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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 155 190
Rank change year-on-year +39 +35 -22
Contract jobs citing Use Case 344 238 235
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.37% 1.73% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 1.91% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 149 153
10th Percentile £393 £400 £452
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £653 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £881 £858
England median daily rate £515 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -10.43% +0.88% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £34.43 - -
25th Percentile £37.31 £69.00 £91.25
Median hourly rate £45.75 £70.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.64% -24.32% +55.46%
75th Percentile £55.31 £71.00 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 - -
England median hourly rate £56.90 £70.00 £78.03
% change year-on-year -18.71% -10.29% +30.05%

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 13,214 12,475 16,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.00% 90.45% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,766 7,927 11,738
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
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 £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 320
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.89 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.84
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

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 26 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Use Case in London over the 6 months to 26 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Use Case in London

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 26 January 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 -1 42 £575 -4.17% 47
South London -3 3 £475 -17.39% 17
East London -6 1 - - 11
West London - 1 - - 18
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 (8.14%) Confluence
2 14 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.16%) Apache
6 3 (0.87%) Appian
7 2 (0.58%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.58%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.58%) Luigi
8 1 (0.29%) CMS
8 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.16%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.16%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.29%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.16%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.87%) Endur
3 2 (0.58%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.58%) Shopify
3 2 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.29%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 115 (33.43%) Azure
2 70 (20.35%) AWS
3 35 (10.17%) GCP
4 28 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (6.10%) Snowflake
7 17 (4.94%) GitHub
8 14 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.07%) Serverless
9 12 (3.49%) dbt
10 11 (3.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.62%) Azure AI
11 9 (2.62%) Azure Machine Learning
11 9 (2.62%) Vertex AI
12 8 (2.33%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.33%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.33%) SaaS
13 7 (2.03%) Amazon SageMaker
13 7 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.49%) Firewall
2 5 (1.45%) CTI
2 5 (1.45%) VoIP
3 2 (0.58%) NAS
3 2 (0.58%) SSH
4 1 (0.29%) Broadband
4 1 (0.29%) Internet
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
4 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.29%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.69%) Power BI
2 21 (6.10%) Data Lake
3 19 (5.52%) Metadata
4 18 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
6 15 (4.36%) Tableau
7 11 (3.20%) Big Data
7 11 (3.20%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.62%) Data Vault
8 9 (2.62%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.03%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.74%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.45%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.87%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.87%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.87%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (11.92%) JIRA
2 19 (5.52%) Git
3 11 (3.20%) MLflow
4 6 (1.74%) ERwin
4 6 (1.74%) JUnit
4 6 (1.74%) PowerDesigner
5 5 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.45%) Selenium
6 4 (1.16%) ER Studio
6 4 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.87%) GitLab
7 3 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.87%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.58%) Hardhat
8 2 (0.58%) Postman
9 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 121 (35.17%) Finance
2 120 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 81 (23.55%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (13.95%) Banking
5 24 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.23%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.36%) Back Office
8 14 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.07%) Legal
9 12 (3.49%) Marketing
10 11 (3.20%) Front Office
10 11 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.62%) Retail
12 8 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 74 (21.51%) Analyst
2 62 (18.02%) Business Analyst
3 40 (11.63%) Senior
4 36 (10.47%) Architect
5 31 (9.01%) Lead
6 30 (8.72%) Developer
7 23 (6.69%) Data Engineer
8 20 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 17 (4.94%) Consultant
10 16 (4.65%) Data Scientist
11 15 (4.36%) Senior Business Analyst
12 12 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (3.20%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
15 9 (2.62%) Data Analyst
15 9 (2.62%) Data Architect
16 8 (2.33%) Product Manager
16 8 (2.33%) Programme Manager
16 8 (2.33%) Risk Analyst
17 7 (2.03%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.98%) PyTorch
2 19 (5.52%) TensorFlow
3 17 (4.94%) scikit-learn
4 15 (4.36%) LangChain
5 11 (3.20%) .NET
6 10 (2.91%) LangGraph
7 9 (2.62%) Pandas
7 9 (2.62%) PySpark
7 9 (2.62%) XML
8 8 (2.33%) Hugging Face
9 7 (2.03%) Kafka
9 7 (2.03%) Node.js
10 6 (1.74%) Android NDK
10 6 (1.74%) Android SDK
10 6 (1.74%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.74%) iOS SDK
10 6 (1.74%) JNI
10 6 (1.74%) NumPy
10 6 (1.74%) React
10 6 (1.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 31 (9.01%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.40%) AI Agents
4 14 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.07%) PMI
5 12 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.20%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.91%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.74%) Augmented Reality
10 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.74%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.45%) IVR
12 4 (1.16%) Clustering
12 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.16%) Life Science
12 4 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.52%) Linux
2 14 (4.07%) Windows
3 6 (1.74%) Android
3 6 (1.74%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.74%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (36.92%) AI
2 115 (33.43%) Agile
3 89 (25.87%) Analytics
4 78 (22.67%) Data Modelling
4 78 (22.67%) Machine Learning
5 70 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 64 (18.60%) CI/CD
8 59 (17.15%) Data Pipeline
9 58 (16.86%) LLM
10 57 (16.57%) Data Governance
10 57 (16.57%) Data Science
11 56 (16.28%) User Stories
12 53 (15.41%) Roadmaps
13 52 (15.12%) Generative AI
14 51 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 49 (14.24%) DevOps
16 48 (13.95%) Business Analysis
16 48 (13.95%) Requirements Gathering
16 48 (13.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 104 (30.23%) Python
2 72 (20.93%) SQL
3 22 (6.40%) Java
4 13 (3.78%) Bash
5 10 (2.91%) C#
5 10 (2.91%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.62%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.03%) C++
7 7 (2.03%) Scala
8 6 (1.74%) Bicep
8 6 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.45%) R
10 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.16%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.58%) Solidity
12 2 (0.58%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 73 (21.22%) Degree
2 49 (14.24%) Security Cleared
3 40 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.69%) Master's Degree
5 22 (6.40%) CBAP
6 19 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.94%) PMI Certification
8 12 (3.49%) MCP
9 9 (2.62%) IIBA
10 6 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.74%) PhD
11 5 (1.45%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.45%) CFA
12 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.16%) CISSP
12 4 (1.16%) ISEB
13 3 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.85%) QA
3 10 (2.91%) GDPR
4 9 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.33%) EU AI Act
6 7 (2.03%) NIST
7 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.16%) ISO 19650
8 4 (1.16%) PSD2
9 3 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.58%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.58%) MiFID
10 2 (0.58%) PMO
10 2 (0.58%) SEPA
10 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.58%) WCAG
11 1 (0.29%) FINRA
11 1 (0.29%) GRC
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (7.27%) Docker
2 9 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.74%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.74%) zsh
5 5 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.52%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.65%) Terraform
3 5 (1.45%) Ansible
3 5 (1.45%) Grafana
4 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) Argo
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
6 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.29%) logstash
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.29%) QRadar
6 1 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 41 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.59%) Databricks
3 17 (4.94%) OpenAI
4 14 (4.07%) Splunk
5 9 (2.62%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.33%) Google
6 8 (2.33%) Oracle
7 7 (2.03%) VMware
8 6 (1.74%) Genesys
9 5 (1.45%) Adobe
9 5 (1.45%) Citrix
9 5 (1.45%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.16%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.16%) SAP
11 3 (0.87%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco
11 3 (0.87%) UiPath
11 3 (0.87%) Veracode