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 20 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 547 599
Rank change year-on-year -2 +52 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 12 10 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.027% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.029% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 26
10th Percentile £436 £397 £407
25th Percentile £472 £411 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £588
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -21.28% +12.98%
75th Percentile £750 £598 £619
90th Percentile £800 £661 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £356 £475 £588
% change year-on-year -25.00% -19.15% +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 30,142 34,441 45,147
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.84% 92.92% 93.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,024 20,756 30,859
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,674 1,385 1,538
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.04 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +66.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.62 £40.33 £43.83
% change year-on-year -38.95% -7.99% +94.78%

Business Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Business Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Business Developer job vacancy trend 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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +8 11 £600 +29.73% 22
London +23 8 £600 +33.33% 4
Work from Home +29 5 £600 +26.32% 11
UK excluding London -12 3 £356 -25.00% 22
North of England -24 1 £463 - 5
Midlands - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £463 - 3
South West - 1 £250 - 6
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

Business Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, Business Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Business Developer in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (50.00%) Oracle
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (33.33%) Power BI
4 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (25.00%) Accounts Payable
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Degree
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (25.00%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Fintech
6 2 (16.67%) Groovy
6 2 (16.67%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) OCI
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite

Business Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (8.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Power Query
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (16.67%) Billing
6 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Accounts Payable
2 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) Fintech
3 2 (16.67%) SOA
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Data Extraction
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
4 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft