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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 164 167
Rank change year-on-year +46 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Use Case 398 210 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.51% 1.56% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 1.72% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 134 172
10th Percentile £413 £398 £450
25th Percentile £456 £470 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £775 £750
90th Percentile £750 £881 £875
England median daily rate £523 £559 £561
% change year-on-year -6.45% -0.49% -1.32%
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 14,339 12,191 16,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.30% 90.76% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,629 7,896 11,545
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% - -7.56%
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 218 158 346
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.93 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.81 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.50% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.88 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.23
% change year-on-year -18.57% +2.25% -2.20%

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 27 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 27 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 +14 52 £593 +9.72% 38
West London - 4 £523 - 2
South London -14 3 £475 -17.39%
East London -2 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 27 (6.78%) Confluence
2 16 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.75%) Apache
5 3 (0.75%) 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 21 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.76%) Chatbot
4 10 (2.51%) 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 (0.75%) Endur
1 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.75%) 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 (36.68%) Azure
2 89 (22.36%) AWS
3 42 (10.55%) GCP
4 33 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 32 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (5.53%) Azure AI
7 21 (5.28%) Snowflake
8 19 (4.77%) Serverless
9 18 (4.52%) GitHub
10 16 (4.02%) dbt
11 15 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.52%) Amazon Bedrock
12 14 (3.52%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (3.52%) Vertex AI
13 12 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (3.02%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.51%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.27%) Firewall
2 5 (1.26%) CTI
2 5 (1.26%) VoIP
3 3 (0.75%) RTP
3 3 (0.75%) 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 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (6.78%) Power BI
3 21 (5.28%) Snowflake Schema
4 20 (5.03%) Data Lake
4 20 (5.03%) Metadata
5 15 (3.77%) Big Data
6 13 (3.27%) Delta Lake
6 13 (3.27%) Tableau
7 9 (2.26%) Data Vault
7 9 (2.26%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.76%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.76%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.76%) Spark SQL
8 7 (1.76%) Weaviate
9 6 (1.51%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.51%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.26%) KDB
10 5 (1.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (9.55%) JIRA
2 25 (6.28%) Git
3 14 (3.52%) 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 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.75%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.75%) 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 (35.18%) Finance
2 125 (31.41%) Social Skills
3 75 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (12.56%) Banking
5 33 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.27%) Retail
7 15 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.77%) Legal
8 13 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.27%) Marketing
9 11 (2.76%) Back Office
9 11 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.26%) Front Office
11 8 (2.01%) 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 (0.75%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (18.84%) Analyst
2 63 (15.83%) Business Analyst
3 52 (13.07%) Architect
4 48 (12.06%) Senior
5 45 (11.31%) Lead
6 43 (10.80%) Data Engineer
7 33 (8.29%) Developer
8 21 (5.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (5.03%) Data Scientist
10 15 (3.77%) Consultant
11 14 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 13 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.27%) Senior Business Analyst
13 11 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.26%) Data Architect
14 9 (2.26%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (2.01%) Data Analyst
15 8 (2.01%) Lead Data Engineer
15 8 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.03%) PyTorch
2 19 (4.77%) scikit-learn
2 19 (4.77%) TensorFlow
3 18 (4.52%) LangChain
4 15 (3.77%) PySpark
5 14 (3.52%) .NET
6 13 (3.27%) LangGraph
7 12 (3.02%) Model Context Protocol
7 12 (3.02%) Pandas
7 12 (3.02%) REST
8 10 (2.51%) Node.js
8 10 (2.51%) XML
9 9 (2.26%) Middleware
10 8 (2.01%) JSON
10 8 (2.01%) Kafka
10 8 (2.01%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (2.01%) React
11 7 (1.76%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.76%) Hugging Face
11 7 (1.76%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.29%) Product Ownership
2 28 (7.04%) AI Agents
3 24 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.78%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.02%) Algorithms
6 13 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.76%) PMI
7 11 (2.76%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.26%) Clustering
10 5 (1.26%) IVR
10 5 (1.26%) Life Science
10 5 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.01%) Equities
11 4 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.52%) Linux
2 13 (3.27%) Windows
3 5 (1.26%) Unix
4 4 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (39.20%) AI
2 127 (31.91%) Agile
3 119 (29.90%) Analytics
4 95 (23.87%) Machine Learning
5 94 (23.62%) Data Modelling
6 85 (21.36%) CI/CD
7 71 (17.84%) Data Engineering
7 71 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 70 (17.59%) Data Pipeline
8 70 (17.59%) Data Science
9 67 (16.83%) LLM
10 66 (16.58%) DevOps
10 66 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (15.58%) Roadmaps
12 60 (15.08%) Generative AI
13 59 (14.82%) Data Governance
14 55 (13.82%) User Stories
15 54 (13.57%) Business Analysis
16 51 (12.81%) Validation
17 50 (12.56%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 130 (32.66%) Python
2 85 (21.36%) SQL
3 17 (4.27%) Java
3 17 (4.27%) TypeScript
4 14 (3.52%) C#
5 11 (2.76%) Bash
5 11 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.01%) Scala
7 6 (1.51%) Bicep
7 6 (1.51%) R
8 4 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (0.75%) Swift
9 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.50%) C++
10 2 (0.50%) Korn
10 2 (0.50%) Solidity
10 2 (0.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (17.34%) Degree
2 58 (14.57%) Security Cleared
3 51 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.78%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.77%) CBAP
7 14 (3.52%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.26%) 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 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.75%) PMP
13 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.54%) QA
3 10 (2.51%) GDPR
4 9 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.75%) EU AI Act
5 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.75%) NIST
5 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.75%) 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%) COBIT
7 1 (0.25%) EMIR
7 1 (0.25%) FINRA
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (7.54%) Docker
2 11 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.51%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.01%) zsh
5 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.25%) HDFS
6 1 (0.25%) IAG
Systems Management
1 25 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.78%) Terraform
3 8 (2.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (1.76%) Ansible
5 3 (0.75%) 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 63 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.05%) Databricks
3 31 (7.79%) OpenAI
4 20 (5.03%) Google
5 12 (3.02%) Splunk
6 11 (2.76%) VMware
7 10 (2.51%) Foundry
8 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.01%) Oracle
10 6 (1.51%) Genesys
10 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.26%) Adobe
11 5 (1.26%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.26%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.01%) Cisco
12 4 (1.01%) Citrix
13 3 (0.75%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.75%) Pega
13 3 (0.75%) SAP