Business Development Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 213 275
Rank change year-on-year +118 +62 -51
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 2,855 1,632 2,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.63% 1.75% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 1.84% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,545 601 807
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -5.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £65,250 £80,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £115,000
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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +121 2,477 £45,000 -25.00% 1,494
UK excluding London +119 1,959 £45,000 -10.00% 955
Work from Home +131 1,068 £40,000 -38.46% 593
London +99 731 £40,000 -38.46% 593
South East +53 549 £45,000 -5.26% 219
Midlands +168 474 £40,060 -33.23% 160
North of England +140 443 £50,000 +33.33% 276
West Midlands +149 300 £42,500 -30.33% 101
North West +109 273 £55,000 -6.38% 159
East Midlands +81 174 £40,000 -20.00% 59
South West +24 153 £50,000 -13.04% 121
Yorkshire +105 150 £45,000 +28.57% 83
Scotland +21 148 £65,000 +36.84% 85
East of England +36 139 £52,500 -8.70% 75
Wales +49 65 £35,700 -35.09% 25
Northern Ireland +29 33 £57,500 - 20
North East +7 26 £35,000 -50.00% 36

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 12 (0.42%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.28%) CMS
3 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.21%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.18%) Appian
5 5 (0.18%) SAS
6 4 (0.14%) Confluence
7 3 (0.11%) IIS
8 2 (0.070%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.070%) Drupal
8 2 (0.070%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.035%) Umbraco
Applications
1 529 (18.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 485 (16.99%) Microsoft Office
3 184 (6.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.18%) SPSS
7 4 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.11%) Stata
9 2 (0.070%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.070%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.070%) InDesign
9 2 (0.070%) InVision
9 2 (0.070%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.070%) Sketch
10 1 (0.035%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.035%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 48 (1.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 14 (0.49%) SAP BPC
2 14 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.42%) Ripple
4 10 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 7 (0.25%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.14%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.11%) Misys Midas
10 2 (0.070%) HiPortfolio
10 2 (0.070%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
10 2 (0.070%) Relativity
10 2 (0.070%) SAP CRM
11 1 (0.035%) Endur
11 1 (0.035%) Magento
11 1 (0.035%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 173 (6.06%) SaaS
2 165 (5.78%) Azure
3 139 (4.87%) AWS
4 70 (2.45%) Power Platform
5 60 (2.10%) GCP
6 29 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (0.42%) Asana
9 8 (0.28%) Azure AKS
9 8 (0.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (0.28%) IBM Cloud
9 8 (0.28%) OCI
10 7 (0.25%) Mavenlink
10 7 (0.25%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (0.21%) IaaS
11 6 (0.21%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.21%) PaaS
12 5 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.14%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.14%) FinancialForce
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.58%) Firewall
2 37 (1.30%) WAN
3 36 (1.26%) Unified Communications
3 36 (1.26%) Wireless
4 34 (1.19%) VoIP
5 33 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 26 (0.91%) Internet
7 22 (0.77%) LAN
8 18 (0.63%) Broadband
9 12 (0.42%) Ethernet
10 11 (0.39%) Network Security
11 10 (0.35%) 4G
12 9 (0.32%) 5G
12 9 (0.32%) VPN
12 9 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.21%) DNS
13 6 (0.21%) WLAN
14 5 (0.18%) SAN
15 4 (0.14%) Bluetooth
15 4 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
2 58 (2.03%) Power BI
3 51 (1.79%) Tableau
4 36 (1.26%) Data Vault
5 19 (0.67%) Metadata
6 18 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 17 (0.60%) SAP BW
8 15 (0.53%) GIS
9 14 (0.49%) SAP HANA
10 10 (0.35%) MySQL
11 9 (0.32%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.18%) CockroachDB
12 5 (0.18%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.18%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.14%) Big Data
13 4 (0.14%) DTS
13 4 (0.14%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 24 (0.84%) JIRA
2 13 (0.46%) Git
3 6 (0.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.21%) Subversion
4 5 (0.18%) Jaeger
4 5 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.14%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.11%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.11%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.070%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.070%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.035%) Appium
8 1 (0.035%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.035%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.035%) Grunt
8 1 (0.035%) gulp
8 1 (0.035%) Hudson
8 1 (0.035%) Selenium
General
1 955 (33.45%) Finance
1 955 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 721 (25.25%) Marketing
3 455 (15.94%) Retail
4 413 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
5 263 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
6 211 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 209 (7.32%) Public Sector
8 145 (5.08%) Legal
9 128 (4.48%) Telecoms
10 113 (3.96%) Billing
11 90 (3.15%) Law
12 85 (2.98%) Manufacturing
13 79 (2.77%) Local Government
14 78 (2.73%) Automotive
15 72 (2.52%) Banking
16 71 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 59 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
18 53 (1.86%) Aerospace
19 43 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,232 (43.15%) Development Manager
2 1,060 (37.13%) Business Manager
3 1,053 (36.88%) Business Development Manager
4 221 (7.74%) Architect
5 201 (7.04%) Senior
6 140 (4.90%) Consultant
7 130 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
8 102 (3.57%) Lead
9 96 (3.36%) Business Development Executive
10 79 (2.77%) Senior Manager
11 74 (2.59%) Project Manager
12 66 (2.31%) Audit Manager
13 60 (2.10%) Data Architect
14 59 (2.07%) Business Systems Manager
15 57 (2.00%) Analyst
16 51 (1.79%) IT Manager
17 46 (1.61%) Senior Architect
18 45 (1.58%) Sales Manager
19 38 (1.33%) Developer
19 38 (1.33%) IT Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (0.81%) .NET
2 13 (0.46%) Web Services
3 12 (0.42%) React
4 10 (0.35%) HTML
5 9 (0.32%) AngularJS
5 9 (0.32%) CSS
5 9 (0.32%) Spring
6 8 (0.28%) ASP.NET
6 8 (0.28%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (0.21%) Kafka
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.18%) EDI
8 5 (0.18%) Middleware
8 5 (0.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.18%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.14%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.14%) jQuery
9 4 (0.14%) JSON
9 4 (0.14%) WCF
9 4 (0.14%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 235 (8.23%) Self-Motivation
2 104 (3.64%) Management Information System
3 75 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 67 (2.35%) Driving Licence
5 65 (2.28%) Social Media
6 60 (2.10%) NHS
7 59 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 52 (1.82%) Life Science
9 49 (1.72%) IoT
10 38 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 35 (1.23%) Blog
11 35 (1.23%) Operational Technology
12 33 (1.16%) Housing Association
13 31 (1.09%) Algorithms
14 26 (0.91%) Client/Server
14 26 (0.91%) Mobile App
15 22 (0.77%) Cyberattack
16 21 (0.74%) Reinsurance
17 19 (0.67%) Blockchain
18 18 (0.63%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 49 (1.72%) Windows
2 40 (1.40%) Linux
3 22 (0.77%) Android
4 20 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.32%) Windows Vista
7 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.035%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (16.53%) Agile
2 413 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
3 383 (13.42%) Logistics
4 352 (12.33%) Decision-Making
5 346 (12.12%) CRM
6 325 (11.38%) Customer Requirements
7 304 (10.65%) Data Management
8 292 (10.23%) Commercial Awareness
9 259 (9.07%) Project Management
10 258 (9.04%) Coaching
10 258 (9.04%) Facilities Management
11 254 (8.90%) Customer Experience
12 251 (8.79%) Financial Modelling
13 228 (7.99%) CAD
14 227 (7.95%) Client Onboarding
15 213 (7.46%) Business Strategy
16 203 (7.11%) Actionable Insight
17 193 (6.76%) Analytics
18 183 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
19 164 (5.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (1.65%) SQL
2 42 (1.47%) Python
3 39 (1.37%) Java
4 27 (0.95%) C
5 21 (0.74%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.63%) C#
7 11 (0.39%) R
8 10 (0.35%) C++
9 8 (0.28%) Rust
9 8 (0.28%) Solidity
10 5 (0.18%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.18%) Scala
11 4 (0.14%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.14%) Go
11 4 (0.14%) PHP
12 1 (0.035%) Ruby
12 1 (0.035%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 313 (10.96%) Degree
2 191 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 150 (5.25%) SC Cleared
4 114 (3.99%) ACCA
5 48 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 41 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.30%) DBS Check
8 34 (1.19%) PhD
9 33 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 27 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (0.91%) MBA
12 22 (0.77%) CISSP
12 22 (0.77%) DV Cleared
13 20 (0.70%) CIMA
13 20 (0.70%) CISM
14 16 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
15 15 (0.53%) HND
16 12 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.39%) HNC
18 10 (0.35%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (2.59%) GAAP
2 73 (2.56%) IFRS
3 61 (2.14%) SLA
4 60 (2.10%) PMO
5 34 (1.19%) QA
6 20 (0.70%) JSP 440
7 17 (0.60%) GDPR
8 14 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.49%) NIST
9 9 (0.32%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.28%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.21%) IASME
12 6 (0.21%) NEBOSH
12 6 (0.21%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.14%) COSHH
13 4 (0.14%) IEC 62304
13 4 (0.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 29 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.81%) Docker
3 10 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.070%) Firmware
5 2 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.035%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.28%) Terraform
3 5 (0.18%) Ansible
3 5 (0.18%) Kiali
4 4 (0.14%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.11%) PaperCut
5 3 (0.11%) SafeCom
6 2 (0.070%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.035%) Autotask
7 1 (0.035%) MOM
Vendors
1 564 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 288 (10.09%) Salesforce
3 103 (3.61%) SAP
4 95 (3.33%) CA
5 33 (1.16%) Cisco
5 33 (1.16%) YouTube
6 31 (1.09%) Oracle
7 19 (0.67%) Juniper
8 18 (0.63%) Dell
8 18 (0.63%) Fortinet
8 18 (0.63%) NetApp
9 16 (0.56%) Google
9 16 (0.56%) HubSpot
10 11 (0.39%) Adobe
10 11 (0.39%) BT
10 11 (0.39%) Cadence
10 11 (0.39%) IBM
10 11 (0.39%) VMware
11 10 (0.35%) Intel
11 10 (0.35%) Pega