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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 181 154
Rank change year-on-year +72 -27 +21
Contract jobs citing Use Case 449 192 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.52% 1.53% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 1.66% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 124 187
10th Percentile £402 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £504 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +6.29% -
75th Percentile £638 £850 £700
90th Percentile £757 £881 £855
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 £67.50 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -14.29%

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 15,734 11,596 15,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.21% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,510 7,857 11,214
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 178 313
10th Percentile £18.61 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £24.65 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 +32 64 £550 -17.91% 80
West London - 9 £523 - 26
South London - 4 £575 - 25
East London -7 2 £717 +22.56% 23
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 (6.24%) Confluence
2 17 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.11%) Apache
3 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.67%) CMS
4 3 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.67%) SAS
5 2 (0.45%) Kentico
5 2 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.45%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.22%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.12%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.11%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Actimize
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Findur
3 2 (0.45%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 165 (36.75%) Azure
2 99 (22.05%) AWS
3 49 (10.91%) Power Platform
4 46 (10.24%) GCP
5 33 (7.35%) Azure AI
6 25 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.68%) Snowflake
8 20 (4.45%) Amazon Bedrock
8 20 (4.45%) Serverless
9 19 (4.23%) dbt
10 18 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (3.79%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (3.56%) Amazon SageMaker
12 16 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (3.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (3.34%) Amazon S3
13 15 (3.34%) GitHub
14 14 (3.12%) WhatsApp
15 12 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.79%) Firewall
2 5 (1.11%) Network Security
2 5 (1.11%) RTP
3 3 (0.67%) 5G
3 3 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.45%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.45%) 4G
4 2 (0.45%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) Broadband
5 1 (0.22%) DNS
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) Internet
5 1 (0.22%) IPsec
5 1 (0.22%) NAS
5 1 (0.22%) OSPF
5 1 (0.22%) SSH
5 1 (0.22%) SSL
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.13%) Data Warehouse
1 41 (9.13%) Power BI
2 21 (4.68%) Metadata
2 21 (4.68%) Tableau
3 15 (3.34%) BigQuery
3 15 (3.34%) Data Lake
3 15 (3.34%) Snowflake Schema
4 14 (3.12%) Weaviate
5 13 (2.90%) Big Data
5 13 (2.90%) Pinecone
6 9 (2.00%) Delta Lake
6 9 (2.00%) Spark SQL
7 8 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.56%) KDB
9 6 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.34%) Kdb+
9 6 (1.34%) Looker
10 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.11%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.11%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (8.02%) JIRA
2 22 (4.90%) Git
3 12 (2.67%) MLflow
4 5 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.89%) ERwin
5 4 (0.89%) GitLab
6 3 (0.67%) XCTest
7 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.45%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.45%) JUnit
7 2 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.45%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.22%) Ant
8 1 (0.22%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.22%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.22%) Maven
8 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 163 (36.30%) Finance
2 122 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 77 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (13.14%) Banking
5 43 (9.58%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.35%) Retail
7 19 (4.23%) Legal
8 16 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.56%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.90%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.90%) Front Office
10 12 (2.67%) Marketing
11 11 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.11%) Back Office
13 5 (1.11%) Law
13 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 81 (18.04%) Analyst
2 72 (16.04%) Business Analyst
3 64 (14.25%) Architect
4 61 (13.59%) Data Engineer
5 48 (10.69%) Senior
6 45 (10.02%) Lead
7 30 (6.68%) Developer
8 26 (5.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 23 (5.12%) Data Scientist
10 20 (4.45%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 16 (3.56%) Consultant
12 14 (3.12%) Data Architect
12 14 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.12%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.23%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (2.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 8 (1.78%) Lead Data Engineer
16 8 (1.78%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.90%) LangChain
1 22 (4.90%) PySpark
2 20 (4.45%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.45%) scikit-learn
3 19 (4.23%) .NET
4 17 (3.79%) TensorFlow
5 16 (3.56%) Pandas
6 15 (3.34%) LlamaIndex
7 11 (2.45%) LangGraph
8 10 (2.23%) NumPy
8 10 (2.23%) REST
9 9 (2.00%) Middleware
10 8 (1.78%) Kafka
10 8 (1.78%) Node.js
11 7 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (1.34%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.34%) JSON
12 6 (1.34%) React
13 5 (1.11%) boto
13 5 (1.11%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.47%) AI Agents
2 38 (8.46%) Product Ownership
3 32 (7.13%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.00%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.78%) PMI
11 6 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.11%) Life Science
12 5 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.89%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.89%) Derivative
13 4 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.67%) Linux
2 7 (1.56%) Unix
3 5 (1.11%) Windows
4 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.22%) Android
5 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (43.65%) AI
2 145 (32.29%) Analytics
3 128 (28.51%) Agile
4 110 (24.50%) Machine Learning
5 108 (24.05%) Data Modelling
6 95 (21.16%) Data Pipeline
7 92 (20.49%) Data Engineering
8 80 (17.82%) LLM
9 76 (16.93%) CI/CD
9 76 (16.93%) Data Science
10 75 (16.70%) DevOps
11 73 (16.26%) Generative AI
12 70 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 65 (14.48%) Roadmaps
14 60 (13.36%) Decision-Making
14 60 (13.36%) Validation
15 59 (13.14%) Data Governance
15 59 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
16 54 (12.03%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 52 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 147 (32.74%) Python
2 95 (21.16%) SQL
3 20 (4.45%) C#
4 14 (3.12%) Java
5 13 (2.90%) R
5 13 (2.90%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.00%) Scala
7 6 (1.34%) Bicep
8 5 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.67%) Bash
9 3 (0.67%) Swift
10 2 (0.45%) C++
10 2 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.45%) Go
10 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.45%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 67 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.36%) Degree
4 17 (3.79%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.56%) CBAP
6 11 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.23%) IIBA
8 9 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.78%) CISSP
10 7 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.89%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.89%) ISEB
13 4 (0.89%) PhD
14 3 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.59%) Data Quality
2 30 (6.68%) QA
3 19 (4.23%) GDPR
4 11 (2.45%) NIST
5 5 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.11%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.45%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.45%) MiFID
8 2 (0.45%) PMO
8 2 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.22%) EMIR
9 1 (0.22%) GxP
9 1 (0.22%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) SEPA
9 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (4.90%) Docker
2 11 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.23%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.22%) HDFS
4 1 (0.22%) IAG
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.35%) Terraform
3 8 (1.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.67%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.45%) Ansible
5 2 (0.45%) QRadar
6 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.22%) Istio
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 49 (10.91%) Databricks
3 48 (10.69%) OpenAI
4 21 (4.68%) Foundry
4 21 (4.68%) Google
5 11 (2.45%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.45%) VMware
6 10 (2.23%) Pega
6 10 (2.23%) Splunk
7 7 (1.56%) SAP
8 6 (1.34%) Workday
9 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.89%) Oracle
11 3 (0.67%) Adobe
11 3 (0.67%) Ariba
11 3 (0.67%) Informatica
11 3 (0.67%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.45%) CyberArk
12 2 (0.45%) LexisNexis