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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 177 170
Rank change year-on-year +61 -7 -10
Contract jobs citing Use Case 420 186 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.52% 1.47% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 1.61% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 123 177
10th Percentile £412 £400 £416
25th Percentile £451 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £649 £850 £738
90th Percentile £789 £881 £875
England median daily rate £521 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.35% +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 £57.40 £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 14,959 11,567 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.45% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,041 7,825 11,442
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 229 165 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +15.40% -22.23%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.50 £71.13
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

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 26 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 26 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 +16 58 £583 -14.96% 82
South London - 6 £513 - 4
West London - 6 £523 - 9
East London -3 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 (6.43%) Confluence
2 17 (4.05%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
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%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.10%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.62%) 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
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Actimize
3 2 (0.48%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
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%) Findur
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 156 (37.14%) Azure
2 99 (23.57%) AWS
3 45 (10.71%) GCP
4 38 (9.05%) Power Platform
5 36 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (7.38%) Azure AI
7 23 (5.48%) Snowflake
8 19 (4.52%) GitHub
9 18 (4.29%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.29%) Serverless
10 17 (4.05%) dbt
10 17 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
13 14 (3.33%) Entra ID
14 13 (3.10%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.05%) 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 35 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (7.62%) Power BI
3 21 (5.00%) Metadata
4 17 (4.05%) Data Lake
4 17 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
4 17 (4.05%) Tableau
5 14 (3.33%) Big Data
6 11 (2.62%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.38%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.90%) Spark SQL
8 8 (1.90%) Weaviate
9 7 (1.67%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.67%) KDB
10 6 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.43%) Kdb+
10 6 (1.43%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.19%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.19%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 37 (8.81%) JIRA
2 25 (5.95%) Git
3 13 (3.10%) MLflow
4 5 (1.19%) ERwin
5 4 (0.95%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.71%) GitLab
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.71%) XCTest
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.48%) Hardhat
7 2 (0.48%) JUnit
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
7 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) Ant
8 1 (0.24%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
General
1 147 (35.00%) Finance
2 122 (29.05%) Social Skills
3 74 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (12.62%) Banking
5 38 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.76%) Legal
6 20 (4.76%) Retail
7 14 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.86%) Marketing
9 11 (2.62%) Back Office
10 10 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.90%) Front Office
11 8 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 74 (17.62%) Analyst
2 64 (15.24%) Business Analyst
3 62 (14.76%) Architect
4 46 (10.95%) Data Engineer
4 46 (10.95%) Lead
5 45 (10.71%) Senior
6 34 (8.10%) Developer
7 21 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 21 (5.00%) Data Scientist
8 19 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 16 (3.81%) Consultant
10 13 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (3.10%) Senior Business Analyst
11 12 (2.86%) Data Architect
12 9 (2.14%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.90%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 8 (1.90%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (1.67%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.00%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.76%) scikit-learn
3 19 (4.52%) PySpark
4 18 (4.29%) TensorFlow
5 17 (4.05%) LangChain
6 15 (3.57%) .NET
7 14 (3.33%) LangGraph
8 12 (2.86%) Node.js
9 11 (2.62%) Pandas
10 10 (2.38%) Model Context Protocol
10 10 (2.38%) REST
11 9 (2.14%) Middleware
11 9 (2.14%) React
12 8 (1.90%) LlamaIndex
12 8 (1.90%) NumPy
12 8 (1.90%) XML
13 7 (1.67%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.67%) Hugging Face
13 7 (1.67%) Kafka
14 6 (1.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.05%) AI Agents
2 34 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 30 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.43%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.38%) PMI
7 10 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.19%) IVR
10 5 (1.19%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.95%) Blockchain
11 4 (0.95%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.95%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.33%) Linux
2 9 (2.14%) Unix
2 9 (2.14%) Windows
3 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (41.43%) AI
2 128 (30.48%) Agile
3 125 (29.76%) Analytics
4 107 (25.48%) Machine Learning
5 100 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 86 (20.48%) CI/CD
7 84 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 82 (19.52%) DevOps
9 76 (18.10%) Data Pipeline
10 72 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (16.90%) LLM
12 69 (16.43%) Data Science
13 67 (15.95%) Generative AI
14 66 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
15 64 (15.24%) Roadmaps
16 59 (14.05%) Data Governance
17 58 (13.81%) Validation
18 54 (12.86%) Workshop Facilitation
19 53 (12.62%) Business Analysis
20 52 (12.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 131 (31.19%) Python
2 86 (20.48%) SQL
3 20 (4.76%) Java
4 17 (4.05%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.57%) C#
6 11 (2.62%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.90%) Scala
8 7 (1.67%) Bash
8 7 (1.67%) 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%) Swift
12 2 (0.48%) C++
12 2 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.48%) Solidity
12 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (16.90%) Degree
2 67 (15.95%) Security Cleared
3 56 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.95%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.29%) CBAP
7 13 (3.10%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.62%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.14%) CISSP
10 9 (2.14%) IIBA
11 8 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (1.19%) PhD
14 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.95%) ISEB
15 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.14%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.86%) QA
3 15 (3.57%) GDPR
4 8 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.90%) NIST
5 5 (1.19%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
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
8 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) FINRA
9 1 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (6.90%) Docker
2 14 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) HDFS
6 1 (0.24%) IAG
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.48%) Terraform
3 8 (1.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.71%) Ansible
4 3 (0.71%) Grafana
5 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
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
Vendors
1 77 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.24%) Databricks
3 41 (9.76%) OpenAI
4 21 (5.00%) Google
5 18 (4.29%) Foundry
6 12 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.62%) VMware
8 9 (2.14%) Oracle
9 8 (1.90%) Pega
10 7 (1.67%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.67%) Splunk
11 6 (1.43%) Genesys
11 6 (1.43%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.95%) Adobe
12 4 (0.95%) Sparx
12 4 (0.95%) Workday
13 3 (0.71%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.71%) SAP
13 3 (0.71%) UiPath