Business Case Contracts in South Wales

Business Cases
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing Business Case 7 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.88% 0.65% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 0.82% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £296 £204 £463
25th Percentile - £303 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -37.34% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £378 £653 £569
90th Percentile £525 £741 £658
Wales median daily rate £305 £488 £526
% change year-on-year -37.34% -7.36% +5.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 221 243 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.95% 78.39% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 169 339
10th Percentile £185 £143 £198
25th Percentile £291 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £507 £575 £586
90th Percentile £639 £678 £650
Wales median daily rate £405 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -19.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 23
10th Percentile £14.72 £11.12 £16.37
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.37 £22.50 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +24.04% -23.62%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.38 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.80 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £19.82 £18.14
% change year-on-year +13.52% +9.26% -23.62%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in South Wales

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Business Case in South Wales

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in South Wales over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in South Wales

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in South Wales

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cardiff +12 6 £318 -60.21% 4
Glamorgan - 1 £288 - 4
Business Case
Wales

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Designer
1 4 (57.14%) Interaction Designer
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
1 4 (57.14%) Lead Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Coaching
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Interaction Design
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Ergonomics
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree