Business Developer Contracts

Business Developer
UK

The median Business Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 566 678
Rank change year-on-year +54 +112 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 8 16 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.037% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.040% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 28
10th Percentile £372 £385 £364
25th Percentile £413 £450 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 - £513
90th Percentile £565 - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile - - £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +36.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Business Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Business Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Developer within the UK 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
England +56 8 £425 -5.56% 50
UK excluding London +62 5 £450 - 32
Work from Home +35 5 £438 -20.45% 28
London +38 3 £395 -21.00% 19
East of England +31 2 £438 -2.78% 6
Midlands - 2 - - 9
North West +16 1 £600 - 9
North of England +16 1 £600 +54.84% 10
West Midlands - 1 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Business Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Business Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Developer in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management

Business Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Endur
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Power Query
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) E-business
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) R
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) OpenLink