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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,639 4,174 6,932
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.48% 9.88% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 10.57% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,547 2,069 5,046
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,150 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 58,981 39,507 74,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.68% 93.49% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 35,808 22,230 56,250
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,887 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -40 2,212 £54,750 -4.78% 1,302
UK excluding London -44 1,741 £47,500 -13.64% 1,098
Work from Home -22 778 £57,500 -4.17% 462
London -26 681 £70,000 - 396
North of England -35 533 £40,500 -26.36% 256
South East -40 407 £52,500 -8.70% 313
Midlands -52 261 £47,500 -13.64% 177
North West -37 245 £42,978 -20.31% 129
West Midlands -39 194 £45,000 -18.18% 96
South West -37 181 £45,000 -17.43% 109
Yorkshire -32 180 £40,000 -30.43% 97
Scotland -14 137 £40,000 -27.27% 60
East of England -41 117 £55,000 +4.76% 151
North East -13 108 £40,000 -32.20% 34
Northern Ireland -10 72 £47,500 - 23
East Midlands -78 66 £52,750 +11.05% 81
Wales -43 40 £42,934 -20.19% 47

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
1 148 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.89%) Confluence
3 47 (1.78%) CMS
4 35 (1.33%) WordPress
5 20 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.19%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) govService
10 3 (0.11%) SAS
10 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.076%) Drupal
11 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.038%) IIS
12 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 415 (15.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
3 131 (4.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (4.47%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.64%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.61%) Trello
8 15 (0.57%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.38%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.27%) Maya
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.076%) CATIA
13 2 (0.076%) Elementor
13 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 39 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
4 16 (0.61%) SAP MDG
5 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 9 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.23%) Primavera
9 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
9 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 235 (8.90%) Azure
2 213 (8.07%) Power Platform
3 161 (6.10%) SaaS
4 156 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (3.94%) AWS
6 53 (2.01%) PowerApps
7 45 (1.71%) Asana
8 33 (1.25%) GCP
9 32 (1.21%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (0.99%) Power Automate
13 25 (0.95%) Smartsheet
14 23 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (0.83%) Google Analytics
16 19 (0.72%) OneDrive
17 18 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (0.64%) Canva
18 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
19 16 (0.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.82%) Broadband
2 46 (1.74%) Firewall
3 40 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (0.99%) WAN
5 25 (0.95%) CHAP
6 22 (0.83%) Internet
7 21 (0.80%) DNS
8 19 (0.72%) DHCP
8 19 (0.72%) LAN
8 19 (0.72%) Network Security
8 19 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.72%) VPN
9 17 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
9 17 (0.64%) Wireless
10 14 (0.53%) VLAN
11 12 (0.45%) Intranet
12 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.38%) Multicast
14 8 (0.30%) VoIP
15 6 (0.23%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (7.50%) Tableau
2 177 (6.71%) Power BI
3 171 (6.48%) Data Mining
4 38 (1.44%) SQL Server
5 25 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.83%) GIS
7 20 (0.76%) QGIS
7 20 (0.76%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.64%) Power Query
10 14 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
11 12 (0.45%) Metadata
12 10 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.30%) Big Data
13 8 (0.30%) DB2
14 7 (0.27%) SAP BW
15 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (0.19%) MySQL
16 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 115 (4.36%) JIRA
2 15 (0.57%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.076%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.076%) ESLint
6 2 (0.076%) Gradle
6 2 (0.076%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.076%) JMeter
6 2 (0.076%) JUnit
6 2 (0.076%) Maven
6 2 (0.076%) Mockito
6 2 (0.076%) Selenium
6 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.076%) TestNG
6 2 (0.076%) Zephyr
General
1 1,113 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 1,040 (39.41%) Finance
3 668 (25.31%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (10.91%) Marketing
5 212 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
6 196 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 161 (6.10%) Manufacturing
8 157 (5.95%) Legal
9 137 (5.19%) Retail
10 136 (5.15%) Public Sector
11 125 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
12 118 (4.47%) Banking
12 118 (4.47%) Law
13 71 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
14 69 (2.61%) Games
15 53 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 50 (1.89%) Telecoms
17 49 (1.86%) Financial Institution
18 39 (1.48%) Local Government
19 37 (1.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 478 (18.11%) Analyst
2 396 (15.01%) Project Manager
3 364 (13.79%) Senior
4 277 (10.50%) Trainee
5 269 (10.19%) Trainee Analyst
6 223 (8.45%) Senior Manager
7 211 (8.00%) Business Analyst
8 189 (7.16%) Lead
9 178 (6.74%) Data Analyst
10 162 (6.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 158 (5.99%) IT Manager
12 121 (4.59%) Consultant
13 115 (4.36%) Development Manager
14 107 (4.05%) Trainee Business Analyst
15 99 (3.75%) Senior Project Manager
16 89 (3.37%) Architect
17 88 (3.33%) Product Manager
18 78 (2.96%) Systems Manager
19 77 (2.92%) IT Project Manager
20 75 (2.84%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.02%) .NET
2 25 (0.95%) EDI
2 25 (0.95%) HTML
3 23 (0.87%) PyTorch
4 17 (0.64%) CSS
5 10 (0.38%) Middleware
5 10 (0.38%) React
6 8 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (0.30%) REST
7 7 (0.27%) .NET Core
7 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (0.27%) JSON
7 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (0.23%) OAuth
9 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.19%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (0.19%) SPFx
10 4 (0.15%) FIDO
10 4 (0.15%) OpenID
10 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 205 (7.77%) Management Information System
2 113 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
3 112 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 82 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 72 (2.73%) Driving Licence
6 65 (2.46%) Social Media
7 62 (2.35%) FMCG
8 53 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 47 (1.78%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 41 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 38 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.44%) Robotics
12 34 (1.29%) Blog
13 30 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.10%) IoT
15 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
16 27 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
17 25 (0.95%) Security Posture
18 21 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (2.61%) Windows
2 31 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.99%) Android
4 22 (0.83%) Linux
5 17 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.11%) VMS
9 2 (0.076%) AIX
9 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (24.33%) Agile
2 630 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
3 540 (20.46%) Project Delivery
4 533 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 466 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 457 (17.32%) Analytics
7 404 (15.31%) Decision-Making
8 382 (14.48%) Business Analysis
9 365 (13.83%) PRINCE2
10 353 (13.38%) Change Management
11 347 (13.15%) AI
12 317 (12.01%) Data Analysis
13 273 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 268 (10.16%) Risk Management
15 258 (9.78%) Coaching
16 237 (8.98%) Data Analytics
17 227 (8.60%) Roadmaps
18 226 (8.56%) Process Improvement
19 211 (8.00%) Mentoring
20 204 (7.73%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 298 (11.29%) SQL
2 293 (11.10%) Python
3 41 (1.55%) C#
4 35 (1.33%) VBA
5 25 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.68%) Java
6 18 (0.68%) PowerShell
7 16 (0.61%) TypeScript
8 15 (0.57%) C++
9 12 (0.45%) C
10 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.23%) Bash
11 6 (0.23%) PHP
11 6 (0.23%) R
12 3 (0.11%) COBOL
12 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
12 3 (0.11%) VB
13 2 (0.076%) ANSI SQL
13 2 (0.076%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.076%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 687 (26.03%) Degree
2 232 (8.79%) PMP
3 219 (8.30%) PMI Certification
4 140 (5.31%) Security Cleared
5 97 (3.68%) SC Cleared
6 85 (3.22%) Master's Degree
7 70 (2.65%) CISSP
8 64 (2.43%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
9 63 (2.39%) DBS Check
10 52 (1.97%) CISM
11 37 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.29%) HNC
13 30 (1.14%) CISA
14 29 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.10%) SANS
15 27 (1.02%) MBA
16 26 (0.99%) FFIEC
17 25 (0.95%) CGEIT
18 24 (0.91%) ACCA
18 24 (0.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (7.77%) QA
2 124 (4.70%) PMO
3 105 (3.98%) GDPR
4 95 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 67 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 60 (2.27%) NIST
7 37 (1.40%) Data Quality
8 30 (1.14%) GRC
9 26 (0.99%) COBIT
9 26 (0.99%) ISO 9001
10 19 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 14 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.45%) SLA
14 11 (0.42%) NIST 800
15 10 (0.38%) GAAP
15 10 (0.38%) IFRS
16 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 63 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.91%) Docker
3 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
5 4 (0.15%) vSphere
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 23 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.49%) Ansible
4 12 (0.45%) Terraform
5 11 (0.42%) Grafana
6 9 (0.34%) SCCM
7 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
9 2 (0.076%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.038%) Argo
10 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.038%) MOM
10 1 (0.038%) Puppet
10 1 (0.038%) Salt
10 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 636 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.70%) SAP
3 75 (2.84%) Salesforce
4 69 (2.61%) Oracle
5 62 (2.35%) Google
6 53 (2.01%) Adobe
7 45 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 35 (1.33%) Cisco
9 28 (1.06%) Anaplan
10 26 (0.99%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 19 (0.72%) Ariba
13 16 (0.61%) Pardot
14 15 (0.57%) Apple
14 15 (0.57%) Instagram
14 15 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.53%) Databricks
15 14 (0.53%) VMware
16 13 (0.49%) Fortinet