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 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 49 203
Rank change year-on-year +8 +154 -49
Permanent jobs citing Business Development 213 332 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.10% 4.06% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 5.02% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 111 184 22
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,119 £39,675
25th Percentile £29,411 £31,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,580 £38,750 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% -35.95% +2.98%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,438 £86,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £91,250 £94,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -25.00% -7.69%

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 3,702 6,619 5,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.71% 80.88% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,778 4,479 3,217
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +5 69 £30,000 +6.69% 51
Birmingham +6 54 £60,000 -14.29% 93
Warwickshire -30 19 £30,580 -15.06% 23
Sutton Coldfield - 16 £30,580 - 3
Solihull +6 15 - - 2
Shropshire +20 10 £50,000 +28.21% 19
Coventry +9 8 - - 12
Wolverhampton - 8 - - 8
Worcestershire +22 3 £50,000 +53.85% 13
Halesowen +11 3 £80,000 +88.24% 1
Herefordshire -8 3 - - 4
Dudley - 2 - - 4
Stourbridge - 1 £50,000 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.47%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 24 (11.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 77 (36.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.47%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (2.82%) Azure
2 5 (2.35%) AWS
2 5 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (2.35%) GCP
2 5 (2.35%) SaaS
2 5 (2.35%) Snowflake
3 3 (1.41%) OCI
4 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (2.35%) BigQuery
1 5 (2.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.47%) MySQL
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
General
1 76 (35.68%) Social Skills
2 71 (33.33%) Finance
3 38 (17.84%) Marketing
4 22 (10.33%) Legal
5 21 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.23%) Local Government
7 9 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.35%) Law
9 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.94%) Advertising
10 2 (0.94%) Games
10 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Retail
10 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.47%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 120 (56.34%) Business Development Manager
1 120 (56.34%) Business Manager
1 120 (56.34%) Development Manager
2 20 (9.39%) Customer Executive
3 12 (5.63%) Lead
4 9 (4.23%) Architect
5 7 (3.29%) Business Development Executive
6 5 (2.35%) Business Development Director
6 5 (2.35%) Data Architect
6 5 (2.35%) Development Director
6 5 (2.35%) Lead Architect
6 5 (2.35%) Lead Data Architect
7 4 (1.88%) Civil Engineer
7 4 (1.88%) Commercial Executive
7 4 (1.88%) Development Engineer
7 4 (1.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (1.88%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (1.41%) Oracle Architect
8 3 (1.41%) Project Director
8 3 (1.41%) SAP Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.47%) .NET
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.82%) Driving Licence
3 6 (2.82%) NHS
4 5 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.94%) Acoustics
6 2 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.94%) Life Science
6 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.94%) SCADA
6 2 (0.94%) Social Media
7 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.47%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.47%) LIMS
7 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.47%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Linux
1 1 (0.47%) Windows
1 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.38%) CRM
2 85 (39.91%) B2B
3 84 (39.44%) Value Proposition
4 77 (36.15%) Active Listening
4 77 (36.15%) Deadline-Driven
5 33 (15.49%) Agile
5 33 (15.49%) Customer Value Proposition
6 26 (12.21%) Decision-Making
7 21 (9.86%) Contract Negotiation
8 20 (9.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 14 (6.57%) Project Management
10 13 (6.10%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (6.10%) Presales
10 13 (6.10%) Project Delivery
11 11 (5.16%) Intelligent Automation
11 11 (5.16%) Mentoring
11 11 (5.16%) Software Engineering
12 10 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (4.23%) Customer Service
13 9 (4.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.82%) SQL
2 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (11.27%) ACCA
2 13 (6.10%) Degree
3 3 (1.41%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.94%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.47%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.47%) PhD
5 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (36.15%) SLA
2 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.88%) QA
3 2 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 98 (46.01%) Salesforce
2 81 (38.03%) SAP
3 5 (2.35%) Dell
3 5 (2.35%) Google
4 4 (1.88%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.88%) Oracle
5 1 (0.47%) EMC
5 1 (0.47%) Facebook
5 1 (0.47%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.47%) Siemens
5 1 (0.47%) SonicWALL
5 1 (0.47%) Sun
5 1 (0.47%) YouTube
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