Use Case Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Use Cases
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales 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 41 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Use Case 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.98% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.41% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £550 £175
Median % change year-on-year +19.77% +214.29% -64.10%
75th Percentile £801 - £213
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £659 £550 £175
% change year-on-year +19.77% +214.29% -64.10%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 312 241 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 76.28% 89.26% 80.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 167 215
10th Percentile £250 £185 £143
25th Percentile £305 £263 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £513 £540 £588
90th Percentile £650 £630 £660
Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 26 22
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.00 £11.21
25th Percentile £15.99 £20.12 £13.59
Median hourly rate £21.25 £22.25 £21.49
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +3.56% +18.44%
75th Percentile £37.02 £38.13 £42.34
90th Percentile £59.75 £45.00 £82.93
Wales median hourly rate £19.85 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -9.80% +15.79% +4.74%

Use Case
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Use Case job vacancy trend in South Wales

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Use Case

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Use Case in South Wales

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Use Case

Use Case
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 22 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
Cardiff -7 4 £659 +19.77% 3
Use Case
Wales

Use Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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