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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 145 193
Rank change year-on-year +27 +48 -27
Contract jobs citing Use Case 338 263 219
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 1.84% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.04% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 170 137
10th Percentile £400 £400 £461
25th Percentile £463 £476 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £671 £695 £700
90th Percentile £750 £841 £846
England median daily rate £511 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -11.09% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.43 £66.53 -
25th Percentile £37.31 £66.94 £91.25
Median hourly rate £45.75 £68.75 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.45% -25.68% +55.46%
75th Percentile £55.31 £70.44 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 £70.78 -
England median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £77.11
% change year-on-year -16.30% -12.46% +28.52%

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 13,094 12,910 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.52% 90.24% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,658 8,267 11,566
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 160 246
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.09 £17.11
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -13.08%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -10 43 £594 -1.04% 74
South London -5 3 £475 -17.39% 1
East London -4 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 24 (7.10%) Confluence
2 13 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.37%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.18%) Apache
6 3 (0.89%) Appian
7 2 (0.59%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.59%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.59%) Luigi
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.96%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.48%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.48%) ProjectWise
5 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.18%) Endur
3 3 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.59%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.30%) Findur
5 1 (0.30%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.30%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.30%) Shopify
5 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 114 (33.73%) Azure
2 68 (20.12%) AWS
3 33 (9.76%) GCP
4 28 (8.28%) Power Platform
5 24 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (6.51%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.73%) GitHub
8 14 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (3.85%) Serverless
10 12 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (3.25%) dbt
12 9 (2.66%) Azure AI
12 9 (2.66%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (2.37%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.37%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.37%) SaaS
13 8 (2.37%) Vertex AI
14 7 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.96%) Firewall
2 5 (1.48%) CTI
2 5 (1.48%) VoIP
3 3 (0.89%) SSH
4 2 (0.59%) NAS
5 1 (0.30%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.30%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.51%) Power BI
2 21 (6.21%) Data Lake
3 20 (5.92%) Metadata
4 16 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (4.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 13 (3.85%) Tableau
7 12 (3.55%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.66%) Big Data
8 9 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.37%) Data Vault
9 8 (2.37%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.07%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.48%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.89%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.89%) Redis
12 3 (0.89%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (10.95%) JIRA
2 20 (5.92%) Git
3 9 (2.66%) MLflow
4 6 (1.78%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.78%) ERwin
4 6 (1.78%) JUnit
4 6 (1.78%) PowerDesigner
4 6 (1.78%) Selenium
5 4 (1.18%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.89%) GitLab
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.89%) Postman
6 3 (0.89%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.59%) Hardhat
8 1 (0.30%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 119 (35.21%) Finance
2 113 (33.43%) Social Skills
3 82 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (15.09%) Banking
5 22 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.62%) Investment Banking
7 17 (5.03%) Back Office
8 14 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.55%) Front Office
9 12 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.25%) Legal
10 11 (3.25%) Marketing
10 11 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.37%) Retail
13 6 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (21.30%) Analyst
2 59 (17.46%) Business Analyst
3 38 (11.24%) Senior
4 33 (9.76%) Developer
5 29 (8.58%) Architect
6 25 (7.40%) Lead
7 20 (5.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 19 (5.62%) Consultant
8 19 (5.62%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.14%) Senior Business Analyst
10 13 (3.85%) Data Scientist
11 12 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.25%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.25%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.66%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.66%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.66%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.37%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
14 8 (2.37%) Programme Manager
14 8 (2.37%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.51%) PyTorch
2 17 (5.03%) TensorFlow
3 16 (4.73%) LangChain
4 14 (4.14%) scikit-learn
5 11 (3.25%) .NET
6 10 (2.96%) LangGraph
7 9 (2.66%) Pandas
7 9 (2.66%) PySpark
7 9 (2.66%) XML
8 8 (2.37%) Hugging Face
9 7 (2.07%) Node.js
9 7 (2.07%) REST
10 6 (1.78%) Android NDK
10 6 (1.78%) Android SDK
10 6 (1.78%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.78%) iOS SDK
10 6 (1.78%) JNI
10 6 (1.78%) Kafka
10 6 (1.78%) YAML
11 5 (1.48%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.88%) Onboarding
1 30 (8.88%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.51%) AI Agents
3 14 (4.14%) PMI
4 13 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.55%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.96%) Algorithms
6 10 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.78%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.78%) Virtual Reality
10 5 (1.48%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.48%) IVR
10 5 (1.48%) Life Science
10 5 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.80%) Linux
2 15 (4.44%) Windows
3 6 (1.78%) Android
3 6 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.78%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.59%) Unix
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (35.21%) AI
2 103 (30.47%) Agile
3 89 (26.33%) Analytics
4 74 (21.89%) Machine Learning
5 73 (21.60%) Data Modelling
5 73 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (17.16%) CI/CD
8 56 (16.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 55 (16.27%) Data Governance
9 55 (16.27%) LLM
10 53 (15.68%) User Stories
11 51 (15.09%) Data Pipeline
11 51 (15.09%) Data Science
12 49 (14.50%) Generative AI
12 49 (14.50%) Roadmaps
13 45 (13.31%) DevOps
14 44 (13.02%) Business Analysis
15 42 (12.43%) Validation
16 41 (12.13%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 101 (29.88%) Python
2 73 (21.60%) SQL
3 24 (7.10%) Java
4 14 (4.14%) Bash
5 10 (2.96%) C#
5 10 (2.96%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.96%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.07%) C++
8 6 (1.78%) Bicep
8 6 (1.78%) R
9 5 (1.48%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.89%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.59%) Scala
12 2 (0.59%) Solidity
12 2 (0.59%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 72 (21.30%) Degree
2 41 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 22 (6.51%) Master's Degree
5 18 (5.33%) CBAP
6 17 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.03%) PMI Certification
7 12 (3.55%) MCP
8 6 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.78%) PhD
9 5 (1.48%) CFA
9 5 (1.48%) CISSP
9 5 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.48%) IIBA
10 4 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.18%) ISEB
11 3 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.13%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.69%) QA
3 11 (3.25%) GDPR
4 9 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.37%) EU AI Act
5 8 (2.37%) NIST
6 6 (1.78%) ISO 19650
6 6 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.18%) PSD2
8 3 (0.89%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.59%) HL7
9 2 (0.59%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.59%) MiFID
9 2 (0.59%) PMO
9 2 (0.59%) SEPA
9 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.59%) WCAG
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) LOINC
System Software
1 21 (6.21%) Docker
2 10 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.37%) zsh
4 5 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (4.73%) Kubernetes
1 16 (4.73%) Terraform
2 5 (1.48%) Ansible
2 5 (1.48%) Grafana
3 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.30%) Argo
5 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.30%) QRadar
5 1 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 43 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.36%) Databricks
3 16 (4.73%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.55%) Splunk
5 9 (2.66%) Google
6 7 (2.07%) Citrix
6 7 (2.07%) Oracle
6 7 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.78%) Adobe
7 6 (1.78%) Genesys
8 5 (1.48%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.18%) UiPath
10 3 (0.89%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco
10 3 (0.89%) SAP
10 3 (0.89%) Veracode
10 3 (0.89%) VMware