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 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 556 542 608
Rank change year-on-year -14 +66 +220
Contract jobs citing Business Enablement 14 16 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.044% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.051% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 23
10th Percentile - £488 £513
25th Percentile £469 £500 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -15.38% +6.12%
75th Percentile £556 £586 £775
90th Percentile £575 £656 £868
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £535 £575
% change year-on-year -6.54% -6.96% +1.72%

All Process and 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 31,170 31,428 41,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.15% 86.05% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,492 18,903 27,760
10th Percentile £294 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,014 1,111 1,579
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.00 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -20.54% +27.14%
75th Percentile £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.50% -21.35% +51.85%

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 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Enablement in the UK

Business Enablement
Top 7 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 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
England -5 13 £513 -5.53% 10
UK excluding London -36 8 £500 -6.54% 10
Work from Home +4 7 £513 -10.17% 7
London +13 6 £513 +8.47% 4
South East -4 6 £500 -6.54% 3
Wales - 1 - - 3
East of England - 1 - - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Slack
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) AWS IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) Modbus
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 3 (21.43%) Electronics
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Salesforce Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Business Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Business Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Cash Management Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Project Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Junior
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) 3D Printing
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) IoT
1 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Data Governance
1 5 (35.71%) Project Management
1 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Emotional Intelligence
2 4 (28.57%) Record to Report
2 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 4 (28.57%) Validation
2 4 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (14.29%) Cash Management
3 2 (14.29%) Coaching
3 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CCNA
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Apple
1 4 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Mitel
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Snow