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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 212 299
Rank change year-on-year +103 +87 -64
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,410 1,899 2,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 1.81% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 1.90% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,579 712 790
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £64,402 £68,875
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% -6.50% +19.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.02% -6.82% +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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +95 2,071 £40,000 -34.96% 1,371
UK excluding London +103 1,583 £41,500 -19.02% 881
Work from Home +140 1,126 £40,000 -38.46% 525
London +71 666 £40,000 -39.85% 523
South East +59 533 £40,000 -20.79% 224
North of England +140 333 £45,000 -2.70% 232
Midlands +117 269 £40,000 -30.43% 142
West Midlands +129 211 £40,060 -41.73% 94
North West +85 177 £47,500 -20.83% 140
South West +9 152 £48,750 -7.14% 127
Yorkshire +128 133 £45,000 +20.00% 69
East of England +49 127 £50,000 -13.04% 84
Scotland +12 127 £58,750 +17.50% 63
Wales +37 59 £35,700 -32.00% 26
East Midlands +6 58 £38,000 -27.62% 48
North East +21 25 £35,000 -51.72% 26
Northern Ireland +32 20 £60,000 - 12

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%) Appian
5 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
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
1 203 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 159 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (2.74%) 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 52 (2.16%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.58%) SAP BPC
3 11 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.17%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.12%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.083%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 2 (0.083%) Relativity
9 1 (0.041%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.041%) HiPortfolio
9 1 (0.041%) Magento
9 1 (0.041%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.041%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 169 (7.01%) SaaS
2 118 (4.90%) Azure
3 94 (3.90%) AWS
4 33 (1.37%) Power Platform
5 32 (1.33%) GCP
5 32 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (0.50%) Asana
8 8 (0.33%) IaaS
8 8 (0.33%) IBM Cloud
8 8 (0.33%) PaaS
9 7 (0.29%) Mavenlink
10 6 (0.25%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.17%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.17%) FinancialForce
11 4 (0.17%) MailChimp
11 4 (0.17%) OCI
11 4 (0.17%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.12%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.70%) Firewall
2 37 (1.54%) Unified Communications
3 34 (1.41%) Wireless
4 32 (1.33%) WAN
5 29 (1.20%) VoIP
6 28 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 20 (0.83%) LAN
8 18 (0.75%) Broadband
8 18 (0.75%) Internet
9 12 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 12 (0.50%) Network Security
10 10 (0.41%) VPN
11 8 (0.33%) 4G
12 7 (0.29%) 5G
12 7 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.25%) DNS
14 5 (0.21%) SAN
15 4 (0.17%) Bluetooth
15 4 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
15 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (1.20%) Power BI
3 22 (0.91%) Tableau
4 17 (0.71%) SAP BW
5 15 (0.62%) GIS
6 14 (0.58%) SAP HANA
7 13 (0.54%) Data Lake
7 13 (0.54%) Metadata
8 12 (0.50%) Data Vault
9 11 (0.46%) MySQL
10 10 (0.41%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.25%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.21%) CockroachDB
12 5 (0.21%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.17%) DTS
14 3 (0.12%) Big Data
14 3 (0.12%) Power Query
14 3 (0.12%) QlikView
15 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 5 (0.21%) Jaeger
4 5 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.17%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.12%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.083%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.041%) Appium
8 1 (0.041%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.041%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.041%) Grunt
8 1 (0.041%) gulp
8 1 (0.041%) Hudson
8 1 (0.041%) Selenium
General
1 863 (35.81%) Social Skills
2 578 (23.98%) Finance
3 443 (18.38%) Marketing
4 240 (9.96%) Presentation Skills
