Business Enablement Contract Job Trends

Business Enablement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Business Enablement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 526 583
Rank change year-on-year -37 +57 +190
Contract jobs citing Business Enablement 12 14 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.043% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.048% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 16
10th Percentile £343 £499 £520
25th Percentile £436 £505 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £663
Median % change year-on-year -10.75% -15.43% +24.88%
75th Percentile £525 £587 £775
90th Percentile £563 £661 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -6.54% -6.96% +8.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,669 29,037 38,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.09% 88.41% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,654 17,656 25,324
10th Percentile £304 £306 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £722 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,016 941 1,546
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.79 £30.78 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.72% -31.60% +43.91%

Business Enablement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Business Enablement job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Enablement
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Business Enablement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Enablement over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Business Enablement in the UK

Business Enablement
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
England -53 10 £500 -9.09% 4
UK excluding London -51 9 £500 -6.54% 4
South East -19 5 £500 -6.54%
Work from Home -1 3 £650 +13.94% 8
London -18 3 £363 - 3
East of England - 2 £475 -
Scotland +8 1 £325 -
Wales - 1 - - 3

Business Enablement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (8.33%) Camtasia
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Canva
3 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Google Gemini
3 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 2 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (16.67%) Modbus
3 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Business Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Business Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Cash Management Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Project Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cash Management Project Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Designer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Instructional Designer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) 3D Printing
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) IoT
1 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) e-Learning
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Project Management
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Emotional Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Record to Report
3 4 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (16.67%) Cash Management
5 2 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Security Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CCNP
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CCNA
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Mitel