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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 146 155
Rank change year-on-year +38 +9 +58
Contract jobs citing Use Case 545 265 282
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.72% 1.97% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.14% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 176 190
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £467 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
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% -25.00%
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £58.88 -
England median hourly rate £77.37 £56.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +36.93% -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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 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 20 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 +9 56 £525 -8.70% 43
West London - 13 £800 - 6
South London -1 6 £689 -8.13% 1
East London +2 2 £717 +21.63% 6
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 23 (4.22%) Confluence
2 16 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.47%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.92%) Apache
5 5 (0.92%) CMS
5 5 (0.92%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.37%) Kentico
7 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.37%) 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 14 (2.57%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Actimize
3 3 (0.55%) Findur
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.55%) Workfront
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.37%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) DELMIA
Cloud Services
1 164 (30.09%) Azure
2 99 (18.17%) AWS
3 50 (9.17%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.97%) GCP
5 37 (6.79%) Azure AI
6 31 (5.69%) Microsoft Copilot
7 29 (5.32%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.04%) GitHub
10 19 (3.49%) dbt
11 18 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
11 18 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (3.12%) Entra ID
12 17 (3.12%) SaaS
13 15 (2.75%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (2.57%) Anthropic Claude
14 14 (2.57%) Copilot Studio
14 14 (2.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.20%) Firewall
2 8 (1.47%) BGP
3 6 (1.10%) Network Security
4 5 (0.92%) Cisco Wireless
4 5 (0.92%) Multicast
4 5 (0.92%) VLAN
4 5 (0.92%) Wireless
5 4 (0.73%) SMS
5 4 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.55%) 5G
6 3 (0.55%) DNS
6 3 (0.55%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.55%) InfiniBand
6 3 (0.55%) Internet
6 3 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.37%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.52%) Metadata
2 38 (6.97%) Power BI
3 36 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.67%) Tableau
5 18 (3.30%) Data Lake
6 14 (2.57%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.20%) Delta Lake
7 12 (2.20%) Pinecone
7 12 (2.20%) Weaviate
8 11 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.28%) Big Data
11 6 (1.10%) Redis
11 6 (1.10%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.92%) Looker
12 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.79%) JIRA
2 16 (2.94%) Git
3 8 (1.47%) ERwin
4 7 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.10%) ER Studio
6 5 (0.92%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.92%) GitLab
6 5 (0.92%) MLflow
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 201 (36.88%) Finance
2 142 (26.06%) Social Skills
3 97 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.94%) Banking
5 49 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.77%) Retail
7 24 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 23 (4.22%) Marketing
9 21 (3.85%) Legal
10 20 (3.67%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.49%) Front Office
12 16 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (2.75%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.39%) Law
15 11 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (2.02%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
18 6 (1.10%) Back Office
18 6 (1.10%) French Language
Job Titles
1 79 (14.50%) Architect
2 78 (14.31%) Analyst
3 61 (11.19%) Business Analyst
3 61 (11.19%) Data Engineer
4 56 (10.28%) Senior
5 51 (9.36%) Lead
6 43 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 38 (6.97%) Developer
8 37 (6.79%) Consultant
9 21 (3.85%) Data Architect
10 20 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 18 (3.30%) Data Scientist
12 15 (2.75%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 15 (2.75%) Data Analyst
13 13 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
15 10 (1.83%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (1.83%) SOC Engineer
15 10 (1.83%) Technical Analyst
16 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.61%) Terraform
2 29 (5.32%) PySpark
3 26 (4.77%) REST
4 22 (4.04%) LangChain
5 17 (3.12%) .NET
6 15 (2.75%) LlamaIndex
7 14 (2.57%) Pandas
8 12 (2.20%) JSON
9 10 (1.83%) Model Context Protocol
10 9 (1.65%) RESTful
10 9 (1.65%) scikit-learn
11 8 (1.47%) LangGraph
12 7 (1.28%) GraphQL
12 7 (1.28%) NumPy
13 6 (1.10%) vLLM
14 5 (0.92%) Kafka
14 5 (0.92%) OAuth
14 5 (0.92%) Semantic Kernel
14 5 (0.92%) XML
15 4 (0.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 72 (13.21%) AI Agents
2 49 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 41 (7.52%) Cloud Native
4 39 (7.16%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.30%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.39%) Taxonomies
8 11 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.47%) Life Science
11 7 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.10%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.92%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.12%) Linux
2 14 (2.57%) Windows
3 8 (1.47%) Unix
3 8 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (52.11%) AI
2 171 (31.38%) Analytics
3 138 (25.32%) Machine Learning
4 132 (24.22%) Agile
5 110 (20.18%) LLM
6 108 (19.82%) Data Pipeline
7 104 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 101 (18.53%) Data Modelling
9 91 (16.70%) Data Engineering
9 91 (16.70%) Generative AI
10 78 (14.31%) CI/CD
11 77 (14.13%) DevOps
12 76 (13.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 74 (13.58%) Data Governance
13 74 (13.58%) Data Science
14 71 (13.03%) Decision-Making
14 71 (13.03%) Roadmaps
15 68 (12.48%) Validation
16 66 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
17 64 (11.74%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 139 (25.50%) Python
2 112 (20.55%) SQL
3 18 (3.30%) C#
4 16 (2.94%) Java
5 14 (2.57%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.57%) R
6 10 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.92%) Bash
7 5 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (0.92%) Scala
8 4 (0.73%) Go
8 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
8 4 (0.73%) VBA
9 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.55%) Bicep
9 3 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.55%) SHACL
10 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 92 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.71%) Degree
4 17 (3.12%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.39%) CISSP
5 13 (2.39%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.65%) CBAP
8 9 (1.65%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.92%) GCIH
11 5 (0.92%) IIBA
11 5 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.92%) PMP
12 4 (0.73%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (17.06%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.87%) GDPR
3 30 (5.50%) QA
4 15 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.75%) NIST
5 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.73%) NCSC
7 3 (0.55%) GRC
7 3 (0.55%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) PERC
9 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.57%) Docker
3 3 (0.55%) IAG
4 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.10%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.92%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (0.73%) Ansible
5 3 (0.55%) QRadar
6 2 (0.37%) Grafana
6 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Control-M
7 1 (0.18%) Istio
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 59 (10.83%) Databricks
3 46 (8.44%) OpenAI
4 24 (4.40%) Foundry
5 23 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.94%) Splunk
7 14 (2.57%) Cisco
8 13 (2.39%) Pega
8 13 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.20%) Oracle
10 11 (2.02%) SAP
11 9 (1.65%) Google
12 8 (1.47%) Adobe
12 8 (1.47%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.92%) F5
13 5 (0.92%) Informatica
13 5 (0.92%) Juniper
13 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.92%) Workday