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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 169 158
Rank change year-on-year +55 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing Use Case 426 200 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.46% 1.58% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 1.72% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 129 185
10th Percentile £408 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £838 £738
90th Percentile £769 £881 £857
England median daily rate £519 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -9.74% +0.88% +3.64%
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 £57.40 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.27% -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 15,407 11,629 15,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 91.83% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 7,876 11,244
10th Percentile £353 £349 £338
25th Percentile £426 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £675
90th Percentile £754 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 166 331
10th Percentile £18.28 £16.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.80 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.23 £50.69 £48.92
90th Percentile £73.00 £63.50 £66.75
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 60 £550 -17.91% 26
West London - 7 £523 - 4
South London - 6 £513 -
East London -4 2 £717 +22.56% 1
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 (6.34%) Confluence
2 17 (3.99%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.17%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.29%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.47%) Actimize
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Endur
3 2 (0.47%) Findur
3 2 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 153 (35.92%) Azure
2 93 (21.83%) AWS
3 47 (11.03%) Power Platform
4 41 (9.62%) GCP
5 33 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (7.51%) Azure AI
7 22 (5.16%) Snowflake
8 20 (4.69%) dbt
9 19 (4.46%) Amazon Bedrock
9 19 (4.46%) Serverless
10 17 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (3.99%) GitHub
10 17 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.76%) Amazon SageMaker
11 16 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.29%) Entra ID
14 13 (3.05%) Amazon S3
14 13 (3.05%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (3.05%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.99%) Firewall
2 5 (1.17%) CTI
2 5 (1.17%) RTP
2 5 (1.17%) VoIP
3 3 (0.70%) 5G
3 3 (0.70%) Network Security
3 3 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.47%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.47%) 4G
4 2 (0.47%) LTE
4 2 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.23%) BGP
5 1 (0.23%) Broadband
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) HTTP
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) OSPF
5 1 (0.23%) SSL
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.39%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (9.15%) Power BI
3 22 (5.16%) Metadata
3 22 (5.16%) Tableau
4 16 (3.76%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 14 (3.29%) Big Data
6 13 (3.05%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.35%) Weaviate
8 9 (2.11%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.11%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.88%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.64%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.64%) KDB
11 6 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.41%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.41%) Kdb+
11 6 (1.41%) Looker
12 5 (1.17%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 35 (8.22%) JIRA
2 22 (5.16%) Git
3 12 (2.82%) MLflow
4 6 (1.41%) ERwin
5 4 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.70%) GitLab
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.70%) XCTest
7 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.47%) JUnit
7 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.23%) Ant
8 1 (0.23%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.23%) Maven
8 1 (0.23%) Selenium
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 147 (34.51%) Finance
2 120 (28.17%) Social Skills
3 82 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (13.15%) Banking
5 38 (8.92%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.46%) Retail
7 18 (4.23%) Legal
8 17 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (3.05%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.82%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.58%) Front Office
11 11 (2.58%) Marketing
12 10 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.88%) Back Office
15 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (18.31%) Analyst
2 67 (15.73%) Business Analyst
3 60 (14.08%) Architect
4 53 (12.44%) Data Engineer
5 45 (10.56%) Lead
5 45 (10.56%) Senior
6 34 (7.98%) Developer
7 23 (5.40%) Data Scientist
8 19 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 19 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
9 15 (3.52%) Senior Business Analyst
10 14 (3.29%) Consultant
11 13 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (3.05%) Data Architect
12 11 (2.58%) Data Analyst
13 10 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 9 (2.11%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (1.88%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.93%) PySpark
2 20 (4.69%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.69%) scikit-learn
3 17 (3.99%) .NET
3 17 (3.99%) LangChain
3 17 (3.99%) TensorFlow
4 14 (3.29%) Pandas
5 11 (2.58%) LangGraph
5 11 (2.58%) LlamaIndex
5 11 (2.58%) Node.js
6 10 (2.35%) REST
7 9 (2.11%) Middleware
7 9 (2.11%) NumPy
8 8 (1.88%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (1.64%) Kafka
10 6 (1.41%) Hugging Face
10 6 (1.41%) React
10 6 (1.41%) XML
10 6 (1.41%) YAML
11 5 (1.17%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.62%) AI Agents
2 35 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 29 (6.81%) Cloud Native
4 28 (6.57%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.35%) PMI
7 10 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.17%) IVR
12 4 (0.94%) Derivative
12 4 (0.94%) Life Science
12 4 (0.94%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.05%) Linux
2 7 (1.64%) Unix
2 7 (1.64%) Windows
3 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (40.85%) AI
2 133 (31.22%) Analytics
3 126 (29.58%) Agile
4 107 (25.12%) Data Modelling
5 103 (24.18%) Machine Learning
6 86 (20.19%) Data Engineering
7 82 (19.25%) Data Pipeline
8 80 (18.78%) CI/CD
9 76 (17.84%) DevOps
10 75 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (16.67%) Data Science
12 68 (15.96%) LLM
13 66 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (15.02%) Generative AI
15 63 (14.79%) Data Governance
16 61 (14.32%) Roadmaps
17 58 (13.62%) Validation
18 56 (13.15%) Decision-Making
18 56 (13.15%) Workshop Facilitation
19 54 (12.68%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 135 (31.69%) Python
2 95 (22.30%) SQL
3 17 (3.99%) C#
4 16 (3.76%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.52%) Java
6 12 (2.82%) R
7 11 (2.58%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.88%) Scala
9 6 (1.41%) Bicep
10 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.94%) Bash
11 4 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.70%) Swift
13 2 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.55%) Degree
3 61 (14.32%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.93%) Master's Degree
5 18 (4.23%) CBAP
6 17 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.82%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.58%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.11%) IIBA
11 8 (1.88%) CISSP
12 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.94%) PhD
16 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
16 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (14.08%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.51%) QA
3 17 (3.99%) GDPR
4 9 (2.11%) NIST
5 6 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.17%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.70%) PMO
7 3 (0.70%) PSD2
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.23%) GxP
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (4.93%) Docker
2 13 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.23%) IAG
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.16%) Terraform
3 8 (1.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.23%) Istio
5 1 (0.23%) logstash
5 1 (0.23%) QRadar
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.03%) Databricks
3 44 (10.33%) OpenAI
4 20 (4.69%) Google
5 19 (4.46%) Foundry
6 13 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.58%) VMware
8 10 (2.35%) Pega
9 9 (2.11%) Splunk
10 8 (1.88%) Oracle
11 6 (1.41%) Workday
12 5 (1.17%) Genesys
12 5 (1.17%) SAP
12 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.94%) Adobe
13 4 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.94%) Sparx
14 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 2 (0.47%) Sage