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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 164 156
Rank change year-on-year +57 -8 +27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 485 201 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 1.67% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 1.80% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 126 180
10th Percentile £412 £400 £412
25th Percentile £450 £506 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £626 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +8.78% -2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £794 £675
90th Percentile £762 £881 £852
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.18% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.40 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.25% -17.24%

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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +15 63 £550 -18.52% 75
West London - 11 £523 - 5
South London -8 4 £575 -23.33% 1
East London -6 2 £717 +22.56% 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 28 (5.77%) Confluence
2 16 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.82%) Apache
5 4 (0.82%) CMS
5 4 (0.82%) SAS
6 2 (0.41%) Kentico
6 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.41%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.89%) Chatbot
2 14 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.62%) Findur
3 3 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.41%) Actimize
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 157 (32.37%) Azure
2 99 (20.41%) AWS
3 50 (10.31%) Power Platform
4 47 (9.69%) GCP
5 32 (6.60%) Azure AI
6 23 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.12%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.92%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (3.92%) Serverless
9 18 (3.71%) dbt
10 15 (3.09%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
11 14 (2.89%) GitHub
11 14 (2.89%) WhatsApp
12 13 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (2.68%) Entra ID
13 12 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.71%) Firewall
2 6 (1.24%) Network Security
3 5 (1.03%) RTP
4 3 (0.62%) 5G
4 3 (0.62%) Internet
4 3 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.41%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.41%) 4G
5 2 (0.41%) BGP
5 2 (0.41%) LTE
5 2 (0.41%) SMS
6 1 (0.21%) DMZ
6 1 (0.21%) DNS
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.21%) Multicast
6 1 (0.21%) SAN
6 1 (0.21%) SSL
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.66%) Power BI
2 40 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.95%) Metadata
4 21 (4.33%) Tableau
5 16 (3.30%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.09%) Weaviate
7 14 (2.89%) Pinecone
7 14 (2.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 13 (2.68%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.27%) Big Data
10 9 (1.86%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.86%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.86%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.24%) KDB
12 6 (1.24%) Looker
13 5 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.03%) Kdb+
13 5 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 38 (7.84%) JIRA
2 23 (4.74%) Git
3 13 (2.68%) MLflow
4 6 (1.24%) GitLab
5 5 (1.03%) ERwin
6 4 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.62%) XCTest
8 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Ant
9 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.21%) Maven
9 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 171 (35.26%) Finance
2 130 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 77 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (13.40%) Banking
5 50 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.95%) Retail
7 19 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.92%) Legal
8 18 (3.71%) Marketing
9 17 (3.51%) Front Office
10 14 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.47%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.24%) Back Office
16 5 (1.03%) Law
17 3 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (16.29%) Analyst
2 69 (14.23%) Architect
2 69 (14.23%) Business Analyst
3 63 (12.99%) Data Engineer
4 60 (12.37%) Senior
5 52 (10.72%) Lead
6 35 (7.22%) Developer
7 27 (5.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 23 (4.74%) Data Scientist
9 18 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 17 (3.51%) Data Architect
11 16 (3.30%) Consultant
12 15 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.09%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (2.47%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
15 9 (1.86%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 9 (1.86%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 8 (1.65%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.36%) PySpark
2 22 (4.54%) LangChain
3 21 (4.33%) .NET
4 18 (3.71%) LlamaIndex
4 18 (3.71%) Pandas
4 18 (3.71%) scikit-learn
5 16 (3.30%) PyTorch
6 13 (2.68%) REST
6 13 (2.68%) TensorFlow
7 10 (2.06%) NumPy
8 8 (1.65%) JSON
8 8 (1.65%) LangGraph
8 8 (1.65%) Middleware
9 7 (1.44%) Kafka
10 6 (1.24%) Node.js
10 6 (1.24%) React
11 5 (1.03%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.03%) Flask
12 4 (0.82%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.82%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.55%) AI Agents
2 41 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.68%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.65%) Life Science
10 7 (1.44%) PMI
10 7 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.24%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.82%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.47%) Linux
2 8 (1.65%) Unix
3 6 (1.24%) Windows
4 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (46.39%) AI
2 160 (32.99%) Analytics
3 126 (25.98%) Agile
4 124 (25.57%) Machine Learning
5 110 (22.68%) Data Modelling
6 100 (20.62%) Data Pipeline
7 93 (19.18%) LLM
8 92 (18.97%) Data Engineering
9 87 (17.94%) DevOps
10 80 (16.49%) CI/CD
10 80 (16.49%) Data Science
10 80 (16.49%) Generative AI
11 77 (15.88%) Stakeholder Management
12 68 (14.02%) Data Governance
12 68 (14.02%) Roadmaps
13 67 (13.81%) Decision-Making
14 65 (13.40%) Validation
15 60 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
16 57 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (11.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 147 (30.31%) Python
2 101 (20.82%) SQL
3 22 (4.54%) C#
4 14 (2.89%) Java
5 13 (2.68%) R
5 13 (2.68%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.27%) Scala
7 9 (1.86%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.03%) Bicep
10 4 (0.82%) Bash
11 3 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.62%) Swift
12 2 (0.41%) C++
12 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.41%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 92 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 76 (15.67%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.52%) Degree
4 15 (3.09%) CBAP
4 15 (3.09%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.06%) CISSP
6 10 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.06%) IIBA
7 9 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.86%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.82%) GCIA
9 4 (0.82%) ISEB
10 3 (0.62%) GCIH
10 3 (0.62%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.29%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.19%) QA
3 25 (5.15%) GDPR
4 13 (2.68%) NIST
5 7 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.03%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.62%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.21%) EMIR
10 1 (0.21%) GxP
10 1 (0.21%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (4.95%) Docker
2 11 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.06%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.77%) Terraform
3 8 (1.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (1.03%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.41%) Ansible
5 2 (0.41%) QRadar
6 1 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.21%) Istio
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.10%) OpenAI
3 47 (9.69%) Databricks
4 22 (4.54%) Foundry
5 20 (4.12%) Google
6 13 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.27%) Pega
7 11 (2.27%) VMware
8 10 (2.06%) Splunk
9 8 (1.65%) Oracle
10 7 (1.44%) SAP
11 6 (1.24%) Informatica
11 6 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (1.03%) Workday
13 4 (0.82%) IBM
14 3 (0.62%) Adobe
14 3 (0.62%) Ariba
14 3 (0.62%) Cisco
14 3 (0.62%) Red Hat