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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 205 215
Rank change year-on-year +59 +10 +46
Permanent jobs citing Business Case 1,013 1,372 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.00% 1.48% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.71% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 635 671 985
10th Percentile £45,628 £41,250 £41,747
25th Percentile £47,683 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

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 2 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 2 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 +65 970 £52,500 -13.93% 906
UK excluding London +85 845 £50,967 -7.33% 316
North of England +133 378 £50,055 -15.52% 75
North West +113 367 £50,055 -3.42% 42
South East +26 164 £65,000 +15.21% 93
Midlands +45 158 £57,000 +5.56% 47
Work from Home -103 155 £65,000 +4.00% 350
West Midlands +102 151 £57,000 +8.57% 37
London -74 126 £75,000 -6.25% 642
East of England +50 77 £50,967 -7.87% 35
South West +27 41 £57,500 -8.00% 44
Scotland +50 17 £90,000 +90.79% 15
Yorkshire +36 10 £62,500 - 22
Wales +32 10 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -27 7 £60,000 +11.11% 9
North East +28 1 £65,000 -7.14% 11

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 81 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.49%) CMS
3 5 (0.49%) Confluence
3 5 (0.49%) WordPress
4 2 (0.20%) IIS
4 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 55 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.099%) Maya
7 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.099%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.099%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (5.33%) Azure
2 32 (3.16%) AWS
3 26 (2.57%) SaaS
4 20 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
4 20 (1.97%) Google Workspace
5 14 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (1.38%) IaaS
6 12 (1.18%) PaaS
6 12 (1.18%) Power Platform
6 12 (1.18%) Serverless
7 9 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (0.59%) Entra ID
8 6 (0.59%) GCP
8 6 (0.59%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.49%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.39%) GitHub
11 3 (0.30%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.07%) DNS
1 21 (2.07%) Firewall
1 21 (2.07%) TCP/IP
2 19 (1.88%) BGP
2 19 (1.88%) DHCP
2 19 (1.88%) OSPF
2 19 (1.88%) VLAN
2 19 (1.88%) WLAN
3 13 (1.28%) Network Security
4 12 (1.18%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) SAN
5 2 (0.20%) VPN
6 1 (0.099%) 5G
6 1 (0.099%) Broadband
6 1 (0.099%) Internet
6 1 (0.099%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.099%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
2 4 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (0.39%) Metadata
2 4 (0.39%) SAP BW
2 4 (0.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.39%) Tableau
3 3 (0.30%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.30%) Power BI
4 2 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.20%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.20%) GIS
5 1 (0.099%) Big Data
5 1 (0.099%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.099%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.099%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.099%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (7.11%) JIRA
2 65 (6.42%) Rational DOORS
3 11 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.59%) Grunt
4 6 (0.59%) Jasmine
4 6 (0.59%) Mocha
4 6 (0.59%) webpack
5 2 (0.20%) ERwin
5 2 (0.20%) Git
6 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 367 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 272 (26.85%) Finance
3 205 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (18.85%) Manufacturing
5 126 (12.44%) Influencing Skills
6 103 (10.17%) Aerospace
7 91 (8.98%) Avionics
8 86 (8.49%) Law
9 48 (4.74%) Legal
10 47 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (3.36%) Retail
12 33 (3.26%) Public Sector
13 32 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (2.57%) Banking
15 21 (2.07%) Marketing
16 20 (1.97%) Automotive
17 19 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.09%) Police
19 10 (0.99%) Electronics
19 10 (0.99%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 229 (22.61%) Senior
2 158 (15.60%) Project Manager
3 152 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
4 145 (14.31%) Analyst
5 120 (11.85%) Lead
6 100 (9.87%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 88 (8.69%) Architect
7 88 (8.69%) Business Change Analyst
7 88 (8.69%) Change Analyst
8 61 (6.02%) Project Engineer
