Business Case Jobs

Business Cases
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Case skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Case over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 222 263
Rank change year-on-year +47 +41 +62
Permanent jobs citing Business Case 1,718 1,609 2,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.71% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.80% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 636 835 1,531
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,063 £39,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +7.60%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £78,725
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,386 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.80% +11.21% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Case in the UK

Business Case
Top 17 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 6 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +47 1,581 £60,000 -4.00% 374
UK excluding London +40 1,086 £55,000 -5.80% 225
Work from Home +83 1,060 £62,500 - 147
London +57 568 £85,000 +30.77% 140
South East +44 457 £56,960 -8.86% 34
North of England +35 182 £57,311 +4.20% 63
Midlands -5 161 £54,000 -8.09% 46
North West +10 119 £52,500 -8.36% 37
South West -24 101 £62,500 +19.05% 39
East Midlands +24 91 £54,000 -6.09% 20
East of England +5 90 £54,000 -13.60% 30
West Midlands -59 66 £54,000 -10.00% 26
Scotland -62 53 £50,000 -14.99% 13
Yorkshire +54 46 £62,500 +25.00% 19
Northern Ireland +33 26 £37,500 -36.71% 2
North East -7 17 £70,000 -15.15% 7
Wales +9 16 £54,205 +5.59% 4

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 20 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.47%) ArcGIS
3 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.29%) Confluence
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.058%) WebLogic
Applications
1 525 (30.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (2.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.23%) Lawson
4 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.12%) iTrent
5 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.058%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.058%) HFM
6 1 (0.058%) Magento
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.058%) Primavera
6 1 (0.058%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.058%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 85 (4.95%) Azure
2 58 (3.38%) Power Platform
3 55 (3.20%) AWS
4 54 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (2.10%) SaaS
6 34 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (1.28%) GCP
8 14 (0.81%) PaaS
9 12 (0.70%) IaaS
10 11 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.41%) Entra ID
12 7 (0.41%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.29%) Slack
14 4 (0.23%) Alation
14 4 (0.23%) Azure Storage
14 4 (0.23%) Collibra
14 4 (0.23%) Google Analytics
15 3 (0.17%) Amazon EMR
15 3 (0.17%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 636 (37.02%) Broadband
2 32 (1.86%) Firewall
3 13 (0.76%) VPN
3 13 (0.76%) WAN
4 11 (0.64%) LAN
5 7 (0.41%) 5G
5 7 (0.41%) Network Security
6 6 (0.35%) Wireless
7 5 (0.29%) DNS
7 5 (0.29%) Internet
8 4 (0.23%) DHCP
8 4 (0.23%) TETRA
8 4 (0.23%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.17%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.17%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.12%) VLAN
10 2 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.91%) Power BI
2 30 (1.75%) Tableau
3 17 (0.99%) GIS
4 13 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (0.52%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.47%) Big Data
8 7 (0.41%) Data Mining
8 7 (0.41%) Power Query
8 7 (0.41%) Spatial Data
9 6 (0.35%) Metadata
9 6 (0.35%) MS Access
10 5 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.29%) QlikView
11 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.23%) Essbase
12 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.17%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 10 (0.58%) JIRA
2 9 (0.52%) Git
3 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.058%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 896 (52.15%) Social Skills
2 822 (47.85%) Finance
3 612 (35.62%) Analytical Skills
4 512 (29.80%) Influencing Skills
5 235 (13.68%) Marketing
6 188 (10.94%) Advertising
7 83 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 63 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (3.20%) Retail
11 54 (3.14%) Legal
12 45 (2.62%) Manufacturing
13 25 (1.46%) Banking
14 24 (1.40%) Law
14 24 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 23 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.34%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.05%) Back Office
16 18 (1.05%) Local Government
17 10 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 618 (35.97%) Analyst
2 403 (23.46%) Senior
3 268 (15.60%) Lead
4 262 (15.25%) Senior Analyst
5 244 (14.20%) Architect
6 238 (13.85%) Project Manager
7 167 (9.72%) Solutions Architect
8 128 (7.45%) Financial Analyst
9 121 (7.04%) Commercial Analyst
10 107 (6.23%) Business Analyst
11 101 (5.88%) IT Manager
12 95 (5.53%) Senior Manager
13 91 (5.30%) Presales Solution Architect
14 75 (4.37%) Senior Project Manager
15 67 (3.90%) IT Project Manager
16 58 (3.38%) Business Manager
17 37 (2.15%) Consultant
18 32 (1.86%) Enterprise Architect
19 31 (1.80%) Programme Manager
20 29 (1.69%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.39%) .NET
2 12 (0.70%) HTML
3 11 (0.64%) CSS
3 11 (0.64%) Spring
4 10 (0.58%) EDI
4 10 (0.58%) Web Services
5 9 (0.52%) .NET Core
5 9 (0.52%) ASP.NET
5 9 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (0.52%) Entity Framework
5 9 (0.52%) Hibernate
5 9 (0.52%) Spring MVC
6 6 (0.35%) Flash
6 6 (0.35%) REST
6 6 (0.35%) XML
7 5 (0.29%) SOAP
8 4 (0.23%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.23%) JSON
8 4 (0.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (0.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 188 (10.94%) Marketing Technology
2 102 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
3 64 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 23 (1.34%) NHS
7 15 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 14 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 13 (0.76%) Virtual Team
10 12 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (0.64%) Life Science
12 10 (0.58%) Biopharmaceutical
12 10 (0.58%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (0.47%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.41%) PMI
16 6 (0.35%) Taxonomies
17 5 (0.29%) Driving Licence
17 5 (0.29%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.11%) Windows
2 7 (0.41%) Windows Server
3 6 (0.35%) Linux
4 5 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.17%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.12%) Android
6 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.058%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (44.76%) Agile
2 643 (37.43%) Decision-Making
3 620 (36.09%) Actionable Insight
4 505 (29.39%) Mentoring
5 459 (26.72%) Budgeting
6 456 (26.54%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 395 (22.99%) Project Management
8 356 (20.72%) Analytics
9 255 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
10 239 (13.91%) Process Improvement
11 210 (12.22%) Use Case
12 206 (11.99%) Change Management
13 204 (11.87%) Matrix Organization
14 202 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 200 (11.64%) Data Strategy
16 193 (11.23%) Data Collection
17 186 (10.83%) Regulatory Change
18 184 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
19 179 (10.42%) PRINCE2
20 174 (10.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (2.56%) Python
2 43 (2.50%) SQL
3 24 (1.40%) Java
4 20 (1.16%) JavaScript
5 18 (1.05%) C#
6 15 (0.87%) R
7 8 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (0.47%) VB
7 8 (0.47%) VBA
8 4 (0.23%) PHP
9 3 (0.17%) Bicep
9 3 (0.17%) C
9 3 (0.17%) Perl
9 3 (0.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.12%) ABAP
10 2 (0.12%) Bash
11 1 (0.058%) Groovy
11 1 (0.058%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.058%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 468 (27.24%) CIMA
2 458 (26.66%) ACCA
3 250 (14.55%) Security Cleared
4 229 (13.33%) Degree
5 198 (11.53%) SC Cleared
6 68 (3.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 40 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 30 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.40%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.34%) PMP
12 17 (0.99%) CISSP
13 16 (0.93%) HNC
13 16 (0.93%) MBA
14 14 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 13 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (0.70%) CISM
16 12 (0.70%) CRISC
16 12 (0.70%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (2.44%) PMO
2 23 (1.34%) QA
3 20 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.76%) SLA
5 10 (0.58%) NIST
6 8 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.17%) COBIT
9 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.17%) GDPR
9 3 (0.17%) HAZOP
9 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.12%) EMIR
10 2 (0.12%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.058%) HL7
11 1 (0.058%) NCSC
11 1 (0.058%) PMBOK
System Software
1 13 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.58%) Docker
3 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (0.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.47%) SCCM
3 6 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.17%) Terraform
5 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.058%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 556 (32.36%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.56%) Sparx
3 34 (1.98%) SAP
4 23 (1.34%) Google
5 16 (0.93%) Oracle
6 12 (0.70%) Cisco
7 10 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 10 (0.58%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.47%) Yardi
9 7 (0.41%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.41%) Dell
9 7 (0.41%) Juniper
9 7 (0.41%) Mapbox
10 6 (0.35%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.35%) HP
11 5 (0.29%) Cognos
11 5 (0.29%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.23%) Computacenter
12 4 (0.23%) ESRI
12 4 (0.23%) Talend