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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 145 154
Rank change year-on-year +36 +9 +57
Contract jobs citing Use Case 545 269 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.71% 2.01% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.17% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 179 188
10th Percentile £413 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £472 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £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 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 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 21 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 +8 57 £513 -10.87% 48
West London - 13 £800 - 9
South London -3 6 £689 -8.13% 1
East London +1 2 £717 +20.71% 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 22 (4.04%) Confluence
2 17 (3.12%) 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
6 4 (0.73%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.37%) Kentico
8 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) WordPress
9 1 (0.18%) Appian
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
9 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 13 (2.39%) 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%) Findur
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.55%) Workfront
4 2 (0.37%) Actimize
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
1 166 (30.46%) Azure
2 100 (18.35%) AWS
3 51 (9.36%) Power Platform
4 39 (7.16%) GCP
5 37 (6.79%) Azure AI
6 31 (5.69%) Microsoft Copilot
7 30 (5.50%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.04%) GitHub
10 20 (3.67%) dbt
11 19 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.30%) Amazon Bedrock
13 17 (3.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 17 (3.12%) Entra ID
13 17 (3.12%) SaaS
14 16 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (2.75%) Amazon S3
16 14 (2.57%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (2.57%) Copilot Studio
16 14 (2.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Firewall
2 9 (1.65%) BGP
3 6 (1.10%) Cisco Wireless
3 6 (1.10%) Multicast
3 6 (1.10%) Network Security
3 6 (1.10%) VLAN
3 6 (1.10%) Wireless
4 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.73%) SMS
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 43 (7.89%) Metadata
2 39 (7.16%) Power BI
3 37 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.67%) Data Lake
4 20 (3.67%) Tableau
5 14 (2.57%) BigQuery
6 13 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.20%) Delta Lake
7 12 (2.20%) Pinecone
7 12 (2.20%) Weaviate
8 11 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.28%) Big Data
10 7 (1.28%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.10%) Redis
11 6 (1.10%) Spark SQL
12 5 (0.92%) Looker
12 5 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (6.61%) JIRA
2 16 (2.94%) Git
3 8 (1.47%) ERwin
4 7 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.10%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.10%) MLflow
6 5 (0.92%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.92%) GitLab
7 2 (0.37%) Postman
7 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 200 (36.70%) 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 20 (3.67%) Investment Banking
9 20 (3.67%) Legal
10 19 (3.49%) Front Office
11 17 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.75%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.39%) Law
14 11 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.10%) Back Office
17 6 (1.10%) French Language
Job Titles
1 81 (14.86%) Architect
2 76 (13.94%) Analyst
3 60 (11.01%) Data Engineer
4 59 (10.83%) Business Analyst
5 56 (10.28%) Senior
6 49 (8.99%) Lead
7 42 (7.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 38 (6.97%) Developer
9 37 (6.79%) Consultant
10 23 (4.22%) Data Architect
11 20 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 18 (3.30%) Data Scientist
13 15 (2.75%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
13 15 (2.75%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
16 10 (1.83%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (1.83%) Enterprise Architect
16 10 (1.83%) SOC Engineer
16 10 (1.83%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.79%) Terraform
2 30 (5.50%) 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 73 (13.39%) AI Agents
2 50 (9.17%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.71%) 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%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.47%) Life Science
11 7 (1.28%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.10%) Digital Signage
12 6 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
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
1 285 (52.29%) AI
2 173 (31.74%) Analytics
3 138 (25.32%) Machine Learning
4 131 (24.04%) Agile
5 110 (20.18%) LLM
6 108 (19.82%) Data Pipeline
7 104 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 103 (18.90%) Data Modelling
9 92 (16.88%) Data Engineering
9 92 (16.88%) Generative AI
10 80 (14.68%) CI/CD
11 79 (14.50%) DevOps
12 77 (14.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 75 (13.76%) Data Governance
14 74 (13.58%) Data Science
15 72 (13.21%) Roadmaps
16 69 (12.66%) Decision-Making
17 68 (12.48%) Validation
18 66 (12.11%) Data Architecture
19 65 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 138 (25.32%) 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 9 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.65%) 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 94 (17.25%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.87%) GDPR
3 29 (5.32%) 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%) Cisco Prime
2 6 (1.10%) Kubeflow
3 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 3 (0.55%) QRadar
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
5 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.18%) Control-M
6 1 (0.18%) Istio
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 97 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.19%) Databricks
3 46 (8.44%) OpenAI
4 24 (4.40%) Foundry
5 23 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.94%) Splunk
7 15 (2.75%) Cisco
8 13 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 12 (2.20%) Oracle
9 12 (2.20%) Pega
10 11 (2.02%) SAP
11 9 (1.65%) Google
12 8 (1.47%) Adobe
12 8 (1.47%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.10%) F5
13 6 (1.10%) Informatica
14 5 (0.92%) Juniper
14 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.92%) Workday