Business Case Contracts in the East Midlands

Business Cases
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 59 71
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Business Case 9 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.66% 1.16% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.48% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 11
10th Percentile £301 - £413
25th Percentile £348 £355 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £403 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -25.12% +31.90%
75th Percentile £473 £569 £584
90th Percentile £561 £783 £700
England median daily rate £528 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.09% -8.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
England median hourly rate £42.81 £25.25 £63.00
% change year-on-year +69.52% -59.92% +83.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 467 608 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.32% 78.25% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 410 685
10th Percentile £201 £200 £213
25th Percentile £322 £271 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £411 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -8.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £573
90th Percentile £596 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 73
10th Percentile - £11.33 £11.98
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.64 £17.00 £18.37
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% -7.43% +4.94%
75th Percentile £24.30 £26.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £32.76 £38.75 £54.30
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Business Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in the East Midlands

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Case in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Business Case in the East Midlands

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in the East Midlands

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Case in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in the East Midlands

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Northamptonshire +2 6 £358 +0.85% 3
Nottinghamshire - 2 £563 - 2
Leicestershire - 1 - - 2
Business Case
England

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) IaaS
1 1 (11.11%) PaaS
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) CRM
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Feasibility Study
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Supplier Management
2 2 (22.22%) User Stories
2 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) COREP
1 2 (22.22%) FINREP
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft