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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 221 303
Rank change year-on-year +112 +82 -72
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,417 1,713 2,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.42% 1.72% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 1.80% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,503 644 784
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £32,738
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -8.89% +17.39%
75th Percentile £65,250 £80,000 £93,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £116,750
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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +106 2,071 £42,500 -29.17% 1,576
UK excluding London +111 1,588 £45,000 -10.00% 972
Work from Home +144 1,050 £40,000 -38.46% 605
London +87 670 £40,000 -39.85% 671
South East +46 462 £42,500 -10.53% 258
North of England +139 377 £47,500 +26.67% 283
Midlands +133 296 £40,060 -25.47% 144
West Midlands +139 223 £40,060 -38.37% 91
North West +90 213 £55,000 +4.76% 169
South West +4 149 £50,000 - 132
Yorkshire +129 142 £45,000 +20.00% 86
East of England +55 130 £52,500 -8.70% 86
Scotland +10 128 £65,000 +36.84% 50
East Midlands +23 73 £40,000 -20.00% 53
Wales +43 63 £35,700 -35.09% 28
Northern Ireland +35 25 £60,000 - 14
North East +21 25 £35,000 -50.00% 32

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
1 241 (9.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
3 109 (4.51%) 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%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 49 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.58%) SAP BPC
3 11 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.29%) SAP HCM
5 7 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.17%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.17%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
10 2 (0.083%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 2 (0.083%) Misys Midas
10 2 (0.083%) Relativity
11 1 (0.041%) HiPortfolio
11 1 (0.041%) Magento
11 1 (0.041%) SAP PLM
11 1 (0.041%) SAP SCM
11 1 (0.041%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 166 (6.87%) SaaS
2 139 (5.75%) Azure
3 112 (4.63%) AWS
4 47 (1.94%) Power Platform
5 41 (1.70%) GCP
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
10 7 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.21%) OCI
13 4 (0.17%) Azure AKS
13 4 (0.17%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.17%) FinancialForce
13 4 (0.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.78%) Firewall
2 36 (1.49%) Unified Communications
2 36 (1.49%) Wireless
3 33 (1.37%) WAN
4 29 (1.20%) SD-WAN
4 29 (1.20%) VoIP
5 19 (0.79%) LAN
6 18 (0.74%) Broadband
7 17 (0.70%) Internet
8 12 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 11 (0.46%) Network Security
10 10 (0.41%) VPN
11 8 (0.33%) 4G
11 8 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.29%) 5G
13 6 (0.25%) DNS
14 5 (0.21%) SAN
15 4 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
15 4 (0.17%) RS-232
15 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (1.70%) Power BI
3 34 (1.41%) Tableau
4 24 (0.99%) Data Vault
5 17 (0.70%) SAP BW
6 16 (0.66%) Data Lake
6 16 (0.66%) Metadata
7 15 (0.62%) GIS
8 14 (0.58%) SAP HANA
9 11 (0.46%) MySQL
10 10 (0.41%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.21%) CockroachDB
11 5 (0.21%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
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 Reporting 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
1 873 (36.12%) Social Skills
2 626 (25.90%) Finance
3 488 (20.19%) Marketing
4 245 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
5 200 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 197 (8.15%) Public Sector
7 190 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
8 178 (7.36%) Retail
9 119 (4.92%) Telecoms
10 112 (4.63%) Billing
11 90 (3.72%) Legal
12 82 (3.39%) Manufacturing
13 78 (3.23%) Automotive
13 78 (3.23%) Local Government
14 68 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 64 (2.65%) Law
16 59 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
17 55 (2.28%) Banking
18 43 (1.78%) Aerospace
19 40 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 955 (39.51%) Development Manager
2 935 (38.68%) Business Manager
3 928 (38.39%) Business Development Manager
4 190 (7.86%) Senior
5 156 (6.45%) Architect
6 134 (5.54%) Consultant
7 100 (4.14%) Lead
8 96 (3.97%) Business Development Executive
9 86 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
10 77 (3.19%) Senior Manager
11 69 (2.85%) Project Manager
12 64 (2.65%) Audit Manager
13 53 (2.19%) IT Manager
14 46 (1.90%) Analyst
14 46 (1.90%) Business Systems Manager
14 46 (1.90%) Sales Manager
14 46 (1.90%) Senior Architect
15 41 (1.70%) Data Architect
16 38 (1.57%) Account Manager
17 35 (1.45%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.83%) .NET
2 13 (0.54%) Web Services
3 9 (0.37%) 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
1 223 (9.23%) Self-Motivation
2 104 (4.30%) Management Information System
3 75 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.61%) Social Media
5 62 (2.57%) Driving Licence
6 59 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 52 (2.15%) NHS
8 48 (1.99%) IoT
9 47 (1.94%) Life Science
10 37 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.45%) Blog
12 33 (1.37%) Housing Association
13 31 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 26 (1.08%) Client/Server
16 22 (0.91%) 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 39 (1.61%) 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
1 362 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
2 338 (13.98%) CRM
3 292 (12.08%) Decision-Making
4 263 (10.88%) Customer Experience
5 258 (10.67%) Project Management
6 250 (10.34%) Coaching
7 241 (9.97%) Client Onboarding
8 239 (9.89%) Agile
9 206 (8.52%) Business Strategy
10 201 (8.32%) Actionable Insight
11 176 (7.28%) Cybersecurity
12 165 (6.83%) Analytics
13 163 (6.74%) B2B
14 154 (6.37%) Mentoring
15 141 (5.83%) Collaborative Working
16 113 (4.68%) Customer Requirements
17 111 (4.59%) Logistics
18 102 (4.22%) Service Management
18 102 (4.22%) Value Proposition
19 99 (4.10%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (1.94%) SQL
2 40 (1.65%) Python
3 27 (1.12%) C
4 25 (1.03%) Java
5 13 (0.54%) C#
6 11 (0.46%) 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
1 300 (12.41%) Degree
2 176 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 136 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 106 (4.39%) ACCA
5 52 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 36 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.45%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.32%) MBA
8 32 (1.32%) PhD
9 31 (1.28%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (0.91%) CISSP
12 20 (0.83%) CISM
13 17 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 17 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.62%) HND
15 14 (0.58%) CIMA
16 11 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.46%) HNC
16 11 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (3.06%) GAAP
2 73 (3.02%) IFRS
3 62 (2.57%) SLA
4 60 (2.48%) PMO
5 34 (1.41%) QA
6 20 (0.83%) JSP 440
7 16 (0.66%) GDPR
8 13 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.41%) NIST
10 8 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.25%) NEBOSH
12 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.21%) IASME
12 5 (0.21%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.17%) COSHH
13 4 (0.17%) IEC 62304
13 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 29 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.46%) 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
1 5 (0.21%) Terraform
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
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
1 300 (12.41%) Salesforce
2 268 (11.09%) Microsoft
3 100 (4.14%) SAP
4 93 (3.85%) CA
5 32 (1.32%) Cisco
6 26 (1.08%) Oracle
6 26 (1.08%) YouTube
7 19 (0.79%) Juniper
8 18 (0.74%) Fortinet
9 17 (0.70%) Dell
9 17 (0.70%) HubSpot
9 17 (0.70%) NetApp
10 15 (0.62%) Google
11 11 (0.46%) BT
11 11 (0.46%) Cadence
11 11 (0.46%) IBM
12 10 (0.41%) Logitech
13 9 (0.37%) Adobe
13 9 (0.37%) Pega
14 8 (0.33%) VMware