Business Development Jobs in the West Midlands

Business Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 82 222
Rank change year-on-year +11 +140 -16
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 152 223 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.55% 2.98% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.61% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 79 178 19
10th Percentile - £27,933 £39,500
25th Percentile £28,822 £31,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,580 £40,060 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% -38.37% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £44,750 £90,000 £88,000
England median annual salary £41,000 £42,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.53% -29.17% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,903 6,174 6,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.13% 82.45% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 4,565 3,154
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,905 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Business Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Business Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Business Development in the West Midlands

Business Development
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Business Development in the West Midlands

Business Development
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Business Development in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Business Development in the West Midlands

Business Development
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Business Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Staffordshire +18 68 £28,822 +2.50% 52
Birmingham -23 30 £75,000 +33.26% 103
Warwickshire 0 19 £30,580 -18.45% 23
Sutton Coldfield - 16 £30,580 - 1
Solihull 0 11 - - 4
Coventry -5 3 £47,500 +46.15% 15
Shropshire +17 2 £55,000 +41.03% 16
Dudley - 2 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 7
Business Development
England

Business Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 21 (13.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 82 (53.95%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (3.29%) AWS
1 5 (3.29%) Azure
1 5 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 5 (3.29%) GCP
1 5 (3.29%) SaaS
1 5 (3.29%) Snowflake
2 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (0.66%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (3.29%) BigQuery
1 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.63%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 49 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.95%) Finance
3 30 (19.74%) Marketing
4 18 (11.84%) Legal
5 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.63%) Local Government
9 2 (1.32%) Advertising
9 2 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Games
10 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (57.24%) Business Development Manager
1 87 (57.24%) Business Manager
1 87 (57.24%) Development Manager
2 18 (11.84%) Customer Executive
3 13 (8.55%) Lead
4 6 (3.95%) Architect
5 5 (3.29%) Data Architect
5 5 (3.29%) Lead Architect
5 5 (3.29%) Lead Data Architect
6 4 (2.63%) Analyst
6 4 (2.63%) Business Analyst
6 4 (2.63%) Business Development Executive
6 4 (2.63%) CRM Analyst
6 4 (2.63%) CRM Business Analyst
7 3 (1.97%) Civil Engineer
7 3 (1.97%) Development Engineer
7 3 (1.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (1.97%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (1.97%) Project Director
7 3 (1.97%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.66%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.29%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.29%) NHS
4 4 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.32%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.32%) Life Science
6 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.66%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.66%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (59.21%) CRM
2 84 (55.26%) Value Proposition
3 83 (54.61%) B2B
4 78 (51.32%) Active Listening
4 78 (51.32%) Deadline-Driven
5 26 (17.11%) Customer Value Proposition
6 20 (13.16%) Decision-Making
7 19 (12.50%) Contract Negotiation
8 18 (11.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 15 (9.87%) Agile
10 14 (9.21%) Project Delivery
11 12 (7.89%) Presales
12 11 (7.24%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (7.24%) Intelligent Automation
12 11 (7.24%) Project Management
12 11 (7.24%) Software Engineering
13 10 (6.58%) Mentoring
13 10 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (4.61%) Lead Generation
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (4.61%) Degree
2 6 (3.95%) ACCA
3 4 (2.63%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (51.32%) SLA
2 4 (2.63%) QA
3 3 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 100 (65.79%) Salesforce
2 85 (55.92%) SAP
3 5 (3.29%) Google
3 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.63%) Dell
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (0.66%) Facebook
6 1 (0.66%) YouTube