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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 148 189
Rank change year-on-year +28 +41 -24
Contract jobs citing Use Case 355 242 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.41% 1.78% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 1.97% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 152 149
10th Percentile £403 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £607 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +1.17% -1.03%
75th Percentile £669 £738 £738
90th Percentile £757 £881 £875
England median daily rate £523 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -9.13% +0.88% +0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £69.00 £91.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -24.32% +55.46%
75th Percentile £37.50 £71.00 £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £78.03
% change year-on-year -18.14% -10.29% +20.05%

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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -8 44 £594 -1.04% 77
South London -7 3 £475 -17.39% 21
West London - 3 £523 - 16
East London -6 1 - - 13
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 28 (7.89%) Confluence
2 14 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.13%) Apache
6 3 (0.85%) Appian
7 2 (0.56%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.56%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.56%) Luigi
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.41%) Chatbot
6 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.85%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Endur
1 3 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 3 (0.85%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.56%) Shopify
3 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 119 (33.52%) Azure
2 71 (20.00%) AWS
3 34 (9.58%) GCP
4 32 (9.01%) Power Platform
5 27 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (6.20%) Snowflake
7 18 (5.07%) GitHub
8 17 (4.79%) Serverless
9 15 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.38%) dbt
11 11 (3.10%) Azure AI
11 11 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.82%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.54%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (2.54%) Azure Machine Learning
13 9 (2.54%) Vertex AI
14 8 (2.25%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (2.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.94%) Firewall
2 5 (1.41%) CTI
2 5 (1.41%) VoIP
3 3 (0.85%) RTP
4 2 (0.56%) NAS
4 2 (0.56%) SSH
5 1 (0.28%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.28%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.04%) Power BI
2 20 (5.63%) Data Lake
3 19 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (5.35%) Metadata
4 17 (4.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 16 (4.51%) Tableau
6 11 (3.10%) Big Data
6 11 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.82%) Delta Lake
8 8 (2.25%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.69%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.41%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.13%) KDB
12 4 (1.13%) Kdb+
13 3 (0.85%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 40 (11.27%) JIRA
2 22 (6.20%) Git
3 11 (3.10%) MLflow
4 7 (1.97%) ERwin
5 6 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.41%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.41%) Selenium
7 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.85%) GitLab
8 3 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.85%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.56%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.56%) JUnit
9 2 (0.56%) Postman
9 2 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (35.77%) Finance
2 117 (32.96%) Social Skills
3 81 (22.82%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (14.08%) Banking
5 22 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.07%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.23%) Back Office
8 14 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.94%) Legal
9 11 (3.10%) Front Office
9 11 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.10%) Marketing
9 11 (3.10%) Retail
10 9 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (21.41%) Analyst
2 64 (18.03%) Business Analyst
3 42 (11.83%) Senior
4 40 (11.27%) Architect
5 32 (9.01%) Lead
6 29 (8.17%) Developer
7 27 (7.61%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 18 (5.07%) Data Scientist
10 15 (4.23%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (3.94%) Consultant
12 12 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 10 (2.82%) Data Analyst
15 8 (2.25%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.25%) Programme Manager
15 8 (2.25%) Risk Analyst
15 8 (2.25%) Software Engineer
16 7 (1.97%) Azure Engineer
16 7 (1.97%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.76%) PyTorch
2 19 (5.35%) TensorFlow
3 18 (5.07%) scikit-learn
4 15 (4.23%) LangChain
5 13 (3.66%) Model Context Protocol
6 12 (3.38%) .NET
6 12 (3.38%) Pandas
7 11 (3.10%) LangGraph
8 10 (2.82%) REST
9 9 (2.54%) Node.js
9 9 (2.54%) PySpark
9 9 (2.54%) XML
10 7 (1.97%) Hugging Face
10 7 (1.97%) JSON
10 7 (1.97%) Kafka
10 7 (1.97%) NumPy
11 6 (1.69%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.69%) Middleware
11 6 (1.69%) React
12 5 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 31 (8.73%) Onboarding
3 23 (6.48%) AI Agents
4 15 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.94%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.94%) PMI
6 13 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.41%) Clustering
11 5 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.41%) IVR
11 5 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.13%) Derivative
12 4 (1.13%) Equities
12 4 (1.13%) Life Science
12 4 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.79%) Linux
2 14 (3.94%) Windows
3 5 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (0.28%) Android
4 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (37.46%) AI
2 114 (32.11%) Agile
3 98 (27.61%) Analytics
4 86 (24.23%) Data Modelling
5 81 (22.82%) Machine Learning
6 70 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 69 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (16.90%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (16.90%) LLM
9 58 (16.34%) Data Science
10 57 (16.06%) Data Governance
11 55 (15.49%) DevOps
11 55 (15.49%) User Stories
12 53 (14.93%) Generative AI
12 53 (14.93%) Roadmaps
12 53 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 50 (14.08%) Business Analysis
14 49 (13.80%) Requirements Gathering
14 49 (13.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (30.70%) Python
2 75 (21.13%) SQL
3 16 (4.51%) Java
4 13 (3.66%) Bash
5 12 (3.38%) C#
6 10 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.97%) Scala
8 6 (1.69%) Bicep
8 6 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.13%) R
10 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.56%) C++
11 2 (0.56%) Korn
11 2 (0.56%) Solidity
11 2 (0.56%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (19.72%) Degree
2 49 (13.80%) Security Cleared
3 43 (12.11%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.76%) Master's Degree
5 22 (6.20%) CBAP
6 20 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.79%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.54%) IIBA
9 7 (1.97%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.69%) PhD
11 5 (1.41%) CFA
12 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.13%) CISSP
12 4 (1.13%) ISEB
12 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.55%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.61%) QA
3 13 (3.66%) GDPR
4 9 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.97%) EU AI Act
5 7 (1.97%) NIST
6 5 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.13%) PSD2
8 3 (0.85%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.56%) MiFID
9 2 (0.56%) PMO
9 2 (0.56%) SEPA
9 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.56%) WCAG
10 1 (0.28%) EMIR
10 1 (0.28%) FINRA
System Software
1 25 (7.04%) Docker
2 9 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.25%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.69%) zsh
5 5 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.51%) Terraform
3 5 (1.41%) Ansible
3 5 (1.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.14%) Databricks
3 19 (5.35%) OpenAI
4 13 (3.66%) Splunk
5 10 (2.82%) Google
5 10 (2.82%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.54%) VMware
7 7 (1.97%) Oracle
8 6 (1.69%) Genesys
9 5 (1.41%) Citrix
9 5 (1.41%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.13%) Adobe
10 4 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.85%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.85%) Cisco
11 3 (0.85%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.85%) SAP
11 3 (0.85%) UiPath
11 3 (0.85%) Veracode