Business Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Business Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Business Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business Development over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 268 424
Rank change year-on-year -9 +156 +71
Contract jobs citing Business Development 24 76 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.50% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.57% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £351 - £338
25th Percentile £425 £121 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £576
90th Percentile £660 £750 £704
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 53 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £38.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +140.53% - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £38.12 £64.25
% change year-on-year +40.35% -40.67% +83.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Business Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Business Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Business Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Development.

Business Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Business Development over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Business Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Business Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Business Development.

Business Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Actimize
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Asana
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SMS
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Introscope
2 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Legal
3 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Spanish Language
4 2 (8.33%) French Language
4 2 (8.33%) Italian Language
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (12.50%) Business Development Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Business Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Development Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Relationships Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Account Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Business Relationship Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Solutions Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) HTML
1 3 (12.50%) Web Services
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) CSS
2 2 (8.33%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.17%) J2EE
3 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Contactless
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) AIX
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
3 5 (20.83%) Project Management
3 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.67%) CRM
4 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Data Management
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 3 (12.50%) Presales
5 3 (12.50%) User Stories
6 2 (8.33%) Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) Business Transformation
6 2 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) SDLC
6 2 (8.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.17%) C
2 1 (4.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.33%) MBA
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) CA Wily
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk
3 1 (4.17%) VMware