The first table below looks at the demand for Business Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Development over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Development
Rank 51 74 72
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -2
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 33 16 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.081% 1.175% 1.848%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.074% 1.598% 2.341%
Number of salaries quoted 18 11 25
Average salary £46,250 £45,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.77% -30.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £27,500 £48,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £82,500 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -14.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
810 1001 1239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.63% 73.49% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 477 699 869
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Business Development
Scotland

Business Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Business Development across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh Business Development Jobs Demand Trend

Business Development
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Business Development across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Business Development Salary Trend

Business Development
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Business Development across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh Business Development Salary Histogram

Business Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Business Development also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Business Development.

1 17 (37.78%) Finance
2 15 (33.33%) Project Management
2 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 14 (31.11%) Management Information System
4 12 (26.67%) Billing
4 12 (26.67%) Statistics
5 11 (24.44%) Advertising
6 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (20.00%) SAS
7 9 (20.00%) Analytics
8 8 (17.78%) PRINCE2
9 7 (15.56%) C#
9 7 (15.56%) .NET
9 7 (15.56%) SAP
9 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (15.56%) Banking
10 6 (13.33%) Predictive Analytics
10 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
11 5 (11.11%) MS Excel
11 5 (11.11%) Information Security
12 4 (8.889%) Retail
12 4 (8.889%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (8.889%) Web Development
12 4 (8.889%) Ajax
12 4 (8.889%) Network Security
12 4 (8.889%) PCI DSS
12 4 (8.889%) SC Cleared
12 4 (8.889%) DV Cleared
12 4 (8.889%) Security Cleared

Business Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Business Development also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Business Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (15.56%) .NET
2 4 (8.889%) Ajax
2 4 (8.889%) ASP.NET
2 4 (8.889%) CSS
2 4 (8.889%) DHTML
2 4 (8.889%) HTML
3 3 (6.667%) Web Services
3 3 (6.667%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.667%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.889%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.889%) Data Mining
3 3 (6.667%) DataStage
3 3 (6.667%) OLAP
3 3 (6.667%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (6.667%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.667%) IBM InfoSphere
3 3 (6.667%) Pentaho
3 3 (6.667%) Big Data
3 3 (6.667%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (6.667%) Spotfire
3 3 (6.667%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (6.667%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (2.222%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (2.222%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.222%) Selenium
General
1 17 (37.78%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Billing
3 11 (24.44%) Advertising
4 7 (15.56%) Banking
5 4 (8.889%) Retail
5 4 (8.889%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.667%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.444%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.444%) Marketing
8 1 (2.222%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Consultant
2 12 (26.67%) Recruitment Consultant
3 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 8 (17.78%) Business Consultant
5 7 (15.56%) Developer
6 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (8.889%) .NET Developer
6 4 (8.889%) Security Manager
6 4 (8.889%) Project Manager
6 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (6.667%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.667%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (4.444%) Product Manager
8 2 (4.444%) Managing Consultant
8 2 (4.444%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.444%) Analyst
8 2 (4.444%) Senior Consultant
9 1 (2.222%) Report Analyst
9 1 (2.222%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Management Information System
2 12 (26.67%) Statistics
3 4 (8.889%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.667%) Client/Server
4 3 (6.667%) Data Conversion
4 3 (6.667%) Data Integration
5 2 (4.444%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.889%) UNIX
1 4 (8.889%) Linux
2 3 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Project Management
2 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (20.00%) Analytics
4 8 (17.78%) PRINCE2
5 6 (13.33%) Predictive Analytics
6 5 (11.11%) Information Security
7 4 (8.889%) Web Development
7 4 (8.889%) Information Governance
7 4 (8.889%) SAP Security
7 4 (8.889%) ETL
7 4 (8.889%) ITIL
7 4 (8.889%) Service Management
8 3 (6.667%) Scrum
8 3 (6.667%) Data Modelling
8 3 (6.667%) Master Data Management
8 3 (6.667%) Data Architecture
8 3 (6.667%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (6.667%) TDD
8 3 (6.667%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (8.889%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.889%) DV Cleared
2 4 (8.889%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.889%) CCNA
2 4 (8.889%) CCDA
2 4 (8.889%) CISSP
2 4 (8.889%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.889%) MCP
2 4 (8.889%) MCSE
2 4 (8.889%) MCSA
2 4 (8.889%) CISA
2 4 (8.889%) CISM
2 4 (8.889%) Security+ Certification
3 1 (2.222%) ISEB
3 1 (2.222%) Degree
3 1 (2.222%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.889%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.889%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.222%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.222%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) SAP
3 4 (8.889%) Cisco
3 4 (8.889%) Juniper
4 3 (6.667%) Ab Initio
4 3 (6.667%) Informatica
4 3 (6.667%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (6.667%) Oracle
4 3 (6.667%) Business Objects
4 3 (6.667%) IBM
4 3 (6.667%) Cognos
4 3 (6.667%) Tableau
4 3 (6.667%) DataFlux
4 3 (6.667%) Netezza
4 3 (6.667%) Teradata
5 1 (2.222%) HP
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Senior stakeholder management. Data modelling and data architecture design / implementation. Designing and Implementing Analytics solutions... Project management and business development... This is a unique opportunity for any consultant...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £30,000 to £60,000 per annum plus attractive benefits and extensi
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Senior stakeholder management. Designing and Implementing BI / Analytics solutions... Project management and business development... This is a unique opportunity for any consultant within the Business Intelligence / Analytics space...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £30,000 to £65,000 per annum plus attractive benefits and extensi
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Reed Technology Edinburgh are currently seeking an IT Recruitment Consultant to join their expanding team. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator, highly motivated and have prior...
Reed Technology
Salary: Neg DOE
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
SThree is an internationally renowned group of staffing businesses specialising in the placement of professionals within several lucrative sectors; including Oil & Gas, IT, Engineering and Banking. Two of...
SThree
Salary: £18000 - £25000 per annum + commission
Posted: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Business Development Manager - £50K - Edinburgh £50K Basic + OTE + Benefits A leading provider of unified communications is looking to add an experienced business development manager to their team. Partnering...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £100000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Identify and drive business development opportunities into new sectors or with new customer accounts... Engineering qualification preferred (preferably to degree level; minimum ONC/HNC/HND) Fluent English speaking...
Advantage XPO
Posted: 23 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Favoured Technical Skills: OLAP and Reporting : SAP BusinessObjects, Cognos, Microstrategy, OBIEE, SAS, Microsoft, Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire, Pentaho... ETL and Data Cleansing : Informatica, IBM InfoSphere DataStage , AbInitio, Oracle, DataFlux,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £68,000 per annum with a number of fantastic additiona
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will be able to demonstrate a strong technical understanding of ASP.NET, C#, HTML / DHTML, AJAX and CSS and you will be able to communicate effectively with...
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013