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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,962 7,704 12,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.03% 7.63% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 7.98% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,432 4,467 6,672
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,016 £47,025 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.60% +0.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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 10 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 10 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 7,055 £52,500 -10.83% 2,992
UK excluding London +4 5,777 £50,000 -9.09% 2,155
Work from Home +15 2,988 £55,000 -1.64% 1,311
London +17 1,791 £65,000 -3.70% 931
North of England +14 1,470 £50,000 -9.09% 510
South East 0 1,375 £47,500 -13.64% 537
Midlands +3 1,144 £52,124 -5.23% 421
North West +15 823 £50,000 -9.09% 318
South West +11 753 £48,500 -11.82% 304
West Midlands 0 637 £55,000 - 267
Yorkshire +21 491 £50,500 -7.98% 149
East Midlands +4 467 £47,500 -13.64% 153
East of England +14 443 £50,000 -9.09% 246
Scotland -20 363 £50,000 -9.09% 155
Wales +6 162 £42,500 -22.56% 58
North East +6 156 £52,500 -4.55% 50
Northern Ireland +44 68 £42,500 -10.53% 21
Isle of Man - 8 £37,500 -

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
1 368 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 154 (1.93%) Confluence
3 133 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 105 (1.32%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 51 (0.64%) IIS
7 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 41 (0.51%) Apache Spark
9 39 (0.49%) WordPress
10 36 (0.45%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 13 (0.16%) 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 (0.075%) IBM Notes
18 6 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 547 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 508 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 352 (4.42%) Microsoft Project
4 248 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 86 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 49 (0.62%) Trello
8 44 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 16 (0.20%) 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 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
16 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
17 4 (0.050%) InVision
Business Applications
1 74 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (0.74%) 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%) Magento
7 28 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
8 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 18 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 17 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
11 15 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 15 (0.19%) SAP HR
12 14 (0.18%) SAP ERP
13 13 (0.16%) SAP EWM
13 13 (0.16%) SAP SCM
14 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.15%) SAP MM
15 10 (0.13%) SAP FI
15 10 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 957 (12.02%) Azure
2 566 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
3 552 (6.93%) AWS
4 429 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 362 (4.55%) SaaS
6 275 (3.45%) GCP
7 206 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 126 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 88 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
10 85 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 76 (0.95%) PowerApps
13 67 (0.84%) Power Automate
14 54 (0.68%) PaaS
15 53 (0.67%) IaaS
16 48 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
17 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (0.45%) Smartsheet
19 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
20 33 (0.41%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 268 (3.37%) Firewall
2 182 (2.29%) WAN
3 153 (1.92%) DNS
4 134 (1.68%) VPN
5 111 (1.39%) Intranet
5 111 (1.39%) LAN
6 106 (1.33%) Internet
7 98 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
8 90 (1.13%) Network Security
9 86 (1.08%) DHCP
10 85 (1.07%) TCP/IP
11 70 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 68 (0.85%) SSL
13 67 (0.84%) SAN
14 62 (0.78%) IPsec
14 62 (0.78%) Wireless
15 61 (0.77%) SNMP
16 54 (0.68%) BGP
17 52 (0.65%) 5G
18 46 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (4.18%) Power BI
2 176 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 174 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
4 121 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 102 (1.28%) MySQL
6 101 (1.27%) Tableau
7 83 (1.04%) BigQuery
8 82 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 79 (0.99%) RDBMS
10 74 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 73 (0.92%) Big Data
12 72 (0.90%) Looker
13 71 (0.89%) MongoDB
14 52 (0.65%) Oracle Database
15 47 (0.59%) NoSQL
16 44 (0.55%) Data Lake
17 43 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
18 42 (0.53%) Data Mining
19 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
19 34 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 411 (5.16%) JIRA
2 94 (1.18%) Git
3 79 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 29 (0.36%) Postman
6 24 (0.30%) GitLab
7 22 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 15 (0.19%) 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%) LabVIEW
16 4 (0.050%) MSI
16 4 (0.050%) Zephyr
General
1 3,414 (42.88%) Social Skills
2 1,957 (24.58%) Finance
3 1,305 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 676 (8.49%) Marketing
5 516 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
6 503 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 489 (6.14%) Retail
8 443 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 442 (5.55%) Organisational Skills
10 402 (5.05%) Public Sector
11 372 (4.67%) Legal
12 267 (3.35%) Law
13 235 (2.95%) Telecoms
14 197 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
15 158 (1.98%) Banking
16 155 (1.95%) Aerospace
17 139 (1.75%) Billing
18 120 (1.51%) Local Government
19 115 (1.44%) Games
20 106 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,649 (33.27%) Project Manager
2 996 (12.51%) Senior
3 663 (8.33%) Lead
4 569 (7.15%) IT Manager
5 557 (7.00%) Analyst
6 547 (6.87%) Senior Manager
7 394 (4.95%) Architect
8 391 (4.91%) Consultant
9 383 (4.81%) Senior Project Manager
10 310 (3.89%) IT Project Manager
11 220 (2.76%) Developer
12 219 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
13 206 (2.59%) Digital Project Manager
