Business Case Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Case skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Case over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 182 242
Rank change year-on-year +11 +60 -25
Permanent jobs citing Business Case 762 1,099 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.92% 1.54% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.84% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 503 453 477
10th Percentile £45,628 £38,433 £38,650
25th Percentile £48,688 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £55,000 £58,816
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% -6.49% +12.03%
75th Percentile £59,081 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,967 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.06% -4.00% +4.17%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,887 59,718 56,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.64% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,036 41,241 29,108
10th Percentile £26,902 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Case within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +112 365 £50,055 -12.66% 90
North West +100 354 £50,055 -4.66% 54
South East -70 151 £65,000 +15.21% 113
Midlands -7 86 £57,000 +5.56% 67
East of England +40 83 £50,967 -5.62% 50
West Midlands +69 80 £57,000 +8.57% 44
South West +55 48 £57,500 -8.00% 46
Scotland +62 18 £47,500 -5.00% 21
Wales +38 12 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Yorkshire +30 10 £62,500 - 26
East Midlands -61 6 £68,513 +26.88% 23
North East +25 1 £65,000 -7.14% 11
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 46 (6.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 37 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.79%) Trello
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (2.89%) Azure
2 14 (1.84%) Google Workspace
3 13 (1.71%) AWS
4 9 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (0.79%) GitHub
5 6 (0.79%) Power Platform
6 4 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (0.52%) SaaS
7 3 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.39%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.26%) Azure API Management
8 2 (0.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.26%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.13%) IaaS
9 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.71%) BGP
1 13 (1.71%) DHCP
1 13 (1.71%) DNS
1 13 (1.71%) Firewall
1 13 (1.71%) OSPF
1 13 (1.71%) TCP/IP
1 13 (1.71%) VLAN
1 13 (1.71%) WLAN
2 8 (1.05%) Network Security
3 3 (0.39%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.52%) Power BI
1 4 (0.52%) SAP BW
2 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.26%) GIS
3 2 (0.26%) Metadata
4 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 62 (8.14%) Rational DOORS
2 60 (7.87%) JIRA
3 2 (0.26%) ERwin
4 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
General
1 292 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 171 (22.44%) Finance
3 154 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (18.50%) Aerospace
5 131 (17.19%) Avionics
6 130 (17.06%) Influencing Skills
7 127 (16.67%) Manufacturing
8 42 (5.51%) Law
9 32 (4.20%) Legal
10 30 (3.94%) Retail
11 24 (3.15%) Public Sector
12 23 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.84%) Automotive
15 12 (1.57%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.05%) Local Government
16 8 (1.05%) Marketing
17 7 (0.92%) Banking
17 7 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 230 (30.18%) Senior
2 165 (21.65%) Systems Engineer
3 137 (17.98%) Analyst
3 137 (17.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 120 (15.75%) Project Manager
5 88 (11.55%) Business Change Analyst
5 88 (11.55%) Change Analyst
6 73 (9.58%) Architect
6 73 (9.58%) Lead
7 56 (7.35%) Systems Architect
8 47 (6.17%) Infrastructure Manager
9 37 (4.86%) Delivery Project Manager
10 33 (4.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 29 (3.81%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.28%) Project Engineer
13 24 (3.15%) Principal Engineer
13 24 (3.15%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 24 (3.15%) Requirements Engineer
13 24 (3.15%) Senior Manager
14 22 (2.89%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.39%) Kafka
1 3 (0.39%) React
2 2 (0.26%) .NET
2 2 (0.26%) Blazor
3 1 (0.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.13%) COM+
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.81%) Management Information System
2 21 (2.76%) Social Media
3 13 (1.71%) Smartphone
4 11 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (0.92%) Life Science
7 7 (0.92%) Public Cloud
8 6 (0.79%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.66%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.52%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.39%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.39%) NHS
11 3 (0.39%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.39%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.26%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.26%) Learning Management System
12 2 (0.26%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.33%) Windows
2 16 (2.10%) Windows Vista
3 14 (1.84%) Linux
3 14 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.71%) Mac OS X
4 13 (1.71%) Ubuntu
4 13 (1.71%) Windows 10
4 13 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (32.81%) Systems Engineering
2 220 (28.87%) Customer Requirements
3 202 (26.51%) Requirements Management
4 200 (26.25%) Project Management
5 154 (20.21%) Project Delivery
5 154 (20.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 142 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 139 (18.24%) Change Management
8 136 (17.85%) Feasibility Study
9 135 (17.72%) SDLC
10 131 (17.19%) Hazard Analysis
11 129 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
12 112 (14.70%) Business Analysis
13 105 (13.78%) Workshop Facilitation
14 103 (13.52%) Roadmaps
15 102 (13.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 99 (12.99%) Collaborative Working
17 94 (12.34%) Agile
18 93 (12.20%) Strategic Thinking
19 89 (11.68%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (2.76%) SQL
2 16 (2.10%) Java
3 15 (1.97%) C
4 13 (1.71%) PowerShell
5 9 (1.18%) Python
6 5 (0.66%) R
7 3 (0.39%) C#
8 2 (0.26%) Go
9 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 409 (53.67%) Degree
2 317 (41.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 92 (12.07%) HNC
4 89 (11.68%) CBAP
5 56 (7.35%) Chartered Engineer
6 40 (5.25%) Security Cleared
7 37 (4.86%) HND
8 33 (4.33%) SC Cleared
9 21 (2.76%) DV Cleared
10 20 (2.62%) DBS Check
11 16 (2.10%) PMP
12 13 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.71%) MCSE
12 13 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.57%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.79%) ACCA
14 6 (0.79%) CIMA
14 6 (0.79%) CISSP
15 4 (0.52%) CISM
15 4 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 30 (3.94%) NEBOSH
3 16 (2.10%) QA
4 10 (1.31%) NIST
5 9 (1.18%) Def Stans
6 8 (1.05%) PMO
7 6 (0.79%) RMADS
8 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.52%) JSP 440
8 4 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.39%) SLA
10 2 (0.26%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 15 (1.97%) Active Directory
1 15 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.26%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (0.13%) SCCM
2 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 80 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.48%) IBM
3 16 (2.10%) Google
4 13 (1.71%) Apple
4 13 (1.71%) Cisco
4 13 (1.71%) Dell
4 13 (1.71%) Fortinet
4 13 (1.71%) Ubiquiti
5 9 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.05%) SAP
7 3 (0.39%) VMware
8 2 (0.26%) Databricks
8 2 (0.26%) IFS
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle
8 2 (0.26%) Planview
9 1 (0.13%) F5
9 1 (0.13%) JDA
9 1 (0.13%) Progress
9 1 (0.13%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.13%) Siebel