Business Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 155 126
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 -4
Contract jobs citing Business Case 201 279 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.57% 1.36% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.60% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 191 380
10th Percentile £346 £350 £373
25th Percentile £407 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.40%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £656 £713 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.76% +12.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 7
10th Percentile £26.40 - £36.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.63 £43.38
Median hourly rate £51.50 £25.25 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.96% -59.92% +95.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £32.13 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.80 £50.58 -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 £25.25 £62.75
% change year-on-year +103.96% -59.76% +79.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,414 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.70% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,403 14,840
10th Percentile £238 £250 £256
25th Percentile £376 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £15.22 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 of England +11 57 £450 -21.74% 64
North West +2 38 £367 -36.65% 36
South West +14 36 £530 - 29
Midlands +21 35 £514 -2.19% 52
Scotland -7 33 £500 -11.70% 22
West Midlands +14 23 £525 -4.55% 35
South East +6 23 £560 +6.67% 74
Yorkshire +26 19 £533 -0.93% 23
East of England +22 14 £550 +57.14% 30
East Midlands +12 9 £403 - 18
Wales +13 6 £305 +62.92% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £463 - 1
Business Case
UK

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 7 (3.48%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.99%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 12 (5.97%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.00%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.00%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.50%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (2.99%) Azure
2 4 (1.99%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (1.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.00%) Collibra
3 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (1.00%) IaaS
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.00%) PaaS
3 2 (1.00%) SaaS
3 2 (1.00%) Serverless
4 1 (0.50%) AWS
4 1 (0.50%) iPaaS
4 1 (0.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.98%) VPN
2 6 (2.99%) LAN
3 2 (1.00%) Firewall
3 2 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.50%) ATM
4 1 (0.50%) GPRS
4 1 (0.50%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) NGFW
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Skype
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.49%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (1.99%) DB2
2 4 (1.99%) Metadata
2 4 (1.99%) Power BI
3 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.50%) GIS
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 90 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 78 (38.81%) Finance
3 40 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (16.42%) Public Sector
5 30 (14.93%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (11.44%) Banking
7 18 (8.96%) Manufacturing
8 17 (8.46%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (7.46%) Retail
10 10 (4.98%) Marketing
11 9 (4.48%) Legal
12 8 (3.98%) Automotive
12 8 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (3.98%) Telecoms
13 7 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (3.48%) Electronics
13 7 (3.48%) Local Government
13 7 (3.48%) Military
14 4 (1.99%) Back Office
14 4 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (29.85%) Analyst
2 51 (25.37%) Business Analyst
3 33 (16.42%) Project Manager
4 27 (13.43%) Architect
5 20 (9.95%) Lead
6 16 (7.96%) Senior
7 13 (6.47%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.48%) Programme Manager
9 8 (3.98%) IT Manager
9 8 (3.98%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.48%) Business Architect
10 7 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (3.48%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (2.49%) 2nd Line Support
11 5 (2.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (2.49%) Desktop Engineer
11 5 (2.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 5 (2.49%) IT Project Manager
11 5 (2.49%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.49%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.49%) Middleware
2 2 (1.00%) Kafka
2 2 (1.00%) OAuth
2 2 (1.00%) OpenID
2 2 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.00%) SAML
3 1 (0.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.95%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.47%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.49%) Augmented Reality
4 5 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.49%) e-Learning
4 5 (2.49%) Podcast
4 5 (2.49%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.49%) NHS
6 3 (1.49%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.00%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.00%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.48%) Windows
2 6 (2.99%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.49%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.49%) Windows 8
3 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (2.49%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (32.34%) Agile
2 63 (31.34%) Project Management
3 45 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 44 (21.89%) Change Management
5 41 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.90%) Project Delivery
7 34 (16.92%) Business Analysis
7 34 (16.92%) Roadmaps
8 30 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (12.94%) PRINCE2
10 25 (12.44%) Decision-Making
11 24 (11.94%) Workshop Facilitation
12 23 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (10.95%) Risk Management
14 21 (10.45%) Business Strategy
15 19 (9.45%) Waterfall
16 16 (7.96%) Collaborative Working
16 16 (7.96%) Programme Management
17 15 (7.46%) Requirements Gathering
17 15 (7.46%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.48%) SQL
2 3 (1.49%) Java
2 3 (1.49%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.49%) Python
2 3 (1.49%) VB
3 2 (1.00%) Bash
3 2 (1.00%) C#
3 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (12.94%) Degree
2 22 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.99%) CISSP
7 4 (1.99%) MRICS
7 4 (1.99%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.99%) PMP
8 3 (1.49%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (1.49%) CISM
8 3 (1.49%) IIBA
9 2 (1.00%) ACCA
9 2 (1.00%) APMG
9 2 (1.00%) CIMA
9 2 (1.00%) HND
9 2 (1.00%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) PMO
1 9 (4.48%) QA
2 6 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.49%) GRC
4 2 (1.00%) COREP
4 2 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.00%) FINREP
4 2 (1.00%) NIST
5 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.50%) Basel III
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.50%) XenApp
3 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) SCCM
2 2 (1.00%) Grafana
2 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.47%) SAP
3 10 (4.98%) Oracle
4 6 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.49%) Canon
6 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.00%) Ariba
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) IBM
7 2 (1.00%) IFS
7 2 (1.00%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (1.00%) NEC
7 2 (1.00%) Qualys
7 2 (1.00%) VMware
8 1 (0.50%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.50%) Splunk
8 1 (0.50%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.50%) Zscaler