Business Case Jobs

Business Cases
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 162 217
Rank change year-on-year +4 +55 +30
Permanent jobs citing Business Case 995 1,799 1,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 1.83% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.12% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 631 663 927
10th Percentile £45,628 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £60,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £76,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,967 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.33% -4.35% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Business Case
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Case.

Salary trend for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Case over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +6 938 £50,967 -15.06% 594
UK excluding London +47 832 £50,967 -7.33% 269
North of England +121 393 £50,055 -12.66% 66
North West +100 382 £50,055 -4.66% 35
Work from Home -146 169 £65,000 +4.00% 268
South East -41 157 £65,000 +15.21% 78
Midlands +31 123 £57,000 +5.56% 44
London -143 120 £75,000 -6.25% 381
West Midlands +93 117 £56,000 +6.67% 35
East of England +46 80 £50,967 -5.62% 33
South West +43 49 £54,000 -13.60% 31
Scotland +69 19 £68,750 +37.50% 15
Wales +39 12 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Yorkshire +38 10 £62,500 - 28
East Midlands -39 6 £68,513 +26.88% 9
North East +34 1 £65,000 -7.14% 3

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 68 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.70%) CMS
2 7 (0.70%) WordPress
3 4 (0.40%) Confluence
3 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.10%) IIS
4 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.30%) Maya
6 3 (0.30%) Trello
7 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.30%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.10%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (4.32%) Azure
2 26 (2.61%) AWS
3 22 (2.21%) SaaS
4 20 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (1.61%) Google Workspace
6 12 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.21%) Power Platform
7 10 (1.01%) Serverless
8 9 (0.90%) IaaS
9 7 (0.70%) GitHub
9 7 (0.70%) PaaS
10 6 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.40%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.40%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 3 (0.30%) Boomi
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.91%) DNS
2 17 (1.71%) Firewall
2 17 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.51%) BGP
3 15 (1.51%) DHCP
3 15 (1.51%) OSPF
3 15 (1.51%) VLAN
3 15 (1.51%) WLAN
4 13 (1.31%) Network Security
5 10 (1.01%) HTTP
6 3 (0.30%) Broadband
7 2 (0.20%) VPN
8 1 (0.10%) Internet
8 1 (0.10%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.10%) NAS
8 1 (0.10%) SAN
8 1 (0.10%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
2 7 (0.70%) Power BI
3 6 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (0.40%) Metadata
4 4 (0.40%) SAP BW
4 4 (0.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.20%) GIS
6 2 (0.20%) Tableau
7 1 (0.10%) Big Data
7 1 (0.10%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.10%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.10%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (6.83%) JIRA
2 65 (6.53%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.60%) Grunt
4 6 (0.60%) Jasmine
4 6 (0.60%) Mocha
4 6 (0.60%) webpack
5 3 (0.30%) ERwin
6 1 (0.10%) Git
6 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 355 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 266 (26.73%) Finance
3 200 (20.10%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (17.69%) Manufacturing
5 134 (13.47%) Influencing Skills
6 123 (12.36%) Aerospace
7 111 (11.16%) Avionics
8 71 (7.14%) Law
9 49 (4.92%) Legal
10 39 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (3.62%) Retail
12 31 (3.12%) Public Sector
13 26 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (2.21%) Marketing
14 22 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.81%) Banking
16 16 (1.61%) Automotive
17 10 (1.01%) Telecoms
18 9 (0.90%) Military
19 8 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (24.32%) Senior
2 166 (16.68%) Systems Engineer
3 154 (15.48%) Analyst
4 151 (15.18%) Project Manager
5 120 (12.06%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 115 (11.56%) Lead
7 89 (8.94%) Architect
8 88 (8.84%) Business Change Analyst
8 88 (8.84%) Change Analyst
9 56 (5.63%) Systems Architect
10 48 (4.82%) Business Analyst
10 48 (4.82%) Project Engineer
11 47 (4.72%) Infrastructure Manager
12 45 (4.52%) Delivery Project Manager
12 45 (4.52%) Logistics Engineer
12 45 (4.52%) Principal Engineer
13 40 (4.02%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 40 (4.02%) Requirements Engineer
14 37 (3.72%) Senior Manager
15 33 (3.32%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.21%) React
2 11 (1.11%) AngularJS
3 9 (0.90%) .NET
3 9 (0.90%) CSS
3 9 (0.90%) JSON
4 8 (0.80%) OAuth
4 8 (0.80%) OpenID
5 7 (0.70%) Bootstrap
6 6 (0.60%) Ajax
6 6 (0.60%) Chai
6 6 (0.60%) Enzyme
6 6 (0.60%) Jest
6 6 (0.60%) LESS
6 6 (0.60%) MobX
6 6 (0.60%) Next.js
6 6 (0.60%) OAuth2
6 6 (0.60%) Redux
6 6 (0.60%) Sass
6 6 (0.60%) Semantic UI
6 6 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 106 (10.65%) Management Information System
2 33 (3.32%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.31%) Social Media
4 16 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (1.51%) Smartphone
6 14 (1.41%) NHS
7 9 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 9 (0.90%) Robotics
8 8 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 8 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (0.80%) Life Science
8 8 (0.80%) SCADA
9 7 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (0.70%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.70%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.50%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.30%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.30%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.62%) Windows
2 22 (2.21%) Windows Vista
3 18 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.61%) Linux
5 15 (1.51%) Mac OS X
5 15 (1.51%) Ubuntu
5 15 (1.51%) Windows 10
5 15 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (27.54%) Project Management
2 261 (26.23%) Systems Engineering
3 219 (22.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 202 (20.30%) Customer Requirements
5 189 (18.99%) Project Delivery
6 187 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (18.39%) Requirements Management
8 168 (16.88%) Agile
9 167 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
10 159 (15.98%) Change Management
11 154 (15.48%) Roadmaps
12 132 (13.27%) Business Analysis
13 121 (12.16%) Workshop Facilitation
14 120 (12.06%) SDLC
15 118 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 116 (11.66%) Feasibility Study
17 113 (11.36%) Risk Management
18 111 (11.16%) Hazard Analysis
19 108 (10.85%) Collaborative Working
20 101 (10.15%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 36 (3.62%) SQL
2 31 (3.12%) C
3 28 (2.81%) Java
4 17 (1.71%) Python
5 15 (1.51%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.11%) R
7 10 (1.01%) C#
8 9 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.30%) C++
10 3 (0.30%) VBA
11 2 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 487 (48.94%) Degree
2 330 (33.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 121 (12.16%) HNC
4 89 (8.94%) CBAP
5 56 (5.63%) Chartered Engineer
6 50 (5.03%) HND
7 44 (4.42%) Security Cleared
8 35 (3.52%) SC Cleared
9 24 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.31%) DBS Check
10 23 (2.31%) PMP
11 21 (2.11%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.51%) MCSE
12 15 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.51%) PMI Certification
13 12 (1.21%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.90%) CISSP
15 8 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
16 7 (0.70%) ACCA
16 7 (0.70%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 30 (3.02%) NEBOSH
3 18 (1.81%) PMO
4 15 (1.51%) QA
5 13 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.21%) NIST
6 12 (1.21%) SLA
7 7 (0.70%) Def Stans
7 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.50%) RMADS
9 4 (0.40%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.40%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) IEC 62304
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.20%) WCAG
12 1 (0.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.61%) Docker
4 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.10%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (0.10%) SCCM
3 1 (0.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 131 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.83%) IBM
3 24 (2.41%) Salesforce
4 19 (1.91%) Dell
5 18 (1.81%) Google
6 16 (1.61%) Cisco
6 16 (1.61%) Fortinet
7 15 (1.51%) Apple
7 15 (1.51%) Ubiquiti
8 14 (1.41%) SAP
9 11 (1.11%) Siemens
10 7 (0.70%) Oracle
11 5 (0.50%) VMware
12 4 (0.40%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.30%) Adobe
13 3 (0.30%) Cerner
13 3 (0.30%) Planview
13 3 (0.30%) Siebel
13 3 (0.30%) Zoho
14 2 (0.20%) Citrix