Business Case Contracts in Cardiff

Business Cases
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 32 39
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Case 7 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.17% 0.44% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 0.62% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile - - £458
25th Percentile £305 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £800 £600
Median % change year-on-year -58.60% +33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £466 - £681
90th Percentile £574 - £730
South Wales median daily rate £305 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -37.34% -11.36% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 161 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 90.48% 70.61% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 129 193
10th Percentile £226 £143 £184
25th Percentile £305 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £492 £553 £586
90th Percentile £648 £623 £638
South Wales median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £12.43 £15.48 £13.81
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £19.47
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -4.63% -2.64%
75th Percentile £21.08 £21.67 £24.69
90th Percentile £23.75 - £25.50
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £20.24 £18.82
% change year-on-year -20.93% +7.55% -11.96%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in Cardiff

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Business Case in Cardiff

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in Cardiff over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in Cardiff

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (14.29%) Asana
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
1 4 (57.14%) Interaction Designer
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Lead Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Services Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Coaching
3 4 (57.14%) Interaction Design
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Ergonomics
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO