Business Development Contracts in Scotland

Business Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Business Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 128 161
Rank change year-on-year +16 +33 +5
Contract jobs citing Business Development 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.045% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.051% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £393 - £424
25th Percentile £438 £513 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -8.90%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £634
90th Percentile £658 - £681
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +3.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in Scotland

Business Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Business Development in Scotland

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in Scotland

Business Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Development in Scotland

Business Development
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh - 3 £675 - 27
Glasgow +3 1 £375 -28.57% 43
Business Development
UK

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Asana
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft