Business Case Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Business Cases
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Business Case skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing Business Case 9 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.22% 2.15% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 2.47% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £419 £460 £465
25th Percentile £475 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 - £563
90th Percentile £580 - £589
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.23% +5.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 650 526 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.84% 86.80% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 331 535
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £573 £573 £614
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -9.65%
75th Percentile £25.00 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £26.95 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Business Case job vacancy trend in Leeds

Business Case
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Case.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Case

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in Leeds over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in Leeds

Business Case
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Case.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Business Case

Business Case
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (22.22%) Datadog
1 2 (22.22%) Serverless
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Asana
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) IT Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) NHS Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior NHS Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior SAP Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (22.22%) Application Discovery
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Key Management
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) Six Sigma
4 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) CloudEndure
2 1 (11.11%) Ariba
2 1 (11.11%) Concur
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Wrike