Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,929 7,613 12,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.94% 7.68% 7.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.31% 8.03% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,416 4,425 6,749
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £47,025 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,168
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.23% +0.30%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Management 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management.

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +7 7,026 £52,500 -11.39% 3,091
UK excluding London +3 5,764 £50,000 -9.09% 2,259
Work from Home +15 2,982 £55,000 - 1,356
London +18 1,776 £65,000 -3.70% 1,023
North of England +14 1,471 £50,000 -9.09% 531
South East +1 1,368 £47,500 -13.64% 591
Midlands +1 1,142 £51,997 -5.46% 451
North West +18 823 £50,000 -9.09% 319
South West +9 753 £49,500 -10.00% 284
West Midlands +2 634 £55,000 - 295
Yorkshire +19 491 £50,000 -9.09% 159
East Midlands +6 468 £47,500 -13.64% 155
East of England +13 440 £50,000 -9.09% 246
Scotland -20 362 £50,000 -9.09% 168
Wales +3 161 £42,500 -22.56% 65
North East +4 157 £52,500 -4.55% 62
Northern Ireland +42 68 £42,500 -10.53% 22
Isle of Man - 8 £37,500 - 3

Project Management
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
1 364 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 154 (1.94%) Confluence
3 132 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 105 (1.32%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 51 (0.64%) IIS
7 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 39 (0.49%) WordPress
9 38 (0.48%) Apache Spark
10 35 (0.44%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
16 9 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
17 7 (0.088%) Joomla!
17 7 (0.088%) MS Project Server
18 6 (0.076%) IBM Notes
18 6 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 556 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 512 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
3 353 (4.45%) Microsoft Project
4 252 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 87 (1.10%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 49 (0.62%) Trello
8 44 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 17 (0.21%) SPSS
11 13 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
12 12 (0.15%) InDesign
13 10 (0.13%) Simulink
14 9 (0.11%) Sketch
15 6 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
16 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
17 4 (0.050%) InVision
Business Applications
1 71 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 46 (0.58%) Primavera
5 40 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 31 (0.39%) Shopify
7 28 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
8 27 (0.34%) Magento
9 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 20 (0.25%) NEC Housing
11 16 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
12 15 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
12 15 (0.19%) SAP HR
13 13 (0.16%) SAP EWM
13 13 (0.16%) SAP SCM
14 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.15%) SAP ERP
14 12 (0.15%) SAP MM
15 10 (0.13%) BPCS
15 10 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 954 (12.03%) Azure
2 565 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
3 554 (6.99%) AWS
4 425 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 360 (4.54%) SaaS
6 273 (3.44%) GCP
7 204 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
8 123 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
9 87 (1.10%) Entra ID
10 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 76 (0.96%) PowerApps
12 67 (0.84%) Power Automate
13 54 (0.68%) PaaS
14 53 (0.67%) IaaS
15 48 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (0.45%) Smartsheet
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (0.42%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 266 (3.35%) Firewall
2 178 (2.24%) WAN
3 154 (1.94%) DNS
4 133 (1.68%) VPN
5 110 (1.39%) Intranet
5 110 (1.39%) LAN
6 106 (1.34%) Internet
7 96 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
8 89 (1.12%) Network Security
9 86 (1.08%) DHCP
10 85 (1.07%) TCP/IP
11 68 (0.86%) SD-WAN
11 68 (0.86%) SSL
12 66 (0.83%) SAN
13 62 (0.78%) IPsec
14 61 (0.77%) SNMP
15 60 (0.76%) Wireless
16 54 (0.68%) BGP
17 51 (0.64%) 5G
18 46 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (4.21%) Power BI
2 173 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
3 171 (2.16%) SQL Server
4 120 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 100 (1.26%) Tableau
6 99 (1.25%) MySQL
7 83 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 79 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 79 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 74 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 73 (0.92%) Big Data
11 72 (0.91%) Looker
12 71 (0.90%) MongoDB
13 52 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 47 (0.59%) NoSQL
15 43 (0.54%) Data Lake
16 42 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
17 37 (0.47%) Data Mining
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 409 (5.16%) JIRA
2 94 (1.19%) Git
3 78 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 29 (0.37%) Postman
6 24 (0.30%) GitLab
7 22 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 13 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.13%) Selenium
11 10 (0.13%) Subversion
12 9 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.10%) JUnit
14 7 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.063%) gulp
16 4 (0.050%) InstallShield
16 4 (0.050%) MSI
16 4 (0.050%) Zephyr
General
1 3,403 (42.92%) Social Skills
2 1,948 (24.57%) Finance
3 1,285 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 682 (8.60%) Marketing
5 519 (6.55%) Presentation Skills
6 506 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 488 (6.15%) Retail
8 437 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
9 434 (5.47%) Manufacturing
10 398 (5.02%) Public Sector
11 377 (4.75%) Legal
12 265 (3.34%) Law
13 233 (2.94%) Telecoms
14 196 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
15 160 (2.02%) Banking
16 158 (1.99%) Aerospace
17 140 (1.77%) Billing
18 121 (1.53%) Local Government
19 114 (1.44%) Games
20 106 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,613 (32.95%) Project Manager
2 994 (12.54%) Senior
3 674 (8.50%) Lead
4 561 (7.08%) Analyst
5 557 (7.02%) IT Manager
6 542 (6.84%) Senior Manager
7 390 (4.92%) Architect
8 382 (4.82%) Consultant
9 380 (4.79%) Senior Project Manager
10 301 (3.80%) IT Project Manager
11 216 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
11 216 (2.72%) Developer
12 207 (2.61%) Digital Project Manager
13 178 (2.24%) Business Analyst
14 163 (2.06%) Technical Manager
15 159 (2.01%) Coordinator
15 159 (2.01%) Presales Manager
16 150 (1.89%) Engineering Manager
