Business Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 289 397
Rank change year-on-year -6 +108 +78
Contract jobs citing Business Development 39 105 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.51% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.60% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 32
10th Percentile £368 £121 £266
25th Percentile £463 £194 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £689 £678
90th Percentile £738 £755 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 65 4
10th Percentile £84.25 £26.25 £51.17
25th Percentile £84.35 - £54.44
Median hourly rate £91.05 £38.12 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +138.86% -40.20% +82.14%
75th Percentile £98.08 - £70.00
90th Percentile £98.36 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £38.12 £64.25
% change year-on-year +40.35% -40.67% +83.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the UK excluding London

Business Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Development in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Development in the UK excluding London

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in the UK excluding London

Business Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Development in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Development in the UK excluding London

Business Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +20 19 £575 -14.94% 475
Yorkshire +20 15 £575 +27.78% 143
South West +37 12 £600 +19.05% 195
Scotland +14 4 £525 - 111
North West +6 3 - - 285
Midlands +17 2 £326 -52.22% 289
East Midlands +15 2 £326 - 106
South East -2 1 £490 +150.00% 539
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 33
North East - 1 - - 50
Business Development
UK

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (48.72%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (28.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (28.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.56%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) ENOVIA
1 1 (2.56%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.56%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) GCP
3 2 (5.13%) Matillion
3 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.56%) Asana
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) Intranet
2 3 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) BGP
3 2 (5.13%) HTTP
3 2 (5.13%) MPLS
3 2 (5.13%) OSPF
3 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.13%) VLAN
3 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 2 (5.13%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Introscope
1 2 (5.13%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 28 (71.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 12 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (30.77%) Marketing
4 11 (28.21%) Legal
4 11 (28.21%) Local Government
4 11 (28.21%) Public Speaking
5 5 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Law
6 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Communications Officer
2 8 (20.51%) Customer Executive
3 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Lead Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Senior IT Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Service Manager
6 1 (2.56%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) .NET
1 2 (5.13%) HTML
1 2 (5.13%) J2EE
1 2 (5.13%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) AIX
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Decision-Making
2 11 (28.21%) Business Continuity
3 8 (20.51%) Agile
3 8 (20.51%) Contract Negotiation
3 8 (20.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
6 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.26%) Scrum
7 4 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (7.69%) Budget Management
8 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (7.69%) Data Management
8 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (7.69%) Time Management
9 2 (5.13%) Architecture Roadmap
9 2 (5.13%) Budgeting
9 2 (5.13%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Apex Code
1 2 (5.13%) C
1 2 (5.13%) Java
1 2 (5.13%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) CCIE
3 2 (5.13%) CCNP
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) JNCIE
3 2 (5.13%) JNCIP
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) GMP
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.26%) Google
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco
3 3 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 3 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.13%) Juniper
4 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Blue Coat
5 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) HP
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) Zscaler