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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -46 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,568 3,867 7,279
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.07% 9.43% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 10.14% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,519 1,975 5,294
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,854 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.30% +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 63,474 38,128 79,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.94% 92.95% 86.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,284 22,513 58,929
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -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 11 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 11 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 -49 2,184 £55,000 -4.76% 1,263
UK excluding London -51 1,688 £47,683 -13.30% 1,056
Work from Home -20 793 £57,500 -2.95% 423
London -26 662 £70,000 - 403
North of England -38 546 £44,000 -20.00% 233
South East -45 398 £50,001 -10.55% 313
Midlands -55 261 £52,500 - 175
North West -36 247 £45,000 -18.03% 119
West Midlands -40 199 £47,500 -13.64% 98
Yorkshire -34 188 £40,000 -27.27% 85
South West -46 168 £45,564 -17.16% 104
East of England -58 117 £55,000 - 137
North East -13 111 £42,417 -25.59% 31
Scotland -30 97 £40,000 -30.43% 53
Northern Ireland -10 72 £47,500 -17.39% 24
East Midlands -82 60 £55,000 +22.22% 76
Wales -47 36 £42,934 -28.44% 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
1 113 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.99%) Confluence
3 44 (1.71%) CMS
4 34 (1.32%) WordPress
5 20 (0.78%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.12%) Apache
10 3 (0.12%) govService
10 3 (0.12%) SAS
11 2 (0.078%) Drupal
11 2 (0.078%) Kinematics
11 2 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.039%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.039%) IIS
12 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
Applications
1 371 (14.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 162 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (4.95%) Microsoft Project
4 101 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 18 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.58%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.58%) Trello
8 10 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
9 9 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
10 3 (0.12%) Maya
11 2 (0.078%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.078%) Elementor
11 2 (0.078%) Notion
11 2 (0.078%) Weka
12 1 (0.039%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 21 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
3 20 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
5 16 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 15 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.27%) Shopify
10 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.23%) Primavera
10 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.16%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 234 (9.11%) Azure
2 227 (8.84%) Power Platform
3 169 (6.58%) SaaS
4 142 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
5 111 (4.32%) AWS
6 60 (2.34%) PowerApps
7 48 (1.87%) Asana
8 40 (1.56%) GCP
8 40 (1.56%) Power Automate
9 33 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 30 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (1.01%) Smartsheet
12 24 (0.93%) Google Analytics
12 24 (0.93%) OneDrive
13 23 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (0.78%) Canva
15 18 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.66%) ChatGPT
16 17 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.64%) Broadband
2 36 (1.40%) Firewall
2 36 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (1.01%) CHAP
3 26 (1.01%) WAN
4 22 (0.86%) DNS
5 20 (0.78%) DHCP
6 19 (0.74%) Internet
7 18 (0.70%) LAN
7 18 (0.70%) Network Security
8 17 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
9 15 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.58%) Wireless
10 14 (0.55%) VPN
11 12 (0.47%) Intranet
12 11 (0.43%) VLAN
13 10 (0.39%) Multicast
13 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.31%) VoIP
15 5 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (7.40%) Power BI
2 188 (7.32%) Tableau
3 155 (6.04%) Data Mining
4 30 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.05%) GIS
6 23 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 20 (0.78%) QGIS
8 20 (0.78%) Spatial Data
9 19 (0.74%) Power Query
10 15 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
12 9 (0.35%) DB2
13 8 (0.31%) Big Data
14 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.19%) Metadata
15 5 (0.19%) MySQL
16 4 (0.16%) Relational Database
16 4 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 121 (4.71%) JIRA
2 21 (0.82%) Git
3 12 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.27%) GitLab
5 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 4 (0.16%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.12%) Storybook
8 2 (0.078%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.078%) ESLint
8 2 (0.078%) Gradle
8 2 (0.078%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (0.078%) JMeter
8 2 (0.078%) JUnit
8 2 (0.078%) Maven
8 2 (0.078%) Mockito
8 2 (0.078%) Selenium
8 2 (0.078%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.078%) TestNG
8 2 (0.078%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.039%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,067 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 983 (38.28%) Finance
3 629 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (11.60%) Marketing
5 216 (8.41%) Organisational Skills
6 191 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (6.50%) Manufacturing
8 159 (6.19%) Legal
9 140 (5.45%) Retail
10 134 (5.22%) Public Sector
11 117 (4.56%) Banking
12 114 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
13 110 (4.28%) Law
14 71 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
15 64 (2.49%) Games
16 53 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 53 (2.06%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.87%) Financial Institution
18 39 (1.52%) Local Government
19 38 (1.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 443 (17.25%) Analyst
2 403 (15.69%) Project Manager
3 327 (12.73%) Senior
4 245 (9.54%) Trainee
5 238 (9.27%) Trainee Analyst
6 199 (7.75%) Business Analyst
7 189 (7.36%) Senior Manager
8 163 (6.35%) Data Analyst
9 157 (6.11%) IT Manager
10 156 (6.07%) Lead
11 149 (5.80%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 124 (4.83%) Consultant
12 124 (4.83%) Development Manager
13 96 (3.74%) Senior Project Manager
14 91 (3.54%) Product Manager
15 89 (3.47%) Trainee Business Analyst
16 87 (3.39%) Architect
17 79 (3.08%) Systems Manager
18 78 (3.04%) IT Project Manager
19 73 (2.84%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.25%) .NET
2 31 (1.21%) HTML
3 26 (1.01%) EDI
4 25 (0.97%) CSS
5 23 (0.90%) PyTorch
6 14 (0.55%) JSON
7 12 (0.47%) .NET Core
7 12 (0.47%) HTML5 Canvas
7 12 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
8 10 (0.39%) React
8 10 (0.39%) SPFx
9 9 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (0.35%) REST
10 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (0.27%) Matplotlib
10 7 (0.27%) Middleware
10 7 (0.27%) OAuth
10 7 (0.27%) Seaborn
11 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (7.71%) Management Information System
2 112 (4.36%) Onboarding
3 99 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
4 84 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.65%) Social Media
6 64 (2.49%) FMCG
7 61 (2.38%) Driving Licence
8 54 (2.10%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.91%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 39 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
12 36 (1.40%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.36%) Blog
13 35 (1.36%) Robotics
14 32 (1.25%) Mobile App
15 30 (1.17%) Security Posture
16 27 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
17 26 (1.01%) Low-Code
18 23 (0.90%) IoT
19 22 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.80%) Windows
2 31 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.01%) Android
4 25 (0.97%) Linux
5 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.078%) AIX
8 2 (0.078%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.078%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.078%) zOS
9 1 (0.039%) CentOS
9 1 (0.039%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (25.16%) Agile
2 606 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
3 570 (22.20%) Project Delivery
4 494 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 478 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 451 (17.56%) Analytics
7 406 (15.81%) Decision-Making
8 379 (14.76%) PRINCE2
9 349 (13.59%) Business Analysis
10 325 (12.66%) AI
11 314 (12.23%) Change Management
12 305 (11.88%) Data Analysis
13 269 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 246 (9.58%) Risk Management
15 226 (8.80%) Data Analytics
16 214 (8.33%) Mentoring
16 214 (8.33%) Roadmaps
17 206 (8.02%) Business Intelligence
18 205 (7.98%) Coaching
19 202 (7.87%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 291 (11.33%) SQL
2 287 (11.18%) Python
3 42 (1.64%) C#
4 35 (1.36%) VBA
5 31 (1.21%) JavaScript
6 25 (0.97%) PowerShell
7 21 (0.82%) TypeScript
8 17 (0.66%) Java
9 12 (0.47%) C++
10 11 (0.43%) C
10 11 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.31%) Bash
12 6 (0.23%) R
13 5 (0.19%) PHP
14 4 (0.16%) COBOL
14 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.12%) Dart
15 3 (0.12%) Ladder Logic
15 3 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 660 (25.70%) Degree
2 244 (9.50%) PMP
3 226 (8.80%) PMI Certification
4 136 (5.30%) Security Cleared
5 93 (3.62%) SC Cleared
6 81 (3.15%) CISSP
7 78 (3.04%) DBS Check
7 78 (3.04%) Master's Degree
8 59 (2.30%) CISM
9 35 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (1.32%) HNC
11 32 (1.25%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 31 (1.21%) CISA
12 31 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.21%) SANS
13 27 (1.05%) FFIEC
14 26 (1.01%) CGEIT
14 26 (1.01%) MBA
15 24 (0.93%) ACCA
15 24 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.09%) QA
2 126 (4.91%) PMO
3 105 (4.09%) GDPR
4 90 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 77 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 69 (2.69%) NIST
7 37 (1.44%) Data Quality
8 36 (1.40%) GRC
9 35 (1.36%) ISO 9001
10 27 (1.05%) COBIT
11 24 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
12 20 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.58%) NIST 800
14 14 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.51%) SLA
16 12 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 11 (0.43%) GAAP
18 9 (0.35%) IFRS
18 9 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 8 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 25 (0.97%) Docker
3 10 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.12%) Firmware
5 3 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.078%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.039%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (0.90%) Kubernetes
1 23 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (0.66%) Ansible
3 16 (0.62%) SCCM
4 14 (0.55%) Terraform
5 12 (0.47%) Grafana
6 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.078%) Argo
9 2 (0.078%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.078%) Puppet
9 2 (0.078%) Salt
10 1 (0.039%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.039%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.039%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.039%) MOM
10 1 (0.039%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 593 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 102 (3.97%) SAP
3 75 (2.92%) Salesforce
4 68 (2.65%) Oracle
5 67 (2.61%) Google
6 56 (2.18%) Adobe
7 52 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.09%) Anaplan
9 25 (0.97%) HubSpot
10 24 (0.93%) Cisco
11 20 (0.78%) Genesys
11 20 (0.78%) Verint
12 19 (0.74%) Pardot
13 16 (0.62%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.58%) Apple
14 15 (0.58%) Instagram
15 14 (0.55%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.51%) Databricks
17 11 (0.43%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.43%) Wrike