17 138 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
18 133 (1.68%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (2.32%) .NET
2 130 (1.64%) HTML
3 113 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 111 (1.40%) CSS
5 87 (1.10%) EDI
6 80 (1.01%) Spring Boot
7 75 (0.95%) React
8 60 (0.76%) YAML
9 58 (0.73%) JSON
10 55 (0.69%) XML
11 49 (0.62%) Spring
12 47 (0.59%) Web Services
13 46 (0.58%) RESTful
14 41 (0.52%) SOAP
15 39 (0.49%) AngularJS
16 37 (0.47%) Kafka
17 36 (0.45%) ASP.NET
18 35 (0.44%) jQuery
18 35 (0.44%) Laravel
19 31 (0.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 641 (8.08%) Management Information System
2 483 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
3 288 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 249 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 246 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 208 (2.62%) PMI
7 201 (2.53%) Driving Licence
8 170 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 115 (1.45%) NHS
10 112 (1.41%) Social Media
11 103 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 94 (1.19%) PKI
12 94 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
13 93 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 90 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 88 (1.11%) FMCG
16 76 (0.96%) IoT
17 68 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
18 58 (0.73%) Algorithms
19 52 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 463 (5.84%) Windows
2 329 (4.15%) Linux
3 174 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 86 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 60 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 57 (0.72%) Android
7 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
8 50 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 46 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 35 (0.44%) Unix
12 30 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.21%) VMS
13 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
14 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.10%) AIX
16 8 (0.10%) Solaris
17 7 (0.088%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,487 (31.37%) Agile
2 1,794 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
3 1,677 (21.15%) Project Delivery
4 1,137 (14.34%) PRINCE2
5 911 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 846 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 836 (10.54%) Mentoring
8 748 (9.43%) Change Management
9 746 (9.41%) Decision-Making
10 660 (8.32%) Risk Management
11 632 (7.97%) Actionable Insight
12 579 (7.30%) Coaching
13 538 (6.79%) Customer Service
14 536 (6.76%) Scrum
15 529 (6.67%) ITIL
16 526 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
17 520 (6.56%) SDLC
18 512 (6.46%) Roadmaps
19 498 (6.28%) Agile Project Management
20 476 (6.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 516 (6.51%) SQL
2 310 (3.91%) Python
3 193 (2.43%) JavaScript
4 171 (2.16%) C#
5 161 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 143 (1.80%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 83 (1.05%) C
9 63 (0.79%) C++
10 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
11 50 (0.63%) R
12 48 (0.61%) Bash
13 42 (0.53%) TypeScript
14 40 (0.50%) VB
15 29 (0.37%) VBA
16 23 (0.29%) Perl
17 21 (0.26%) Scala
18 19 (0.24%) MATLAB
19 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
20 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,027 (25.56%) Degree
2 710 (8.95%) Security Cleared
3 474 (5.98%) PMI Certification
4 418 (5.27%) SC Cleared
5 391 (4.93%) PMP
6 194 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 168 (2.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 165 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 143 (1.80%) DBS Check
10 142 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 121 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 120 (1.51%) APMP
13 118 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
14 97 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 97 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 83 (1.05%) HNC
16 75 (0.95%) CCNA
16 75 (0.95%) DV Cleared
17 70 (0.88%) HND
18 62 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 562 (7.09%) PMO
2 487 (6.14%) QA
3 170 (2.14%) GDPR
4 156 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (1.17%) SLA
6 86 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 84 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 76 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 58 (0.73%) NIST
10 40 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 31 (0.39%) NCSC
12 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
13 26 (0.33%) GRC
14 23 (0.29%) ITGC
15 21 (0.26%) GMP
15 21 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 21 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
18 18 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 295 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 216 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 121 (1.53%) Docker
5 61 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 43 (0.54%) Firmware
7 40 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.24%) vSphere
9 16 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.063%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.050%) pfSense
12 4 (0.050%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.038%) NFS
13 3 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.013%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.013%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 139 (1.75%) Ansible
2 121 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 79 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 74 (0.93%) Terraform
5 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
6 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 46 (0.58%) SCCM
8 38 (0.48%) WSUS
9 27 (0.34%) ZABBIX
10 24 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.25%) SCOM
12 18 (0.23%) Puppet
13 15 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (0.18%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.15%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.15%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.15%) VxRail
16 9 (0.11%) Nessus
17 8 (0.10%) PaperCut
18 7 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,511 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 321 (4.05%) Google
3 302 (3.81%) SAP
4 278 (3.51%) VMware
5 236 (2.98%) Oracle
6 182 (2.30%) Cisco
7 143 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 108 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 77 (0.97%) IFS
10 74 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 73 (0.92%) Adobe
12 72 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 70 (0.88%) Dell
14 68 (0.86%) NetApp
15 63 (0.79%) IBM
16 60 (0.76%) NEC
17 59 (0.74%) Sage
18 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
19 52 (0.66%) HP
20 49 (0.62%) Veeam