Business Case Contracts in the North of England

Business Cases
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 124 128
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Business Case 57 65 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.73% 1.37% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.59% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 56 76
10th Percentile £346 £405 £383
25th Percentile £358 £460 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £545 £654 £619
90th Percentile £646 £719 £719
England median daily rate £530 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -58.33% +122.32%
75th Percentile £33.93 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £34.04 - -
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in the North of England

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Case in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Business Case in the North of England

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in the North of England

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Case in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in the North of England

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +3 37 £367 -36.26% 44
Yorkshire +15 20 £533 -0.93% 36
Business Case
England

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.51%) Confluence
1 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (12.28%) MS Visio
3 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (3.51%) Collibra
1 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) LAN
1 5 (8.77%) VPN
2 1 (1.75%) GPRS
2 1 (1.75%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
1 2 (3.51%) Power BI
2 1 (1.75%) GIS
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 30 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.07%) Finance
3 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Banking
4 10 (17.54%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Manufacturing
6 6 (10.53%) Retail
7 5 (8.77%) Automotive
7 5 (8.77%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.26%) Military
9 2 (3.51%) Legal
9 2 (3.51%) Marketing
9 2 (3.51%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.75%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Analyst
2 18 (31.58%) Business Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Desktop Support
4 5 (8.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Technical Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Technical Project Manager
6 3 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.51%) PMO Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Portfolio Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Programme Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) Kafka
1 2 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 6 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (8.77%) Augmented Reality
2 5 (8.77%) e-Learning
2 5 (8.77%) Podcast
2 5 (8.77%) Virtual Reality
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) CMDB
4 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.75%) PMI
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
1 5 (8.77%) Windows 10
1 5 (8.77%) Windows 8
1 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
1 5 (8.77%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (8.77%) Windows Server 2008
1 5 (8.77%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (8.77%) Windows Server 2016
1 5 (8.77%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Change Management
2 20 (35.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (31.58%) Project Management
4 17 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (24.56%) Agile
5 14 (24.56%) Project Delivery
6 12 (21.05%) Roadmaps
7 11 (19.30%) Waterfall
8 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (15.79%) ITIL
9 9 (15.79%) PRINCE2
9 9 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
10 8 (14.04%) Benchmarking
10 8 (14.04%) Supplier Management
11 7 (12.28%) Requirements Gathering
12 6 (10.53%) Data Analysis
12 6 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
12 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
12 6 (10.53%) Service Delivery
12 6 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.02%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (3.51%) PMP
3 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) PMO
2 2 (3.51%) COREP
2 2 (3.51%) FINREP
3 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) SCCM
2 2 (3.51%) Grafana
2 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Canon
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle
3 4 (7.02%) SAP
4 2 (3.51%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.51%) IBM
5 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.75%) Virgin Media