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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 211 299
Rank change year-on-year +101 +88 -70
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,424 1,821 2,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.45% 1.80% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.88% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 662 779
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,575 £33,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £119,000
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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +93 2,083 £40,060 -33.23% 1,344
UK excluding London +102 1,589 £45,000 -10.00% 871
Work from Home +128 1,100 £40,000 -38.46% 518
London +82 671 £40,000 -41.18% 507
South East +37 511 £40,000 -15.79% 213
North of England +147 353 £47,500 +26.67% 259
Midlands +122 279 £40,000 -25.58% 136
West Midlands +127 214 £40,060 -39.53% 94
North West +100 197 £50,000 -4.76% 151
South West -2 150 £50,000 - 113
Yorkshire +131 133 £45,000 +20.00% 76
East of England +52 128 £52,500 -8.70% 78
Scotland +10 125 £58,750 +23.68% 59
East Midlands +13 65 £40,000 -20.00% 42
Wales +34 61 £35,700 -32.00% 27
North East +18 25 £35,000 -51.72% 34
Northern Ireland +27 21 £60,000 - 11

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 (0.54%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.41%) CMS
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.21%) Appian
5 4 (0.17%) SAS
6 3 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.083%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.083%) Confluence
7 2 (0.083%) Drupal
7 2 (0.083%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 220 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
3 92 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.21%) SPSS
7 4 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.12%) Stata
9 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.083%) InDesign
9 2 (0.083%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 50 (2.06%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.58%) SAP BPC
3 11 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.17%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.17%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.17%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.083%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 2 (0.083%) Relativity
10 1 (0.041%) HiPortfolio
10 1 (0.041%) Magento
10 1 (0.041%) Misys Midas
10 1 (0.041%) SAP PLM
10 1 (0.041%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.041%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 166 (6.85%) SaaS
2 123 (5.07%) Azure
3 98 (4.04%) AWS
4 38 (1.57%) GCP
5 33 (1.36%) Power Platform
6 30 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.50%) Asana
9 8 (0.33%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (0.29%) IaaS
10 7 (0.29%) Mavenlink
10 7 (0.29%) PaaS
11 6 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.17%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.17%) FinancialForce
13 4 (0.17%) MailChimp
13 4 (0.17%) OCI
13 4 (0.17%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.69%) Firewall
2 36 (1.49%) Unified Communications
3 35 (1.44%) Wireless
4 31 (1.28%) WAN
5 28 (1.16%) VoIP
6 27 (1.11%) SD-WAN
7 19 (0.78%) LAN
8 18 (0.74%) Broadband
9 17 (0.70%) Internet
10 12 (0.50%) Ethernet
11 11 (0.45%) Network Security
12 10 (0.41%) VPN
13 8 (0.33%) 4G
13 8 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.29%) 5G
15 6 (0.25%) DNS
16 5 (0.21%) SAN
17 4 (0.17%) Bluetooth
17 4 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
17 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (1.20%) Power BI
3 22 (0.91%) Tableau
4 17 (0.70%) SAP BW
5 15 (0.62%) Data Lake
5 15 (0.62%) GIS
5 15 (0.62%) Metadata
6 14 (0.58%) SAP HANA
7 12 (0.50%) Data Vault
8 11 (0.45%) MySQL
9 10 (0.41%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.25%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.21%) CockroachDB
11 5 (0.21%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.17%) Big Data
12 4 (0.17%) DTS
13 3 (0.12%) Power Query
13 3 (0.12%) QlikView
14 2 (0.083%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (0.91%) JIRA
2 14 (0.58%) Git
3 7 (0.29%) Subversion
4 6 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.21%) Jaeger
5 5 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.083%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.041%) Appium
9 1 (0.041%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.041%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.041%) Grunt
9 1 (0.041%) gulp
9 1 (0.041%) Hudson
9 1 (0.041%) Selenium
General
1 880 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 604 (24.92%) Finance
3 472 (19.47%) Marketing
4 236 (9.74%) Presentation Skills
5 197 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 197 (8.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 189 (7.80%) Public Sector
7 154 (6.35%) Retail
8 119 (4.91%) Telecoms
9 111 (4.58%) Billing
10 96 (3.96%) Manufacturing
11 85 (3.51%) Legal
12 78 (3.22%) Automotive
12 78 (3.22%) Local Government
13 69 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 61 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
15 58 (2.39%) Law
16 51 (2.10%) Banking
17 43 (1.77%) Aerospace
18 40 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 976 (40.26%) Development Manager
2 967 (39.89%) Business Manager
3 960 (39.60%) Business Development Manager
4 188 (7.76%) Senior
5 143 (5.90%) Architect
6 121 (4.99%) Consultant
7 99 (4.08%) Lead
8 96 (3.96%) Business Development Executive
9 86 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 75 (3.09%) Project Manager
11 74 (3.05%) Senior Manager
12 63 (2.60%) Audit Manager
13 61 (2.52%) IT Manager
14 47 (1.94%) Sales Manager
15 45 (1.86%) Analyst
15 45 (1.86%) Senior Architect
16 42 (1.73%) Business Systems Manager
17 38 (1.57%) Account Manager
18 36 (1.49%) Product Manager
19 35 (1.44%) IT Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.83%) .NET
2 13 (0.54%) Web Services
3 10 (0.41%) HTML
4 8 (0.33%) AngularJS
5 7 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (0.25%) CSS
6 6 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.21%) EDI
7 5 (0.21%) Kafka
7 5 (0.21%) Middleware
7 5 (0.21%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.21%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.17%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.17%) JSON
8 4 (0.17%) React
8 4 (0.17%) Vue
8 4 (0.17%) WCF
8 4 (0.17%) WinForms
9 3 (0.12%) jQuery
9 3 (0.12%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 218 (8.99%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (4.33%) Management Information System
3 78 (3.22%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.60%) Social Media
5 62 (2.56%) Driving Licence
6 60 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 52 (2.15%) NHS
8 48 (1.98%) IoT
9 47 (1.94%) Life Science
10 39 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.44%) Blog
12 33 (1.36%) Housing Association
13 31 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 26 (1.07%) Client/Server
16 23 (0.95%) Cyberattack
17 21 (0.87%) Reinsurance
18 18 (0.74%) Raspberry Pi
19 17 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
20 14 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.65%) Linux
2 37 (1.53%) Windows
3 22 (0.91%) Android
4 20 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
2 343 (14.15%) CRM
3 316 (13.04%) Customer Experience
4 294 (12.13%) Client Onboarding
5 286 (11.80%) Decision-Making
6 275 (11.34%) Project Management
7 251 (10.35%) Coaching
8 219 (9.03%) Agile
9 203 (8.37%) Business Strategy
10 202 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
11 174 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
12 166 (6.85%) B2B
13 156 (6.44%) Mentoring
14 153 (6.31%) Collaborative Working
15 147 (6.06%) Analytics
16 103 (4.25%) Roadmaps
17 102 (4.21%) Service Management
18 101 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
18 101 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
19 99 (4.08%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (1.98%) SQL
2 40 (1.65%) Python
3 27 (1.11%) C
4 25 (1.03%) Java
5 13 (0.54%) C#
6 11 (0.45%) R
7 10 (0.41%) C++
8 6 (0.25%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.21%) PHP
9 5 (0.21%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.041%) Ruby
11 1 (0.041%) Scala
11 1 (0.041%) VB
Qualifications
1 322 (13.28%) Degree
2 176 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 136 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 105 (4.33%) ACCA
5 60 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 39 (1.61%) MBA
7 35 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.44%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.36%) PhD
9 31 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 31 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (0.95%) CISSP
11 21 (0.87%) CISM
12 18 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 16 (0.66%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.62%) HND
15 14 (0.58%) CIMA
16 12 (0.50%) OSCP
17 11 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.45%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (3.05%) GAAP
2 73 (3.01%) IFRS
3 63 (2.60%) SLA
4 60 (2.48%) PMO
5 37 (1.53%) QA
6 20 (0.83%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.66%) GDPR
9 12 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
10 8 (0.33%) NIST
11 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.25%) NEBOSH
12 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.21%) IASME
13 4 (0.17%) COSHH
13 4 (0.17%) IEC 62304
13 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
13 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.41%) Docker
3 9 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.21%) Ansible
1 5 (0.21%) Kiali
1 5 (0.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.17%) Terraform
3 3 (0.12%) PaperCut
3 3 (0.12%) SafeCom
4 2 (0.083%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.041%) Autotask
5 1 (0.041%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.041%) MOM
Vendors
1 356 (14.69%) Salesforce
2 242 (9.98%) Microsoft
3 98 (4.04%) SAP
4 91 (3.75%) CA
5 31 (1.28%) Cisco
6 22 (0.91%) Oracle
7 19 (0.78%) YouTube
8 18 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 18 (0.74%) Juniper
9 17 (0.70%) Dell
9 17 (0.70%) Fortinet
10 15 (0.62%) Google
11 14 (0.58%) NetApp
12 11 (0.45%) BT
12 11 (0.45%) Cadence
12 11 (0.45%) IBM
13 10 (0.41%) Logitech
14 9 (0.37%) Adobe
14 9 (0.37%) Pega
15 8 (0.33%) VMware