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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 128 144
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 +74
Contract jobs citing Use Case 571 303 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.78% 2.26% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.45% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 200 176
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £560
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +2.23% +1.82%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
England median daily rate £566 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +7.86% -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £34.43 £66.53
25th Percentile - £37.31 £66.94
Median hourly rate - £45.75 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - -33.45% -25.68%
75th Percentile - £55.31 £70.44
90th Percentile - £58.88 £70.78
England median hourly rate £81.08 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +43.50% -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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £668 £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 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 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 15 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 -6 59 £525 -8.70% 21
West London - 13 £638 - 12
South London -10 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 (4.20%) Confluence
2 16 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.45%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.10%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.75%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.23%) Apache
7 5 (0.88%) CMS
7 5 (0.88%) SAS
8 4 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.35%) Kentico
9 2 (0.35%) WordPress
10 1 (0.18%) Appian
10 1 (0.18%) Camunda
10 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (1.93%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.53%) Workfront
3 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.35%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.35%) Summit
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
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
1 169 (29.60%) Azure
2 111 (19.44%) AWS
3 53 (9.28%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.65%) Microsoft Copilot
5 37 (6.48%) GCP
6 33 (5.78%) Snowflake
7 31 (5.43%) Azure AI
8 24 (4.20%) dbt
8 24 (4.20%) GitHub
9 21 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.50%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.50%) Copilot Studio
11 19 (3.33%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.98%) Entra ID
13 16 (2.80%) Amazon Bedrock
14 15 (2.63%) SaaS
15 14 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 14 (2.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.10%) Firewall
2 11 (1.93%) BGP
3 8 (1.40%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.40%) Multicast
3 8 (1.40%) VLAN
3 8 (1.40%) Wireless
4 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.88%) DNS
5 5 (0.88%) Network Security
6 4 (0.70%) SMS
7 3 (0.53%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.53%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.53%) Internet
7 3 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.53%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.35%) DHCP
8 2 (0.35%) HTTP
9 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (9.11%) Metadata
2 34 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (5.95%) Power BI
3 21 (3.68%) Data Lake
4 18 (3.15%) Delta Lake
5 13 (2.28%) Semantic Layer
6 11 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (1.93%) Pinecone
6 11 (1.93%) Tableau
7 10 (1.75%) Chroma
7 10 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 10 (1.75%) Weaviate
8 9 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.40%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.23%) Neo4j
10 7 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (7.01%) JIRA
2 18 (3.15%) Git
3 7 (1.23%) ERwin
3 7 (1.23%) GitLab
4 6 (1.05%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.05%) MLflow
5 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.35%) Postman
6 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
General
1 224 (39.23%) Finance
2 146 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (13.13%) Banking
5 49 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.08%) Marketing
7 25 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (4.38%) Retail
8 21 (3.68%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.50%) Legal
10 19 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.98%) Front Office
12 13 (2.28%) Law
13 11 (1.93%) Back Office
14 10 (1.75%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.23%) Publishing
16 6 (1.05%) French Language
16 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (17.69%) Analyst
2 96 (16.81%) Architect
3 81 (14.19%) Senior
4 74 (12.96%) Business Analyst
5 62 (10.86%) Data Engineer
6 53 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 49 (8.58%) Lead
8 41 (7.18%) Consultant
9 27 (4.73%) Developer
10 25 (4.38%) Data Architect
11 23 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 22 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.98%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
15 16 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
16 14 (2.45%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
17 13 (2.28%) Data Analyst
18 12 (2.10%) Technical Analyst
19 11 (1.93%) Enterprise Architect
19 11 (1.93%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.71%) Terraform
2 30 (5.25%) REST
3 28 (4.90%) PySpark
4 21 (3.68%) LangChain
5 19 (3.33%) Model Context Protocol
6 13 (2.28%) JSON
6 13 (2.28%) LlamaIndex
7 12 (2.10%) .NET
8 11 (1.93%) LangGraph
9 10 (1.75%) Kafka
9 10 (1.75%) RESTful
10 9 (1.58%) Pandas
10 9 (1.58%) vLLM
11 8 (1.40%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.40%) Semantic Kernel
11 8 (1.40%) Web Services
12 6 (1.05%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.88%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.66%) AI Agents
2 54 (9.46%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.53%) Cloud Native
4 42 (7.36%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.50%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.98%) Taxonomies
8 16 (2.80%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.75%) Life Science
11 10 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
12 9 (1.58%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (1.40%) Digital Signage
14 7 (1.23%) Reference Data
15 6 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.45%) Linux
2 12 (2.10%) Windows
3 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.70%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (56.22%) AI
2 170 (29.77%) Analytics
3 142 (24.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 139 (24.34%) Machine Learning
5 134 (23.47%) Agile
6 127 (22.24%) LLM
7 114 (19.96%) Generative AI
8 107 (18.74%) Data Pipeline
9 106 (18.56%) Data Modelling
10 89 (15.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 87 (15.24%) Data Governance
11 87 (15.24%) Roadmaps
12 86 (15.06%) CI/CD
13 85 (14.89%) Data Engineering
14 78 (13.66%) DevOps
15 76 (13.31%) Workshop Facilitation
16 73 (12.78%) Validation
17 70 (12.26%) Business Analysis
18 69 (12.08%) Data Architecture
19 68 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 137 (23.99%) Python
2 113 (19.79%) SQL
3 19 (3.33%) Java
4 15 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.10%) C#
6 9 (1.58%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.40%) R
8 6 (1.05%) Bash
8 6 (1.05%) Bicep
8 6 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.88%) Scala
10 4 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.70%) SPARQL
11 3 (0.53%) Go
11 3 (0.53%) SHACL
12 2 (0.35%) Elixir
12 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.35%) Rust
12 2 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 83 (14.54%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 57 (9.98%) Degree
4 21 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.28%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.10%) CBAP
6 12 (2.10%) CISSP
7 11 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.93%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.23%) PMP
11 6 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.88%) GCIH
12 5 (0.88%) GIAC
12 5 (0.88%) IIBA
12 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (17.34%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.38%) GDPR
3 24 (4.20%) QA
4 14 (2.45%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.93%) NIST
6 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.05%) EU AI Act
7 6 (1.05%) GRC
8 5 (0.88%) NCSC
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 3 (0.53%) MiFID
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) EMIR
11 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 16 (2.80%) Docker
2 12 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.35%) IAG
4 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.58%) Kubeflow
3 8 (1.40%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (1.05%) QRadar
5 5 (0.88%) Ansible
6 2 (0.35%) Argo
6 2 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Kibana
6 2 (0.35%) logstash
6 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 112 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 67 (11.73%) Databricks
3 44 (7.71%) OpenAI
4 32 (5.60%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.15%) Google
5 18 (3.15%) Splunk
6 17 (2.98%) Oracle
7 16 (2.80%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.63%) Cisco
8 15 (2.63%) Foundry
9 12 (2.10%) SAP
10 11 (1.93%) Adobe
11 8 (1.40%) Informatica
12 6 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.05%) F5
12 6 (1.05%) VMware
13 4 (0.70%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.53%) ArcSight
14 3 (0.53%) Aruba