Business Development Job Trends

Business Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Business Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 36 84
Rank change year-on-year +30 +48 +155
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 10,264 3,004 2,899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 10.33% 6.13% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.02% 6.80% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,945 1,512 1,473
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -26.83%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Business Development job vacancy trend in the UK

Business Development
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Business Development

Business Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Development over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +31 8,905 £50,000 +11.11% 1,454
UK excluding London +27 7,813 £50,000 +17.65% 1,113
North of England +55 2,248 £45,000 - 304
London +39 1,828 £60,000 -7.69% 502
Midlands +36 1,795 £52,500 +29.63% 237
South East +35 1,594 £50,000 +11.11% 304
Work from Home +32 1,454 £45,000 +12.50% 549
North West +71 1,211 £50,000 +25.00% 167
West Midlands +23 1,116 £55,000 +79.86% 137
Yorkshire +37 782 £45,000 -10.00% 109
East of England +6 777 £50,000 +17.65% 101
East Midlands +55 678 £50,000 - 99
South West +24 620 £45,000 +18.42% 99
Scotland +41 521 £40,000 +5.26% 41
North East +14 260 £40,000 -11.11% 29
Wales +9 181 £38,000 -15.56% 25
Northern Ireland -25 83 £27,500 -38.89% 15

Business Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 15 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
2 6 (0.058%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.049%) CMS
4 4 (0.039%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.029%) SAS
6 2 (0.019%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.019%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.010%) Moodle
7 1 (0.010%) Resin
7 1 (0.010%) Totara
7 1 (0.010%) WordPress
Applications
1 135 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 74 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.039%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.019%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.010%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 90 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (0.34%) SAP PP
3 32 (0.31%) SAP IBP
4 30 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
6 10 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.078%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.078%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.078%) SAP WM
8 7 (0.068%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.068%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.049%) SAP PS
10 4 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.029%) Remedy ITSM
11 3 (0.029%) SAP BPC
11 3 (0.029%) SAP MDG
12 2 (0.019%) Distributed Ledger
12 2 (0.019%) LongView
12 2 (0.019%) SAP HCM
13 1 (0.010%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 355 (3.46%) SaaS
2 144 (1.40%) AWS
3 71 (0.69%) Azure
4 59 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
5 48 (0.47%) GCP
6 37 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (0.25%) Serverless
8 21 (0.20%) Power Platform
9 14 (0.14%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (0.12%) PaaS
11 10 (0.097%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (0.097%) SuccessFactors
12 9 (0.088%) Entra ID
13 8 (0.078%) IaaS
14 7 (0.068%) Amazon Bedrock
15 5 (0.049%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 5 (0.049%) OpenShift
16 4 (0.039%) Amazon ECS
16 4 (0.039%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (0.039%) H2O.ai
Communications & Networking
1 42 (0.41%) Internet
2 37 (0.36%) Unified Communications
3 20 (0.19%) Broadband
4 11 (0.11%) VoIP
5 9 (0.088%) Structured Cabling
5 9 (0.088%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.068%) Network Security
6 7 (0.068%) Wireless
7 6 (0.058%) BGP
7 6 (0.058%) DNS
7 6 (0.058%) IPsec
7 6 (0.058%) VPN
8 3 (0.029%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.029%) Firewall
8 3 (0.029%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.029%) WAN
9 2 (0.019%) Intranet
9 2 (0.019%) MVNO
9 2 (0.019%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.010%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (0.18%) Power BI
2 16 (0.16%) Big Data
3 15 (0.15%) DTS
4 12 (0.12%) GIS
5 10 (0.097%) NoSQL
6 9 (0.088%) Metadata
6 9 (0.088%) SAP HANA
6 9 (0.088%) Tableau
7 8 (0.078%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (0.078%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.078%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.058%) Apache Hive
8 6 (0.058%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.058%) HBase
9 5 (0.049%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.049%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.039%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.039%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.039%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.039%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (0.39%) JIRA
2 12 (0.12%) Git
3 6 (0.058%) GCC
4 4 (0.039%) Carbide.c++
5 3 (0.029%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.029%) Maven
5 3 (0.029%) PEAR
6 2 (0.019%) Appium
6 2 (0.019%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.019%) JMeter
6 2 (0.019%) Postman
6 2 (0.019%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.019%) rollup.js
6 2 (0.019%) Selenium
7 1 (0.010%) GitLab
7 1 (0.010%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.010%) MLflow
7 1 (0.010%) Vite
General
1 938 (9.14%) Social Skills
2 794 (7.74%) Finance
3 788 (7.68%) Marketing
4 481 (4.69%) Manufacturing
5 361 (3.52%) Retail
6 313 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 292 (2.84%) Law
8 264 (2.57%) Automotive
9 254 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 247 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 245 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
12 153 (1.49%) Legal
12 153 (1.49%) Local Government
