Business Case Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Business Cases
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Business Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 97 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 -35 +58
Contract jobs citing Business Case 31 24 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.69% 1.20% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 1.30% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 37
10th Percentile £348 £455 £458
25th Percentile £390 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £700
90th Percentile £703 £709 £818
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% -0.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,656 1,841 2,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.15% 92.14% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,119 1,582
10th Percentile £347 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.54 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.65 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.74% +27.27% -21.43%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Case relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Business Case job vacancy trend in the City of London

Business Case
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Case

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in the City of London

Business Case
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Business Case

Business Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) BGP
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) Multicast
1 1 (3.23%) OSPF
1 1 (3.23%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Marketing
5 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (9.68%) Retail
7 2 (6.45%) Banking
7 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Back Office
8 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Legal
8 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (3.23%) Publishing
8 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Senior
2 9 (29.03%) Senior Manager
3 8 (25.81%) Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Product Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) CRM Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Marketing Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Integration Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Project Accountant
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Product Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.45%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Agile
2 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) Project Management
2 7 (22.58%) Scrum
3 6 (19.35%) Business Strategy
3 6 (19.35%) CRM
3 6 (19.35%) Migration
3 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
4 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (16.13%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (12.90%) B2B
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Feasibility Study
6 3 (9.68%) Change Management
6 3 (9.68%) Product Management
6 3 (9.68%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) CCIE
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) IIBA
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.23%) MBA
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Ansible
1 1 (3.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Google
2 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.45%) Adobe
3 2 (6.45%) DocuSign
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Arista
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Snow