Business Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 126 119
Rank change year-on-year -29 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Business Case 271 485 663
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 2.06% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.30% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 377 479
10th Percentile £350 £372 £338
25th Percentile £450 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +12.82% +5.41%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £560
90th Percentile £712 £723 £639
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £518
% change year-on-year -5.98% +13.00% +8.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
10th Percentile - £36.00 £21.60
25th Percentile £23.63 £43.38 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.25 £63.00 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -59.92% +83.27% +41.75%
75th Percentile £27.81 £66.00 £35.72
90th Percentile £34.15 - £56.16
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £62.75 £35.25
% change year-on-year -59.76% +78.01% +31.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England +1 65 £575 +4.55% 58
South West -8 56 £530 -11.67% 23
South East -60 52 £525 -7.89% 44
North West +17 49 £579 +15.70% 35
Scotland +10 43 £575 +9.52% 17
Midlands +16 34 £525 +7.14% 28
West Midlands +14 25 £550 +18.92% 18
East of England -7 19 £350 -37.08% 25
Yorkshire +3 12 £538 -2.27% 19
East Midlands +14 9 £403 -25.12% 10
North East +14 3 £897 +80.29% 4
Wales +13 2 £188 -62.69% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Business Case
UK

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (5.54%) Confluence
2 7 (2.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.11%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.37%) iTrent
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.90%) Azure
2 15 (5.54%) Power Platform
3 10 (3.69%) AWS
4 7 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.48%) OCI
6 4 (1.48%) SaaS
7 3 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.11%) dbt
7 3 (1.11%) PaaS
8 2 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.74%) GCP
8 2 (0.74%) NuGet
8 2 (0.74%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.37%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.21%) Firewall
1 6 (2.21%) VPN
2 5 (1.85%) DHCP
2 5 (1.85%) DNS
2 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.85%) VLAN
2 5 (1.85%) Wireless
3 4 (1.48%) ATM
3 4 (1.48%) Intranet
4 3 (1.11%) Skype
5 2 (0.74%) 2G
5 2 (0.74%) 3G
5 2 (0.74%) 4G
5 2 (0.74%) 5G
5 2 (0.74%) LAN
5 2 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.74%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) ISDN
6 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.37%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.54%) Power BI
2 9 (3.32%) Tableau
3 7 (2.58%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.85%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.48%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (1.48%) MS Access
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (5.90%) JIRA
2 7 (2.58%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.37%) JMeter
3 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 94 (34.69%) Finance
2 66 (24.35%) Social Skills
3 58 (21.40%) Public Sector
4 41 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
5 16 (5.90%) Local Government
6 14 (5.17%) Manufacturing
6 14 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.06%) Legal
7 11 (4.06%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.32%) Banking
9 7 (2.58%) Marketing
10 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.21%) Military
10 6 (2.21%) Retail
11 5 (1.85%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.85%) Electronics
11 5 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.48%) Billing
12 4 (1.48%) German Language
Job Titles
1 79 (29.15%) Project Manager
2 50 (18.45%) Analyst
3 42 (15.50%) Business Analyst
4 39 (14.39%) Senior
5 29 (10.70%) Architect
6 24 (8.86%) Lead
7 17 (6.27%) Senior Manager
8 16 (5.90%) Senior Analyst
8 16 (5.90%) Senior Business Analyst
9 13 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.43%) Product Manager
10 12 (4.43%) Security Manager
10 12 (4.43%) Senior Project Manager
11 11 (4.06%) IT Manager
12 9 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (3.32%) Security Project Manager
13 8 (2.95%) Business Manager
13 8 (2.95%) Finance Manager
13 8 (2.95%) IT Project Manager
14 7 (2.58%) Business Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.48%) .NET
1 4 (1.48%) Middleware
2 3 (1.11%) ADO
2 3 (1.11%) Flask
2 3 (1.11%) HTML
2 3 (1.11%) Pandas
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.37%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.18%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.58%) NHS
4 6 (2.21%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (2.21%) IoT
4 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.21%) Robotics
5 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.48%) e-Health
6 4 (1.48%) Graphic Design
6 4 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (1.48%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.74%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.58%) Windows
2 4 (1.48%) Unix
3 3 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.37%) Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (42.44%) Project Management
2 86 (31.73%) Agile
3 81 (29.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (23.25%) Project Delivery
5 51 (18.82%) Roadmaps
6 44 (16.24%) Change Management
7 43 (15.87%) Decision-Making
8 39 (14.39%) Business Analysis
8 39 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (14.02%) PRINCE2
10 29 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (10.33%) Programme Management
12 27 (9.96%) Waterfall
13 26 (9.59%) Business Strategy
14 22 (8.12%) Service Delivery
15 21 (7.75%) DevOps
15 21 (7.75%) Stakeholder Identification
16 20 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
17 19 (7.01%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.54%) SQL
2 3 (1.11%) Python
3 2 (0.74%) C#
4 1 (0.37%) Java
4 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.02%) Degree
4 10 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.32%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.95%) PMP
7 7 (2.58%) CISA
7 7 (2.58%) CISM
7 7 (2.58%) CISSP
7 7 (2.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (2.21%) MBA
9 4 (1.48%) ISEB
9 4 (1.48%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.11%) APMP
11 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CRISC
12 1 (0.37%) PhD
12 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.17%) PMO
1 14 (5.17%) QA
2 13 (4.80%) SLA
3 8 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.95%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.74%) P3O
5 1 (0.37%) COBIT
5 1 (0.37%) COREP
5 1 (0.37%) FINREP
5 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS
5 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.37%) NCSC
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.37%) XenApp
3 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (2.58%) Terraform
2 5 (1.85%) Ansible
3 2 (0.74%) SCCM
4 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.54%) SAP
3 10 (3.69%) Oracle
4 6 (2.21%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.48%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.74%) Sparx
8 1 (0.37%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.37%) Apple
8 1 (0.37%) BT
8 1 (0.37%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco
8 1 (0.37%) Citrix
8 1 (0.37%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.37%) Juniper
8 1 (0.37%) Openreach
8 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) Twitter
8 1 (0.37%) Workday