Business Development Contracts

Business Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Development over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 580 615
Rank change year-on-year +150 +35 -77
Contract jobs citing Business Development 157 136 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.25% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 65 155
10th Percentile £121 £278 £400
25th Percentile £384 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £625
90th Percentile £763 £720 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £481
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 7 3
10th Percentile £22.50 £43.39 £23.30
25th Percentile - £52.62 £26.75
Median hourly rate £38.12 £64.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.67% +83.57% -53.33%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £41.13
90th Percentile - £78.28 £43.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £63.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.20% +82.14% -33.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Development over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +134 147 £550 +4.76% 1,325
UK excluding London +116 102 £525 - 845
Work from Home +152 77 £550 +10.00% 522
East of England +61 47 - - 78
London +80 41 £550 +7.72% 497
South East +29 36 £196 -60.80% 195
North of England +40 10 £676 +8.16% 238
North West +26 7 £688 +5.85% 154
South West +14 5 £504 -19.87% 120
Midlands +28 3 £681 +43.42% 149
Yorkshire +20 3 £450 -28.00% 66
West Midlands +23 2 £681 +147.73% 94
Scotland +40 1 £525 +31.25% 61
East Midlands +11 1 - - 55

Business Development
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 (1.91%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.64%) SAS
3 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (10.19%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.27%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) SAP ERP
1 2 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (1.27%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.64%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.64%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.82%) Azure
2 4 (2.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 4 (2.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 3 (1.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.64%) AWS
5 1 (0.64%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.64%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) LAN
1 3 (1.91%) SD-WAN
1 3 (1.91%) Unified Communications
1 3 (1.91%) WAN
1 3 (1.91%) Wireless
2 2 (1.27%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) SMS
2 2 (1.27%) VPN
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.46%) GIS
2 3 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.91%) Big Data
2 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
2 3 (1.91%) Presto
2 3 (1.91%) Spatial Data
3 2 (1.27%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.64%) Power BI
4 1 (0.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.55%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) HP UFT
2 2 (1.27%) Selenium
3 1 (0.64%) Balsamiq
3 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.64%) Git
3 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 73 (46.50%) Finance
2 71 (45.22%) Social Skills
3 48 (30.57%) Influencing Skills
4 47 (29.94%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (14.01%) Marketing
6 16 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (4.46%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.18%) Retail
10 4 (2.55%) Legal
10 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.91%) Banking
11 3 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.27%) Law
12 2 (1.27%) Local Government
13 1 (0.64%) Advertising
13 1 (0.64%) German Language
13 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 13 (8.28%) Business Manager
2 12 (7.64%) Architect
2 12 (7.64%) Business Development Manager
2 12 (7.64%) Development Manager
3 10 (6.37%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (5.73%) Lead
5 8 (5.10%) Analyst
5 8 (5.10%) Senior
6 7 (4.46%) Project Manager
7 6 (3.82%) Account Executive
8 5 (3.18%) Consultant
9 4 (2.55%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.55%) Network Engineer
9 4 (2.55%) Operations Manager
9 4 (2.55%) Salesforce Architect
9 4 (2.55%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 4 (2.55%) Security Manager
9 4 (2.55%) Security Project Manager
10 3 (1.91%) GIS Architect
10 3 (1.91%) Presales Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.91%) PySpark
2 1 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.64%) JSON
2 1 (0.64%) Kafka
2 1 (0.64%) Middleware
2 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.73%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.18%) Social Media
3 4 (2.55%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.27%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.27%) Blog
4 2 (1.27%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.64%) DataPower
5 1 (0.64%) IoT
5 1 (0.64%) Life Science
5 1 (0.64%) NHS
5 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.64%) PACS
5 1 (0.64%) PKI
5 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) CentOS
1 1 (0.64%) Linux
1 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.64%) Windows
1 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.13%) Project Management
2 51 (32.48%) Business Strategy
3 21 (13.38%) Agile
4 16 (10.19%) Business Case
5 15 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (9.55%) Project Delivery
5 15 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (8.28%) Roadmaps
7 12 (7.64%) CRM
7 12 (7.64%) Decision-Making
7 12 (7.64%) Enterprise Architecture
8 11 (7.01%) Data Protection
9 10 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (5.73%) Business Analysis
10 9 (5.73%) Digital Marketing
10 9 (5.73%) Strategic Thinking
11 8 (5.10%) Analytics
11 8 (5.10%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (5.10%) Programme Management
12 7 (4.46%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.82%) Python
1 6 (3.82%) SQL
2 2 (1.27%) C
2 2 (1.27%) Java
2 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.64%) Bash
3 1 (0.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 33 (21.02%) Degree
2 10 (6.37%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.82%) CISA
3 6 (3.82%) CISM
3 6 (3.82%) CISSP
3 6 (3.82%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.82%) MBA
3 6 (3.82%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.91%) CCIE
5 3 (1.91%) CCNP
6 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.27%) PMP
7 1 (0.64%) CCNA
7 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.64%) CSPO
7 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.01%) GDPR
2 9 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.18%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Docker
1 1 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (1.91%) Ansible
2 2 (1.27%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.46%) Salesforce
2 7 (4.46%) SAP
3 4 (2.55%) Cisco
4 3 (1.91%) Conga
4 3 (1.91%) Databricks
4 3 (1.91%) DocuSign
4 3 (1.91%) ESRI
4 3 (1.91%) Foundry
4 3 (1.91%) Oracle
4 3 (1.91%) Palantir
5 2 (1.27%) Ariba
5 2 (1.27%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.27%) F5
5 2 (1.27%) HP
5 2 (1.27%) Juniper
5 2 (1.27%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.27%) Riverbed
5 2 (1.27%) Sparx
5 2 (1.27%) Workday