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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 178 161
Rank change year-on-year +60 -17 +5
Contract jobs citing Use Case 428 187 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.47% 1.48% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.61% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 126 180
10th Percentile £412 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £623 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +3.75% -
75th Percentile £638 £847 £738
90th Percentile £800 £881 £862
England median daily rate £523 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -9.13% +1.86% +2.64%

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 15,475 11,601 15,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.22% 91.69% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,379 7,867 11,338
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £803 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 333
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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 10 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 10 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 +28 60 £550 -17.91% 82
West London - 7 £523 - 9
South London - 6 £513 - 4
East London -4 2 £717 +22.56%
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 (6.31%) Confluence
2 17 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.17%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
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%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.27%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.64%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.93%) 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 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.93%) 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
1 151 (35.28%) Azure
2 97 (22.66%) AWS
3 45 (10.51%) Power Platform
4 40 (9.35%) GCP
5 33 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (7.48%) Azure AI
7 21 (4.91%) Snowflake
8 19 (4.44%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (4.44%) dbt
8 19 (4.44%) Serverless
9 17 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (3.97%) GitHub
9 17 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (3.74%) Amazon SageMaker
11 15 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (3.27%) Entra ID
13 13 (3.04%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (3.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.97%) 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
3 3 (0.70%) SSH
4 2 (0.47%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.47%) 4G
4 2 (0.47%) LTE
4 2 (0.47%) NAS
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 39 (9.11%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (8.64%) Power BI
3 22 (5.14%) Tableau
4 20 (4.67%) Metadata
5 16 (3.74%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.74%) Snowflake Schema
6 14 (3.27%) Big Data
7 12 (2.80%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.10%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.10%) Weaviate
9 8 (1.87%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.87%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.64%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.64%) KDB
11 6 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.40%) Kdb+
11 6 (1.40%) Looker
12 5 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.17%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 35 (8.18%) JIRA
2 22 (5.14%) Git
3 12 (2.80%) MLflow
4 4 (0.93%) ERwin
4 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.70%) GitLab
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.70%) XCTest
6 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.47%) JUnit
6 2 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.23%) Ant
7 1 (0.23%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) Selenium
7 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 147 (34.35%) Finance
2 118 (27.57%) Social Skills
3 80 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (13.08%) Banking
5 39 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.44%) Legal
7 18 (4.21%) Retail
8 15 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.80%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.80%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.57%) Front Office
10 11 (2.57%) Marketing
11 10 (2.34%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.87%) Back Office
14 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
16 2 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 78 (18.22%) Analyst
2 67 (15.65%) Business Analyst
3 59 (13.79%) Architect
4 52 (12.15%) Data Engineer
5 45 (10.51%) Senior
6 44 (10.28%) Lead
7 35 (8.18%) Developer
8 25 (5.84%) Data Scientist
9 18 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 18 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (3.50%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (3.27%) Consultant
12 13 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (3.04%) Data Architect
13 11 (2.57%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (2.10%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 8 (1.87%) Lead Data Engineer
17 7 (1.64%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.14%) PySpark
2 20 (4.67%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.67%) scikit-learn
3 18 (4.21%) LangChain
4 17 (3.97%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.74%) .NET
6 14 (3.27%) Pandas
7 13 (3.04%) LangGraph
8 11 (2.57%) Node.js
9 10 (2.34%) LlamaIndex
9 10 (2.34%) REST
10 9 (2.10%) Middleware
10 9 (2.10%) Model Context Protocol
10 9 (2.10%) NumPy
11 7 (1.64%) Kafka
12 6 (1.40%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.40%) React
12 6 (1.40%) XML
12 6 (1.40%) YAML
13 5 (1.17%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.58%) AI Agents
2 35 (8.18%) Product Ownership
3 29 (6.78%) Cloud Native
3 29 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.27%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.34%) PMI
6 10 (2.34%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.10%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.17%) IVR
11 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.93%) Derivative
11 4 (0.93%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.04%) Linux
2 9 (2.10%) Unix
2 9 (2.10%) Windows
3 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (40.89%) AI
2 132 (30.84%) Analytics
3 127 (29.67%) Agile
4 107 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 104 (24.30%) Data Modelling
6 85 (19.86%) Data Engineering
7 83 (19.39%) Data Pipeline
8 80 (18.69%) CI/CD
9 76 (17.76%) DevOps
10 75 (17.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 74 (17.29%) Data Science
12 70 (16.36%) LLM
13 67 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (14.95%) Generative AI
15 61 (14.25%) Data Governance
15 61 (14.25%) Roadmaps
16 58 (13.55%) Validation
17 56 (13.08%) Decision-Making
17 56 (13.08%) Workshop Facilitation
18 55 (12.85%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 138 (32.24%) Python
2 95 (22.20%) SQL
3 16 (3.74%) C#
3 16 (3.74%) TypeScript
4 15 (3.50%) Java
5 12 (2.80%) R
6 11 (2.57%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.87%) Scala
8 6 (1.40%) Bicep
9 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.93%) Bash
10 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.70%) Swift
12 2 (0.47%) C++
12 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 63 (14.72%) Degree
3 61 (14.25%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.91%) Master's Degree
5 18 (4.21%) CBAP
6 17 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.80%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.57%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.10%) IIBA
11 8 (1.87%) CISSP
12 7 (1.64%) DV Cleared
13 6 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.93%) ISEB
15 4 (0.93%) PhD
16 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
16 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (14.02%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.48%) QA
3 15 (3.50%) GDPR
4 9 (2.10%) NIST
5 6 (1.40%) 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%) MiFID
8 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.23%) EMIR
9 1 (0.23%) FINRA
9 1 (0.23%) GxP
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (4.91%) Docker
2 15 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.34%) 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 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.14%) Terraform
3 8 (1.87%) 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 82 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.51%) Databricks
3 43 (10.05%) OpenAI
4 20 (4.67%) Google
5 19 (4.44%) Foundry
6 13 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.57%) VMware
8 9 (2.10%) Pega
9 8 (1.87%) Oracle
9 8 (1.87%) Splunk
10 6 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.40%) Workday
11 5 (1.17%) Genesys
11 5 (1.17%) SAP
11 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.93%) Adobe
12 4 (0.93%) Sparx
13 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.47%) Sage