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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 130 148
Rank change year-on-year +21 +18 +74
Contract jobs citing Use Case 539 290 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.65% 2.15% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.33% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 193 185
10th Percentile £409 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
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% -
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £58.88 -
England median hourly rate £72.43 £49.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year +47.16% -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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £673 £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 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 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 24 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 -11 55 £500 -12.66% 136
West London - 12 £800 - 45
South London -9 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 21 (3.90%) Confluence
2 17 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.67%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.30%) Apache
7 5 (0.93%) CMS
8 4 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.56%) SAS
10 2 (0.37%) Kentico
10 2 (0.37%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) Appian
11 1 (0.19%) Camunda
11 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.04%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Workfront
3 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.37%) Findur
3 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.37%) Summit
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.19%) Endur
4 1 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 154 (28.57%) Azure
2 98 (18.18%) AWS
3 52 (9.65%) Power Platform
4 39 (7.24%) GCP
5 37 (6.86%) Microsoft Copilot
5 37 (6.86%) Snowflake
6 26 (4.82%) Azure AI
7 25 (4.64%) dbt
8 23 (4.27%) GitHub
9 21 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.71%) Amazon S3
11 19 (3.53%) Copilot Studio
12 16 (2.97%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.97%) SaaS
13 15 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
13 15 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
14 14 (2.60%) Entra ID
15 13 (2.41%) Azure Databricks
15 13 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.23%) Firewall
2 11 (2.04%) BGP
3 8 (1.48%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.48%) Multicast
3 8 (1.48%) VLAN
3 8 (1.48%) Wireless
4 7 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.93%) Network Security
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%) 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%) DHCP
8 2 (0.37%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.79%) Metadata
2 36 (6.68%) Power BI
3 32 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.90%) Data Lake
5 15 (2.78%) Tableau
6 14 (2.60%) Pinecone
7 13 (2.41%) Chroma
7 13 (2.41%) Weaviate
8 12 (2.23%) BigQuery
8 12 (2.23%) Delta Lake
8 12 (2.23%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.48%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.11%) Neo4j
13 6 (1.11%) Redis
14 5 (0.93%) Big Data
14 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (6.31%) JIRA
2 17 (3.15%) Git
3 9 (1.67%) ERwin
4 6 (1.11%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.93%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
5 5 (0.93%) MLflow
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 207 (38.40%) Finance
2 137 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 94 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (13.91%) Banking
5 43 (7.98%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.19%) Marketing
7 27 (5.01%) Retail
8 24 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.90%) Front Office
10 20 (3.71%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.53%) Legal
12 17 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.60%) Law
14 12 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.30%) Back Office
16 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.11%) French Language
17 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (16.88%) Analyst
2 83 (15.40%) Architect
3 68 (12.62%) Business Analyst
4 67 (12.43%) Senior
5 61 (11.32%) Data Engineer
6 51 (9.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 48 (8.91%) Lead
8 37 (6.86%) Consultant
9 30 (5.57%) Developer
10 25 (4.64%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 15 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.60%) Data Analyst
13 14 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.41%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
14 13 (2.41%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
14 13 (2.41%) Data Scientist
15 12 (2.23%) Enterprise Architect
16 11 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
17 10 (1.86%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.24%) Terraform
2 29 (5.38%) PySpark
3 26 (4.82%) REST
4 23 (4.27%) LangChain
5 17 (3.15%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (2.78%) LlamaIndex
7 14 (2.60%) .NET
8 12 (2.23%) JSON
8 12 (2.23%) Pandas
9 11 (2.04%) RESTful
10 9 (1.67%) LangGraph
11 8 (1.48%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.48%) Kafka
12 7 (1.30%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.30%) Semantic Kernel
12 7 (1.30%) vLLM
13 6 (1.11%) NumPy
13 6 (1.11%) PyTorch
14 5 (0.93%) Web Services
15 4 (0.74%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.99%) AI Agents
2 53 (9.83%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.24%) Cloud Native
4 38 (7.05%) Onboarding
5 22 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.60%) Taxonomies
9 12 (2.23%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.67%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.67%) Life Science
12 8 (1.48%) Digital Signage
12 8 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.30%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.23%) Linux
1 12 (2.23%) Windows
2 7 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.74%) Unix
4 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (54.17%) AI
2 167 (30.98%) Analytics
3 131 (24.30%) Machine Learning
4 125 (23.19%) Agile
5 122 (22.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 116 (21.52%) LLM
7 106 (19.67%) Data Pipeline
8 105 (19.48%) Data Modelling
9 102 (18.92%) Generative AI
10 89 (16.51%) Data Engineering
11 86 (15.96%) Data Governance
12 83 (15.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 79 (14.66%) Roadmaps
14 73 (13.54%) CI/CD
15 67 (12.43%) Data Architecture
15 67 (12.43%) Data Science
16 66 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
17 64 (11.87%) DevOps
18 62 (11.50%) Decision-Making
18 62 (11.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 135 (25.05%) Python
2 112 (20.78%) SQL
3 19 (3.53%) Java
4 16 (2.97%) C#
5 14 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.04%) R
7 9 (1.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.30%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.93%) Scala
10 4 (0.74%) Bash
10 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
11 3 (0.56%) Bicep
11 3 (0.56%) Go
11 3 (0.56%) SHACL
11 3 (0.56%) VBA
12 2 (0.37%) Elixir
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 88 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.35%) Degree
4 16 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.23%) CISSP
8 11 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.67%) CBAP
11 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.30%) PMP
13 6 (1.11%) GIAC
14 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.93%) CCSP
14 5 (0.93%) GCIH
14 5 (0.93%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (17.44%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.38%) GDPR
3 24 (4.45%) QA
4 15 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.04%) NIST
6 7 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.74%) GRC
7 4 (0.74%) ISO 15022
7 4 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.74%) NCSC
8 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.60%) Docker
2 12 (2.23%) Active Directory
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 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.48%) Cisco Prime
3 7 (1.30%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.56%) Ansible
4 3 (0.56%) QRadar
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 101 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 64 (11.87%) Databricks
3 42 (7.79%) OpenAI
4 27 (5.01%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.53%) Splunk
6 15 (2.78%) Cisco
6 15 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.60%) SAP
8 13 (2.41%) Google
9 12 (2.23%) Foundry
10 11 (2.04%) Adobe
10 11 (2.04%) Oracle
11 7 (1.30%) Informatica
12 6 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.11%) F5
12 6 (1.11%) Pega
13 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.74%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.74%) VMware