Business Cases
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 161 213 249
Rank change year-on-year +52 +36 +63
Permanent jobs citing Business Case 1,797 1,809 2,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 1.74% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.82% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 661 927 1,438
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,925
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Case over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Case within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +60 1,620 £60,000 -0.09% 338
UK excluding London +54 1,166 £55,000 -4.35% 181
Work from Home +103 1,119 £62,500 - 133
London +67 560 £80,000 +23.08% 164
South East +42 460 £56,421 -9.73% 44
North of England +75 200 £57,311 +4.20% 42
Midlands -7 167 £54,000 -10.00% 32
North West +61 135 £52,500 -7.89% 24
South West -8 116 £62,500 +19.05% 25
East Midlands +37 98 £54,000 -10.00% 12
East of England +16 92 £54,000 -10.00% 19
Scotland -15 83 £50,000 -13.46% 15
West Midlands -36 65 £52,500 -12.58% 20
Yorkshire +79 48 £62,500 +13.64% 16
Northern Ireland +45 29 £37,500 -36.71% 2
Wales +13 19 £55,000 +23.14% 3
North East +5 17 £70,000 +1.45% 2

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 18 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.45%) ArcGIS
3 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.33%) Confluence
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
Applications
1 522 (29.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (2.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.22%) Lawson
5 2 (0.11%) iTrent
5 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.11%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.056%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.056%) HFM
6 1 (0.056%) Magento
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.056%) Primavera
6 1 (0.056%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.056%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 108 (6.01%) Azure
2 78 (4.34%) AWS
3 62 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (2.84%) Power Platform
5 39 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (2.06%) SaaS
7 17 (0.95%) GCP
8 13 (0.72%) PaaS
9 11 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (0.61%) IaaS
10 7 (0.39%) Power Automate
11 6 (0.33%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.28%) Slack
13 4 (0.22%) Alation
13 4 (0.22%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (0.22%) Azure Storage
13 4 (0.22%) Collibra
13 4 (0.22%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.22%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 631 (35.11%) Broadband
2 32 (1.78%) Firewall
3 20 (1.11%) VPN
4 15 (0.83%) WAN
5 13 (0.72%) LAN
6 7 (0.39%) DNS
7 6 (0.33%) Network Security
8 5 (0.28%) DHCP
8 5 (0.28%) Internet
8 5 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.28%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.28%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.28%) Wireless
9 4 (0.22%) TETRA
9 4 (0.22%) VLAN
10 3 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.11%) NAS
11 2 (0.11%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.34%) Power BI
2 37 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (1.28%) Tableau
4 12 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
5 11 (0.61%) GIS
6 10 (0.56%) Metadata
7 9 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.45%) Big Data
9 7 (0.39%) Data Mining
9 7 (0.39%) Power Query
9 7 (0.39%) Spatial Data
9 7 (0.39%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.33%) MS Access
10 6 (0.33%) QlikView
11 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.22%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.22%) Essbase
12 4 (0.22%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (0.83%) JIRA
2 9 (0.50%) Git
3 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.056%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 947 (52.70%) Social Skills
2 837 (46.58%) Finance
3 621 (34.56%) Analytical Skills
4 512 (28.49%) Influencing Skills
5 233 (12.97%) Marketing
6 188 (10.46%) Advertising
7 99 (5.51%) Public Sector
8 78 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
9 60 (3.34%) Retail
10 57 (3.17%) Legal
11 55 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 49 (2.73%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.56%) Law
14 26 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 25 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.34%) Banking
17 19 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.83%) Local Government
19 12 (0.67%) Back Office
20 10 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 647 (36.00%) Analyst
2 437 (24.32%) Senior
3 288 (16.03%) Architect
4 266 (14.80%) Senior Analyst
5 261 (14.52%) Lead
6 246 (13.69%) Project Manager
7 218 (12.13%) Solutions Architect
8 130 (7.23%) Business Analyst
9 127 (7.07%) Financial Analyst
10 120 (6.68%) Commercial Analyst
11 115 (6.40%) Presales Solution Architect
12 101 (5.62%) IT Manager
13 96 (5.34%) Senior Manager
14 73 (4.06%) Senior Project Manager
15 70 (3.90%) IT Project Manager
16 52 (2.89%) Business Manager
17 44 (2.45%) Senior Architect
18 35 (1.95%) Senior Solutions Architect
19 34 (1.89%) Consultant
20 31 (1.73%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.39%) .NET
2 12 (0.67%) HTML
3 11 (0.61%) CSS
4 10 (0.56%) EDI
4 10 (0.56%) Web Services
5 9 (0.50%) .NET Core
5 9 (0.50%) ASP.NET
5 9 (0.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (0.50%) Entity Framework
5 9 (0.50%) Hibernate
5 9 (0.50%) Spring
5 9 (0.50%) Spring MVC
6 7 (0.39%) REST
7 6 (0.33%) Flash
8 5 (0.28%) SOAP
8 5 (0.28%) XML
9 4 (0.22%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.22%) Django
9 4 (0.22%) JSON
9 4 (0.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 188 (10.46%) Marketing Technology
2 105 (5.84%) Self-Motivation
3 60 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 37 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 33 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 27 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.06%) NHS
10 16 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 11 (0.61%) Life Science
12 10 (0.56%) Biopharmaceutical
12 10 (0.56%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.56%) Taxonomies
13 9 (0.50%) PMI
13 9 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.50%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (0.45%) Low-Code
15 6 (0.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.28%) Windows
2 7 (0.39%) Linux
3 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.17%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.056%) AIX
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.056%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.056%) VMS
7 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (45.46%) Agile
2 675 (37.56%) Actionable Insight
3 649 (36.12%) Decision-Making
4 498 (27.71%) Mentoring
5 456 (25.38%) Budgeting
6 452 (25.15%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 408 (22.70%) Project Management
8 388 (21.59%) Analytics
9 285 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
10 237 (13.19%) Process Improvement
11 217 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 213 (11.85%) Use Case
13 210 (11.69%) Change Management
14 202 (11.24%) Matrix Organization
15 196 (10.91%) Data Strategy
16 194 (10.80%) Data Collection
17 190 (10.57%) PRINCE2
18 186 (10.35%) Regulatory Change
19 185 (10.29%) Digital Marketing
20 179 (9.96%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 45 (2.50%) Python
2 42 (2.34%) SQL
3 21 (1.17%) Java
4 20 (1.11%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.00%) C#
6 16 (0.89%) R
7 9 (0.50%) VBA
8 8 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (0.45%) VB
9 4 (0.22%) PHP
10 3 (0.17%) Bicep
10 3 (0.17%) C
10 3 (0.17%) Perl
10 3 (0.17%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.11%) ABAP
11 2 (0.11%) Bash
12 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 467 (25.99%) CIMA
2 457 (25.43%) ACCA
3 282 (15.69%) Security Cleared
4 227 (12.63%) Degree
5 224 (12.47%) SC Cleared
6 67 (3.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 58 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
8 37 (2.06%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (1.22%) PMI Certification
11 16 (0.89%) CISSP
11 16 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.89%) HNC
11 16 (0.89%) PMP
12 15 (0.83%) MBA
12 15 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 12 (0.67%) CISM
13 12 (0.67%) CRISC
13 12 (0.67%) PhD
14 11 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.28%) PMO
2 23 (1.28%) QA
3 20 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 10 (0.56%) SLA
6 8 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.45%) NIST
7 7 (0.39%) GDPR
8 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.17%) HAZOP
10 3 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.11%) EMIR
11 2 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.056%) COBIT
12 1 (0.056%) HL7
12 1 (0.056%) NCSC
12 1 (0.056%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.056%) PMBOK
System Software
1 12 (0.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.56%) Docker
3 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.056%) Firmware
5 1 (0.056%) KVM
5 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (0.78%) SCCM
2 10 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.17%) Terraform
5 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.056%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 555 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 47 (2.62%) Sparx
3 37 (2.06%) SAP
4 23 (1.28%) Google
5 18 (1.00%) Oracle
6 14 (0.78%) Cisco
7 13 (0.72%) Dell
8 12 (0.67%) Bloomberg
8 12 (0.67%) HP
9 11 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 10 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.45%) Informatica
11 8 (0.45%) Yardi
12 7 (0.39%) Alteryx
12 7 (0.39%) Juniper
12 7 (0.39%) Mapbox
12 7 (0.39%) VMware
13 5 (0.28%) Cognos
14 4 (0.22%) JD Edwards
14 4 (0.22%) MicroStrategy