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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 158 153
Rank change year-on-year +60 -5 +48
Contract jobs citing Use Case 555 235 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.81% 1.73% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 1.88% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 149 194
10th Percentile £413 £400 £405
25th Percentile £461 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £564
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.12% +2.59%
75th Percentile £668 £750 £675
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.18 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.37 - £67.50
75th Percentile £78.55 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.43 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.72% - -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 17,581 12,493 15,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.12% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,343 10,937
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £446 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 281
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% +6.10% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £69.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -8.14%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +11 64 £550 -4.35% 18
West London - 15 £523 - 3
South London -11 3 £550 -26.67% 4
East London +1 2 £717 +22.56% 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 25 (4.50%) Confluence
2 19 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.08%) Jupyter
4 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.90%) Apache
5 5 (0.90%) CMS
5 5 (0.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Kentico
7 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.24%) Chatbot
3 12 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.18%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Actimize
3 3 (0.54%) Findur
3 3 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.54%) Workfront
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.36%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Summit
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 183 (32.97%) Azure
2 114 (20.54%) AWS
3 57 (10.27%) Power Platform
4 50 (9.01%) GCP
5 38 (6.85%) Azure AI
6 28 (5.05%) Microsoft Copilot
7 27 (4.86%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.32%) GitHub
8 24 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
9 23 (4.14%) Amazon Bedrock
10 22 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.96%) dbt
11 18 (3.24%) Entra ID
11 18 (3.24%) SaaS
11 18 (3.24%) Serverless
12 17 (3.06%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
13 15 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (2.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.88%) Firewall
2 7 (1.26%) Network Security
3 5 (0.90%) RTP
4 4 (0.72%) DNS
4 4 (0.72%) Internet
4 4 (0.72%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.54%) 5G
5 3 (0.54%) BGP
5 3 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.54%) SMS
6 2 (0.36%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.36%) 4G
6 2 (0.36%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (0.36%) DHCP
6 2 (0.36%) HTTP
6 2 (0.36%) LTE
6 2 (0.36%) Multicast
6 2 (0.36%) VLAN
6 2 (0.36%) Wireless
7 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.11%) Power BI
2 43 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (6.67%) Metadata
4 24 (4.32%) Tableau
5 17 (3.06%) BigQuery
5 17 (3.06%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.70%) Weaviate
7 14 (2.52%) Pinecone
8 12 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.98%) Delta Lake
9 11 (1.98%) Semantic Layer
9 11 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.62%) Big Data
12 7 (1.26%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.08%) KDB
13 6 (1.08%) Looker
13 6 (1.08%) Redis
14 5 (0.90%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 38 (6.85%) JIRA
2 26 (4.68%) Git
3 10 (1.80%) MLflow
4 8 (1.44%) GitLab
4 8 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.08%) ERwin
6 4 (0.72%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.54%) XCTest
8 2 (0.36%) Postman
8 2 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) Ant
9 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 207 (37.30%) Finance
2 149 (26.85%) Social Skills
3 94 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.69%) Banking
5 55 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 29 (5.23%) Retail
7 24 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (4.32%) Marketing
8 21 (3.78%) Front Office
8 21 (3.78%) Investment Banking
9 18 (3.24%) Legal
10 17 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 15 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.16%) Law
13 11 (1.98%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.44%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.08%) French Language
17 5 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 89 (16.04%) Architect
2 78 (14.05%) Analyst
3 70 (12.61%) Data Engineer
4 63 (11.35%) Business Analyst
5 59 (10.63%) Senior
6 55 (9.91%) Lead
7 42 (7.57%) Developer
8 34 (6.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 27 (4.86%) Consultant
10 22 (3.96%) Data Architect
10 22 (3.96%) Data Scientist
11 19 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 18 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.52%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.34%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (1.98%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
16 9 (1.62%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (1.62%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 9 (1.62%) Senior Developer
17 8 (1.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.68%) PySpark
1 26 (4.68%) REST
2 25 (4.50%) LangChain
3 20 (3.60%) .NET
3 20 (3.60%) LlamaIndex
4 19 (3.42%) Pandas
5 12 (2.16%) JSON
5 12 (2.16%) scikit-learn
6 10 (1.80%) NumPy
7 9 (1.62%) Middleware
8 8 (1.44%) RESTful
9 7 (1.26%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.26%) Kafka
9 7 (1.26%) Node.js
10 6 (1.08%) LangGraph
10 6 (1.08%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.08%) SOAP
11 5 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (0.90%) OAuth
11 5 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.71%) AI Agents
2 46 (8.29%) Product Ownership
3 44 (7.93%) Cloud Native
4 38 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 16 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.16%) Taxonomies
8 12 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.62%) Life Science
11 8 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.24%) Linux
2 13 (2.34%) Windows
3 11 (1.98%) Unix
4 7 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (49.55%) AI
2 191 (34.41%) Analytics
3 145 (26.13%) Machine Learning
4 136 (24.50%) Agile
5 120 (21.62%) Data Modelling
6 117 (21.08%) Data Pipeline
7 108 (19.46%) Data Engineering
8 106 (19.10%) LLM
9 92 (16.58%) CI/CD
9 92 (16.58%) Generative AI
9 92 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 90 (16.22%) DevOps
11 82 (14.77%) Decision-Making
12 80 (14.41%) Data Science
13 78 (14.05%) Roadmaps
14 74 (13.33%) Data Governance
15 73 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
16 71 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 67 (12.07%) Validation
18 64 (11.53%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 157 (28.29%) Python
2 118 (21.26%) SQL
3 21 (3.78%) C#
4 15 (2.70%) Java
5 14 (2.52%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.52%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.34%) R
7 8 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.44%) Scala
8 5 (0.90%) Bash
8 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.72%) Go
9 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.72%) SPARQL
9 4 (0.72%) VBA
10 3 (0.54%) Bicep
10 3 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.54%) SHACL
10 3 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 81 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.11%) Degree
4 17 (3.06%) DV Cleared
4 17 (3.06%) Master's Degree
5 14 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.34%) CISSP
7 10 (1.80%) CBAP
7 10 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.44%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.26%) IIBA
10 6 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.72%) CISM
12 4 (0.72%) GCIA
12 4 (0.72%) GIAC
12 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (16.40%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.13%) GDPR
3 31 (5.59%) QA
4 16 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.52%) NIST
6 7 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.72%) NCSC
9 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.36%) GRC
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.36%) MiFID
10 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.36%) PMO
10 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 25 (4.50%) Docker
2 16 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.54%) IAG
6 2 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.18%) HDFS
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (6.67%) Terraform
2 33 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.08%) Kubeflow
5 5 (0.90%) Ansible
6 3 (0.54%) QRadar
7 2 (0.36%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.18%) Control-M
8 1 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.18%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.18%) Istio
8 1 (0.18%) logstash
8 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.37%) Databricks
2 52 (9.37%) OpenAI
3 26 (4.68%) Foundry
4 21 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.42%) Google
6 15 (2.70%) Splunk
7 12 (2.16%) Pega
8 10 (1.80%) Oracle
8 10 (1.80%) SAP
8 10 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.62%) VMware
10 7 (1.26%) Cisco
10 7 (1.26%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.90%) Adobe
11 5 (0.90%) Informatica
11 5 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (0.90%) Workday
12 4 (0.72%) IBM