Business Case Contracts in Berkshire

Business Cases
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Business Case skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Case over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 106 65
Rank change year-on-year +26 -41 +18
Contract jobs citing Business Case 15 16 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.28% 0.81% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.91% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 36
10th Percentile £389 £482 £424
25th Percentile £475 £502 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £573
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -7.42% +16.72%
75th Percentile £647 £588 £658
90th Percentile £825 £599 £707
South East median daily rate £555 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +5.71% -7.89% +10.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Business 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,098 1,761 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.37% 88.89% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 921 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £340
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 100 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.05 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.30 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.32% +6.02% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in Berkshire

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Business Case in Berkshire

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in Berkshire

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in Berkshire

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Reading +31 7 £750 +36.36% 4
Bracknell - 4 £388 -
Windsor - 3 £575 - 3
Wokingham - 1 - - 1
Business Case
South East

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (13.33%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure API Management
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (13.33%) IaaS
2 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Product Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Smart Metering Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) OAuth
1 2 (13.33%) OpenID
1 2 (13.33%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Cyberattack
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Roadmaps
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Use Case
3 4 (26.67%) Data Security
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Product Backlog
4 3 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (20.00%) User Stories
5 2 (13.33%) API Management
5 2 (13.33%) Business Transformation
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (13.33%) Line Management
5 2 (13.33%) RBAC
5 2 (13.33%) Value Proposition
5 2 (13.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.67%) XenApp
3 1 (6.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Zscaler