9 59 (5.82%) Logistics Engineer
10 56 (5.53%) Systems Architect
11 49 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
12 47 (4.64%) Infrastructure Manager
13 45 (4.44%) Delivery Project Manager
14 43 (4.24%) Business Analyst
14 43 (4.24%) Senior Manager
15 40 (3.95%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 40 (3.95%) Requirements Engineer
16 33 (3.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.38%) .NET
2 12 (1.18%) React
3 11 (1.09%) AngularJS
3 11 (1.09%) JSON
4 10 (0.99%) OAuth
4 10 (0.99%) OpenID
5 7 (0.69%) Bootstrap
5 7 (0.69%) CSS
6 6 (0.59%) Ajax
6 6 (0.59%) Chai
6 6 (0.59%) Enzyme
6 6 (0.59%) Jest
6 6 (0.59%) LESS
6 6 (0.59%) MobX
6 6 (0.59%) Next.js
6 6 (0.59%) OAuth2
6 6 (0.59%) Redux
6 6 (0.59%) Sass
6 6 (0.59%) Semantic UI
6 6 (0.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 114 (11.25%) Management Information System
2 34 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.27%) Social Media
4 20 (1.97%) Smartphone
5 17 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.18%) Robotics
7 11 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.09%) NHS
7 11 (1.09%) Operational Technology
7 11 (1.09%) Public Cloud
8 10 (0.99%) SCADA
9 9 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (0.79%) Life Science
10 8 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.39%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.23%) Windows
2 25 (2.47%) Windows Server
3 22 (2.17%) Windows Vista
4 20 (1.97%) Linux
5 19 (1.88%) Mac OS X
5 19 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 19 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (28.83%) Project Management
2 245 (24.19%) Systems Engineering
3 212 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 189 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 189 (18.66%) Project Delivery
5 183 (18.07%) Customer Requirements
6 175 (17.28%) Agile
7 168 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (16.39%) Change Management
9 165 (16.29%) Requirements Management
10 150 (14.81%) Roadmaps
11 123 (12.14%) Business Analysis
12 118 (11.65%) Workshop Facilitation
13 111 (10.96%) Collaborative Working
14 110 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 107 (10.56%) Risk Management
16 99 (9.77%) SDLC
16 99 (9.77%) Strategic Thinking
16 99 (9.77%) Use Case
17 93 (9.18%) Feasibility Study
Programming Languages
1 41 (4.05%) SQL
2 33 (3.26%) C
3 29 (2.86%) Java
4 19 (1.88%) PowerShell
5 16 (1.58%) Python
6 15 (1.48%) C#
7 10 (0.99%) R
8 9 (0.89%) JavaScript
9 6 (0.59%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.30%) C++
10 3 (0.30%) VBA
11 2 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 480 (47.38%) Degree
2 310 (30.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 122 (12.04%) HNC
4 89 (8.79%) CBAP
5 56 (5.53%) Chartered Engineer
6 51 (5.03%) HND
7 44 (4.34%) Security Cleared
8 34 (3.36%) SC Cleared
9 31 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.27%) DBS Check
11 22 (2.17%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.97%) PMP
13 19 (1.88%) MCSE
13 19 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (1.68%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.18%) PMI Certification
16 11 (1.09%) MBA
17 10 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
18 6 (0.59%) CISSP
18 6 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 30 (2.96%) NEBOSH
3 19 (1.88%) PMO
4 15 (1.48%) SLA
5 13 (1.28%) QA
6 11 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.99%) NIST
8 5 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.39%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.39%) JSP 440
9 4 (0.39%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.20%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.20%) RMADS
11 1 (0.099%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.099%) GDPR
11 1 (0.099%) NCSC
11 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (1.88%) Docker
4 4 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.20%) VxRail
4 1 (0.099%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (0.099%) SCCM
4 1 (0.099%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 148 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.53%) IBM
3 24 (2.37%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.27%) Google
5 22 (2.17%) Dell
6 20 (1.97%) Cisco
7 19 (1.88%) Apple
7 19 (1.88%) Fortinet
7 19 (1.88%) Ubiquiti
8 16 (1.58%) SAP
9 12 (1.18%) Siemens
10 8 (0.79%) VMware
11 6 (0.59%) Oracle
12 3 (0.30%) Cerner
12 3 (0.30%) Siebel
13 2 (0.20%) Citrix
13 2 (0.20%) EqualLogic
13 2 (0.20%) Facebook
13 2 (0.20%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.20%) TippingPoint