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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 208 294
Rank change year-on-year +101 +86 -61
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,453 1,870 2,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.49% 1.81% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.89% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,599 679 793
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,650 £33,550
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% -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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 5 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 5 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 +96 2,110 £40,000 -33.33% 1,730
UK excluding London +109 1,608 £42,500 -15.00% 1,011
Work from Home +135 1,137 £40,000 -38.46% 623
London +77 678 £40,000 -39.85% 745
South East +54 539 £40,000 -15.79% 258
North of England +137 346 £45,000 +20.00% 279
Midlands +137 274 £40,000 -28.89% 153
West Midlands +132 212 £40,060 -40.65% 101
North West +96 190 £48,750 -7.14% 172
South West -6 151 £50,000 - 144
Yorkshire +123 133 £45,000 +20.00% 77
East of England +51 129 £51,250 -10.87% 102
Scotland +12 126 £58,750 +20.51% 63
East Midlands +14 62 £39,000 -22.00% 52
Wales +43 60 £35,700 -32.00% 27
North East +15 25 £35,000 -51.72% 32
Northern Ireland +25 21 £60,000 - 13

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 (0.53%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.41%) CMS
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.20%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.20%) Appian
5 4 (0.16%) SAS
6 3 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.082%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.082%) Confluence
7 2 (0.082%) Drupal
7 2 (0.082%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 207 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 166 (6.77%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.20%) SPSS
7 4 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.12%) Stata
9 2 (0.082%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.082%) InDesign
9 2 (0.082%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.082%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 51 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.57%) SAP BPC
3 11 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.16%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.16%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.082%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 2 (0.082%) Relativity
10 1 (0.041%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg AIM
10 1 (0.041%) Magento
10 1 (0.041%) SAP PLM
10 1 (0.041%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.041%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 167 (6.81%) SaaS
2 122 (4.97%) Azure
3 96 (3.91%) AWS
4 35 (1.43%) GCP
5 33 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 31 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.49%) Asana
9 8 (0.33%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (0.29%) IaaS
10 7 (0.29%) Mavenlink
10 7 (0.29%) PaaS
11 6 (0.24%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.16%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.16%) FinancialForce
13 4 (0.16%) MailChimp
13 4 (0.16%) OCI
13 4 (0.16%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.67%) Firewall
2 37 (1.51%) Unified Communications
3 35 (1.43%) Wireless
4 32 (1.30%) WAN
5 29 (1.18%) VoIP
6 28 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 20 (0.82%) LAN
8 18 (0.73%) Broadband
8 18 (0.73%) Internet
9 12 (0.49%) Ethernet
10 11 (0.45%) Network Security
11 10 (0.41%) VPN
12 8 (0.33%) 4G
12 8 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.29%) 5G
14 6 (0.24%) DNS
15 5 (0.20%) SAN
16 4 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 4 (0.16%) RS-232
16 4 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (1.18%) Power BI
3 22 (0.90%) Tableau
4 17 (0.69%) SAP BW
5 15 (0.61%) GIS
6 14 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 14 (0.57%) Metadata
6 14 (0.57%) SAP HANA
7 12 (0.49%) Data Vault
8 11 (0.45%) MySQL
9 10 (0.41%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.24%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.20%) CockroachDB
11 5 (0.20%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.16%) Big Data
12 4 (0.16%) DTS
13 3 (0.12%) Power Query
13 3 (0.12%) QlikView
14 2 (0.082%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (0.90%) JIRA
2 14 (0.57%) Git
3 7 (0.29%) Subversion
4 6 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.20%) Jaeger
5 5 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.16%) 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 (0.082%) 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
1 877 (35.75%) Social Skills
2 591 (24.09%) Finance
3 466 (19.00%) Marketing
4 238 (9.70%) Presentation Skills
5 195 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 193 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 193 (7.87%) Public Sector
7 136 (5.54%) Retail
8 122 (4.97%) Telecoms
9 112 (4.57%) Billing
10 96 (3.91%) Manufacturing
11 82 (3.34%) Legal
12 78 (3.18%) Automotive
12 78 (3.18%) Local Government
