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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 162 167
Rank change year-on-year +47 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Use Case 397 205 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.52% 1.55% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 1.70% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 134 175
10th Percentile £413 £398 £435
25th Percentile £456 £470 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -3.75% -
75th Percentile £650 £825 £744
90th Percentile £750 £881 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.45% +2.05%
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 14,221 12,041 16,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.23% 90.87% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,548 7,833 11,601
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% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £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 217 158 349
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.68 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.10
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

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 2 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 2 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 +14 52 £593 +11.79% 81
West London - 4 £523 - 5
South London -16 3 £475 -17.39% 3
East London -1 2 £717 +34.33% 5
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 26 (6.55%) Confluence
2 16 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.76%) Apache
5 3 (0.76%) 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
Applications
1 20 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.77%) Chatbot
4 10 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.01%) 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 (0.76%) Endur
1 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.76%) 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%) 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%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 146 (36.78%) Azure
2 88 (22.17%) AWS
3 42 (10.58%) GCP
4 32 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 22 (5.54%) Azure AI
6 21 (5.29%) Snowflake
7 19 (4.79%) Serverless
8 18 (4.53%) GitHub
9 16 (4.03%) dbt
10 15 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (3.53%) Amazon Bedrock
11 14 (3.53%) Amazon SageMaker
11 14 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (3.53%) Vertex AI
12 12 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (3.02%) Azure Machine Learning
13 11 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.28%) Firewall
2 5 (1.26%) CTI
2 5 (1.26%) VoIP
3 3 (0.76%) RTP
3 3 (0.76%) SSH
4 2 (0.50%) NAS
4 2 (0.50%) Network Security
4 2 (0.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.25%) BGP
5 1 (0.25%) Broadband
5 1 (0.25%) DNS
5 1 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) IPsec
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 29 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (6.55%) Power BI
3 21 (5.29%) Snowflake Schema
4 20 (5.04%) Metadata
5 19 (4.79%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.78%) Big Data
7 12 (3.02%) Delta Lake
7 12 (3.02%) Tableau
8 9 (2.27%) Data Vault
9 8 (2.02%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.76%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.76%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.76%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.76%) Weaviate
11 6 (1.51%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.51%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.26%) KDB
12 5 (1.26%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (9.32%) JIRA
2 24 (6.05%) Git
3 14 (3.53%) MLflow
4 7 (1.76%) ERwin
5 6 (1.51%) GitLab
5 6 (1.51%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.26%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.26%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.26%) Selenium
7 3 (0.76%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.76%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.76%) 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
9 1 (0.25%) Ant
General
1 140 (35.26%) Finance
2 126 (31.74%) Social Skills
3 74 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (12.85%) Banking
5 34 (8.56%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.79%) Retail
7 15 (3.78%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.78%) Legal
8 13 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.27%) Marketing
9 11 (2.77%) Back Office
9 11 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.27%) Front Office
11 8 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (18.64%) Analyst
2 62 (15.62%) Business Analyst
3 52 (13.10%) Architect
4 47 (11.84%) Senior
5 45 (11.34%) Lead
6 42 (10.58%) Data Engineer
7 34 (8.56%) Developer
8 21 (5.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (5.04%) Data Scientist
10 16 (4.03%) Consultant
11 14 (3.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 13 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.27%) Senior Business Analyst
13 11 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.77%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.27%) Data Architect
15 8 (2.02%) Data Analyst
15 8 (2.02%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (2.02%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.05%) PyTorch
2 19 (4.79%) scikit-learn
2 19 (4.79%) TensorFlow
3 18 (4.53%) LangChain
4 15 (3.78%) .NET
4 15 (3.78%) PySpark
5 13 (3.27%) LangGraph
5 13 (3.27%) REST
6 12 (3.02%) Model Context Protocol
6 12 (3.02%) Pandas
7 11 (2.77%) XML
8 10 (2.52%) Node.js
9 9 (2.27%) JSON
9 9 (2.27%) Middleware
10 8 (2.02%) Kafka
10 8 (2.02%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (2.02%) React
11 7 (1.76%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.76%) Hugging Face
11 7 (1.76%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.56%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.05%) AI Agents
3 25 (6.30%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.79%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.03%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.77%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.77%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.52%) PMI
9 7 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.26%) Clustering
11 5 (1.26%) IVR
11 5 (1.26%) Life Science
11 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.01%) Derivative
12 4 (1.01%) Equities
12 4 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.27%) Linux
1 13 (3.27%) Windows
2 5 (1.26%) Unix
3 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (39.04%) AI
2 128 (32.24%) Agile
3 116 (29.22%) Analytics
4 95 (23.93%) Data Modelling
4 95 (23.93%) Machine Learning
5 85 (21.41%) CI/CD
6 71 (17.88%) Data Engineering
7 70 (17.63%) DevOps
7 70 (17.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 69 (17.38%) Data Pipeline
8 69 (17.38%) Data Science
9 67 (16.88%) LLM
10 66 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (15.62%) Roadmaps
12 59 (14.86%) Data Governance
12 59 (14.86%) Generative AI
13 55 (13.85%) User Stories
14 54 (13.60%) Business Analysis
15 52 (13.10%) Workshop Facilitation
16 50 (12.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 129 (32.49%) Python
2 84 (21.16%) SQL
3 17 (4.28%) Java
3 17 (4.28%) TypeScript
4 15 (3.78%) C#
5 12 (3.02%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.52%) Bash
7 8 (2.02%) Scala
8 6 (1.51%) Bicep
8 6 (1.51%) R
9 4 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (0.76%) Swift
10 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.50%) C++
11 2 (0.50%) Korn
11 2 (0.50%) Solidity
11 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 68 (17.13%) Degree
2 58 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 49 (12.34%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.55%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.53%) CBAP
7 13 (3.27%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.27%) IIBA
9 6 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.51%) PhD
10 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.01%) CISSP
11 4 (1.01%) ISEB
12 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.76%) PMP
13 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (12.59%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.81%) QA
3 10 (2.52%) GDPR
4 9 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.76%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.76%) NIST
5 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.76%) PMO
6 2 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.50%) MiFID
6 2 (0.50%) PSD2
7 1 (0.25%) EMIR
7 1 (0.25%) FINRA
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) HL7
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (7.56%) Docker
2 11 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.52%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.76%) zsh
6 1 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.25%) IAG
Systems Management
1 25 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.79%) Terraform
3 8 (2.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (1.76%) Ansible
5 3 (0.76%) 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 64 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.82%) Databricks
3 31 (7.81%) OpenAI
4 20 (5.04%) Google
5 11 (2.77%) Splunk
5 11 (2.77%) VMware
6 10 (2.52%) Foundry
7 9 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.02%) Oracle
9 6 (1.51%) Genesys
9 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.26%) Adobe
10 5 (1.26%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.26%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.01%) Cisco
11 4 (1.01%) Citrix
11 4 (1.01%) Pega
12 3 (0.76%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.76%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.76%) SAP