The first table below looks at the demand for the Business Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Business Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Developer
Rank 35 51 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 9 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.059% 0.799% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.211% 0.840% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £320 £290 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £345
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £45.00 £18.73
% change year-on-year
-54.44% +140.25%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
407 595 468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.14% 95.05% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 322 258
Average daily rate £340 £325 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -2.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £183 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 28
Average hourly rate £16.38 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.96% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.68 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Business Developer
West Midlands

Business Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Business Developer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham Business Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Business Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Business Developer across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Business Developer Daily Rate Trend

Business Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Business Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Business Developer in their job title.

1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
1 11 (91.67%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (75.00%) Retail
3 8 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (58.33%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (58.33%) Business Objects
4 7 (58.33%) BusinessObjects XI
5 5 (41.67%) SQL
5 5 (41.67%) T-SQL
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (33.33%) MDX
7 3 (25.00%) PowerPivot
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (25.00%) OLAP
8 2 (16.67%) Hyperion
8 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (16.67%) Finance
9 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
9 1 (8.333%) ETL
9 1 (8.333%) COM
9 1 (8.333%) Web Services
9 1 (8.333%) .NET
9 1 (8.333%) C#

Business Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Business Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Business Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (33.33%) MDX
2 1 (8.333%) COM
2 1 (8.333%) Web Services
2 1 (8.333%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) PowerPivot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (58.33%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (58.33%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (58.33%) BusinessObjects XI
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 3 (25.00%) OLAP
General
1 9 (75.00%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
2 1 (8.333%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
1 5 (41.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (8.333%) C#
2 1 (8.333%) C++
2 1 (8.333%) PHP
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
1 7 (58.33%) Business Objects
2 2 (16.67%) Hyperion
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft