Business Case Contracts

Business Cases
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 146 145
Rank change year-on-year -31 -1 +20
Contract jobs citing Business Case 594 1,084 1,727
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.37% 1.81% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.02% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 780 1,159
10th Percentile £378 £402 £355
25th Percentile £463 £468 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% +7.89%
75th Percentile £643 £695 £600
90th Percentile £725 £794 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £488
% change year-on-year - +12.82% +6.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 17
10th Percentile £23.00 £47.70 £17.11
25th Percentile £23.63 £60.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.25 £62.75 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -59.76% +82.55% +32.21%
75th Percentile £38.41 £64.88 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.25 £64.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year -60.85% +130.36% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Case over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England -24 511 £550 -8.33% 308
UK excluding London -20 290 £550 - 177
London -26 259 £550 -13.39% 145
Work from Home 0 231 £575 +0.88% 116
North of England +4 64 £575 +4.55% 39
South West -5 58 £530 -11.67% 24
South East -49 57 £530 -7.02% 43
Scotland +14 54 £575 +9.52% 15
North West +11 48 £575 +15.00% 23
Midlands +7 36 £525 +7.42% 33
West Midlands +17 26 £538 +16.22% 21
East of England +7 19 £350 -34.88% 18
Yorkshire -5 11 £538 -2.27% 14
East Midlands +12 9 £403 -24.24% 12
North East +19 4 £897 +80.29% 2
Wales +10 2 £188 -62.69% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (5.05%) Confluence
2 25 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.51%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.34%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 38 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.87%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.84%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.51%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.51%) Shopify
2 3 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.34%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.34%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.34%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) iTrent
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle AGIS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 52 (8.75%) Azure
2 36 (6.06%) AWS
3 26 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (3.87%) SaaS
5 19 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 14 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (1.85%) PaaS
8 10 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.01%) GCP
10 5 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.84%) IaaS
11 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.67%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.67%) OCI
12 3 (0.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (0.51%) dbt
12 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.51%) Route 53
12 3 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.53%) Firewall
2 12 (2.02%) VPN
3 10 (1.68%) WAN
3 10 (1.68%) Wireless
4 9 (1.52%) DNS
4 9 (1.52%) LAN
4 9 (1.52%) MPLS
5 8 (1.35%) BGP
5 8 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
5 8 (1.35%) Intranet
5 8 (1.35%) IOS XR
6 7 (1.18%) ATM
6 7 (1.18%) DHCP
7 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.84%) VLAN
8 4 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.51%) Network Security
9 3 (0.51%) Skype
9 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.34%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.20%) Power BI
2 11 (1.85%) Tableau
3 8 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
4 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.01%) GIS
5 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.67%) MS Access
6 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.51%) Big Data
7 3 (0.51%) MySQL
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.51%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.34%) Looker
8 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 33 (5.56%) JIRA
2 13 (2.19%) Git
3 3 (0.51%) Maven
4 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (0.34%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.34%) Gatling
4 2 (0.34%) GitLab
4 2 (0.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.34%) JMeter
4 2 (0.34%) Selenium
4 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.17%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 229 (38.55%) Finance
2 170 (28.62%) Social Skills
3 116 (19.53%) Public Sector
4 78 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (7.24%) Local Government
6 40 (6.73%) Influencing Skills
7 34 (5.72%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (5.22%) Banking
9 27 (4.55%) Manufacturing
9 27 (4.55%) Marketing
10 23 (3.87%) Legal
11 22 (3.70%) Telecoms
