Project Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 5,812 4,907 6,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.65% 8.68% 8.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 9.09% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,893 2,629 3,616
10th Percentile £31,269 £36,750 £34,990
25th Percentile £39,750 £44,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +6 1,479 £50,000 -9.09% 511
South East 0 1,398 £47,500 -13.64% 495
Midlands 0 1,143 £51,000 -7.27% 458
North West +11 837 £50,000 -9.09% 296
South West +8 762 £50,000 -9.09% 295
West Midlands -3 635 £54,000 -1.82% 286
Yorkshire +9 489 £50,000 -8.90% 151
East Midlands +3 468 £47,500 -15.56% 170
East of England +12 443 £50,000 -9.09% 241
Scotland -24 355 £50,000 -9.09% 160
Wales +4 163 £43,750 -20.28% 51
North East +6 153 £52,500 -4.55% 68
Northern Ireland +38 70 £43,750 -2.78% 22
Isle of Man -7 8 £37,500 -48.28% 2
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 253 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 111 (1.91%) Confluence
3 91 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 89 (1.53%) CMS
5 58 (1.00%) Apache
6 44 (0.76%) IIS
7 40 (0.69%) WebLogic
8 30 (0.52%) WordPress
9 18 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 16 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 15 (0.26%) SAS
12 9 (0.15%) Drupal
13 7 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.12%) MS Project Server
14 6 (0.10%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.086%) JBoss
15 5 (0.086%) Joomla!
15 5 (0.086%) Kentico
15 5 (0.086%) Kinematics
15 5 (0.086%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 408 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 369 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
3 293 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
4 170 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (1.02%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.98%) AutoCAD
7 40 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 30 (0.52%) Trello
9 17 (0.29%) Windchill
10 11 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.17%) Simulink
11 10 (0.17%) Sketch
12 8 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.12%) InDesign
14 5 (0.086%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
15 4 (0.069%) InVision
15 4 (0.069%) Solid Edge
15 4 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 37 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 36 (0.62%) Primavera
4 26 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 24 (0.41%) Magento
6 22 (0.38%) Shopify
7 17 (0.29%) NEC Housing
7 17 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 17 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 13 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
9 10 (0.17%) SAP WM
10 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.14%) BPCS
11 8 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.14%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
13 5 (0.086%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.086%) SAP Oil and Gas
13 5 (0.086%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 651 (11.20%) Azure
2 413 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
3 373 (6.42%) AWS
4 266 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 221 (3.80%) SaaS
6 195 (3.36%) GCP
7 156 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (1.26%) Amazon S3
10 54 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 54 (0.93%) Entra ID
11 53 (0.91%) PowerApps
12 43 (0.74%) Power Automate
13 41 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (0.46%) Smartsheet
16 24 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (0.41%) GitHub
17 22 (0.38%) IaaS
17 22 (0.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 185 (3.18%) Firewall
2 124 (2.13%) DNS
3 114 (1.96%) WAN
4 94 (1.62%) VPN
5 91 (1.57%) Intranet
6 87 (1.50%) Internet
7 74 (1.27%) Network Security
7 74 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 64 (1.10%) LAN
9 62 (1.07%) DHCP
10 61 (1.05%) SSL
11 56 (0.96%) SNMP
12 54 (0.93%) IPsec
13 53 (0.91%) SAN
14 51 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
15 49 (0.84%) SD-WAN
16 46 (0.79%) BGP
16 46 (0.79%) Wireless
17 39 (0.67%) 5G
18 26 (0.45%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (3.60%) Power BI
2 122 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 86 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.24%) BigQuery
5 72 (1.24%) Looker
6 71 (1.22%) MySQL
7 67 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 64 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
9 52 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 50 (0.86%) Big Data
11 46 (0.79%) Tableau
12 45 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 26 (0.45%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
14 21 (0.36%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
15 18 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 299 (5.14%) JIRA
2 79 (1.36%) Git
3 45 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.40%) GitLab
4 23 (0.40%) Postman
5 22 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (0.17%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.15%) Subversion
9 8 (0.14%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.14%) JUnit
9 8 (0.14%) Selenium
10 7 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.10%) AdminStudio
11 6 (0.10%) InstallShield
11 6 (0.10%) MSI
12 5 (0.086%) gulp
13 3 (0.052%) TestRail
13 3 (0.052%) Zephyr
General
1 2,488 (42.81%) Social Skills
2 1,334 (22.95%) Finance
3 898 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 414 (7.12%) Marketing
5 385 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
6 376 (6.47%) Manufacturing
7 374 (6.43%) Retail
8 365 (6.28%) Organisational Skills
9 361 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 270 (4.65%) Public Sector
11 247 (4.25%) Legal
12 205 (3.53%) Telecoms
13 187 (3.22%) Law
14 150 (2.58%) Aerospace
15 131 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
16 114 (1.96%) Billing
17 109 (1.88%) Banking
18 99 (1.70%) Local Government
19 95 (1.63%) Electronics
20 85 (1.46%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,066 (35.55%) Project Manager
2 702 (12.08%) Senior
3 495 (8.52%) Lead
4 417 (7.17%) IT Manager
5 379 (6.52%) Senior Manager
6 366 (6.30%) Analyst
7 294 (5.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 265 (4.56%) Architect
9 234 (4.03%) IT Project Manager
10 215 (3.70%) Consultant
11 156 (2.68%) Digital Project Manager
12 154 (2.65%) Developer
13 151 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
14 136 (2.34%) Coordinator
15 130 (2.24%) Presales Manager
16 127 (2.19%) Business Analyst
17 113 (1.94%) Engineering Manager
18 106 (1.82%) Technical Manager
19 105 (1.81%) Data Manager
20 101 (1.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.19%) .NET
2 105 (1.81%) HTML
3 102 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
4 96 (1.65%) CSS
5 76 (1.31%) EDI
6 65 (1.12%) Spring Boot
7 50 (0.86%) YAML
8 48 (0.83%) React
9 47 (0.81%) XML
10 44 (0.76%) JSON
11 35 (0.60%) Spring
12 34 (0.58%) jQuery
13 33 (0.57%) RESTful
13 33 (0.57%) Web Services
14 31 (0.53%) Laravel
15 28 (0.48%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.48%) SOAP
16 24 (0.41%) HTML5
16 24 (0.41%) Vue
17 21 (0.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 500 (8.60%) Management Information System
2 385 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
3 240 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 193 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 180 (3.10%) Driving Licence
6 164 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 145 (2.49%) PMI
8 120 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 80 (1.38%) NHS
10 79 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 79 (1.36%) FMCG
11 76 (1.31%) Mobile App
11 76 (1.31%) PKI
12 67 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
13 62 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
14 61 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 49 (0.84%) IoT
16 45 (0.77%) Life Science
16 45 (0.77%) Social Media
17 43 (0.74%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 356 (6.13%) Windows
2 264 (4.54%) Linux
3 138 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 49 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
6 43 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 41 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (0.65%) Android
9 37 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 26 (0.45%) Unix
12 16 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.28%) VMS
13 14 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.21%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.15%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.14%) AIX
17 8 (0.14%) Solaris
17 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,767 (30.40%) Agile
2 1,358 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
3 1,246 (21.44%) Project Delivery
4 843 (14.50%) PRINCE2
5 665 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 662 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 632 (10.87%) Mentoring
8 575 (9.89%) Change Management
9 522 (8.98%) Decision-Making
10 514 (8.84%) Actionable Insight
11 497 (8.55%) Risk Management
12 431 (7.42%) Coaching
13 427 (7.35%) Customer Service
14 403 (6.93%) ITIL
15 399 (6.87%) SDLC
16 386 (6.64%) Agile Project Management
17 374 (6.43%) Collaborative Working
18 367 (6.31%) Scrum
19 359 (6.18%) DevOps
20 356 (6.13%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 322 (5.54%) SQL
2 217 (3.73%) Python
3 153 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 130 (2.24%) C#
5 109 (1.88%) PowerShell
6 100 (1.72%) Java
7 81 (1.39%) C
8 76 (1.31%) PHP
9 56 (0.96%) C++
10 39 (0.67%) VB
11 28 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 26 (0.45%) R
12 26 (0.45%) TypeScript
13 25 (0.43%) Bash
14 24 (0.41%) VBA
15 19 (0.33%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.28%) Perl
17 15 (0.26%) VB.NET
18 10 (0.17%) RPG
18 10 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,419 (24.42%) Degree
2 588 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 347 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 324 (5.57%) PMI Certification
5 276 (4.75%) PMP
6 137 (2.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 135 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (1.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 100 (1.72%) DBS Check
10 91 (1.57%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 89 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 88 (1.51%) APMP
14 82 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 72 (1.24%) Azure Certification
16 66 (1.14%) HNC
17 56 (0.96%) CCNA
18 55 (0.95%) DV Cleared
18 55 (0.95%) HND
19 49 (0.84%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 461 (7.93%) PMO
2 334 (5.75%) QA
3 134 (2.31%) GDPR
4 109 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 83 (1.43%) SLA
6 60 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 56 (0.96%) ISO 9001
8 46 (0.79%) Data Quality
9 43 (0.74%) NIST
10 33 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
11 31 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 28 (0.48%) NCSC
13 27 (0.46%) NEBOSH
14 16 (0.28%) GMP
14 16 (0.28%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.26%) GRC
16 14 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 13 (0.22%) GxP
17 13 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 12 (0.21%) COSHH
System Software
1 213 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 171 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (1.70%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.55%) Docker
5 37 (0.64%) Firmware
6 26 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (0.26%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.086%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.086%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.069%) pfSense
14 3 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.017%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.017%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.017%) NFS
15 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 127 (2.19%) Ansible
2 89 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.17%) vCenter Server
4 57 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 46 (0.79%) SCCM
7 43 (0.74%) Terraform
8 27 (0.46%) ZABBIX
9 23 (0.40%) WSUS
10 21 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (0.36%) SCOM
11 14 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (0.22%) Puppet
13 12 (0.21%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.21%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.21%) VxRail
14 6 (0.10%) Nessus
15 5 (0.086%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (0.069%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,082 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 216 (3.72%) Google
3 204 (3.51%) VMware
4 177 (3.05%) SAP
5 158 (2.72%) Oracle
6 128 (2.20%) Cisco
7 94 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 81 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.05%) NetApp
10 59 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 57 (0.98%) IFS
12 55 (0.95%) NEC
13 54 (0.93%) Adobe
14 50 (0.86%) ServiceNow
15 49 (0.84%) SolidFire
16 45 (0.77%) Dell
17 43 (0.74%) Sage
17 43 (0.74%) Veeam
18 41 (0.71%) Sparx
19 35 (0.60%) Citrix