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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 5,751 4,986 6,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.89% 8.52% 8.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 8.92% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,886 2,639 3,565
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,266 £34,990
25th Percentile £39,750 £44,000 £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 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% +1.82%

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 60,412 55,927 68,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.88% 95.59% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 41,658 28,858 41,200
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 24 May 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 24 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
North of England +13 1,458 £50,000 -9.09% 577
South East +1 1,378 £47,500 -13.64% 754
Midlands +2 1,137 £51,250 -6.82% 466
North West +13 821 £50,000 -9.09% 332
South West +8 751 £49,750 -9.55% 311
West Midlands 0 631 £54,000 -1.82% 287
Yorkshire +16 483 £50,000 -8.99% 169
East Midlands +5 466 £47,500 -13.64% 173
East of England +12 440 £50,000 -9.09% 280
Scotland -22 359 £50,000 -9.09% 186
Wales +6 161 £43,750 -20.28% 68
North East +4 154 £52,500 -4.55% 83
Northern Ireland +43 68 £42,500 -5.56% 24
Isle of Man -5 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
1 259 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 109 (1.90%) Confluence
3 89 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 87 (1.51%) CMS
5 58 (1.01%) Apache
6 44 (0.77%) IIS
7 40 (0.70%) WebLogic
8 29 (0.50%) WordPress
9 18 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 15 (0.26%) SAS
11 9 (0.16%) Drupal
12 7 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.12%) MS Project Server
13 6 (0.10%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.087%) JBoss
14 5 (0.087%) Joomla!
14 5 (0.087%) Kentico
14 5 (0.087%) Kinematics
14 5 (0.087%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 399 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 363 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 299 (5.20%) Microsoft Project
4 168 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 67 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.96%) AutoCAD
7 40 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 30 (0.52%) Trello
9 17 (0.30%) Windchill
10 11 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.17%) Simulink
12 9 (0.16%) Sketch
13 7 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.12%) InDesign
14 5 (0.087%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
15 4 (0.070%) InVision
15 4 (0.070%) Solid Edge
15 4 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 37 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.64%) Primavera
3 26 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 23 (0.40%) Magento
5 22 (0.38%) Shopify
5 22 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 17 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 17 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 17 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 11 (0.19%) SAP WM
8 9 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 9 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 8 (0.14%) BPCS
10 7 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 7 (0.12%) SAP GTS
11 5 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.087%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 659 (11.46%) Azure
2 421 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
3 377 (6.56%) AWS
4 261 (4.54%) Power Platform
5 217 (3.77%) SaaS
6 193 (3.36%) GCP
7 157 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 54 (0.94%) Entra ID
11 53 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
11 53 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 43 (0.75%) Power Automate
13 41 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (0.47%) Smartsheet
16 24 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (0.40%) GitHub
18 22 (0.38%) Amazon Kinesis
19 20 (0.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 186 (3.23%) Firewall
2 124 (2.16%) DNS
3 117 (2.03%) WAN
4 94 (1.63%) VPN
5 90 (1.56%) Intranet
6 87 (1.51%) Internet
7 74 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 73 (1.27%) Network Security
9 64 (1.11%) LAN
10 62 (1.08%) DHCP
11 61 (1.06%) SSL
12 56 (0.97%) SNMP
13 55 (0.96%) SAN
14 54 (0.94%) IPsec
15 52 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
16 50 (0.87%) SD-WAN
17 46 (0.80%) BGP
17 46 (0.80%) Wireless
18 39 (0.68%) 5G
19 26 (0.45%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (3.56%) Power BI
2 122 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 86 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.25%) BigQuery
5 72 (1.25%) Looker
6 70 (1.22%) MySQL
7 68 (1.18%) RDBMS
8 64 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 52 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 50 (0.87%) Big Data
11 46 (0.80%) Tableau
12 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 26 (0.45%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
14 21 (0.37%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
15 18 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 296 (5.15%) JIRA
2 78 (1.36%) Git
3 47 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.42%) Postman
5 23 (0.40%) GitLab
6 22 (0.38%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.17%) Subversion
9 9 (0.16%) Selenium
9 9 (0.16%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.14%) JUnit
11 7 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.087%) AdminStudio
12 5 (0.087%) gulp
12 5 (0.087%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.087%) MSI
13 4 (0.070%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.070%) Maven
General
1 2,454 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 1,326 (23.06%) Finance
3 900 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 415 (7.22%) Marketing
5 387 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
6 373 (6.49%) Retail
7 363 (6.31%) Manufacturing
8 362 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 358 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
10 266 (4.63%) Public Sector
11 242 (4.21%) Legal
12 203 (3.53%) Telecoms
13 189 (3.29%) Law
14 146 (2.54%) Aerospace
15 127 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 112 (1.95%) Billing
17 109 (1.90%) Banking
18 95 (1.65%) Local Government
19 92 (1.60%) Electronics
20 84 (1.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,039 (35.45%) Project Manager
2 686 (11.93%) Senior
3 489 (8.50%) Lead
4 423 (7.36%) IT Manager
5 376 (6.54%) Senior Manager
6 366 (6.36%) Analyst
7 291 (5.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 262 (4.56%) Architect
9 237 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
10 212 (3.69%) Consultant
11 155 (2.70%) Digital Project Manager
12 152 (2.64%) Delivery Manager
13 144 (2.50%) Developer
14 134 (2.33%) Coordinator
15 130 (2.26%) Presales Manager
16 126 (2.19%) Business Analyst
17 118 (2.05%) Engineering Manager
18 108 (1.88%) Technical Manager
19 106 (1.84%) Data Manager
20 101 (1.76%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (2.19%) .NET
2 102 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
3 99 (1.72%) HTML
4 90 (1.56%) CSS
5 76 (1.32%) EDI
6 65 (1.13%) Spring Boot
7 50 (0.87%) YAML
8 46 (0.80%) React
9 45 (0.78%) XML
10 43 (0.75%) JSON
11 35 (0.61%) Spring
12 32 (0.56%) jQuery
13 31 (0.54%) RESTful
13 31 (0.54%) Web Services
14 29 (0.50%) Laravel
14 29 (0.50%) SOAP
15 26 (0.45%) AngularJS
16 23 (0.40%) Vue
17 22 (0.38%) HTML5
18 21 (0.37%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 493 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 377 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
3 240 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 191 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 180 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 160 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 143 (2.49%) PMI
8 120 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 81 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 80 (1.39%) NHS
11 79 (1.37%) FMCG
12 76 (1.32%) PKI
13 75 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
15 61 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 61 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 49 (0.85%) IoT
17 45 (0.78%) Social Media
18 42 (0.73%) Algorithms
19 37 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 355 (6.17%) Windows
2 260 (4.52%) Linux
3 137 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 75 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 49 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
6 43 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 42 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 37 (0.64%) Android
8 37 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 26 (0.45%) Unix
10 16 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.28%) VMS
11 14 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (0.21%) Windows XP
13 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (0.14%) AIX
14 8 (0.14%) Solaris
14 8 (0.14%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,781 (30.97%) Agile
2 1,336 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
3 1,238 (21.53%) Project Delivery
4 834 (14.50%) PRINCE2
5 657 (11.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 648 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 624 (10.85%) Mentoring
8 571 (9.93%) Change Management
9 519 (9.02%) Decision-Making
10 516 (8.97%) Actionable Insight
11 487 (8.47%) Risk Management
12 427 (7.42%) Coaching
13 425 (7.39%) Customer Service
14 397 (6.90%) SDLC
15 393 (6.83%) ITIL
16 386 (6.71%) Agile Project Management
17 380 (6.61%) Collaborative Working
17 380 (6.61%) Scrum
18 362 (6.29%) ERP
19 361 (6.28%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 321 (5.58%) SQL
2 214 (3.72%) Python
3 145 (2.52%) JavaScript
4 131 (2.28%) C#
5 108 (1.88%) PowerShell
6 98 (1.70%) Java
7 79 (1.37%) C
8 74 (1.29%) PHP
9 56 (0.97%) C++
10 38 (0.66%) VB
11 28 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 26 (0.45%) R
13 25 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 24 (0.42%) Bash
14 24 (0.42%) VBA
15 19 (0.33%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.28%) Perl
17 14 (0.24%) VB.NET
18 10 (0.17%) VBScript
19 9 (0.16%) RPG
Qualifications
1 1,404 (24.41%) Degree
2 574 (9.98%) Security Cleared
3 342 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 317 (5.51%) PMI Certification
5 268 (4.66%) PMP
6 137 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 134 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 109 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 98 (1.70%) DBS Check
10 89 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.53%) APMP
12 87 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
13 86 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 79 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 70 (1.22%) Azure Certification
16 65 (1.13%) HNC
17 55 (0.96%) HND
18 54 (0.94%) CCNA
19 51 (0.89%) DV Cleared
20 49 (0.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (7.98%) PMO
2 331 (5.76%) QA
3 131 (2.28%) GDPR
4 108 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (1.37%) SLA
6 61 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 56 (0.97%) ISO 9001
8 49 (0.85%) Data Quality
9 43 (0.75%) NIST
10 30 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 27 (0.47%) NCSC
11 27 (0.47%) NEBOSH
12 22 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
13 16 (0.28%) GMP
13 16 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.26%) GRC
15 14 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 13 (0.23%) GxP
16 13 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.21%) COSHH
System Software
1 212 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 170 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.55%) Docker
5 36 (0.63%) Firmware
6 26 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (0.26%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.087%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.087%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.070%) pfSense
13 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.017%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.017%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.017%) NFS
14 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 128 (2.23%) Ansible
2 88 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.18%) vCenter Server
4 58 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 44 (0.77%) SCCM
7 42 (0.73%) Terraform
8 27 (0.47%) ZABBIX
9 22 (0.38%) WSUS
10 21 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (0.37%) SCOM
11 14 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (0.23%) Puppet
13 12 (0.21%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.21%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.21%) VxRail
14 6 (0.10%) Nessus
15 5 (0.087%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (0.070%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,073 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 224 (3.89%) Google
3 204 (3.55%) VMware
4 180 (3.13%) SAP
5 159 (2.76%) Oracle
6 131 (2.28%) Cisco
7 100 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 81 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.06%) NetApp
10 59 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 54 (0.94%) IFS
11 54 (0.94%) NEC
12 51 (0.89%) Adobe
13 49 (0.85%) Dell
13 49 (0.85%) SolidFire
14 48 (0.83%) ServiceNow
15 43 (0.75%) Sage
15 43 (0.75%) Veeam
16 41 (0.71%) Sparx
17 35 (0.61%) Fortinet