Business Case Contracts in England

Business Cases
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Business Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Case over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 139 155
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Case 511 951 1,320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.38% 1.88% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.09% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 681 867
10th Percentile £375 £406 £363
25th Percentile £463 £485 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.72% +10.11%
75th Percentile £643 £700 £614
90th Percentile £725 £800 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 13
10th Percentile £23.00 £47.70 £11.04
25th Percentile £23.63 £60.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.25 £62.75 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -59.76% +82.55% +30.95%
75th Percentile £38.41 £64.88 £36.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £66.65
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £62.75 £34.38
% change year-on-year -59.76% +82.55% +32.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Business Case is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Business Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in England

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Case in England.

Daily rate trend for Business Case in England

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in England

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Case in England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in England

Business Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Case in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Case in England

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Case within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London -22 259 £550 -13.39% 148
North of England +3 64 £575 +4.55% 39
South West -9 58 £530 -11.67% 24
South East -56 57 £530 -7.02% 44
North West +18 48 £575 +15.00% 23
Midlands +12 36 £525 +7.14% 32
West Midlands +18 26 £538 +16.22% 20
East of England -1 19 £350 -34.88% 18
Yorkshire -2 11 £538 -2.27% 14
East Midlands +14 9 £403 -25.12% 12
North East +20 4 £897 +80.29% 2
Business Case
UK

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.33%) Confluence
3 4 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.59%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 32 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.52%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.98%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.59%) Shopify
2 3 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.39%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 47 (9.20%) Azure
2 32 (6.26%) AWS
3 24 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (4.31%) SaaS
5 15 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.15%) PaaS
8 10 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.98%) IaaS
10 4 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.78%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.78%) GCP
11 3 (0.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.59%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.59%) dbt
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.59%) Route 53
11 3 (0.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.94%) Firewall
2 12 (2.35%) VPN
3 10 (1.96%) Wireless
4 9 (1.76%) MPLS
4 9 (1.76%) WAN
5 8 (1.57%) BGP
5 8 (1.57%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (1.57%) DNS
5 8 (1.57%) Intranet
5 8 (1.57%) IOS XR
5 8 (1.57%) LAN
6 7 (1.37%) DHCP
7 5 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.98%) VLAN
8 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.59%) ATM
9 3 (0.59%) Network Security
9 3 (0.59%) Skype
9 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.39%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.94%) Power BI
2 9 (1.76%) Tableau
3 8 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
5 6 (1.17%) GIS
5 6 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.78%) MS Access
6 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.59%) MySQL
7 3 (0.59%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.39%) Big Data
8 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.39%) Looker
8 2 (0.39%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (3.91%) JIRA
2 13 (2.54%) Git
3 3 (0.59%) Maven
4 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.39%) Gatling
4 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.39%) JMeter
4 2 (0.39%) Selenium
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 187 (36.59%) Finance
2 151 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 83 (16.24%) Public Sector
4 67 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (8.41%) Local Government
6 37 (7.24%) Influencing Skills
7 31 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (5.09%) Banking
9 21 (4.11%) Legal
9 21 (4.11%) Marketing
9 21 (4.11%) Retail
10 19 (3.72%) Manufacturing
11 16 (3.13%) Military
12 15 (2.94%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.76%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.37%) Law
15 7 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 129 (25.24%) Project Manager
2 86 (16.83%) Analyst
3 74 (14.48%) Business Analyst
4 61 (11.94%) Senior
5 58 (11.35%) Architect
6 37 (7.24%) Lead
7 32 (6.26%) Senior Manager
8 30 (5.87%) Programme Manager
9 27 (5.28%) Delivery Manager
10 25 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (4.50%) Senior Project Manager
12 20 (3.91%) Security Manager
13 18 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
13 18 (3.52%) Senior Business Analyst
14 17 (3.33%) Product Owner
15 16 (3.13%) IT Manager
16 14 (2.74%) Business Manager
16 14 (2.74%) Consultant
17 13 (2.54%) Security Project Manager
18 12 (2.35%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.57%) XML
2 7 (1.37%) .NET
2 7 (1.37%) JSON
2 7 (1.37%) NETCONF
2 7 (1.37%) YANG
3 4 (0.78%) HTML
3 4 (0.78%) Middleware
3 4 (0.78%) REST
4 3 (0.59%) ADO
4 3 (0.59%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.59%) CSS
4 3 (0.59%) Flask
4 3 (0.59%) J2EE
4 3 (0.59%) jQuery
4 3 (0.59%) Pandas
4 3 (0.59%) Spring
4 3 (0.59%) Spring MVC
4 3 (0.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (0.59%) VML
4 3 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.65%) Management Information System
2 32 (6.26%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.15%) NHS
4 10 (1.96%) IoT
5 9 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.57%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.17%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.17%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.17%) Graphic Design
7 6 (1.17%) Industry 4.0
7 6 (1.17%) Robotics
8 5 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.98%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.98%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.78%) e-Health
9 4 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (0.78%) PMI
10 3 (0.59%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.91%) Windows
2 17 (3.33%) Linux
3 10 (1.96%) Unix
4 6 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.59%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.39%) Android
7 2 (0.39%) CentOS
7 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (36.20%) Agile
2 178 (34.83%) Project Management
3 140 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 98 (19.18%) Project Delivery
5 91 (17.81%) Roadmaps
6 90 (17.61%) Decision-Making
7 84 (16.44%) Change Management
8 83 (16.24%) PRINCE2
9 75 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (12.33%) DevOps
11 60 (11.74%) Programme Management
12 57 (11.15%) Business Analysis
13 44 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 44 (8.61%) Waterfall
14 43 (8.41%) Business Strategy
14 43 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (7.63%) Budget Management
16 38 (7.44%) Risk Management
17 37 (7.24%) Analytics
17 37 (7.24%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (5.28%) SQL
2 14 (2.74%) Python
3 7 (1.37%) Java
4 6 (1.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.78%) C#
6 2 (0.39%) C
6 2 (0.39%) Go
6 2 (0.39%) MATLAB
6 2 (0.39%) R
7 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 69 (13.50%) Degree
4 33 (6.46%) DV Cleared
5 28 (5.48%) PMP
6 25 (4.89%) PMI Certification
7 18 (3.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 12 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.96%) CISSP
10 8 (1.57%) CCNP
10 8 (1.57%) MBA
11 6 (1.17%) CISA
11 6 (1.17%) CISM
12 5 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.78%) ACCA
13 4 (0.78%) CCSK
13 4 (0.78%) ISEB
14 3 (0.59%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.05%) PMO
2 30 (5.87%) QA
3 29 (5.68%) SLA
4 11 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.17%) NCSC
6 5 (0.98%) Government Security Classifications
6 5 (0.98%) ISO 22301
6 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) NIST
7 2 (0.39%) COBIT
7 2 (0.39%) GDPR
7 2 (0.39%) P3O
8 1 (0.20%) COREP
8 1 (0.20%) FINREP
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (2.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.78%) Docker
2 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.39%) XenApp
4 2 (0.39%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) vCloud
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (2.94%) Ansible
2 11 (2.15%) Terraform
3 4 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.20%) Avamar
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 78 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.09%) SAP
3 14 (2.74%) Cisco
4 12 (2.35%) Oracle
5 10 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.57%) Nokia
7 7 (1.37%) Google
8 6 (1.17%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.98%) Adobe
10 4 (0.78%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.78%) VMware
11 3 (0.59%) Citrix
11 3 (0.59%) Dell
11 3 (0.59%) ESRI
11 3 (0.59%) Intel
11 3 (0.59%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.59%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.59%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.59%) SmartStream
11 3 (0.59%) Sparx