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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -41 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,636 4,002 7,163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.32% 9.79% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 10.52% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,053 5,179
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £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 60,831 38,033 77,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.64% 93.07% 86.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,418 22,319 57,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -44 2,210 £55,000 -4.35% 1,263
UK excluding London -47 1,739 £47,500 -13.64% 1,056
Work from Home -22 792 £57,500 -4.17% 423
London -25 680 £70,000 - 403
North of England -36 547 £42,500 -22.73% 233
South East -45 401 £50,500 -11.40% 313
Midlands -60 256 £50,000 -7.41% 175
North West -38 250 £43,750 -20.15% 119
West Midlands -44 193 £46,250 -15.91% 98
Yorkshire -30 186 £40,000 -28.89% 85
South West -42 175 £45,000 -17.43% 104
Scotland -12 136 £40,000 -28.89% 53
East of England -47 120 £55,000 - 137
North East -10 111 £40,000 -29.82% 31
Northern Ireland -9 72 £47,500 -2.56% 24
East Midlands -80 61 £53,000 +11.58% 76
Wales -41 39 £42,934 -18.36% 49

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
1 147 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.82%) Confluence
3 44 (1.67%) CMS
4 35 (1.33%) WordPress
5 20 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) govService
10 3 (0.11%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.076%) Drupal
11 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.076%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.038%) IIS
12 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
Applications
1 422 (16.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 203 (7.70%) Microsoft Office
3 134 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 125 (4.74%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.61%) Trello
7 15 (0.57%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
9 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.11%) Maya
12 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.076%) Elementor
12 2 (0.076%) Notion
12 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (1.06%) 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
5 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
6 13 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.23%) Primavera
9 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.23%) Shopify
10 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 236 (8.95%) Azure
2 223 (8.46%) Power Platform
3 165 (6.26%) SaaS
4 153 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (4.10%) AWS
6 58 (2.20%) PowerApps
7 45 (1.71%) Asana
8 35 (1.33%) GCP
9 34 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 33 (1.25%) Power Automate
11 31 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (0.99%) Smartsheet
13 23 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (0.83%) Google Analytics
14 22 (0.83%) OneDrive
15 21 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
16 20 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (0.72%) Canva
18 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
19 16 (0.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.82%) Broadband
2 45 (1.71%) Firewall
3 39 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (0.99%) WAN
5 25 (0.95%) CHAP
6 23 (0.87%) Internet
7 21 (0.80%) DNS
8 20 (0.76%) DHCP
9 19 (0.72%) LAN
9 19 (0.72%) Network Security
10 18 (0.68%) VPN
11 17 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
11 17 (0.64%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.61%) Wireless
13 13 (0.49%) VLAN
14 12 (0.46%) Intranet
15 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.38%) Multicast
17 8 (0.30%) VoIP
18 5 (0.19%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (7.51%) Tableau
2 185 (7.02%) Power BI
3 171 (6.49%) Data Mining
4 31 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 25 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (0.91%) GIS
7 21 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 20 (0.76%) QGIS
8 20 (0.76%) Spatial Data
9 19 (0.72%) Power Query
10 14 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
12 9 (0.34%) DB2
13 8 (0.30%) Metadata
14 7 (0.27%) Big Data
15 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 115 (4.36%) JIRA
2 17 (0.64%) Git
3 12 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.27%) GitLab
5 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.11%) ERwin
6 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.11%) Storybook
6 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.076%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.076%) ESLint
7 2 (0.076%) Gradle
7 2 (0.076%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.076%) JMeter
7 2 (0.076%) JUnit
7 2 (0.076%) Maven
7 2 (0.076%) Mockito
7 2 (0.076%) Selenium
7 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.076%) TestNG
General
1 1,110 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 1,019 (38.66%) Finance
3 653 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (11.00%) Marketing
5 212 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
6 196 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (6.34%) Manufacturing
8 160 (6.07%) Legal
9 138 (5.24%) Retail
10 133 (5.05%) Public Sector
11 118 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
12 116 (4.40%) Banking
13 112 (4.25%) Law
14 70 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
15 63 (2.39%) Games
16 55 (2.09%) Telecoms
17 53 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.82%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.40%) Electronics
19 37 (1.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 474 (17.98%) Analyst
2 401 (15.21%) Project Manager
3 359 (13.62%) Senior
4 276 (10.47%) Trainee
5 269 (10.20%) Trainee Analyst
6 222 (8.42%) Senior Manager
7 213 (8.08%) Business Analyst
8 177 (6.71%) Data Analyst
9 172 (6.53%) Lead
10 162 (6.15%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 160 (6.07%) IT Manager
12 122 (4.63%) Consultant
13 121 (4.59%) Development Manager
14 107 (4.06%) Trainee Business Analyst
15 97 (3.68%) Senior Project Manager
16 89 (3.38%) Product Manager
17 87 (3.30%) Architect
18 80 (3.03%) Systems Manager
19 79 (3.00%) IT Project Manager
20 76 (2.88%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.10%) .NET
1 29 (1.10%) HTML
2 25 (0.95%) EDI
3 23 (0.87%) PyTorch
4 22 (0.83%) CSS
5 12 (0.46%) React
6 10 (0.38%) .NET Core
6 10 (0.38%) JSON
6 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
7 9 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.30%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (0.30%) Middleware
8 8 (0.30%) REST
8 8 (0.30%) SPFx
9 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.27%) OAuth
10 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.19%) OpenID
10 5 (0.19%) SAML
11 4 (0.15%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.81%) Management Information System
2 115 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 108 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
4 81 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 67 (2.54%) Driving Licence
5 67 (2.54%) Social Media
6 63 (2.39%) FMCG
7 56 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 48 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 41 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 36 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 36 (1.37%) Robotics
11 34 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.29%) Blog
12 32 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.10%) IoT
14 28 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (1.02%) Low-Code
16 26 (0.99%) Security Posture
17 21 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.77%) Windows
2 31 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.99%) Android
4 23 (0.87%) Linux
5 16 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.076%) AIX
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.076%) VMS
8 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
9 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (24.36%) Agile
2 623 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
3 557 (21.13%) Project Delivery
4 532 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 475 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 453 (17.19%) Analytics
7 396 (15.02%) Decision-Making
8 385 (14.61%) Business Analysis
9 371 (14.07%) PRINCE2
10 350 (13.28%) Change Management
11 329 (12.48%) AI
12 323 (12.25%) Data Analysis
13 273 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 247 (9.37%) Coaching
14 247 (9.37%) Risk Management
15 238 (9.03%) Data Analytics
16 218 (8.27%) Roadmaps
17 216 (8.19%) Process Improvement
18 210 (7.97%) Mentoring
19 204 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 301 (11.42%) SQL
2 293 (11.12%) Python
3 40 (1.52%) C#
4 36 (1.37%) VBA
5 26 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 21 (0.80%) PowerShell
6 21 (0.80%) TypeScript
7 17 (0.64%) Java
8 13 (0.49%) C++
9 11 (0.42%) C
9 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.23%) Bash
10 6 (0.23%) PHP
10 6 (0.23%) R
11 4 (0.15%) COBOL
12 3 (0.11%) Dart
12 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
12 3 (0.11%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 686 (26.02%) Degree
2 242 (9.18%) PMP
3 226 (8.57%) PMI Certification
4 136 (5.16%) Security Cleared
5 94 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 85 (3.22%) Master's Degree
7 75 (2.85%) CISSP
8 71 (2.69%) DBS Check
9 64 (2.43%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
10 54 (2.05%) CISM
11 36 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.29%) HNC
13 32 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (1.14%) CISA
14 30 (1.14%) SANS
15 27 (1.02%) MBA
16 26 (0.99%) ACCA
16 26 (0.99%) FFIEC
17 25 (0.95%) CGEIT
18 23 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (7.93%) QA
2 125 (4.74%) PMO
3 107 (4.06%) GDPR
4 94 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 70 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.35%) NIST
7 38 (1.44%) Data Quality
8 32 (1.21%) GRC
9 30 (1.14%) ISO 9001
10 26 (0.99%) COBIT
11 22 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.49%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.49%) SLA
16 10 (0.38%) GAAP
16 10 (0.38%) IFRS
17 8 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.99%) Docker
3 11 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
6 3 (0.11%) vSphere
7 2 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.57%) Ansible
4 13 (0.49%) SCCM
5 12 (0.46%) Terraform
6 11 (0.42%) Grafana
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%) Argo
9 2 (0.076%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.076%) Puppet
9 2 (0.076%) Salt
10 1 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.038%) MOM
Vendors
1 645 (24.47%) Microsoft
2 115 (4.36%) SAP
3 74 (2.81%) Salesforce
4 65 (2.47%) Oracle
5 64 (2.43%) Google
6 59 (2.24%) Adobe
7 49 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 31 (1.18%) Cisco
9 28 (1.06%) Anaplan
10 22 (0.83%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 17 (0.64%) Pardot
13 16 (0.61%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.57%) Apple
14 15 (0.57%) Fortinet
14 15 (0.57%) Instagram
15 14 (0.53%) Databricks
16 12 (0.46%) VMware
17 11 (0.42%) Hootsuite