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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 22 22
Rank change year-on-year -45 0 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,427 3,827 7,471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.68% 8.72% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 9.34% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 1,939 5,418
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,231 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -46 2,117 £55,000 -4.35% 1,209
UK excluding London -52 1,563 £50,000 -9.09% 967
Work from Home -15 842 £57,500 - 435
London -26 684 £70,000 - 412
North of England -31 511 £50,000 -9.09% 229
South East -31 367 £50,000 -13.04% 291
Midlands -65 244 £52,500 - 148
North West -14 234 £47,500 -12.68% 135
West Midlands -53 179 £50,000 -9.09% 93
Yorkshire -38 163 £55,000 - 68
South West -52 160 £47,500 -13.64% 100
East of England -38 132 £75,000 +41.51% 135
North East -19 114 £58,750 +6.82% 29
Northern Ireland -5 69 £55,000 +2.33% 22
East Midlands -62 63 £55,000 +29.41% 55
Scotland -72 53 £40,000 -27.27% 38
Wales -51 34 £42,934 -28.44% 31

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 88 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.98%) Confluence
3 37 (1.52%) CMS
4 32 (1.32%) WordPress
5 20 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) govService
9 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.082%) Apache
10 2 (0.082%) Drupal
10 2 (0.082%) Moodle
10 2 (0.082%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.041%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.041%) IIS
11 1 (0.041%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.041%) Totara
Applications
1 289 (11.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 132 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
4 60 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.62%) Trello
8 10 (0.41%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
11 4 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.082%) Notion
13 2 (0.082%) Weka
14 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
14 1 (0.041%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 19 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
5 17 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 15 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.33%) Primavera
7 8 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.33%) Shopify
8 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.25%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.21%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 249 (10.26%) Azure
2 236 (9.72%) Power Platform
3 163 (6.72%) SaaS
4 139 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (4.20%) AWS
6 71 (2.93%) PowerApps
7 52 (2.14%) Power Automate
8 39 (1.61%) GCP
9 35 (1.44%) Asana
10 34 (1.40%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (1.28%) OneDrive
12 31 (1.28%) Smartsheet
13 25 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (0.99%) Google Analytics
15 23 (0.95%) Canva
16 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.65%) Broadband
2 33 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
3 32 (1.32%) Firewall
4 29 (1.19%) CHAP
5 24 (0.99%) WAN
6 18 (0.74%) LAN
7 16 (0.66%) DNS
7 16 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
8 15 (0.62%) Network Security
9 14 (0.58%) DHCP
10 12 (0.49%) VPN
11 11 (0.45%) Internet
11 11 (0.45%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 9 (0.37%) Multicast
12 9 (0.37%) Wireless
13 8 (0.33%) VoIP
14 7 (0.29%) VLAN
15 6 (0.25%) Intranet
16 4 (0.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (8.12%) Power BI
2 157 (6.47%) Tableau
3 124 (5.11%) Data Mining
4 34 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.11%) GIS
6 21 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.82%) QGIS
7 20 (0.82%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (0.62%) Power Query
10 10 (0.41%) DB2
11 8 (0.33%) Big Data
11 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.25%) Metadata
13 6 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
14 5 (0.21%) MySQL
14 5 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 117 (4.82%) JIRA
2 19 (0.78%) Git
3 11 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.41%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.25%) GitLab
6 5 (0.21%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.12%) JUnit
7 3 (0.12%) Storybook
8 2 (0.082%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.082%) ESLint
8 2 (0.082%) Gradle
8 2 (0.082%) JMeter
8 2 (0.082%) Maven
8 2 (0.082%) Mockito
8 2 (0.082%) Postman
8 2 (0.082%) Selenium
8 2 (0.082%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.082%) TestNG
8 2 (0.082%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.041%) Balsamiq
General
1 964 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 912 (37.58%) Finance
3 533 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (11.50%) Marketing
5 221 (9.11%) Organisational Skills
6 173 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 156 (6.43%) Manufacturing
8 148 (6.10%) Retail
9 147 (6.06%) Legal
10 124 (5.11%) Public Sector
11 118 (4.86%) Banking
12 111 (4.57%) Law
13 84 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
14 75 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
15 62 (2.55%) Games
16 59 (2.43%) Telecoms
17 58 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.98%) Financial Institution
18 48 (1.98%) Local Government
19 42 (1.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 416 (17.14%) Project Manager
2 392 (16.15%) Analyst
3 314 (12.94%) Senior
4 181 (7.46%) Trainee
5 179 (7.38%) Trainee Analyst
6 178 (7.33%) Business Analyst
7 168 (6.92%) Lead
8 164 (6.76%) Senior Manager
9 159 (6.55%) IT Manager
10 131 (5.40%) Data Analyst
11 125 (5.15%) Consultant
11 125 (5.15%) Development Manager
12 119 (4.90%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 106 (4.37%) Senior Project Manager
