Project Management Job Trends

Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 28 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,598 3,294 5,754
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.37% 6.59% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 7.42% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 1,751 3,360
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,745
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,793
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.50% -8.68%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £69,914
90th Percentile £93,250 £92,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,223 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.05% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79,979 44,380 67,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.78% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55,459 25,207 42,110
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.10% -8.99%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Project Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 28 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 17 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 28 August 2026. 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 -29 2,340 £55,000 -8.33% 2,026
UK excluding London -41 1,649 £52,223 -5.05% 1,312
Work from Home -15 1,065 £51,865 -9.80% 894
London -29 834 £65,000 -8.45% 961
South East -23 445 £45,000 -21.74% 391
North of England -21 387 £55,000 +5.26% 273
Midlands -35 266 £55,000 +1.85% 202
North West -8 209 £53,500 +3.89% 145
South West -47 205 £53,750 -4.31% 208
East of England -21 186 £55,000 - 148
West Midlands -47 146 £54,500 -0.91% 116
East Midlands -13 120 £55,000 +4.76% 86
Yorkshire -40 120 £60,000 +9.09% 90
Scotland -48 63 £70,000 +16.67% 62
North East -50 58 £58,000 +41.46% 42
Northern Ireland -55 58 £47,500 -5.00% 22
Wales -69 41 £55,000 -8.33% 34

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 131 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 71 (2.73%) Confluence
3 67 (2.58%) CMS
4 27 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
5 18 (0.69%) WordPress
6 14 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.38%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.35%) IIS
9 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pig
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.15%) MS Project Server
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.077%) Totara
15 1 (0.038%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 248 (9.55%) Microsoft Project
2 240 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 224 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
4 69 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.81%) Trello
6 20 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.31%) EPLAN
10 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.19%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.12%) Blender
13 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 3 (0.12%) Revit
14 2 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.077%) Camtasia
14 2 (0.077%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.038%) Houdini
15 1 (0.038%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 78 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 24 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.89%) Primavera
5 11 (0.42%) Shopify
6 9 (0.35%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.23%) iTrent
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.19%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.19%) SAP EHS
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 239 (9.20%) Azure
2 223 (8.58%) Power Platform
3 163 (6.27%) AWS
4 145 (5.58%) SaaS
5 126 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.12%) PowerApps
7 76 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
8 60 (2.31%) Power Automate
9 53 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
10 52 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (1.42%) Smartsheet
12 35 (1.35%) GCP
13 26 (1.00%) Entra ID
14 23 (0.89%) LangSmith
15 22 (0.85%) Asana
15 22 (0.85%) OneDrive
15 22 (0.85%) Serverless
16 20 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (0.77%) Canva
16 20 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.12%) Firewall
2 28 (1.08%) LAN
2 28 (1.08%) WAN
3 24 (0.92%) DNS
4 21 (0.81%) VPN
5 20 (0.77%) Broadband
5 20 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (0.62%) Network Security
7 15 (0.58%) NGN
8 13 (0.50%) BGP
8 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.46%) DHCP
9 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.42%) Intranet
11 10 (0.38%) Profibus
11 10 (0.38%) Wireless
12 9 (0.35%) Internet
12 9 (0.35%) Multicast
13 8 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
14 7 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.54%) Power BI
2 57 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.35%) Tableau
4 21 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (0.77%) Big Data
6 19 (0.73%) Data Mining
7 18 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.65%) Metadata
8 17 (0.65%) MySQL
9 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 13 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (0.42%) Apache Hive
13 9 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.35%) Power Query
14 8 (0.31%) GIS
14 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 222 (8.55%) JIRA
2 26 (1.00%) Git
3 12 (0.46%) Visual Studio
4 11 (0.42%) Claude Code
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.19%) GitLab
7 5 (0.19%) JUnit
8 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.12%) LabVIEW
9 3 (0.12%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.12%) Selenium
9 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.12%) TestNG
9 3 (0.12%) VersionOne
General
1 1,122 (43.19%) Social Skills
2 818 (31.49%) Finance
3 520 (20.02%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (11.12%) Organisational Skills
5 283 (10.89%) Marketing
6 155 (5.97%) Legal
7 154 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 152 (5.85%) Retail
9 138 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
10 137 (5.27%) Public Sector
11 134 (5.16%) Manufacturing
12 104 (4.00%) Law
13 90 (3.46%) Banking
14 89 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
15 80 (3.08%) Aerospace
