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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 119 151
Rank change year-on-year +11 +32 +68
Contract jobs citing Use Case 570 304 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.78% 2.27% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 2.45% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 198 176
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year - +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £688 £676 £650
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
England median daily rate £563 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £34.43 £66.53
25th Percentile £76.18 £37.31 £66.94
Median hourly rate £77.37 £45.75 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +69.10% -33.45% -25.68%
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £70.44
90th Percentile - £58.88 £70.78
England median hourly rate £77.37 £49.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year +57.18% -17.97% -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 18,249 12,388 14,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.48% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,954 8,186 9,270
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £665 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 242 178
10th Percentile £15.93 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +1 59 £525 -8.70% 120
West London - 13 £638 - 14
South London -12 3 £698 -6.93% 3
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 (4.21%) Confluence
2 17 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.75%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.23%) Apache
7 5 (0.88%) CMS
8 4 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.53%) SAS
10 2 (0.35%) Kentico
10 2 (0.35%) WordPress
11 1 (0.18%) Appian
11 1 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (1.93%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.53%) Workfront
3 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.35%) Summit
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Findur
4 1 (0.18%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 170 (29.82%) Azure
2 111 (19.47%) AWS
3 53 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.67%) GCP
4 38 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 34 (5.96%) Snowflake
6 31 (5.44%) Azure AI
7 25 (4.39%) dbt
8 24 (4.21%) GitHub
9 21 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.51%) Copilot Studio
11 19 (3.33%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.98%) Entra ID
13 16 (2.81%) Amazon Bedrock
13 16 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (2.63%) SaaS
15 14 (2.46%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (2.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.11%) Firewall
2 11 (1.93%) BGP
3 8 (1.40%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.40%) Multicast
3 8 (1.40%) VLAN
3 8 (1.40%) Wireless
4 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.88%) DNS
5 5 (0.88%) Network Security
6 4 (0.70%) SMS
7 3 (0.53%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.53%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.53%) Internet
7 3 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.35%) DHCP
8 2 (0.35%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.47%) Metadata
2 35 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (5.96%) Power BI
4 21 (3.68%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.16%) Delta Lake
6 13 (2.28%) Semantic Layer
7 11 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (1.93%) Pinecone
8 10 (1.75%) Chroma
8 10 (1.75%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.75%) Tableau
8 10 (1.75%) Weaviate
9 9 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.40%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.23%) Neo4j
11 7 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.05%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (7.02%) JIRA
2 18 (3.16%) Git
3 9 (1.58%) ERwin
4 7 (1.23%) GitLab
5 6 (1.05%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.05%) MLflow
6 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.35%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
General
1 222 (38.95%) Finance
2 145 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (12.98%) Banking
5 49 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.09%) Marketing
7 27 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (4.39%) Retail
9 21 (3.68%) Investment Banking
10 20 (3.51%) Legal
11 19 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (2.98%) Front Office
13 13 (2.28%) Law
14 11 (1.93%) Back Office
15 10 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.23%) Publishing
17 6 (1.05%) French Language
17 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (17.72%) Analyst
2 95 (16.67%) Architect
3 79 (13.86%) Senior
4 74 (12.98%) Business Analyst
5 63 (11.05%) Data Engineer
6 53 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 50 (8.77%) Lead
8 41 (7.19%) Consultant
9 27 (4.74%) Developer
10 25 (4.39%) Data Architect
11 23 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 21 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.63%) Senior Business Analyst
16 14 (2.46%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
17 13 (2.28%) Data Analyst
18 12 (2.11%) Technical Analyst
19 11 (1.93%) Enterprise Architect
19 11 (1.93%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.72%) Terraform
2 30 (5.26%) REST
3 28 (4.91%) PySpark
4 21 (3.68%) LangChain
5 19 (3.33%) Model Context Protocol
6 13 (2.28%) JSON
6 13 (2.28%) LlamaIndex
7 12 (2.11%) .NET
8 11 (1.93%) LangGraph
9 10 (1.75%) Kafka
9 10 (1.75%) RESTful
10 9 (1.58%) Pandas
10 9 (1.58%) vLLM
11 8 (1.40%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.40%) Semantic Kernel
11 8 (1.40%) Web Services
12 6 (1.05%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.88%) OpenID
13 5 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.68%) AI Agents
2 54 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.54%) Cloud Native
3 43 (7.54%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.81%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.81%) Taxonomies
7 14 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
10 9 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.40%) Digital Signage
11 8 (1.40%) Life Science
12 7 (1.23%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.46%) Linux
2 12 (2.11%) Windows
3 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.70%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (55.96%) AI
2 168 (29.47%) Analytics
3 140 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 138 (24.21%) Machine Learning
5 133 (23.33%) Agile
6 127 (22.28%) LLM
7 114 (20.00%) Generative AI
8 109 (19.12%) Data Modelling
9 107 (18.77%) Data Pipeline
10 90 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 88 (15.44%) Data Governance
12 86 (15.09%) CI/CD
12 86 (15.09%) Data Engineering
12 86 (15.09%) Roadmaps
13 78 (13.68%) DevOps
14 74 (12.98%) Workshop Facilitation
15 73 (12.81%) Validation
16 71 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
17 69 (12.11%) Business Analysis
18 68 (11.93%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 135 (23.68%) Python
2 112 (19.65%) SQL
3 19 (3.33%) Java
4 15 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.11%) C#
6 9 (1.58%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.05%) Bash
7 6 (1.05%) Bicep
7 6 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.05%) R
8 5 (0.88%) Scala
9 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.70%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.53%) Go
10 3 (0.53%) SHACL
11 2 (0.35%) Elixir
11 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.35%) Rust
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 83 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.81%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.82%) Degree
4 21 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.28%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.11%) CBAP
6 12 (2.11%) CISSP
7 11 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.93%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.23%) PMP
11 6 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.88%) CCSP
12 5 (0.88%) GCIH
12 5 (0.88%) GIAC
12 5 (0.88%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (17.37%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.74%) GDPR
3 24 (4.21%) QA
4 14 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.93%) NIST
6 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.05%) EU AI Act
7 6 (1.05%) GRC
8 5 (0.88%) NCSC
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.53%) MiFID
11 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) EMIR
11 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (2.81%) Docker
2 12 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.35%) IAG
4 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (5.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.58%) Kubeflow
3 8 (1.40%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (1.05%) QRadar
5 5 (0.88%) Ansible
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Kibana
6 2 (0.35%) logstash
6 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 113 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.11%) Databricks
3 44 (7.72%) OpenAI
4 32 (5.61%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.33%) Splunk
6 18 (3.16%) Google
7 17 (2.98%) Oracle
8 16 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.63%) Cisco
9 15 (2.63%) Foundry
10 12 (2.11%) SAP
11 11 (1.93%) Adobe
12 8 (1.40%) Informatica
13 6 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.05%) F5
13 6 (1.05%) VMware
14 4 (0.70%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.53%) ArcSight
15 3 (0.53%) Aruba