Business Case Contracts in London

Business Cases
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 164 142
Rank change year-on-year -50 -22 +20
Contract jobs citing Business Case 140 262 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.12% 1.47% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.66% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 181 340
10th Percentile £356 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £481 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £635
Median % change year-on-year - -13.39% +15.45%
75th Percentile £656 £643 £745
90th Percentile £749 £767 £850
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £20.69 £58.75
25th Percentile - £21.68 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £23.33 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -62.67% +5.04%
75th Percentile - £46.67 £63.94
90th Percentile - £60.67 £64.13
England median hourly rate £42.81 £25.25 £62.75
% change year-on-year +69.52% -59.76% +82.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in London

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Case in London

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in London

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Case in London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in London

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -19 26 £625 +11.11% 8
East London +8 4 £638 -1.92% 7
West London +10 2 - - 12
South London +5 2 £625 - 1
North London -4 1 £500 -
Business Case
England

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (7.86%) Confluence
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Loan IQ
2 2 (1.43%) Endur
3 1 (0.71%) Aligne
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.29%) Azure
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.86%) AWS
4 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.14%) SaaS
5 2 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 2 (1.43%) Miro
5 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.71%) GCP
6 1 (0.71%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Intranet
1 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.43%) Power BI
5 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.71%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) JIRA
General
1 53 (37.86%) Finance
2 48 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.57%) Public Sector
4 21 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.29%) Banking
6 9 (6.43%) Legal
7 8 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.00%) Local Government
9 4 (2.86%) Marketing
10 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.14%) Retail
11 2 (1.43%) Electronics
11 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.43%) Front Office
11 2 (1.43%) Law
11 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.43%) Military
11 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.71%) Back Office
12 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (29.29%) Analyst
2 36 (25.71%) Business Analyst
3 35 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 18 (12.86%) Senior
5 12 (8.57%) Lead
5 12 (8.57%) Senior Manager
6 10 (7.14%) Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Senior Project Manager
8 6 (4.29%) IT Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.57%) Digital Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Digital Business Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.86%) Asset Management Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Asset Management Business Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
10 4 (2.86%) Investment Management Business Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.71%) ATL
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.43%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.86%) PMI
5 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.71%) Life Science
7 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.71%) PDA
7 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.71%) Social Media
7 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
1 2 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (32.86%) Agile
2 35 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (20.71%) Project Delivery
4 23 (16.43%) Business Analysis
4 23 (16.43%) Project Management
5 22 (15.71%) Decision-Making
6 21 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 20 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (12.86%) Change Management
8 18 (12.86%) Waterfall
9 16 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (11.43%) Programme Management
10 15 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (10.71%) Risk Management
11 14 (10.00%) Analytics
11 14 (10.00%) Budget Management
12 13 (9.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (9.29%) PRINCE2
13 12 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (8.57%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.71%) SQL
2 5 (3.57%) C#
3 2 (1.43%) Python
4 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.43%) Degree
3 14 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.86%) PMI Certification
5 7 (5.00%) PMP
6 6 (4.29%) RIBA
7 5 (3.57%) CISM
7 5 (3.57%) MRICS
8 3 (2.14%) CBAP
8 3 (2.14%) CISSP
8 3 (2.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.43%) ACCA
9 2 (1.43%) CIMA
10 1 (0.71%) CCAB
10 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.71%) IIBA
10 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.71%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) PMO
2 7 (5.00%) QA
3 6 (4.29%) GRC
4 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.43%) GDPR
5 2 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.71%) EMIR
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
1 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.57%) Oracle
2 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.86%) Planview
4 3 (2.14%) Adobe
4 3 (2.14%) Ariba
4 3 (2.14%) Qualys
4 3 (2.14%) SAP
4 3 (2.14%) UiPath
5 2 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.43%) Workday
6 1 (0.71%) Concur
6 1 (0.71%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.71%) Databricks
6 1 (0.71%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) Salesforce