Business Developer Contracts

Business Developer
UK

The median Business Developer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 683 780
Rank change year-on-year +113 +97 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 16 39 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.065% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.069% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 28
10th Percentile £385 £360 £363
25th Percentile £450 £394 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile - £525 £456
90th Percentile - £625 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £61.25 £40.99
25th Percentile - £63.13 £42.10
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year - +53.58% -1.24%
75th Percentile - £73.13 -
90th Percentile - £75.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year - +36.52% -1.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Business Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Developer.

Daily rate trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Developer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Work from Home +109 11 £550 +22.22% 17
England +98 9 £450 - 28
UK excluding London +61 6 £450 +5.88% 18
North of England +34 4 £388 -22.50% 7
London +92 3 £500 +11.11% 8
North West +15 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £388 - 3
South West +21 1 £550 +51.72% 1
East of England +8 1 £450 +12.50% 3

Business Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Business Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Developer in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Oracle
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
4 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (25.00%) Power BI
6 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Retail
6 3 (18.75%) SQL
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
6 3 (18.75%) Azure
7 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (12.50%) Tableau
7 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (12.50%) ETL
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
8 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (6.25%) Risk Assessment
8 1 (6.25%) Agile
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (6.25%) RDBMS

Business Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database 10g
2 4 (25.00%) Power BI
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (12.50%) Tableau
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (6.25%) OLAP
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (12.50%) ETL
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.25%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
4 1 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (6.25%) Decision-Making
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (6.25%) Process Management
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) User Experience
4 1 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) SAP