Project Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 93 84
Rank change year-on-year +38 -9 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 3,102 1,965 2,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.08% 3.48% 3.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.30% 3.91% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,250 1,353 1,817
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,300 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
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 Manager 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 +67 832 £47,500 -13.64% 171
Midlands +56 659 £50,000 -13.04% 177
South East -3 613 £52,500 -10.55% 173
North West +79 456 £47,500 -17.39% 112
South West +21 411 £48,500 -7.62% 113
West Midlands +41 350 £50,000 -9.09% 104
East of England +47 289 £54,000 -2.70% 87
East Midlands +57 279 £49,990 -16.68% 73
Yorkshire +55 268 £47,500 -8.01% 41
Scotland -24 157 £50,625 +1.25% 70
Wales +51 118 £41,526 -24.50% 28
North East +39 108 £47,500 -11.63% 20
Northern Ireland +41 27 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Project Manager
UK

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Project Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 2,066 (66.60%) Project Management
2 1,095 (35.30%) Social Skills
3 938 (30.24%) Agile
4 856 (27.60%) Project Delivery
5 737 (23.76%) Finance
6 701 (22.60%) PRINCE2
7 579 (18.67%) Degree
8 443 (14.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 372 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
10 325 (10.48%) Risk Management
11 295 (9.51%) Change Management
12 280 (9.03%) Microsoft
13 269 (8.67%) Waterfall
14 253 (8.16%) Security Cleared
15 244 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
16 240 (7.74%) Decision-Making
17 228 (7.35%) SDLC
18 216 (6.96%) Agile Project Management
19 213 (6.87%) Business Case
20 205 (6.61%) Budget Management
21 204 (6.58%) PMI Certification
21 204 (6.58%) Manufacturing
22 200 (6.45%) PMP
23 197 (6.35%) Microsoft Project
24 194 (6.25%) PMO
25 192 (6.19%) Mentoring
26 187 (6.03%) Retail
27 185 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
28 184 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
29 181 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel

Project Manager Skill Set
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 43 (1.39%) CMS
2 38 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.48%) Confluence
4 12 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 10 (0.32%) SAS
6 7 (0.23%) MS Project Server
7 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.16%) Kentico
8 5 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
8 5 (0.16%) WordPress
9 4 (0.13%) Drupal
10 3 (0.097%) ColdFusion
11 2 (0.064%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.032%) Apache Spark
12 1 (0.032%) Umbraco
Applications
1 197 (6.35%) Microsoft Project
2 181 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 164 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
4 95 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (1.13%) AutoCAD
6 27 (0.87%) MS Visio
7 24 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.48%) Trello
9 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.064%) CATIA
9 2 (0.064%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.064%) InDesign
10 1 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.32%) Shopify
3 9 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.23%) Primavera
5 6 (0.19%) Magento
6 5 (0.16%) Maximo
6 5 (0.16%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.097%) Sage 200
9 2 (0.064%) C-CURE
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.064%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.032%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.032%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.032%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.032%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.032%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 101 (3.26%) Azure
2 71 (2.29%) SaaS
3 57 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (0.68%) AWS
7 20 (0.64%) Power Platform
8 19 (0.61%) Smartsheet
9 10 (0.32%) OCI
10 8 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 8 (0.26%) Slack
11 7 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.23%) Mavenlink
11 7 (0.23%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.23%) PowerApps
12 6 (0.19%) Basecamp
12 6 (0.19%) Google Sheets
13 5 (0.16%) Asana
13 5 (0.16%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
2 30 (0.97%) Wireless
3 23 (0.74%) Internet
4 22 (0.71%) LAN
5 21 (0.68%) Intranet
6 16 (0.52%) Firewall
7 14 (0.45%) WAN
8 13 (0.42%) Extranet
9 12 (0.39%) Network Security
10 10 (0.32%) LTE
10 10 (0.32%) TETRA
11 8 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.16%) Broadband
12 5 (0.16%) VoIP
13 3 (0.097%) 4G
13 3 (0.097%) 5G
13 3 (0.097%) DNS
13 3 (0.097%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.097%) WebEx
14 2 (0.064%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
2 15 (0.48%) Power BI
2 15 (0.48%) Tableau
3 10 (0.32%) Big Data
4 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.13%) GIS
5 4 (0.13%) Metadata
6 1 (0.032%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.032%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.032%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.032%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.032%) Impala
6 1 (0.032%) MySQL
6 1 (0.032%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.032%) Power Query
6 1 (0.032%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.032%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 117 (3.77%) JIRA
2 6 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.064%) JIRA Agile
3 2 (0.064%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.032%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,095 (35.30%) Social Skills
2 737 (23.76%) Finance
3 244 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (6.58%) Manufacturing
5 187 (6.03%) Retail
6 185 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 178 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
8 164 (5.29%) Public Sector
9 153 (4.93%) Marketing
10 117 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
11 113 (3.64%) Legal
12 108 (3.48%) Telecoms
13 104 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
14 79 (2.55%) Law
15 67 (2.16%) Games
16 53 (1.71%) Aerospace
17 50 (1.61%) Banking
18 44 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
19 43 (1.39%) Local Government
20 31 (1.00%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (1.23%) EDI
2 26 (0.84%) .NET
3 16 (0.52%) RESTful
3 16 (0.52%) SOAP
4 10 (0.32%) CSS
4 10 (0.32%) HTML
5 8 (0.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (0.23%) Flash
7 6 (0.19%) JSON
8 5 (0.16%) ADO
9 4 (0.13%) React Native
10 2 (0.064%) REST
10 2 (0.064%) Web Services
11 1 (0.032%) Leaflet
11 1 (0.032%) Middleware
11 1 (0.032%) Node.js
11 1 (0.032%) React
11 1 (0.032%) Spring
11 1 (0.032%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.032%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 179 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
2 134 (4.32%) Driving Licence
3 74 (2.39%) Renewable Energy
4 65 (2.10%) FMCG
4 65 (2.10%) PMI
5 64 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 61 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 48 (1.55%) NHS
8 38 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 30 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 19 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (0.61%) Life Science
11 18 (0.58%) Digital Signage
12 16 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
13 14 (0.45%) CCTV
13 14 (0.45%) Derivative
14 13 (0.42%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.39%) Fibre Optics
15 12 (0.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (0.74%) Windows
2 22 (0.71%) Android
3 12 (0.39%) Apple iOS
3 12 (0.39%) Linux
4 10 (0.32%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,066 (66.60%) Project Management
2 938 (30.24%) Agile
3 856 (27.60%) Project Delivery
4 701 (22.60%) PRINCE2
5 443 (14.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 372 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
7 325 (10.48%) Risk Management
8 295 (9.51%) Change Management
9 269 (8.67%) Waterfall
10 240 (7.74%) Decision-Making
11 228 (7.35%) SDLC
12 216 (6.96%) Agile Project Management
13 213 (6.87%) Business Case
14 205 (6.61%) Budget Management
15 192 (6.19%) Mentoring
16 184 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 177 (5.71%) Project Planning
18 173 (5.58%) Actionable Insight
19 172 (5.54%) Software Delivery
20 171 (5.51%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 24 (0.77%) JavaScript
2 8 (0.26%) Java
2 8 (0.26%) Python
3 6 (0.19%) SQL
4 5 (0.16%) C#
5 1 (0.032%) Ada
5 1 (0.032%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.032%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.032%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.032%) Scala
Qualifications
1 579 (18.67%) Degree
2 253 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 204 (6.58%) PMI Certification
4 200 (6.45%) PMP
5 168 (5.42%) SC Cleared
6 133 (4.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 123 (3.97%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 72 (2.32%) HNC
9 35 (1.13%) HND
10 33 (1.06%) DBS Check
11 31 (1.00%) DV Cleared
12 24 (0.77%) APMP
13 18 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.42%) CAPM
15 12 (0.39%) NVQ Level 3
16 11 (0.35%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.29%) RIBA
18 6 (0.19%) ACCA
18 6 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
18 6 (0.19%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (6.25%) PMO
2 72 (2.32%) QA
3 39 (1.26%) GDPR
4 35 (1.13%) NEBOSH
5 33 (1.06%) ISO 9001
6 24 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
7 18 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.42%) SLA
9 9 (0.29%) COSHH
10 8 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.26%) GMP
10 8 (0.26%) GxP
11 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.19%) GLP
13 5 (0.16%) ISO 13485
13 5 (0.16%) ISO 14001
14 4 (0.13%) IEC 62304
15 3 (0.097%) ISO 9000
16 2 (0.064%) Data Quality
16 2 (0.064%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (0.19%) Firmware
2 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.097%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.064%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.032%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (0.52%) SCOM
2 2 (0.064%) SmoothWall
3 1 (0.032%) FTK
3 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 280 (9.03%) Microsoft
2 52 (1.68%) SAP
3 38 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 35 (1.13%) Oracle
5 32 (1.03%) IFS
6 23 (0.74%) Google
7 22 (0.71%) Adobe
8 21 (0.68%) NEC
8 21 (0.68%) Progress
9 17 (0.55%) Workday
10 16 (0.52%) BT
11 14 (0.45%) CheckPoint
12 13 (0.42%) Cisco
13 10 (0.32%) Autodesk
13 10 (0.32%) Sage
14 9 (0.29%) VMware
15 6 (0.19%) Aruba
15 6 (0.19%) Facebook
15 6 (0.19%) Sitecore
16 5 (0.16%) ConnectWise