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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 153 150
Rank change year-on-year +44 -3 +68
Contract jobs citing Use Case 556 249 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.76% 1.83% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 1.98% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 166 180
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £459 £482 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £650
90th Percentile £750 £781 £801
England median daily rate £550 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 £51.75 £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.93% -16.30% -25.00%
75th Percentile £78.55 £61.25 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.37 £58.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +32.82% -2.92% -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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +13 61 £538 -6.52% 66
West London - 14 £800 - 9
South London -14 3 £550 -26.67% 5
East London +3 2 £717 +21.63% 5
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 (4.32%) Confluence
2 16 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) Apache
4 6 (1.08%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.90%) CMS
5 5 (0.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Kentico
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Appian
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 17 (3.06%) Chatbot
2 14 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.54%) Actimize
3 3 (0.54%) Findur
3 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Workfront
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.36%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 179 (32.19%) Azure
2 110 (19.78%) AWS
3 52 (9.35%) Power Platform
4 45 (8.09%) GCP
5 40 (7.19%) Azure AI
6 29 (5.22%) Microsoft Copilot
7 27 (4.86%) Snowflake
8 26 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (4.14%) Amazon Bedrock
9 23 (4.14%) GitHub
10 21 (3.78%) dbt
11 20 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.42%) Entra ID
13 17 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (3.06%) SaaS
14 16 (2.88%) Amazon S3
15 14 (2.52%) Anthropic Claude
15 14 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (2.34%) Copilot Studio
16 13 (2.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.70%) Firewall
2 7 (1.26%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) BGP
4 5 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (0.90%) Multicast
4 5 (0.90%) VLAN
4 5 (0.90%) Wireless
5 4 (0.72%) DNS
5 4 (0.72%) SMS
5 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.54%) 5G
6 3 (0.54%) Internet
6 3 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (0.36%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.36%) 4G
7 2 (0.36%) DHCP
7 2 (0.36%) HTTP
7 2 (0.36%) LTE
7 2 (0.36%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
1 42 (7.55%) Power BI
2 38 (6.83%) Metadata
3 21 (3.78%) Tableau
4 18 (3.24%) Data Lake
5 16 (2.88%) BigQuery
6 14 (2.52%) Pinecone
6 14 (2.52%) Weaviate
7 13 (2.34%) Delta Lake
8 12 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.98%) Semantic Layer
10 10 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.62%) Big Data
12 7 (1.26%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.08%) Redis
13 6 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.90%) Looker
14 5 (0.90%) SQL Server
15 4 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (6.83%) JIRA
2 22 (3.96%) Git
3 8 (1.44%) ERwin
3 8 (1.44%) GitLab
3 8 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.44%) MLflow
4 6 (1.08%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.54%) XCTest
7 2 (0.36%) Postman
7 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 206 (37.05%) Finance
2 147 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 98 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (14.21%) Banking
5 54 (9.71%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.04%) Retail
7 25 (4.50%) Marketing
8 24 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.78%) Front Office
9 21 (3.78%) Investment Banking
9 21 (3.78%) Legal
10 15 (2.70%) Financial Institution
10 15 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.34%) Law
12 11 (1.98%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.26%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.08%) French Language
17 5 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (15.47%) Architect
2 77 (13.85%) Analyst
3 67 (12.05%) Data Engineer
4 61 (10.97%) Business Analyst
5 58 (10.43%) Senior
6 57 (10.25%) Lead
7 42 (7.55%) Developer
8 39 (7.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 34 (6.12%) Consultant
10 22 (3.96%) Data Architect
11 21 (3.78%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 19 (3.42%) Data Scientist
13 16 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.70%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 12 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
17 9 (1.62%) Senior Developer
17 9 (1.62%) Technical Analyst
17 9 (1.62%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.40%) PySpark
2 25 (4.50%) REST
3 23 (4.14%) LangChain
4 19 (3.42%) LlamaIndex
5 18 (3.24%) .NET
6 15 (2.70%) Pandas
7 12 (2.16%) JSON
8 10 (1.80%) scikit-learn
9 8 (1.44%) Model Context Protocol
9 8 (1.44%) NumPy
9 8 (1.44%) RESTful
10 7 (1.26%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.26%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.08%) Kafka
11 6 (1.08%) Middleware
12 5 (0.90%) OAuth
12 5 (0.90%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.90%) XML
13 4 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
13 4 (0.72%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 72 (12.95%) AI Agents
2 50 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.73%) Cloud Native
4 39 (7.01%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.16%) Taxonomies
8 11 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.62%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.44%) Life Science
10 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.90%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.06%) Linux
2 15 (2.70%) Windows
3 8 (1.44%) Unix
3 8 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (50.00%) AI
2 182 (32.73%) Analytics
3 140 (25.18%) Machine Learning
4 136 (24.46%) Agile
5 117 (21.04%) Data Pipeline
6 109 (19.60%) Data Modelling
7 107 (19.24%) LLM
8 104 (18.71%) Data Engineering
9 99 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 93 (16.73%) Generative AI
11 84 (15.11%) CI/CD
12 81 (14.57%) Decision-Making
12 81 (14.57%) DevOps
13 79 (14.21%) Data Governance
14 77 (13.85%) Data Science
15 73 (13.13%) Roadmaps
15 73 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 71 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
17 69 (12.41%) Validation
18 64 (11.51%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 147 (26.44%) Python
2 116 (20.86%) SQL
3 18 (3.24%) C#
4 15 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.52%) Java
5 14 (2.52%) R
6 12 (2.16%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.08%) Scala
9 5 (0.90%) Bash
9 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.72%) Go
10 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.72%) SPARQL
10 4 (0.72%) VBA
11 3 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.54%) Bicep
11 3 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.54%) SHACL
11 3 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 92 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 77 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.55%) Degree
4 17 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.88%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.52%) CISSP
7 10 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.62%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.26%) CBAP
11 6 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.90%) GCIH
12 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.90%) PMP
13 4 (0.72%) CEH
13 4 (0.72%) CISM
13 4 (0.72%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (17.09%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.12%) QA
3 31 (5.58%) GDPR
4 17 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.52%) NIST
6 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.72%) NCSC
9 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.36%) GRC
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.36%) MiFID
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) PERC
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (3.42%) Docker
2 18 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) IAG
4 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (6.83%) Terraform
2 31 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.08%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.90%) Ansible
4 5 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.54%) QRadar
6 2 (0.36%) Grafana
6 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.25%) Databricks
3 51 (9.17%) OpenAI
4 27 (4.86%) Foundry
5 22 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.88%) Splunk
7 15 (2.70%) Google
8 13 (2.34%) Pega
8 13 (2.34%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.16%) Oracle
10 11 (1.98%) Cisco
11 10 (1.80%) SAP
12 9 (1.62%) Adobe
13 8 (1.44%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.90%) Informatica
14 5 (0.90%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 5 (0.90%) VMware
14 5 (0.90%) Workday