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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 160 156
Rank change year-on-year +58 -4 +28
Contract jobs citing Use Case 533 211 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.80% 1.68% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 1.82% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 133 188
10th Percentile £413 £400 £405
25th Percentile £458 £500 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £574
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.58% -0.22%
75th Percentile £668 £775 £675
90th Percentile £756 £881 £829
England median daily rate £535 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.68% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - -
Median hourly rate £77.37 - -
75th Percentile £78.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -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 16,939 11,581 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,285 7,760 11,134
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 212 312
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +16.24% -26.88%
75th Percentile £59.85 £50.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +18 64 £550 -15.38% 20
West London - 13 £523 - 5
South London -4 3 £550 -26.67%
East London -2 2 £717 +22.56% 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 28 (5.25%) Confluence
2 17 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.00%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.13%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.94%) CMS
6 5 (0.94%) SAS
7 4 (0.75%) Apache
8 2 (0.38%) Kentico
8 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.38%) WordPress
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 25 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.19%) Chatbot
3 14 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.94%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Actimize
3 3 (0.56%) Findur
3 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.38%) Summit
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 173 (32.46%) Azure
2 114 (21.39%) AWS
3 56 (10.51%) Power Platform
4 52 (9.76%) GCP
5 32 (6.00%) Azure AI
6 26 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 24 (4.50%) Amazon Bedrock
7 24 (4.50%) Serverless
8 23 (4.32%) Microsoft Copilot
9 21 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.75%) dbt
11 19 (3.56%) GitHub
12 17 (3.19%) Amazon SageMaker
12 17 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.63%) Entra ID
13 14 (2.63%) SaaS
13 14 (2.63%) WhatsApp
14 13 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.38%) Firewall
2 6 (1.13%) Network Security
3 5 (0.94%) RTP
4 4 (0.75%) Internet
5 3 (0.56%) 5G
5 3 (0.56%) DNS
5 3 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.56%) SMS
5 3 (0.56%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.38%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.38%) 4G
6 2 (0.38%) BGP
6 2 (0.38%) DHCP
6 2 (0.38%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.19%) SSH
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.82%) Power BI
2 45 (8.44%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (6.00%) Metadata
4 23 (4.32%) Tableau
5 20 (3.75%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.19%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.81%) Weaviate
8 14 (2.63%) Pinecone
9 12 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (2.25%) Big Data
9 12 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.88%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.88%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.69%) Spark SQL
12 8 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (1.13%) KDB
13 6 (1.13%) Looker
14 5 (0.94%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.94%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 43 (8.07%) JIRA
2 26 (4.88%) Git
3 13 (2.44%) MLflow
4 8 (1.50%) GitLab
4 8 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.94%) ERwin
6 3 (0.56%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.56%) XCTest
7 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.38%) Postman
7 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) Ant
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 193 (36.21%) Finance
2 143 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 86 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (14.26%) Banking
5 53 (9.94%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.44%) Retail
7 22 (4.13%) Marketing
8 21 (3.94%) Front Office
8 21 (3.94%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.56%) Legal
10 17 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.81%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.06%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.50%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.31%) Law
16 6 (1.13%) Back Office
17 4 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (15.95%) Architect
2 81 (15.20%) Analyst
3 70 (13.13%) Business Analyst
4 68 (12.76%) Data Engineer
5 67 (12.57%) Senior
6 56 (10.51%) Lead
7 42 (7.88%) Developer
8 30 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (4.32%) Data Scientist
10 22 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 21 (3.94%) Consultant
12 19 (3.56%) Data Architect
13 15 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.81%) Senior Business Analyst
13 15 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.25%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (2.25%) Data Analyst
15 9 (1.69%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 9 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.25%) PySpark
2 22 (4.13%) LangChain
3 21 (3.94%) .NET
4 18 (3.38%) LlamaIndex
4 18 (3.38%) Pandas
4 18 (3.38%) REST
4 18 (3.38%) scikit-learn
5 12 (2.25%) PyTorch
6 10 (1.88%) JSON
6 10 (1.88%) Middleware
6 10 (1.88%) NumPy
6 10 (1.88%) TensorFlow
7 9 (1.69%) Kafka
8 6 (1.13%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.13%) Flask
8 6 (1.13%) LangGraph
8 6 (1.13%) React
8 6 (1.13%) RESTful
8 6 (1.13%) SOAP
9 5 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 64 (12.01%) AI Agents
2 45 (8.44%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 25 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.81%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.69%) Life Science
8 9 (1.69%) PMI
8 9 (1.69%) Taxonomies
9 8 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.13%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.44%) Linux
2 10 (1.88%) Unix
3 9 (1.69%) Windows
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (50.09%) AI
2 180 (33.77%) Analytics
3 143 (26.83%) Agile
3 143 (26.83%) Machine Learning
4 118 (22.14%) Data Modelling
5 109 (20.45%) Data Pipeline
6 106 (19.89%) LLM
7 104 (19.51%) Data Engineering
8 97 (18.20%) CI/CD
9 96 (18.01%) DevOps
9 96 (18.01%) Generative AI
10 89 (16.70%) Data Science
11 88 (16.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 78 (14.63%) Decision-Making
13 75 (14.07%) Data Governance
14 72 (13.51%) Roadmaps
15 71 (13.32%) Validation
16 68 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
17 62 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (11.44%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 160 (30.02%) Python
2 119 (22.33%) SQL
3 21 (3.94%) C#
4 15 (2.81%) R
4 15 (2.81%) TypeScript
5 13 (2.44%) Java
6 11 (2.06%) Scala
7 10 (1.88%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.31%) Bicep
10 4 (0.75%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.75%) Bash
10 4 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.75%) VBA
11 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.56%) SPARQL
11 3 (0.56%) Swift
12 2 (0.38%) Go
12 2 (0.38%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 93 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.26%) SC Cleared
3 50 (9.38%) Degree
4 16 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 15 (2.81%) CBAP
6 14 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.69%) CISSP
11 8 (1.50%) IIBA
12 7 (1.31%) AWS Certification
13 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.56%) CISM
14 3 (0.56%) GCIA
14 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (16.89%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.38%) QA
3 28 (5.25%) GDPR
4 12 (2.25%) NIST
5 10 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.94%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.38%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.38%) MiFID
9 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) EMIR
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) PSD2
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (5.44%) Docker
2 13 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.88%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.38%) IAG
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.75%) Terraform
3 7 (1.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.13%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.56%) Ansible
6 2 (0.38%) QRadar
7 1 (0.19%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.19%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.19%) Istio
7 1 (0.19%) logstash
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.94%) OpenAI
3 51 (9.57%) Databricks
4 23 (4.32%) Foundry
5 21 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.56%) Google
7 12 (2.25%) Pega
7 12 (2.25%) VMware
8 10 (1.88%) Splunk
9 9 (1.69%) SAP
10 8 (1.50%) Oracle
11 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.13%) Informatica
13 5 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.94%) Workday
14 4 (0.75%) Cisco
14 4 (0.75%) IBM
15 3 (0.56%) Ariba
15 3 (0.56%) OpenLink