13 137 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 129 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 120 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (1.06%) Banking
17 96 (0.94%) Aerospace
18 92 (0.90%) Electronics
19 90 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6,917 (67.39%) Business Manager
2 6,912 (67.34%) Development Manager
3 6,892 (67.15%) Business Development Manager
4 1,361 (13.26%) Business Development Executive
5 576 (5.61%) Senior
6 443 (4.32%) Sales Manager
7 382 (3.72%) Senior Manager
8 361 (3.52%) Consultant
9 331 (3.22%) Sales Business Development Manager
10 285 (2.78%) Senior Business Development Manager
10 285 (2.78%) Senior Development Manager
11 283 (2.76%) Senior Business Manager
12 251 (2.45%) Account Manager
13 165 (1.61%) Business Development Director
13 165 (1.61%) Development Director
14 163 (1.59%) Sales Executive
15 152 (1.48%) Recruitment Consultant
16 128 (1.25%) Lead
17 102 (0.99%) IT Manager
18 94 (0.92%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (0.35%) SAP Fiori
2 24 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (0.19%) Flash
4 11 (0.11%) RESTful
5 10 (0.097%) OpenAPI
5 10 (0.097%) Swagger
6 8 (0.078%) Kafka
6 8 (0.078%) LangGraph
7 7 (0.068%) EDI
7 7 (0.068%) Matplotlib
7 7 (0.068%) Seaborn
7 7 (0.068%) SOAP
7 7 (0.068%) Web Services
8 6 (0.058%) ATL
8 6 (0.058%) FastAPI
8 6 (0.058%) LangChain
8 6 (0.058%) Node.js
8 6 (0.058%) REST
9 5 (0.049%) Model Context Protocol
9 5 (0.049%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 533 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
2 259 (2.52%) Driving Licence
3 239 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 130 (1.27%) Life Science
5 92 (0.90%) FMCG
5 92 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
6 71 (0.69%) Data Centre
7 68 (0.66%) Social Media
8 53 (0.52%) CCTV
9 49 (0.48%) NHS
10 44 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
11 38 (0.37%) Cloud Native
12 34 (0.33%) Management Information System
13 33 (0.32%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (0.32%) Web Conferencing
14 32 (0.31%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.27%) AI Agents
16 27 (0.26%) Security Posture
17 25 (0.24%) Blog
18 21 (0.20%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 54 (0.53%) Windows
2 9 (0.088%) Linux
3 8 (0.078%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.019%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.019%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (7.79%) B2B
2 566 (5.51%) CRM
3 535 (5.21%) Decision-Making
4 407 (3.97%) B2B Sales
5 405 (3.95%) Logistics
6 397 (3.87%) Lead Generation
7 295 (2.87%) AI
8 293 (2.85%) Business Strategy
9 267 (2.60%) Telesales
10 257 (2.50%) Mentoring
11 227 (2.21%) Analytics
12 221 (2.15%) Cybersecurity
13 217 (2.11%) Customer Service
13 217 (2.11%) Problem-Solving
14 198 (1.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 182 (1.77%) Thought Leadership
16 179 (1.74%) Commercial Awareness
17 169 (1.65%) Agile
18 157 (1.53%) Value Proposition
19 153 (1.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (0.55%) Python
2 35 (0.34%) SQL
3 31 (0.30%) Java
4 11 (0.11%) C#
5 10 (0.097%) C
6 7 (0.068%) R
7 6 (0.058%) PHP
7 6 (0.058%) Ruby
8 4 (0.039%) C++
8 4 (0.039%) Embedded C
8 4 (0.039%) Embedded C++
8 4 (0.039%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.019%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.019%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.019%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.019%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.010%) Ada
10 1 (0.010%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.010%) Scala
Qualifications
1 290 (2.83%) Degree
2 109 (1.06%) Security Cleared
3 65 (0.63%) Master's Degree
4 41 (0.40%) SC Cleared
5 25 (0.24%) CISSP
5 25 (0.24%) DBS Check
5 25 (0.24%) MBA
6 23 (0.22%) CISM
7 19 (0.19%) ACCA
8 18 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 18 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (0.17%) CCSP
10 15 (0.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (0.12%) CIMA
12 11 (0.11%) HNC
12 11 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.11%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.097%) Postgraduate
14 7 (0.068%) DV Cleared
14 7 (0.068%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (0.43%) QA
2 31 (0.30%) GDPR
3 28 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (0.25%) NIST
5 24 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 22 (0.21%) GRC
7 14 (0.14%) SLA
8 12 (0.12%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.097%) ITGC
9 10 (0.097%) PMO
10 7 (0.068%) Basel III
10 7 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.068%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.049%) GMP
11 5 (0.049%) NCSC
12 4 (0.039%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.039%) IFRS
12 4 (0.039%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.039%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.029%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 12 (0.12%) Docker
2 10 (0.097%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.019%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.010%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
2 15 (0.15%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.078%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.058%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.039%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.039%) Terraform
6 3 (0.029%) Ansible
7 2 (0.019%) Grafana
7 2 (0.019%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.010%) Autotask
8 1 (0.010%) Puppet
8 1 (0.010%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 232 (2.26%) Microsoft
2 147 (1.43%) Salesforce
3 132 (1.29%) SAP
4 85 (0.83%) HubSpot
5 62 (0.60%) Dell
6 56 (0.55%) ServiceNow
7 46 (0.45%) Oracle
8 36 (0.35%) BMC
9 34 (0.33%) Google
10 30 (0.29%) HP
11 21 (0.20%) Foundry
12 15 (0.15%) Palantir
13 10 (0.097%) Databricks
13 10 (0.097%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.097%) YouTube
14 8 (0.078%) NEC
15 7 (0.068%) Adobe
15 7 (0.068%) Cognizant
16 6 (0.058%) IBM
16 6 (0.058%) Sage