Business Development Job Trends in England

Business Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Business Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 37 81
Rank change year-on-year +31 +44 +156
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 8,724 2,545 2,586
As % of all permanent jobs in England 9.96% 5.86% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.47% 6.49% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,862 1,251 1,347
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -25.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -26.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Business Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,786 39,214 72,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.00% 90.35% 82.40%
Number of salaries quoted 45,806 22,355 52,169
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Business Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Business Development job vacancy trend in England

Business Development
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Business Development

Business Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Development in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Development in England

Business Development
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Development within the England region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
North of England +58 2,205 £48,000 +6.67% 295
London +42 1,785 £60,000 -7.69% 608
Midlands +36 1,748 £52,500 +31.25% 253
South East +34 1,574 £50,000 +11.11% 332
North West +71 1,200 £50,000 +25.00% 160
West Midlands +24 1,103 £55,000 +79.86% 149
Yorkshire +37 758 £45,000 -10.00% 102
East of England +7 758 £50,000 +17.65% 108
East Midlands +52 644 £50,000 - 103
South West +29 614 £45,000 +18.42% 150
North East +11 252 £40,000 -11.11% 34
Business Development
UK

Business Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
2 7 (0.080%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.057%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.057%) CMS
4 2 (0.023%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.023%) SAS
5 1 (0.011%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.011%) Moodle
5 1 (0.011%) Resin
5 1 (0.011%) Totara
5 1 (0.011%) WordPress
Applications
1 119 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.046%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 73 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.38%) SAP PP
3 32 (0.37%) SAP IBP
4 15 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.080%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.069%) SAP WM
8 5 (0.057%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.057%) SAP PS
9 4 (0.046%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.046%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.034%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.034%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.023%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.023%) Dynamics GP
11 2 (0.023%) LongView
11 2 (0.023%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.023%) SAP HCM
12 1 (0.011%) Sage 200
12 1 (0.011%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 291 (3.34%) SaaS
2 125 (1.43%) AWS
3 66 (0.76%) Azure
4 47 (0.54%) GCP
5 46 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
6 32 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (0.26%) Serverless
8 22 (0.25%) Power Platform
9 11 (0.13%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (0.13%) PaaS
9 11 (0.13%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (0.10%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (0.092%) Entra ID
12 7 (0.080%) IaaS
13 6 (0.069%) Amazon Bedrock
14 5 (0.057%) OpenShift
15 4 (0.046%) Amazon CloudSearch
15 4 (0.046%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (0.046%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (0.046%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 36 (0.41%) Unified Communications
2 33 (0.38%) Internet
3 21 (0.24%) Broadband
4 10 (0.11%) VoIP
5 9 (0.10%) Structured Cabling
5 9 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.080%) Network Security
6 7 (0.080%) Wireless
7 5 (0.057%) BGP
7 5 (0.057%) DNS
7 5 (0.057%) IPsec
7 5 (0.057%) VPN
8 3 (0.034%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.034%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.034%) WAN
9 2 (0.023%) Firewall
9 2 (0.023%) Intranet
9 2 (0.023%) MVNO
9 2 (0.023%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.011%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (0.21%) Power BI
2 15 (0.17%) DTS
3 14 (0.16%) Big Data
4 12 (0.14%) GIS
5 10 (0.11%) Metadata
6 9 (0.10%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.10%) Tableau
7 7 (0.080%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.080%) Hadoop
7 7 (0.080%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.069%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.057%) Apache Hive
9 5 (0.057%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.057%) HBase
9 5 (0.057%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.046%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.046%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.046%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.046%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.034%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 38 (0.44%) JIRA
2 9 (0.10%) Git
3 6 (0.069%) GCC
4 4 (0.046%) Carbide.c++
4 4 (0.046%) PEAR
5 2 (0.023%) Appium
5 2 (0.023%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.023%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.023%) JMeter
5 2 (0.023%) Maven
5 2 (0.023%) Postman
5 2 (0.023%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.023%) rollup.js
5 2 (0.023%) Selenium
General
1 764 (8.76%) Social Skills
2 660 (7.57%) Finance
3 656 (7.52%) Marketing
4 385 (4.41%) Manufacturing
5 307 (3.52%) Retail
6 262 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 256 (2.93%) Law
8 249 (2.85%) Automotive
9 215 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
10 209 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 205 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 129 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 127 (1.46%) Local Government
14 118 (1.35%) Legal
15 114 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
16 103 (1.18%) Banking
17 101 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
18 80 (0.92%) Aerospace
19 75 (0.86%) Advertising
20 73 (0.84%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 5,950 (68.20%) Business Manager
2 5,944 (68.13%) Development Manager
3 5,924 (67.90%) Business Development Manager
4 1,180 (13.53%) Business Development Executive
5 511 (5.86%) Senior
6 358 (4.10%) Sales Manager
7 322 (3.69%) Senior Manager
8 289 (3.31%) Sales Business Development Manager
9 285 (3.27%) Consultant
10 245 (2.81%) Senior Business Development Manager
10 245 (2.81%) Senior Development Manager
11 243 (2.79%) Senior Business Manager
12 173 (1.98%) Account Manager
13 153 (1.75%) Sales Executive
14 144 (1.65%) Business Development Director
14 144 (1.65%) Development Director
15 92 (1.05%) Recruitment Consultant
16 83 (0.95%) Technical Manager
17 75 (0.86%) Architect
18 71 (0.81%) Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
2 20 (0.23%) Flash
3 18 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (0.11%) RESTful
5 9 (0.10%) OpenAPI
5 9 (0.10%) Swagger
6 7 (0.080%) Kafka
6 7 (0.080%) Matplotlib
6 7 (0.080%) Seaborn
7 6 (0.069%) ATL
7 6 (0.069%) LangGraph
7 6 (0.069%) Web Services
8 5 (0.057%) .NET
8 5 (0.057%) FastAPI
8 5 (0.057%) Node.js
9 4 (0.046%) Keras
9 4 (0.046%) LangChain
9 4 (0.046%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.046%) TensorFlow
10 3 (0.034%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 431 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
2 207 (2.37%) Onboarding
3 204 (2.34%) Driving Licence
4 108 (1.24%) Life Science
5 88 (1.01%) FMCG
6 71 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
7 67 (0.77%) Data Centre
8 57 (0.65%) Social Media
9 54 (0.62%) CCTV
10 43 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
11 40 (0.46%) NHS
12 37 (0.42%) Cloud Native
13 32 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
14 31 (0.36%) Management Information System
15 28 (0.32%) Web Conferencing
16 25 (0.29%) Security Posture
17 19 (0.22%) IoT
17 19 (0.22%) Virtual Team
18 17 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
19 16 (0.18%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 52 (0.60%) Windows
2 8 (0.092%) Linux
3 7 (0.080%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.023%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.023%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (7.40%) B2B
2 453 (5.19%) CRM
3 438 (5.02%) Decision-Making
4 385 (4.41%) Logistics
5 339 (3.89%) B2B Sales
6 272 (3.12%) Lead Generation
7 246 (2.82%) Business Strategy
8 244 (2.80%) AI
9 211 (2.42%) Mentoring
10 194 (2.22%) Cybersecurity
11 179 (2.05%) Problem-Solving
12 177 (2.03%) Customer Service
13 174 (1.99%) Analytics
14 166 (1.90%) Thought Leadership
15 163 (1.87%) Telesales
16 159 (1.82%) Stakeholder Management
17 146 (1.67%) Value Proposition
18 134 (1.54%) Agile
19 127 (1.46%) Coaching
19 127 (1.46%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 55 (0.63%) Python
2 32 (0.37%) SQL
3 30 (0.34%) Java
4 10 (0.11%) C
4 10 (0.11%) C#
5 9 (0.10%) R
6 5 (0.057%) PHP
6 5 (0.057%) Ruby
7 4 (0.046%) C++
7 4 (0.046%) Embedded C
7 4 (0.046%) Embedded C++
7 4 (0.046%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.023%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.023%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.023%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.011%) Ada
9 1 (0.011%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.011%) Scala
9 1 (0.011%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 263 (3.01%) Degree
2 74 (0.85%) Security Cleared
3 62 (0.71%) Master's Degree
4 28 (0.32%) SC Cleared
5 26 (0.30%) CISSP
6 24 (0.28%) CISM
7 23 (0.26%) MBA
8 18 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 18 (0.21%) ACCA
8 18 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (0.19%) CCSP
10 15 (0.17%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.14%) CIMA
11 12 (0.14%) HNC
12 11 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.13%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.11%) Postgraduate
14 7 (0.080%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.069%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (0.47%) QA
2 25 (0.29%) NIST
3 24 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (0.25%) Data Quality
5 21 (0.24%) GDPR
5 21 (0.24%) GRC
6 13 (0.15%) SLA
7 10 (0.11%) ITGC
7 10 (0.11%) PMO
8 8 (0.092%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.092%) Basel III
8 8 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.080%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.057%) GMP
10 5 (0.057%) IFRS
11 4 (0.046%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.046%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.046%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.046%) NCSC
12 3 (0.034%) GAAP
System Software
1 10 (0.11%) Docker
2 9 (0.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.023%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.011%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
2 13 (0.15%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.080%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.057%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.046%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.034%) Ansible
6 3 (0.034%) Terraform
7 2 (0.023%) Grafana
7 2 (0.023%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.011%) Autotask
8 1 (0.011%) Puppet
8 1 (0.011%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 211 (2.42%) Microsoft
2 129 (1.48%) Salesforce
3 114 (1.31%) SAP
4 80 (0.92%) HubSpot
5 61 (0.70%) Dell
6 45 (0.52%) ServiceNow
7 36 (0.41%) Oracle
8 34 (0.39%) Google
9 32 (0.37%) BMC
10 23 (0.26%) HP
11 20 (0.23%) Foundry
12 14 (0.16%) Palantir
13 11 (0.13%) YouTube
14 10 (0.11%) Palo Alto
15 8 (0.092%) Databricks
15 8 (0.092%) NEC
16 7 (0.080%) Cognizant
17 6 (0.069%) Adobe
17 6 (0.069%) IBM
17 6 (0.069%) VMware