Business Development Jobs in London

Business Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Business Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Business Development over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 102 192
Rank change year-on-year +35 +90 +60
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 550 689 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.33% 2.87% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 3.18% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 174 402 286
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +93.75% -38.46% -13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £79,688 £87,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £102,250 £106,250
England median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% -25.00% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,216 21,652 31,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.32% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,929 15,871 22,511
10th Percentile £41,700 £37,500 £42,789
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,055
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in London

Business Development
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Business Development in London.

Salary trend for Business Development in London

Business Development
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Development in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Development in London

Business Development
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Development within the London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
West London +8 50 £40,000 - 200
Central London -27 39 £83,750 +109.38% 119
South London +20 38 £38,000 -5.00% 5
East London 0 29 - - 27
North London -14 2 - - 1
Business Development
England

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (1.27%) CMS
2 6 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 58 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) Stata
Business Applications
1 7 (1.27%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.18%) Actimize
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 63 (11.45%) Azure
2 61 (11.09%) AWS
3 51 (9.27%) GCP
4 18 (3.27%) SaaS
5 12 (2.18%) Power Platform
6 9 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
8 6 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.09%) Google Analytics
9 5 (0.91%) Azure AI
9 5 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.91%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.91%) OCI
10 4 (0.73%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.55%) Collibra
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.36%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.36%) Pulumi
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.91%) Firewall
2 3 (0.55%) Network Security
2 3 (0.55%) VPN
3 2 (0.36%) DHCP
3 2 (0.36%) DNS
3 2 (0.36%) Internet
3 2 (0.36%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.36%) VLAN
3 2 (0.36%) VoIP
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) LAN
4 1 (0.18%) MPLS
4 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.18%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) WAN
4 1 (0.18%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.91%) Metadata
2 21 (3.82%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.73%) Power BI
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.55%) Tableau
5 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.18%) Big Data
6 1 (0.18%) GIS
6 1 (0.18%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.18%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 325 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 293 (53.27%) Finance
3 192 (34.91%) Marketing
4 83 (15.09%) Public Sector
5 68 (12.36%) Legal
6 65 (11.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (10.73%) Banking
8 54 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
9 33 (6.00%) Retail
10 31 (5.64%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (5.64%) Retail Banking
11 27 (4.91%) Advertising
12 25 (4.55%) Financial Institution
13 19 (3.45%) Law
14 15 (2.73%) Local Government
15 14 (2.55%) Publishing
16 12 (2.18%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.64%) Billing
18 6 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (0.91%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 184 (33.45%) Business Manager
2 183 (33.27%) Business Development Manager
2 183 (33.27%) Development Manager
3 72 (13.09%) Senior
4 60 (10.91%) Consultant
5 48 (8.73%) Architect
5 48 (8.73%) Customer Executive
6 34 (6.18%) Senior Manager
7 27 (4.91%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 27 (4.91%) Security Consultant
8 23 (4.18%) Associate Director
8 23 (4.18%) Managing Consultant
8 23 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (3.82%) Data Architect
10 19 (3.45%) Senior Architect
11 18 (3.27%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.55%) Head of Content
13 13 (2.36%) Recruitment Consultant
14 12 (2.18%) Lead
14 12 (2.18%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.55%) RSS
3 2 (0.36%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.18%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.18%) EDI
4 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.18%) J2EE
4 1 (0.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 84 (15.27%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (4.73%) Life Science
3 15 (2.73%) Social Media
4 13 (2.36%) Blog
4 13 (2.36%) Digital Media
5 10 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.45%) NHS
7 7 (1.27%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Licensing
9 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.55%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.55%) IoT
10 3 (0.55%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.45%) Windows
2 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (26.91%) Decision-Making
2 98 (17.82%) Agile
3 85 (15.45%) Collaborative Culture
4 82 (14.91%) B2B
5 70 (12.73%) B2B Sales
5 70 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
6 67 (12.18%) Contract Negotiation
7 63 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
7 63 (11.45%) Marketing Strategy
8 62 (11.27%) Collaborative Working
9 60 (10.91%) Facilities Management
10 59 (10.73%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 56 (10.18%) OpenUP
12 52 (9.45%) Analytics
12 52 (9.45%) CRM
13 50 (9.09%) Project Management
14 47 (8.55%) Asset Management
15 42 (7.64%) Data Strategy
15 42 (7.64%) Risk Management
16 41 (7.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (4.00%) R
2 16 (2.91%) Python
3 8 (1.45%) SQL
4 6 (1.09%) C
5 4 (0.73%) Java
6 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.36%) Ruby
7 2 (0.36%) VBA
8 1 (0.18%) ABAP
8 1 (0.18%) Bash
8 1 (0.18%) C#
8 1 (0.18%) Go
8 1 (0.18%) Groovy
8 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (13.45%) Degree
2 34 (6.18%) CISM
3 31 (5.64%) CISSP
4 24 (4.36%) Azure Certification
4 24 (4.36%) Master's Degree
5 21 (3.82%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.00%) Security Cleared
7 9 (1.64%) MBA
8 8 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (1.45%) CCSP
8 8 (1.45%) CISA
8 8 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.55%) CCSK
10 3 (0.55%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.36%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.36%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (2.00%) NIST
2 7 (1.27%) QA
3 6 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.09%) IFRS
3 6 (1.09%) IFRS 9
4 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.91%) GDPR
5 4 (0.73%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.73%) GRC
6 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.36%) NCSC
7 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) Basel III
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (0.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.18%) Ansible
3 1 (0.18%) Consul
3 1 (0.18%) Packer
3 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (13.45%) Salesforce
2 67 (12.18%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.09%) Google
3 17 (3.09%) Oracle
4 12 (2.18%) SAP
5 9 (1.64%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.09%) Ahrefs
6 6 (1.09%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (1.09%) Sitecore
6 6 (1.09%) VMware
7 5 (0.91%) Charles River
7 5 (0.91%) Databricks
7 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.91%) Workday
8 4 (0.73%) BT
8 4 (0.73%) eFront
9 3 (0.55%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.55%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) Pega