Business Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Business Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 390 483
Rank change year-on-year +27 +93 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 6 23 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.11% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.12% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 21
10th Percentile - £473 £420
25th Percentile £388 £503 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +17.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £563 £619 £525
90th Percentile - £627 £569
UK median daily rate £475 £588 £510
% change year-on-year -19.15% +15.20% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +122.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Business Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Business Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Developer in the UK excluding London

Business Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Business Developer in the UK excluding London

Business Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Business Developer in the UK excluding London

Business Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
East of England +19 3 £475 - 2
Scotland - 2 - - 4
North of England +14 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Business Developer
UK

Business Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Business Developer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Shopify
3 3 (50.00%) Retail
3 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (50.00%) Stripe
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Dataiku
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Inventory Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Tableau
4 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects XI
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) C
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing

Business Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Shopify
2 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (50.00%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BusinessObjects XI
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) MS Access
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Retail
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Dataiku