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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,415 3,560 7,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.63% 8.05% 7.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 8.69% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,711 5,431
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,600 £43,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -33 2,093 £55,000 -8.33% 999
UK excluding London -37 1,574 £52,500 -4.55% 827
Work from Home -10 956 £55,000 -4.35% 486
London -29 676 £70,000 -3.45% 321
North of England -14 471 £55,000 +0.38% 203
South East -28 392 £50,000 -11.73% 247
Midlands -51 228 £55,000 +4.76% 128
North West +15 220 £55,000 +7.58% 102
South West -43 171 £47,500 -20.50% 81
Yorkshire -36 150 £60,000 +9.09% 77
West Midlands -50 146 £55,000 - 72
East of England -43 134 £69,500 +31.13% 107
North East -26 101 £60,000 +5.26% 27
East Midlands -34 81 £55,000 +29.41% 56
Northern Ireland -7 73 £47,500 -11.63% 27
Scotland -40 69 £40,000 -20.71% 33
Wales -59 40 £42,934 -32.92% 23

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 87 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.07%) Confluence
3 37 (1.53%) CMS
4 33 (1.37%) WordPress
5 20 (0.83%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.17%) Moodle
8 3 (0.12%) govService
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.083%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.083%) Drupal
9 2 (0.083%) Totara
9 2 (0.083%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.083%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.083%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.041%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 250 (10.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 206 (8.53%) Microsoft Project
3 168 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.54%) Trello
8 8 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.29%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Blender
11 3 (0.12%) Maya
12 2 (0.083%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 35 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
5 16 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
6 15 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.37%) Shopify
8 8 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
9 7 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.29%) Primavera
10 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
11 5 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.21%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 239 (9.90%) Azure
2 216 (8.94%) Power Platform
3 145 (6.00%) SaaS
4 128 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (4.14%) AWS
6 77 (3.19%) PowerApps
7 57 (2.36%) Power Automate
8 40 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (1.41%) GCP
10 32 (1.33%) Smartsheet
11 31 (1.28%) Asana
12 30 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (1.24%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.20%) OneDrive
14 25 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.04%) Canva
15 23 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
16 21 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
16 21 (0.87%) Google Analytics
17 19 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.70%) Broadband
2 33 (1.37%) Firewall
3 31 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
4 24 (0.99%) WAN
5 22 (0.91%) CHAP
6 18 (0.75%) LAN
7 16 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
8 14 (0.58%) DNS
9 12 (0.50%) DHCP
9 12 (0.50%) Network Security
10 11 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.46%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.37%) Multicast
12 8 (0.33%) Wireless
13 7 (0.29%) VoIP
14 6 (0.25%) Internet
14 6 (0.25%) Intranet
14 6 (0.25%) VPN
15 5 (0.21%) BGP
15 5 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (7.25%) Power BI
2 109 (4.51%) Tableau
3 88 (3.64%) Data Mining
4 33 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.16%) GIS
6 21 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.83%) QGIS
7 20 (0.83%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.46%) Power Query
11 10 (0.41%) Db2
12 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.29%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.21%) Big Data
14 5 (0.21%) Metadata
15 4 (0.17%) DB2 UDB
15 4 (0.17%) Qlik Sense
15 4 (0.17%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 138 (5.71%) JIRA
2 24 (0.99%) Git
3 11 (0.46%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.21%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.21%) JUnit
6 4 (0.17%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) Storybook
7 3 (0.12%) TestNG
8 2 (0.083%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.083%) ESLint
8 2 (0.083%) Gradle
8 2 (0.083%) JMeter
8 2 (0.083%) Maven
8 2 (0.083%) Mockito
8 2 (0.083%) Postman
8 2 (0.083%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.083%) Yeoman
8 2 (0.083%) Zephyr
General
1 1,009 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 834 (34.53%) Finance
3 483 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (10.97%) Marketing
5 215 (8.90%) Organisational Skills
6 152 (6.29%) Retail
7 149 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 148 (6.13%) Manufacturing
9 142 (5.88%) Legal
10 124 (5.13%) Public Sector
11 106 (4.39%) Law
12 100 (4.14%) Banking
13 78 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
14 64 (2.65%) Telecoms
15 61 (2.53%) Local Government
16 59 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
17 49 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
18 46 (1.90%) Financial Institution
19 45 (1.86%) Advertising
20 44 (1.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 493 (20.41%) Project Manager
2 349 (14.45%) Senior
3 316 (13.08%) Analyst
4 202 (8.36%) Senior Manager
5 182 (7.54%) Lead
6 171 (7.08%) IT Manager
7 157 (6.50%) Senior Project Manager
8 156 (6.46%) Business Analyst
9 131 (5.42%) Consultant
10 122 (5.05%) Development Manager
11 116 (4.80%) Trainee
11 116 (4.80%) Trainee Analyst
