Business Development Contract Job Trends in Reading

Business Development
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Business Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Business Development 1 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.10% - 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - £121
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £123
75th Percentile £725 - £198
90th Percentile - - £229
Berkshire median daily rate £596 - £123
% change year-on-year - - -78.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 879 592 1,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 87.99% 93.82% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 352 609
10th Percentile £323 £313 £213
25th Percentile £421 £424 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £615
90th Percentile £688 £699 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 3 44
10th Percentile £64.10 £35.55 £20.17
25th Percentile £80.75 £45.38 £52.90
Median hourly rate £84.00 £61.76 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year +36.01% -0.05% -4.94%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.48 £72.33
90th Percentile £105.55 £74.10 £87.51
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £60.14
% change year-on-year +34.97% +2.25% +5.72%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Business Development job vacancy trend in Reading

Business Development
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Business Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Trade-off Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware