Business Development Contracts

Business Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 568 616
Rank change year-on-year +138 +48 -59
Contract jobs citing Business Development 155 128 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.25% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 65 148
10th Percentile £124 £314 £400
25th Percentile £450 £438 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £615
90th Percentile £775 £740 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -16.00% +35.06% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 7 6
10th Percentile £22.50 £53.35 £26.75
25th Percentile - £60.25 £34.94
Median hourly rate £38.12 £70.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +23.35% +86.46%
75th Percentile - - £76.88
90th Percentile £39.18 £73.20 £79.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% -3.45% +189.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Development 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Development over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Development within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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
England +130 145 £550 -3.51% 1,432
UK excluding London +121 105 £525 -16.00% 900
Work from Home +146 76 £550 +4.76% 525
East of England +54 47 - - 78
London +65 39 £563 +2.27% 560
South East +39 39 £196 -64.36% 215
North of England +24 10 £676 +8.16% 271
North West +27 7 £688 +5.85% 160
South West +3 4 £504 -21.19% 118
Midlands +27 3 £681 +18.48% 147
Yorkshire +19 3 £450 -28.00% 81
Scotland +47 2 £525 -2.33% 59
West Midlands +20 2 £681 +147.73% 96
East Midlands +21 1 - - 51

Business Development
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 3 (1.94%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (10.32%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.29%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.29%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.65%) SAP MDM
1 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.87%) Azure
2 3 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.29%) SaaS
3 2 (1.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (0.65%) AWS
4 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) LAN
1 3 (1.94%) SD-WAN
1 3 (1.94%) Unified Communications
1 3 (1.94%) WAN
1 3 (1.94%) Wireless
2 2 (1.29%) Firewall
2 2 (1.29%) VPN
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.52%) GIS
2 3 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.94%) Big Data
2 3 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.94%) Hadoop
2 3 (1.94%) Presto
2 3 (1.94%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.65%) Power BI
3 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.65%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.29%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.65%) Git
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 70 (45.16%) Finance
2 68 (43.87%) Social Skills
3 48 (30.97%) Influencing Skills
4 47 (30.32%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.61%) Marketing
6 9 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.58%) Legal
10 3 (1.94%) Banking
10 3 (1.94%) Retail
11 2 (1.29%) Automotive
11 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Law
11 2 (1.29%) Local Government
12 1 (0.65%) Aviation
12 1 (0.65%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.65%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 14 (9.03%) Business Manager
1 14 (9.03%) Development Manager
2 13 (8.39%) Architect
2 13 (8.39%) Business Development Manager
3 12 (7.74%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.52%) Lead
4 7 (4.52%) Project Manager
4 7 (4.52%) Senior
5 6 (3.87%) Analyst
6 5 (3.23%) Account Executive
6 5 (3.23%) Business Analyst
7 4 (2.58%) Consultant
7 4 (2.58%) Network Engineer
7 4 (2.58%) Operations Manager
7 4 (2.58%) Product Manager
7 4 (2.58%) Security Manager
7 4 (2.58%) Security Project Manager
7 4 (2.58%) Software Architect
8 3 (1.94%) Management Consultant
8 3 (1.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.94%) PySpark
2 1 (0.65%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.65%) JSON
2 1 (0.65%) Kafka
2 1 (0.65%) Middleware
2 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.23%) Social Media
4 4 (2.58%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.94%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.29%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Blog
7 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.65%) DataPower
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.65%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.65%) Life Science
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) PACS
7 1 (0.65%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) CentOS
1 1 (0.65%) Linux
1 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.65%) Windows
1 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (39.35%) Project Management
2 52 (33.55%) Business Strategy
3 21 (13.55%) Agile
4 19 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (10.97%) Roadmaps
6 16 (10.32%) Business Case
7 13 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (8.39%) Project Delivery
8 12 (7.74%) Decision-Making
8 12 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (7.10%) CRM
9 11 (7.10%) Strategic Thinking
10 10 (6.45%) Data Protection
11 9 (5.81%) Digital Marketing
11 9 (5.81%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (5.81%) Line Management
12 8 (5.16%) B2B
12 8 (5.16%) Business Analysis
12 8 (5.16%) Product Roadmap
12 8 (5.16%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.87%) Python
1 6 (3.87%) SQL
2 2 (1.29%) C
2 2 (1.29%) Java
2 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.65%) Bash
3 1 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 34 (21.94%) Degree
2 12 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.45%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.87%) CISA
5 6 (3.87%) CISM
5 6 (3.87%) CISSP
5 6 (3.87%) MBA
6 4 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.94%) CCIE
7 3 (1.94%) CCNP
7 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.29%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.29%) PMP
9 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.65%) CSPO
9 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.10%) GDPR
2 9 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.58%) QA
4 2 (1.29%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Docker
1 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.94%) Ansible
2 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.23%) Salesforce
2 5 (3.23%) SAP
3 3 (1.94%) Cisco
3 3 (1.94%) Databricks
3 3 (1.94%) ESRI
3 3 (1.94%) Foundry
3 3 (1.94%) Oracle
3 3 (1.94%) Palantir
4 2 (1.29%) CheckPoint
4 2 (1.29%) Conga
4 2 (1.29%) DocuSign
4 2 (1.29%) F5
4 2 (1.29%) Juniper
4 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
4 2 (1.29%) Riverbed
5 1 (0.65%) Ariba
5 1 (0.65%) McAfee
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.65%) Sparx