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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 158 163
Rank change year-on-year +52 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Use Case 482 207 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.62% 1.71% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 1.85% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 130 184
10th Percentile £412 £400 £412
25th Percentile £455 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £581
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +7.53% -3.13%
75th Percentile £650 £794 £678
90th Percentile £759 £881 £851
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +2.27%
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% -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 16,287 11,179 15,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.56% 92.25% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,870 7,505 11,106
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 190 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.17 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% +11.33% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.03 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +22 65 £575 -14.81% 28
West London - 11 £523 - 4
South London -10 4 £575 -23.33% 1
East London -7 2 £717 +22.56% 1
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 26 (5.39%) Confluence
2 16 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.83%) Apache
5 4 (0.83%) CMS
6 3 (0.62%) SAS
7 2 (0.41%) Kentico
7 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.41%) WordPress
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 24 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.11%) Chatbot
2 15 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.83%) 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%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 159 (32.99%) Azure
2 98 (20.33%) AWS
3 50 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 47 (9.75%) GCP
5 32 (6.64%) Azure AI
6 23 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.15%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.94%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 18 (3.73%) Serverless
10 16 (3.32%) dbt
11 15 (3.11%) Amazon SageMaker
11 15 (3.11%) GitHub
12 14 (2.90%) WhatsApp
13 13 (2.70%) Amazon S3
13 13 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (2.49%) Entra ID
15 11 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.73%) Firewall
2 5 (1.04%) Network Security
2 5 (1.04%) RTP
3 3 (0.62%) 5G
3 3 (0.62%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.41%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.41%) 4G
4 2 (0.41%) BGP
4 2 (0.41%) Internet
4 2 (0.41%) LTE
4 2 (0.41%) SMS
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) IPsec
5 1 (0.21%) OSPF
5 1 (0.21%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.51%) Power BI
2 38 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.77%) Metadata
4 21 (4.36%) Tableau
5 16 (3.32%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (2.90%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.90%) Weaviate
8 13 (2.70%) Pinecone
9 11 (2.28%) Big Data
10 9 (1.87%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.87%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.87%) Spark SQL
11 6 (1.24%) KDB
11 6 (1.24%) Looker
12 5 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.04%) Kdb+
12 5 (1.04%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (7.47%) JIRA
2 21 (4.36%) Git
3 13 (2.70%) MLflow
4 5 (1.04%) ERwin
5 4 (0.83%) GitLab
5 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.62%) XCTest
7 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.41%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.41%) JUnit
7 2 (0.41%) Postman
7 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.21%) Ant
8 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.21%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.21%) Maven
8 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
General
1 170 (35.27%) Finance
2 130 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 78 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (13.07%) Banking
5 47 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.98%) Retail
7 19 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.94%) Legal
8 18 (3.73%) Marketing
9 16 (3.32%) Front Office
10 14 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.49%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.07%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.24%) Back Office
16 5 (1.04%) Law
17 3 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 79 (16.39%) Analyst
2 69 (14.32%) Architect
3 68 (14.11%) Business Analyst
4 61 (12.66%) Data Engineer
5 59 (12.24%) Senior
6 48 (9.96%) Lead
7 35 (7.26%) Developer
8 27 (5.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 24 (4.98%) Data Scientist
10 21 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 17 (3.53%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.32%) Consultant
13 15 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.11%) Senior Business Analyst
14 13 (2.70%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
17 9 (1.87%) Cybersecurity Specialist
18 8 (1.66%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 8 (1.66%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.98%) PySpark
2 23 (4.77%) LangChain
3 20 (4.15%) .NET
4 19 (3.94%) Pandas
4 19 (3.94%) scikit-learn
5 17 (3.53%) LlamaIndex
5 17 (3.53%) PyTorch
6 14 (2.90%) TensorFlow
7 13 (2.70%) REST
8 11 (2.28%) NumPy
9 10 (2.07%) LangGraph
10 9 (1.87%) Middleware
11 8 (1.66%) JSON
12 7 (1.45%) Kafka
13 6 (1.24%) Model Context Protocol
13 6 (1.24%) Node.js
13 6 (1.24%) React
14 5 (1.04%) FastAPI
14 5 (1.04%) Flask
14 5 (1.04%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.00%) AI Agents
2 44 (9.13%) Product Ownership
3 31 (6.43%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.56%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.49%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.66%) Life Science
9 7 (1.45%) PMI
9 7 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.04%) Derivative
11 5 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.49%) Linux
2 8 (1.66%) Unix
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (46.06%) AI
2 157 (32.57%) Analytics
3 125 (25.93%) Agile
4 124 (25.73%) Machine Learning
5 112 (23.24%) Data Modelling
6 99 (20.54%) Data Pipeline
7 95 (19.71%) LLM
8 92 (19.09%) Data Engineering
9 85 (17.63%) DevOps
10 82 (17.01%) Data Science
11 80 (16.60%) Generative AI
12 78 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 77 (15.98%) CI/CD
14 70 (14.52%) Roadmaps
15 66 (13.69%) Decision-Making
16 65 (13.49%) Data Governance
17 62 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
18 60 (12.45%) Validation
19 58 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
20 56 (11.62%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 146 (30.29%) Python
2 96 (19.92%) SQL
3 21 (4.36%) C#
4 14 (2.90%) Java
5 13 (2.70%) R
5 13 (2.70%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.28%) Scala
7 9 (1.87%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.04%) Bicep
8 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.83%) Bash
10 3 (0.62%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.62%) Swift
11 2 (0.41%) C++
11 2 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.41%) Go
11 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 74 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.00%) Degree
4 16 (3.32%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.11%) CBAP
6 12 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.07%) IIBA
8 9 (1.87%) CISSP
8 9 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.87%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.83%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.83%) GCIA
11 4 (0.83%) ISEB
11 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.62%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (15.35%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.43%) QA
3 22 (4.56%) GDPR
4 12 (2.49%) NIST
5 6 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.04%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
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%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.21%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (4.77%) Docker
2 11 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.07%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.39%) Terraform
3 8 (1.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (1.04%) 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 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.17%) OpenAI
3 48 (9.96%) Databricks
4 22 (4.56%) Foundry
5 21 (4.36%) Google
6 14 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.28%) Pega
7 11 (2.28%) VMware
8 10 (2.07%) Splunk
9 7 (1.45%) Oracle
9 7 (1.45%) SAP
10 6 (1.24%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.24%) Workday
11 5 (1.04%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.83%) Informatica
13 3 (0.62%) Adobe
13 3 (0.62%) Ariba
13 3 (0.62%) Cisco
13 3 (0.62%) OpenLink
13 3 (0.62%) Red Hat