16 70 (2.69%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.89%) Local Government
18 48 (1.85%) Electronics
19 42 (1.62%) Financial Institution
19 42 (1.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 547 (21.05%) Project Manager
2 385 (14.82%) Senior
3 218 (8.39%) Analyst
4 206 (7.93%) Lead
5 191 (7.35%) Senior Manager
6 179 (6.89%) IT Manager
7 174 (6.70%) Consultant
8 138 (5.31%) Senior Project Manager
9 125 (4.81%) Business Analyst
10 108 (4.16%) IT Project Manager
11 78 (3.00%) Development Manager
12 68 (2.62%) Technical Manager
13 66 (2.54%) Developer
14 64 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
15 61 (2.35%) Senior Consultant
16 60 (2.31%) Product Manager
17 59 (2.27%) Architect
18 58 (2.23%) Coordinator
19 52 (2.00%) IT Support
20 51 (1.96%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.08%) HTML
2 52 (2.00%) CSS
3 50 (1.92%) .NET
4 29 (1.12%) TensorFlow
5 26 (1.00%) PyTorch
6 24 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
6 24 (0.92%) JSON
7 23 (0.89%) Hugging Face
7 23 (0.89%) LangChain
7 23 (0.89%) Langfuse
7 23 (0.89%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (0.89%) Model Context Protocol
8 21 (0.81%) Flash
9 19 (0.73%) .NET Core
9 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.73%) SPFx
10 16 (0.62%) Kafka
11 14 (0.54%) ASP.NET
12 13 (0.50%) jQuery
13 12 (0.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 244 (9.39%) Onboarding
2 173 (6.66%) Data Centre
2 173 (6.66%) Management Information System
3 110 (4.23%) Driving Licence
4 109 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 86 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 72 (2.77%) Virtual Team
7 63 (2.42%) Blog
8 52 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (2.00%) Social Media
9 47 (1.81%) PMI
10 42 (1.62%) Cloud Native
11 41 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
12 37 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
13 36 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 36 (1.39%) FMCG
14 35 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.31%) AI Agents
16 33 (1.27%) Security Posture
17 32 (1.23%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 120 (4.62%) Windows
2 51 (1.96%) Linux
3 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.27%) Android
4 7 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.15%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) Debian
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) AIX
10 1 (0.038%) CentOS
10 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (28.25%) Agile
2 702 (27.02%) Project Delivery
3 678 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
4 676 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 535 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 476 (18.32%) PRINCE2
7 332 (12.78%) Decision-Making
8 302 (11.62%) Roadmaps
9 285 (10.97%) AI
10 268 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 267 (10.28%) Mentoring
12 265 (10.20%) Analytics
13 251 (9.66%) Risk Management
14 235 (9.05%) Budget Management
15 223 (8.58%) Coaching
16 216 (8.31%) ERP
17 215 (8.28%) Change Management
17 215 (8.28%) CRM
18 203 (7.81%) Service Delivery
19 201 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 195 (7.51%) SQL
2 169 (6.51%) Python
3 70 (2.69%) JavaScript
4 50 (1.92%) C#
5 45 (1.73%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.08%) Java
8 18 (0.69%) C
9 14 (0.54%) PHP
10 11 (0.42%) C++
10 11 (0.42%) Ladder Logic
11 9 (0.35%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.27%) Assembly Language
13 6 (0.23%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.23%) R
13 6 (0.23%) Ruby
13 6 (0.23%) VBA
14 5 (0.19%) Bash
15 4 (0.15%) ABAP
15 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 676 (26.02%) Degree
2 226 (8.70%) PMI Certification
3 217 (8.35%) PMP
4 196 (7.54%) Security Cleared
5 142 (5.47%) DBS Check
6 105 (4.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 92 (3.54%) SC Cleared
8 72 (2.77%) DV Cleared
9 59 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 59 (2.27%) CISSP
10 47 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 44 (1.69%) HNC
12 43 (1.66%) CISM
13 38 (1.46%) HND
14 36 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
16 26 (1.00%) CRISC
17 25 (0.96%) ACCA
18 22 (0.85%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (6.97%) PMO
2 172 (6.62%) QA
3 102 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 90 (3.46%) Accessibility
5 73 (2.81%) GDPR
6 71 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 63 (2.42%) NIST
8 53 (2.04%) SLA
9 39 (1.50%) ISO 9001
10 38 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 38 (1.46%) GRC
11 25 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 22 (0.85%) GMP
13 18 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 16 (0.62%) IFRS
15 16 (0.62%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.42%) GAAP
17 10 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 35 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.73%) Docker
3 13 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.23%) Firmware
6 6 (0.23%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.077%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) IAG
9 1 (0.038%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Samba
9 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (1.08%) SCCM
2 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.69%) Puppet
4 15 (0.58%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.35%) Ansible
6 9 (0.35%) Grafana
7 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.077%) Argo
11 2 (0.077%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.077%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.077%) Salt
11 2 (0.077%) ServiceCenter
11 2 (0.077%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.038%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.038%) SCOM
Vendors
1 515 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 156 (6.00%) SAP
3 119 (4.58%) Oracle
4 68 (2.62%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.42%) Adobe
6 62 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 56 (2.16%) Google
8 35 (1.35%) HubSpot
9 32 (1.23%) Fortinet
10 31 (1.19%) Cisco
11 28 (1.08%) Sitecore
12 22 (0.85%) Sage
13 21 (0.81%) SonicWALL
14 20 (0.77%) VMware
15 18 (0.69%) NEC
15 18 (0.69%) Siemens
16 17 (0.65%) Remedy
17 15 (0.58%) Apple
17 15 (0.58%) Bloomberg
17 15 (0.58%) HP