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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 217 295
Rank change year-on-year +119 +78 -67
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,797 1,644 2,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.61% 1.75% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 1.83% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,554 608 808
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -5.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £67,188 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £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 6 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 6 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 +121 2,419 £45,000 -25.00% 1,396
UK excluding London +126 1,902 £45,000 -10.00% 910
Work from Home +137 1,073 £40,000 -38.46% 550
London +101 728 £40,000 -38.46% 530
South East +45 539 £45,000 -5.26% 209
Midlands +178 440 £40,060 -33.23% 160
North of England +136 431 £50,000 +33.33% 266
West Midlands +140 287 £40,060 -37.65% 99
North West +103 264 £55,000 -6.38% 151
South West +17 154 £50,000 -13.04% 122
East Midlands +80 153 £40,000 -20.00% 61
Yorkshire +105 148 £45,000 +20.00% 83
Scotland +15 146 £70,000 +47.37% 74
East of England +30 140 £52,500 -8.70% 65
Wales +47 66 £35,700 -35.09% 25
Northern Ireland +31 31 £60,000 - 14
North East +4 25 £35,000 -50.00% 34

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 12 (0.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.29%) CMS
3 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.18%) Appian
5 5 (0.18%) SAS
6 4 (0.14%) Confluence
7 3 (0.11%) IIS
8 2 (0.072%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.072%) Drupal
8 2 (0.072%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.036%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.036%) Umbraco
Applications
1 468 (16.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 425 (15.19%) Microsoft Office
3 172 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.18%) SPSS
7 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Stata
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.072%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.072%) InDesign
9 2 (0.072%) InVision
9 2 (0.072%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.072%) Sketch
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.036%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 48 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.50%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.43%) Ripple
4 10 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 7 (0.25%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.14%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.11%) Misys Midas
10 2 (0.072%) HiPortfolio
10 2 (0.072%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 2 (0.072%) Relativity
10 2 (0.072%) SAP CRM
11 1 (0.036%) Endur
11 1 (0.036%) Findur
11 1 (0.036%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 173 (6.19%) SaaS
2 165 (5.90%) Azure
3 140 (5.01%) AWS
4 69 (2.47%) Power Platform
5 60 (2.15%) GCP
6 29 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.43%) Asana
9 8 (0.29%) Azure AKS
9 8 (0.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (0.29%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (0.25%) Mavenlink
10 7 (0.25%) OCI
10 7 (0.25%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (0.21%) IaaS
11 6 (0.21%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.21%) PaaS
12 5 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.14%) FinancialForce
13 4 (0.14%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.61%) Firewall
2 37 (1.32%) WAN
3 36 (1.29%) Unified Communications
3 36 (1.29%) Wireless
4 33 (1.18%) SD-WAN
4 33 (1.18%) VoIP
5 25 (0.89%) Internet
6 22 (0.79%) LAN
7 18 (0.64%) Broadband
8 12 (0.43%) Ethernet
9 11 (0.39%) Network Security
10 10 (0.36%) 4G
11 9 (0.32%) 5G
11 9 (0.32%) VPN
11 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.21%) DNS
12 6 (0.21%) WLAN
13 5 (0.18%) SAN
14 4 (0.14%) RS-232
14 4 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (2.07%) Power BI
3 51 (1.82%) Tableau
4 36 (1.29%) Data Vault
5 19 (0.68%) Metadata
6 18 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 17 (0.61%) SAP BW
8 15 (0.54%) GIS
9 14 (0.50%) SAP HANA
10 10 (0.36%) MySQL
11 9 (0.32%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.18%) CockroachDB
12 5 (0.18%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.18%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.14%) Big Data
13 4 (0.14%) DTS
13 4 (0.14%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 24 (0.86%) JIRA
2 13 (0.46%) Git
3 6 (0.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.21%) Subversion
4 5 (0.18%) Jaeger
4 5 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.14%) 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 (0.072%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.072%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.036%) Appium
8 1 (0.036%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.036%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.036%) Grunt
8 1 (0.036%) gulp
8 1 (0.036%) Hudson
8 1 (0.036%) Selenium
General
1 951 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 892 (31.89%) Finance
3 670 (23.95%) Marketing
4 395 (14.12%) Retail
5 364 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
6 262 (9.37%) Presentation Skills
7 211 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 208 (7.44%) Public Sector
9 136 (4.86%) Legal
10 127 (4.54%) Telecoms
11 113 (4.04%) Billing
12 89 (3.18%) Law
13 85 (3.04%) Manufacturing
14 79 (2.82%) Local Government
15 78 (2.79%) Automotive
