Business Development Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Business Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Business Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +31
Contract jobs citing Business Development 5 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.053% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.065% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £293 - £246
25th Percentile £469 £744 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £763 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +90.63% -
75th Percentile £794 £781 £671
90th Percentile £798 - £711
England median daily rate £418 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -28.63% -2.50% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,641 1,545 1,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.33% 82.49% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 970 1,190
10th Percentile £250 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 38 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £20.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% -8.54% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.85 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +43.55%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the West Midlands

Business Development
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Development

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Business Development in the West Midlands

Business Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Business Development

Business Development
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham 0 1 £800 +4.92% 65
Coventry - 1 - - 7
Solihull - 1 £200 - 3
Business Development
England

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) TestDirector
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Business Development Executive
1 1 (20.00%) Business Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Development Director
1 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Lead Generation Executive
1 1 (20.00%) Operations Director
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (40.00%) Presales
1 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) SFIA
1 2 (40.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (20.00%) Application Security
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (20.00%) SOAR
2 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) CRISC
2 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
2 1 (20.00%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) SLA