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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,594 4,335 6,760
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.56% 9.87% 8.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 10.54% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 2,048 4,944
10th Percentile £28,250 £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 £70,752 £73,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,564 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.16% +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 56,840 41,126 73,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.65% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 34,202 22,190 55,823
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,219 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 10 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 10 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 -38 2,171 £52,500 -8.70% 1,172
UK excluding London -43 1,721 £45,564 -17.16% 993
Work from Home -27 744 £57,500 -4.17% 438
London -27 652 £70,000 - 291
North of England -30 530 £40,000 -27.27% 203
South East -39 402 £55,000 -4.35% 305
Midlands -54 259 £45,000 -16.67% 170
North West -36 240 £42,750 -21.36% 102
South West -31 193 £45,000 -17.43% 105
West Midlands -42 190 £45,000 -21.05% 100
Yorkshire -31 183 £40,000 -33.33% 84
Scotland -20 139 £40,000 -30.43% 56
North East -10 107 £40,000 -33.33% 23
East of England -39 105 £55,000 +10.00% 135
East Midlands -75 68 £50,000 +5.26% 70
Northern Ireland -9 64 £60,000 +26.32% 18
Wales -38 36 £48,967 -8.98% 36

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
1 143 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.08%) Confluence
3 47 (1.81%) CMS
4 35 (1.35%) WordPress
5 20 (0.77%) ArcGIS
6 13 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.27%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
11 3 (0.12%) govService
11 3 (0.12%) SAS
11 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.077%) Drupal
12 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.039%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.039%) IIS
13 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 407 (15.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 192 (7.40%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (4.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (4.24%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.69%) AutoCAD
6 17 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.58%) Trello
8 11 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
8 11 (0.42%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.27%) Maya
12 4 (0.15%) Revit
13 3 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
13 3 (0.12%) CATIA
13 3 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
14 2 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 36 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 18 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.62%) SAP MDG
5 15 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
6 13 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (0.19%) Primavera
12 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 224 (8.64%) Azure
2 218 (8.40%) Power Platform
3 149 (5.74%) SaaS
4 146 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (4.05%) AWS
6 48 (1.85%) PowerApps
7 42 (1.62%) Asana
8 31 (1.20%) GCP
9 29 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.04%) Entra ID
11 24 (0.93%) Google Analytics
11 24 (0.93%) Smartsheet
12 22 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (0.81%) Power Automate
14 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (0.62%) Canva
15 16 (0.62%) Miro
15 16 (0.62%) Snowflake
16 15 (0.58%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.58%) Firewall
2 40 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
3 39 (1.50%) Broadband
4 27 (1.04%) WAN
5 24 (0.93%) CHAP
6 23 (0.89%) Internet
7 21 (0.81%) LAN
8 20 (0.77%) DNS
9 19 (0.73%) Network Security
9 19 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
9 19 (0.73%) TCP/IP
10 18 (0.69%) DHCP
11 17 (0.66%) VPN
11 17 (0.66%) Wireless
12 15 (0.58%) VLAN
13 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.42%) Intranet
15 10 (0.39%) Multicast
16 7 (0.27%) BGP
16 7 (0.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.71%) Tableau
2 183 (7.05%) Power BI
3 167 (6.44%) Data Mining
4 42 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 26 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.85%) GIS
7 20 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.77%) QGIS
7 20 (0.77%) Spatial Data
8 17 (0.66%) Power Query
9 15 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
10 13 (0.50%) Metadata
11 12 (0.46%) Big Data
12 7 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.27%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.23%) DB2
13 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.19%) Looker
14 5 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 113 (4.36%) JIRA
2 17 (0.66%) Git
3 12 (0.46%) GitLab
4 11 (0.42%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.12%) ERwin
5 3 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.077%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.077%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.077%) ESLint
6 2 (0.077%) Gradle
6 2 (0.077%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.077%) JMeter
6 2 (0.077%) JUnit
6 2 (0.077%) Maven
6 2 (0.077%) Mockito
6 2 (0.077%) Selenium
6 2 (0.077%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.077%) TestNG
6 2 (0.077%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.077%) Zephyr
General
1 1,103 (42.52%) Social Skills
2 1,043 (40.21%) Finance
3 664 (25.60%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (10.22%) Marketing
5 194 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 194 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
6 158 (6.09%) Legal
6 158 (6.09%) Manufacturing
7 143 (5.51%) Public Sector
8 125 (4.82%) Retail
9 124 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
10 123 (4.74%) Law
