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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 166 153
Rank change year-on-year +62 -13 +31
Contract jobs citing Use Case 487 200 282
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 1.65% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 1.79% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 126 184
10th Percentile £412 £400 £412
25th Percentile £453 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £626 £589
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +6.24% +0.21%
75th Percentile £650 £794 £681
90th Percentile £762 £881 £851
England median daily rate £525 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.59% +2.91%
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 16,370 11,170 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 7,467 11,030
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £429 £447
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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 194 318
10th Percentile £18.34 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 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 5 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 +20 63 £550 -18.52% 63
West London - 11 £523 - 5
South London -10 4 £575 -23.33%
East London -6 2 £717 +22.56% 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 29 (5.95%) Confluence
2 16 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.03%) CMS
4 5 (1.03%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.03%) SAS
4 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.82%) Apache
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 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.87%) Chatbot
2 14 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.26%) 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%) Actimize
3 3 (0.62%) Findur
3 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics 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
1 156 (32.03%) Azure
2 100 (20.53%) AWS
3 50 (10.27%) Power Platform
4 47 (9.65%) GCP
5 31 (6.37%) Azure AI
6 22 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.11%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.90%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (3.90%) dbt
8 19 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 19 (3.90%) Serverless
9 15 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
10 14 (2.87%) GitHub
10 14 (2.87%) WhatsApp
11 13 (2.67%) Entra ID
12 12 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.70%) Firewall
2 6 (1.23%) Network Security
3 5 (1.03%) RTP
4 3 (0.62%) 5G
4 3 (0.62%) Internet
4 3 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.62%) SMS
5 2 (0.41%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.41%) 4G
5 2 (0.41%) BGP
5 2 (0.41%) DNS
5 2 (0.41%) LTE
5 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) DHCP
6 1 (0.21%) DMZ
6 1 (0.21%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.21%) OSPF
6 1 (0.21%) SAN
6 1 (0.21%) SSL
6 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.62%) Power BI
2 41 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.93%) Metadata
4 21 (4.31%) Tableau
5 16 (3.29%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.08%) Weaviate
7 14 (2.87%) Pinecone
8 13 (2.67%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (2.26%) Big Data
10 9 (1.85%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.85%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.23%) KDB
12 6 (1.23%) Looker
13 5 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.03%) Kdb+
13 5 (1.03%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 39 (8.01%) JIRA
2 23 (4.72%) Git
3 13 (2.67%) MLflow
4 6 (1.23%) 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
1 169 (34.70%) Finance
2 130 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 78 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (13.55%) Banking
5 52 (10.68%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.93%) Retail
7 20 (4.11%) Legal
8 19 (3.90%) Investment Banking
8 19 (3.90%) Marketing
9 17 (3.49%) Front Office
10 13 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.46%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.05%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.23%) Back Office
16 5 (1.03%) Law
17 3 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (16.63%) Analyst
2 71 (14.58%) Business Analyst
3 69 (14.17%) Architect
4 63 (12.94%) Data Engineer
5 60 (12.32%) Senior
6 51 (10.47%) Lead
7 36 (7.39%) Developer
8 27 (5.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 22 (4.52%) Data Scientist
10 18 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 17 (3.49%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.29%) Consultant
13 15 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.08%) Senior Business Analyst
14 12 (2.46%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
16 9 (1.85%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 9 (1.85%) Cybersecurity Specialist
17 8 (1.64%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.34%) PySpark
2 21 (4.31%) .NET
2 21 (4.31%) LangChain
3 18 (3.70%) LlamaIndex
4 17 (3.49%) Pandas
4 17 (3.49%) scikit-learn
5 15 (3.08%) PyTorch
6 13 (2.67%) REST
7 12 (2.46%) TensorFlow
8 9 (1.85%) NumPy
9 8 (1.64%) JSON
9 8 (1.64%) Middleware
10 7 (1.44%) Kafka
10 7 (1.44%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.23%) Node.js
11 6 (1.23%) React
12 5 (1.03%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.03%) Flask
13 4 (0.82%) boto
13 4 (0.82%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.70%) AI Agents
2 41 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 23 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.64%) Life Science
11 7 (1.44%) PMI
11 7 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.23%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.82%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.46%) Linux
2 8 (1.64%) Unix
3 7 (1.44%) Windows
4 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (46.41%) AI
2 160 (32.85%) Analytics
3 129 (26.49%) Agile
4 123 (25.26%) Machine Learning
5 110 (22.59%) Data Modelling
6 98 (20.12%) Data Pipeline
7 92 (18.89%) Data Engineering
7 92 (18.89%) LLM
8 86 (17.66%) DevOps
9 80 (16.43%) CI/CD
10 79 (16.22%) Data Science
10 79 (16.22%) Generative AI
11 77 (15.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 68 (13.96%) Roadmaps
13 67 (13.76%) Data Governance
13 67 (13.76%) Decision-Making
14 64 (13.14%) Validation
15 62 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
16 59 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (12.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 148 (30.39%) Python
2 103 (21.15%) SQL
3 22 (4.52%) C#
4 14 (2.87%) Java
4 14 (2.87%) R
5 13 (2.67%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.26%) Scala
7 9 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.44%) 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 94 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.27%) Degree
4 15 (3.08%) CBAP
5 14 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.26%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.05%) CISSP
9 10 (2.05%) IIBA
10 9 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.85%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.82%) GCIA
12 4 (0.82%) ISEB
13 3 (0.62%) CISM
13 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.62%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (16.63%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.78%) QA
3 26 (5.34%) GDPR
4 13 (2.67%) NIST
5 8 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.23%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.21%) GxP
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 (4.93%) Docker
2 12 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.05%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.21%) HDFS
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.95%) Terraform
3 8 (1.64%) 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 94 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.06%) OpenAI
3 45 (9.24%) Databricks
4 22 (4.52%) Foundry
5 19 (3.90%) Google
6 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.46%) Pega
8 11 (2.26%) VMware
9 10 (2.05%) Splunk
10 8 (1.64%) Oracle
11 7 (1.44%) SAP
12 6 (1.23%) Informatica
12 6 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (1.23%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.03%) Workday
14 4 (0.82%) IBM
15 3 (0.62%) Adobe
15 3 (0.62%) Ariba
15 3 (0.62%) OpenLink
15 3 (0.62%) Red Hat