Business Development Contracts in the South West

Business Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 155 141
Rank change year-on-year +53 -14 +29
Contract jobs citing Business Development 17 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.97% 0.061% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.074% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £213 £478 £330
25th Percentile £234 £519 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £631 £694 £675
90th Percentile £750 £743 £698
England median daily rate £463 £556 £570
% change year-on-year -16.85% -2.41% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £55.29
25th Percentile - - £64.75
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £38.12 £70.00
% change year-on-year +40.35% -45.54% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,595 2,704 3,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.78% 82.16% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 1,696 2,209
10th Percentile £214 £257 £313
25th Percentile £363 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 373 309
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.85 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £16.54
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.31
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the South West

Business Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Development in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Business Development in the South West

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development in the South West over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in the South West

Business Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Development in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Business Development in the South West

Business Development
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Bristol - 7 £263 - 102
Devon - 6 - - 10
Gloucestershire +23 2 £700 -6.67% 53
Somerset - 2 £613 - 33
Business Development
England

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Matillion
1 7 (41.18%) Snowflake
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) BGP
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) MPLS
1 2 (11.76%) OSPF
1 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
1 2 (11.76%) VLAN
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
1 2 (11.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
General
1 13 (76.47%) Marketing
2 9 (52.94%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
4 6 (35.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Customer Executive
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Snowflake Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Data Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Junior
4 1 (5.88%) Junior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Decision-Making
2 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
3 7 (41.18%) Project Planning
3 7 (41.18%) Thought Leadership
4 6 (35.29%) Contract Negotiation
4 6 (35.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) ArchiMate
6 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (11.76%) Data Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) IT Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
6 2 (11.76%) Time Management
6 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) CCIE
2 2 (11.76%) CCNP
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) JNCIE
2 2 (11.76%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Juniper
2 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks