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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 153 183
Rank change year-on-year +36 +30 -20
Contract jobs citing Use Case 355 242 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 1.74% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 1.92% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 153 148
10th Percentile £388 £400 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £653 £738 £738
90th Percentile £750 £881 £865
England median daily rate £520 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -9.65% +0.88% +3.64%
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% +24.85%

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 13,453 12,575 16,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.47% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,910 7,994 11,570
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 £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 156 322
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.60 £79.38 £72.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -6 44 £594 -1.04% 55
South London -3 3 £475 -17.39% 25
West London - 3 £523 - 16
East London -4 1 - - 13
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 (7.89%) Confluence
2 14 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.13%) Apache
6 3 (0.85%) Appian
7 2 (0.56%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.56%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.56%) Luigi
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.13%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.13%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.28%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.13%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.85%) Endur
3 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.56%) Shopify
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 115 (32.39%) Azure
2 73 (20.56%) AWS
3 34 (9.58%) GCP
4 31 (8.73%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (5.92%) Snowflake
7 18 (5.07%) GitHub
8 15 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.94%) Serverless
10 12 (3.38%) dbt
11 11 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.54%) Azure AI
12 9 (2.54%) Azure Machine Learning
13 8 (2.25%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.25%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (2.25%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.25%) SaaS
13 8 (2.25%) Vertex AI
14 7 (1.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.66%) Firewall
2 5 (1.41%) CTI
2 5 (1.41%) VoIP
3 2 (0.56%) NAS
3 2 (0.56%) RTP
3 2 (0.56%) SSH
4 1 (0.28%) Broadband
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.28%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.32%) Power BI
2 21 (5.92%) Data Lake
3 20 (5.63%) Metadata
4 18 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (4.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 17 (4.79%) Tableau
6 11 (3.10%) Big Data
6 11 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.82%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.54%) Data Vault
9 7 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.97%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.41%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.85%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.85%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
12 3 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (11.55%) JIRA
2 21 (5.92%) Git
3 11 (3.10%) MLflow
4 7 (1.97%) ERwin
5 6 (1.69%) JUnit
5 6 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.41%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.41%) Selenium
7 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.85%) GitLab
8 3 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.85%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.56%) Hardhat
9 2 (0.56%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (35.21%) Finance
2 122 (34.37%) Social Skills
3 82 (23.10%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (13.80%) Banking
5 24 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.07%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.23%) Back Office
8 14 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (3.94%) Legal
9 11 (3.10%) Front Office
9 11 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.10%) Marketing
10 10 (2.82%) Retail
11 9 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (21.97%) Analyst
2 65 (18.31%) Business Analyst
3 41 (11.55%) Senior
4 37 (10.42%) Architect
5 31 (8.73%) Developer
5 31 (8.73%) Lead
6 25 (7.04%) Data Engineer
7 20 (5.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 18 (5.07%) Data Scientist
9 17 (4.79%) Consultant
10 15 (4.23%) Senior Business Analyst
11 12 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.10%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 10 (2.82%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.54%) Data Architect
14 9 (2.54%) Risk Analyst
15 8 (2.25%) Programme Manager
16 7 (1.97%) Product Manager
16 7 (1.97%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.76%) PyTorch
2 19 (5.35%) TensorFlow
3 18 (5.07%) scikit-learn
4 15 (4.23%) LangChain
5 12 (3.38%) Pandas
6 11 (3.10%) .NET
7 10 (2.82%) LangGraph
8 9 (2.54%) PySpark
8 9 (2.54%) XML
9 8 (2.25%) Hugging Face
10 7 (1.97%) Kafka
10 7 (1.97%) Node.js
10 7 (1.97%) NumPy
11 6 (1.69%) Android NDK
11 6 (1.69%) Android SDK
11 6 (1.69%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.69%) iOS SDK
11 6 (1.69%) JNI
11 6 (1.69%) React
11 6 (1.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 31 (8.73%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.20%) AI Agents
4 14 (3.94%) PMI
5 13 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.10%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.69%) Augmented Reality
9 6 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
10 5 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (1.41%) IVR
11 4 (1.13%) Clustering
11 4 (1.13%) Life Science
11 4 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.92%) Linux
2 14 (3.94%) Windows
3 6 (1.69%) Android
3 6 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (36.62%) AI
2 116 (32.68%) Agile
3 91 (25.63%) Analytics
4 84 (23.66%) Data Modelling
5 79 (22.25%) Machine Learning
6 70 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (18.31%) CI/CD
9 61 (17.18%) Data Pipeline
10 58 (16.34%) Data Science
10 58 (16.34%) LLM
11 57 (16.06%) Data Governance
12 55 (15.49%) User Stories
13 54 (15.21%) Roadmaps
14 53 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 52 (14.65%) Generative AI
16 51 (14.37%) Business Analysis
17 49 (13.80%) DevOps
17 49 (13.80%) Requirements Gathering
17 49 (13.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.42%) Python
2 76 (21.41%) SQL
3 22 (6.20%) Java
4 13 (3.66%) Bash
5 10 (2.82%) C#
5 10 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.54%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.97%) C++
7 7 (1.97%) Scala
8 6 (1.69%) Bicep
8 6 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.41%) R
10 4 (1.13%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.56%) Korn
12 2 (0.56%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 73 (20.56%) Degree
2 52 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 43 (12.11%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.48%) Master's Degree
5 22 (6.20%) CBAP
6 19 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.79%) PMI Certification
8 12 (3.38%) MCP
9 9 (2.54%) IIBA
10 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.69%) PhD
11 5 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.41%) CFA
12 4 (1.13%) CISSP
12 4 (1.13%) ISEB
13 3 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.61%) QA
3 10 (2.82%) GDPR
4 9 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.25%) EU AI Act
6 7 (1.97%) NIST
7 5 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.13%) ISO 19650
8 4 (1.13%) PSD2
9 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.56%) MiFID
10 2 (0.56%) PMO
10 2 (0.56%) SEPA
10 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.56%) WCAG
11 1 (0.28%) FINRA
11 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (7.32%) Docker
2 9 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.97%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.69%) zsh
6 5 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.51%) Terraform
3 5 (1.41%) Ansible
3 5 (1.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.28%) QRadar
6 1 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 41 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.30%) Databricks
3 17 (4.79%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.94%) Splunk
5 9 (2.54%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.25%) Google
6 8 (2.25%) Oracle
6 8 (2.25%) VMware
7 6 (1.69%) Genesys
8 5 (1.41%) Adobe
8 5 (1.41%) Citrix
8 5 (1.41%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.41%) SAP
8 5 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.13%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.85%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco
10 3 (0.85%) Sparx
10 3 (0.85%) UiPath