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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 155 191
Rank change year-on-year +35 +36 -29
Contract jobs citing Use Case 336 240 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 1.71% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 1.90% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 154 139
10th Percentile £383 £400 £462
25th Percentile £463 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £671 £725 £700
90th Percentile £750 £881 £844
England median daily rate £515 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -10.43% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £34.43 - -
25th Percentile £37.31 £69.00 £91.25
Median hourly rate £45.75 £70.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.64% -24.32% +55.46%
75th Percentile £55.31 £71.00 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 - -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £86.66
% change year-on-year -19.29% -19.22% +44.43%

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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 18 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in London

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 18 January 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 +1 41 £575 -4.17% 46
South London 0 3 £475 -17.39% 7
East London -7 1 - - 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 28 (8.33%) Confluence
2 13 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.57%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.19%) Apache
6 3 (0.89%) Appian
7 2 (0.60%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.60%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.60%) Luigi
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.38%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.49%) ProjectWise
5 4 (1.19%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.89%) Endur
2 3 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.60%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.60%) Shopify
3 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.30%) PORTIA
4 1 (0.30%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 112 (33.33%) Azure
2 69 (20.54%) AWS
3 33 (9.82%) GCP
4 28 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 24 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (6.25%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.76%) GitHub
8 15 (4.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (3.87%) Serverless
10 12 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (3.27%) dbt
12 9 (2.68%) Azure AI
12 9 (2.68%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (2.68%) Vertex AI
13 8 (2.38%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.38%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.38%) SaaS
14 7 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.98%) Firewall
2 5 (1.49%) CTI
2 5 (1.49%) VoIP
3 2 (0.60%) NAS
3 2 (0.60%) SSH
4 1 (0.30%) Network Security
4 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.30%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.85%) Power BI
2 21 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 18 (5.36%) Metadata
4 17 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
5 14 (4.17%) Tableau
6 12 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.27%) Big Data
8 9 (2.68%) Data Vault
8 9 (2.68%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.08%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.49%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.89%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.89%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (12.50%) JIRA
2 18 (5.36%) Git
3 10 (2.98%) MLflow
4 6 (1.79%) ERwin
4 6 (1.79%) JUnit
4 6 (1.79%) PowerDesigner
5 5 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.49%) Selenium
6 4 (1.19%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.89%) GitLab
7 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.89%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.60%) Hardhat
8 2 (0.60%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 119 (35.42%) Finance
2 116 (34.52%) Social Skills
3 82 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (13.99%) Banking
5 23 (6.85%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.36%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.76%) Back Office
8 14 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.17%) Legal
9 12 (3.57%) Front Office
9 12 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.57%) Marketing
10 10 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.68%) Retail
12 6 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (20.24%) Analyst
2 57 (16.96%) Business Analyst
3 38 (11.31%) Senior
4 32 (9.52%) Architect
5 31 (9.23%) Developer
6 30 (8.93%) Lead
7 22 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 19 (5.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 17 (5.06%) Consultant
10 15 (4.46%) Data Scientist
11 14 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
12 11 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.27%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.98%) Data Architect
14 9 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 9 (2.68%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.68%) Product Manager
15 8 (2.38%) Programme Manager
15 8 (2.38%) Risk Analyst
16 7 (2.08%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 19 (5.65%) TensorFlow
3 16 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 15 (4.46%) LangChain
5 10 (2.98%) .NET
5 10 (2.98%) LangGraph
5 10 (2.98%) PySpark
6 9 (2.68%) XML
7 8 (2.38%) Hugging Face
7 8 (2.38%) Pandas
8 7 (2.08%) Node.js
8 7 (2.08%) REST
9 6 (1.79%) Android NDK
9 6 (1.79%) Android SDK
9 6 (1.79%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.79%) iOS SDK
9 6 (1.79%) JNI
9 6 (1.79%) Kafka
9 6 (1.79%) React
10 5 (1.49%) MIDP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.23%) Onboarding
1 31 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.85%) AI Agents
3 14 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.17%) PMI
4 12 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.98%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.98%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
8 6 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.79%) Virtual Reality
9 5 (1.49%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.49%) IVR
9 5 (1.49%) Life Science
9 5 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.95%) Linux
2 14 (4.17%) Windows
3 6 (1.79%) Android
3 6 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.60%) Unix
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (37.20%) AI
2 106 (31.55%) Agile
3 87 (25.89%) Analytics
4 77 (22.92%) Machine Learning
5 72 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 69 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 61 (18.15%) CI/CD
9 58 (17.26%) Data Governance
9 58 (17.26%) Data Science
10 56 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 56 (16.67%) LLM
11 53 (15.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 52 (15.48%) Roadmaps
13 51 (15.18%) User Stories
14 50 (14.88%) Generative AI
15 46 (13.69%) DevOps
15 46 (13.69%) Validation
16 42 (12.50%) Business Analysis
17 41 (12.20%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 103 (30.65%) Python
2 72 (21.43%) SQL
3 24 (7.14%) Java
4 13 (3.87%) Bash
5 10 (2.98%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.68%) C#
6 9 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.08%) C++
7 7 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.79%) Bicep
9 5 (1.49%) R
9 5 (1.49%) Scala
10 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.60%) Solidity
12 2 (0.60%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (20.54%) Degree
2 43 (12.80%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.55%) Master's Degree
5 18 (5.36%) CBAP
5 18 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.06%) PMI Certification
7 12 (3.57%) MCP
8 6 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.79%) PhD
9 5 (1.49%) CFA
9 5 (1.49%) IIBA
10 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.19%) CISSP
10 4 (1.19%) ISEB
11 3 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.89%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.61%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.04%) QA
3 12 (3.57%) GDPR
4 9 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.38%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.08%) NIST
7 6 (1.79%) ISO 19650
7 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.19%) PSD2
9 3 (0.89%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.60%) HL7
10 2 (0.60%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.60%) MiFID
10 2 (0.60%) SEPA
10 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.60%) WCAG
11 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.30%) GRC
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (6.85%) Docker
2 9 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.08%) zsh
4 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.76%) Terraform
3 5 (1.49%) Ansible
3 5 (1.49%) Grafana
4 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) QRadar
6 1 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 36 (10.71%) Databricks
1 36 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 13 (3.87%) Splunk
4 9 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.38%) Google
5 8 (2.38%) Oracle
6 6 (1.79%) Citrix
6 6 (1.79%) Genesys
7 5 (1.49%) Adobe
7 5 (1.49%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.49%) VMware
8 4 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.89%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.89%) Cisco
9 3 (0.89%) SAP
9 3 (0.89%) UiPath
9 3 (0.89%) Veracode