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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 171 172
Rank change year-on-year +57 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing Use Case 413 198 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.54% 1.48% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 1.63% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 130 175
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £456 £487 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £650 £825 £744
90th Percentile £750 £881 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% +1.82%
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 14,672 12,161 16,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.13% 90.96% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,836 7,963 11,510
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% - -7.17%
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 221 157 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.86 £71.00
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

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 6 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 6 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 +12 56 £590 +4.42% 75
West London - 4 £523 - 5
South London -13 3 £475 -17.39%
East London +1 2 £717 +27.47% 2
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 (6.54%) Confluence
2 17 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.73%) Apache
5 3 (0.73%) Appian
6 2 (0.48%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.48%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.66%) Chatbot
4 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) BambooHR
1 3 (0.73%) Endur
1 3 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.48%) Actimize
2 2 (0.48%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.48%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.24%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 155 (37.53%) Azure
2 97 (23.49%) AWS
3 44 (10.65%) GCP
4 35 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (6.30%) Azure AI
7 24 (5.81%) Snowflake
8 19 (4.60%) dbt
8 19 (4.60%) Serverless
9 18 (4.36%) Amazon Bedrock
9 18 (4.36%) GitHub
10 16 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
12 14 (3.39%) Vertex AI
13 12 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (2.91%) Azure Machine Learning
14 11 (2.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.36%) Firewall
2 5 (1.21%) CTI
2 5 (1.21%) VoIP
3 3 (0.73%) RTP
3 3 (0.73%) SSH
4 2 (0.48%) NAS
4 2 (0.48%) Network Security
4 2 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.48%) SSL
5 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.24%) 4G
5 1 (0.24%) BGP
5 1 (0.24%) Broadband
5 1 (0.24%) DNS
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) LTE
5 1 (0.24%) OSPF
5 1 (0.24%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (7.02%) Power BI
3 21 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
4 20 (4.84%) Metadata
5 19 (4.60%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.63%) Big Data
6 15 (3.63%) Tableau
7 12 (2.91%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.18%) BigQuery
8 9 (2.18%) Data Vault
9 8 (1.94%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.69%) Pinecone
10 7 (1.69%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.69%) Weaviate
11 6 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.45%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.21%) KDB
12 5 (1.21%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (9.20%) JIRA
2 25 (6.05%) Git
3 14 (3.39%) MLflow
4 7 (1.69%) ERwin
5 6 (1.45%) GitLab
5 6 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.21%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.21%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.21%) Selenium
7 3 (0.73%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.73%) Robot Framework
7 3 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.73%) XCTest
8 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.48%) Hardhat
8 2 (0.48%) JUnit
8 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.24%) Ant
General
1 142 (34.38%) Finance
2 127 (30.75%) Social Skills
3 75 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (12.59%) Banking
5 37 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.60%) Legal
6 19 (4.60%) Retail
7 15 (3.63%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.15%) Marketing
9 11 (2.66%) Back Office
10 10 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.18%) Front Office
11 9 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.45%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (18.16%) Analyst
2 64 (15.50%) Business Analyst
3 56 (13.56%) Architect
4 48 (11.62%) Senior
5 46 (11.14%) Lead
6 43 (10.41%) Data Engineer
7 35 (8.47%) Developer
8 21 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 20 (4.84%) Data Scientist
10 17 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 16 (3.87%) Consultant
12 13 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.15%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (2.66%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.42%) Data Architect
16 9 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
17 8 (1.94%) Data Analyst
17 8 (1.94%) Lead Data Engineer
17 8 (1.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.81%) PyTorch
2 19 (4.60%) scikit-learn
2 19 (4.60%) TensorFlow
3 18 (4.36%) LangChain
4 15 (3.63%) .NET
4 15 (3.63%) PySpark
5 14 (3.39%) LangGraph
6 13 (3.15%) REST
7 12 (2.91%) Model Context Protocol
7 12 (2.91%) Pandas
8 11 (2.66%) XML
9 10 (2.42%) Node.js
10 9 (2.18%) JSON
10 9 (2.18%) Middleware
10 9 (2.18%) React
11 8 (1.94%) Kafka
11 8 (1.94%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (1.69%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.69%) Hugging Face
12 7 (1.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.47%) AI Agents
1 35 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.87%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.66%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.66%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.42%) PMI
7 8 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.21%) Clustering
9 5 (1.21%) IVR
9 5 (1.21%) Life Science
9 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.97%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.97%) Equities
10 4 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 14 (3.39%) Linux
2 13 (3.15%) Windows
3 5 (1.21%) Unix
4 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (39.95%) AI
2 131 (31.72%) Agile
3 123 (29.78%) Analytics
4 101 (24.46%) Machine Learning
5 99 (23.97%) Data Modelling
6 88 (21.31%) CI/CD
7 74 (17.92%) Data Engineering
8 73 (17.68%) Data Pipeline
8 73 (17.68%) DevOps
9 71 (17.19%) Data Science
9 71 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (16.71%) LLM
11 67 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (15.50%) Roadmaps
13 60 (14.53%) Data Governance
13 60 (14.53%) Generative AI
14 56 (13.56%) User Stories
15 55 (13.32%) Workshop Facilitation
16 54 (13.08%) Business Analysis
16 54 (13.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 133 (32.20%) Python
2 88 (21.31%) SQL
3 17 (4.12%) Java
3 17 (4.12%) TypeScript
4 15 (3.63%) C#
5 12 (2.91%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.42%) Bash
7 8 (1.94%) Scala
8 6 (1.45%) Bicep
8 6 (1.45%) R
9 5 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.21%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (0.73%) Swift
10 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.48%) C++
11 2 (0.48%) Korn
11 2 (0.48%) Solidity
11 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 70 (16.95%) Degree
2 61 (14.77%) Security Cleared
3 52 (12.59%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.30%) Master's Degree
5 21 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.36%) CBAP
7 13 (3.15%) PMI Certification
8 10 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.18%) IIBA
10 7 (1.69%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.45%) CISSP
11 6 (1.45%) PhD
12 5 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.97%) ISEB
14 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.83%) Data Quality
2 31 (7.51%) QA
3 14 (3.39%) GDPR
4 9 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.21%) NIST
6 4 (0.97%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.73%) PMO
8 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.48%) MiFID
8 2 (0.48%) PSD2
9 1 (0.24%) COBIT
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) HL7
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (7.51%) Docker
2 13 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.42%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.73%) zsh
6 1 (0.24%) HDFS
6 1 (0.24%) IAG
Systems Management
1 26 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.57%) Terraform
3 8 (1.94%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (1.69%) Ansible
5 3 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.48%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.24%) logstash
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.41%) Databricks
3 37 (8.96%) OpenAI
4 20 (4.84%) Google
5 14 (3.39%) Foundry
6 11 (2.66%) Splunk
6 11 (2.66%) VMware
7 10 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.94%) Oracle
9 6 (1.45%) Genesys
9 6 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.21%) Adobe
10 5 (1.21%) CyberArk
10 5 (1.21%) Pega
10 5 (1.21%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.97%) Cisco
11 4 (0.97%) Workday
12 3 (0.73%) HubSpot
12 3 (0.73%) Sparx
12 3 (0.73%) Veracode