14 89 (3.67%) Product Manager
15 83 (3.42%) Architect
16 82 (3.38%) IT Project Manager
17 62 (2.55%) IT Support
18 60 (2.47%) Trainee Business Analyst
19 58 (2.39%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.77%) .NET
2 39 (1.61%) HTML
3 35 (1.44%) CSS
4 28 (1.15%) PyTorch
5 25 (1.03%) JSON
6 24 (0.99%) EDI
6 24 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
7 21 (0.87%) .NET Core
8 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.78%) SPFx
10 8 (0.33%) Hugging Face
10 8 (0.33%) REST
10 8 (0.33%) TensorFlow
11 7 (0.29%) Matplotlib
11 7 (0.29%) OAuth
11 7 (0.29%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.29%) Seaborn
12 6 (0.25%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.25%) React
13 5 (0.21%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 186 (7.66%) Management Information System
2 104 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 77 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 72 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 71 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 70 (2.88%) Driving Licence
7 63 (2.60%) FMCG
8 55 (2.27%) Social Media
9 47 (1.94%) Virtual Team
10 46 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 41 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 31 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 28 (1.15%) Algorithms
15 27 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
17 24 (0.99%) Low-Code
18 23 (0.95%) Cloud Native
19 22 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
20 21 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (2.88%) Windows
2 29 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 24 (0.99%) Android
3 24 (0.99%) Linux
4 13 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.33%) Unix
6 6 (0.25%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.082%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.082%) zOS
9 1 (0.041%) CentOS
9 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (26.66%) Agile
2 559 (23.03%) Project Delivery
3 555 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
4 479 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 419 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 394 (16.23%) PRINCE2
7 386 (15.90%) Analytics
8 363 (14.96%) Decision-Making
9 293 (12.07%) Business Analysis
10 274 (11.29%) Change Management
11 268 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 266 (10.96%) AI
13 251 (10.34%) Risk Management
14 240 (9.89%) Data Analysis
15 221 (9.11%) Mentoring
16 216 (8.90%) Roadmaps
17 203 (8.36%) Business Intelligence
18 201 (8.28%) Coaching
19 198 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
20 193 (7.95%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 258 (10.63%) SQL
2 254 (10.47%) Python
3 49 (2.02%) C#
4 38 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 28 (1.15%) VBA
7 27 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.58%) Java
9 9 (0.37%) Bash
10 7 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.25%) C++
11 6 (0.25%) PHP
12 5 (0.21%) C
13 4 (0.16%) COBOL
13 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.16%) R
14 3 (0.12%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.12%) Dart
14 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.082%) Scala
Qualifications
1 622 (25.63%) Degree
2 230 (9.48%) PMP
3 223 (9.19%) PMI Certification
4 102 (4.20%) Security Cleared
5 99 (4.08%) CISSP
5 99 (4.08%) DBS Check
6 75 (3.09%) CISM
7 65 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 59 (2.43%) SC Cleared
9 40 (1.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 38 (1.57%) CISA
11 37 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 34 (1.40%) SANS
13 32 (1.32%) DV Cleared
13 32 (1.32%) HNC
14 30 (1.24%) CRISC
14 30 (1.24%) FFIEC
15 29 (1.19%) CGEIT
16 28 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
17 25 (1.03%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.39%) QA
2 129 (5.32%) PMO
3 104 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 101 (4.16%) Accessibility
5 98 (4.04%) GDPR
6 95 (3.91%) NIST
7 46 (1.90%) GRC
8 38 (1.57%) ISO 9001
9 36 (1.48%) Data Quality
10 32 (1.32%) COBIT
11 30 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.95%) NIST 800
13 19 (0.78%) SLA
14 12 (0.49%) GAAP
14 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 11 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.45%) IFRS
16 9 (0.37%) ISO 14001
16 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 52 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.87%) Docker
3 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.12%) vSphere
5 2 (0.082%) Firmware
5 2 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.082%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.041%) IAG
6 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.74%) SCCM
4 17 (0.70%) Ansible
5 14 (0.58%) Terraform
6 11 (0.45%) Grafana
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
7 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.082%) Argo
9 2 (0.082%) Puppet
9 2 (0.082%) Salt
10 1 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.041%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.041%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.041%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.041%) MOM
10 1 (0.041%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 533 (21.96%) Microsoft
2 89 (3.67%) SAP
3 69 (2.84%) Oracle
3 69 (2.84%) Salesforce
4 65 (2.68%) Adobe
5 59 (2.43%) Google
6 56 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 28 (1.15%) Anaplan
8 25 (1.03%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.82%) Genesys
9 20 (0.82%) Pardot
9 20 (0.82%) Verint
10 17 (0.70%) Cisco
11 14 (0.58%) Apple
12 13 (0.54%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.49%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.49%) Instagram
14 11 (0.45%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.45%) Wrike
15 10 (0.41%) Workday