Business Developer Contracts in London

Business Developer
England > London

The median Business Developer daily rate in London is £395, 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 350 388 475
Rank change year-on-year +38 +87 +108
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 3 3 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.024% 0.017% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.018% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £353 £460 -
25th Percentile £364 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £414 £550 £500
90th Percentile £418 £580 £563
England median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Business Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Developer in London

Business Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Developer in London

Business Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Developer in London

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

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 London region featuring Business Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) OpenLink
2 1 (33.33%) Endur
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) SMS
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Finance

Business Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenLink