Business Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Business Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Business Development over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 213 295
Rank change year-on-year +103 +82 -64
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,391 1,887 2,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.45% 1.79% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 1.87% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 723 792
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,060 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.70% -12.50% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Business Development in the UK

Business Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Development over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 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
England +94 2,060 £40,000 -35.64% 1,318
UK excluding London +103 1,569 £40,060 -23.70% 843
Work from Home +140 1,125 £40,000 -38.46% 516
London +73 666 £40,000 -42.45% 496
South East +67 531 £40,000 -20.79% 200
North of England +132 328 £45,000 - 237
Midlands +126 269 £40,000 -30.43% 142
West Midlands +127 212 £40,060 -46.59% 93
North West +77 172 £47,500 -24.00% 144
South West -8 151 £50,000 -9.09% 123
Yorkshire +121 132 £45,000 +20.00% 72
East of England +66 125 £50,000 -13.04% 79
Scotland +14 125 £52,500 +5.00% 56
Wales +28 58 £35,700 -32.00% 23
East Midlands +9 57 £38,000 -27.62% 49
North East +26 25 £35,000 -51.72% 24
Northern Ireland +24 19 £60,000 - 11

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (0.54%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.42%) CMS
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.21%) Appian
5 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.17%) SAS
6 3 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.084%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.084%) Confluence
7 2 (0.084%) Drupal
7 2 (0.084%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.042%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 198 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 158 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.21%) SPSS
7 4 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.13%) Stata
9 2 (0.084%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.084%) InDesign
9 2 (0.084%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.084%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.042%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 53 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.59%) SAP BPC
3 11 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (0.17%) SAP HCM
6 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.13%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.13%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.084%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
8 2 (0.084%) Relativity
9 1 (0.042%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.042%) Bloomberg AIM
9 1 (0.042%) HiPortfolio
9 1 (0.042%) Magento
9 1 (0.042%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.042%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 169 (7.07%) SaaS
2 101 (4.22%) Azure
3 80 (3.35%) AWS
4 32 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (1.21%) GCP
6 18 (0.75%) Power Platform
7 13 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.50%) Asana
9 8 (0.33%) IaaS
9 8 (0.33%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (0.33%) PaaS
10 7 (0.29%) Mavenlink
11 6 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.17%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.17%) FinancialForce
12 4 (0.17%) MailChimp
12 4 (0.17%) OCI
12 4 (0.17%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.71%) Firewall
2 37 (1.55%) Unified Communications
3 34 (1.42%) Wireless
4 32 (1.34%) WAN
5 29 (1.21%) VoIP
6 28 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 19 (0.79%) LAN
8 18 (0.75%) Broadband
8 18 (0.75%) Internet
9 12 (0.50%) Ethernet
9 12 (0.50%) Network Security
10 10 (0.42%) VPN
11 8 (0.33%) 4G
12 7 (0.29%) 5G
12 7 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.25%) DNS
14 5 (0.21%) SAN
15 4 (0.17%) Bluetooth
15 4 (0.17%) RS-232
15 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (0.71%) SAP BW
3 15 (0.63%) GIS
4 14 (0.59%) Power BI
4 14 (0.59%) SAP HANA
5 12 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.50%) Metadata
6 11 (0.46%) MySQL
7 10 (0.42%) SQL Server
8 7 (0.29%) Tableau
9 6 (0.25%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.21%) CockroachDB
10 5 (0.21%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.17%) DTS
12 3 (0.13%) Big Data
12 3 (0.13%) Power Query
12 3 (0.13%) QlikView
13 2 (0.084%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.084%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (0.92%) JIRA
2 14 (0.59%) Git
3 7 (0.29%) Subversion
4 5 (0.21%) Jaeger
4 5 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.17%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.13%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.13%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.084%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.042%) Appium
8 1 (0.042%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.042%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.042%) Grunt
8 1 (0.042%) gulp
8 1 (0.042%) Hudson
8 1 (0.042%) Selenium
General
1 863 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 573 (23.96%) Finance
3 436 (18.24%) Marketing
4 229 (9.58%) Presentation Skills
5 191 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 190 (7.95%) Public Sector
7 182 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
8 123 (5.14%) Telecoms
9 119 (4.98%) Billing
10 118 (4.94%) Retail
11 93 (3.89%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.26%) Automotive
13 77 (3.22%) Local Government
14 76 (3.18%) Legal
15 65 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
16 58 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
17 56 (2.34%) Law
18 44 (1.84%) Aerospace
19 41 (1.71%) Banking
20 37 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 990 (41.41%) Development Manager
2 989 (41.36%) Business Manager
3 980 (40.99%) Business Development Manager
4 189 (7.90%) Senior
5 122 (5.10%) Architect
5 122 (5.10%) Consultant
6 96 (4.02%) Lead
7 95 (3.97%) Business Development Executive
8 83 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
9 77 (3.22%) Senior Manager
10 76 (3.18%) Project Manager
11 67 (2.80%) Audit Manager
12 60 (2.51%) IT Manager
13 47 (1.97%) Sales Manager
14 41 (1.71%) Analyst
15 38 (1.59%) Business Systems Manager
15 38 (1.59%) Senior Architect
16 36 (1.51%) Product Manager
17 35 (1.46%) IT Development Manager
18 34 (1.42%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (0.79%) .NET
2 13 (0.54%) Web Services
3 10 (0.42%) HTML
4 8 (0.33%) AngularJS
5 7 (0.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (0.25%) CSS
6 6 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (0.21%) Kafka
7 5 (0.21%) Middleware
7 5 (0.21%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.21%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.17%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.17%) EDI
8 4 (0.17%) JSON
8 4 (0.17%) React
8 4 (0.17%) Vue
8 4 (0.17%) WCF
8 4 (0.17%) WinForms
9 3 (0.13%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (8.99%) Self-Motivation
2 102 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 83 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 60 (2.51%) Driving Licence
4 60 (2.51%) Social Media
5 59 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 51 (2.13%) NHS
7 47 (1.97%) IoT
7 47 (1.97%) Life Science
8 38 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 35 (1.46%) Blog
9 35 (1.46%) Housing Association
10 31 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 28 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.09%) Client/Server
13 23 (0.96%) Cyberattack
14 21 (0.88%) Reinsurance
15 18 (0.75%) Raspberry Pi
16 17 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
17 14 (0.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (1.63%) Linux
2 37 (1.55%) Windows
3 22 (0.92%) Android
4 20 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 16 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.13%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.13%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (14.97%) Customer Experience
2 344 (14.39%) Client Onboarding
3 342 (14.30%) CRM
4 320 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
5 270 (11.29%) Project Management
6 268 (11.21%) Decision-Making
7 247 (10.33%) Coaching
8 203 (8.49%) Actionable Insight
9 197 (8.24%) Business Strategy
10 190 (7.95%) Agile
11 173 (7.24%) B2B
12 169 (7.07%) Cybersecurity
13 157 (6.57%) Mentoring
14 133 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
15 108 (4.52%) Analytics
16 106 (4.43%) Service Management
17 102 (4.27%) People Management
17 102 (4.27%) Roadmaps
18 101 (4.22%) Artificial Intelligence
19 97 (4.06%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 48 (2.01%) SQL
2 40 (1.67%) Python
3 27 (1.13%) C
4 25 (1.05%) Java
5 12 (0.50%) C#
6 11 (0.46%) C++
6 11 (0.46%) R
7 6 (0.25%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.21%) PHP
8 5 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.042%) Ruby
10 1 (0.042%) Scala
10 1 (0.042%) VB
Qualifications
1 325 (13.59%) Degree
2 173 (7.24%) Security Cleared
3 136 (5.69%) SC Cleared
4 114 (4.77%) ACCA
5 62 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 40 (1.67%) MBA
7 32 (1.34%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.34%) PhD
8 31 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 28 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.13%) CISSP
12 22 (0.92%) CISM
13 19 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
14 16 (0.67%) DV Cleared
15 15 (0.63%) HND
16 14 (0.59%) CIMA
17 13 (0.54%) OSCP
18 11 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
18 11 (0.46%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.26%) GAAP
2 77 (3.22%) IFRS
3 66 (2.76%) SLA
4 60 (2.51%) PMO
5 37 (1.55%) QA
6 20 (0.84%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 17 (0.71%) GDPR
7 17 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.25%) NEBOSH
11 4 (0.17%) COSHH
11 4 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.17%) IASME
11 4 (0.17%) IEC 62304
11 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 30 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.38%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.29%) Docker
3 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (0.21%) Ansible
1 5 (0.21%) Kiali
1 5 (0.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.13%) PaperCut
3 3 (0.13%) SafeCom
4 2 (0.084%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.042%) Autotask
5 1 (0.042%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 409 (17.11%) Salesforce
2 224 (9.37%) Microsoft
3 97 (4.06%) SAP
4 93 (3.89%) CA
5 31 (1.30%) Cisco
6 22 (0.92%) HubSpot
6 22 (0.92%) Oracle
7 18 (0.75%) Juniper
8 17 (0.71%) Dell
8 17 (0.71%) Fortinet
9 14 (0.59%) Google
10 12 (0.50%) YouTube
11 11 (0.46%) BT
11 11 (0.46%) IBM
12 10 (0.42%) Cadence
12 10 (0.42%) Logitech
12 10 (0.42%) NetApp
13 9 (0.38%) Adobe
13 9 (0.38%) Pega
14 8 (0.33%) VMware