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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 214 302
Rank change year-on-year +104 +88 -66
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,422 1,828 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.44% 1.80% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 1.88% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 666 782
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £33,050
25th Percentile £37,500 £44,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,250 £118,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%

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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +90 2,081 £40,060 -33.23% 1,374
UK excluding London +99 1,589 £45,000 -10.00% 876
Work from Home +126 1,100 £40,000 -38.46% 513
London +89 669 £40,000 -41.18% 520
South East +43 511 £40,000 -15.79% 212
North of England +140 352 £47,500 +26.67% 252
Midlands +128 279 £40,000 -27.27% 141
West Midlands +126 214 £40,060 -39.53% 99
North West +96 196 £50,000 -4.76% 153
South West -3 151 £50,000 - 121
Yorkshire +122 133 £45,000 +20.00% 69
East of England +49 128 £52,500 -8.70% 84
Scotland +14 125 £58,750 +20.51% 56
East Midlands +15 65 £40,000 -20.00% 42
Wales +41 61 £35,700 -32.00% 25
North East +20 25 £35,000 -51.72% 32
Northern Ireland +27 21 £60,000 - 9

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 (0.41%) CMS
3 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.21%) Appian
5 4 (0.17%) SAS
6 3 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.083%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.083%) Confluence
7 2 (0.083%) Drupal
7 2 (0.083%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.041%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 220 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.21%) SPSS
7 4 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.12%) Stata
9 2 (0.083%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.083%) InDesign
9 2 (0.083%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.083%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 50 (2.06%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.58%) SAP BPC
3 11 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.17%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.17%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.17%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.17%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.12%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.083%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
9 2 (0.083%) Relativity
10 1 (0.041%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.041%) Bloomberg AIM
10 1 (0.041%) Magento
10 1 (0.041%) SAP PLM
10 1 (0.041%) SAP SCM
10 1 (0.041%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 166 (6.85%) SaaS
2 121 (5.00%) Azure
3 96 (3.96%) AWS
4 35 (1.45%) GCP
5 33 (1.36%) Power Platform
6 30 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.50%) Asana
9 8 (0.33%) IBM Cloud
10 7 (0.29%) IaaS
10 7 (0.29%) Mavenlink
10 7 (0.29%) PaaS
11 6 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 5 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.17%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.17%) FinancialForce
13 4 (0.17%) MailChimp
13 4 (0.17%) OCI
13 4 (0.17%) SuccessFactors
14 3 (0.12%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.69%) Firewall
2 36 (1.49%) Unified Communications
3 35 (1.45%) Wireless
4 31 (1.28%) WAN
5 28 (1.16%) VoIP
6 27 (1.11%) SD-WAN
7 20 (0.83%) LAN
8 18 (0.74%) Broadband
9 17 (0.70%) Internet
10 12 (0.50%) Ethernet
11 11 (0.45%) Network Security
12 10 (0.41%) VPN
13 8 (0.33%) 4G
13 8 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.29%) 5G
15 6 (0.25%) DNS
16 5 (0.21%) SAN
17 4 (0.17%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
17 4 (0.17%) RS-232
17 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (1.20%) Power BI
3 22 (0.91%) Tableau
4 17 (0.70%) SAP BW
5 15 (0.62%) GIS
6 14 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 14 (0.58%) Metadata
6 14 (0.58%) SAP HANA
7 12 (0.50%) Data Vault
8 11 (0.45%) MySQL
9 10 (0.41%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.25%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.21%) CockroachDB
11 5 (0.21%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.17%) Big Data
12 4 (0.17%) DTS
13 3 (0.12%) Power Query
13 3 (0.12%) QlikView
14 2 (0.083%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (0.91%) JIRA
2 14 (0.58%) Git
3 7 (0.29%) Subversion
4 6 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.21%) Jaeger
5 5 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.17%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.083%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.041%) Appium
9 1 (0.041%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.041%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.041%) Grunt
9 1 (0.041%) gulp
9 1 (0.041%) Hudson
9 1 (0.041%) Selenium
General
1 881 (36.37%) Social Skills
2 602 (24.86%) Finance
3 471 (19.45%) Marketing
4 238 (9.83%) Presentation Skills
5 196 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
6 194 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 190 (7.84%) Public Sector
8 153 (6.32%) Retail
9 119 (4.91%) Telecoms
10 111 (4.58%) Billing
11 96 (3.96%) Manufacturing
12 85 (3.51%) Legal
13 78 (3.22%) Automotive
13 78 (3.22%) Local Government
14 69 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 62 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
16 58 (2.39%) Law
17 48 (1.98%) Banking
18 43 (1.78%) Aerospace
19 40 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 975 (40.26%) Development Manager
2 966 (39.88%) Business Manager
3 959 (39.60%) Business Development Manager
4 186 (7.68%) Senior
5 142 (5.86%) Architect
6 122 (5.04%) Consultant
7 99 (4.09%) Lead
8 96 (3.96%) Business Development Executive
9 86 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
10 75 (3.10%) Project Manager
11 74 (3.06%) Senior Manager
12 63 (2.60%) Audit Manager
13 61 (2.52%) IT Manager
14 47 (1.94%) Sales Manager
15 45 (1.86%) Analyst
16 43 (1.78%) Senior Architect
17 42 (1.73%) Business Systems Manager
18 38 (1.57%) Account Manager
19 36 (1.49%) Product Manager
20 35 (1.45%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (0.83%) .NET
2 13 (0.54%) Web Services
3 10 (0.41%) 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%) EDI
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%) JSON
8 4 (0.17%) React
8 4 (0.17%) Vue
8 4 (0.17%) WCF
8 4 (0.17%) WinForms
9 3 (0.12%) LINQ
9 3 (0.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (9.00%) Self-Motivation
2 106 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 79 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 63 (2.60%) Social Media
5 62 (2.56%) Driving Licence
6 60 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 52 (2.15%) NHS
8 48 (1.98%) IoT
9 47 (1.94%) Life Science
10 40 (1.65%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.45%) Blog
12 33 (1.36%) Housing Association
13 31 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 26 (1.07%) Client/Server
16 24 (0.99%) Cyberattack
17 21 (0.87%) Reinsurance
18 18 (0.74%) Raspberry Pi
19 17 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
20 14 (0.58%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (1.65%) Linux
2 37 (1.53%) Windows
3 22 (0.91%) Android
4 20 (0.83%) Apple iOS
5 15 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.12%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
2 343 (14.16%) CRM
3 314 (12.96%) Customer Experience
4 294 (12.14%) Client Onboarding
5 286 (11.81%) Decision-Making
6 275 (11.35%) Project Management
7 251 (10.36%) Coaching
8 216 (8.92%) Agile
9 203 (8.38%) Actionable Insight
10 202 (8.34%) Business Strategy
11 174 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
12 166 (6.85%) B2B
13 156 (6.44%) Mentoring
14 152 (6.28%) Collaborative Working
15 146 (6.03%) Analytics
16 104 (4.29%) Roadmaps
17 102 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence
17 102 (4.21%) Service Management
18 101 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
19 99 (4.09%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (1.98%) SQL
2 40 (1.65%) Python
3 27 (1.11%) C
4 25 (1.03%) Java
5 13 (0.54%) C#
6 11 (0.45%) R
7 10 (0.41%) C++
8 6 (0.25%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.21%) PHP
9 5 (0.21%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.041%) Ruby
11 1 (0.041%) Scala
11 1 (0.041%) VB
Qualifications
1 322 (13.29%) Degree
2 178 (7.35%) Security Cleared
3 138 (5.70%) SC Cleared
4 105 (4.34%) ACCA
5 60 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 39 (1.61%) MBA
7 35 (1.45%) DBS Check
8 34 (1.40%) AWS Certification
9 33 (1.36%) PhD
10 32 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 31 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 24 (0.99%) CISSP
13 22 (0.91%) CISM
14 19 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
15 16 (0.66%) DV Cleared
16 15 (0.62%) HND
17 14 (0.58%) CIMA
18 13 (0.54%) OSCP
19 11 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
19 11 (0.45%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (3.06%) GAAP
2 73 (3.01%) IFRS
3 63 (2.60%) SLA
4 60 (2.48%) PMO
5 37 (1.53%) QA
6 20 (0.83%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 16 (0.66%) GDPR
9 12 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.33%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.29%) NIST
12 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.25%) NEBOSH
13 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.21%) IASME
14 4 (0.17%) COSHH
14 4 (0.17%) IEC 62304
14 4 (0.17%) ISO 13485
14 4 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.37%) Docker
2 9 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.083%) 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 (0.12%) PaperCut
3 3 (0.12%) SafeCom
3 3 (0.12%) Terraform
4 2 (0.083%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.041%) Autotask
5 1 (0.041%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.041%) MOM
Vendors
1 356 (14.70%) Salesforce
2 241 (9.95%) Microsoft
3 98 (4.05%) SAP
4 91 (3.76%) CA
5 31 (1.28%) Cisco
6 22 (0.91%) Oracle
7 18 (0.74%) HubSpot
7 18 (0.74%) Juniper
7 18 (0.74%) YouTube
8 17 (0.70%) Dell
8 17 (0.70%) Fortinet
9 15 (0.62%) Google
10 13 (0.54%) NetApp
11 11 (0.45%) BT
11 11 (0.45%) Cadence
11 11 (0.45%) IBM
12 10 (0.41%) Logitech
13 9 (0.37%) Adobe
13 9 (0.37%) Pega
14 8 (0.33%) VMware