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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 179 170
Rank change year-on-year +67 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing Use Case 421 184 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.56% 1.44% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.58% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 123 174
10th Percentile £412 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £487 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £844 £747
90th Percentile £761 £881 £875
England median daily rate £523 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.13% +2.18% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £69.00 £91.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year - -24.32% +40.15%
75th Percentile - £71.00 £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.14% +27.27% -16.03%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +20 56 £595 -11.19% 87
West London - 6 £523 - 7
South London - 5 £513 - 4
East London -1 2 £717 +27.47% 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 27 (6.41%) Confluence
2 19 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (4.04%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.95%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.48%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) Appian
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.09%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.71%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.71%) Endur
3 2 (0.48%) Actimize
3 2 (0.48%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 156 (37.05%) Azure
2 100 (23.75%) AWS
3 43 (10.21%) GCP
4 37 (8.79%) Power Platform
5 35 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (7.13%) Azure AI
7 22 (5.23%) Snowflake
8 21 (4.99%) GitHub
9 19 (4.51%) Amazon Bedrock
9 19 (4.51%) dbt
10 18 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (4.28%) Serverless
11 17 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.56%) Amazon SageMaker
14 14 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (3.33%) Vertex AI
15 13 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
16 12 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (2.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.51%) Firewall
2 5 (1.19%) CTI
2 5 (1.19%) RTP
2 5 (1.19%) VoIP
3 4 (0.95%) Network Security
4 3 (0.71%) 5G
4 3 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.71%) SSH
5 2 (0.48%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.48%) 4G
5 2 (0.48%) LTE
5 2 (0.48%) NAS
5 2 (0.48%) SSL
6 1 (0.24%) Broadband
6 1 (0.24%) DNS
6 1 (0.24%) HTTP
6 1 (0.24%) Internet
6 1 (0.24%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (7.36%) Power BI
3 23 (5.46%) Metadata
4 18 (4.28%) Snowflake Schema
5 17 (4.04%) Data Lake
5 17 (4.04%) Tableau
6 14 (3.33%) Big Data
7 12 (2.85%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.14%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.90%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.66%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.66%) KDB
10 7 (1.66%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.66%) Weaviate
11 6 (1.43%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.43%) Kdb+
11 6 (1.43%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.19%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.19%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 37 (8.79%) JIRA
2 26 (6.18%) Git
3 15 (3.56%) MLflow
4 6 (1.43%) ERwin
5 4 (0.95%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.95%) GitLab
5 4 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.95%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.71%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.71%) Selenium
6 3 (0.71%) XCTest
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) Hardhat
7 2 (0.48%) JUnit
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
7 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 144 (34.20%) Finance
2 123 (29.22%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (12.59%) Banking
5 41 (9.74%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.75%) Legal
6 20 (4.75%) Retail
7 13 (3.09%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.61%) Back Office
9 11 (2.61%) Marketing
10 10 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.14%) Front Office
12 8 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (17.58%) Analyst
2 64 (15.20%) Business Analyst
3 56 (13.30%) Architect
4 47 (11.16%) Data Engineer
5 46 (10.93%) Senior
6 45 (10.69%) Lead
7 37 (8.79%) Developer
8 23 (5.46%) Data Scientist
9 21 (4.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 19 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 15 (3.56%) Consultant
12 13 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.09%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.14%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.14%) Data Architect
14 9 (2.14%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (1.90%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 8 (1.90%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.70%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.75%) PySpark
2 20 (4.75%) scikit-learn
3 19 (4.51%) TensorFlow
4 18 (4.28%) LangChain
5 16 (3.80%) .NET
6 14 (3.33%) LangGraph
7 13 (3.09%) Pandas
8 12 (2.85%) REST
9 11 (2.61%) Model Context Protocol
10 10 (2.38%) Node.js
11 9 (2.14%) LlamaIndex
11 9 (2.14%) Middleware
11 9 (2.14%) React
11 9 (2.14%) XML
12 8 (1.90%) NumPy
13 7 (1.66%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.66%) Hugging Face
13 7 (1.66%) JSON
13 7 (1.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.55%) AI Agents
2 34 (8.08%) Product Ownership
3 29 (6.89%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.41%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.56%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.38%) PMI
7 10 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.19%) IVR
12 4 (0.95%) Clustering
12 4 (0.95%) Derivative
12 4 (0.95%) Equities
12 4 (0.95%) Life Science
12 4 (0.95%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.80%) Linux
2 13 (3.09%) Windows
3 9 (2.14%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (40.38%) AI
2 130 (30.88%) Agile
3 125 (29.69%) Analytics
4 102 (24.23%) Machine Learning
5 100 (23.75%) Data Modelling
6 88 (20.90%) CI/CD
7 81 (19.24%) Data Engineering
8 79 (18.76%) DevOps
9 78 (18.53%) Data Pipeline
10 73 (17.34%) Data Science
10 73 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
11 67 (15.91%) LLM
12 65 (15.44%) Generative AI
12 65 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
12 65 (15.44%) Roadmaps
13 61 (14.49%) Data Governance
14 56 (13.30%) Validation
15 54 (12.83%) Business Analysis
15 54 (12.83%) Workshop Facilitation
16 53 (12.59%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 136 (32.30%) Python
2 91 (21.62%) SQL
3 19 (4.51%) Java
4 17 (4.04%) TypeScript
5 16 (3.80%) C#
6 10 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.90%) Bash
7 8 (1.90%) Scala
8 7 (1.66%) R
9 6 (1.43%) Bicep
10 5 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.71%) Swift
12 2 (0.48%) C++
12 2 (0.48%) Solidity
12 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (17.10%) Degree
2 66 (15.68%) Security Cleared
3 56 (13.30%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.18%) Master's Degree
5 21 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.28%) CBAP
7 13 (3.09%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.14%) IIBA
11 8 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.66%) CISSP
13 6 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.43%) PhD
14 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.95%) ISEB
16 3 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
16 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.36%) QA
3 13 (3.09%) GDPR
4 10 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.19%) NIST
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.71%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.71%) PMO
7 3 (0.71%) PSD2
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.48%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) FINRA
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (7.36%) Docker
2 14 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.24%) HDFS
7 1 (0.24%) IAG
7 1 (0.24%) zsh
Systems Management
1 29 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.46%) Terraform
3 8 (1.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.95%) Ansible
5 3 (0.71%) Grafana
6 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) logstash
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.98%) OpenAI
3 41 (9.74%) Databricks
4 21 (4.99%) Google
5 17 (4.04%) Foundry
6 11 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.61%) VMware
7 9 (2.14%) Splunk
8 8 (1.90%) Oracle
9 7 (1.66%) Pega
10 6 (1.43%) Genesys
11 5 (1.19%) Adobe
11 5 (1.19%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.95%) Sparx
12 4 (0.95%) Workday
13 3 (0.71%) Cisco
13 3 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.71%) UiPath