14 179 (2.25%) Business Analyst
15 171 (2.15%) Presales Manager
16 162 (2.03%) Technical Manager
17 160 (2.01%) Coordinator
18 155 (1.95%) Engineering Manager
19 143 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
20 134 (1.68%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (2.35%) .NET
2 131 (1.65%) HTML
3 113 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
4 111 (1.39%) CSS
5 88 (1.11%) EDI
6 81 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 76 (0.95%) React
8 60 (0.75%) YAML
9 59 (0.74%) JSON
10 56 (0.70%) XML
11 49 (0.62%) Spring
11 49 (0.62%) Web Services
12 47 (0.59%) RESTful
13 43 (0.54%) SOAP
14 40 (0.50%) AngularJS
14 40 (0.50%) Kafka
15 36 (0.45%) ASP.NET
16 35 (0.44%) jQuery
16 35 (0.44%) Laravel
17 34 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 641 (8.05%) Management Information System
2 486 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 289 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 247 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 244 (3.06%) Data Centre
6 209 (2.62%) PMI
7 200 (2.51%) Driving Licence
8 170 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 114 (1.43%) NHS
10 111 (1.39%) Social Media
11 103 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 94 (1.18%) PKI
12 94 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
13 92 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 89 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 88 (1.11%) FMCG
16 75 (0.94%) IoT
17 69 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
18 55 (0.69%) Algorithms
19 50 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 464 (5.83%) Windows
2 331 (4.16%) Linux
3 172 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 86 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 60 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 59 (0.74%) Android
7 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
8 51 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 49 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
10 47 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 35 (0.44%) Unix
12 32 (0.40%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.23%) VMS
13 18 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 13 (0.16%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.10%) AIX
17 8 (0.10%) Solaris
18 7 (0.088%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,511 (31.54%) Agile
2 1,808 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
3 1,715 (21.54%) Project Delivery
4 1,143 (14.36%) PRINCE2
5 931 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 844 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 844 (10.60%) Mentoring
7 753 (9.46%) Change Management
8 742 (9.32%) Decision-Making
9 657 (8.25%) Risk Management
10 644 (8.09%) Actionable Insight
11 580 (7.28%) Coaching
12 540 (6.78%) Customer Service
13 537 (6.74%) ITIL
14 536 (6.73%) Scrum
15 535 (6.72%) Collaborative Working
15 535 (6.72%) SDLC
16 519 (6.52%) Roadmaps
17 509 (6.39%) Agile Project Management
18 478 (6.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 513 (6.44%) SQL
2 316 (3.97%) Python
3 196 (2.46%) JavaScript
4 172 (2.16%) C#
5 162 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 142 (1.78%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 80 (1.00%) C
9 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 60 (0.75%) C++
11 52 (0.65%) R
12 48 (0.60%) Bash
13 45 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 40 (0.50%) VB
15 28 (0.35%) VBA
16 24 (0.30%) Perl
17 20 (0.25%) MATLAB
18 19 (0.24%) Scala
19 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
20 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,030 (25.50%) Degree
2 714 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 471 (5.92%) PMI Certification
4 425 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 389 (4.89%) PMP
6 192 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 170 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 166 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 143 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 141 (1.77%) DBS Check
11 120 (1.51%) APMP
11 120 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 120 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 101 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 95 (1.19%) Azure Certification
14 83 (1.04%) HNC
15 76 (0.95%) CCNA
16 72 (0.90%) DV Cleared
17 70 (0.88%) HND
18 61 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 574 (7.21%) PMO
2 487 (6.12%) QA
3 170 (2.14%) GDPR
4 158 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 92 (1.16%) SLA
6 91 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 86 (1.08%) Data Quality
8 76 (0.95%) ISO 9001
9 60 (0.75%) NIST
10 39 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.40%) NCSC
12 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
13 26 (0.33%) GRC
14 24 (0.30%) ITGC
15 22 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 21 (0.26%) GMP
16 21 (0.26%) NIST 800
17 20 (0.25%) PCI DSS
18 18 (0.23%) IFRS
19 15 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 294 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 216 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 123 (1.54%) Docker
5 62 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (0.50%) Firmware
7 36 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.24%) vSphere
9 16 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.063%) VMware Server
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%) RACF
15 1 (0.013%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 139 (1.75%) Ansible
2 121 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 79 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 72 (0.90%) Terraform
6 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 48 (0.60%) 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
16 9 (0.11%) PaperCut
17 8 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,504 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 322 (4.04%) Google
3 307 (3.86%) SAP
4 280 (3.52%) VMware
5 238 (2.99%) Oracle
6 181 (2.27%) Cisco
7 144 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 109 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 76 (0.95%) IFS
10 75 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 74 (0.93%) Adobe
11 74 (0.93%) Dell
12 73 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 68 (0.85%) NetApp
14 64 (0.80%) IBM
15 60 (0.75%) Sage
16 58 (0.73%) NEC
17 56 (0.70%) HP
18 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
19 50 (0.63%) Veeam