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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 171 163
Rank change year-on-year +51 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Use Case 423 185 267
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.50% 1.47% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 1.60% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 125 182
10th Percentile £412 £400 £418
25th Percentile £454 £505 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £646 £850 £738
90th Percentile £781 £881 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.13% +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £92.50
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.40 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.33% +9.09% -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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 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 1 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
South London - 6 £513 - 4
West London - 6 £523 - 9
East London +1 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 (6.38%) Confluence
2 17 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 16 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 23 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (3.31%) Chatbot
4 11 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.65%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.71%) BambooHR
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Actimize
3 2 (0.47%) Endur
3 2 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.24%) Findur
4 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 155 (36.64%) Azure
2 97 (22.93%) AWS
3 42 (9.93%) GCP
3 42 (9.93%) Power Platform
4 37 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (7.57%) Azure AI
6 22 (5.20%) Snowflake
7 20 (4.73%) GitHub
8 19 (4.49%) Amazon Bedrock
8 19 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (4.26%) Serverless
10 17 (4.02%) dbt
10 17 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (3.55%) Entra ID
12 14 (3.31%) Amazon SageMaker
13 13 (3.07%) Azure Machine Learning
13 13 (3.07%) WhatsApp
14 12 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.02%) Firewall
2 5 (1.18%) CTI
2 5 (1.18%) RTP
2 5 (1.18%) VoIP
3 3 (0.71%) 5G
3 3 (0.71%) Network Security
3 3 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.71%) SSH
4 2 (0.47%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.47%) 4G
4 2 (0.47%) LTE
4 2 (0.47%) NAS
5 1 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) Broadband
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) HTTP
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) OSPF
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (8.27%) Power BI
3 20 (4.73%) Metadata
4 18 (4.26%) Tableau
5 17 (4.02%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.78%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (3.31%) Big Data
8 11 (2.60%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.36%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.89%) Spark SQL
10 8 (1.89%) Weaviate
11 7 (1.65%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.65%) KDB
11 7 (1.65%) Pinecone
12 6 (1.42%) Kdb+
13 5 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.18%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.18%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 36 (8.51%) JIRA
2 25 (5.91%) Git
3 14 (3.31%) MLflow
4 4 (0.95%) ERwin
4 4 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.71%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) Ant
7 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 148 (34.99%) Finance
2 119 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 76 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (12.77%) Banking
5 38 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.73%) Retail
7 19 (4.49%) Legal
8 15 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.84%) Financial Institution
9 12 (2.84%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.60%) Marketing
11 10 (2.36%) Back Office
12 9 (2.13%) Front Office
12 9 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 76 (17.97%) Analyst
2 66 (15.60%) Business Analyst
3 61 (14.42%) Architect
4 49 (11.58%) Data Engineer
5 46 (10.87%) Senior
6 45 (10.64%) Lead
7 33 (7.80%) Developer
8 22 (5.20%) Data Scientist
9 21 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 19 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 14 (3.31%) Consultant
11 14 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.31%) Senior Business Analyst
12 13 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (3.07%) Data Architect
13 10 (2.36%) Data Analyst
13 10 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
15 8 (1.89%) Lead Data Engineer
16 7 (1.65%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.96%) PySpark
1 21 (4.96%) PyTorch
2 20 (4.73%) scikit-learn
3 18 (4.26%) TensorFlow
4 17 (4.02%) LangChain
5 15 (3.55%) .NET
6 14 (3.31%) LangGraph
7 11 (2.60%) Node.js
7 11 (2.60%) Pandas
7 11 (2.60%) REST
8 9 (2.13%) LlamaIndex
8 9 (2.13%) Middleware
8 9 (2.13%) Model Context Protocol
9 8 (1.89%) NumPy
9 8 (1.89%) XML
10 7 (1.65%) Kafka
10 7 (1.65%) React
11 6 (1.42%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.42%) Hugging Face
11 6 (1.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.22%) AI Agents
2 34 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 30 (7.09%) Cloud Native
4 28 (6.62%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.55%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.36%) PMI
7 10 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.18%) IVR
11 5 (1.18%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.95%) Derivative
12 4 (0.95%) Equities
12 4 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.31%) Linux
2 9 (2.13%) Unix
2 9 (2.13%) Windows
3 4 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (41.13%) AI
2 127 (30.02%) Agile
2 127 (30.02%) Analytics
3 108 (25.53%) Machine Learning
4 101 (23.88%) Data Modelling
5 85 (20.09%) Data Engineering
6 83 (19.62%) CI/CD
7 81 (19.15%) DevOps
8 78 (18.44%) Data Pipeline
9 76 (17.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 71 (16.78%) Data Science
11 70 (16.55%) LLM
12 66 (15.60%) Generative AI
13 65 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
14 64 (15.13%) Roadmaps
15 61 (14.42%) Data Governance
16 60 (14.18%) Validation
17 56 (13.24%) Business Analysis
18 55 (13.00%) Workshop Facilitation
19 52 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 135 (31.91%) Python
2 91 (21.51%) SQL
3 16 (3.78%) Java
3 16 (3.78%) TypeScript
4 15 (3.55%) C#
5 11 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.36%) R
7 8 (1.89%) Scala
8 7 (1.65%) Bash
9 6 (1.42%) Bicep
10 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.18%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.71%) Swift
12 2 (0.47%) C++
12 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.47%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 67 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 66 (15.60%) Degree
3 56 (13.24%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.20%) Master's Degree
5 18 (4.26%) CBAP
5 18 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.13%) IIBA
10 8 (1.89%) CISSP
10 8 (1.89%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (1.18%) PhD
13 4 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.95%) ISEB
14 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.80%) QA
3 13 (3.07%) GDPR
4 9 (2.13%) NIST
5 7 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.18%) EU AI Act
7 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.71%) PMO
7 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.24%) EMIR
9 1 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.67%) Docker
2 15 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.24%) HDFS
5 1 (0.24%) IAG
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.44%) Terraform
3 8 (1.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Grafana
4 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.24%) Istio
5 1 (0.24%) logstash
5 1 (0.24%) QRadar
5 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.40%) Databricks
3 42 (9.93%) OpenAI
4 20 (4.73%) Google
5 19 (4.49%) Foundry
6 13 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.60%) VMware
8 9 (2.13%) Oracle
9 8 (1.89%) Pega
10 7 (1.65%) Splunk
11 6 (1.42%) CyberArk
11 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.18%) Genesys
13 4 (0.95%) Adobe
13 4 (0.95%) SAP
13 4 (0.95%) Sparx
13 4 (0.95%) Workday
14 3 (0.71%) HubSpot
14 3 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.71%) UiPath