Business Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Business Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Case over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 122 123
Rank change year-on-year -40 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Business Case 270 481 654
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 2.06% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.30% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 373 467
10th Percentile £350 £370 £338
25th Percentile £450 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +12.24% +5.95%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £561
90th Percentile £712 £723 £641
UK median daily rate £550 £576 £520
% change year-on-year -4.56% +10.82% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 10
10th Percentile - £36.00 £23.30
25th Percentile £23.63 £43.38 £25.87
Median hourly rate £25.25 £63.00 £32.19
Median % change year-on-year -59.92% +95.73% +32.73%
75th Percentile £27.81 £66.00 £35.68
90th Percentile £34.15 - £54.43
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £62.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -59.76% +79.29% +30.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Case is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +3 65 £575 +4.55% 61
South West -11 55 £530 -11.67% 24
South East -55 52 £525 -7.89% 48
North West +17 49 £579 +15.70% 36
Scotland +8 44 £575 +9.52% 16
Midlands +11 34 £525 +7.69% 36
West Midlands +6 25 £550 +18.92% 20
East of England +4 19 £350 -36.36% 27
Yorkshire -5 12 £538 -2.27% 21
East Midlands +17 9 £403 -25.12% 16
North East +14 3 £897 +80.29% 4
Wales +10 1 £175 -65.17% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
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 15 (5.56%) Confluence
2 8 (2.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.11%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.37%) iTrent
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.56%) Azure
2 14 (5.19%) Power Platform
3 9 (3.33%) AWS
4 7 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.48%) SaaS
7 3 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.11%) dbt
7 3 (1.11%) OCI
7 3 (1.11%) PaaS
8 2 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.74%) GCP
8 2 (0.74%) NuGet
8 2 (0.74%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.74%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.37%) GitHub
9 1 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.22%) Firewall
1 6 (2.22%) VPN
2 5 (1.85%) DHCP
2 5 (1.85%) DNS
2 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.85%) VLAN
2 5 (1.85%) Wireless
3 4 (1.48%) ATM
3 4 (1.48%) Intranet
4 3 (1.11%) 4G
4 3 (1.11%) 5G
4 3 (1.11%) Skype
5 2 (0.74%) 2G
5 2 (0.74%) 3G
5 2 (0.74%) LAN
5 2 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.74%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) ISDN
6 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.37%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.19%) Power BI
2 8 (2.96%) Tableau
3 7 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (1.48%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (1.48%) MS Access
4 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.37%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (5.93%) JIRA
2 6 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.37%) JMeter
3 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 94 (34.81%) Finance
2 65 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 59 (21.85%) Public Sector
4 40 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.30%) Local Government
6 16 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (5.19%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.07%) Legal
8 11 (4.07%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.33%) Banking
10 7 (2.59%) Marketing
11 6 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.22%) Military
11 6 (2.22%) Retail
12 5 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.85%) Electronics
12 5 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.48%) Billing
13 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (29.26%) Project Manager
2 49 (18.15%) Analyst
3 42 (15.56%) Business Analyst
4 38 (14.07%) Senior
5 29 (10.74%) Architect
6 25 (9.26%) Lead
7 17 (6.30%) Senior Manager
8 16 (5.93%) Senior Analyst
8 16 (5.93%) Senior Business Analyst
9 13 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.44%) Product Manager
10 12 (4.44%) Security Manager
10 12 (4.44%) Senior Project Manager
11 11 (4.07%) IT Manager
12 9 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (3.33%) Security Project Manager
13 8 (2.96%) Business Manager
13 8 (2.96%) Finance Manager
13 8 (2.96%) IT Project Manager
14 7 (2.59%) Finance Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.48%) .NET
1 4 (1.48%) Middleware
2 3 (1.11%) ADO
2 3 (1.11%) Flask
2 3 (1.11%) HTML
2 3 (1.11%) Pandas
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.85%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.59%) NHS
4 6 (2.22%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (2.22%) IoT
4 6 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.22%) Robotics
5 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.48%) e-Health
5 4 (1.48%) Graphic Design
5 4 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (1.48%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.74%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.37%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.59%) Windows
2 4 (1.48%) Unix
3 3 (1.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.37%) Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.37%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (42.59%) Project Management
2 85 (31.48%) Agile
3 81 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (23.33%) Project Delivery
5 51 (18.89%) Roadmaps
6 44 (16.30%) Change Management
7 43 (15.93%) Decision-Making
8 40 (14.81%) Business Analysis
9 39 (14.44%) PRINCE2
10 38 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.11%) Programme Management
12 29 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.00%) Waterfall
14 26 (9.63%) Business Strategy
15 22 (8.15%) Service Delivery
16 21 (7.78%) Stakeholder Identification
17 20 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
17 20 (7.41%) DevOps
18 19 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
18 19 (7.04%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.19%) SQL
2 3 (1.11%) Python
3 2 (0.74%) C#
4 1 (0.37%) Java
4 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.44%) Degree
2 39 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.96%) PMP
5 8 (2.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 7 (2.59%) CISA
6 7 (2.59%) CISM
6 7 (2.59%) CISSP
7 6 (2.22%) MBA
8 5 (1.85%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.48%) ISEB
10 3 (1.11%) APMP
11 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.37%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.37%) PhD
12 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.19%) PMO
2 13 (4.81%) QA
2 13 (4.81%) SLA
3 8 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) P3O
6 1 (0.37%) COBIT
6 1 (0.37%) COREP
6 1 (0.37%) FINREP
6 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS
6 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.37%) XenApp
3 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (2.22%) Terraform
2 4 (1.48%) Ansible
3 2 (0.74%) SCCM
4 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.56%) SAP
3 9 (3.33%) Oracle
4 6 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.48%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.74%) Sparx
8 1 (0.37%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.37%) Apple
8 1 (0.37%) BT
8 1 (0.37%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco
8 1 (0.37%) Citrix
8 1 (0.37%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.37%) Juniper
8 1 (0.37%) Openreach
8 1 (0.37%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.37%) Twitter
8 1 (0.37%) Workday