Business Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Business Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Business Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 341 560
Rank change year-on-year +173 +219 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Manager 1,018 415 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.56% 0.86% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 0.96% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 657 126 218
10th Percentile £28,119 £36,250 £39,450
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,593 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% -0.91% -2.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,375 £76,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% -7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Business Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Business Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Business Manager in the UK excluding London

Business Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Business Manager in the UK excluding London

Business Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Business Manager in the UK excluding London

Business Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
North of England +170 325 £52,500 +5.00% 42
Midlands +127 245 £40,000 -30.43% 39
South East +30 222 £47,500 -13.64% 50
West Midlands +120 188 £38,500 -37.14% 22
North West +87 164 £50,000 - 26
Yorkshire +154 151 £55,000 +38.80% 13
Scotland +26 98 £53,445 +0.37% 4
East Midlands +4 54 £40,000 -27.27% 17
East of England +19 53 £45,000 -18.18% 11
South West +14 47 £56,850 +6.22% 19
Wales +52 34 £35,700 - 4
Northern Ireland +25 15 £57,500 - 1
North East -2 10 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Business Manager
UK

Business Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Business Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Business Manager in the job title.

1 768 (75.44%) Business Development
2 328 (32.22%) Social Skills
3 218 (21.41%) Finance
4 193 (18.96%) Retail
5 192 (18.86%) CRM
6 186 (18.27%) Microsoft Office
7 185 (18.17%) Decision-Making
8 175 (17.19%) Microsoft Excel
9 171 (16.80%) Salesforce
10 166 (16.31%) Microsoft
11 151 (14.83%) Logistics
12 144 (14.15%) Contract Negotiation
13 129 (12.67%) B2B
14 127 (12.48%) Client Onboarding
15 126 (12.38%) Strategic Planning
16 125 (12.28%) Customer Experience
17 114 (11.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
18 109 (10.71%) Business Strategy
19 108 (10.61%) Marketing
20 86 (8.45%) Legal
21 77 (7.56%) Project Management
22 75 (7.37%) Driving Licence
23 69 (6.78%) Degree
24 64 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
25 62 (6.09%) Manufacturing
26 61 (5.99%) Telecoms
27 59 (5.80%) SAP
28 58 (5.70%) Value Proposition
28 58 (5.70%) Budgeting and Forecasting
29 55 (5.40%) Deadline-Driven

Business Manager Skill Set
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 14 (1.38%) Confluence
2 4 (0.39%) SAS
2 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.20%) Apache
3 2 (0.20%) CMS
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 186 (18.27%) Microsoft Office
2 175 (17.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 114 (11.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.098%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.098%) CATIA
5 1 (0.098%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 54 (5.30%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.29%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.098%) Odoo
4 1 (0.098%) Q-Pulse
4 1 (0.098%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.098%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 52 (5.11%) SaaS
2 25 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
3 22 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (1.87%) Azure
5 17 (1.67%) Power Platform
6 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 5 (0.49%) AWS
8 3 (0.29%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.29%) dbt
8 3 (0.29%) GCP
8 3 (0.29%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.20%) GitHub
10 1 (0.098%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.098%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.67%) VoIP
2 11 (1.08%) Broadband
3 8 (0.79%) Network Security
4 7 (0.69%) Unified Communications
5 6 (0.59%) Internet
6 3 (0.29%) Firewall
6 3 (0.29%) MPLS
6 3 (0.29%) VPN
7 1 (0.098%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.28%) Power BI
2 12 (1.18%) GIS
3 7 (0.69%) Tableau
4 4 (0.39%) Looker
4 4 (0.39%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.29%) Crystal Reports
5 3 (0.29%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.098%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.098%) MySQL
7 1 (0.098%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.47%) JIRA
2 2 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.098%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 328 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 218 (21.41%) Finance
3 193 (18.96%) Retail
4 108 (10.61%) Marketing
5 86 (8.45%) Legal
6 64 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
7 62 (6.09%) Manufacturing
8 61 (5.99%) Telecoms
9 48 (4.72%) Local Government
10 43 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
11 42 (4.13%) Public Sector
12 24 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.57%) Automotive
15 11 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.79%) Law
17 4 (0.39%) Military
18 3 (0.29%) Advertising
18 3 (0.29%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.59%) HTML
2 5 (0.49%) CSS
2 5 (0.49%) JSON
3 1 (0.098%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.37%) Driving Licence
2 49 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (3.34%) iPad
4 19 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 17 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 9 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (0.88%) NHS
6 9 (0.88%) Social Media
7 7 (0.69%) Data Centre
8 6 (0.59%) Digital Signage
9 5 (0.49%) CCTV
9 5 (0.49%) PMI
10 3 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.29%) Fat Client
10 3 (0.29%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.29%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.20%) FMCG
11 2 (0.20%) IoT
11 2 (0.20%) Life Science
11 2 (0.20%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (75.44%) Business Development
2 192 (18.86%) CRM
3 185 (18.17%) Decision-Making
4 151 (14.83%) Logistics
5 144 (14.15%) Contract Negotiation
6 129 (12.67%) B2B
7 127 (12.48%) Client Onboarding
8 126 (12.38%) Strategic Planning
9 125 (12.28%) Customer Experience
10 109 (10.71%) Business Strategy
11 77 (7.56%) Project Management
12 58 (5.70%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 58 (5.70%) Value Proposition
13 55 (5.40%) Deadline-Driven
13 55 (5.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 54 (5.30%) Active Listening
14 54 (5.30%) Change Management
15 52 (5.11%) Business Intelligence
15 52 (5.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (5.11%) Facilities Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (1.47%) SQL
2 8 (0.79%) JavaScript
3 5 (0.49%) Python
4 3 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.20%) C#
5 2 (0.20%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.20%) R
Qualifications
1 69 (6.78%) Degree
2 31 (3.05%) PMI Certification
3 30 (2.95%) PMP
4 14 (1.38%) APMG
5 8 (0.79%) ACCA
5 8 (0.79%) CFA
5 8 (0.79%) CIMA
6 5 (0.49%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.49%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.29%) APMP
7 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.20%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (5.30%) SLA
2 8 (0.79%) GDPR
3 7 (0.69%) QA
4 6 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.20%) PMO
7 1 (0.098%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.098%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.098%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.098%) PaperCut
1 1 (0.098%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 171 (16.80%) Salesforce
2 166 (16.31%) Microsoft
3 59 (5.80%) SAP
4 19 (1.87%) ServiceNow
5 9 (0.88%) YouTube
6 8 (0.79%) CA
6 8 (0.79%) Computacenter
7 6 (0.59%) Intel
8 5 (0.49%) Adobe
8 5 (0.49%) Sage
9 4 (0.39%) Dell
9 4 (0.39%) HP
9 4 (0.39%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.39%) Sophos
9 4 (0.39%) Veeam
9 4 (0.39%) VMware
10 3 (0.29%) Acronis
10 3 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.29%) Kaspersky
10 3 (0.29%) Meraki