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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 175 161
Rank change year-on-year +58 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Use Case 425 196 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.43% 1.54% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 1.67% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 128 185
10th Percentile £410 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £641 £850 £725
90th Percentile £779 £881 £857
England median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 £57.50 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.22% +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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 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 24 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 +23 60 £563 -16.04% 27
West London - 7 £523 - 15
South London - 4 £575 - 9
East London -3 2 £717 +22.56% 12
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 26 (6.12%) Confluence
2 16 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (3.53%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.18%) Apache
4 5 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.71%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.29%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.94%) 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 5 (1.18%) 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 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 150 (35.29%) Azure
2 93 (21.88%) AWS
3 43 (10.12%) GCP
3 43 (10.12%) Power Platform
4 31 (7.29%) Azure AI
5 30 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (5.18%) Snowflake
7 19 (4.47%) Amazon Bedrock
7 19 (4.47%) dbt
7 19 (4.47%) Serverless
8 17 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (4.00%) GitHub
9 16 (3.76%) Amazon SageMaker
9 16 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (3.06%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.06%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.06%) WhatsApp
12 12 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.00%) Firewall
2 5 (1.18%) CTI
2 5 (1.18%) RTP
2 5 (1.18%) VoIP
3 3 (0.71%) 5G
3 3 (0.71%) Network Security
3 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) Broadband
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) OSPF
5 1 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (8.47%) Power BI
3 19 (4.47%) Metadata
3 19 (4.47%) Tableau
4 17 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 14 (3.29%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.29%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.82%) Big Data
7 11 (2.59%) Weaviate
8 10 (2.35%) Pinecone
9 9 (2.12%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.88%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.65%) KDB
12 6 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.41%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.41%) Kdb+
12 6 (1.41%) Looker
13 5 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.18%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 33 (7.76%) JIRA
2 22 (5.18%) Git
3 12 (2.82%) MLflow
4 6 (1.41%) ERwin
5 5 (1.18%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.94%) GitLab
6 4 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.71%) XCTest
8 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.47%) JUnit
8 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.24%) Ant
9 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.24%) Maven
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 149 (35.06%) Finance
2 116 (27.29%) Social Skills
3 77 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (12.94%) Banking
5 40 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.94%) Retail
7 17 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (4.00%) Legal
8 13 (3.06%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.06%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.59%) Front Office
9 11 (2.59%) Marketing
10 10 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.41%) Back Office
12 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.71%) Law
13 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 76 (17.88%) Analyst
2 66 (15.53%) Business Analyst
3 61 (14.35%) Architect
4 54 (12.71%) Data Engineer
5 42 (9.88%) Lead
5 42 (9.88%) Senior
6 34 (8.00%) Developer
7 24 (5.65%) Data Scientist
8 20 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 20 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (3.76%) Consultant
10 14 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (3.29%) Senior Business Analyst
11 12 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.59%) Data Architect
12 11 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.35%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 8 (1.88%) Pega Developer
15 8 (1.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.94%) PySpark
2 20 (4.71%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.71%) scikit-learn
3 18 (4.24%) LangChain
4 17 (4.00%) .NET
4 17 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 15 (3.53%) Pandas
6 12 (2.82%) LlamaIndex
7 11 (2.59%) LangGraph
8 10 (2.35%) NumPy
9 9 (2.12%) Middleware
9 9 (2.12%) Node.js
9 9 (2.12%) REST
10 8 (1.88%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (1.65%) Kafka
12 6 (1.41%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.41%) React
13 5 (1.18%) boto
13 5 (1.18%) JSON
13 5 (1.18%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.41%) AI Agents
2 37 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 30 (7.06%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.12%) PMI
9 8 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.18%) IVR
11 5 (1.18%) Life Science
12 4 (0.94%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.94%) Derivative
12 4 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.59%) Linux
2 7 (1.65%) Unix
3 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (42.59%) AI
2 133 (31.29%) Analytics
3 121 (28.47%) Agile
4 107 (25.18%) Machine Learning
5 102 (24.00%) Data Modelling
6 86 (20.24%) Data Pipeline
7 85 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 77 (18.12%) CI/CD
8 77 (18.12%) DevOps
9 73 (17.18%) Data Science
9 73 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 72 (16.94%) LLM
11 70 (16.47%) Generative AI
12 62 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
13 61 (14.35%) Roadmaps
14 59 (13.88%) Data Governance
14 59 (13.88%) Decision-Making
14 59 (13.88%) Validation
15 53 (12.47%) Business Analysis
16 52 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 136 (32.00%) Python
2 88 (20.71%) SQL
3 19 (4.47%) C#
4 15 (3.53%) TypeScript
5 13 (3.06%) Java
5 13 (3.06%) R
6 11 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.88%) Scala
8 6 (1.41%) Bicep
9 4 (0.94%) Bash
9 4 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.94%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.71%) Swift
11 2 (0.47%) C++
11 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.47%) Go
11 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 62 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 56 (13.18%) Degree
4 22 (5.18%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.00%) CBAP
5 17 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.12%) IIBA
7 9 (2.12%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.88%) CISSP
9 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (1.18%) PhD
11 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.47%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (13.65%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.06%) QA
3 18 (4.24%) GDPR
4 10 (2.35%) NIST
5 5 (1.18%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.71%) PMO
7 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (4.94%) Docker
2 12 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.24%) HDFS
5 1 (0.24%) IAG
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.18%) Terraform
3 8 (1.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.24%) Istio
5 1 (0.24%) logstash
5 1 (0.24%) QRadar
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.82%) Databricks
3 44 (10.35%) OpenAI
4 21 (4.94%) Google
5 19 (4.47%) Foundry
6 12 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.59%) VMware
8 10 (2.35%) Pega
9 9 (2.12%) Splunk
10 6 (1.41%) Workday
11 5 (1.18%) Genesys
11 5 (1.18%) SAP
12 4 (0.94%) Adobe
12 4 (0.94%) Oracle
12 4 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.94%) Sparx
13 3 (0.71%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.47%) Nokia
14 2 (0.47%) Sage