Business Developer Contract Job Trends

Business Developer
UK

The median Business Developer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 560 619
Rank change year-on-year +27 +59 +176
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 14 9 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.024% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.025% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 36
10th Percentile £413 £331 £388
25th Percentile £444 £359 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £569
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.88% +13.75%
75th Percentile £700 £534 £619
90th Percentile £800 £551 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £588
% change year-on-year -5.56% -23.40% +17.50%

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 29,740 35,350 47,152
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 92.95% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,772 21,777 32,303
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,564 1,687 1,507
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.77
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%
75th Percentile £52.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -44.11% +6.95% +91.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Business Developer job vacancies in the UK

Business Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Developer over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Business Developer job vacancies in the UK

Business Developer
Top 9 Contract Job 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 16 September 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 +20 13 £600 +33.33% 22
London +37 8 £600 +33.33% 6
Work from Home +39 7 £600 +29.73% 10
UK excluding London +1 5 £425 -5.56% 21
East of England +3 2 £438 -5.41% 3
Midlands - 2 - - 2
South West - 1 £250 - 5
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (42.86%) Finance
4 6 (42.86%) Oracle
4 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
5 4 (28.57%) Power BI
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (28.57%) Banking
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (28.57%) REST
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (21.43%) Degree
6 3 (21.43%) General Ledger
6 3 (21.43%) Workflow
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (21.43%) Python
6 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 3 (21.43%) Accounts Payable
7 2 (14.29%) Fintech
7 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
7 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Power Query

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 3 (21.43%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (7.14%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) OCI
2 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
2 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (14.29%) Power Query
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) General Ledger
5 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Billing
6 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Accounts Payable
2 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
2 3 (21.43%) Workflow
3 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
3 2 (14.29%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) Fintech
3 2 (14.29%) SOA
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
4 1 (7.14%) ETL
4 1 (7.14%) Low Latency
4 1 (7.14%) Order Management
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (7.14%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (14.29%) Groovy
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) R
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Google