Business Development Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Business Development
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Business Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 66 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Business Development 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.16% 0.14% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £238
25th Percentile - £744 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £763 £275
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +177.27% -13.52%
75th Percentile - £781 £400
90th Percentile - - £607
West Midlands median daily rate £775 £763 £400
% change year-on-year +1.64% +90.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Business Development 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 589 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.85% 83.07% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 383 445
10th Percentile £203 £200 £272
25th Percentile £370 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £663 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 9 25
10th Percentile - £21.10 £12.98
25th Percentile £12.62 £25.56 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +66.67% +66.67%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.80 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in Birmingham

Business Development
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Development

Business Development
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Business Development

Business Development
Co-Occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SFIA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SLA