13 69 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 64 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
15 58 (2.36%) Law
16 48 (1.96%) Banking
17 43 (1.75%) Aerospace
18 40 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,001 (40.81%) Development Manager
2 997 (40.64%) Business Manager
3 990 (40.36%) Business Development Manager
4 190 (7.75%) Senior
5 143 (5.83%) Architect
6 124 (5.06%) Consultant
7 100 (4.08%) Lead
8 96 (3.91%) Business Development Executive
9 86 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
10 76 (3.10%) Project Manager
10 76 (3.10%) Senior Manager
11 63 (2.57%) Audit Manager
12 61 (2.49%) IT Manager
13 47 (1.92%) Sales Manager
14 45 (1.83%) Analyst
15 43 (1.75%) Senior Architect
16 40 (1.63%) Business Systems Manager
17 38 (1.55%) Account Manager
18 37 (1.51%) Product Manager
19 35 (1.43%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.82%) .NET
2 13 (0.53%) Web Services
3 10 (0.41%) HTML
4 8 (0.33%) AngularJS
5 7 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (0.24%) CSS
6 6 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.20%) EDI
7 5 (0.20%) Kafka
7 5 (0.20%) Middleware
7 5 (0.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.20%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.16%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.16%) JSON
8 4 (0.16%) React
8 4 (0.16%) Vue
8 4 (0.16%) WCF
8 4 (0.16%) WinForms
9 3 (0.12%) LINQ
9 3 (0.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 219 (8.93%) Self-Motivation
2 106 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 83 (3.38%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.57%) Social Media
5 62 (2.53%) Driving Licence
6 60 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 53 (2.16%) NHS
8 48 (1.96%) IoT
9 47 (1.92%) Life Science
10 40 (1.63%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.43%) Blog
12 33 (1.35%) Housing Association
13 31 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 26 (1.06%) Client/Server
16 24 (0.98%) Cyberattack
17 21 (0.86%) Reinsurance
18 18 (0.73%) Raspberry Pi
19 17 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
20 14 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.63%) Linux
2 38 (1.55%) Windows
3 22 (0.90%) Android
4 20 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (14.55%) Customer Experience
2 347 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
3 345 (14.06%) CRM
4 337 (13.74%) Client Onboarding
5 281 (11.46%) Decision-Making
6 278 (11.33%) Project Management
7 251 (10.23%) Coaching
8 211 (8.60%) Agile
9 203 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
9 203 (8.28%) Business Strategy
10 175 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
11 171 (6.97%) B2B
12 157 (6.40%) Mentoring
13 150 (6.11%) Collaborative Working
14 143 (5.83%) Analytics
15 106 (4.32%) Roadmaps
16 104 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence
17 102 (4.16%) Service Management
18 99 (4.04%) People Management
19 97 (3.95%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 48 (1.96%) SQL
2 40 (1.63%) Python
3 27 (1.10%) C
4 25 (1.02%) Java
5 13 (0.53%) C#
6 11 (0.45%) R
7 10 (0.41%) C++
8 6 (0.24%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.20%) PHP
9 5 (0.20%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.041%) Ruby
11 1 (0.041%) Scala
11 1 (0.041%) VB
Qualifications
1 324 (13.21%) Degree
2 177 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 138 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 105 (4.28%) ACCA
5 60 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 39 (1.59%) MBA
7 35 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 34 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 33 (1.35%) PhD
10 31 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.98%) CISSP
12 22 (0.90%) CISM
13 19 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.65%) DV Cleared
15 15 (0.61%) HND
16 14 (0.57%) CIMA
17 13 (0.53%) OSCP
18 11 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.45%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (3.02%) GAAP
2 73 (2.98%) IFRS
3 64 (2.61%) SLA
4 60 (2.45%) PMO
5 38 (1.55%) QA
6 20 (0.82%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.65%) GDPR
9 13 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.29%) NIST
12 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.24%) NEBOSH
13 5 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.20%) IASME
14 4 (0.16%) COSHH
14 4 (0.16%) IEC 62304
14 4 (0.16%) ISO 13485
14 4 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.37%) Docker
2 9 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.082%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.20%) Ansible
1 5 (0.20%) Kiali
1 5 (0.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.12%) PaperCut
3 3 (0.12%) SafeCom
3 3 (0.12%) Terraform
4 2 (0.082%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.041%) Autotask
5 1 (0.041%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.041%) MOM
Vendors
1 401 (16.35%) Salesforce
2 230 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 99 (4.04%) SAP
4 91 (3.71%) CA
5 31 (1.26%) Cisco
6 22 (0.90%) Oracle
7 20 (0.82%) HubSpot
8 18 (0.73%) Juniper
8 18 (0.73%) YouTube
9 17 (0.69%) Dell
9 17 (0.69%) Fortinet
10 15 (0.61%) Google
11 13 (0.53%) 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