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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 181 165
Rank change year-on-year +70 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing Use Case 425 182 267
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.53% 1.43% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 1.57% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 122 182
10th Percentile £412 £400 £418
25th Percentile £454 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £656 £850 £738
90th Percentile £781 £881 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.13% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £92.50
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.40 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.33% +9.09% -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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 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 30 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 +22 59 £583 -16.79% 82
South London - 6 £513 - 4
West London - 6 £523 - 9
East London 0 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 (6.35%) Confluence
2 18 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.24%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 24 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.29%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.65%) 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 4 (0.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.71%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Actimize
3 2 (0.47%) Endur
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%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.24%) Findur
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 157 (36.94%) Azure
2 99 (23.29%) AWS
3 44 (10.35%) GCP
4 42 (9.88%) Power Platform
5 37 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (7.53%) Azure AI
7 22 (5.18%) Snowflake
8 20 (4.71%) GitHub
9 19 (4.47%) Amazon Bedrock
9 19 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (4.24%) Serverless
11 17 (4.00%) dbt
11 17 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (3.53%) Entra ID
13 14 (3.29%) Amazon SageMaker
14 13 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
14 13 (3.06%) WhatsApp
15 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
3 3 (0.71%) SSH
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%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (8.24%) Power BI
3 20 (4.71%) Metadata
4 18 (4.24%) Tableau
5 17 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (3.53%) Big Data
8 11 (2.59%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.88%) Spark SQL
10 8 (1.88%) Weaviate
11 7 (1.65%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.65%) KDB
12 6 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.41%) Kdb+
12 6 (1.41%) Pinecone
13 5 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.18%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.18%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (8.47%) JIRA
2 25 (5.88%) Git
3 14 (3.29%) MLflow
4 4 (0.94%) ERwin
4 4 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.71%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.71%) XCTest
6 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.47%) JUnit
6 2 (0.47%) Postman
6 2 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 148 (34.82%) Finance
2 122 (28.71%) Social Skills
3 76 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (12.47%) Banking
5 38 (8.94%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.71%) Retail
7 19 (4.47%) Legal
8 15 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.59%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.59%) Marketing
10 10 (2.35%) Back Office
11 9 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.88%) Front Office
12 8 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 76 (17.88%) Analyst
2 66 (15.53%) Business Analyst
3 61 (14.35%) Architect
4 48 (11.29%) Data Engineer
5 46 (10.82%) Lead
5 46 (10.82%) Senior
6 34 (8.00%) Developer
7 21 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 21 (4.94%) Data Scientist
8 19 (4.47%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 16 (3.76%) Consultant
10 14 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (3.29%) Senior Business Analyst
11 13 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (3.06%) Data Architect
12 10 (2.35%) Data Analyst
12 10 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 8 (1.88%) Lead Data Engineer
15 7 (1.65%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.94%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.71%) PySpark
2 20 (4.71%) scikit-learn
3 18 (4.24%) TensorFlow
4 17 (4.00%) LangChain
5 14 (3.29%) .NET
5 14 (3.29%) LangGraph
6 12 (2.82%) Node.js
7 11 (2.59%) Pandas
7 11 (2.59%) REST
8 10 (2.35%) Model Context Protocol
9 9 (2.12%) Middleware
10 8 (1.88%) Kafka
10 8 (1.88%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (1.88%) NumPy
10 8 (1.88%) React
10 8 (1.88%) XML
11 7 (1.65%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.65%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.41%) AI Agents
2 34 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 31 (7.29%) Cloud Native
4 28 (6.59%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.35%) PMI
7 10 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.12%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.18%) IVR
10 5 (1.18%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.94%) Derivative
11 4 (0.94%) Equities
11 4 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.29%) Linux
2 9 (2.12%) Unix
2 9 (2.12%) Windows
3 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (41.65%) AI
2 127 (29.88%) Agile
2 127 (29.88%) Analytics
3 111 (26.12%) Machine Learning
4 101 (23.76%) Data Modelling
5 86 (20.24%) Data Engineering
6 84 (19.76%) CI/CD
7 82 (19.29%) DevOps
8 79 (18.59%) Data Pipeline
9 76 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
10 71 (16.71%) LLM
11 70 (16.47%) Data Science
12 68 (16.00%) Generative AI
13 67 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (15.06%) Roadmaps
15 62 (14.59%) Data Governance
16 60 (14.12%) Validation
17 56 (13.18%) Business Analysis
18 55 (12.94%) Workshop Facilitation
19 53 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 133 (31.29%) Python
2 90 (21.18%) SQL
3 18 (4.24%) Java
4 17 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 14 (3.29%) C#
6 11 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.12%) R
8 8 (1.88%) Scala
9 7 (1.65%) Bash
10 6 (1.41%) Bicep
11 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.18%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.71%) Swift
13 2 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (16.00%) Degree
2 67 (15.76%) Security Cleared
3 56 (13.18%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 19 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.24%) CBAP
7 13 (3.06%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.12%) IIBA
11 8 (1.88%) CISSP
11 8 (1.88%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (1.18%) PhD
14 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.94%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.94%) ISEB
15 3 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.71%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.76%) QA
3 14 (3.29%) GDPR
4 8 (1.88%) NIST
5 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.18%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.71%) PMO
7 3 (0.71%) PSD2
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.47%) MiFID
8 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) FINRA
9 1 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (6.12%) Docker
2 15 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) HDFS
6 1 (0.24%) IAG
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.41%) Terraform
3 8 (1.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.71%) Grafana
5 2 (0.47%) Ansible
5 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.24%) Istio
6 1 (0.24%) logstash
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) QRadar
6 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.12%) Databricks
3 42 (9.88%) OpenAI
4 21 (4.94%) Google
5 19 (4.47%) Foundry
6 13 (3.06%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.59%) VMware
8 9 (2.12%) Oracle
9 8 (1.88%) Pega
10 6 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.41%) Genesys
10 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.41%) Splunk
11 4 (0.94%) Adobe
11 4 (0.94%) SAP
11 4 (0.94%) Sparx
11 4 (0.94%) Workday
12 3 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.71%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.71%) UiPath