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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 158 166
Rank change year-on-year +45 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Use Case 381 221 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.50% 1.64% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 1.81% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 134 167
10th Percentile £413 £395 £450
25th Percentile £462 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £665 £775 £750
90th Percentile £750 £881 £875
England median daily rate £523 £569 £564
% change year-on-year -8.09% +0.80% -1.91%
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 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.14% +75.00% -38.93%

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 13,811 12,212 16,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.59% 90.65% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,208 7,805 11,726
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 344
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.94 £19.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.38 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +5 50 £613 +6.52% 18
West London - 4 £523 - 1
South London -8 3 £475 -17.39% 1
East London -6 1 - - 4
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 (7.35%) Confluence
2 14 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.79%) Apache
4 3 (0.79%) Appian
5 2 (0.52%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.52%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 20 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.36%) Chatbot
5 5 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.26%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Endur
1 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.52%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.52%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.26%) Summit
3 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 138 (36.22%) Azure
2 85 (22.31%) AWS
3 40 (10.50%) GCP
4 34 (8.92%) Power Platform
5 30 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (5.51%) Snowflake
7 20 (5.25%) GitHub
8 19 (4.99%) Serverless
9 17 (4.46%) Azure AI
9 17 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (3.94%) dbt
11 14 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (3.67%) Vertex AI
12 13 (3.41%) Amazon SageMaker
13 12 (3.15%) Azure Machine Learning
14 10 (2.62%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (2.62%) Azure Functions
14 10 (2.62%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.20%) Firewall
2 5 (1.31%) CTI
2 5 (1.31%) VoIP
3 3 (0.79%) RTP
4 2 (0.52%) NAS
4 2 (0.52%) Network Security
4 2 (0.52%) SSH
4 2 (0.52%) SSL
5 1 (0.26%) BGP
5 1 (0.26%) Broadband
5 1 (0.26%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) IPsec
5 1 (0.26%) OSPF
5 1 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.09%) Power BI
2 25 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (5.51%) Data Lake
4 20 (5.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 19 (4.99%) Metadata
6 15 (3.94%) Tableau
7 13 (3.41%) Big Data
7 13 (3.41%) Delta Lake
8 11 (2.89%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.10%) Data Vault
9 8 (2.10%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.84%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.84%) Weaviate
11 6 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.57%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.31%) KDB
12 5 (1.31%) Spark SQL
13 4 (1.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 39 (10.24%) JIRA
2 26 (6.82%) Git
3 14 (3.67%) MLflow
4 7 (1.84%) ERwin
5 6 (1.57%) GitLab
5 6 (1.57%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.31%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.31%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.31%) Selenium
7 4 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.79%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.79%) XCTest
9 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.52%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.52%) JUnit
9 2 (0.52%) Postman
9 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.26%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 133 (34.91%) Finance
2 122 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 78 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (13.12%) Banking
5 29 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.72%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.94%) Retail
8 14 (3.67%) Back Office
8 14 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.67%) Legal
9 12 (3.15%) Front Office
9 12 (3.15%) Marketing
10 11 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (18.11%) Analyst
2 60 (15.75%) Business Analyst
3 51 (13.39%) Architect
4 49 (12.86%) Senior
5 40 (10.50%) Lead
6 39 (10.24%) Data Engineer
7 33 (8.66%) Developer
8 21 (5.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 19 (4.99%) Data Scientist
10 16 (4.20%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 13 (3.41%) Consultant
12 13 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.62%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (2.62%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.36%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.10%) Data Analyst
15 8 (2.10%) Programme Manager
15 8 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.30%) PyTorch
2 19 (4.99%) TensorFlow
3 18 (4.72%) LangChain
3 18 (4.72%) scikit-learn
4 14 (3.67%) Model Context Protocol
5 13 (3.41%) .NET
6 12 (3.15%) LangGraph
6 12 (3.15%) Pandas
6 12 (3.15%) PySpark
7 10 (2.62%) Node.js
7 10 (2.62%) REST
8 9 (2.36%) XML
9 8 (2.10%) Kafka
9 8 (2.10%) Middleware
10 7 (1.84%) Faiss
10 7 (1.84%) FastAPI
10 7 (1.84%) Hugging Face
10 7 (1.84%) JSON
10 7 (1.84%) NumPy
10 7 (1.84%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.35%) Onboarding
3 25 (6.56%) AI Agents
4 19 (4.99%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.20%) Algorithms
6 14 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.89%) PMI
8 10 (2.62%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.31%) Clustering
12 5 (1.31%) IVR
12 5 (1.31%) Life Science
12 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.05%) Derivative
13 4 (1.05%) Equities
13 4 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.20%) Linux
2 14 (3.67%) Windows
3 5 (1.31%) Unix
4 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) Android
5 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (38.32%) AI
2 119 (31.23%) Agile
3 115 (30.18%) Analytics
4 94 (24.67%) Data Modelling
5 90 (23.62%) Machine Learning
6 80 (21.00%) CI/CD
7 71 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 68 (17.85%) Data Pipeline
10 64 (16.80%) LLM
11 63 (16.54%) Data Engineering
11 63 (16.54%) Data Science
12 62 (16.27%) DevOps
13 61 (16.01%) Data Governance
14 59 (15.49%) Generative AI
15 58 (15.22%) Roadmaps
16 54 (14.17%) User Stories
17 52 (13.65%) Business Analysis
17 52 (13.65%) Validation
18 51 (13.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 122 (32.02%) Python
2 84 (22.05%) SQL
3 17 (4.46%) Java
4 14 (3.67%) TypeScript
5 13 (3.41%) Bash
5 13 (3.41%) C#
6 10 (2.62%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.10%) Scala
8 6 (1.57%) Bicep
9 4 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.05%) R
10 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (0.79%) Swift
10 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.52%) C++
11 2 (0.52%) Korn
11 2 (0.52%) Solidity
11 2 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (18.37%) Degree
2 56 (14.70%) Security Cleared
3 48 (12.60%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.82%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.99%) CBAP
7 14 (3.67%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.36%) IIBA
9 8 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.57%) PhD
11 5 (1.31%) CFA
11 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (1.05%) CISSP
12 4 (1.05%) ISEB
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.61%) QA
3 14 (3.67%) GDPR
4 10 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.57%) EU AI Act
5 6 (1.57%) NIST
6 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.79%) PMO
8 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.52%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.52%) MiFID
8 2 (0.52%) PSD2
8 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) HL7
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (8.14%) Docker
2 11 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.62%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.10%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.57%) zsh
6 5 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.51%) Terraform
3 6 (1.57%) Ansible
3 6 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.05%) Grafana
5 2 (0.52%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.26%) Kibana
6 1 (0.26%) logstash
6 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 52 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.24%) Databricks
3 29 (7.61%) OpenAI
4 16 (4.20%) Google
5 12 (3.15%) Splunk
6 11 (2.89%) VMware
7 9 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.84%) Oracle
9 6 (1.57%) Genesys
10 5 (1.31%) Citrix
10 5 (1.31%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.31%) Foundry
10 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.05%) Adobe
11 4 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.79%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.79%) Cisco
12 3 (0.79%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.79%) SAP
12 3 (0.79%) Veracode