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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 176 158
Rank change year-on-year +56 -18 +14
Contract jobs citing Use Case 429 191 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.44% 1.51% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 1.64% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 125 186
10th Percentile £411 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £644 £850 £700
90th Percentile £776 £881 £856
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% -21.43%

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 15,599 11,674 15,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.11% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,450 7,939 11,295
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 £688 £675
90th Percentile £757 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 173 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.25
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.58
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.41% -5.13%

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 27 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 27 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 +16 60 £563 -16.04% 31
West London - 7 £523 - 6
South London - 4 £575 -
East London -5 2 £717 +22.56% 3
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 (6.06%) Confluence
2 16 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.17%) Apache
4 5 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.70%) CMS
5 3 (0.70%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.47%) Kentico
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) WordPress
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.26%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.17%) 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
1 149 (34.73%) Azure
2 93 (21.68%) AWS
3 43 (10.02%) GCP
3 43 (10.02%) Power Platform
4 31 (7.23%) Azure AI
5 30 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (5.13%) Snowflake
7 19 (4.43%) Amazon Bedrock
7 19 (4.43%) dbt
7 19 (4.43%) Serverless
8 17 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (3.96%) GitHub
9 16 (3.73%) Amazon SageMaker
9 16 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 16 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
10 14 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (3.03%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.03%) Entra ID
11 13 (3.03%) WhatsApp
12 12 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.96%) Firewall
2 5 (1.17%) CTI
2 5 (1.17%) RTP
2 5 (1.17%) VoIP
3 4 (0.93%) Network Security
4 3 (0.70%) 5G
4 3 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.47%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.47%) 4G
5 2 (0.47%) LTE
5 2 (0.47%) NAS
6 1 (0.23%) BGP
6 1 (0.23%) DNS
6 1 (0.23%) HTTP
6 1 (0.23%) Internet
6 1 (0.23%) IPsec
6 1 (0.23%) OSPF
6 1 (0.23%) SSH
6 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (8.39%) Power BI
3 19 (4.43%) Metadata
3 19 (4.43%) Tableau
4 17 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
5 14 (3.26%) BigQuery
5 14 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.80%) Big Data
7 11 (2.56%) Weaviate
8 10 (2.33%) Pinecone
9 9 (2.10%) Delta Lake
10 8 (1.86%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.63%) KDB
12 6 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.40%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.40%) Kdb+
12 6 (1.40%) Looker
13 5 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.17%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 35 (8.16%) JIRA
2 22 (5.13%) Git
3 12 (2.80%) MLflow
4 6 (1.40%) ERwin
5 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.93%) GitLab
6 4 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.70%) 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 (0.23%) Ant
9 1 (0.23%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.23%) Maven
9 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (34.97%) Finance
2 116 (27.04%) Social Skills
3 78 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (13.05%) Banking
5 40 (9.32%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.90%) Retail
7 17 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.96%) Legal
8 13 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.56%) Front Office
9 11 (2.56%) Marketing
10 10 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.40%) Back Office
13 3 (0.70%) Law
13 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 77 (17.95%) Analyst
2 67 (15.62%) Business Analyst
3 62 (14.45%) Architect
4 54 (12.59%) Data Engineer
5 42 (9.79%) Senior
6 40 (9.32%) Lead
7 36 (8.39%) Developer
8 24 (5.59%) Data Scientist
9 20 (4.66%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 20 (4.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 16 (3.73%) Consultant
11 14 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.56%) Data Architect
13 11 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.33%) Data Analyst
15 9 (2.10%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 8 (1.86%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (1.86%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.90%) PySpark
2 20 (4.66%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.66%) scikit-learn
3 19 (4.43%) .NET
4 18 (4.20%) LangChain
5 17 (3.96%) TensorFlow
6 15 (3.50%) Pandas
7 12 (2.80%) LlamaIndex
8 11 (2.56%) LangGraph
9 10 (2.33%) NumPy
10 9 (2.10%) Middleware
10 9 (2.10%) Node.js
10 9 (2.10%) REST
11 8 (1.86%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.63%) Kafka
13 6 (1.40%) Hugging Face
13 6 (1.40%) React
14 5 (1.17%) boto
14 5 (1.17%) JSON
14 5 (1.17%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.32%) AI Agents
2 37 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.99%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.83%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.03%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.10%) PMI
9 8 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.17%) IVR
11 5 (1.17%) Life Science
12 4 (0.93%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.93%) Derivative
12 4 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.56%) Linux
2 7 (1.63%) Unix
3 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.93%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (42.19%) AI
2 133 (31.00%) Analytics
3 124 (28.90%) Agile
4 107 (24.94%) Machine Learning
5 103 (24.01%) Data Modelling
6 87 (20.28%) Data Pipeline
7 84 (19.58%) Data Engineering
8 77 (17.95%) CI/CD
8 77 (17.95%) DevOps
9 74 (17.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 73 (17.02%) Data Science
11 71 (16.55%) Generative AI
11 71 (16.55%) LLM
12 63 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (13.99%) Roadmaps
14 59 (13.75%) Data Governance
14 59 (13.75%) Validation
15 58 (13.52%) Decision-Making
16 54 (12.59%) Business Analysis
17 53 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 135 (31.47%) Python
2 88 (20.51%) SQL
3 19 (4.43%) C#
4 15 (3.50%) TypeScript
5 13 (3.03%) Java
5 13 (3.03%) R
6 11 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.86%) Scala
8 6 (1.40%) Bicep
9 4 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.70%) Bash
10 3 (0.70%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.70%) Swift
11 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.47%) Go
11 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 63 (14.69%) SC Cleared
3 55 (12.82%) Degree
4 21 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.96%) CBAP
6 16 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.33%) IIBA
9 9 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.10%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.86%) CISSP
11 6 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.93%) PhD
14 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (13.52%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.99%) QA
3 18 (4.20%) GDPR
4 10 (2.33%) NIST
5 5 (1.17%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.70%) PMO
7 3 (0.70%) PSD2
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 20022
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%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (4.90%) Docker
2 12 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.23%) IAG
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.90%) Terraform
3 8 (1.86%) 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 81 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.72%) Databricks
3 44 (10.26%) OpenAI
4 21 (4.90%) Google
5 19 (4.43%) Foundry
6 12 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.56%) VMware
8 10 (2.33%) Pega
9 9 (2.10%) Splunk
10 6 (1.40%) SAP
10 6 (1.40%) Workday
11 5 (1.17%) Genesys
11 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.93%) Adobe
12 4 (0.93%) Oracle
12 4 (0.93%) Sparx
13 3 (0.70%) Ariba
13 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.47%) LexisNexis