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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 147 212
Rank change year-on-year +22 +65 -34
Contract jobs citing Use Case 314 275 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 1.76% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.97% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 176 147
10th Percentile £375 £403 £417
25th Percentile £469 £473 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £649 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £830
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.43 £66.53 -
25th Percentile £37.31 £66.94 £91.25
Median hourly rate £45.75 £68.75 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.45% -25.68% +55.46%
75th Percentile £55.31 £70.44 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 £70.78 -
England median hourly rate £56.90 £60.00 £67.56
% change year-on-year -5.17% -11.19% +18.01%

All Process and 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 12,407 13,954 18,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.43% 89.21% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,152 8,992 13,332
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.23
25th Percentile £25.01 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £37.79 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% -2.49% +2.15%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.81 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.83 £79.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

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 27 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in London over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in London

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 27 October 2025. 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 36 £575 +4.55% 156
South London -3 4 £475 -17.39% 6
East London -6 1 - - 7
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 16 (5.10%) Confluence
2 14 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.18%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.96%) Apache
5 3 (0.96%) Appian
5 3 (0.96%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.64%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.64%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.64%) Luigi
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.82%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.59%) ProjectWise
5 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.59%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.27%) Endur
4 3 (0.96%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.64%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.32%) Findur
6 1 (0.32%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.32%) PORTIA
6 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (31.21%) Azure
2 81 (25.80%) AWS
3 37 (11.78%) GCP
4 26 (8.28%) SaaS
5 22 (7.01%) Amazon S3
6 20 (6.37%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (6.37%) Power Platform
7 19 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.18%) dbt
9 10 (3.18%) GitHub
9 10 (3.18%) Vertex AI
10 8 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.91%) Collibra
11 6 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.59%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.23%) Firewall
2 3 (0.96%) SSH
2 3 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.32%) HTTP
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.32%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.32%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.41%) Data Lake
1 17 (5.41%) Metadata
2 15 (4.78%) Power BI
2 15 (4.78%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.50%) Tableau
5 9 (2.87%) Delta Lake
6 8 (2.55%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.91%) Big Data
7 6 (1.91%) Data Vault
7 6 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.91%) Star Schema
8 5 (1.59%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.27%) Pinecone
10 3 (0.96%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.96%) Redis
10 3 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (8.28%) JIRA
2 22 (7.01%) Git
3 12 (3.82%) MLflow
4 6 (1.91%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.91%) Selenium
5 5 (1.59%) ERwin
5 5 (1.59%) JUnit
5 5 (1.59%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (1.27%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.96%) GitLab
7 3 (0.96%) Postman
7 3 (0.96%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.64%) Hardhat
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.32%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.32%) Gatling
9 1 (0.32%) JMeter
9 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
General
1 116 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 94 (29.94%) Finance
3 74 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (12.42%) Banking
5 30 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.64%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (5.73%) Back Office
8 15 (4.78%) Investment Banking
9 14 (4.46%) Marketing
10 11 (3.50%) Front Office
10 11 (3.50%) Legal
10 11 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.87%) Retail
13 5 (1.59%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.27%) Advertising
14 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (21.66%) Analyst
2 50 (15.92%) Business Analyst
3 49 (15.61%) Architect
4 37 (11.78%) Senior
5 29 (9.24%) Developer
6 23 (7.32%) Security Architect
7 20 (6.37%) Lead
8 18 (5.73%) Consultant
9 17 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (4.78%) Data Analyst
11 14 (4.46%) Product Manager
12 13 (4.14%) Data Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (3.50%) Security Engineer
14 11 (3.50%) Senior Business Analyst
15 10 (3.18%) Data Architect
16 8 (2.55%) Data Modeller
17 7 (2.23%) Python Developer
17 7 (2.23%) Risk Analyst
17 7 (2.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.82%) LangChain
2 11 (3.50%) PyTorch
3 8 (2.55%) .NET
3 8 (2.55%) PySpark
4 7 (2.23%) REST
4 7 (2.23%) XML
5 6 (1.91%) CSS
5 6 (1.91%) HTML
5 6 (1.91%) Pandas
5 6 (1.91%) React
5 6 (1.91%) TensorFlow
6 5 (1.59%) Android NDK
6 5 (1.59%) Android SDK
6 5 (1.59%) FastAPI
6 5 (1.59%) iOS SDK
6 5 (1.59%) JNI
6 5 (1.59%) JSON
6 5 (1.59%) LangGraph
6 5 (1.59%) MIDP
6 5 (1.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.29%) Onboarding
2 25 (7.96%) Product Ownership
3 23 (7.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 20 (6.37%) CSOC
5 18 (5.73%) AI Agents
6 16 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (4.14%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.82%) Cloud Native
8 12 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (3.18%) Algorithms
9 10 (3.18%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.23%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.91%) PMI
12 5 (1.59%) Augmented Reality
12 5 (1.59%) Digital Media
12 5 (1.59%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.59%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.32%) Linux
2 17 (5.41%) Windows
3 5 (1.59%) Android
3 5 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.59%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.96%) Unix
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (26.75%) AI
2 82 (26.11%) Agile
3 79 (25.16%) Analytics
4 64 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (18.47%) Machine Learning
6 55 (17.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 53 (16.88%) Data Modelling
8 52 (16.56%) User Stories
9 50 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
10 49 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 46 (14.65%) CI/CD
12 40 (12.74%) Data Governance
12 40 (12.74%) Requirements Gathering
12 40 (12.74%) SIEM
13 37 (11.78%) DevOps
13 37 (11.78%) LLM
13 37 (11.78%) Roadmaps
14 35 (11.15%) Data Science
15 33 (10.51%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (10.19%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 78 (24.84%) Python
2 62 (19.75%) SQL
3 23 (7.32%) Java
4 19 (6.05%) Bash
5 12 (3.82%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.23%) C#
6 7 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.91%) C++
7 6 (1.91%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.59%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.27%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.96%) R
10 3 (0.96%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.64%) Korn
11 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.64%) Solidity
11 2 (0.64%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.32%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (17.52%) Degree
2 46 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.50%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.18%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.23%) CBAP
7 7 (2.23%) CISSP
8 6 (1.91%) MCP
9 5 (1.59%) CFA
9 5 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.27%) PMP
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.96%) PhD
12 2 (0.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.46%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.69%) QA
3 14 (4.46%) GDPR
4 10 (3.18%) NIST
5 9 (2.87%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.55%) EU AI Act
7 7 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.91%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.96%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.64%) FINRA
10 2 (0.64%) GRC
10 2 (0.64%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.64%) PMO
10 2 (0.64%) PSD2
10 2 (0.64%) SEPA
10 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.64%) WCAG
11 1 (0.32%) COBIT
11 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (6.05%) Docker
2 10 (3.18%) zsh
3 9 (2.87%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.50%) Terraform
3 5 (1.59%) Ansible
3 5 (1.59%) Grafana
3 5 (1.59%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.32%) Argo
5 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.32%) Kibana
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.51%) Splunk
3 25 (7.96%) Databricks
4 10 (3.18%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.18%) SAP
5 9 (2.87%) Google
6 8 (2.55%) Citrix
6 8 (2.55%) Oracle
6 8 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.91%) CyberArk
7 6 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.27%) Adobe
8 4 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.27%) Palantir
8 4 (1.27%) Tenable
8 4 (1.27%) UiPath
9 3 (0.96%) Cisco
9 3 (0.96%) Foundry
9 3 (0.96%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.96%) Veracode