Business Enablement Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Business Enablement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Enablement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 353 399
Rank change year-on-year -36 +46 +111
Contract jobs citing Business Enablement 8 9 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.054% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.064% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 17
10th Percentile - £495 £503
25th Percentile £475 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -6.96% +1.72%
75th Percentile £544 £577 £700
90th Percentile £600 £613 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -6.82% -15.38% +6.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Enablement 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 14,926 14,015 18,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.58% 83.82% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,059 8,008 11,881
10th Percentile £220 £247 £250
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,674 885 1,289
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.50% -21.35% +51.85%
75th Percentile £41.34 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +27.14%

Business Enablement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Enablement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Business Enablement job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Business Enablement
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Enablement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Business Enablement

Business Enablement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Enablement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Enablement in the UK excluding London

Business Enablement
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 Enablement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
South East -4 6 £500 -6.54% 3
Wales - 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 - - 1
Business Enablement
UK

Business Enablement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) Modbus
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Business Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Cash Management Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Project Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Cash Management Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) 3D Printing
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Record to Report
2 4 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Cash Management
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 1 (12.50%) Snow