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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 126 153
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 +55
Contract jobs citing Use Case 565 300 282
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.77% 2.26% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 2.44% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 195 177
10th Percentile £406 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £466 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year - +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £688 £676 £650
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
England median daily rate £563 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £34.43 £66.53
25th Percentile £76.18 £37.31 £66.94
Median hourly rate £77.37 £45.75 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +69.10% -33.45% -25.68%
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £70.44
90th Percentile - £58.88 £70.78
England median hourly rate £77.37 £49.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year +57.18% -17.97% -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 18,128 12,293 14,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.49% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,864 8,121 9,276
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £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 342 242 178
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.88 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 13 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 13 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 -2 58 £525 -8.70% 118
West London - 13 £638 - 14
South London -14 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 (4.25%) Confluence
2 17 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.12%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.77%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.24%) Apache
7 5 (0.88%) CMS
8 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.53%) SAS
10 2 (0.35%) Kentico
10 2 (0.35%) WordPress
11 1 (0.18%) Appian
11 1 (0.18%) Camunda
11 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (1.95%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.71%) 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 (29.91%) Azure
2 111 (19.65%) AWS
3 51 (9.03%) Power Platform
4 38 (6.73%) GCP
5 37 (6.55%) Microsoft Copilot
6 34 (6.02%) Snowflake
7 31 (5.49%) Azure AI
8 25 (4.42%) dbt
9 24 (4.25%) GitHub
10 20 (3.54%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (3.36%) Copilot Studio
12 18 (3.19%) Power Automate
13 17 (3.01%) Entra ID
14 16 (2.83%) Amazon Bedrock
14 16 (2.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (2.65%) SaaS
16 14 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (2.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.12%) Firewall
2 11 (1.95%) BGP
3 8 (1.42%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.42%) Multicast
3 8 (1.42%) VLAN
3 8 (1.42%) Wireless
4 7 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.88%) DNS
5 5 (0.88%) Network Security
6 4 (0.71%) 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%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.38%) Metadata
2 34 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (5.84%) Power BI
4 21 (3.72%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.19%) Delta Lake
6 13 (2.30%) Semantic Layer
7 12 (2.12%) Pinecone
8 11 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.95%) Chroma
8 11 (1.95%) Weaviate
9 10 (1.77%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.77%) Tableau
10 9 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.24%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.24%) Neo4j
12 7 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.06%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (6.90%) JIRA
2 18 (3.19%) Git
3 9 (1.59%) ERwin
4 7 (1.24%) GitLab
5 6 (1.06%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.06%) MLflow
6 4 (0.71%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.35%) Postman
7 2 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
General
1 219 (38.76%) Finance
2 144 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 99 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (13.10%) Banking
5 49 (8.67%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.13%) Marketing
7 26 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (4.42%) Retail
9 22 (3.89%) Investment Banking
10 20 (3.54%) Legal
11 19 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (3.19%) Front Office
13 13 (2.30%) Law
14 11 (1.95%) Back Office
15 10 (1.77%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.24%) Publishing
17 6 (1.06%) French Language
17 6 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 99 (17.52%) Analyst
2 93 (16.46%) Architect
3 78 (13.81%) Senior
4 72 (12.74%) Business Analyst
5 63 (11.15%) Data Engineer
6 54 (9.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 50 (8.85%) Lead
8 40 (7.08%) Consultant
9 26 (4.60%) Developer
10 24 (4.25%) Data Architect
11 23 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 21 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.65%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (2.30%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
16 13 (2.30%) Data Analyst
17 12 (2.12%) Technical Analyst
18 11 (1.95%) Enterprise Architect
18 11 (1.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.79%) Terraform
2 30 (5.31%) REST
3 28 (4.96%) PySpark
4 22 (3.89%) LangChain
5 19 (3.36%) Model Context Protocol
6 14 (2.48%) LlamaIndex
7 13 (2.30%) .NET
7 13 (2.30%) JSON
8 11 (1.95%) LangGraph
9 10 (1.77%) Kafka
9 10 (1.77%) RESTful
10 9 (1.59%) Pandas
10 9 (1.59%) vLLM
11 8 (1.42%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Graph
11 8 (1.42%) Semantic Kernel
11 8 (1.42%) Web Services
12 6 (1.06%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.88%) PyTorch
13 5 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.63%) AI Agents
2 53 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.61%) Cloud Native
4 42 (7.43%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 19 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.83%) Taxonomies
8 14 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.77%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.77%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (1.59%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.42%) Digital Signage
12 8 (1.42%) Life Science
13 7 (1.24%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
14 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.48%) Linux
2 12 (2.12%) Windows
3 7 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.71%) Unix
5 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (55.93%) AI
2 168 (29.73%) Analytics
3 139 (24.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 138 (24.42%) Machine Learning
5 132 (23.36%) Agile
6 128 (22.65%) LLM
7 114 (20.18%) Generative AI
8 107 (18.94%) Data Modelling
8 107 (18.94%) Data Pipeline
9 88 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 87 (15.40%) Data Governance
11 86 (15.22%) CI/CD
11 86 (15.22%) Data Engineering
11 86 (15.22%) Roadmaps
12 77 (13.63%) DevOps
13 73 (12.92%) Validation
14 71 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
14 71 (12.57%) Workshop Facilitation
15 68 (12.04%) Business Analysis
16 67 (11.86%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 136 (24.07%) Python
2 112 (19.82%) SQL
3 19 (3.36%) Java
4 15 (2.65%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.30%) C#
6 9 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.06%) Bash
7 6 (1.06%) Bicep
7 6 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.06%) R
8 5 (0.88%) Scala
9 4 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.71%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.53%) Go
10 3 (0.53%) SHACL
11 2 (0.35%) Elixir
11 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.35%) Rust
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 83 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.92%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.91%) Degree
4 21 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 12 (2.12%) CBAP
6 12 (2.12%) CISSP
7 11 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.24%) PMP
11 6 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.88%) CCSP
12 5 (0.88%) GCIH
12 5 (0.88%) GIAC
12 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (17.35%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.78%) GDPR
3 24 (4.25%) QA
4 14 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.77%) NIST
6 7 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.06%) GRC
8 5 (0.88%) EU AI Act
8 5 (0.88%) NCSC
9 4 (0.71%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.71%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.53%) MiFID
11 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.35%) EMIR
11 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (2.83%) Docker
2 12 (2.12%) 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 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.59%) Kubeflow
3 8 (1.42%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (1.06%) 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
1 111 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.21%) Databricks
3 45 (7.96%) OpenAI
4 31 (5.49%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.36%) Splunk
6 18 (3.19%) Google
7 17 (3.01%) Oracle
8 16 (2.83%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.65%) Cisco
9 15 (2.65%) Foundry
10 12 (2.12%) SAP
11 11 (1.95%) Adobe
12 7 (1.24%) Informatica
13 6 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.06%) F5
13 6 (1.06%) VMware
14 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.53%) Juniper
15 3 (0.53%) NetApp