Business Development Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Business Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Business Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 158 183
Rank change year-on-year -34 +25 +55
Contract jobs citing Business Development 11 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.23% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £573 £246
25th Percentile £288 £592 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £622 £300
Median % change year-on-year -51.77% +107.33% -53.85%
75th Percentile £313 £624 £363
90th Percentile - £624 £468
England median daily rate £461 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -16.14% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.42 -
England median hourly rate £54.00 £68.96 £56.00
% change year-on-year -21.69% +23.14% -11.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,181 3,087 4,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.47% 86.76% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,756 2,724
10th Percentile £215 £263 £291
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 151 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.68
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.16 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.79 £67.50 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Business Development job vacancy trend in the North of England

Business Development
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Business Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Business Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Yorkshire -45 6 £300 -51.77% 68
North West - 4 - - 114
North East - 1 - - 23
Business Development
England

Business Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Financial Institution
2 3 (27.27%) Local Government
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Business Development Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Business Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Development Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Development Executive
3 1 (9.09%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
1 3 (27.27%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) API Design
2 3 (27.27%) Coaching
2 3 (27.27%) Contract Negotiation
2 3 (27.27%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) Data Privacy
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) GAP Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (27.27%) JVM Tuning
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 3 (27.27%) Microservices
2 3 (27.27%) Network Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
1 3 (27.27%) Kiali
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft