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 3 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 139 144
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Use Case 181 94 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 1.61% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.76% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 64 94
10th Percentile £404 £396 £433
25th Percentile £463 £533 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £688 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £881 £775
90th Percentile £819 - £875
England median daily rate £510 £625 £580
% change year-on-year -18.40% +7.76% +2.20%

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 7,152 5,326 8,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 91.31% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,843 3,665 5,708
10th Percentile £350 £350 £331
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 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £793
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 73 199
10th Percentile £19.41 £21.50 £15.20
25th Percentile £23.61 £24.18 £18.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.21 £51.18 £44.25
90th Percentile £69.87 £75.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.06 £28.50
% change year-on-year +2.77% +19.49% +14.00%

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 3 months to 30 January 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 3 months to 30 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +6 31 £594 -13.32% 56
West London - 3 £523 - 16
South London - 1 £600 - 24
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 (7.84%) Confluence
2 14 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.12%) Apache
6 3 (0.84%) 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 18 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.40%) Chatbot
6 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.84%) 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 5 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.84%) Endur
2 3 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.84%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.56%) Shopify
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 115 (32.21%) Azure
2 72 (20.17%) AWS
3 33 (9.24%) GCP
4 31 (8.68%) Power Platform
5 26 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 18 (5.04%) GitHub
8 15 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.20%) Serverless
9 14 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.36%) dbt
11 11 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (2.80%) Azure AI
13 9 (2.52%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.52%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.52%) Azure Machine Learning
14 8 (2.24%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (2.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (2.24%) SaaS
14 8 (2.24%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.64%) Firewall
2 5 (1.40%) CTI
2 5 (1.40%) VoIP
3 2 (0.56%) NAS
3 2 (0.56%) RTP
3 2 (0.56%) SSH
4 1 (0.28%) Broadband
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.28%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.00%) Power BI
2 21 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 21 (5.88%) Metadata
3 18 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
4 17 (4.76%) Tableau
5 11 (3.08%) Big Data
5 11 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.80%) Delta Lake
7 9 (2.52%) Data Vault
8 7 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.96%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.40%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.84%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.84%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
11 3 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (11.20%) JIRA
2 22 (6.16%) Git
3 11 (3.08%) MLflow
4 7 (1.96%) ERwin
5 6 (1.68%) JUnit
5 6 (1.68%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.40%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.40%) Selenium
7 4 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.84%) GitLab
8 3 (0.84%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.84%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.56%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.56%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (35.57%) Finance
2 122 (34.17%) Social Skills
3 83 (23.25%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (13.73%) Banking
5 23 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.04%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.20%) Back Office
8 14 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.92%) Legal
9 11 (3.08%) Front Office
9 11 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.08%) Marketing
9 11 (3.08%) Retail
10 9 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (21.29%) Analyst
2 64 (17.93%) Business Analyst
3 41 (11.48%) Senior
4 39 (10.92%) Architect
5 33 (9.24%) Lead
6 31 (8.68%) Developer
7 25 (7.00%) Data Engineer
8 21 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 18 (5.04%) Data Scientist
10 17 (4.76%) Consultant
11 15 (4.20%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (3.08%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 10 (2.80%) Data Analyst
15 9 (2.52%) Data Architect
16 8 (2.24%) Programme Manager
16 8 (2.24%) Risk Analyst
17 7 (1.96%) Product Manager
18 6 (1.68%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.72%) PyTorch
2 19 (5.32%) TensorFlow
3 18 (5.04%) scikit-learn
4 15 (4.20%) LangChain
5 12 (3.36%) Model Context Protocol
5 12 (3.36%) Pandas
6 11 (3.08%) .NET
7 10 (2.80%) LangGraph
8 9 (2.52%) PySpark
8 9 (2.52%) XML
9 8 (2.24%) Hugging Face
9 8 (2.24%) Node.js
9 8 (2.24%) REST
10 7 (1.96%) Kafka
10 7 (1.96%) NumPy
11 6 (1.68%) Android NDK
11 6 (1.68%) Android SDK
11 6 (1.68%) iOS SDK
11 6 (1.68%) JNI
11 6 (1.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.96%) Onboarding
1 32 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.16%) AI Agents
3 14 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.92%) PMI
4 13 (3.64%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.68%) Augmented Reality
8 6 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.68%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (1.40%) Clustering
9 5 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.40%) IVR
9 5 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.12%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.88%) Linux
2 14 (3.92%) Windows
3 6 (1.68%) Android
3 6 (1.68%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.68%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (36.97%) AI
2 116 (32.49%) Agile
3 95 (26.61%) Analytics
4 86 (24.09%) Data Modelling
5 81 (22.69%) Machine Learning
6 71 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (19.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 67 (18.77%) CI/CD
8 61 (17.09%) Data Pipeline
9 59 (16.53%) Data Governance
10 58 (16.25%) Data Science
10 58 (16.25%) LLM
11 56 (15.69%) Roadmaps
12 54 (15.13%) User Stories
13 53 (14.85%) Generative AI
14 52 (14.57%) DevOps
14 52 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 50 (14.01%) Business Analysis
16 49 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
16 49 (13.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (30.53%) Python
2 76 (21.29%) SQL
3 22 (6.16%) Java
4 13 (3.64%) Bash
5 11 (3.08%) C#
6 10 (2.80%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.96%) C++
7 7 (1.96%) Scala
8 6 (1.68%) Bicep
8 6 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.40%) R
10 4 (1.12%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.56%) Korn
12 2 (0.56%) Solidity
12 2 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (20.73%) Degree
2 51 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 43 (12.04%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.72%) Master's Degree
5 22 (6.16%) CBAP
6 20 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.76%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.52%) IIBA
9 6 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.68%) PhD
10 5 (1.40%) CFA
11 4 (1.12%) CISSP
11 4 (1.12%) ISEB
11 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.92%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.56%) QA
3 12 (3.36%) GDPR
4 9 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.96%) EU AI Act
5 7 (1.96%) NIST
6 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.12%) PSD2
8 3 (0.84%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.84%) 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%) FINRA
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (7.28%) Docker
2 8 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.96%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.68%) zsh
5 5 (1.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.48%) Terraform
3 5 (1.40%) Ansible
3 5 (1.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.84%) 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%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 43 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.52%) Databricks
3 18 (5.04%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.92%) Splunk
5 10 (2.80%) Google
5 10 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.24%) VMware
7 7 (1.96%) Oracle
8 6 (1.68%) Genesys
9 5 (1.40%) Adobe
9 5 (1.40%) Citrix
9 5 (1.40%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.40%) SAP
9 5 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.84%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.84%) Cisco
11 3 (0.84%) Sparx
11 3 (0.84%) UiPath