Business Case Contracts with Work from Home Options

Business Cases
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 138 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 +31
Contract jobs citing Business Case 199 444 898
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.35% 1.80% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 2.01% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 326 659
10th Percentile £420 £413 £350
25th Percentile £500 £480 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £600
90th Percentile £700 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £520
% change year-on-year -5.98% +12.50% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £40.50 £25.20
25th Percentile - £56.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.64% +88.57% +26.22%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - £59.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £62.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -59.76% +79.29% +30.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Business Case
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Case as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Case trend for jobs with a WFH option

Business Case
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Case.

Business Case daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Case
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Business Case over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Business Case daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Case
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Business Case.

Business Case hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Case
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (6.53%) Confluence
2 9 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.51%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.01%) Shopify
1 2 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.55%) Azure
2 12 (6.03%) SaaS
3 11 (5.53%) AWS
4 10 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.52%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.01%) PaaS
8 3 (1.51%) Datadog
9 2 (1.01%) Asana
9 2 (1.01%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.01%) GCP
9 2 (1.01%) GitHub
9 2 (1.01%) OCI
9 2 (1.01%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.01%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.01%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) ATM
2 3 (1.51%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (1.51%) DNS
2 3 (1.51%) SNMP
3 2 (1.01%) LAN
3 2 (1.01%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) 4G
4 1 (0.50%) 5G
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.50%) MPLS
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.52%) Power BI
2 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.51%) GIS
4 2 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.01%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) Big Data
5 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.50%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.03%) JIRA
2 3 (1.51%) GitLab
2 3 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.01%) JMeter
3 2 (1.01%) Maven
3 2 (1.01%) Selenium
4 1 (0.50%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.50%) Git
General
1 88 (44.22%) Finance
2 65 (32.66%) Social Skills
3 45 (22.61%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.04%) Banking
5 14 (7.04%) Local Government
6 13 (6.53%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (6.03%) Legal
7 12 (6.03%) Retail
8 10 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (4.02%) Marketing
10 7 (3.52%) Aerospace
11 6 (3.02%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.51%) Military
13 3 (1.51%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.01%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (29.65%) Project Manager
2 32 (16.08%) Architect
3 30 (15.08%) Senior
4 27 (13.57%) Analyst
5 23 (11.56%) Business Analyst
6 19 (9.55%) Senior Manager
7 18 (9.05%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (7.54%) Senior Project Manager
9 14 (7.04%) Lead
10 13 (6.53%) Product Owner
11 11 (5.53%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (4.52%) Business Manager
13 8 (4.02%) IT Manager
13 8 (4.02%) Security Manager
14 7 (3.52%) Business Change Manager
14 7 (3.52%) Change Manager
14 7 (3.52%) Cybersecurity Manager
14 7 (3.52%) Lead Architect
14 7 (3.52%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
14 7 (3.52%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) Middleware
2 3 (1.51%) .NET
3 2 (1.01%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.01%) CSS
3 2 (1.01%) J2EE
3 2 (1.01%) jQuery
3 2 (1.01%) REST
3 2 (1.01%) Sass
3 2 (1.01%) Spring
3 2 (1.01%) Spring MVC
3 2 (1.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (1.01%) VML
3 2 (1.01%) Web Services
4 1 (0.50%) ADO
4 1 (0.50%) Flask
4 1 (0.50%) HTML
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.04%) Management Information System
1 14 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (2.01%) IoT
3 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.01%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.01%) Housing Association
4 2 (1.01%) IVR
4 2 (1.01%) NHS
5 1 (0.50%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.50%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.50%) PMI
5 1 (0.50%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.02%) Linux
1 6 (3.02%) Windows
2 5 (2.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (46.73%) Agile
2 60 (30.15%) Project Management
3 46 (23.12%) Project Delivery
4 42 (21.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (18.59%) Change Management
6 35 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (15.08%) DevOps
8 29 (14.57%) PRINCE2
9 25 (12.56%) Business Analysis
10 24 (12.06%) Decision-Making
10 24 (12.06%) Roadmaps
11 23 (11.56%) Budget Management
12 20 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (10.05%) Programme Management
13 19 (9.55%) Waterfall
14 18 (9.05%) Project Governance
14 18 (9.05%) Workshop Facilitation
15 17 (8.54%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (8.54%) ITIL
16 15 (7.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.01%) Java
1 4 (2.01%) JavaScript
2 3 (1.51%) SQL
3 1 (0.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.53%) Degree
4 12 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 5 (2.51%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.01%) PMP
8 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.50%) APMP
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) CCA
9 1 (0.50%) CGEIT
9 1 (0.50%) CISA
9 1 (0.50%) CISM
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) CRISC
9 1 (0.50%) CSPO
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.55%) QA
2 15 (7.54%) PMO
3 13 (6.53%) SLA
4 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) COBIT
5 2 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.01%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.01%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.51%) Terraform
2 2 (1.01%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.03%) SAP
3 4 (2.01%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.01%) Cisco
3 4 (2.01%) Oracle
3 4 (2.01%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.51%) BigPanda
4 3 (1.51%) Pega
4 3 (1.51%) Splunk
5 2 (1.01%) Adobe
5 2 (1.01%) Dell
5 2 (1.01%) Google
5 2 (1.01%) Intel
5 2 (1.01%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.01%) Sparx
5 2 (1.01%) UiPath
5 2 (1.01%) Workday
6 1 (0.50%) Cadence
6 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.50%) VMware