Business Development Contracts in England

Business Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 539 603
Rank change year-on-year +152 +64 -63
Contract jobs citing Business Development 148 124 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.27% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 60 105
10th Percentile £121 £296 £356
25th Percentile £360 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £716 £656 £625
90th Percentile £775 £754 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 8 3
10th Percentile £22.50 £44.79 £23.30
25th Percentile - £54.44 £26.75
Median hourly rate £38.12 £67.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.21% +91.79% -53.33%
75th Percentile - £72.00 £41.13
90th Percentile - £78.21 £43.30
UK median hourly rate £38.12 £67.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -43.21% +91.79% -42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in England

Business Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Business Development in England

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in England

Business Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Development in England

Business Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Development in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Development in England

Business Development
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 Development within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
East of England +63 47 - - 86
London +79 41 £550 - 520
South East +42 38 £196 -62.67% 227
North of England +35 10 £676 +8.16% 231
North West +19 7 £688 +5.85% 139
South West +10 5 £504 -19.87% 130
Yorkshire +19 3 £450 -28.00% 69
Midlands +16 3 £681 +18.48% 142
West Midlands +26 2 £681 +147.73% 94
East Midlands +15 1 - - 48
Business Development
UK

Business Development
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 3 (2.03%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.68%) CMS
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) IIS
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) SAS
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.35%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.35%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.05%) Azure
2 3 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (2.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 3 (2.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.68%) AWS
4 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) LAN
1 3 (2.03%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.03%) Unified Communications
1 3 (2.03%) WAN
1 3 (2.03%) Wireless
2 2 (1.35%) Firewall
2 2 (1.35%) SMS
2 2 (1.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) GIS
2 3 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.03%) Big Data
2 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.03%) Presto
2 3 (2.03%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
3 1 (0.68%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.03%) JIRA
2 2 (1.35%) HP UFT
2 2 (1.35%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.68%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 69 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 65 (43.92%) Finance
3 48 (32.43%) Influencing Skills
4 47 (31.76%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (13.51%) Marketing
6 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.38%) Retail
8 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.03%) Banking
10 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.35%) Law
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Games
12 1 (0.68%) German Language
12 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (7.43%) Business Manager
2 10 (6.76%) Architect
2 10 (6.76%) Business Development Manager
2 10 (6.76%) Development Manager
3 9 (6.08%) Lead
3 9 (6.08%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.73%) Senior
5 6 (4.05%) Account Executive
5 6 (4.05%) Analyst
5 6 (4.05%) Project Manager
6 4 (2.70%) Network Engineer
6 4 (2.70%) Operations Manager
6 4 (2.70%) Security Manager
6 4 (2.70%) Security Project Manager
7 3 (2.03%) Business Analyst
7 3 (2.03%) GIS Architect
7 3 (2.03%) Presales Engineer
7 3 (2.03%) Product Lead
7 3 (2.03%) Salesforce Architect
7 3 (2.03%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.03%) PySpark
2 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.68%) JSON
2 1 (0.68%) Kafka
2 1 (0.68%) Middleware
2 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.08%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.38%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.38%) Social Media
3 4 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.03%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.35%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) DataPower
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.68%) IoT
6 1 (0.68%) Life Science
6 1 (0.68%) NHS
6 1 (0.68%) PACS
6 1 (0.68%) PKI
6 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.68%) CentOS
1 1 (0.68%) Linux
1 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.68%) Windows
1 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (39.86%) Project Management
2 50 (33.78%) Business Strategy
3 17 (11.49%) Agile
4 16 (10.81%) Roadmaps
5 15 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (8.11%) CRM
7 12 (8.11%) Project Delivery
8 11 (7.43%) Business Case
8 11 (7.43%) Decision-Making
9 10 (6.76%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (6.76%) Data Protection
9 10 (6.76%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (6.08%) Digital Marketing
10 9 (6.08%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (4.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (4.73%) Lead Generation
11 7 (4.73%) Line Management
11 7 (4.73%) Mathematics
11 7 (4.73%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.05%) Python
1 6 (4.05%) SQL
2 2 (1.35%) C
2 2 (1.35%) Java
2 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.68%) Bash
3 1 (0.68%) C++
Qualifications
1 34 (22.97%) Degree
2 8 (5.41%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.05%) CISA
3 6 (4.05%) CISM
3 6 (4.05%) CISSP
3 6 (4.05%) MBA
4 5 (3.38%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.03%) CCIE
6 3 (2.03%) CCNP
6 3 (2.03%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.35%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.35%) PMP
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) CCNA
8 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.43%) GDPR
2 9 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.38%) QA
4 2 (1.35%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.68%) Docker
1 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (2.03%) Ansible
2 2 (1.35%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.38%) SAP
4 4 (2.70%) Cisco
5 3 (2.03%) Databricks
5 3 (2.03%) ESRI
5 3 (2.03%) Foundry
5 3 (2.03%) Oracle
5 3 (2.03%) Palantir
6 2 (1.35%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.35%) Conga
6 2 (1.35%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.35%) F5
6 2 (1.35%) HP
6 2 (1.35%) Juniper
6 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.35%) Riverbed
6 2 (1.35%) Workday
7 1 (0.68%) McAfee
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat