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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -47 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,443 3,571 7,435
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.63% 8.39% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 9.00% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 1,698 5,391
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £92,500 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 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 26 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 -48 2,101 £55,000 -6.78% 1,255
UK excluding London -50 1,596 £52,000 -5.45% 895
Work from Home -8 925 £55,000 -4.35% 510
London -28 673 £70,000 - 508
North of England -26 499 £55,000 - 221
South East -30 375 £50,000 -11.73% 246
Midlands -64 236 £53,750 +2.38% 146
North West +3 233 £51,000 -2.86% 129
South West -51 173 £47,500 -17.39% 97
West Midlands -51 162 £52,500 -4.55% 91
Yorkshire -39 154 £60,000 +9.09% 72
East of England -50 126 £75,000 +41.51% 104
North East -23 112 £60,000 +1.69% 22
Scotland -46 79 £40,000 -25.98% 52
Northern Ireland -12 75 £55,000 +2.33% 28
East Midlands -50 72 £55,000 +34.15% 55
Wales -51 38 £42,934 -32.92% 20

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 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.88%) Confluence
3 38 (1.56%) CMS
4 31 (1.27%) WordPress
5 20 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.12%) govService
8 3 (0.12%) Moodle
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.082%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.082%) Drupal
9 2 (0.082%) Totara
9 2 (0.082%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.041%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 271 (11.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (8.06%) Microsoft Project
3 169 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
4 58 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.53%) Trello
8 9 (0.37%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.33%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.29%) SOLIDWORKS
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.082%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.082%) Maya
13 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.041%) Blender
13 1 (0.041%) Notion
13 1 (0.041%) Sketch
13 1 (0.041%) Weka
Business Applications
1 25 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (0.86%) 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 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.41%) Shopify
8 8 (0.33%) Primavera
8 8 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
9 7 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 238 (9.74%) Azure
2 225 (9.21%) Power Platform
3 156 (6.39%) SaaS
4 133 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (4.09%) AWS
6 73 (2.99%) PowerApps
7 52 (2.13%) Power Automate
8 34 (1.39%) GCP
9 33 (1.35%) Asana
9 33 (1.35%) Entra ID
9 33 (1.35%) Smartsheet
10 31 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (1.23%) OneDrive
12 29 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (0.98%) Canva
13 24 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
14 23 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 21 (0.86%) Google Analytics
16 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.68%) Broadband
2 32 (1.31%) Firewall
2 32 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
3 24 (0.98%) WAN
4 23 (0.94%) CHAP
5 17 (0.70%) LAN
6 15 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (0.57%) DNS
7 14 (0.57%) Network Security
8 12 (0.49%) DHCP
9 11 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.41%) Multicast
11 9 (0.37%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.33%) Internet
12 8 (0.33%) VoIP
12 8 (0.33%) VPN
12 8 (0.33%) Wireless
13 5 (0.20%) BGP
13 5 (0.20%) DMVPN
13 5 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (7.57%) Power BI
2 140 (5.73%) Tableau
3 108 (4.42%) Data Mining
4 34 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.15%) GIS
6 21 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.82%) QGIS
7 20 (0.82%) Spatial Data
8 18 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.41%) DB2
9 10 (0.41%) Power Query
10 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.25%) Metadata
13 5 (0.20%) Big Data
13 5 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.20%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.20%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.16%) DB2 UDB
Development Applications
1 123 (5.03%) JIRA
2 19 (0.78%) Git
3 11 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.16%) GitLab
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%) Plastic SCM
General
1 1,002 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 877 (35.90%) Finance
3 514 (21.04%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (11.22%) Marketing
5 214 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
6 161 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 155 (6.34%) Manufacturing
8 153 (6.26%) Retail
9 144 (5.89%) Legal
10 125 (5.12%) Public Sector
11 104 (4.26%) Banking
12 103 (4.22%) Law
13 74 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 70 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
15 65 (2.66%) Telecoms
16 56 (2.29%) Games
17 55 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.96%) Local Government
19 43 (1.76%) Advertising
19 43 (1.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 483 (19.77%) Project Manager
2 363 (14.86%) Senior
3 355 (14.53%) Analyst
4 216 (8.84%) Senior Manager
5 173 (7.08%) Lead
6 168 (6.88%) Business Analyst
7 164 (6.71%) IT Manager
8 158 (6.47%) Senior Project Manager
9 150 (6.14%) Trainee
10 148 (6.06%) Trainee Analyst
11 126 (5.16%) Development Manager
12 121 (4.95%) Consultant
13 110 (4.50%) Data Analyst
