Business Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Business Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Case over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 128 121
Rank change year-on-year -37 -7 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Case 261 469 654
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.29% 2.05% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.29% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 360 455
10th Percentile £350 £363 £338
25th Percentile £450 £455 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £570
90th Percentile £713 £723 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.06% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 13
10th Percentile - £36.00 £21.78
25th Percentile £23.63 £43.38 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.25 £63.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year -59.92% +133.51% +12.42%
75th Percentile £27.81 £66.00 £35.72
90th Percentile £34.15 - £50.91
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £62.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year -59.76% +93.08% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Case is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,047 20,460 27,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.14% 89.36% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,194 14,069 18,950
10th Percentile £250 £260 £237
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,072 1,252 1,360
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Case in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Case in the UK excluding London

Business Case
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Case within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. 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
North of England +5 63 £579 +5.18% 65
South West -20 51 £530 -12.40% 30
South East -56 51 £525 -7.12% 35
North West +13 47 £582 +16.40% 44
Scotland +4 38 £564 +7.33% 18
Midlands +16 36 £525 +10.53% 37
West Midlands +17 26 £550 +22.22% 22
East of England -1 20 £350 -36.36% 24
Yorkshire -9 12 £538 -2.27% 19
East Midlands +3 10 £403 -26.82% 15
North East +9 3 £897 +80.29% 2
Wales +17 2 £488 -11.36% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5
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 14 (5.36%) Confluence
2 8 (3.07%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.15%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) iTrent
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.38%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.36%) Azure
2 13 (4.98%) Power Platform
3 7 (2.68%) AWS
3 7 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.53%) SaaS
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.15%) dbt
7 3 (1.15%) PaaS
8 2 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.77%) GCP
8 2 (0.77%) NuGet
8 2 (0.77%) OCI
8 2 (0.77%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.77%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) DHCP
1 5 (1.92%) DNS
1 5 (1.92%) Firewall
1 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
1 5 (1.92%) VLAN
1 5 (1.92%) VPN
1 5 (1.92%) Wireless
2 4 (1.53%) ATM
2 4 (1.53%) Intranet
3 3 (1.15%) Skype
4 2 (0.77%) 4G
4 2 (0.77%) 5G
4 2 (0.77%) LAN
4 2 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.77%) WAN
5 1 (0.38%) 2G
5 1 (0.38%) 3G
5 1 (0.38%) MQTT
5 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.38%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.98%) Power BI
2 7 (2.68%) BusinessObjects
2 7 (2.68%) Tableau
3 4 (1.53%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (1.53%) MS Access
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (5.75%) JIRA
2 5 (1.92%) Git
3 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.38%) JMeter
3 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 96 (36.78%) Finance
2 62 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 54 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 37 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.51%) Local Government
6 15 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (5.36%) Manufacturing
7 14 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.21%) Legal
9 10 (3.83%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.45%) Banking
11 7 (2.68%) Marketing
12 6 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.30%) Military
12 6 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.30%) Retail
13 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.92%) Electronics
14 4 (1.53%) Billing
14 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (30.65%) Project Manager
2 46 (17.62%) Analyst
3 39 (14.94%) Business Analyst
4 35 (13.41%) Senior
5 29 (11.11%) Architect
6 25 (9.58%) Lead
7 16 (6.13%) Senior Analyst
7 16 (6.13%) Senior Business Analyst
7 16 (6.13%) Senior Manager
8 14 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.98%) Senior Project Manager
10 12 (4.60%) Product Manager
10 12 (4.60%) Security Manager
11 11 (4.21%) IT Manager
12 9 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (3.45%) Security Project Manager
13 8 (3.07%) Business Manager
13 8 (3.07%) Finance Manager
13 8 (3.07%) IT Project Manager
14 7 (2.68%) Business Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.53%) .NET
1 4 (1.53%) Middleware
2 3 (1.15%) ADO
2 3 (1.15%) Flask
2 3 (1.15%) HTML
2 3 (1.15%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.98%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.68%) NHS
4 6 (2.30%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (2.30%) IoT
4 6 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.30%) Robotics
5 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.53%) e-Health
5 4 (1.53%) Graphic Design
5 4 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.77%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.38%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.68%) Windows
2 4 (1.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.38%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.38%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (43.30%) Project Management
2 81 (31.03%) Agile
2 81 (31.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (22.61%) Project Delivery
4 47 (18.01%) Roadmaps
5 45 (17.24%) Change Management
6 41 (15.71%) Decision-Making
7 38 (14.56%) PRINCE2
8 36 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (13.03%) Business Analysis
10 29 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (11.11%) Waterfall
11 26 (9.96%) Programme Management
12 23 (8.81%) Business Strategy
13 22 (8.43%) Service Delivery
13 22 (8.43%) Stakeholder Identification
14 20 (7.66%) Risk Management
15 19 (7.28%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (6.90%) DevOps
16 18 (6.90%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.60%) SQL
2 3 (1.15%) Python
3 2 (0.77%) C#
4 1 (0.38%) Java
4 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 38 (14.56%) Degree
4 10 (3.83%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (2.68%) CISA
7 7 (2.68%) CISM
7 7 (2.68%) CISSP
8 6 (2.30%) MBA
8 6 (2.30%) PMP
9 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.53%) ISEB
11 3 (1.15%) APMP
12 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CGEIT
13 1 (0.38%) CRISC
13 1 (0.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 1 (0.38%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.98%) PMO
1 13 (4.98%) SLA
2 11 (4.21%) QA
3 8 (3.07%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.77%) P3O
6 1 (0.38%) COBIT
6 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.38%) XenApp
3 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.53%) Terraform
2 2 (0.77%) Ansible
2 2 (0.77%) SCCM
3 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.13%) SAP
3 8 (3.07%) Oracle
4 6 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.53%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.38%) Apple
7 1 (0.38%) BT
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco
7 1 (0.38%) Citrix
7 1 (0.38%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.38%) Openreach
7 1 (0.38%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.38%) Sparx
7 1 (0.38%) Twitter
7 1 (0.38%) Workday