12 21 (3.54%) Retail
13 16 (2.69%) Military
14 11 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.52%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.52%) Electronics
16 9 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 153 (25.76%) Project Manager
2 101 (17.00%) Analyst
3 84 (14.14%) Business Analyst
4 68 (11.45%) Architect
5 63 (10.61%) Senior
6 45 (7.58%) Lead
7 33 (5.56%) Senior Manager
8 32 (5.39%) Programme Manager
9 30 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (4.71%) Delivery Manager
11 24 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
12 20 (3.37%) Security Manager
13 19 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (3.20%) Senior Business Analyst
14 18 (3.03%) Consultant
15 17 (2.86%) IT Manager
15 17 (2.86%) Product Owner
16 16 (2.69%) Product Manager
17 15 (2.53%) Business Manager
18 13 (2.19%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.52%) Middleware
2 8 (1.35%) .NET
2 8 (1.35%) XML
3 7 (1.18%) JSON
3 7 (1.18%) NETCONF
3 7 (1.18%) YANG
4 4 (0.67%) HTML
4 4 (0.67%) REST
5 3 (0.51%) ADO
5 3 (0.51%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.51%) CSS
5 3 (0.51%) Flask
5 3 (0.51%) J2EE
5 3 (0.51%) Pandas
5 3 (0.51%) Sass
5 3 (0.51%) Spring
5 3 (0.51%) Spring MVC
5 3 (0.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (0.51%) VML
5 3 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.58%) Management Information System
2 35 (5.89%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.19%) NHS
4 12 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.68%) IoT
6 9 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (1.01%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.01%) Graphic Design
9 6 (1.01%) Industry 4.0
9 6 (1.01%) Robotics
9 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.67%) e-Health
11 4 (0.67%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (0.67%) PMI
12 3 (0.51%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.87%) Windows
2 19 (3.20%) Linux
3 13 (2.19%) Unix
4 6 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.51%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.34%) Android
7 2 (0.34%) CentOS
7 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (37.71%) Agile
2 213 (35.86%) Project Management
3 152 (25.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 123 (20.71%) Project Delivery
5 107 (18.01%) Roadmaps
6 93 (15.66%) Decision-Making
7 92 (15.49%) Change Management
7 92 (15.49%) PRINCE2
8 88 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (12.12%) Programme Management
10 71 (11.95%) DevOps
11 70 (11.78%) Business Analysis
12 58 (9.76%) Business Strategy
13 52 (8.75%) Waterfall
14 47 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (7.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 42 (7.07%) Risk Management
16 41 (6.90%) Budget Management
17 40 (6.73%) Analytics
17 40 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 27 (4.55%) SQL
2 14 (2.36%) Python
3 9 (1.52%) Java
4 6 (1.01%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.67%) C#
6 2 (0.34%) C
6 2 (0.34%) Go
6 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
6 2 (0.34%) R
7 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (17.85%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 73 (12.29%) Degree
4 37 (6.23%) DV Cleared
5 31 (5.22%) PMP
6 26 (4.38%) PMI Certification
7 19 (3.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 14 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.85%) CISSP
11 9 (1.52%) MBA
12 8 (1.35%) CCNP
13 7 (1.18%) CISA
13 7 (1.18%) CISM
14 5 (0.84%) APMP
14 5 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.67%) ACCA
15 4 (0.67%) CCSK
15 4 (0.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.58%) PMO
2 35 (5.89%) QA
3 29 (4.88%) SLA
4 11 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
5 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.35%) NIST
6 6 (1.01%) NCSC
7 5 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
7 5 (0.84%) ISO 22301
7 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.34%) COBIT
8 2 (0.34%) GDPR
8 2 (0.34%) P3O
9 1 (0.17%) COREP
9 1 (0.17%) FINREP
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.67%) Docker
2 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.34%) XenApp
4 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.17%) Firmware
5 1 (0.17%) vCloud
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (2.53%) Ansible
2 11 (1.85%) Terraform
3 4 (0.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.34%) Puppet
5 1 (0.17%) Avamar
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.06%) SAP
3 16 (2.69%) Oracle
4 15 (2.53%) Cisco
5 10 (1.68%) Atlassian
5 10 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.35%) Nokia
7 7 (1.18%) Google
8 5 (0.84%) Adobe
9 4 (0.67%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.67%) Splunk
9 4 (0.67%) VMware
10 3 (0.51%) Citrix
10 3 (0.51%) Dell
10 3 (0.51%) ESRI
10 3 (0.51%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.51%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.51%) SmartStream
10 3 (0.51%) Sparx
10 3 (0.51%) Workday