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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 144 152
Rank change year-on-year +34 +8 +80
Contract jobs citing Use Case 537 269 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.67% 2.01% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 2.17% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 178 185
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £464 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £689 £650
90th Percentile £784 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
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 £688
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 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 1 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 1 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 -1 56 £500 -13.04% 104
West London - 14 £800 - 46
South London -11 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 22 (4.10%) Confluence
2 18 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.49%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.12%) 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 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.12%) 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 5 (0.93%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Findur
3 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Workfront
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.37%) Summit
5 1 (0.19%) Actimize
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 157 (29.24%) Azure
2 101 (18.81%) AWS
3 52 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 40 (7.45%) GCP
5 33 (6.15%) Snowflake
6 32 (5.96%) Azure AI
7 31 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
8 24 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (4.28%) GitHub
10 21 (3.91%) dbt
11 17 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (3.17%) Entra ID
11 17 (3.17%) SaaS
12 16 (2.98%) Amazon Bedrock
12 16 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (2.61%) Azure Databricks
14 14 (2.61%) Copilot Studio
14 14 (2.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.23%) Firewall
2 9 (1.68%) BGP
3 7 (1.30%) Network Security
4 6 (1.12%) Cisco Wireless
4 6 (1.12%) Multicast
4 6 (1.12%) VLAN
4 6 (1.12%) Wireless
5 5 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
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 44 (8.19%) Metadata
2 38 (7.08%) Power BI
3 37 (6.89%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.91%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.72%) Tableau
6 14 (2.61%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (2.42%) Delta Lake
8 12 (2.23%) Pinecone
8 12 (2.23%) Weaviate
9 11 (2.05%) Chroma
9 11 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.05%) Semantic Layer
10 10 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.30%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.12%) Redis
13 5 (0.93%) Big Data
13 5 (0.93%) Looker
13 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (6.70%) JIRA
2 17 (3.17%) Git
3 9 (1.68%) ERwin
4 7 (1.30%) ER Studio
4 7 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.12%) 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
1 199 (37.06%) Finance
2 137 (25.51%) Social Skills
3 99 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (14.15%) Banking
5 43 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (4.28%) Marketing
7 23 (4.28%) Retail
8 21 (3.91%) Front Office
9 20 (3.72%) Investment Banking
10 19 (3.54%) Legal
11 17 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.79%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.42%) Law
14 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.86%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
18 6 (1.12%) Back Office
18 6 (1.12%) French Language
Job Titles
1 83 (15.46%) Analyst
2 78 (14.53%) Architect
3 63 (11.73%) Business Analyst
4 58 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 52 (9.68%) Senior
6 46 (8.57%) Lead
7 43 (8.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 37 (6.89%) Consultant
9 34 (6.33%) Developer
10 22 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 19 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 17 (3.17%) Data Scientist
13 15 (2.79%) Data Analyst
14 14 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 13 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
17 10 (1.86%) Enterprise Architect
17 10 (1.86%) SOC Engineer
18 9 (1.68%) Security Engineer
18 9 (1.68%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.70%) Terraform
2 29 (5.40%) PySpark
3 23 (4.28%) REST
4 21 (3.91%) LangChain
5 15 (2.79%) .NET
6 14 (2.61%) LlamaIndex
6 14 (2.61%) Pandas
7 13 (2.42%) Model Context Protocol
8 11 (2.05%) JSON
9 10 (1.86%) RESTful
10 8 (1.49%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.30%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.30%) NumPy
12 6 (1.12%) LangGraph
12 6 (1.12%) vLLM
13 5 (0.93%) Kafka
13 5 (0.93%) Semantic Kernel
14 4 (0.74%) Node.js
14 4 (0.74%) pytest
14 4 (0.74%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.04%) AI Agents
2 51 (9.50%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.45%) Onboarding
4 36 (6.70%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.91%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.23%) Taxonomies
9 11 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.49%) Life Science
11 8 (1.49%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.12%) Digital Signage
14 5 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.17%) Linux
2 14 (2.61%) Windows
3 8 (1.49%) Unix
3 8 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (52.51%) AI
2 171 (31.84%) Analytics
3 131 (24.39%) Machine Learning
4 126 (23.46%) Agile
5 113 (21.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 108 (20.11%) LLM
7 107 (19.93%) Data Pipeline
8 103 (19.18%) Data Modelling
9 92 (17.13%) Generative AI
10 88 (16.39%) Data Engineering
11 79 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 77 (14.34%) Data Governance
13 72 (13.41%) Roadmaps
14 71 (13.22%) DevOps
15 70 (13.04%) CI/CD
16 68 (12.66%) Data Architecture
16 68 (12.66%) Validation
17 67 (12.48%) Data Science
17 67 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
18 64 (11.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (24.95%) Python
2 112 (20.86%) SQL
3 16 (2.98%) C#
3 16 (2.98%) Java
4 14 (2.61%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.23%) R
6 8 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.93%) Bash
8 5 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.93%) Scala
9 4 (0.74%) Go
9 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
9 4 (0.74%) VBA
10 3 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.56%) Bicep
10 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.56%) SHACL
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 91 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 79 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.45%) Degree
4 16 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.61%) CISSP
6 13 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.05%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.68%) CBAP
10 7 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.30%) PMP
11 6 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.93%) GCIH
12 5 (0.93%) GIAC
12 5 (0.93%) IIBA
12 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (16.95%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.96%) GDPR
3 26 (4.84%) QA
4 15 (2.79%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.79%) NIST
5 8 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.74%) GRC
6 4 (0.74%) NCSC
7 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.37%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) PERC
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.61%) Docker
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 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.12%) Cisco Prime
2 6 (1.12%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.56%) Ansible
3 3 (0.56%) QRadar
4 2 (0.37%) Grafana
4 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) Control-M
5 1 (0.19%) Istio
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.36%) Databricks
3 44 (8.19%) OpenAI
4 26 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.72%) Foundry
6 19 (3.54%) Splunk
7 14 (2.61%) Cisco
7 14 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.23%) Oracle
8 12 (2.23%) SAP
9 9 (1.68%) Pega
10 8 (1.49%) Adobe
10 8 (1.49%) CyberArk
10 8 (1.49%) Google
11 6 (1.12%) Informatica
12 5 (0.93%) F5
12 5 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.93%) Workday
13 4 (0.74%) BeyondTrust
13 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace