 14 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.05%) CISSP
8 10 (2.05%) IIBA
9 9 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.85%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.82%) GCIA
11 4 (0.82%) ISEB
12 3 (0.62%) CISM
12 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.62%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (16.43%) Data Quality
2 32 (6.57%) QA
3 26 (5.34%) GDPR
4 13 (2.67%) NIST
5 8 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.03%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.62%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.21%) GxP
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (4.93%) Docker
2 11 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.05%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.75%) Terraform
3 8 (1.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (1.03%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.41%) QRadar
6 1 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.21%) Istio
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.06%) OpenAI
3 46 (9.45%) Databricks
4 22 (4.52%) Foundry
5 19 (3.90%) Google
6 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.26%) Pega
7 11 (2.26%) VMware
8 10 (2.05%) Splunk
9 8 (1.64%) Oracle
10 7 (1.44%) SAP
11 6 (1.23%) Informatica
11 6 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (1.23%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.03%) Workday
13 4 (0.82%) IBM
14 3 (0.62%) Adobe
14 3 (0.62%) Ariba
14 3 (0.62%) Cisco
14 3 (0.62%) Red Hat