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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 125 144
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +78
Contract jobs citing Use Case 535 296 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 2.20% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.38% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 196 184
10th Percentile £407 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £467 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £578
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.73% +5.00%
75th Percentile £682 £672 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £552 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +5.14% -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% -
75th Percentile £78.55 £55.31 £68.75
90th Percentile - £58.88 -
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 17,955 12,445 14,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.75% 92.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,216 9,548
10th Percentile £358 £330 £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 £669 £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 316 243 183
10th Percentile £16.18 £17.26 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%

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 27 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 27 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 -5 55 £500 -12.66% 128
West London - 12 £800 - 37
South London -4 3 £698 -6.93% 1
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 21 (3.93%) Confluence
2 17 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.87%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.12%) Apache
7 5 (0.93%) CMS
8 4 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.56%) SAS
10 2 (0.37%) Kentico
10 2 (0.37%) WordPress
11 1 (0.19%) Appian
11 1 (0.19%) Camunda
11 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (2.06%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.56%) Workfront
3 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.37%) Findur
3 2 (0.37%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.37%) Summit
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.19%) Endur
4 1 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
Cloud Services
1 153 (28.60%) Azure
2 97 (18.13%) AWS
3 52 (9.72%) Power Platform
4 38 (7.10%) Microsoft Copilot
5 34 (6.36%) GCP
5 34 (6.36%) Snowflake
6 26 (4.86%) Azure AI
7 25 (4.67%) dbt
8 22 (4.11%) GitHub
8 22 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (3.93%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.74%) Copilot Studio
11 16 (2.99%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.80%) Amazon Bedrock
12 15 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (2.80%) SaaS
13 14 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
13 14 (2.62%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.24%) Firewall
2 11 (2.06%) BGP
3 8 (1.50%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (1.50%) Multicast
3 8 (1.50%) VLAN
3 8 (1.50%) Wireless
4 7 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.93%) Network Security
6 4 (0.75%) SMS
7 3 (0.56%) DNS
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.56%) InfiniBand
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.56%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.37%) DHCP
8 2 (0.37%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.04%) Metadata
2 35 (6.54%) Power BI
3 31 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (3.93%) Data Lake
5 15 (2.80%) Tableau
6 14 (2.62%) Pinecone
7 13 (2.43%) Chroma
7 13 (2.43%) Delta Lake
7 13 (2.43%) Weaviate
8 12 (2.24%) Semantic Layer
9 11 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.68%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.50%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.12%) Neo4j
13 6 (1.12%) Redis
14 5 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
15 4 (0.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 34 (6.36%) JIRA
2 17 (3.18%) Git
3 9 (1.68%) ERwin
4 6 (1.12%) ER Studio
4 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.93%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.93%) GitLab
5 5 (0.93%) MLflow
6 2 (0.37%) Postman
6 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (38.32%) Finance
2 137 (25.61%) Social Skills
3 94 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (13.64%) Banking
5 43 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.23%) Marketing
7 25 (4.67%) Retail
8 23 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (3.93%) Front Office
10 20 (3.74%) Investment Banking
11 19 (3.55%) Legal
12 17 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.62%) Law
14 12 (2.24%) Financial Institution
15 11 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.31%) Back Office
16 7 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.12%) French Language
18 5 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (17.20%) Analyst
2 79 (14.77%) Architect
3 69 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 68 (12.71%) Senior
5 60 (11.21%) Data Engineer
6 52 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 48 (8.97%) Lead
8 38 (7.10%) Consultant
9 28 (5.23%) Developer
10 21 (3.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 21 (3.93%) Data Architect
11 15 (2.80%) Data Analyst
11 15 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.43%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (2.43%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 13 (2.43%) Data Scientist
14 12 (2.24%) Enterprise Architect
15 11 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
15 11 (2.06%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.29%) Terraform
2 28 (5.23%) PySpark
3 25 (4.67%) REST
4 23 (4.30%) LangChain
5 18 (3.36%) Model Context Protocol
6 15 (2.80%) LlamaIndex
7 14 (2.62%) .NET
8 12 (2.24%) JSON
8 12 (2.24%) Pandas
9 10 (1.87%) RESTful
10 9 (1.68%) LangGraph
11 8 (1.50%) GraphQL
11 8 (1.50%) vLLM
12 7 (1.31%) Kafka
12 7 (1.31%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.31%) Semantic Kernel
13 6 (1.12%) NumPy
13 6 (1.12%) PyTorch
13 6 (1.12%) Web Services
14 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.08%) AI Agents
2 53 (9.91%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.29%) Onboarding
4 38 (7.10%) Cloud Native
5 22 (4.11%) Data Structures
6 17 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.62%) Taxonomies
8 12 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.68%) Life Science
10 8 (1.50%) Digital Signage
10 8 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
11 7 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.31%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.24%) Linux
1 12 (2.24%) Windows
2 7 (1.31%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (54.39%) AI
2 163 (30.47%) Analytics
3 127 (23.74%) Machine Learning
4 124 (23.18%) Agile
5 122 (22.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 118 (22.06%) LLM
7 104 (19.44%) Data Modelling
7 104 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
8 103 (19.25%) Generative AI
9 85 (15.89%) Data Engineering
10 84 (15.70%) Data Governance
11 81 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 79 (14.77%) Roadmaps
13 73 (13.64%) CI/CD
14 67 (12.52%) Data Science
15 66 (12.34%) Data Architecture
16 65 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
17 64 (11.96%) DevOps
18 63 (11.78%) Validation
19 61 (11.40%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 134 (25.05%) Python
2 110 (20.56%) SQL
3 17 (3.18%) Java
4 16 (2.99%) C#
5 14 (2.62%) PowerShell
6 9 (1.68%) R
6 9 (1.68%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.93%) Scala
9 4 (0.75%) Bash
9 4 (0.75%) SPARQL
10 3 (0.56%) Bicep
10 3 (0.56%) Go
10 3 (0.56%) SHACL
10 3 (0.56%) VBA
11 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.37%) Rust
11 2 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 85 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 75 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.41%) Degree
4 16 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.06%) CISSP
7 11 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.68%) CBAP
10 8 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.31%) PMP
12 5 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.93%) CCSP
12 5 (0.93%) GCIH
12 5 (0.93%) GIAC
12 5 (0.93%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (17.57%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.42%) GDPR
3 25 (4.67%) QA
4 15 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.06%) NIST
6 7 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.75%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.75%) GRC
7 4 (0.75%) ISO 15022
7 4 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.75%) NCSC
8 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (2.62%) Docker
2 12 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.37%) IAG
3 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.50%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (1.50%) Kubeflow
3 4 (0.75%) QRadar
4 3 (0.56%) Ansible
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 103 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.40%) Databricks
3 42 (7.85%) OpenAI
4 27 (5.05%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.74%) Splunk
6 16 (2.99%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.80%) Cisco
8 13 (2.43%) Google
8 13 (2.43%) SAP
9 12 (2.24%) Foundry
10 11 (2.06%) Adobe
10 11 (2.06%) Oracle
11 7 (1.31%) Informatica
12 6 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.12%) F5
13 5 (0.93%) Pega
14 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
14 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 4 (0.75%) VMware