Business Developer Contracts

Business Developer
UK

The median Business Developer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 658 790
Rank change year-on-year +91 +132 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Business Developer 17 39 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.070% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.074% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 39
10th Percentile £376 £371 £363
25th Percentile £416 £406 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.22% +21.25%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £563
90th Percentile - £625 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £61.25 £44.06
25th Percentile - £63.13 £44.21
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £44.48
Median % change year-on-year - +51.77% -37.78%
75th Percentile - £73.13 £44.74
90th Percentile - £75.75 £44.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year - +34.91% -

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Business Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Developer in the UK

Business Developer
Top 8 Contract 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 12 June 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
Work from Home +101 11 £550 +22.22% 13
England +64 11 £450 - 26
UK excluding London +20 9 £450 - 16
North of England +15 5 £388 -29.55% 7
East of England +5 4 £463 +15.63% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £388 - 2
London +69 2 £475 +5.56% 10
North West +10 2 - - 5

Business Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 featuring Business Developer in the job title.

1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database 10g
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database
4 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) Retail
4 5 (29.41%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
5 4 (23.53%) Degree
6 3 (17.65%) Power BI
6 3 (17.65%) Shopify
6 3 (17.65%) SQL
6 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
6 3 (17.65%) Stripe
7 2 (11.76%) Inventory Management
7 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
7 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) C
7 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
7 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement

Business Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (17.65%) Shopify
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Stripe
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Database 10g
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (5.88%) MS Access
5 1 (5.88%) OLAP
5 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
3 2 (11.76%) ETL
3 2 (11.76%) Inventory Management
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) Agile
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) C
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) SAP