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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 148 154
Rank change year-on-year +39 +6 +53
Contract jobs citing Use Case 548 261 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.72% 1.92% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.08% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 176 181
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £473 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year - +0.44% +4.09%
75th Percentile £675 £712 £650
90th Percentile £761 £775 £800
England median daily rate £550 £525 £561
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.46% +2.05%
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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 £531 -7.61% 44
West London - 14 £800 - 10
South London -6 6 £689 -8.13% 4
East London +4 2 £717 +21.63% 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 (4.01%) Confluence
2 17 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.28%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.28%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.91%) Apache
5 5 (0.91%) CMS
5 5 (0.91%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Kentico
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 16 (2.92%) Chatbot
2 13 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Actimize
3 3 (0.55%) Findur
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.55%) Workfront
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.36%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 170 (31.02%) Azure
2 105 (19.16%) AWS
3 52 (9.49%) Power Platform
4 41 (7.48%) GCP
5 40 (7.30%) Azure AI
6 29 (5.29%) Microsoft Copilot
6 29 (5.29%) Snowflake
7 26 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (4.20%) GitHub
9 22 (4.01%) Amazon Bedrock
10 21 (3.83%) dbt
11 20 (3.65%) Entra ID
12 17 (3.10%) SaaS
13 16 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (2.74%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (2.37%) Copilot Studio
17 12 (2.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.37%) Firewall
2 6 (1.09%) Network Security
3 5 (0.91%) BGP
3 5 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
3 5 (0.91%) Multicast
3 5 (0.91%) VLAN
3 5 (0.91%) Wireless
4 4 (0.73%) SMS
4 4 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.55%) 5G
5 3 (0.55%) DNS
5 3 (0.55%) Internet
5 3 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.36%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.36%) 4G
6 2 (0.36%) DHCP
6 2 (0.36%) HTTP
6 2 (0.36%) LTE
6 2 (0.36%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.48%) Power BI
2 39 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (7.12%) Metadata
3 21 (3.83%) Tableau
4 17 (3.10%) Data Lake
5 16 (2.92%) BigQuery
6 12 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.19%) Delta Lake
6 12 (2.19%) Pinecone
6 12 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
6 12 (2.19%) Weaviate
7 11 (2.01%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.46%) Big Data
10 6 (1.09%) Redis
10 6 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (1.09%) Spark SQL
11 5 (0.91%) Looker
11 5 (0.91%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (6.57%) JIRA
2 20 (3.65%) Git
3 8 (1.46%) ERwin
3 8 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.28%) GitLab
5 6 (1.09%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.91%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.91%) MLflow
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 201 (36.68%) Finance
2 144 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 99 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.87%) Banking
5 50 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.93%) Retail
7 25 (4.56%) Marketing
8 23 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.83%) Legal
10 20 (3.65%) Front Office
10 20 (3.65%) Investment Banking
11 15 (2.74%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.37%) Law
13 11 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.09%) French Language
18 5 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 81 (14.78%) Architect
2 76 (13.87%) Analyst
3 65 (11.86%) Data Engineer
4 60 (10.95%) Business Analyst
5 55 (10.04%) Lead
5 55 (10.04%) Senior
6 42 (7.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 38 (6.93%) Developer
8 34 (6.20%) Consultant
9 21 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 21 (3.83%) Data Architect
10 19 (3.47%) Data Scientist
11 15 (2.74%) Data Analyst
12 14 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (2.19%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 10 (1.82%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (1.82%) SOC Engineer
15 9 (1.64%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 9 (1.64%) Security Engineer
15 9 (1.64%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.29%) PySpark
2 25 (4.56%) REST
3 22 (4.01%) LangChain
4 17 (3.10%) .NET
5 15 (2.74%) LlamaIndex
5 15 (2.74%) Pandas
6 12 (2.19%) JSON
7 10 (1.82%) scikit-learn
8 9 (1.64%) Model Context Protocol
8 9 (1.64%) RESTful
9 8 (1.46%) LangGraph
9 8 (1.46%) NumPy
10 7 (1.28%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.09%) Kafka
12 5 (0.91%) Middleware
12 5 (0.91%) OAuth
12 5 (0.91%) Semantic Kernel
12 5 (0.91%) vLLM
12 5 (0.91%) XML
13 4 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.50%) AI Agents
2 50 (9.12%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.85%) Cloud Native
4 38 (6.93%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.37%) Taxonomies
8 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.46%) Life Science
10 8 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.28%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.28%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.10%) Linux
2 14 (2.55%) Windows
3 8 (1.46%) Unix
3 8 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (51.46%) AI
2 175 (31.93%) Analytics
3 140 (25.55%) Machine Learning
4 129 (23.54%) Agile
5 114 (20.80%) Data Pipeline
6 108 (19.71%) LLM
7 106 (19.34%) Data Modelling
8 100 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (17.34%) Data Engineering
10 90 (16.42%) Generative AI
11 79 (14.42%) CI/CD
12 77 (14.05%) Data Science
12 77 (14.05%) DevOps
13 76 (13.87%) Data Governance
14 75 (13.69%) Decision-Making
15 72 (13.14%) Roadmaps
16 71 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 68 (12.41%) Validation
18 66 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
19 65 (11.86%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 146 (26.64%) Python
2 115 (20.99%) SQL
3 18 (3.28%) C#
4 16 (2.92%) Java
5 14 (2.55%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.55%) R
6 11 (2.01%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.91%) Bash
8 5 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.91%) Scala
9 4 (0.73%) Go
9 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
9 4 (0.73%) VBA
10 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.55%) Bicep
10 3 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.55%) SHACL
11 2 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.48%) Degree
4 17 (3.10%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.37%) CISSP
7 10 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.64%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.28%) CBAP
9 7 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.91%) GCIH
11 5 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.91%) PMP
12 4 (0.73%) CEH
12 4 (0.73%) CISM
12 4 (0.73%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (17.34%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.84%) GDPR
3 30 (5.47%) QA
4 15 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.74%) NIST
5 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.73%) NCSC
7 3 (0.55%) GRC
7 3 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.36%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.36%) MiFID
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) PERC
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 16 (2.92%) Docker
3 3 (0.55%) IAG
4 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (6.75%) Terraform
2 29 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
3 5 (0.91%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 4 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.55%) QRadar
6 2 (0.36%) Grafana
6 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 102 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.22%) Databricks
3 48 (8.76%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.93%) Foundry
5 23 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.92%) Splunk
7 14 (2.55%) Google
8 13 (2.37%) Pega
8 13 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.19%) Oracle
10 11 (2.01%) Cisco
10 11 (2.01%) SAP
11 9 (1.64%) Adobe
12 8 (1.46%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.91%) F5
13 5 (0.91%) Informatica
13 5 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.91%) Workday