Business Development Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 118 234
Rank change year-on-year +12 +116 +115
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 1,108 1,666 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.86% 2.27% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 2.75% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 412 1,017 262
10th Percentile £28,802 £28,119 £27,600
25th Percentile £30,580 £35,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -26.83% -8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,974 60,639 55,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.75% 82.65% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,037 41,817 28,998
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the UK excluding London

Business Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Business Development in the UK excluding London

Business Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Development in the UK excluding London

Business Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
East of England +66 290 £41,000 -21.90% 188
South East -13 255 £37,500 -11.76% 436
North of England -49 212 £40,000 -15.79% 624
Midlands -14 185 £30,000 -25.11% 346
West Midlands +17 155 £30,580 -23.66% 209
North West -78 129 £37,500 -31.82% 391
South West +68 105 £38,000 -24.00% 214
Yorkshire -7 59 £42,000 -6.67% 175
Scotland +27 39 £45,000 -35.71% 133
East Midlands -16 30 £29,000 -27.50% 131
North East +48 24 £35,000 - 62
Wales -3 15 £75,000 +110.08% 40
Northern Ireland +21 7 £87,500 +45.83% 33
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 51
Business Development
UK

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (0.54%) CMS
2 4 (0.36%) Drupal
3 3 (0.27%) Apache
3 3 (0.27%) GemFire
4 1 (0.090%) Moodle
4 1 (0.090%) Totara
Applications
1 165 (14.89%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.54%) SPSS
4 4 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
4 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.36%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 83 (7.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.36%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.18%) Line 50
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 48 (4.33%) SaaS
2 33 (2.98%) Power Platform
3 10 (0.90%) Azure
4 8 (0.72%) OCI
5 7 (0.63%) Boomi
5 7 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (0.63%) Snowflake
6 6 (0.54%) AWS
6 6 (0.54%) Google Analytics
7 5 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (0.45%) GCP
7 5 (0.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 5 (0.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 4 (0.36%) Figma
8 4 (0.36%) Google Workspace
8 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (0.36%) Miro
8 4 (0.36%) Slack
9 2 (0.18%) MailChimp
9 2 (0.18%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.99%) Intranet
2 8 (0.72%) Broadband
3 5 (0.45%) IP Telephony
3 5 (0.45%) Network Security
4 3 (0.27%) Internet
4 3 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.18%) WPA
6 1 (0.090%) LAN
6 1 (0.090%) Modbus
6 1 (0.090%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.090%) WAN
6 1 (0.090%) Wireless
6 1 (0.090%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.44%) Power BI
2 23 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 18 (1.62%) SQL Server
4 8 (0.72%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.54%) Tableau
6 5 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.45%) BigQuery
6 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.36%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.27%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.27%) Redis
8 3 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.18%) Big Data
9 2 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 18 (1.62%) Visual Studio
2 11 (0.99%) JIRA
3 4 (0.36%) Balsamiq
General
1 560 (50.54%) Social Skills
2 435 (39.26%) Finance
3 419 (37.82%) Marketing
4 253 (22.83%) Public Sector
5 97 (8.75%) Legal
6 72 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
8 48 (4.33%) Electronics
9 42 (3.79%) Law
10 36 (3.25%) Banking
11 35 (3.16%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.98%) Retail
13 25 (2.26%) Advertising
14 23 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.81%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.17%) Automotive
17 9 (0.81%) Local Government
18 8 (0.72%) Games
19 7 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 601 (54.24%) Business Manager
2 600 (54.15%) Development Manager
3 593 (53.52%) Business Development Manager
4 70 (6.32%) Customer Executive
5 69 (6.23%) Account Executive
6 40 (3.61%) Analyst
7 38 (3.43%) Business Development Executive
8 34 (3.07%) Senior
9 32 (2.89%) Consultant
10 28 (2.53%) Sales Executive
11 22 (1.99%) Lead
12 19 (1.71%) Architect
13 18 (1.62%) Developer
13 18 (1.62%) Portal Developer
14 17 (1.53%) Financial Analyst
15 16 (1.44%) Junior
16 14 (1.26%) Senior Manager
17 13 (1.17%) IT Development Manager
17 13 (1.17%) IT Manager
18 11 (0.99%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.71%) .NET
2 18 (1.62%) .NET Core
2 18 (1.62%) .NET Framework
2 18 (1.62%) JSON
2 18 (1.62%) React
2 18 (1.62%) XML
3 6 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (0.45%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.45%) EDI
5 3 (0.27%) ATL
5 3 (0.27%) Kafka
5 3 (0.27%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.27%) Middleware
5 3 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.27%) Spring
6 1 (0.090%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 83 (7.49%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (2.80%) Driving Licence
3 29 (2.62%) Social Media
4 27 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 18 (1.62%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
8 15 (1.35%) NHS
9 13 (1.17%) FMCG
10 9 (0.81%) SCADA
11 8 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.72%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.54%) Life Science
13 6 (0.54%) Product Ownership
14 5 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.45%) Private Cloud
15 4 (0.36%) Blog
15 4 (0.36%) EPoS
16 3 (0.27%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.36%) Windows
2 3 (0.27%) Linux
2 3 (0.27%) Unix
3 2 (0.18%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (21.39%) Collaborative Working
2 221 (19.95%) Collaborative Culture
3 213 (19.22%) Marketing Strategy
4 209 (18.86%) Facilities Management
5 176 (15.88%) Customer Service
6 155 (13.99%) Business Enablement
7 153 (13.81%) CRM
8 126 (11.37%) B2B
9 124 (11.19%) Business Strategy
10 123 (11.10%) Decision-Making
11 116 (10.47%) Technology Enablement
12 100 (9.03%) Value Proposition
13 96 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
14 87 (7.85%) Contract Negotiation
15 78 (7.04%) Active Listening
15 78 (7.04%) Agile
15 78 (7.04%) Deadline-Driven
16 77 (6.95%) Project Management
16 77 (6.95%) Time Management
17 72 (6.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 25 (2.26%) SQL
2 4 (0.36%) C#
2 4 (0.36%) C++
2 4 (0.36%) Python
3 3 (0.27%) Java
4 2 (0.18%) C
4 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
4 2 (0.18%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.090%) R
5 1 (0.090%) VBA
Qualifications
1 102 (9.21%) Degree
2 27 (2.44%) Security Cleared
3 22 (1.99%) ACCA
4 13 (1.17%) CIMA
4 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
5 12 (1.08%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.27%) CISM
9 3 (0.27%) CISSP
9 3 (0.27%) PhD
9 3 (0.27%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.27%) PMP
10 2 (0.18%) APMP
10 2 (0.18%) CRISC
10 2 (0.18%) HNC
10 2 (0.18%) HND
10 2 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.13%) SLA
2 11 (0.99%) QA
3 9 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.45%) GDPR
5 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.27%) NIST
6 2 (0.18%) COBIT
6 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.090%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.090%) GRC
7 1 (0.090%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.090%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.090%) NCSC
7 1 (0.090%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 174 (15.70%) Salesforce
2 127 (11.46%) YouTube
3 113 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 98 (8.84%) SAP
5 33 (2.98%) Oracle
6 20 (1.81%) Google
7 18 (1.62%) Intel
8 14 (1.26%) Dell
9 13 (1.17%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.99%) VMware
11 9 (0.81%) Sophos
11 9 (0.81%) Tenable
12 8 (0.72%) Facebook
12 8 (0.72%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.54%) Broadcom
13 6 (0.54%) Symantec
14 4 (0.36%) Cisco
14 4 (0.36%) EMC
14 4 (0.36%) Hyperion
14 4 (0.36%) Sage