Project Management Jobs in Scotland

Project Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 46 42
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 358 263 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.27% 5.85% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 6.19% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 170 156 198
10th Percentile £33,175 £38,500 £37,575
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £59,500 £66,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £76,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% +1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,230 4,246 5,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.66% 94.42% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,432 2,095 2,838
10th Percentile £28,525 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Scotland

Project Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Project Management in Scotland

Project Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in Scotland

Project Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Glasgow -63 179 £55,000 -3.06% 64
Edinburgh +21 96 £49,254 -10.45% 46
Fife - 22 £48,750 - 14
Aberdeen -10 17 £41,000 -32.57% 20
Lanarkshire +2 11 £41,000 +2.50% 23
West Lothian -12 6 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Dumfries and Galloway -7 4 £39,250 -21.50% 2
Highlands - 4 £41,000 - 2
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 2
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
Midlothian -2 1 £50,000 +25.76% 14
Stirling -4 1 £49,500 +3.97% 3
Dundee -16 1 £36,500 -23.33% 3
East Lothian - 1 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £50,625 -
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 14 (3.91%) Confluence
2 10 (2.79%) Apache
2 10 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.23%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.28%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 30 (8.38%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.75%) Windchill
3 16 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (1.40%) MS Visio
7 4 (1.12%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.84%) InVision
8 3 (0.84%) Sketch
9 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (4.75%) Teamcenter
2 12 (3.35%) Primavera
2 12 (3.35%) Unit4 Business World
3 8 (2.23%) NEC Housing
3 8 (2.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.41%) Azure
2 34 (9.50%) AWS
3 31 (8.66%) Power Platform
4 29 (8.10%) SaaS
5 24 (6.70%) GCP
6 22 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (2.79%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.40%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.84%) Figma
13 2 (0.56%) IaaS
13 2 (0.56%) PaaS
13 2 (0.56%) PowerApps
14 1 (0.28%) Entra ID
14 1 (0.28%) GitHub
14 1 (0.28%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.35%) Firewall
2 10 (2.79%) Internet
2 10 (2.79%) IPsec
2 10 (2.79%) SNMP
2 10 (2.79%) VPN
3 8 (2.23%) BGP
3 8 (2.23%) DNS
3 8 (2.23%) SSL
3 8 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.56%) Broadband
4 2 (0.56%) LAN
4 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.56%) WAN
5 1 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
5 1 (0.28%) MPLS
5 1 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.28%) SDH
5 1 (0.28%) VoIP
5 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.82%) Power BI
2 14 (3.91%) Tableau
3 12 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.07%) DB2
5 10 (2.79%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.23%) Oracle Database
6 8 (2.23%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.96%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.96%) Looker
8 5 (1.40%) Big Data
9 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.98%) JIRA
2 2 (0.56%) Maven
3 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 144 (40.22%) Social Skills
2 108 (30.17%) Finance
3 56 (15.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (13.97%) Marketing
5 40 (11.17%) Public Sector
6 36 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (8.94%) Law
8 30 (8.38%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (4.47%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.63%) Legal
11 10 (2.79%) Local Government
12 9 (2.51%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.23%) Billing
13 8 (2.23%) Police
13 8 (2.23%) Retail
14 5 (1.40%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.40%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.84%) Banking
15 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (29.05%) Project Manager
2 47 (13.13%) Senior
3 41 (11.45%) Architect
4 31 (8.66%) Lead
5 29 (8.10%) Analyst
6 27 (7.54%) Senior Manager
7 26 (7.26%) Consultant
7 26 (7.26%) Presales Manager
8 23 (6.42%) Senior Project Manager
9 17 (4.75%) Configuration Specialist
9 17 (4.75%) IT Manager
10 16 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
11 14 (3.91%) Business Analyst
12 13 (3.63%) Pensions Project Manager
13 12 (3.35%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.07%) User Experience Researcher
15 10 (2.79%) Implementation Consultant
15 10 (2.79%) Junior
15 10 (2.79%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
2 11 (3.07%) Spring Boot
3 10 (2.79%) YAML
4 7 (1.96%) CSS
4 7 (1.96%) HTML
5 5 (1.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 4 (1.12%) React
7 3 (0.84%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.84%) LESS
7 3 (0.84%) Sass
7 3 (0.84%) Spring
8 2 (0.56%) Django
8 2 (0.56%) jQuery
8 2 (0.56%) JSON
8 2 (0.56%) Kafka
8 2 (0.56%) REST
9 1 (0.28%) .NET
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.28%) SOAP
9 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.26%) Product Ownership
1 26 (7.26%) Public Cloud
2 24 (6.70%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.03%) Market Risk
4 14 (3.91%) PKI
5 12 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.79%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.96%) PMI
8 6 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.12%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.12%) IoT
10 4 (1.12%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.84%) e-Health
11 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.94%) Linux
2 24 (6.70%) Windows
3 12 (3.35%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.07%) Unix
5 10 (2.79%) Data ONTAP
6 8 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (37.15%) Agile
2 91 (25.42%) Actionable Insight
3 71 (19.83%) Project Delivery
4 61 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (15.36%) Change Management
6 54 (15.08%) Presales
7 47 (13.13%) Data Analysis
8 46 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (12.57%) Decision-Making
9 45 (12.57%) SDLC
10 44 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (11.45%) Scrum
11 41 (11.45%) Software Delivery
12 39 (10.89%) Agile Project Management
13 38 (10.61%) Collaborative Working
14 32 (8.94%) PRINCE2
15 29 (8.10%) Risk Management
16 27 (7.54%) Analytics
16 27 (7.54%) TOGAF
17 26 (7.26%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 24 (6.70%) Python
2 20 (5.59%) SQL
3 15 (4.19%) C#
4 12 (3.35%) Java
5 10 (2.79%) C
5 10 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.12%) C++
6 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.84%) PHP
8 2 (0.56%) R
9 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.28%) Swift
9 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (29.05%) Degree
2 42 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.75%) PMP
5 16 (4.47%) Master's Degree
5 16 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 15 (4.19%) PhD
7 11 (3.07%) CISA
8 10 (2.79%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.23%) DBS Check
9 8 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 8 (2.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (1.40%) HND
11 4 (1.12%) HNC
12 2 (0.56%) CCNA
12 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.56%) CISSP
12 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.06%) PMO
2 30 (8.38%) QA
3 11 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.07%) ITGC
4 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.84%) GMP
5 3 (0.84%) WCAG
6 2 (0.56%) COSHH
6 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) Basel III
System Software
1 10 (2.79%) Docker
1 10 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.79%) Ansible
2 10 (2.79%) Prometheus
2 10 (2.79%) vCenter Server
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 91 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.98%) Google
2 25 (6.98%) Oracle
3 15 (4.19%) SAP
4 11 (3.07%) Sage
5 10 (2.79%) NetApp
5 10 (2.79%) Palo Alto
5 10 (2.79%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.79%) SolidFire
5 10 (2.79%) VMware
6 9 (2.51%) NEC
6 9 (2.51%) Twitter
7 8 (2.23%) Sparx
8 4 (1.12%) ANSYS
9 3 (0.84%) Dell
10 2 (0.56%) Cadence
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco
10 2 (0.56%) Zoho
11 1 (0.28%) IFS
11 1 (0.28%) Splunk