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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 17 28
Rank change year-on-year -30 +11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,634 5,319 3,934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.41% 9.90% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 10.95% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,493 2,263 2,758
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,745 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,501 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% - -3.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -

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 48,482 48,584 49,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.16% 90.44% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,500 23,705 37,321
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -31 2,250 £52,501 -8.69% 1,569
UK excluding London -32 1,736 £45,000 -18.18% 1,392
London -17 695 £70,000 +3.70% 387
Work from Home -31 668 £60,000 - 569
North of England -25 473 £40,000 -25.88% 285
South East -26 455 £57,772 +0.91% 392
Midlands -44 279 £45,000 -18.18% 239
North West -27 219 £42,442 -19.16% 127
South West -18 203 £47,500 -8.65% 161
West Midlands -40 188 £44,772 -22.14% 134
Yorkshire -19 164 £40,000 -27.27% 129
Scotland -12 160 £42,500 -22.73% 74
East of England -54 111 £55,000 +10.00% 191
East Midlands -54 91 £47,250 -10.00% 104
North East -3 90 £32,500 -37.50% 36
Wales -35 31 £57,500 +15.58% 55
Northern Ireland -15 28 £55,000 -6.38% 33

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
1 156 (5.92%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.90%) Confluence
3 41 (1.56%) CMS
4 27 (1.03%) WordPress
5 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.53%) Kinematics
7 8 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.23%) Apache
8 6 (0.23%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.15%) Drupal
9 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.11%) govService
11 2 (0.076%) IIS
11 2 (0.076%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.076%) TPMS
12 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 416 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 244 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
3 163 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 117 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 29 (1.10%) Maya
7 25 (0.95%) AutoCAD
8 24 (0.91%) Trello
9 16 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
10 14 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.27%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.23%) Revit
13 5 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
13 5 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
14 4 (0.15%) CATIA
14 4 (0.15%) InDesign
15 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 101 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.47%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.40%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 19 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 18 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
6 17 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
6 17 (0.65%) SAP IBP
7 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.53%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.53%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
7 14 (0.53%) Shopify
8 12 (0.46%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
10 9 (0.34%) SAP FS
10 9 (0.34%) SAP FSCM
10 9 (0.34%) SAP IS-U
11 8 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 225 (8.54%) Azure
2 203 (7.71%) Power Platform
3 144 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (4.21%) SaaS
5 103 (3.91%) AWS
6 44 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.44%) GCP
8 35 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.14%) Entra ID
10 28 (1.06%) Snowflake
11 27 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
11 27 (1.03%) Smartsheet
12 25 (0.95%) Power Automate
13 22 (0.84%) PaaS
14 21 (0.80%) Asana
15 20 (0.76%) Google Workspace
15 20 (0.76%) PowerApps
16 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (0.61%) Fivetran
17 16 (0.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.40%) Firewall
2 36 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
3 30 (1.14%) WAN
4 29 (1.10%) VPN
5 26 (0.99%) Wireless
6 24 (0.91%) LAN
7 20 (0.76%) Internet
8 19 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
9 18 (0.68%) VLAN
10 16 (0.61%) Network Security
10 16 (0.61%) SD-WAN
11 15 (0.57%) Unified Communications
12 14 (0.53%) DNS
12 14 (0.53%) TCP/IP
13 12 (0.46%) CHAP
14 11 (0.42%) Intranet
14 11 (0.42%) Multicast
15 10 (0.38%) Broadband
15 10 (0.38%) DHCP
15 10 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.87%) Power BI
2 173 (6.57%) Tableau
3 123 (4.67%) Data Mining
4 63 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 31 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (0.80%) SAP BW
7 18 (0.68%) Looker
8 16 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.61%) Power Query
9 15 (0.57%) Metadata
10 13 (0.49%) Big Data
11 12 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
12 9 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 7 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 132 (5.01%) JIRA
2 13 (0.49%) GitLab
3 11 (0.42%) Git
4 8 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.15%) JIRA Agile
6 4 (0.15%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.15%) Maven
6 4 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.11%) ERwin
7 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.076%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.076%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.076%) Gradle
8 2 (0.076%) JUnit
8 2 (0.076%) Mockito
8 2 (0.076%) Selenium
8 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.076%) Subversion
8 2 (0.076%) TestNG
General
1 1,169 (44.38%) Social Skills
2 1,157 (43.93%) Finance
3 799 (30.33%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (9.98%) Marketing
