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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 125 143
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 +67
Contract jobs citing Use Case 548 301 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.71% 2.26% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.44% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 195 183
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £686 £675 £650
90th Percentile £794 £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 £41.94 £60.00
% change year-on-year +84.47% -30.10% -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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
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 £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 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 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 6 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 +4 58 £525 -8.30% 111
West London - 13 £638 - 20
South London -8 3 £698 -6.93% 2
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 17 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.64%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.09%) Apache
6 5 (0.91%) CMS
7 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.55%) SAS
9 2 (0.36%) Kentico
9 2 (0.36%) WordPress
10 1 (0.18%) Appian
10 1 (0.18%) Camunda
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.01%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.55%) Workfront
3 2 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.36%) Summit
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) BambooHR
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
1 164 (29.93%) Azure
2 104 (18.98%) AWS
3 49 (8.94%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.93%) GCP
5 37 (6.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 33 (6.02%) Snowflake
7 28 (5.11%) Azure AI
8 25 (4.56%) dbt
9 24 (4.38%) GitHub
10 20 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 18 (3.28%) Copilot Studio
12 17 (3.10%) Power Automate
13 16 (2.92%) Amazon Bedrock
14 15 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (2.74%) SaaS
15 14 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (2.55%) Entra ID
16 13 (2.37%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.19%) Firewall
2 11 (2.01%) BGP
3 8 (1.46%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.46%) Multicast
3 8 (1.46%) VLAN
3 8 (1.46%) Wireless
4 7 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.91%) Network Security
6 4 (0.73%) SMS
7 3 (0.55%) DNS
7 3 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.55%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.36%) DHCP
8 2 (0.36%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.21%) Metadata
2 32 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (5.84%) Power BI
3 20 (3.65%) Data Lake
4 13 (2.37%) Delta Lake
4 13 (2.37%) Pinecone
4 13 (2.37%) Semantic Layer
5 12 (2.19%) Chroma
5 12 (2.19%) Weaviate
6 11 (2.01%) Tableau
7 10 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (1.46%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.46%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.28%) Neo4j
9 7 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (1.09%) Redis
11 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 38 (6.93%) JIRA
2 18 (3.28%) Git
3 9 (1.64%) ERwin
4 7 (1.28%) GitLab
5 6 (1.09%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.91%) MLflow
7 4 (0.73%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 215 (39.23%) Finance
2 141 (25.73%) Social Skills
3 95 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.87%) Banking
5 48 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.29%) Marketing
7 26 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (4.74%) Retail
8 23 (4.20%) Investment Banking
9 21 (3.83%) Legal
10 19 (3.47%) Front Office
11 17 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.55%) Law
13 10 (1.82%) Back Office
13 10 (1.82%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.09%) French Language
16 5 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (17.34%) Analyst
2 88 (16.06%) Architect
3 68 (12.41%) Business Analyst
3 68 (12.41%) Senior
4 57 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 54 (9.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 49 (8.94%) Lead
7 40 (7.30%) Consultant
8 26 (4.74%) Developer
9 24 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 22 (4.01%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.37%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 13 (2.37%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.19%) Enterprise Architect
14 12 (2.19%) Technical Analyst
15 11 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
16 10 (1.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.75%) Terraform
2 26 (4.74%) REST
3 25 (4.56%) PySpark
4 23 (4.20%) LangChain
5 19 (3.47%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (2.74%) LlamaIndex
7 13 (2.37%) JSON
8 12 (2.19%) .NET
9 11 (2.01%) LangGraph
10 10 (1.82%) Kafka
10 10 (1.82%) RESTful
11 9 (1.64%) Pandas
12 8 (1.46%) GraphQL
12 8 (1.46%) Semantic Kernel
12 8 (1.46%) vLLM
12 8 (1.46%) Web Services
13 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (1.09%) scikit-learn
14 5 (0.91%) NumPy
14 5 (0.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (13.69%) AI Agents
2 51 (9.31%) Product Ownership
3 41 (7.48%) Cloud Native
4 38 (6.93%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.65%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 15 (2.74%) Taxonomies
9 13 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (1.64%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.64%) Life Science
13 8 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.46%) Digital Signage
14 7 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.28%) Reference Data
15 6 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
15 6 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.55%) Linux
2 12 (2.19%) Windows
3 7 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.73%) Unix
5 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (55.11%) AI
2 159 (29.01%) Analytics
3 135 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 129 (23.54%) Machine Learning
5 124 (22.63%) Agile
5 124 (22.63%) LLM
6 107 (19.53%) Generative AI
7 102 (18.61%) Data Modelling
8 101 (18.43%) Data Pipeline
9 88 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 85 (15.51%) Roadmaps
11 84 (15.33%) Data Engineering
11 84 (15.33%) Data Governance
12 76 (13.87%) CI/CD
13 71 (12.96%) DevOps
14 67 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (12.04%) Workshop Facilitation
16 65 (11.86%) Data Architecture
17 63 (11.50%) Business Analysis
17 63 (11.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 132 (24.09%) Python
2 108 (19.71%) SQL
3 17 (3.10%) Java
4 14 (2.55%) C#
4 14 (2.55%) PowerShell
5 9 (1.64%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.28%) R
7 6 (1.09%) Bash
7 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.91%) Scala
9 4 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.55%) Bicep
10 3 (0.55%) Go
10 3 (0.55%) SHACL
11 2 (0.36%) Elixir
11 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.36%) Rust
11 2 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 84 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 74 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.31%) Degree
4 21 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.19%) CBAP
8 11 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.01%) CISSP
8 11 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.82%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.28%) PMP
12 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.91%) CCSP
12 5 (0.91%) GCIH
12 5 (0.91%) GIAC
12 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.11%) GDPR
3 25 (4.56%) QA
4 14 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.82%) NIST
6 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.09%) GRC
8 5 (0.91%) EU AI Act
8 5 (0.91%) NCSC
9 4 (0.73%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.73%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.55%) MiFID
11 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.36%) EMIR
11 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 14 (2.55%) Docker
2 11 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.36%) IAG
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.46%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (1.46%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.91%) Ansible
3 5 (0.91%) QRadar
4 2 (0.36%) Argo
4 2 (0.36%) Grafana
4 2 (0.36%) Kibana
4 2 (0.36%) logstash
4 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 106 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.13%) Databricks
3 44 (8.03%) OpenAI
4 29 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.47%) Splunk
6 18 (3.28%) Google
7 16 (2.92%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.74%) Cisco
9 13 (2.37%) Foundry
9 13 (2.37%) SAP
10 11 (2.01%) Adobe
10 11 (2.01%) Oracle
11 7 (1.28%) Informatica
12 6 (1.09%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.09%) F5
13 5 (0.91%) VMware
14 4 (0.73%) Pega
14 4 (0.73%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.55%) Meraki