11 112 (4.32%) Banking
12 73 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (2.62%) Games
14 54 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 53 (2.04%) Telecoms
16 48 (1.85%) Financial Institution
17 44 (1.70%) Electronics
18 41 (1.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 481 (18.54%) Analyst
2 385 (14.84%) Project Manager
3 353 (13.61%) Senior
4 283 (10.91%) Trainee
5 274 (10.56%) Trainee Analyst
6 223 (8.60%) Business Analyst
7 220 (8.48%) Senior Manager
8 194 (7.48%) Lead
9 175 (6.75%) Data Analyst
10 158 (6.09%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 154 (5.94%) IT Manager
12 116 (4.47%) Consultant
12 116 (4.47%) Trainee Business Analyst
13 114 (4.39%) Development Manager
14 97 (3.74%) Senior Project Manager
15 90 (3.47%) Architect
15 90 (3.47%) Product Manager
16 88 (3.39%) Business Manager
17 81 (3.12%) Systems Manager
18 77 (2.97%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (0.93%) EDI
2 23 (0.89%) HTML
2 23 (0.89%) PyTorch
3 21 (0.81%) .NET
4 15 (0.58%) CSS
5 12 (0.46%) Middleware
6 9 (0.35%) React
7 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (0.27%) REST
8 6 (0.23%) OAuth
8 6 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.15%) FIDO
9 4 (0.15%) Node.js
9 4 (0.15%) OpenID
9 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.15%) SAML
9 4 (0.15%) XML
10 3 (0.12%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 204 (7.86%) Management Information System
2 117 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 114 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
4 81 (3.12%) Product Ownership
5 64 (2.47%) FMCG
6 63 (2.43%) Driving Licence
7 62 (2.39%) Social Media
8 57 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.77%) Robotics
10 44 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 44 (1.70%) Virtual Team
11 43 (1.66%) Algorithms
12 39 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
13 33 (1.27%) Blog
14 30 (1.16%) IoT
15 29 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 28 (1.08%) Low-Code
17 25 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
18 23 (0.89%) Security Posture
19 20 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.39%) Windows
2 31 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.00%) Android
4 20 (0.77%) Linux
5 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) AIX
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.039%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (24.75%) Agile
2 635 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
3 530 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 509 (19.62%) Project Delivery
5 462 (17.81%) Analytics
6 454 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 393 (15.15%) Decision-Making
8 387 (14.92%) Business Analysis
9 362 (13.96%) Change Management
10 355 (13.69%) AI
11 351 (13.53%) PRINCE2
12 317 (12.22%) Data Analysis
13 276 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 265 (10.22%) Risk Management
15 251 (9.68%) Coaching
16 233 (8.98%) Data Analytics
17 229 (8.83%) Process Improvement
18 217 (8.37%) Roadmaps
19 212 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
20 202 (7.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 290 (11.18%) Python
2 289 (11.14%) SQL
3 35 (1.35%) VBA
4 30 (1.16%) C#
5 26 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.69%) Java
7 17 (0.66%) C++
8 16 (0.62%) C
9 14 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.27%) PHP
12 6 (0.23%) Bash
12 6 (0.23%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.23%) R
13 3 (0.12%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.12%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.12%) Tcl
13 3 (0.12%) VB
14 2 (0.077%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 708 (27.29%) Degree
2 223 (8.60%) PMP
3 210 (8.10%) PMI Certification
4 162 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 115 (4.43%) SC Cleared
6 90 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.47%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 63 (2.43%) CISSP
9 59 (2.27%) DBS Check
10 47 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 46 (1.77%) CISM
12 34 (1.31%) HNC
13 33 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (1.08%) SANS
15 27 (1.04%) CISA
15 27 (1.04%) MBA
16 26 (1.00%) FFIEC
17 25 (0.96%) ACCA
18 24 (0.93%) CGEIT
19 23 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (7.86%) QA
2 123 (4.74%) PMO
3 96 (3.70%) GDPR
4 91 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (2.16%) NIST
7 38 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 25 (0.96%) COBIT
9 20 (0.77%) GRC
9 20 (0.77%) ISO 9001
10 15 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.46%) SLA
13 11 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.27%) IFRS
16 6 (0.23%) GAAP
16 6 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 57 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.93%) Docker
3 13 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.27%) Firmware
6 5 (0.19%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (0.81%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
3 12 (0.46%) Terraform
4 8 (0.31%) SCCM
5 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.15%) Grafana
6 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
7 2 (0.077%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.039%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.039%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.039%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 622 (23.98%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.74%) SAP
3 79 (3.05%) Salesforce
4 68 (2.62%) Google
5 67 (2.58%) Oracle
6 47 (1.81%) Adobe
7 43 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 40 (1.54%) Cisco
9 28 (1.08%) Anaplan
10 26 (1.00%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.77%) Genesys
11 20 (0.77%) Verint
12 17 (0.66%) Ariba
13 15 (0.58%) Instagram
13 15 (0.58%) Pardot
14 14 (0.54%) Databricks
14 14 (0.54%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.54%) VMware
15 13 (0.50%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.46%) Workday