5 191 (7.25%) Manufacturing
6 175 (6.64%) Law
7 174 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
8 172 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 158 (6.00%) Legal
10 152 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
11 140 (5.32%) Retail
12 136 (5.16%) Public Sector
13 101 (3.83%) Banking
14 81 (3.08%) Telecoms
15 72 (2.73%) Games
16 65 (2.47%) Electronics
17 63 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
18 57 (2.16%) Advertising
19 49 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
20 48 (1.82%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 434 (16.48%) Analyst
2 404 (15.34%) Senior
3 361 (13.71%) Project Manager
4 252 (9.57%) Trainee
5 243 (9.23%) Trainee Analyst
6 226 (8.58%) Senior Manager
7 219 (8.31%) Lead
8 214 (8.12%) Business Analyst
9 164 (6.23%) IT Manager
10 151 (5.73%) Architect
11 138 (5.24%) Data Analyst
12 125 (4.75%) Trainee Business Analyst
13 118 (4.48%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 114 (4.33%) Development Manager
15 107 (4.06%) Business Manager
16 92 (3.49%) Consultant
16 92 (3.49%) Product Manager
17 83 (3.15%) Senior Project Manager
18 80 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
18 80 (3.04%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.29%) CSS
2 29 (1.10%) Middleware
3 24 (0.91%) HTML
4 17 (0.65%) EDI
5 12 (0.46%) .NET
6 9 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.34%) Web Services
7 8 (0.30%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.27%) FHIR
8 7 (0.27%) React
9 6 (0.23%) Node.js
9 6 (0.23%) REST
10 5 (0.19%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.15%) FIDO
11 4 (0.15%) Flutter
11 4 (0.15%) Pandas
11 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 197 (7.48%) Management Information System
2 128 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 122 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 87 (3.30%) FMCG
5 86 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 77 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 74 (2.81%) Robotics
8 66 (2.51%) Product Ownership
9 63 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
10 62 (2.35%) Driving Licence
11 45 (1.71%) Social Media
11 45 (1.71%) Virtual Team
12 33 (1.25%) Algorithms
13 28 (1.06%) IoT
14 27 (1.03%) Blog
15 22 (0.84%) NHS
16 19 (0.72%) Blockchain
16 19 (0.72%) Life Science
16 19 (0.72%) PMI
16 19 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.35%) Windows
2 30 (1.14%) Linux
3 23 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.30%) Android
5 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.27%) VMS
7 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.19%) Unix
8 2 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
2 615 (23.35%) Agile
3 601 (22.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 542 (20.58%) Project Delivery
5 451 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 433 (16.44%) Analytics
7 419 (15.91%) Change Management
8 404 (15.34%) Decision-Making
9 359 (13.63%) Business Analysis
10 349 (13.25%) Risk Management
11 302 (11.47%) AI
11 302 (11.47%) PRINCE2
12 273 (10.36%) Process Improvement
13 261 (9.91%) Data Analysis
14 256 (9.72%) ERP
15 245 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
15 245 (9.30%) Business Strategy
16 244 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 224 (8.50%) Roadmaps
18 211 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 278 (10.55%) SQL
2 245 (9.30%) Python
3 35 (1.33%) C#
4 31 (1.18%) C
5 30 (1.14%) Java
5 30 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 23 (0.87%) C++
7 19 (0.72%) VBA
8 17 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (0.46%) Perl
10 10 (0.38%) PHP
11 6 (0.23%) Bash
11 6 (0.23%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.19%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (0.15%) R
13 4 (0.15%) Ruby
13 4 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 842 (31.97%) Degree
2 206 (7.82%) PMP
3 196 (7.44%) PMI Certification
4 182 (6.91%) Security Cleared
5 151 (5.73%) SC Cleared
6 104 (3.95%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.43%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 52 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (1.63%) DBS Check
11 37 (1.40%) CISSP
12 24 (0.91%) MBA
13 23 (0.87%) DV Cleared
14 22 (0.84%) ACCA
14 22 (0.84%) HND
15 21 (0.80%) CFA
15 21 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.80%) CISM
15 21 (0.80%) PhD
16 20 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (7.56%) QA
2 159 (6.04%) PMO
3 92 (3.49%) GDPR
4 52 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 40 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.06%) NIST
8 26 (0.99%) ISO 9001
9 24 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.53%) COBIT
11 14 (0.53%) SLA
12 13 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.38%) IEC 61131
13 10 (0.38%) IFRS
14 9 (0.34%) GRC
14 9 (0.34%) IFRS 17
14 9 (0.34%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.27%) HL7
15 7 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 57 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.65%) Docker
3 15 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Firmware
5 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.23%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.34%) Terraform
4 6 (0.23%) Ansible
5 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.15%) Grafana
7 3 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.076%) Nagios
9 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) SCCM
9 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 640 (24.30%) Microsoft
2 222 (8.43%) SAP
3 90 (3.42%) Salesforce
4 72 (2.73%) Oracle
5 62 (2.35%) Google
6 45 (1.71%) Cisco
6 45 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.40%) OpenText
8 36 (1.37%) Ariba
9 32 (1.21%) Adobe
10 26 (0.99%) Anaplan
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 18 (0.68%) Databricks
12 18 (0.68%) HubSpot
13 17 (0.65%) VMware
14 16 (0.61%) Sage
15 14 (0.53%) Siemens
15 14 (0.53%) Workday
16 13 (0.49%) Atlassian