Business Development Jobs

Business Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Development over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 210 302
Rank change year-on-year +108 +92 -76
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,671 1,668 2,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.54% 1.76% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.85% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,547 609 787
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -8.21% +16.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Development over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Development within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 2,303 £45,000 -25.00% 1,589
UK excluding London +123 1,801 £45,000 -10.00% 951
Work from Home +135 1,065 £40,000 -38.46% 593
London +97 703 £40,000 -38.46% 663
South East +37 521 £45,000 -5.26% 235
North of England +140 415 £50,000 +33.33% 273
Midlands +160 389 £40,060 -33.23% 156
West Midlands +135 264 £41,280 -35.75% 95
North West +106 247 £55,000 -6.38% 160
South West +18 153 £50,000 -9.09% 121
Yorkshire +107 148 £45,000 +20.00% 82
Scotland +13 138 £70,000 +47.37% 73
East of England +46 137 £52,500 -8.70% 73
East Midlands +68 125 £40,000 -20.00% 61
Wales +45 64 £35,700 -35.09% 26
Northern Ireland +29 30 £60,000 - 15
North East +11 25 £35,000 -50.00% 33

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 13 (0.49%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.34%) CMS
3 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.19%) Appian
5 5 (0.19%) SAS
6 4 (0.15%) Confluence
7 3 (0.11%) IIS
8 2 (0.075%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.075%) Drupal
8 2 (0.075%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.037%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.037%) Umbraco
Applications
1 391 (14.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 347 (12.99%) Microsoft Office
3 143 (5.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.19%) SPSS
7 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Stata
9 2 (0.075%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.075%) InDesign
9 2 (0.075%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.037%) InVision
10 1 (0.037%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.037%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 48 (1.80%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.52%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.26%) SAP HCM
4 7 (0.26%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.11%) Misys Midas
7 3 (0.11%) Ripple
8 2 (0.075%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 2 (0.075%) Relativity
8 2 (0.075%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.037%) Endur
9 1 (0.037%) HiPortfolio
9 1 (0.037%) Magento
9 1 (0.037%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 170 (6.36%) SaaS
2 164 (6.14%) Azure
3 134 (5.02%) AWS
4 67 (2.51%) Power Platform
5 52 (1.95%) GCP
6 29 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.45%) Asana
9 8 (0.30%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (0.26%) Azure AKS
10 7 (0.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (0.26%) IaaS
10 7 (0.26%) Mavenlink
10 7 (0.26%) PaaS
10 7 (0.26%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (0.22%) OCI
11 6 (0.22%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.15%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.15%) FinancialForce
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.68%) Firewall
2 37 (1.39%) WAN
2 37 (1.39%) Wireless
3 36 (1.35%) Unified Communications
4 33 (1.24%) SD-WAN
4 33 (1.24%) VoIP
5 22 (0.82%) Internet
6 21 (0.79%) LAN
7 18 (0.67%) Broadband
8 12 (0.45%) Ethernet
9 11 (0.41%) Network Security
10 9 (0.34%) 4G
10 9 (0.34%) VPN
10 9 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.30%) 5G
12 6 (0.22%) DNS
13 5 (0.19%) SAN
13 5 (0.19%) WLAN
14 4 (0.15%) Bluetooth
14 4 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (2.17%) Power BI
3 51 (1.91%) Tableau
4 36 (1.35%) Data Vault
5 19 (0.71%) Metadata
6 18 (0.67%) Data Lake
7 17 (0.64%) SAP BW
8 15 (0.56%) GIS
9 14 (0.52%) SAP HANA
10 10 (0.37%) MySQL
11 9 (0.34%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.19%) CockroachDB
12 5 (0.19%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.19%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.15%) Big Data
13 4 (0.15%) DTS
14 3 (0.11%) Power Query
14 3 (0.11%) QlikView
15 2 (0.075%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (0.90%) JIRA
2 13 (0.49%) Git
3 6 (0.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.22%) Subversion
4 5 (0.19%) Jaeger
4 5 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.15%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.11%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.075%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.037%) Appium
8 1 (0.037%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.037%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.037%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.037%) Grunt
8 1 (0.037%) gulp
8 1 (0.037%) Hudson
8 1 (0.037%) Selenium
General
1 911 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 790 (29.58%) Finance
3 617 (23.10%) Marketing
4 319 (11.94%) Retail
5 316 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
6 260 (9.73%) Presentation Skills
7 205 (7.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 202 (7.56%) Public Sector
9 126 (4.72%) Telecoms
10 112 (4.19%) Billing
11 108 (4.04%) Legal
12 84 (3.14%) Manufacturing
13 78 (2.92%) Automotive
14 77 (2.88%) Local Government
15 76 (2.85%) Law
16 71 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 64 (2.40%) Banking
18 58 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
19 51 (1.91%) Aerospace
20 41 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,090 (40.81%) Development Manager
2 1,014 (37.96%) Business Manager
3 1,007 (37.70%) Business Development Manager
4 212 (7.94%) Architect
5 194 (7.26%) Senior
6 136 (5.09%) Consultant
7 121 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
8 101 (3.78%) Lead
9 97 (3.63%) Business Development Executive
10 77 (2.88%) Senior Manager
11 71 (2.66%) Project Manager
12 65 (2.43%) Audit Manager
13 60 (2.25%) Data Architect
14 55 (2.06%) IT Manager
15 54 (2.02%) Analyst
15 54 (2.02%) Business Systems Manager
16 47 (1.76%) Senior Architect
17 45 (1.68%) Sales Manager
18 38 (1.42%) Account Manager
19 37 (1.39%) IT Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (0.79%) .NET
2 13 (0.49%) Web Services
3 9 (0.34%) AngularJS
3 9 (0.34%) HTML
4 8 (0.30%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (0.30%) CSS
5 6 (0.22%) Kafka
5 6 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (0.22%) React
6 5 (0.19%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.19%) EDI
6 5 (0.19%) Middleware
6 5 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (0.19%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.15%) jQuery
7 4 (0.15%) JSON
7 4 (0.15%) Vue
7 4 (0.15%) WCF
7 4 (0.15%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 233 (8.72%) Self-Motivation
2 104 (3.89%) Management Information System
3 73 (2.73%) Onboarding
4 64 (2.40%) Driving Licence
4 64 (2.40%) Social Media
5 59 (2.21%) Virtual Team
6 58 (2.17%) NHS
7 50 (1.87%) Life Science
8 49 (1.83%) IoT
9 37 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.31%) Blog
11 33 (1.24%) Housing Association
12 31 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 26 (0.97%) Client/Server
15 22 (0.82%) Cyberattack
15 22 (0.82%) Operational Technology
16 21 (0.79%) Reinsurance
17 18 (0.67%) Raspberry Pi
18 17 (0.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.68%) Windows
2 40 (1.50%) Linux
3 22 (0.82%) Android
4 20 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Windows Vista
7 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.037%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
2 367 (13.74%) Agile
3 338 (12.65%) CRM
4 321 (12.02%) Decision-Making
5 264 (9.88%) Customer Experience
6 257 (9.62%) Coaching
7 256 (9.58%) Project Management
8 251 (9.40%) Logistics
9 240 (8.99%) Client Onboarding
10 227 (8.50%) Customer Requirements
11 212 (7.94%) Business Strategy
12 209 (7.82%) Data Management
13 202 (7.56%) Actionable Insight
14 195 (7.30%) Commercial Awareness
15 188 (7.04%) Analytics
16 180 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
17 162 (6.07%) Facilities Management
18 161 (6.03%) B2B
19 156 (5.84%) Mentoring
20 155 (5.80%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 47 (1.76%) SQL
2 40 (1.50%) Python
3 27 (1.01%) C
3 27 (1.01%) Java
4 15 (0.56%) C#
5 11 (0.41%) JavaScript
5 11 (0.41%) R
6 10 (0.37%) C++
7 5 (0.19%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.15%) Embedded C
8 4 (0.15%) PHP
9 2 (0.075%) Rust
9 2 (0.075%) Scala
9 2 (0.075%) Solidity
10 1 (0.037%) Go
10 1 (0.037%) Ruby
10 1 (0.037%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 303 (11.34%) Degree
2 186 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 145 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 111 (4.16%) ACCA
5 50 (1.87%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.16%) MBA
9 31 (1.16%) PhD
10 27 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.82%) CISSP
11 22 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 20 (0.75%) CISM
13 18 (0.67%) CIMA
14 17 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 15 (0.56%) HND
16 12 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.41%) HNC
18 10 (0.37%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (2.77%) GAAP
2 73 (2.73%) IFRS
3 61 (2.28%) SLA
4 60 (2.25%) PMO
5 35 (1.31%) QA
6 20 (0.75%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.64%) GDPR
8 13 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.45%) NIST
10 9 (0.34%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.30%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.22%) IASME
13 6 (0.22%) NEBOSH
14 5 (0.19%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.15%) COSHH
15 4 (0.15%) IEC 62304
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 29 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.60%) Docker
3 10 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.075%) Firmware
5 2 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.037%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (0.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.26%) Terraform
3 5 (0.19%) Ansible
3 5 (0.19%) Kiali
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.11%) PaperCut
5 3 (0.11%) SafeCom
6 2 (0.075%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.037%) Autotask
7 1 (0.037%) MOM
Vendors
1 422 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 300 (11.23%) Salesforce
3 103 (3.86%) SAP
4 94 (3.52%) CA
5 33 (1.24%) Cisco
5 33 (1.24%) YouTube
6 29 (1.09%) Oracle
7 20 (0.75%) Juniper
8 19 (0.71%) Fortinet
9 18 (0.67%) NetApp
10 17 (0.64%) Dell
11 16 (0.60%) Google
11 16 (0.60%) HubSpot
12 11 (0.41%) BT
12 11 (0.41%) Cadence
12 11 (0.41%) IBM
12 11 (0.41%) VMware
13 10 (0.37%) Adobe
13 10 (0.37%) Intel
13 10 (0.37%) Pega