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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 144 198
Rank change year-on-year +19 +54 -36
Contract jobs citing Use Case 334 264 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.32% 1.81% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.00% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 171 132
10th Percentile £400 £400 £458
25th Percentile £463 £477 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £671 £694 £691
90th Percentile £750 £838 £836
England median daily rate £510 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -11.30% +1.77% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £34.43 £66.53 -
25th Percentile £37.31 £66.94 £91.25
Median hourly rate £45.75 £68.75 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.45% -25.68% +55.46%
75th Percentile £55.31 £70.44 £93.75
90th Percentile £58.88 £70.78 -
England median hourly rate £56.90 £67.50 £77.11
% change year-on-year -15.70% -12.46% +28.52%

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 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -11 42 £594 -1.04% 132
South London -4 3 £475 -17.39% 1
East London -6 1 - - 6
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 25 (7.49%) Confluence
2 14 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.90%) Appian
7 2 (0.60%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.60%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.60%) Luigi
8 1 (0.30%) CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (2.99%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.50%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.50%) ProjectWise
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.20%) Endur
3 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.60%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.30%) Findur
5 1 (0.30%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.30%) PORTIA
5 1 (0.30%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.30%) Shopify
5 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 113 (33.83%) Azure
2 67 (20.06%) AWS
3 32 (9.58%) GCP
4 28 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 24 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (6.89%) Snowflake
7 16 (4.79%) GitHub
8 15 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (3.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (3.59%) dbt
10 12 (3.59%) Serverless
11 9 (2.69%) Azure AI
11 9 (2.69%) Azure Machine Learning
12 8 (2.40%) SaaS
12 8 (2.40%) Vertex AI
13 7 (2.10%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.10%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (2.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.99%) Firewall
2 5 (1.50%) CTI
2 5 (1.50%) VoIP
3 3 (0.90%) SSH
4 2 (0.60%) NAS
5 1 (0.30%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.30%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.59%) Power BI
2 20 (5.99%) Data Lake
2 20 (5.99%) Metadata
3 16 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.89%) Snowflake Schema
4 13 (3.89%) SQL Server
4 13 (3.89%) Tableau
5 9 (2.69%) Big Data
5 9 (2.69%) Delta Lake
5 9 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.40%) Data Vault
7 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.10%) Star Schema
8 5 (1.50%) Pinecone
9 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.90%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.90%) Redis
9 3 (0.90%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (11.08%) JIRA
2 21 (6.29%) Git
3 10 (2.99%) MLflow
4 6 (1.80%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.80%) ERwin
4 6 (1.80%) JUnit
4 6 (1.80%) PowerDesigner
4 6 (1.80%) Selenium
5 4 (1.20%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.90%) GitLab
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.90%) Postman
6 3 (0.90%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.60%) Hardhat
8 1 (0.30%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (35.33%) Finance
2 112 (33.53%) Social Skills
3 82 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (14.67%) Banking
5 22 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.69%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.79%) Back Office
8 14 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.59%) Front Office
9 12 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.29%) Legal
10 11 (3.29%) Marketing
10 11 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (2.40%) Retail
13 5 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (20.36%) Analyst
2 55 (16.47%) Business Analyst
3 34 (10.18%) Senior
4 33 (9.88%) Developer
5 28 (8.38%) Architect
6 25 (7.49%) Lead
7 20 (5.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 20 (5.99%) Consultant
8 19 (5.69%) Data Engineer
9 13 (3.89%) Data Scientist
10 11 (3.29%) Data Analyst
10 11 (3.29%) Software Engineer
11 10 (2.99%) Senior Business Analyst
12 9 (2.69%) Data Architect
12 9 (2.69%) Product Manager
12 9 (2.69%) Security Engineer
13 8 (2.40%) Programme Manager
13 8 (2.40%) Risk Analyst
13 8 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (2.10%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.29%) PyTorch
2 16 (4.79%) LangChain
2 16 (4.79%) TensorFlow
3 13 (3.89%) scikit-learn
4 11 (3.29%) .NET
5 10 (2.99%) LangGraph
6 9 (2.69%) Pandas
6 9 (2.69%) PySpark
6 9 (2.69%) XML
7 8 (2.40%) Hugging Face
8 7 (2.10%) Kafka
8 7 (2.10%) Node.js
8 7 (2.10%) REST
9 6 (1.80%) Android NDK
9 6 (1.80%) Android SDK
9 6 (1.80%) FastAPI
9 6 (1.80%) iOS SDK
9 6 (1.80%) JNI
9 6 (1.80%) YAML
10 5 (1.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.28%) Onboarding
2 30 (8.98%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.59%) AI Agents
4 15 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.59%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.29%) PMI
7 10 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.69%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.80%) Augmented Reality
10 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.80%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (1.50%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 5 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.50%) Life Science
11 5 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.89%) Linux
2 15 (4.49%) Windows
3 6 (1.80%) Android
3 6 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.80%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.60%) Unix
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (35.03%) AI
2 99 (29.64%) Agile
3 90 (26.95%) Analytics
4 74 (22.16%) Machine Learning
5 73 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
6 72 (21.56%) Data Modelling
7 61 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (17.96%) CI/CD
9 56 (16.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 55 (16.47%) Data Governance
11 54 (16.17%) LLM
12 52 (15.57%) Data Science
13 50 (14.97%) Data Pipeline
14 49 (14.67%) Roadmaps
14 49 (14.67%) User Stories
15 46 (13.77%) Generative AI
16 45 (13.47%) DevOps
17 41 (12.28%) Business Analysis
18 40 (11.98%) Requirements Gathering
18 40 (11.98%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (30.54%) Python
2 75 (22.46%) SQL
3 24 (7.19%) Java
4 14 (4.19%) Bash
5 10 (2.99%) C#
5 10 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.69%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.10%) C++
8 6 (1.80%) Bicep
8 6 (1.80%) R
9 5 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.90%) Scala
11 3 (0.90%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.60%) Korn
12 2 (0.60%) Solidity
12 2 (0.60%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (20.36%) Degree
2 40 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.29%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.19%) CBAP
6 14 (4.19%) PMI Certification
7 12 (3.59%) MCP
8 6 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.80%) PhD
9 5 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.50%) CFA
9 5 (1.50%) CISSP
9 5 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.20%) IIBA
10 4 (1.20%) ISEB
11 3 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 24 (7.19%) QA
3 11 (3.29%) GDPR
4 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.40%) EU AI Act
5 8 (2.40%) NIST
6 6 (1.80%) ISO 19650
6 6 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.20%) PSD2
8 3 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.60%) HL7
9 2 (0.60%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.60%) MiFID
9 2 (0.60%) PMO
9 2 (0.60%) SEPA
9 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.60%) WCAG
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) LOINC
System Software
1 21 (6.29%) Docker
2 10 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.40%) zsh
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (5.09%) Terraform
2 16 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.50%) Ansible
3 5 (1.50%) Grafana
4 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.30%) QRadar
6 1 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 43 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.78%) Databricks
3 15 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 12 (3.59%) Splunk
5 9 (2.69%) Google
6 7 (2.10%) Citrix
6 7 (2.10%) Oracle
6 7 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.80%) Adobe
7 6 (1.80%) Genesys
8 5 (1.50%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.20%) UiPath
10 3 (0.90%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco
10 3 (0.90%) SAP
10 3 (0.90%) Veracode
10 3 (0.90%) VMware