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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 160 162
Rank change year-on-year +62 +2 +28
Contract jobs citing Use Case 534 216 282
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.79% 1.70% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 1.84% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 137 187
10th Percentile £413 £400 £403
25th Percentile £459 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.01% -1.57%
75th Percentile £674 £775 £675
90th Percentile £762 £878 £825
England median daily rate £537 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -2.36% -1.79% +1.82%
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 £72.43 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.72% - -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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 +16 61 £550 -15.38% 17
West London - 13 £523 - 4
South London -6 3 £550 -26.67% 1
East London -1 2 £717 +22.56% 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 28 (5.24%) Confluence
2 18 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.94%) CMS
6 5 (0.94%) SAS
7 3 (0.56%) Apache
8 2 (0.37%) Kentico
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 24 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.18%) Chatbot
3 14 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Actimize
3 3 (0.56%) Findur
3 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Summit
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
5 1 (0.19%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 172 (32.21%) Azure
2 115 (21.54%) AWS
3 56 (10.49%) Power Platform
4 53 (9.93%) GCP
5 33 (6.18%) Azure AI
6 25 (4.68%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.49%) Amazon Bedrock
7 24 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.31%) Microsoft Copilot
9 22 (4.12%) Serverless
10 21 (3.93%) dbt
10 21 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (3.75%) Amazon S3
12 18 (3.37%) GitHub
13 17 (3.18%) Amazon SageMaker
13 17 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.81%) Entra ID
15 14 (2.62%) SaaS
15 14 (2.62%) WhatsApp
16 12 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.18%) Firewall
2 6 (1.12%) Network Security
3 5 (0.94%) RTP
4 4 (0.75%) Internet
5 3 (0.56%) 5G
5 3 (0.56%) DNS
5 3 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.56%) SMS
5 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.37%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.37%) 4G
6 2 (0.37%) BGP
6 2 (0.37%) DHCP
6 2 (0.37%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) OSPF
7 1 (0.19%) SSH
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.80%) Power BI
2 44 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (6.37%) Metadata
4 24 (4.49%) Tableau
5 19 (3.56%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.18%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.81%) Weaviate
8 14 (2.62%) Pinecone
9 12 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
10 11 (2.06%) Big Data
10 11 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
11 10 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.50%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.12%) KDB
13 6 (1.12%) Looker
14 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.94%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 43 (8.05%) JIRA
2 26 (4.87%) Git
3 12 (2.25%) MLflow
4 8 (1.50%) GitLab
4 8 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.94%) ERwin
6 3 (0.56%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.56%) XCTest
7 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) Ant
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 193 (36.14%) Finance
2 143 (26.78%) Social Skills
3 85 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (14.04%) Banking
5 54 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.43%) Retail
7 22 (4.12%) Marketing
8 21 (3.93%) Front Office
8 21 (3.93%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.56%) Legal
10 17 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.81%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.31%) Law
17 5 (0.94%) Back Office
18 4 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (15.92%) Architect
2 79 (14.79%) Analyst
3 68 (12.73%) Business Analyst
4 67 (12.55%) Data Engineer
4 67 (12.55%) Senior
5 56 (10.49%) Lead
6 42 (7.87%) Developer
7 31 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 23 (4.31%) Consultant
8 23 (4.31%) Data Scientist
9 20 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 20 (3.75%) Data Architect
10 16 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (2.81%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.25%) Data Analyst
13 9 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 9 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.87%) PySpark
2 23 (4.31%) LangChain
3 21 (3.93%) .NET
4 19 (3.56%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (3.37%) Pandas
5 18 (3.37%) REST
6 16 (3.00%) scikit-learn
7 12 (2.25%) JSON
8 10 (1.87%) NumPy
8 10 (1.87%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.69%) Middleware
10 8 (1.50%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.31%) Kafka
12 6 (1.12%) LangGraph
12 6 (1.12%) RESTful
12 6 (1.12%) SOAP
13 5 (0.94%) FastAPI
13 5 (0.94%) Flask
13 5 (0.94%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.99%) AI Agents
2 44 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.49%) Cloud Native
4 27 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.62%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.87%) Taxonomies
9 9 (1.69%) Life Science
9 9 (1.69%) PMI
10 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.12%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.12%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.43%) Linux
2 10 (1.87%) Unix
3 9 (1.69%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (50.00%) AI
2 182 (34.08%) Analytics
3 145 (27.15%) Machine Learning
4 144 (26.97%) Agile
5 120 (22.47%) Data Modelling
6 111 (20.79%) Data Pipeline
7 106 (19.85%) LLM
8 102 (19.10%) Data Engineering
9 96 (17.98%) CI/CD
10 93 (17.42%) DevOps
10 93 (17.42%) Generative AI
11 89 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 87 (16.29%) Data Science
13 79 (14.79%) Decision-Making
14 77 (14.42%) Data Governance
15 74 (13.86%) Roadmaps
16 70 (13.11%) Validation
17 69 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
18 61 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 159 (29.78%) Python
2 118 (22.10%) SQL
3 21 (3.93%) C#
4 15 (2.81%) R
5 14 (2.62%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.43%) Java
7 11 (2.06%) Scala
8 10 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.69%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.94%) Bicep
11 4 (0.75%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.75%) Bash
11 4 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.75%) SPARQL
11 4 (0.75%) VBA
12 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.56%) SHACL
12 3 (0.56%) Swift
13 2 (0.37%) LookML
Qualifications
1 95 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.61%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.74%) Degree
4 18 (3.37%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.81%) CBAP
6 14 (2.62%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.87%) CISSP
9 10 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.50%) IIBA
11 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.56%) CISM
13 3 (0.56%) GCIA
13 3 (0.56%) GIAC
13 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.37%) QA
3 30 (5.62%) GDPR
4 12 (2.25%) NIST
5 11 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.94%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) 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%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) PSD2
System Software
1 29 (5.43%) Docker
2 13 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.37%) IAG
5 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 34 (6.37%) Terraform
3 7 (1.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.12%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.56%) Ansible
5 3 (0.56%) QRadar
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.19%) Istio
6 1 (0.19%) logstash
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.93%) OpenAI
3 51 (9.55%) Databricks
4 23 (4.31%) Foundry
5 21 (3.93%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.56%) Google
7 12 (2.25%) Pega
8 11 (2.06%) Splunk
8 11 (2.06%) VMware
9 9 (1.69%) SAP
10 8 (1.50%) Oracle
11 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.12%) Informatica
13 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.94%) Workday
14 4 (0.75%) Cisco
14 4 (0.75%) IBM
15 3 (0.56%) Adobe
15 3 (0.56%) Ariba