5 193 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 192 (7.97%) Public Sector
7 188 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
8 123 (5.10%) Retail
9 122 (5.06%) Telecoms
10 114 (4.73%) Billing
11 93 (3.86%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.24%) Automotive
13 77 (3.20%) Legal
13 77 (3.20%) Local Government
14 68 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 59 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
16 56 (2.32%) Law
17 44 (1.83%) Aerospace
17 44 (1.83%) Banking
18 38 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 990 (41.08%) Development Manager
2 988 (41.00%) Business Manager
3 980 (40.66%) Business Development Manager
4 188 (7.80%) Senior
5 139 (5.77%) Architect
6 123 (5.10%) Consultant
7 96 (3.98%) Lead
8 95 (3.94%) Business Development Executive
9 85 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
10 76 (3.15%) Project Manager
11 75 (3.11%) Senior Manager
12 65 (2.70%) Audit Manager
13 60 (2.49%) IT Manager
14 47 (1.95%) Sales Manager
15 44 (1.83%) Analyst
16 41 (1.70%) Senior Architect
17 38 (1.58%) Business Systems Manager
18 36 (1.49%) Product Manager
19 35 (1.45%) Developer
19 35 (1.45%) 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%) 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%) EDI
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 (9.05%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (4.36%) Management Information System
3 83 (3.44%) Onboarding
4 60 (2.49%) Driving Licence
4 60 (2.49%) Social Media
5 59 (2.45%) Virtual Team
6 53 (2.20%) NHS
7 47 (1.95%) IoT
7 47 (1.95%) Life Science
8 39 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 35 (1.45%) Blog
10 34 (1.41%) Housing Association
11 31 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.16%) Mobile App
13 26 (1.08%) Client/Server
14 24 (1.00%) Cyberattack
15 21 (0.87%) Reinsurance
16 18 (0.75%) Raspberry Pi
17 17 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
18 14 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.62%) Linux
2 37 (1.54%) Windows
3 22 (0.91%) Android
4 20 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (14.77%) Customer Experience
2 341 (14.15%) CRM
3 340 (14.11%) Client Onboarding
4 335 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (11.33%) Project Management
6 271 (11.24%) Decision-Making
7 250 (10.37%) Coaching
8 203 (8.42%) Actionable Insight
9 200 (8.30%) Business Strategy
10 197 (8.17%) Agile
11 171 (7.10%) Cybersecurity
12 169 (7.01%) B2B
13 156 (6.47%) Mentoring
14 138 (5.73%) Collaborative Working
15 126 (5.23%) Analytics
16 104 (4.32%) Roadmaps
16 104 (4.32%) Service Management
17 101 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence
18 100 (4.15%) People Management
19 96 (3.98%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 47 (1.95%) SQL
2 39 (1.62%) Python
3 26 (1.08%) C
4 25 (1.04%) 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
1 323 (13.40%) Degree
2 174 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 137 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 108 (4.48%) ACCA
5 61 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.66%) MBA
7 33 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.33%) AWS Certification
8 32 (1.33%) PhD
9 31 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.04%) CISSP
12 23 (0.95%) CISM
13 19 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.66%) DV Cleared
15 15 (0.62%) HND
16 14 (0.58%) CIMA
17 13 (0.54%) OSCP
18 11 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
18 11 (0.46%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.15%) GAAP
2 75 (3.11%) IFRS
3 65 (2.70%) SLA
4 60 (2.49%) PMO
5 37 (1.54%) QA
6 20 (0.83%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.71%) GDPR
8 13 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.29%) 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
14 3 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 31 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 8 (0.33%) Docker
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
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%) Terraform
Vendors
1 404 (16.76%) Salesforce
2 224 (9.29%) Microsoft
3 98 (4.07%) SAP
4 92 (3.82%) CA
5 31 (1.29%) Cisco
6 22 (0.91%) Oracle
7 21 (0.87%) HubSpot
8 18 (0.75%) Juniper
9 17 (0.71%) Dell
9 17 (0.71%) Fortinet
10 15 (0.62%) YouTube
11 14 (0.58%) Google
12 11 (0.46%) BT
12 11 (0.46%) IBM
12 11 (0.46%) NetApp
13 10 (0.41%) Cadence
13 10 (0.41%) Logitech
14 9 (0.37%) Adobe
14 9 (0.37%) Pega
15 8 (0.33%) VMware