Project Leader Jobs with Work from Home Options

Project Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Project Lead salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 580 835
Rank change year-on-year +25 +255 -251
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Leader 47 53 66
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.14% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 36 35 45
10th Percentile £39,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,351 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% -6.64% +23.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Project Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Project Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Project Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Project Leader
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Project Leader.

Project Leader salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Project Leader
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Project Leader over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Project Leader salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Project Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Project Leader 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Project Leader in the job title.

1 17 (36.17%) Project Management
2 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 12 (25.53%) Agile
4 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
4 10 (21.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) Azure
6 7 (14.89%) SDLC
7 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (12.77%) Validation
7 6 (12.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
7 6 (12.77%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.64%) Synthetic Environment
8 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
8 5 (10.64%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (10.64%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (10.64%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (10.64%) Sprint Review
8 5 (10.64%) Verification and Validation
8 5 (10.64%) C#
8 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
8 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
9 4 (8.51%) JIRA
9 4 (8.51%) Budget Control
9 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
9 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
9 4 (8.51%) Management Information System

Project Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) Azure
1 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
1 3 (6.38%) LAN
1 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.38%) WAN
1 3 (6.38%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (8.51%) Electronics
4 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Legal
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Games
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.38%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
1 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Project Management
2 12 (25.53%) Agile
3 9 (19.15%) DevOps
4 7 (14.89%) SDLC
5 6 (12.77%) Project Delivery
5 6 (12.77%) Validation
6 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
6 5 (10.64%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (10.64%) Sprint Retrospective
6 5 (10.64%) Sprint Review
6 5 (10.64%) Synthetic Environment
6 5 (10.64%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (10.64%) Verification and Validation
6 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
7 4 (8.51%) Budget Control
7 4 (8.51%) Business Case
7 4 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
7 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (21.28%) BPSS Clearance
1 10 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft