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 £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 224 363
Rank change year-on-year +41 +139 +199
Permanent jobs requiring a Business Manager 651 927 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.67% 1.31% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.38% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 256 733 254
10th Percentile £28,822 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £30,580 £38,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -29.96% +16.82%
75th Percentile £56,375 £60,000 £70,600
90th Percentile £69,375 £72,500 -
UK median annual salary £48,543 £45,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.87% -33.33% +8.00%

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 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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
South East +24 193 £61,250 +53.13% 251
East of England +108 149 £41,000 -20.00% 124
Midlands -9 110 £30,580 -30.91% 226
North of England -32 105 £50,000 - 285
West Midlands +13 98 £30,580 -20.57% 133
North West -34 66 £55,000 - 160
South West +90 48 £38,000 -27.47% 98
Scotland +73 33 £38,000 -27.62% 52
Yorkshire +10 22 £55,000 +10.00% 92
North East +51 15 £35,000 -12.50% 35
East Midlands -4 11 £52,500 - 86
Wales +10 8 £75,000 +110.08% 29
Northern Ireland +41 5 £40,000 -33.33% 13
Business Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, 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.

1 566 (86.94%) Business Development
2 317 (48.69%) Social Skills
3 262 (40.25%) Marketing
4 242 (37.17%) Finance
5 217 (33.33%) Public Sector
6 211 (32.41%) Collaborative Working
7 209 (32.10%) Collaborative Culture
7 209 (32.10%) Marketing Strategy
8 204 (31.34%) Facilities Management
9 116 (17.82%) Business Strategy
10 102 (15.67%) CRM
11 88 (13.52%) Value Proposition
12 86 (13.21%) B2B
12 86 (13.21%) SLA
13 84 (12.90%) Salesforce
13 84 (12.90%) SAP
14 78 (11.98%) Salesforce CRM
14 78 (11.98%) Deadline-Driven
14 78 (11.98%) Active Listening
15 69 (10.60%) Customer Service
16 63 (9.68%) Business Enablement
17 52 (7.99%) Technology Enablement
17 52 (7.99%) YouTube
18 51 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
19 46 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
19 46 (7.07%) Time Management
20 38 (5.84%) Roadmaps
21 37 (5.68%) Coaching
22 36 (5.53%) Stakeholder Management
23 35 (5.38%) Manufacturing

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 8 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.15%) Moodle
2 1 (0.15%) Totara
Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 78 (11.98%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.46%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (3.69%) SaaS
2 4 (0.61%) Power Platform
3 3 (0.46%) Azure
3 3 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (0.31%) GCP
4 2 (0.31%) GitHub
4 2 (0.31%) OCI
5 1 (0.15%) Algolia
5 1 (0.15%) Amplience
5 1 (0.15%) AWS
5 1 (0.15%) BigCommerce
5 1 (0.15%) Bloomreach
5 1 (0.15%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.15%) Cloudinary
5 1 (0.15%) Commercetools
5 1 (0.15%) Contentful
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Network Security
2 4 (0.61%) IP Telephony
3 3 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) VoIP
4 2 (0.31%) Wireless
4 2 (0.31%) WPA
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) LAN
5 1 (0.15%) Mobile Broadband
5 1 (0.15%) PBX
5 1 (0.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.61%) Power BI
1 4 (0.61%) Tableau
2 2 (0.31%) Big Data
2 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 9 (1.38%) JIRA
General
1 317 (48.69%) Social Skills
2 262 (40.25%) Marketing
3 242 (37.17%) Finance
4 217 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
6 35 (5.38%) Manufacturing
7 28 (4.30%) Banking
8 21 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.54%) Electronics
10 10 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.08%) Automotive
11 7 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.77%) Retail
14 4 (0.61%) Local Government
15 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.46%) Games
15 3 (0.46%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.15%) EDI
1 1 (0.15%) MACH
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.61%) Management Information System
2 16 (2.46%) Data Centre
2 16 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (1.69%) Driving Licence
4 9 (1.38%) Social Media
5 7 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.61%) FMCG
6 4 (0.61%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.61%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.46%) CCTV
7 3 (0.46%) EPoS
7 3 (0.46%) Robotics
8 2 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.31%) PMI
8 2 (0.31%) SCADA
9 1 (0.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.15%) CMDB
9 1 (0.15%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.15%) iPhone
9 1 (0.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.31%) Windows
1 2 (0.31%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (86.94%) Business Development
2 211 (32.41%) Collaborative Working
3 209 (32.10%) Collaborative Culture
3 209 (32.10%) Marketing Strategy
4 204 (31.34%) Facilities Management
5 116 (17.82%) Business Strategy
6 102 (15.67%) CRM
7 88 (13.52%) Value Proposition
8 86 (13.21%) B2B
9 78 (11.98%) Active Listening
9 78 (11.98%) Deadline-Driven
10 69 (10.60%) Customer Service
11 63 (9.68%) Business Enablement
12 52 (7.99%) Technology Enablement
13 51 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (7.07%) Time Management
15 38 (5.84%) Roadmaps
16 37 (5.68%) Coaching
17 36 (5.53%) Stakeholder Management
18 33 (5.07%) Sales Enablement
Programming Languages
1 6 (0.92%) SQL
2 2 (0.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (3.38%) Degree
2 17 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.31%) ACCA
5 2 (0.31%) APMG
5 2 (0.31%) CFA
5 2 (0.31%) CIMA
5 2 (0.31%) IIBA
5 2 (0.31%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.31%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.31%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
6 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.15%) CBAP
6 1 (0.15%) CITP
6 1 (0.15%) HND
6 1 (0.15%) PMP
6 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (13.21%) SLA
2 6 (0.92%) ISO 20022
3 3 (0.46%) GDPR
3 3 (0.46%) PMO
4 2 (0.31%) QA
5 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 84 (12.90%) Salesforce
1 84 (12.90%) SAP
2 52 (7.99%) YouTube
3 15 (2.30%) Microsoft
4 13 (2.00%) Oracle
5 9 (1.38%) HubSpot
5 9 (1.38%) Intel
6 8 (1.23%) Fortinet
6 8 (1.23%) Google
6 8 (1.23%) Tenable
7 5 (0.77%) Sophos
8 3 (0.46%) Workday
9 2 (0.31%) NetApp
9 2 (0.31%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.15%) Apple
10 1 (0.15%) Dell
10 1 (0.15%) Facebook
10 1 (0.15%) HP
10 1 (0.15%) LexisNexis
10 1 (0.15%) Veeam