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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 153 208
Rank change year-on-year +25 +55 -37
Contract jobs citing Use Case 326 277 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.27% 1.75% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.95% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 182 145
10th Percentile £400 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £671 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £824 £823
England median daily rate £517 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.30% +3.64% -
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% +61.57%
75th Percentile £55.31 £70.44 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 £70.78 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £67.56
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.79% +12.60%

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 13,188 14,190 17,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.79% 89.85% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,704 9,175 12,401
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 166 233
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.81
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.63 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 37 £570 +3.64% 17
South London -5 2 £450 -21.74% 4
East London -5 1 - - 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 21 (6.44%) Confluence
2 14 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.68%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.23%) Apache
6 3 (0.92%) Appian
7 2 (0.61%) CMS
7 2 (0.61%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.61%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.61%) Luigi
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.37%) MS Visio
3 10 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.53%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.53%) ProjectWise
5 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Endur
1 5 (1.53%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.61%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.61%) SAP PS
3 2 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Findur
4 1 (0.31%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.31%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (31.90%) Azure
2 67 (20.55%) AWS
3 34 (10.43%) GCP
4 28 (8.59%) Power Platform
5 22 (6.75%) Snowflake
6 19 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.29%) GitHub
8 11 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (3.37%) SaaS
9 10 (3.07%) dbt
10 9 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.76%) Azure AI
10 9 (2.76%) Azure Machine Learning
10 9 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (2.76%) Vertex AI
11 7 (2.15%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.15%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) Firewall
2 5 (1.53%) CTI
2 5 (1.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.92%) SSH
3 3 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (0.61%) NAS
5 1 (0.31%) HTTP
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.31%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.44%) Metadata
1 21 (6.44%) Power BI
2 18 (5.52%) Data Lake
3 15 (4.60%) Tableau
4 13 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.99%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.07%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (2.76%) Delta Lake
6 9 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.45%) Big Data
7 8 (2.45%) Data Vault
8 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.15%) Star Schema
9 5 (1.53%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.92%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.92%) Redis
11 3 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 34 (10.43%) JIRA
2 21 (6.44%) Git
3 8 (2.45%) MLflow
4 7 (2.15%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.15%) Selenium
5 6 (1.84%) ERwin
5 6 (1.84%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.53%) JUnit
7 4 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.23%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.23%) Postman
7 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.92%) GitLab
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.92%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.61%) Hardhat
10 1 (0.31%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 107 (32.82%) Finance
3 83 (25.46%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (14.42%) Banking
5 24 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.83%) Investment Banking
7 18 (5.52%) Back Office
8 17 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.99%) Marketing
10 12 (3.68%) Front Office
11 11 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (3.07%) Retail
13 9 (2.76%) Legal
14 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.92%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (19.94%) Analyst
2 51 (15.64%) Business Analyst
3 37 (11.35%) Architect
4 36 (11.04%) Developer
5 30 (9.20%) Senior
6 22 (6.75%) Consultant
7 20 (6.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 19 (5.83%) Lead
9 15 (4.60%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.99%) Data Scientist
11 12 (3.68%) Product Manager
12 11 (3.37%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.37%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.07%) Data Architect
14 8 (2.45%) Programme Manager
14 8 (2.45%) Risk Analyst
14 8 (2.45%) Security Architect
14 8 (2.45%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.15%) Data Modeller
16 6 (1.84%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.60%) LangChain
1 15 (4.60%) PyTorch
2 12 (3.68%) .NET
3 10 (3.07%) TensorFlow
4 9 (2.76%) Pandas
4 9 (2.76%) XML
5 8 (2.45%) LangGraph
5 8 (2.45%) REST
5 8 (2.45%) scikit-learn
6 7 (2.15%) Hugging Face
6 7 (2.15%) Node.js
6 7 (2.15%) PySpark
7 6 (1.84%) Faiss
8 5 (1.53%) Android NDK
8 5 (1.53%) Android SDK
8 5 (1.53%) FastAPI
8 5 (1.53%) iOS SDK
8 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (1.53%) React
8 5 (1.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.74%) Onboarding
2 31 (9.51%) Product Ownership
3 20 (6.13%) AI Agents
4 14 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.99%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.68%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.37%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.45%) PMI
11 7 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.84%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.53%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (1.53%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.53%) IVR
13 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.53%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.75%) Linux
2 16 (4.91%) Windows
3 5 (1.53%) Android
3 5 (1.53%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.53%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.98%) AI
2 90 (27.61%) Agile
3 86 (26.38%) Analytics
4 70 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (21.17%) Machine Learning
6 67 (20.55%) Data Modelling
7 60 (18.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 58 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (15.03%) CI/CD
10 48 (14.72%) Data Governance
10 48 (14.72%) LLM
11 47 (14.42%) Roadmaps
12 45 (13.80%) Requirements Gathering
13 44 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
13 44 (13.50%) User Stories
14 43 (13.19%) Data Science
15 40 (12.27%) Business Analysis
16 38 (11.66%) Generative AI
17 37 (11.35%) DevOps
18 35 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 91 (27.91%) Python
2 69 (21.17%) SQL
3 24 (7.36%) Java
4 17 (5.21%) Bash
5 10 (3.07%) C#
6 9 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.84%) C++
7 6 (1.84%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.23%) R
8 4 (1.23%) VB.NET
9 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.61%) Bicep
10 2 (0.61%) Korn
10 2 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.61%) Solidity
10 2 (0.61%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (19.33%) Degree
2 38 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.83%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.37%) MCP
5 11 (3.37%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.45%) CBAP
7 7 (2.15%) CISSP
8 6 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.53%) CFA
9 5 (1.53%) PhD
10 4 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.92%) PMP
12 2 (0.61%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.66%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.06%) QA
3 14 (4.29%) GDPR
4 9 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.76%) NIST
5 8 (2.45%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.84%) ISO 19650
8 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.23%) PSD2
9 3 (0.92%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.61%) GRC
10 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.61%) HL7
10 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.61%) PMO
10 2 (0.61%) SEPA
10 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.61%) WCAG
11 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (5.83%) Docker
2 10 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.45%) zsh
4 5 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.99%) Kubernetes
1 13 (3.99%) Terraform
2 5 (1.53%) Ansible
2 5 (1.53%) Grafana
3 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.31%) Argo
5 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.31%) Kibana
5 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.90%) Databricks
3 17 (5.21%) Splunk
4 13 (3.99%) OpenAI
5 11 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.07%) Google
7 9 (2.76%) Oracle
8 8 (2.45%) Citrix
9 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.84%) Genesys
11 5 (1.53%) Adobe
11 5 (1.53%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.53%) SAP
11 5 (1.53%) UiPath
12 4 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.92%) Cisco
13 3 (0.92%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.92%) Tenable
13 3 (0.92%) Veracode
14 2 (0.61%) Red Hat