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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -38 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,648 4,035 7,132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.38% 9.81% 7.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 10.54% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 2,069 5,177
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% +10.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,250 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £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 60,329 38,275 77,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.98% 93.09% 86.55%
Number of salaries quoted 37,012 22,459 57,636
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% -11.29%
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% -8.41%

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 29 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 29 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 -45 2,220 £55,000 -4.49% 1,263
UK excluding London -48 1,744 £47,500 -13.64% 1,056
Work from Home -22 791 £57,500 -4.17% 423
London -20 687 £70,000 - 403
North of England -34 545 £42,500 -22.73% 233
South East -43 403 £51,500 -10.04% 313
Midlands -56 255 £50,000 -7.41% 175
North West -37 251 £42,914 -21.68% 119
West Midlands -44 192 £46,250 -15.91% 98
Yorkshire -31 185 £40,000 -33.33% 85
South West -41 177 £45,000 -18.18% 104
Scotland -15 137 £40,000 -30.43% 53
East of England -44 122 £55,000 - 137
North East -11 109 £40,000 -29.82% 31
Northern Ireland -10 72 £47,500 -2.56% 24
East Midlands -76 61 £53,000 +11.58% 76
Wales -41 40 £42,934 -21.94% 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 (5.55%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.81%) Confluence
3 45 (1.70%) CMS
4 35 (1.32%) WordPress
5 20 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.15%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.11%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) govService
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
1 423 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 121 (4.57%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (0.60%) Trello
7 15 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.57%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
9 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.23%) 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%) Elementor
13 2 (0.076%) Notion
13 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 36 (1.36%) 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 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
5 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
6 13 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 11 (0.42%) SAP MDG
8 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (8.91%) Azure
2 217 (8.19%) Power Platform
3 166 (6.27%) SaaS
4 155 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
5 107 (4.04%) AWS
6 55 (2.08%) PowerApps
7 45 (1.70%) Asana
8 35 (1.32%) GCP
9 34 (1.28%) Entra ID
10 31 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (1.13%) Power Automate
12 26 (0.98%) Smartsheet
13 25 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (0.83%) Google Analytics
15 21 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (0.79%) OneDrive
16 20 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (0.72%) Canva
18 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
19 16 (0.60%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.85%) Broadband
2 47 (1.77%) Firewall
3 40 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (0.98%) WAN
5 25 (0.94%) CHAP
6 23 (0.87%) DNS
6 23 (0.87%) Internet
7 20 (0.76%) DHCP
8 19 (0.72%) LAN
8 19 (0.72%) Network Security
8 19 (0.72%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.68%) VPN
10 17 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
11 16 (0.60%) Wireless
12 13 (0.49%) VLAN
13 12 (0.45%) Intranet
14 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.38%) Multicast
16 8 (0.30%) VoIP
17 5 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.40%) Tableau
2 181 (6.84%) Power BI
3 171 (6.46%) Data Mining
4 34 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 24 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.83%) GIS
7 20 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.76%) QGIS
7 20 (0.76%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.72%) Power Query
9 13 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (0.34%) DB2
10 9 (0.34%) Metadata
11 7 (0.26%) Big Data
11 7 (0.26%) SAP BW
12 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 115 (4.34%) JIRA
2 16 (0.60%) Git
3 12 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.26%) 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%) Selenium
7 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.076%) TestNG
7 2 (0.076%) Zephyr
General
1 1,125 (42.48%) Social Skills
2 1,025 (38.71%) Finance
3 662 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (10.99%) Marketing
5 213 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
6 195 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (6.31%) Manufacturing
8 163 (6.16%) Legal
9 137 (5.17%) Retail
10 134 (5.06%) Public Sector
11 123 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
12 117 (4.42%) Law
13 116 (4.38%) Banking
14 70 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
15 68 (2.57%) Games
16 56 (2.11%) Telecoms
17 52 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.81%) Financial Institution
19 39 (1.47%) Local Government
20 38 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 474 (17.90%) Analyst
2 398 (15.03%) Project Manager
3 363 (13.71%) Senior
4 276 (10.42%) Trainee
5 269 (10.16%) Trainee Analyst
6 222 (8.38%) Senior Manager
7 210 (7.93%) Business Analyst
8 180 (6.80%) Lead
9 178 (6.72%) Data Analyst
10 162 (6.12%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 161 (6.08%) IT Manager
12 122 (4.61%) Consultant
13 118 (4.46%) Development Manager
14 107 (4.04%) Trainee Business Analyst
15 96 (3.63%) Senior Project Manager
16 89 (3.36%) Product Manager
17 88 (3.32%) Architect
18 78 (2.95%) IT Project Manager
18 78 (2.95%) Systems Manager
19 75 (2.83%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.06%) .NET
1 28 (1.06%) HTML
2 26 (0.98%) EDI
3 23 (0.87%) PyTorch
4 21 (0.79%) CSS
5 12 (0.45%) React
6 9 (0.34%) .NET Core
6 9 (0.34%) JSON
6 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.34%) Middleware
6 9 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.30%) REST
8 7 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.26%) HTML5 Canvas
8 7 (0.26%) OAuth
8 7 (0.26%) SPFx
9 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.19%) OpenID
9 5 (0.19%) SAML
10 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 115 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 108 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 71 (2.68%) Driving Licence
6 67 (2.53%) Social Media
7 62 (2.34%) FMCG
8 57 (2.15%) Data Centre
9 48 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 37 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 37 (1.40%) Robotics
13 34 (1.28%) Blog
14 32 (1.21%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.10%) IoT
16 28 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
16 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
17 27 (1.02%) Security Posture
18 21 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.76%) Windows
2 31 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.98%) Android
4 23 (0.87%) Linux
5 18 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) 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
1 638 (24.09%) Agile
2 633 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
3 552 (20.85%) Project Delivery
4 533 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 472 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 455 (17.18%) Analytics
7 397 (14.99%) Decision-Making
8 382 (14.43%) Business Analysis
9 372 (14.05%) PRINCE2
10 353 (13.33%) Change Management
11 338 (12.76%) AI
12 321 (12.12%) Data Analysis
13 275 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 258 (9.74%) Risk Management
15 248 (9.37%) Coaching
16 239 (9.03%) Data Analytics
17 222 (8.38%) Roadmaps
18 220 (8.31%) Process Improvement
19 209 (7.89%) Mentoring
20 204 (7.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 300 (11.33%) SQL
2 295 (11.14%) Python
3 41 (1.55%) C#
4 36 (1.36%) VBA
5 26 (0.98%) JavaScript
6 21 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 20 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 17 (0.64%) Java
9 14 (0.53%) C++
10 12 (0.45%) C
11 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.23%) Bash
12 6 (0.23%) PHP
12 6 (0.23%) R
13 4 (0.15%) COBOL
14 3 (0.11%) Dart
14 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
14 3 (0.11%) VB
15 2 (0.076%) Scala
Qualifications
1 691 (26.10%) Degree
2 241 (9.10%) PMP
3 225 (8.50%) PMI Certification
4 139 (5.25%) Security Cleared
5 97 (3.66%) SC Cleared
6 87 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 75 (2.83%) CISSP
8 69 (2.61%) DBS Check
9 64 (2.42%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
10 54 (2.04%) CISM
11 37 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.28%) HNC
13 32 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (1.13%) CISA
14 30 (1.13%) SANS
15 27 (1.02%) MBA
16 26 (0.98%) FFIEC
17 25 (0.94%) ACCA
17 25 (0.94%) CGEIT
18 24 (0.91%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (7.89%) QA
2 123 (4.65%) PMO
3 109 (4.12%) GDPR
4 94 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 70 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 63 (2.38%) NIST
7 39 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 32 (1.21%) GRC
9 29 (1.10%) ISO 9001
10 26 (0.98%) COBIT
11 21 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.49%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.45%) SLA
16 10 (0.38%) GAAP
16 10 (0.38%) IFRS
17 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
18 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 64 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.98%) Docker
3 13 (0.49%) 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 24 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.57%) Ansible
4 12 (0.45%) Terraform
5 11 (0.42%) Grafana
5 11 (0.42%) SCCM
6 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.076%) Argo
8 2 (0.076%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.076%) Puppet
8 2 (0.076%) Salt
9 1 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 644 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.65%) SAP
3 73 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 68 (2.57%) Oracle
5 63 (2.38%) Google
6 57 (2.15%) Adobe
7 47 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 31 (1.17%) Cisco
9 28 (1.06%) Anaplan
10 24 (0.91%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 17 (0.64%) Pardot
13 15 (0.57%) Apple
13 15 (0.57%) Instagram
13 15 (0.57%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.53%) Ariba
14 14 (0.53%) Databricks
14 14 (0.53%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.53%) VMware