Business Development Contract Job Trends in England

Business Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Business Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 404 468
Rank change year-on-year -34 +64 +46
Contract jobs citing Business Development 99 92 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.36% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 46
10th Percentile £238 £324 £300
25th Percentile £313 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% - -
75th Percentile £713 £669 £662
90th Percentile £786 £750 £799
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -22.73% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 16
10th Percentile £25.02 £50.04 £22.00
25th Percentile £35.12 £55.73 £24.75
Median hourly rate £54.00 £68.96 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +23.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £56.48 £84.67 £76.25
90th Percentile £56.77 £91.85 £76.88
UK median hourly rate £40.86 £68.96 £56.00
% change year-on-year -40.75% +23.14% -11.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,948 25,588 32,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.76% 88.59% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,756 15,817 22,467
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,828 844 1,393
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%
75th Percentile £53.81 £64.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Business Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Business Development job vacancy trend in England

Business Development
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in England

Business Development
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Business Development
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Development in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 -9 50 £415 -27.83% 281
Midlands -28 15 £775 +198.08% 130
South East -22 11 £575 +47.44% 265
North of England -43 11 £300 -51.77% 198
East Midlands -15 8 - - 42
East of England -17 7 - - 81
West Midlands -25 7 £775 +175.31% 88
Yorkshire -50 6 £300 -51.77% 69
North West - 4 - - 110
South West -4 3 £400 -46.67% 94
North East - 1 - - 22
Business Development
UK

Business Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.01%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.01%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.01%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.09%) Azure
2 6 (6.06%) AWS
3 5 (5.05%) SaaS
3 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.03%) IaaS
4 3 (3.03%) Matillion
5 2 (2.02%) Boomi
5 2 (2.02%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.02%) iPaaS
5 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) Firewall
2 5 (5.05%) Wireless
3 2 (2.02%) Broadband
4 1 (1.01%) DNS
4 1 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.01%) Multicast
4 1 (1.01%) Network Security
4 1 (1.01%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.07%) Power Query
2 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.02%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (2.02%) QlikView
2 2 (2.02%) Tableau
3 1 (1.01%) Big Data
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Burp Suite
1 5 (5.05%) Metasploit
2 3 (3.03%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.01%) TestDirector
General
1 35 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 32 (32.32%) Finance
3 19 (19.19%) Marketing
4 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (7.07%) Legal
5 6 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.03%) Advertising
7 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.03%) Local Government
7 3 (3.03%) Military
7 3 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Banking
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) French Language
8 2 (2.02%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (19.19%) Development Manager
2 14 (14.14%) Business Development Manager
2 14 (14.14%) Business Manager
3 10 (10.10%) Analyst
3 10 (10.10%) Architect
3 10 (10.10%) Consultant
4 7 (7.07%) ERP Analyst
4 7 (7.07%) Systems Analyst
5 6 (6.06%) Lead
6 5 (5.05%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (5.05%) Penetration Tester
6 5 (5.05%) Tester
7 4 (4.04%) Finance Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Senior
8 3 (3.03%) Business Development Executive
8 3 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Sales Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Sales Operations Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.03%) Kafka
1 3 (3.03%) Middleware
1 3 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.01%) CSS
2 1 (1.01%) EDI
2 1 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.01%) HTML
2 1 (1.01%) JSON
2 1 (1.01%) OAuth
2 1 (1.01%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.01%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.01%) REST
2 1 (1.01%) SOAP
2 1 (1.01%) Swagger
2 1 (1.01%) XML
2 1 (1.01%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
1 5 (5.05%) Security Posture
1 5 (5.05%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (3.03%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.01%) AS400
4 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.01%) FMCG
4 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.01%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.01%) Social Media
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.07%) Windows
2 4 (4.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (16.16%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.11%) Business Strategy
4 11 (11.11%) CRM
5 10 (10.10%) ERP
5 10 (10.10%) Roadmaps
6 9 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (8.08%) Analytics
7 8 (8.08%) Customer Service
7 8 (8.08%) Project Management
7 8 (8.08%) Value Proposition
8 7 (7.07%) B2B
8 7 (7.07%) Commercial Awareness
8 7 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (7.07%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.07%) DevOps
8 7 (7.07%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.06%) B2B Sales
9 6 (6.06%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.16%) SQL
2 7 (7.07%) VBA
3 3 (3.03%) Java
3 3 (3.03%) Rust
4 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (19.19%) Degree
2 10 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.05%) CHECK Team Member
4 5 (5.05%) CREST Certified
4 5 (5.05%) Cyber Scheme
4 5 (5.05%) Postgraduate
5 3 (3.03%) CISM
5 3 (3.03%) CISSP
6 2 (2.02%) APMP
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) CRISC
6 2 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.01%) GCIH
7 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.01%) PMP
7 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.06%) GDPR
2 6 (6.06%) PCI DSS
2 6 (6.06%) PMO
2 6 (6.06%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) NIST
4 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Nmap
2 3 (3.03%) Grafana
2 3 (3.03%) Kiali
2 3 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Salesforce
2 4 (4.04%) SAP
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.03%) Splunk
4 2 (2.02%) Cisco
4 2 (2.02%) Citrix
4 2 (2.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Arista
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.01%) Instagram
5 1 (1.01%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle
5 1 (1.01%) SEEBURGER
5 1 (1.01%) VMware
5 1 (1.01%) YouTube