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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 163 217
Rank change year-on-year +11 +54 +34
Permanent jobs citing Business Case 1,028 1,793 1,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.99% 1.83% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.12% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 645 658 941
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £97,500 £92,500
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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +6 970 £50,967 -15.06% 1,020
UK excluding London +55 861 £50,967 -7.33% 349
North of England +123 402 £50,055 -12.66% 92
North West +106 392 £50,055 -4.66% 48
Work from Home -160 173 £65,000 +4.00% 428
South East -30 159 £65,000 +15.21% 87
Midlands +42 140 £55,000 +1.85% 59
West Midlands +119 135 £54,500 +3.81% 45
London -136 123 £75,000 -6.25% 713
East of England +52 79 £50,967 -6.76% 40
South West +51 49 £54,000 -13.60% 49
Scotland +72 20 £68,750 +37.50% 19
Wales +38 13 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire +33 9 £62,500 - 36
East Midlands -31 5 £68,525 +26.90% 14
North East +36 1 £65,000 -7.14% 9

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 78 (7.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.68%) CMS
2 7 (0.68%) WordPress
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.097%) IIS
5 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.29%) Maya
6 3 (0.29%) Trello
7 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.29%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.097%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (4.47%) Azure
2 27 (2.63%) AWS
3 23 (2.24%) SaaS
4 21 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
5 17 (1.65%) Google Workspace
6 12 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.17%) Power Platform
7 10 (0.97%) IaaS
7 10 (0.97%) Serverless
8 8 (0.78%) PaaS
9 7 (0.68%) GitHub
9 7 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (0.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (0.49%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (0.39%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.39%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (0.29%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.95%) DNS
2 18 (1.75%) Firewall
2 18 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 16 (1.56%) BGP
3 16 (1.56%) DHCP
3 16 (1.56%) OSPF
3 16 (1.56%) VLAN
3 16 (1.56%) WLAN
4 13 (1.26%) Network Security
5 10 (0.97%) HTTP
6 3 (0.29%) Broadband
7 2 (0.19%) VPN
8 1 (0.097%) Internet
8 1 (0.097%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (0.097%) NAS
8 1 (0.097%) SAN
8 1 (0.097%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.097%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
2 6 (0.58%) Data Lake
2 6 (0.58%) Power BI
3 4 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (0.39%) Metadata
3 4 (0.39%) SAP BW
3 4 (0.39%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.39%) Tableau
4 3 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.19%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.19%) GIS
6 1 (0.097%) Big Data
6 1 (0.097%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.097%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.097%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.097%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 77 (7.49%) JIRA
2 65 (6.32%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.58%) Grunt
4 6 (0.58%) Jasmine
4 6 (0.58%) Mocha
4 6 (0.58%) webpack
5 3 (0.29%) ERwin
6 1 (0.097%) Git
6 1 (0.097%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 360 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 273 (26.56%) Finance
3 216 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (18.48%) Manufacturing
5 133 (12.94%) Influencing Skills
6 123 (11.96%) Aerospace
7 111 (10.80%) Avionics
8 85 (8.27%) Law
9 49 (4.77%) Legal
10 42 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (3.50%) Retail
12 31 (3.02%) Public Sector
13 27 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (2.24%) Marketing
15 22 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (2.04%) Banking
17 17 (1.65%) Automotive
18 9 (0.88%) Military
18 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 251 (24.42%) Senior
2 167 (16.25%) Systems Engineer
3 155 (15.08%) Analyst
4 153 (14.88%) Project Manager
5 120 (11.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 116 (11.28%) Lead
7 89 (8.66%) Architect
8 88 (8.56%) Business Change Analyst
8 88 (8.56%) Change Analyst
9 62 (6.03%) Project Engineer
10 59 (5.74%) Logistics Engineer
11 56 (5.45%) Systems Architect
12 47 (4.57%) Business Analyst
12 47 (4.57%) Infrastructure Manager
13 46 (4.47%) Principal Engineer
14 45 (4.38%) Delivery Project Manager
15 40 (3.89%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 40 (3.89%) Requirements Engineer
16 37 (3.60%) Senior Manager
17 33 (3.21%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.17%) React
2 11 (1.07%) AngularJS
3 10 (0.97%) .NET
4 9 (0.88%) CSS
4 9 (0.88%) JSON
4 9 (0.88%) OAuth
4 9 (0.88%) OpenID
5 7 (0.68%) Bootstrap
6 6 (0.58%) Ajax
6 6 (0.58%) Chai
6 6 (0.58%) Enzyme
6 6 (0.58%) Jest
6 6 (0.58%) LESS
6 6 (0.58%) MobX
6 6 (0.58%) Next.js
6 6 (0.58%) OAuth2
6 6 (0.58%) Redux
6 6 (0.58%) Sass
6 6 (0.58%) Semantic UI
6 6 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.51%) Management Information System
2 34 (3.31%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.24%) Social Media
4 16 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (1.56%) Smartphone
5 15 (1.46%) NHS
6 10 (0.97%) Cloud Native
6 10 (0.97%) Robotics
7 9 (0.88%) Data Centre
8 8 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (0.78%) Life Science
8 8 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 8 (0.78%) Operational Technology
8 8 (0.78%) Public Cloud
8 8 (0.78%) SCADA
9 7 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.29%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.67%) Windows
2 22 (2.14%) Windows Vista
3 19 (1.85%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.65%) Linux
5 16 (1.56%) Mac OS X
5 16 (1.56%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.56%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (26.85%) Project Management
2 262 (25.49%) Systems Engineering
3 220 (21.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 203 (19.75%) Customer Requirements
5 190 (18.48%) Project Delivery
6 187 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (17.80%) Requirements Management
8 173 (16.83%) Agile
9 171 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
10 163 (15.86%) Change Management
11 156 (15.18%) Roadmaps
12 130 (12.65%) Business Analysis
13 121 (11.77%) Workshop Facilitation
14 120 (11.67%) SDLC
15 117 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 116 (11.28%) Feasibility Study
17 112 (10.89%) Risk Management
18 111 (10.80%) Collaborative Working
18 111 (10.80%) Hazard Analysis
19 101 (9.82%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 38 (3.70%) SQL
2 31 (3.02%) C
3 28 (2.72%) Java
4 17 (1.65%) Python
5 16 (1.56%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.07%) C#
6 11 (1.07%) R
7 9 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 6 (0.58%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.29%) C++
9 3 (0.29%) VBA
10 2 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 510 (49.61%) Degree
2 330 (32.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 122 (11.87%) HNC
4 89 (8.66%) CBAP
5 56 (5.45%) Chartered Engineer
6 51 (4.96%) HND
7 44 (4.28%) Security Cleared
8 35 (3.40%) SC Cleared
9 25 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.24%) DBS Check
10 23 (2.24%) PMP
11 21 (2.04%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.56%) MCSE
12 16 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.46%) PMI Certification
14 12 (1.17%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.88%) ACCA
15 9 (0.88%) CISSP
16 8 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
17 7 (0.68%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 30 (2.92%) NEBOSH
3 18 (1.75%) PMO
4 16 (1.56%) QA
5 13 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.26%) NIST
6 12 (1.17%) SLA
7 8 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.68%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.49%) RMADS
10 4 (0.39%) JSP 440
10 4 (0.39%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.19%) WCAG
13 1 (0.097%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
2 22 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.56%) Docker
4 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.097%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (0.88%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.097%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (0.097%) SCCM
3 1 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.097%) VxRail
Vendors
1 143 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.54%) IBM
3 24 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 20 (1.95%) Dell
5 19 (1.85%) Google
6 17 (1.65%) Cisco
6 17 (1.65%) Fortinet
7 16 (1.56%) Apple
7 16 (1.56%) SAP
7 16 (1.56%) Ubiquiti
8 12 (1.17%) Siemens
9 7 (0.68%) Oracle
10 5 (0.49%) VMware
11 4 (0.39%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.29%) Adobe
12 3 (0.29%) Cerner
12 3 (0.29%) Planview
12 3 (0.29%) Siebel
12 3 (0.29%) Zoho
13 2 (0.19%) ServiceNow