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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 165 160
Rank change year-on-year +61 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing Use Case 508 207 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.70% 1.69% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.83% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 129 188
10th Percentile £411 £400 £409
25th Percentile £450 £504 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -2.13%
75th Percentile £657 £775 £675
90th Percentile £761 £881 £845
England median daily rate £525 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% +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 £57.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -17.24%

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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 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 12 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 +13 64 £550 -18.52% 58
West London - 11 £523 - 24
South London -6 3 £550 -26.67%
East London -5 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 28 (5.51%) Confluence
2 16 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.18%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.98%) CMS
4 5 (0.98%) SAS
4 5 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.79%) Apache
6 2 (0.39%) Kentico
6 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.39%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.15%) Chatbot
3 14 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Actimize
3 3 (0.59%) Findur
3 3 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 162 (31.89%) Azure
2 106 (20.87%) AWS
3 53 (10.43%) Power Platform
4 48 (9.45%) GCP
5 30 (5.91%) Azure AI
6 24 (4.72%) Amazon Bedrock
6 24 (4.72%) Serverless
6 24 (4.72%) Snowflake
7 23 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (3.94%) Amazon S3
8 20 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
9 19 (3.74%) dbt
9 19 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.35%) GitHub
11 16 (3.15%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (2.76%) Entra ID
12 14 (2.76%) WhatsApp
13 12 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.35%) Firewall
2 6 (1.18%) Network Security
3 5 (0.98%) RTP
4 4 (0.79%) Internet
5 3 (0.59%) 5G
5 3 (0.59%) DNS
5 3 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.59%) SMS
5 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.39%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.39%) 4G
6 2 (0.39%) BGP
6 2 (0.39%) DHCP
6 2 (0.39%) LTE
7 1 (0.20%) Broadband
7 1 (0.20%) DMZ
7 1 (0.20%) HTTP
7 1 (0.20%) OSPF
7 1 (0.20%) SAN
7 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
1 45 (8.86%) Power BI
2 26 (5.12%) Metadata
3 22 (4.33%) Tableau
4 19 (3.74%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.35%) BigQuery
6 15 (2.95%) Weaviate
7 14 (2.76%) Pinecone
8 12 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (2.17%) Big Data
10 10 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.97%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.77%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (1.18%) KDB
13 6 (1.18%) Looker
14 5 (0.98%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.98%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 41 (8.07%) JIRA
2 25 (4.92%) Git
3 14 (2.76%) MLflow
4 7 (1.38%) GitLab
4 7 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.98%) ERwin
6 3 (0.59%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.59%) XCTest
7 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
7 2 (0.39%) Postman
7 2 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.39%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) Ant
8 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.20%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.20%) Maven
8 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 179 (35.24%) Finance
2 130 (25.59%) Social Skills
3 78 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (13.39%) Banking
5 54 (10.63%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.31%) Retail
7 21 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.13%) Marketing
8 19 (3.74%) Front Office
8 19 (3.74%) Legal
9 14 (2.76%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.18%) Back Office
15 6 (1.18%) Law
16 3 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (16.14%) Analyst
2 75 (14.76%) Architect
3 71 (13.98%) Business Analyst
4 65 (12.80%) Data Engineer
5 63 (12.40%) Senior
6 53 (10.43%) Lead
7 41 (8.07%) Developer
8 30 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 21 (4.13%) Data Scientist
10 20 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 18 (3.54%) Data Architect
12 16 (3.15%) Consultant
13 15 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.95%) Senior Business Analyst
14 13 (2.56%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
16 9 (1.77%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 9 (1.77%) AWS Engineer
16 9 (1.77%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.51%) PySpark
2 21 (4.13%) .NET
2 21 (4.13%) LangChain
3 18 (3.54%) LlamaIndex
4 17 (3.35%) Pandas
4 17 (3.35%) scikit-learn
5 16 (3.15%) REST
6 12 (2.36%) PyTorch
7 10 (1.97%) TensorFlow
8 9 (1.77%) Middleware
8 9 (1.77%) NumPy
9 8 (1.57%) JSON
9 8 (1.57%) Kafka
10 6 (1.18%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.18%) Flask
10 6 (1.18%) LangGraph
10 6 (1.18%) React
11 5 (0.98%) Node.js
11 5 (0.98%) RESTful
11 5 (0.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.20%) AI Agents
2 43 (8.46%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.89%) Cloud Native
4 24 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.57%) Life Science
9 8 (1.57%) PMI
10 7 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.38%) Taxonomies
11 6 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.79%) Clustering
12 4 (0.79%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.56%) Linux
2 10 (1.97%) Unix
3 7 (1.38%) Windows
4 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (48.62%) AI
2 170 (33.46%) Analytics
3 134 (26.38%) Agile
4 132 (25.98%) Machine Learning
5 114 (22.44%) Data Modelling
6 103 (20.28%) Data Pipeline
7 98 (19.29%) LLM
8 97 (19.09%) Data Engineering
9 93 (18.31%) CI/CD
10 91 (17.91%) DevOps
11 87 (17.13%) Generative AI
12 83 (16.34%) Data Science
13 80 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (14.37%) Decision-Making
15 72 (14.17%) Roadmaps
16 70 (13.78%) Data Governance
17 65 (12.80%) Validation
18 63 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
19 57 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
19 57 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 154 (30.31%) Python
2 112 (22.05%) SQL
3 21 (4.13%) C#
4 14 (2.76%) R
5 13 (2.56%) Java
5 13 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.17%) Scala
7 8 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.57%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.98%) Bicep
9 4 (0.79%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.79%) Bash
9 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.59%) Swift
11 2 (0.39%) Go
11 2 (0.39%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.39%) SOQL
11 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 76 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 49 (9.65%) Degree
4 16 (3.15%) CBAP
5 14 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.97%) IIBA
8 10 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.77%) CISSP
10 8 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.38%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.79%) ISEB
14 3 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.59%) CISM
14 3 (0.59%) GCIA
14 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (17.32%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.91%) QA
3 28 (5.51%) GDPR
4 12 (2.36%) NIST
5 8 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.98%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.39%) PMO
9 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) GxP
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) PSD2
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (5.31%) Docker
2 12 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.97%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.20%) HDFS
6 1 (0.20%) IAG
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (6.89%) Kubernetes
1 35 (6.89%) Terraform
2 8 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 6 (1.18%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.39%) Ansible
4 2 (0.39%) QRadar
5 1 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.20%) Istio
5 1 (0.20%) logstash
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.84%) OpenAI
3 46 (9.06%) Databricks
4 22 (4.33%) Foundry
5 19 (3.74%) Google
6 17 (3.35%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.36%) Pega
8 11 (2.17%) VMware
9 10 (1.97%) Splunk
10 8 (1.57%) Oracle
10 8 (1.57%) SAP
11 6 (1.18%) Informatica
11 6 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.98%) Workday
13 4 (0.79%) IBM
13 4 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.59%) Adobe
14 3 (0.59%) Ariba
14 3 (0.59%) Cisco