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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 175 155
Rank change year-on-year +63 -20 +8
Contract jobs citing Use Case 429 183 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.51% 1.44% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 1.58% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 123 183
10th Percentile £408 £400 £414
25th Percentile £455 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £640 £850 £738
90th Percentile £785 £881 £872
England median daily rate £524 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.91% +2.13% +2.36%

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 15,294 11,605 15,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.42% 91.50% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,270 7,873 11,381
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £753 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 169 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%
75th Percentile £56.50 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 April 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 4 April 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 +18 59 £583 -14.96% 82
West London - 7 £523 - 9
South London - 6 £513 - 4
East London -2 2 £717 +22.56%
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 (6.29%) Confluence
2 17 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.17%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.26%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.63%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.70%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Actimize
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Endur
3 2 (0.47%) Findur
3 2 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 153 (35.66%) Azure
2 100 (23.31%) AWS
3 42 (9.79%) GCP
3 42 (9.79%) Power Platform
4 34 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (7.46%) Azure AI
6 20 (4.66%) Snowflake
7 19 (4.43%) Amazon Bedrock
7 19 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.43%) Serverless
8 18 (4.20%) GitHub
9 17 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (3.96%) dbt
10 16 (3.73%) Amazon SageMaker
11 15 (3.50%) Entra ID
11 15 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (3.03%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.03%) WhatsApp
14 12 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.96%) Firewall
2 5 (1.17%) CTI
2 5 (1.17%) RTP
2 5 (1.17%) VoIP
3 3 (0.70%) 5G
3 3 (0.70%) Network Security
3 3 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.70%) SSH
4 2 (0.47%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.47%) 4G
4 2 (0.47%) LTE
4 2 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.23%) Broadband
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) HTTP
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) OSPF
5 1 (0.23%) SSL
5 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (8.16%) Power BI
3 20 (4.66%) Metadata
3 20 (4.66%) Tableau
4 16 (3.73%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
5 14 (3.26%) Big Data
6 10 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.10%) Delta Lake
8 8 (1.86%) Spark SQL
8 8 (1.86%) Weaviate
9 7 (1.63%) Hadoop
9 7 (1.63%) KDB
9 7 (1.63%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.40%) Kdb+
11 5 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.17%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 35 (8.16%) JIRA
2 25 (5.83%) Git
3 12 (2.80%) MLflow
4 4 (0.93%) ERwin
4 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.70%) GitLab
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.70%) XCTest
6 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.47%) JUnit
6 2 (0.47%) Postman
6 2 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.23%) Ant
7 1 (0.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 147 (34.27%) Finance
2 121 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 81 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (12.82%) Banking
5 39 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.20%) Legal
6 18 (4.20%) Retail
7 15 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.56%) Back Office
9 11 (2.56%) Marketing
10 10 (2.33%) Front Office
10 10 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 79 (18.41%) Analyst
2 68 (15.85%) Business Analyst
3 61 (14.22%) Architect
4 51 (11.89%) Data Engineer
5 46 (10.72%) Senior
6 45 (10.49%) Lead
7 35 (8.16%) Developer
8 24 (5.59%) Data Scientist
9 19 (4.43%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 19 (4.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (3.50%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Consultant
12 13 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (3.03%) Data Architect
13 11 (2.56%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (2.10%) Cybersecurity Specialist
16 8 (1.86%) Lead Data Engineer
17 7 (1.63%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.13%) PySpark
2 21 (4.90%) PyTorch
3 20 (4.66%) scikit-learn
4 18 (4.20%) TensorFlow
5 17 (3.96%) LangChain
6 16 (3.73%) .NET
7 14 (3.26%) LangGraph
7 14 (3.26%) Pandas
8 11 (2.56%) Node.js
8 11 (2.56%) REST
9 9 (2.10%) LlamaIndex
9 9 (2.10%) Middleware
9 9 (2.10%) Model Context Protocol
9 9 (2.10%) NumPy
10 8 (1.86%) XML
11 7 (1.63%) Kafka
11 7 (1.63%) React
12 6 (1.40%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.40%) YAML
13 5 (1.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.32%) AI Agents
2 35 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.99%) Cloud Native
4 29 (6.76%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.50%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.33%) PMI
7 10 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.17%) IVR
12 5 (1.17%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.93%) Derivative
13 4 (0.93%) Equities
13 4 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.26%) Linux
2 9 (2.10%) Unix
2 9 (2.10%) Windows
3 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (40.79%) AI
2 131 (30.54%) Analytics
3 130 (30.30%) Agile
4 110 (25.64%) Machine Learning
5 102 (23.78%) Data Modelling
6 84 (19.58%) Data Engineering
7 82 (19.11%) CI/CD
8 81 (18.88%) Data Pipeline
9 78 (18.18%) DevOps
10 77 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 73 (17.02%) Data Science
12 72 (16.78%) LLM
13 68 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (15.38%) Generative AI
15 63 (14.69%) Roadmaps
16 62 (14.45%) Data Governance
17 60 (13.99%) Validation
18 56 (13.05%) Business Analysis
18 56 (13.05%) Workshop Facilitation
19 53 (12.35%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 136 (31.70%) Python
2 91 (21.21%) SQL
3 16 (3.73%) C#
3 16 (3.73%) Java
3 16 (3.73%) TypeScript
4 11 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.56%) R
5 8 (1.86%) Scala
6 6 (1.40%) Bicep
7 5 (1.17%) Bash
7 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.17%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.70%) Swift
9 2 (0.47%) C++
9 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.38%) Degree
3 61 (14.22%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 18 (4.20%) CBAP
5 18 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.10%) IIBA
10 8 (1.86%) CISSP
10 8 (1.86%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (1.17%) PhD
13 4 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.93%) ISEB
14 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (13.52%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.69%) QA
3 13 (3.03%) GDPR
4 9 (2.10%) NIST
5 7 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.17%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.70%) PMO
7 3 (0.70%) PSD2
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.47%) MiFID
8 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.23%) FINRA
9 1 (0.23%) GxP
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (5.36%) Docker
2 15 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.23%) HDFS
5 1 (0.23%) IAG
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.36%) Terraform
3 8 (1.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.23%) Istio
5 1 (0.23%) logstash
5 1 (0.23%) QRadar
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.26%) Databricks
3 42 (9.79%) OpenAI
4 20 (4.66%) Google
5 19 (4.43%) Foundry
6 13 (3.03%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.56%) VMware
8 9 (2.10%) Pega
9 8 (1.86%) Oracle
9 8 (1.86%) Splunk
10 6 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 6 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.17%) Genesys
12 4 (0.93%) Adobe
12 4 (0.93%) SAP
12 4 (0.93%) Sparx
12 4 (0.93%) Workday
13 3 (0.70%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.70%) UiPath