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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 132 142
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 +83
Contract jobs citing Use Case 530 284 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.63% 2.11% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.28% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 185 190
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £34.43 -
25th Percentile £76.18 £37.31 £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 £45.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.10% -32.22% -
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £58.88 -
England median hourly rate £72.43 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +28.20% -5.83% -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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £675 £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 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 53 £500 -12.28% 145
West London - 12 £800 - 39
South London -4 5 £698 -6.93% 9
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 20 (3.77%) Confluence
2 16 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.70%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.32%) Apache
7 5 (0.94%) CMS
8 3 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.57%) SAS
9 2 (0.38%) Kentico
9 2 (0.38%) WordPress
10 1 (0.19%) Appian
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (1.89%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.57%) Findur
2 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.57%) Workfront
3 2 (0.38%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.38%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.38%) Summit
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.19%) Endur
4 1 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 151 (28.49%) Azure
2 94 (17.74%) AWS
3 52 (9.81%) Power Platform
4 38 (7.17%) GCP
5 34 (6.42%) Microsoft Copilot
5 34 (6.42%) Snowflake
6 25 (4.72%) Azure AI
7 23 (4.34%) dbt
8 22 (4.15%) GitHub
9 21 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.21%) SaaS
12 16 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 16 (3.02%) Copilot Studio
12 16 (3.02%) Entra ID
13 15 (2.83%) Power Automate
14 14 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (2.45%) Amazon Bedrock
15 13 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.26%) Firewall
2 11 (2.08%) BGP
3 8 (1.51%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.51%) Multicast
3 8 (1.51%) VLAN
3 8 (1.51%) Wireless
4 7 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.94%) Network Security
6 4 (0.75%) SMS
7 3 (0.57%) DNS
7 3 (0.57%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.57%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.57%) Internet
7 3 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.57%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.57%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.38%) DHCP
8 2 (0.38%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.55%) Metadata
2 37 (6.98%) Power BI
3 33 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.96%) Data Lake
5 15 (2.83%) Tableau
6 13 (2.45%) Pinecone
6 13 (2.45%) Weaviate
7 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.26%) Chroma
7 12 (2.26%) Delta Lake
8 11 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.70%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.51%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.13%) Redis
14 5 (0.94%) Big Data
14 5 (0.94%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 34 (6.42%) JIRA
2 17 (3.21%) Git
3 8 (1.51%) ERwin
4 6 (1.13%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.13%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.94%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.94%) GitLab
5 5 (0.94%) MLflow
6 2 (0.38%) Postman
6 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (38.68%) Finance
2 132 (24.91%) Social Skills
3 96 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.77%) Banking
5 40 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (4.72%) Marketing
6 25 (4.72%) Retail
7 21 (3.96%) Front Office
8 20 (3.77%) Investment Banking
9 18 (3.40%) Legal
10 17 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (2.64%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.64%) Law
12 11 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.51%) Back Office
14 7 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.13%) French Language
15 6 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (16.23%) Analyst
2 78 (14.72%) Architect
3 65 (12.26%) Business Analyst
4 62 (11.70%) Senior
5 60 (11.32%) Data Engineer
6 49 (9.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 47 (8.87%) Lead
8 38 (7.17%) Consultant
9 31 (5.85%) Developer
10 22 (4.15%) Data Architect
11 18 (3.40%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 14 (2.64%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 14 (2.64%) Data Analyst
12 14 (2.64%) Data Scientist
13 13 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.08%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
15 11 (2.08%) Enterprise Architect
16 10 (1.89%) Senior Business Analyst
16 10 (1.89%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.36%) Terraform
2 30 (5.66%) PySpark
3 24 (4.53%) REST
4 22 (4.15%) LangChain
5 16 (3.02%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (2.83%) LlamaIndex
7 14 (2.64%) .NET
8 12 (2.26%) Pandas
9 10 (1.89%) JSON
10 9 (1.70%) RESTful
11 7 (1.32%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.32%) Kafka
11 7 (1.32%) LangGraph
11 7 (1.32%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.32%) vLLM
12 6 (1.13%) NumPy
12 6 (1.13%) Semantic Kernel
13 4 (0.75%) Node.js
13 4 (0.75%) pytest
13 4 (0.75%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.83%) AI Agents
2 53 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.36%) Onboarding
4 36 (6.79%) Cloud Native
5 20 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.26%) Taxonomies
9 11 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.70%) Life Science
12 8 (1.51%) Digital Signage
13 7 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.32%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.94%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.45%) Linux
2 12 (2.26%) Windows
3 7 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.94%) Unix
5 3 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (53.77%) AI
2 167 (31.51%) Analytics
3 129 (24.34%) Machine Learning
4 123 (23.21%) Agile
5 117 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 113 (21.32%) LLM
7 103 (19.43%) Data Pipeline
8 102 (19.25%) Data Modelling
9 98 (18.49%) Generative AI
10 87 (16.42%) Data Engineering
11 80 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 79 (14.91%) Data Governance
13 75 (14.15%) Roadmaps
14 72 (13.58%) CI/CD
15 68 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (12.64%) Data Architecture
16 67 (12.64%) Data Science
16 67 (12.64%) DevOps
17 64 (12.08%) Validation
18 61 (11.51%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 131 (24.72%) Python
2 111 (20.94%) SQL
3 17 (3.21%) Java
4 15 (2.83%) C#
5 13 (2.45%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.26%) R
7 7 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.94%) Scala
9 4 (0.75%) Bash
9 4 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.75%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.57%) Bicep
10 3 (0.57%) Go
10 3 (0.57%) SHACL
10 3 (0.57%) VBA
11 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.38%) Rust
11 2 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 87 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.74%) Degree
4 15 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (2.83%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.26%) CISSP
5 12 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.70%) CBAP
7 9 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.32%) PMP
10 6 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.13%) GIAC
11 5 (0.94%) CCSP
11 5 (0.94%) IIBA
11 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (16.98%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.28%) GDPR
3 26 (4.91%) QA
4 16 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.26%) NIST
6 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.94%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.75%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.75%) GRC
8 4 (0.75%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.75%) NCSC
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.38%) MiFID
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.64%) Docker
2 11 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.38%) IAG
3 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.51%) Cisco Prime
3 7 (1.32%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.57%) Ansible
4 3 (0.57%) QRadar
5 2 (0.38%) Grafana
5 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.51%) Databricks
3 40 (7.55%) OpenAI
4 26 (4.91%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.77%) Splunk
6 15 (2.83%) Cisco
6 15 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.45%) Foundry
7 13 (2.45%) SAP
8 12 (2.26%) Oracle
9 10 (1.89%) Google
10 9 (1.70%) Adobe
11 8 (1.51%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.13%) F5
12 6 (1.13%) Informatica
12 6 (1.13%) Pega
13 4 (0.75%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.75%) VMware