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Business and Related Research Professionals

Business and related research professionals carry out a variety of research activities for the broadcast and print media, for the police and armed forces intelligence services, for national security agencies and in other non-scientific areas.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£19,726
£35,405
£59,625

New workers start around £19,726. Normal pay is £35,405 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £59,625.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 50,588 vacancies for this type of job

6.61%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Discusses possible changes that need to be made in terms of design, price, packaging, marketing and promotion etc. in light of market research with appropriate departments.

  • Manages and directs research, collates and interprets findings and presents results to clients.

  • Liaises with client to understand their market research needs, establishes an appropriate quantitative and qualitative market research methodology and prepares proposals outlining programmes of work and details of costs.

  • Deals with copyright issues and negotiates fees.

  • Liaises with client on the appropriate image/s to be used.

  • Researches images for clients in a wide range of media using specialist picture libraries and archives, museums, galleries etc., or commissions new images.

  • Presents findings in the required format, via written reports or presentations.

  • Provides support to criminal intelligence or to military or other security operations by gathering and verifying intelligence data and sources.

  • Provides administrative support for programme development such as booking facilities.

  • Briefs presenters, scriptwriters or journalists as required via verbal or written reports.

  • Research sources for accurate factual material, finds suitable contributors to programmes or print features and deals with any copyright issues.

  • Liaises with production team to generate and develop ideas for film, television and radio programmes.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Data Analysis

  • Biology

  • Project Management

  • Data Collection

  • Python (Programming Language)

  • Economics

  • Psychology

  • Physics

  • Research Experiences

  • Social Sciences

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Research

  • Communication

  • Management

  • Writing

  • Detail Oriented

  • Presentations

  • Innovation

  • Planning

  • Teaching

  • Self-Motivation

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Business Analytics

Edge Hill University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Ormskirk · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/112

Business and Management

University of South Wales

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Pontypridd · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 96/96

Business Management

University of Southampton

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Southampton · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Business and Management

Nottingham College

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 56/56

International Business

De Montfort University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Leicester · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Business Enterprise Top-up

University College Birmingham

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Variable · Birmingham · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Business & Management

Bournemouth University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Poole · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/120

Business

University of Portsmouth

HND · 2 Years · Full-time · Newport · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 48/56

Management

ESCP Business School

BSc · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 09/2025

Tariff points: 136/136

International Business

University of Strathclyde

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · Glasgow · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Business Management

University of Bolton

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bolton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Business Management

Liverpool Hope University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Liverpool · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Leadership and Management

SGS (South Gloucestershire and Stroud College)

HNC · 1 Year · Full-time · Bristol · 09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

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