Use Case Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Use Cases
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Use Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Use Case 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.53% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 0.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% - -
75th Percentile £801 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £659 £550 £175
% change year-on-year +19.77% +214.29% -64.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 157 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 78.54% 90.23% 76.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 129 149
10th Percentile £249 £195 £143
25th Percentile £293 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £501 £540 £553
90th Percentile £644 £630 £626
South Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +34.72% +12.29%
75th Percentile £20.88 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.25 £21.49
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.56% +18.44%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Use Case relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

Use Case job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Use Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Use Case in Cardiff over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in Cardiff

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Use Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Use Case

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Jinja
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft