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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 171 160
Rank change year-on-year +56 -11 +5
Contract jobs citing Use Case 428 197 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.45% 1.55% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 1.69% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 129 185
10th Percentile £411 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £640 £838 £734
90th Percentile £790 £881 £869
England median daily rate £523 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -9.13% +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 £57.40 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.04% +2.27% -16.03%

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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 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 21 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 +20 60 £550 -17.91% 56
West London - 7 £523 - 17
South London - 6 £513 - 11
East London -4 2 £717 +22.56% 13
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 (6.31%) Confluence
2 17 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.17%) Apache
4 5 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.70%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 22 (5.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.27%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.17%) 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 5 (1.17%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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
1 154 (35.98%) Azure
2 95 (22.20%) AWS
3 46 (10.75%) Power Platform
4 42 (9.81%) GCP
5 32 (7.48%) Azure AI
5 32 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.37%) Snowflake
7 20 (4.67%) dbt
8 19 (4.44%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (4.44%) Serverless
9 18 (4.21%) GitHub
10 17 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.74%) Amazon SageMaker
11 16 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (3.27%) Entra ID
14 13 (3.04%) Amazon S3
14 13 (3.04%) WhatsApp
15 12 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.97%) 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
4 2 (0.47%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.47%) 4G
4 2 (0.47%) LTE
4 2 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.23%) BGP
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 40 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (8.88%) Power BI
3 21 (4.91%) Tableau
4 20 (4.67%) Metadata
5 17 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
6 16 (3.74%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.27%) Big Data
8 13 (3.04%) BigQuery
9 11 (2.57%) Weaviate
10 10 (2.34%) Pinecone
11 9 (2.10%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.87%) Spark SQL
13 7 (1.64%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.64%) KDB
14 6 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.40%) Data Vault
14 6 (1.40%) Kdb+
14 6 (1.40%) Looker
15 5 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (8.18%) JIRA
2 22 (5.14%) Git
3 12 (2.80%) MLflow
4 6 (1.40%) ERwin
5 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.93%) GitLab
6 4 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.70%) XCTest
8 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.47%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.47%) JUnit
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.47%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.23%) Ant
9 1 (0.23%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (35.28%) Finance
2 121 (28.27%) Social Skills
3 81 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (13.32%) Banking
5 38 (8.88%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.91%) Retail
7 17 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.97%) Legal
8 15 (3.50%) Investment Banking
9 13 (3.04%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.04%) Front Office
10 11 (2.57%) Marketing
11 10 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.34%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.87%) Back Office
13 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.70%) Law
14 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (17.99%) Analyst
2 67 (15.65%) Business Analyst
3 61 (14.25%) Architect
4 54 (12.62%) Data Engineer
5 45 (10.51%) Senior
6 44 (10.28%) Lead
7 35 (8.18%) Developer
8 24 (5.61%) Data Scientist
9 20 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 20 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 16 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (3.74%) Senior Business Analyst
11 15 (3.50%) Consultant
12 13 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (3.04%) Data Architect
13 10 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.10%) Cybersecurity Specialist
14 9 (2.10%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.10%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (1.87%) Pega Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.91%) PySpark
2 20 (4.67%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.67%) scikit-learn
3 18 (4.21%) .NET
3 18 (4.21%) LangChain
4 17 (3.97%) TensorFlow
5 15 (3.50%) Pandas
6 12 (2.80%) LlamaIndex
7 11 (2.57%) LangGraph
8 10 (2.34%) Node.js
8 10 (2.34%) NumPy
8 10 (2.34%) REST
9 9 (2.10%) Middleware
10 8 (1.87%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (1.64%) Kafka
12 6 (1.40%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.40%) React
13 5 (1.17%) boto
13 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (1.17%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.58%) AI Agents
2 35 (8.18%) Product Ownership
3 29 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.07%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.27%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.57%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.10%) PMI
9 8 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.17%) IVR
11 5 (1.17%) Life Science
12 4 (0.93%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.93%) Derivative
12 4 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.80%) Linux
2 7 (1.64%) Unix
3 6 (1.40%) Windows
4 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (41.59%) AI
2 133 (31.07%) Analytics
3 126 (29.44%) Agile
4 105 (24.53%) Data Modelling
5 104 (24.30%) Machine Learning
6 86 (20.09%) Data Engineering
7 85 (19.86%) Data Pipeline
8 80 (18.69%) CI/CD
9 76 (17.76%) DevOps
10 75 (17.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 73 (17.06%) Data Science
12 69 (16.12%) LLM
13 66 (15.42%) Generative AI
14 65 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
15 62 (14.49%) Data Governance
16 60 (14.02%) Roadmaps
17 59 (13.79%) Validation
18 58 (13.55%) Decision-Making
19 54 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
19 54 (12.62%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 139 (32.48%) Python
2 95 (22.20%) SQL
3 19 (4.44%) C#
4 16 (3.74%) TypeScript
5 15 (3.50%) Java
6 13 (3.04%) R
7 12 (2.80%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.87%) Scala
9 6 (1.40%) Bicep
10 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.93%) Bash
11 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.70%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.70%) Swift
13 2 (0.47%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 59 (13.79%) Degree
4 22 (5.14%) Master's Degree
5 17 (3.97%) CBAP
5 17 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.34%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.10%) IIBA
9 8 (1.87%) CISSP
10 6 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.17%) PhD
12 4 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.47%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 32 (7.48%) QA
3 17 (3.97%) GDPR
4 9 (2.10%) NIST
5 6 (1.40%) 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%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.23%) GxP
9 1 (0.23%) HL7
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
9 1 (0.23%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (4.91%) Docker
2 13 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.34%) 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 25 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.14%) Terraform
3 8 (1.87%) 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 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.98%) Databricks
3 45 (10.51%) OpenAI
4 20 (4.67%) Google
5 19 (4.44%) Foundry
6 12 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.57%) VMware
8 10 (2.34%) Pega
9 9 (2.10%) Splunk
10 6 (1.40%) Oracle
10 6 (1.40%) Workday
11 5 (1.17%) Genesys
11 5 (1.17%) SAP
11 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.93%) Adobe
12 4 (0.93%) Sparx
13 3 (0.70%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.47%) Sage