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 citing Business Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	97	88	99
Rank change year-on-year	-9	+11	-28
Contract jobs citing Business Case	44	37	25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	2.14%	2.18%	1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	2.31%	2.31%	1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	29	30	15
10^th Percentile	£411	£337	£428
25^th Percentile	£450	£404	£481
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£615	£481	£520
Median % change year-on-year	+27.79%	-7.45%	-7.76%
75^th Percentile	£725	£642	£646
90^th Percentile	£905	£664	£678
Central London median daily rate	£600	£488	£523
% change year-on-year	+23.08%	-6.70%	-7.11%

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 citing process or methodology skills in the City of London.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	1,906	1,599	1,930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London	92.79%	94.17%	91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,334	1,108	1,185
10^th Percentile	£375	£327	£366
25^th Percentile	£456	£419	£469
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	-1.71%
75^th Percentile	£675	£675	£688
90^th Percentile	£775	£750	£783
Central London median daily rate	£550	£550	£575
% change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	16	18	17
10^th Percentile	-	£16.90	£16.70
25^th Percentile	£17.60	£21.07	£23.13
Median hourly rate	£20.25	£27.75	£42.50
Median % change year-on-year	-27.03%	-34.71%	+36.00%
75^th Percentile	£27.35	£44.63	£112.00
90^th Percentile	£52.25	£63.75	£137.50
Central London median hourly rate	£25.00	£27.75	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-9.91%	-20.71%	+12.00%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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 31 October 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.

Business Case Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Business Case also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region citing Business Case.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	52.3%	23
2	Agile	31.8%	14
3	Decision-Making	29.5%	13
4	Roadmaps	27.3%	12
5	Project Delivery	20.5%	9
5	Project Management	20.5%	9
5	Workshop Facilitation	20.5%	9
8	AI	18.2%	8
8	Continuous Improvement	18.2%	8
8	PMI Certification	18.2%	8
11	Budgeting	15.9%	7
11	Business Analysis	15.9%	7
11	Microsoft	15.9%	7
11	PRINCE2	15.9%	7
15	Observability	13.6%	6
15	PMP	13.6%	6
15	Problem-Solving	13.6%	6
15	Requirements Gathering	13.6%	6
15	Stakeholder Engagement	13.6%	6
20	Azure	11.4%	5
20	Business Transformation	11.4%	5
20	LLM	11.4%	5
20	Migration	11.4%	5
20	PMO	11.4%	5
20	Scrum	11.4%	5
20	Security Cleared	11.4%	5
20	Use Case	11.4%	5
20	User Stories	11.4%	5
20	Waterfall	11.4%	5
30	Budgeting and Forecasting	9.1%	4

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Stakeholder Management	52.3%	23
2	Agile	31.8%	14
3	Decision-Making	29.5%	13
4	Roadmaps	27.3%	12
5	Project Delivery	20.5%	9
5	Project Management	20.5%	9
5	Workshop Facilitation	20.5%	9
8	AI	18.2%	8
8	Continuous Improvement	18.2%	8
10	Budgeting	15.9%	7
10	Business Analysis	15.9%	7
10	PRINCE2	15.9%	7
13	Observability	13.6%	6
13	Problem-Solving	13.6%	6
13	Requirements Gathering	13.6%	6
13	Stakeholder Engagement	13.6%	6
17	Business Transformation	11.4%	5
17	LLM	11.4%	5
17	Migration	11.4%	5
17	Scrum	11.4%	5