Business Development Contracts in the East Midlands

Business Development
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Business Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Development over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 66 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing Business Development 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.37% 0.13% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.16% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £273 - £546
25th Percentile £293 - £670
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £326 - £878
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.71%
75th Percentile £358 - -
90th Percentile £378 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 465 608 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.27% 78.25% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 408 691
10th Percentile £200 £197 £213
25th Percentile £325 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £417 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -7.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £571
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 56 73
10th Percentile - £11.33 £11.98
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.37
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -7.43% +2.03%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £33.15 £38.75 £54.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the East Midlands

Business Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Business Development in the East Midlands

Business Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Development in the East Midlands

Business Development
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £326 - 9
Business Development
England

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Introscope
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle