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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 180 176
Rank change year-on-year +63 -4 -16
Contract jobs citing Use Case 401 189 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.50% 1.45% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 1.59% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 127 174
10th Percentile £413 £400 £420
25th Percentile £451 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £650 £838 £747
90th Percentile £750 £881 £875
England median daily rate £521 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -9.35% +2.22% +2.27%
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% +55.46%
75th Percentile - £71.00 £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.30 £70.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.14% +47.37% -27.48%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 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 9 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 +12 55 £593 -1.25% 19
West London - 4 £523 - 4
South London -12 3 £475 -17.39% 2
East London +1 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 (6.73%) Confluence
2 17 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.99%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.75%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) Appian
6 2 (0.50%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.50%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.50%) SAS
7 1 (0.25%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.74%) Chatbot
4 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) BambooHR
1 3 (0.75%) Endur
1 3 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.50%) Actimize
2 2 (0.50%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.50%) Shopify
3 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 152 (37.91%) Azure
2 96 (23.94%) AWS
3 43 (10.72%) GCP
4 34 (8.48%) Power Platform
5 32 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (6.73%) Azure AI
7 23 (5.74%) Snowflake
8 19 (4.74%) dbt
9 18 (4.49%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (4.49%) GitHub
9 18 (4.49%) Serverless
10 15 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (3.49%) Amazon SageMaker
11 14 (3.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (3.49%) Vertex AI
12 12 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (2.99%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (2.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.49%) Firewall
2 5 (1.25%) CTI
2 5 (1.25%) VoIP
3 3 (0.75%) RTP
3 3 (0.75%) SSH
4 2 (0.50%) NAS
4 2 (0.50%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.25%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.25%) 4G
5 1 (0.25%) BGP
5 1 (0.25%) Broadband
5 1 (0.25%) DNS
5 1 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) LTE
5 1 (0.25%) OSPF
5 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.25%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (6.98%) Power BI
3 19 (4.74%) Snowflake Schema
4 18 (4.49%) Metadata
5 16 (3.99%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.74%) Tableau
7 14 (3.49%) Big Data
8 11 (2.74%) Delta Lake
9 9 (2.24%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.75%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.75%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.75%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.75%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.75%) Weaviate
11 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.25%) KDB
12 5 (1.25%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.25%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (9.23%) JIRA
2 25 (6.23%) Git
3 14 (3.49%) MLflow
4 6 (1.50%) ERwin
5 5 (1.25%) GitLab
5 5 (1.25%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.00%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.00%) Selenium
7 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.75%) XCTest
8 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.50%) Hardhat
8 2 (0.50%) JUnit
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 136 (33.92%) Finance
2 122 (30.42%) Social Skills
3 72 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (12.22%) Banking
5 38 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.74%) Legal
6 19 (4.74%) Retail
7 14 (3.49%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.24%) Marketing
9 11 (2.74%) Back Office
10 9 (2.24%) Front Office
10 9 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.75%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (17.96%) Analyst
2 62 (15.46%) Business Analyst
3 55 (13.72%) Architect
4 47 (11.72%) Lead
5 46 (11.47%) Senior
6 42 (10.47%) Data Engineer
7 33 (8.23%) Developer
8 21 (5.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (4.99%) Data Scientist
10 18 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 16 (3.99%) Consultant
12 13 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.24%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (2.74%) Software Engineer
15 9 (2.24%) Data Architect
15 9 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
16 8 (2.00%) Data Analyst
16 8 (2.00%) Lead Data Engineer
17 7 (1.75%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.99%) PyTorch
2 19 (4.74%) scikit-learn
2 19 (4.74%) TensorFlow
3 18 (4.49%) LangChain
4 15 (3.74%) .NET
4 15 (3.74%) PySpark
5 14 (3.49%) LangGraph
6 13 (3.24%) REST
7 12 (2.99%) Model Context Protocol
8 11 (2.74%) Pandas
9 10 (2.49%) Node.js
9 10 (2.49%) XML
10 9 (2.24%) Middleware
10 9 (2.24%) React
11 8 (2.00%) JSON
11 8 (2.00%) Kafka
11 8 (2.00%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (1.75%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.75%) Hugging Face
12 7 (1.75%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.73%) AI Agents
2 33 (8.23%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.23%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.99%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.99%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.49%) PMI
9 9 (2.24%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.25%) Clustering
12 5 (1.25%) IVR
13 4 (1.00%) Derivative
13 4 (1.00%) Equities
13 4 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (1.00%) Life Science
13 4 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.24%) Linux
1 13 (3.24%) Windows
2 5 (1.25%) Unix
3 4 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (40.40%) AI
2 128 (31.92%) Agile
3 118 (29.43%) Analytics
4 100 (24.94%) Machine Learning
5 96 (23.94%) Data Modelling
6 86 (21.45%) CI/CD
7 74 (18.45%) Data Engineering
8 72 (17.96%) DevOps
9 71 (17.71%) Data Pipeline
10 69 (17.21%) LLM
10 69 (17.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (16.96%) Data Science
12 64 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
13 60 (14.96%) Roadmaps
14 59 (14.71%) Generative AI
15 57 (14.21%) Data Governance
16 53 (13.22%) Business Analysis
17 52 (12.97%) Decision-Making
17 52 (12.97%) User Stories
17 52 (12.97%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 131 (32.67%) Python
2 84 (20.95%) SQL
3 18 (4.49%) Java
4 17 (4.24%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.74%) C#
6 12 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.24%) Bash
8 8 (2.00%) Scala
9 6 (1.50%) Bicep
9 6 (1.50%) R
10 5 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.25%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.75%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.75%) Swift
12 2 (0.50%) C++
12 2 (0.50%) Solidity
12 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (17.21%) Degree
2 61 (15.21%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.97%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.23%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.49%) CBAP
7 13 (3.24%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.24%) IIBA
10 8 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.75%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.50%) CISSP
12 6 (1.50%) PhD
13 5 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.00%) ISEB
15 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.47%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.73%) QA
3 14 (3.49%) GDPR
4 9 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.00%) NIST
6 3 (0.75%) EU AI Act
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) PMO
7 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.50%) MiFID
7 2 (0.50%) PSD2
8 1 (0.25%) EMIR
8 1 (0.25%) FINRA
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) HL7
8 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (7.48%) Docker
2 13 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.49%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.50%) zsh
7 1 (0.25%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) IAG
Systems Management
1 27 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.74%) Terraform
3 8 (2.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 6 (1.50%) Ansible
5 3 (0.75%) Grafana
6 2 (0.50%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.25%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.25%) logstash
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.73%) Databricks
3 38 (9.48%) OpenAI
4 20 (4.99%) Google
5 15 (3.74%) Foundry
6 11 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.74%) Splunk
6 11 (2.74%) VMware
7 8 (2.00%) Oracle
8 6 (1.50%) Genesys
9 5 (1.25%) Adobe
9 5 (1.25%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.25%) Pega
9 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.00%) Workday
11 3 (0.75%) Citrix
11 3 (0.75%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.75%) Sparx
11 3 (0.75%) UiPath