16 72 (2.57%) Banking
17 71 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 58 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
19 51 (1.82%) Aerospace
20 43 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,174 (41.97%) Development Manager
2 1,050 (37.54%) Business Manager
3 1,043 (37.29%) Business Development Manager
4 223 (7.97%) Architect
5 200 (7.15%) Senior
6 140 (5.01%) Consultant
7 132 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
8 102 (3.65%) Lead
9 97 (3.47%) Business Development Executive
10 77 (2.75%) Senior Manager
11 74 (2.65%) Project Manager
12 66 (2.36%) Audit Manager
13 60 (2.15%) Data Architect
14 55 (1.97%) Business Systems Manager
15 54 (1.93%) Analyst
15 54 (1.93%) IT Manager
16 47 (1.68%) Senior Architect
17 45 (1.61%) Sales Manager
18 38 (1.36%) Account Manager
18 38 (1.36%) IT Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (0.79%) .NET
2 13 (0.46%) Web Services
3 12 (0.43%) React
4 10 (0.36%) HTML
5 9 (0.32%) AngularJS
5 9 (0.32%) CSS
5 9 (0.32%) Spring
6 8 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (0.25%) ASP.NET
8 6 (0.21%) Kafka
8 6 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (0.18%) EDI
9 5 (0.18%) Middleware
9 5 (0.18%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (0.18%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.14%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.14%) jQuery
10 4 (0.14%) JSON
10 4 (0.14%) WCF
10 4 (0.14%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 234 (8.37%) Self-Motivation
2 104 (3.72%) Management Information System
3 73 (2.61%) Onboarding
4 67 (2.40%) Driving Licence
5 65 (2.32%) Social Media
6 59 (2.11%) NHS
6 59 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 51 (1.82%) Life Science
8 49 (1.75%) IoT
9 38 (1.36%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.25%) Blog
10 35 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 33 (1.18%) Housing Association
12 31 (1.11%) Algorithms
13 26 (0.93%) Client/Server
13 26 (0.93%) Mobile App
14 22 (0.79%) Cyberattack
15 21 (0.75%) Reinsurance
16 19 (0.68%) Blockchain
17 18 (0.64%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 45 (1.61%) Windows
2 40 (1.43%) Linux
3 22 (0.79%) Android
4 20 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.25%) Windows Vista
7 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.036%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (15.27%) Agile
2 408 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
3 346 (12.37%) CRM
4 345 (12.33%) Decision-Making
5 325 (11.62%) Logistics
6 277 (9.90%) Customer Requirements
7 267 (9.55%) Customer Experience
8 259 (9.26%) Coaching
9 258 (9.22%) Project Management
10 256 (9.15%) Data Management
11 244 (8.72%) Commercial Awareness
12 240 (8.58%) Client Onboarding
13 213 (7.62%) Business Strategy
14 210 (7.51%) Facilities Management
15 203 (7.26%) Actionable Insight
15 203 (7.26%) Financial Modelling
16 190 (6.79%) Analytics
17 183 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
18 180 (6.44%) CAD
19 163 (5.83%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (1.64%) SQL
2 42 (1.50%) Python
3 39 (1.39%) Java
4 27 (0.97%) C
5 20 (0.72%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.61%) C#
7 11 (0.39%) R
8 10 (0.36%) C++
9 8 (0.29%) Rust
9 8 (0.29%) Solidity
10 5 (0.18%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.18%) Scala
11 4 (0.14%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.14%) Go
11 4 (0.14%) PHP
12 1 (0.036%) Ruby
12 1 (0.036%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 310 (11.08%) Degree
2 190 (6.79%) Security Cleared
3 149 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 112 (4.00%) ACCA
5 51 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 34 (1.22%) PhD
9 33 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.04%) MBA
11 27 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.79%) CISSP
12 22 (0.79%) DV Cleared
13 20 (0.72%) CISM
14 18 (0.64%) CIMA
15 17 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.54%) HND
17 12 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.39%) HNC
19 10 (0.36%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (2.65%) GAAP
2 73 (2.61%) IFRS
3 61 (2.18%) SLA
4 60 (2.15%) PMO
5 34 (1.22%) QA
6 20 (0.72%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.61%) GDPR
8 14 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.50%) NIST
9 9 (0.32%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.29%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.21%) IASME
12 6 (0.21%) NEBOSH
12 6 (0.21%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.14%) COSHH
13 4 (0.14%) IEC 62304
13 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 29 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.82%) Docker
3 10 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.072%) Firmware
5 2 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.036%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (0.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.29%) Terraform
3 5 (0.18%) Ansible
3 5 (0.18%) Kiali
4 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.11%) PaperCut
5 3 (0.11%) SafeCom
6 2 (0.072%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.036%) Autotask
7 1 (0.036%) MOM
Vendors
1 503 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 301 (10.76%) Salesforce
3 103 (3.68%) SAP
4 95 (3.40%) CA
5 33 (1.18%) Cisco
5 33 (1.18%) YouTube
6 30 (1.07%) Oracle
7 19 (0.68%) Juniper
8 18 (0.64%) Dell
8 18 (0.64%) Fortinet
8 18 (0.64%) NetApp
9 16 (0.57%) Google
9 16 (0.57%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.39%) Adobe
10 11 (0.39%) BT
10 11 (0.39%) Cadence
10 11 (0.39%) IBM
10 11 (0.39%) VMware
11 10 (0.36%) Intel
11 10 (0.36%) Pega