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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 174 165
Rank change year-on-year +62 -9 -6
Contract jobs citing Use Case 419 189 253
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.54% 1.48% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 1.62% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 125 173
10th Percentile £412 £400 £419
25th Percentile £451 £487 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £649 £838 £750
90th Percentile £761 £881 £875
England median daily rate £523 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -9.13% +1.68% +2.82%
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 £57.30 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.45% +11.36% -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 14,808 11,647 16,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.77% 91.28% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,938 7,820 11,448
10th Percentile £351 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 341
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £76.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

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 20 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 20 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 +10 57 £595 -11.19% 75
West London - 6 £523 - 8
South London - 5 £513 - 4
East London -3 2 £717 +27.47% 2
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 (6.44%) Confluence
2 17 (4.06%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.82%) 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%) Appian
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.10%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.63%) 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 (0.72%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.72%) Endur
3 2 (0.48%) Actimize
3 2 (0.48%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 154 (36.75%) Azure
2 97 (23.15%) AWS
3 40 (9.55%) GCP
4 37 (8.83%) Power Platform
5 35 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (7.16%) Azure AI
7 20 (4.77%) Snowflake
8 19 (4.53%) GitHub
9 18 (4.30%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (4.30%) Serverless
10 17 (4.06%) dbt
10 17 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (3.34%) Amazon SageMaker
14 13 (3.10%) Azure Machine Learning
15 12 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (2.86%) Entra ID
15 12 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.53%) Firewall
2 5 (1.19%) CTI
2 5 (1.19%) RTP
2 5 (1.19%) VoIP
3 4 (0.95%) Network Security
4 3 (0.72%) 5G
4 3 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.72%) 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%) BGP
6 1 (0.24%) Broadband
6 1 (0.24%) DNS
6 1 (0.24%) HTTP
6 1 (0.24%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.35%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (7.40%) Power BI
3 23 (5.49%) Metadata
4 18 (4.30%) Data Lake
4 18 (4.30%) Snowflake Schema
5 17 (4.06%) Tableau
6 14 (3.34%) Big Data
7 12 (2.86%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.91%) Spark SQL
9 7 (1.67%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.67%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.67%) KDB
9 7 (1.67%) Weaviate
10 6 (1.43%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.43%) Kdb+
10 6 (1.43%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.19%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 37 (8.83%) JIRA
2 26 (6.21%) Git
3 13 (3.10%) MLflow
4 6 (1.43%) ERwin
5 4 (0.95%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.95%) GitLab
5 4 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.95%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.72%) Selenium
6 3 (0.72%) XCTest
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) Hardhat
7 2 (0.48%) JUnit
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
7 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 143 (34.13%) Finance
2 123 (29.36%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.41%) Banking
5 39 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.77%) Legal
7 19 (4.53%) Retail
8 13 (3.10%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.86%) Marketing
10 11 (2.63%) Back Office
11 10 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.91%) Front Office
12 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.91%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (17.90%) Analyst
2 65 (15.51%) Business Analyst
3 56 (13.37%) Architect
4 47 (11.22%) Data Engineer
5 46 (10.98%) Senior
6 45 (10.74%) Lead
7 36 (8.59%) Developer
8 21 (5.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 21 (5.01%) Data Scientist
9 19 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 15 (3.58%) Consultant
11 13 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.10%) Senior Business Analyst
12 9 (2.15%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.15%) Data Architect
12 9 (2.15%) Software Engineer
12 9 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.91%) Cybersecurity Specialist
13 8 (1.91%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.01%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.77%) scikit-learn
3 19 (4.53%) PySpark
4 18 (4.30%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.82%) LangChain
6 15 (3.58%) .NET
7 14 (3.34%) LangGraph
8 11 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
8 11 (2.63%) Pandas
9 10 (2.39%) Node.js
9 10 (2.39%) REST
10 9 (2.15%) Middleware
10 9 (2.15%) React
10 9 (2.15%) XML
11 8 (1.91%) NumPy
12 7 (1.67%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.67%) Hugging Face
12 7 (1.67%) JSON
12 7 (1.67%) Kafka
12 7 (1.67%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.83%) AI Agents
2 33 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 29 (6.92%) Cloud Native
4 28 (6.68%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.58%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.39%) PMI
7 10 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.19%) IVR
11 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.95%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.95%) Clustering
12 4 (0.95%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.95%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.82%) Linux
2 13 (3.10%) Windows
3 9 (2.15%) Unix
4 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (40.10%) AI
2 130 (31.03%) Agile
3 124 (29.59%) Analytics
4 101 (24.11%) Data Modelling
5 99 (23.63%) Machine Learning
6 86 (20.53%) CI/CD
7 81 (19.33%) Data Engineering
8 79 (18.85%) DevOps
9 75 (17.90%) Data Pipeline
10 72 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 69 (16.47%) Data Science
12 66 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (15.27%) LLM
14 63 (15.04%) Roadmaps
15 62 (14.80%) Generative AI
16 59 (14.08%) Data Governance
17 56 (13.37%) Validation
18 54 (12.89%) Business Analysis
18 54 (12.89%) Workshop Facilitation
19 53 (12.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 132 (31.50%) Python
2 89 (21.24%) SQL
3 19 (4.53%) Java
4 17 (4.06%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.58%) C#
6 10 (2.39%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.91%) Bash
7 8 (1.91%) Scala
8 7 (1.67%) R
9 6 (1.43%) Bicep
10 5 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.72%) Swift
12 2 (0.48%) C++
12 2 (0.48%) Solidity
12 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (16.95%) Degree
2 67 (15.99%) Security Cleared
3 57 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.97%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.30%) CBAP
7 13 (3.10%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.15%) IIBA
11 8 (1.91%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.67%) CISSP
13 6 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (1.19%) PhD
15 4 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.95%) ISEB
16 3 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
16 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.65%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.40%) QA
3 13 (3.10%) GDPR
4 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.19%) NIST
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) PMO
7 3 (0.72%) PSD2
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.48%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) FINRA
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) SEPA
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (6.92%) Docker
2 14 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.39%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.24%) HDFS
7 1 (0.24%) IAG
7 1 (0.24%) zsh
Systems Management
1 29 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.49%) Terraform
3 8 (1.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (0.95%) Ansible
5 3 (0.72%) Grafana
6 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) logstash
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.02%) Databricks
3 41 (9.79%) OpenAI
4 21 (5.01%) Google
5 18 (4.30%) Foundry
6 12 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.63%) VMware
8 9 (2.15%) Oracle
8 9 (2.15%) Splunk
9 7 (1.67%) Pega
10 6 (1.43%) Genesys
11 5 (1.19%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.95%) Adobe
12 4 (0.95%) Sparx
12 4 (0.95%) Workday
13 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.72%) Cisco
13 3 (0.72%) UiPath