14 104 (4.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 89 (3.64%) Product Manager
16 84 (3.44%) IT Project Manager
17 79 (3.23%) Architect
18 62 (2.54%) IT Support
19 59 (2.42%) Systems Manager
20 57 (2.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.80%) .NET
2 41 (1.68%) HTML
3 37 (1.51%) CSS
4 36 (1.47%) PyTorch
5 24 (0.98%) EDI
5 24 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
5 24 (0.98%) JSON
6 21 (0.86%) .NET Core
7 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (0.78%) SPFx
9 16 (0.65%) Hugging Face
9 16 (0.65%) TensorFlow
10 8 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (0.29%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (0.29%) Matplotlib
11 7 (0.29%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (0.29%) OAuth
11 7 (0.29%) React
11 7 (0.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 178 (7.29%) Management Information System
2 107 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 78 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 76 (3.11%) Driving Licence
5 71 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 64 (2.62%) FMCG
7 53 (2.17%) Social Media
8 50 (2.05%) Virtual Team
9 46 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 41 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 28 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 28 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
14 26 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 25 (1.02%) Cloud Native
15 25 (1.02%) PMI
16 24 (0.98%) Low-Code
17 23 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.95%) Windows
2 28 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.06%) Linux
4 23 (0.94%) Android
5 14 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.33%) Unix
7 6 (0.25%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.082%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.082%) zOS
11 1 (0.041%) CentOS
11 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (28.53%) Agile
2 604 (24.72%) Project Delivery
3 534 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
4 475 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 448 (18.34%) PRINCE2
6 425 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 363 (14.86%) Decision-Making
8 350 (14.33%) Analytics
9 269 (11.01%) Business Analysis
10 257 (10.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 256 (10.48%) AI
12 253 (10.36%) Coaching
13 252 (10.32%) Change Management
14 241 (9.86%) Risk Management
15 237 (9.70%) Roadmaps
16 234 (9.58%) Mentoring
17 220 (9.01%) Data Analysis
18 212 (8.68%) Budget Management
19 195 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
20 190 (7.78%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 244 (9.99%) SQL
2 240 (9.82%) Python
3 48 (1.96%) C#
4 41 (1.68%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 29 (1.19%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.15%) VBA
8 14 (0.57%) Java
9 6 (0.25%) Bash
9 6 (0.25%) C
9 6 (0.25%) PHP
10 5 (0.20%) C++
11 4 (0.16%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.12%) COBOL
12 3 (0.12%) Dart
12 3 (0.12%) R
12 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.082%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.082%) Scala
Qualifications
1 652 (26.69%) Degree
2 228 (9.33%) PMI Certification
2 228 (9.33%) PMP
3 109 (4.46%) Security Cleared
4 108 (4.42%) DBS Check
5 94 (3.85%) CISSP
6 85 (3.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 66 (2.70%) CISM
8 62 (2.54%) Master's Degree
9 61 (2.50%) SC Cleared
10 37 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 36 (1.47%) DV Cleared
12 32 (1.31%) CISA
13 31 (1.27%) HNC
14 28 (1.15%) CRISC
14 28 (1.15%) SANS
15 27 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
16 26 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.98%) FFIEC
18 23 (0.94%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (6.30%) QA
2 134 (5.49%) PMO
3 105 (4.30%) Accessibility
4 103 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (3.81%) NIST
6 92 (3.77%) GDPR
7 42 (1.72%) GRC
8 36 (1.47%) ISO 9001
9 30 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 29 (1.19%) Data Quality
11 27 (1.11%) COBIT
12 23 (0.94%) NIST 800
13 22 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 22 (0.90%) SLA
14 12 (0.49%) GAAP
14 12 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 11 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.41%) IFRS
17 9 (0.37%) ISO 14001
17 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 50 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.74%) Docker
3 6 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.082%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.082%) Firmware
6 2 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.082%) vSphere
7 1 (0.041%) IAG
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (0.86%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.82%) SCCM
3 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.53%) Ansible
5 11 (0.45%) Grafana
6 9 (0.37%) Terraform
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.082%) Argo
9 2 (0.082%) Puppet
9 2 (0.082%) Salt
9 2 (0.082%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.041%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.041%) MOM
10 1 (0.041%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 513 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 87 (3.56%) SAP
3 80 (3.27%) Oracle
4 65 (2.66%) Adobe
5 64 (2.62%) ServiceNow
6 63 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 54 (2.21%) Google
8 27 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 26 (1.06%) Anaplan
10 20 (0.82%) Genesys
10 20 (0.82%) Pardot
10 20 (0.82%) Verint
11 16 (0.65%) Cisco
12 13 (0.53%) Apple
12 13 (0.53%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.49%) Instagram
14 11 (0.45%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.45%) SonicWALL
14 11 (0.45%) VMware
14 11 (0.45%) Wrike