Business Developer Contracts in England

Business Developer
UK > England

The median Business Developer daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 533 621
Rank change year-on-year +56 +88 +133
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 8 9 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.024% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.026% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 22
10th Percentile £372 £350 £376
25th Percentile £413 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £565 £570 £619
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile - - £75.75
UK median hourly rate - - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +53.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Business Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Developer in England

Business Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Developer in England

Business Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Developer in England

Business Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Developer in England

Business Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +38 3 £395 -21.00% 16
East of England +31 2 £438 -2.78% 5
Midlands - 2 - - 7
North West +16 1 £600 - 8
North of England +16 1 £600 +54.84% 9
West Midlands - 1 - - 6
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Business Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Business Developer in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management

Business Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Endur
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Power Query
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) E-business
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) R
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) OpenLink