12 95 (3.93%) IT Project Manager
13 90 (3.73%) Data Analyst
14 84 (3.48%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 76 (3.15%) Product Manager
16 68 (2.82%) Architect
17 61 (2.53%) IT Support
18 57 (2.36%) Systems Manager
19 56 (2.32%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (1.86%) .NET
2 41 (1.70%) HTML
2 41 (1.70%) PyTorch
3 38 (1.57%) CSS
4 24 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
4 24 (0.99%) JSON
5 21 (0.87%) .NET Core
5 21 (0.87%) EDI
5 21 (0.87%) Hugging Face
5 21 (0.87%) TensorFlow
6 19 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (0.79%) SPFx
7 9 (0.37%) Flash
7 9 (0.37%) LangChain
7 9 (0.37%) LlamaIndex
7 9 (0.37%) Model Context Protocol
8 8 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.29%) Matplotlib
9 7 (0.29%) Middleware
9 7 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 181 (7.49%) Management Information System
2 110 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 85 (3.52%) Data Centre
4 76 (3.15%) Driving Licence
5 75 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 65 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 56 (2.32%) FMCG
8 53 (2.19%) Social Media
9 47 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 46 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 44 (1.82%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
14 31 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
15 30 (1.24%) Algorithms
16 27 (1.12%) Cloud Native
16 27 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
17 25 (1.04%) PMI
18 24 (0.99%) Low-Code
19 23 (0.95%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 74 (3.06%) Windows
2 28 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 27 (1.12%) Linux
4 23 (0.95%) Android
5 16 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.37%) Unix
7 5 (0.21%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.083%) zOS
10 1 (0.041%) CentOS
10 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (29.19%) Agile
2 593 (24.55%) Project Delivery
3 542 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
4 489 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 457 (18.92%) PRINCE2
6 405 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 348 (14.41%) Decision-Making
8 324 (13.42%) Analytics
9 257 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 249 (10.31%) AI
11 245 (10.14%) Roadmaps
12 244 (10.10%) Coaching
13 243 (10.06%) Business Analysis
13 243 (10.06%) Mentoring
14 236 (9.77%) Change Management
15 231 (9.57%) Risk Management
16 204 (8.45%) Budget Management
17 198 (8.20%) Logistics
18 196 (8.12%) Data Analysis
19 195 (8.07%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 231 (9.57%) SQL
2 229 (9.48%) Python
3 47 (1.95%) C#
4 44 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.28%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.28%) TypeScript
6 27 (1.12%) VBA
7 15 (0.62%) Java
8 7 (0.29%) C
8 7 (0.29%) C++
9 6 (0.25%) Bash
10 5 (0.21%) PHP
11 4 (0.17%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.17%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.17%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.12%) COBOL
12 3 (0.12%) Dart
12 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.12%) R
13 2 (0.083%) RPG
Qualifications
1 606 (25.09%) Degree
2 224 (9.28%) PMP
3 219 (9.07%) PMI Certification
4 118 (4.89%) DBS Check
5 105 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 91 (3.77%) CISSP
7 89 (3.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 62 (2.57%) CISM
9 61 (2.53%) SC Cleared
10 58 (2.40%) Master's Degree
11 39 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 34 (1.41%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.24%) CISA
14 28 (1.16%) CRISC
15 27 (1.12%) SANS
16 26 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
16 26 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
17 25 (1.04%) HNC
18 23 (0.95%) FFIEC
19 22 (0.91%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (7.12%) QA
2 148 (6.13%) PMO
3 107 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 96 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (3.85%) NIST
6 86 (3.56%) GDPR
7 42 (1.74%) GRC
8 39 (1.61%) ISO 9001
9 32 (1.33%) Data Quality
10 30 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (1.08%) COBIT
12 23 (0.95%) NIST 800
12 23 (0.95%) SLA
13 22 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 12 (0.50%) ISO 14001
16 11 (0.46%) GAAP
17 10 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.41%) IFRS
18 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 47 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.75%) Docker
3 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.083%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.083%) Firmware
6 2 (0.083%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.041%) IAG
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (0.91%) SCCM
2 20 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.54%) Ansible
5 11 (0.46%) Grafana
6 10 (0.41%) Terraform
7 4 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.17%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.083%) Argo
9 2 (0.083%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.083%) Puppet
9 2 (0.083%) Salt
10 1 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.041%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.041%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.041%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.041%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 496 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 95 (3.93%) SAP
3 88 (3.64%) Oracle
4 64 (2.65%) Adobe
5 62 (2.57%) ServiceNow
6 61 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.28%) Google
8 27 (1.12%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.83%) Pardot
10 15 (0.62%) Cisco
11 14 (0.58%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.54%) Anaplan
12 13 (0.54%) Apple
12 13 (0.54%) SonicWALL
13 12 (0.50%) Instagram
14 11 (0.46%) Bloomberg
14 11 (0.46%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.46%) JD Edwards
14 11 (0.46%) Reuters
14 11 (0.46%) Wrike