Business Case Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Cases
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Business Case skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Case over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 121 123
Rank change year-on-year -59 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Business Case 250 467 653
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 2.06% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 2.31% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 352 456
10th Percentile £350 £363 £338
25th Percentile £439 £455 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £575
90th Percentile £700 £723 £655
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 13
10th Percentile - - £22.42
25th Percentile £23.63 £30.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £25.25 £48.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.94% +61.67% +22.45%
75th Percentile £27.81 £66.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £34.15 - £50.91
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £62.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -59.60% +78.57% +26.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Business Case falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -10 69 £575 +4.55% 63
North West +10 55 £575 +15.00% 37
South East -54 51 £528 -7.46% 34
South West -42 39 £525 -17.65% 40
Midlands +1 31 £525 +2.44% 50
Scotland 0 30 £575 +9.52% 14
East of England +3 27 £350 -30.00% 25
West Midlands +9 25 £538 +13.16% 27
Yorkshire -10 10 £538 -2.27% 20
East Midlands -2 6 £403 -26.82% 23
North East +8 3 £897 +81.20% 6
Wales +18 2 £488 -11.36% 3
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 1
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 (5.60%) Confluence
2 7 (2.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.20%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.20%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.40%) iTrent
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.20%) Power Platform
2 10 (4.00%) Azure
3 7 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (2.40%) AWS
4 6 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.60%) SaaS
6 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.80%) dbt
7 2 (0.80%) GCP
7 2 (0.80%) NuGet
7 2 (0.80%) PaaS
7 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.80%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.80%) SAP Fieldglass
8 1 (0.40%) GitHub
8 1 (0.40%) Miro
8 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.40%) Firewall
2 5 (2.00%) DHCP
2 5 (2.00%) DNS
2 5 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.00%) VLAN
2 5 (2.00%) VPN
2 5 (2.00%) Wireless
3 4 (1.60%) ATM
3 4 (1.60%) Intranet
4 3 (1.20%) Skype
5 2 (0.80%) LAN
5 2 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.40%) 4G
6 1 (0.40%) 5G
6 1 (0.40%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (0.40%) MQTT
6 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.40%) PSTN
6 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) Power BI
2 7 (2.80%) Tableau
3 6 (2.40%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (1.60%) MS Access
5 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 15 (6.00%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) Git
3 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) JMeter
3 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 85 (34.00%) Finance
2 52 (20.80%) Public Sector
3 50 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 30 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.20%) Local Government
6 14 (5.60%) Manufacturing
6 14 (5.60%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.80%) Banking
8 11 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.60%) Legal
9 9 (3.60%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.80%) Marketing
11 6 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.40%) Retail
12 5 (2.00%) Aerospace
12 5 (2.00%) Electronics
13 4 (1.60%) Billing
13 4 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (32.00%) Project Manager
2 47 (18.80%) Analyst
3 40 (16.00%) Business Analyst
4 26 (10.40%) Architect
4 26 (10.40%) Senior
5 22 (8.80%) Lead
6 16 (6.40%) Senior Analyst
6 16 (6.40%) Senior Business Analyst
7 12 (4.80%) Security Manager
7 12 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.40%) IT Manager
8 11 (4.40%) Product Manager
9 9 (3.60%) Security Project Manager
9 9 (3.60%) Senior Manager
9 9 (3.60%) Senior Project Manager
10 8 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.20%) IT Project Manager
10 8 (3.20%) Programme Manager
11 7 (2.80%) Business Architect
11 7 (2.80%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.60%) .NET
1 4 (1.60%) Middleware
2 3 (1.20%) HTML
2 3 (1.20%) Pandas
3 2 (0.80%) ADO
3 2 (0.80%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.80%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.40%) Industry 4.0
3 6 (2.40%) IoT
3 6 (2.40%) NHS
3 6 (2.40%) Robotics
4 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.60%) e-Health
4 4 (1.60%) Graphic Design
4 4 (1.60%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.80%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.40%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.60%) Unix
1 4 (1.60%) Windows
2 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.40%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 8
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.40%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (36.80%) Project Management
2 68 (27.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 66 (26.40%) Agile
4 55 (22.00%) Project Delivery
5 41 (16.40%) Roadmaps
6 35 (14.00%) Change Management
7 33 (13.20%) Decision-Making
8 32 (12.80%) PRINCE2
9 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (10.80%) Business Analysis
12 23 (9.20%) Programme Management
13 22 (8.80%) Risk Management
13 22 (8.80%) Service Delivery
14 21 (8.40%) Waterfall
15 20 (8.00%) Business Strategy
16 19 (7.60%) Workshop Facilitation
17 18 (7.20%) Stakeholder Identification
18 17 (6.80%) Business Intelligence
19 16 (6.40%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.60%) SQL
2 3 (1.20%) Python
3 2 (0.80%) C#
4 1 (0.40%) Java
4 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (15.60%) Degree
2 37 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 33 (13.20%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.60%) CISSP
5 8 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.80%) CISA
6 7 (2.80%) CISM
6 7 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.40%) MBA
7 6 (2.40%) PMP
7 6 (2.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.60%) ISEB
10 2 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.40%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.20%) SLA
2 11 (4.40%) QA
3 10 (4.00%) PMO
4 7 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.80%) P3O
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.40%) XenApp
3 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (0.80%) SCCM
2 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.20%) SAP
3 6 (2.40%) Atlassian
3 6 (2.40%) Oracle
4 4 (1.60%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.40%) Apple
6 1 (0.40%) BT
6 1 (0.40%) Citrix
6 1 (0.40%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.40%) Logitech
6 1 (0.40%) Openreach
6 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.40%) Sparx
6 1 (0.40%) Splunk
6 1 (0.40%) Twitter
6 1 (0.40%) Workday