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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,683 3,233 5,262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.36% 6.52% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 7.35% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,690 2,688
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,913 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,932 £55,000 £52,084
% change year-on-year -5.58% +5.60% -5.30%

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 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -28 2,405 £55,000 -8.33% 2,645
UK excluding London -40 1,747 £51,932 -5.58% 1,539
Work from Home -18 1,060 £50,000 -16.67% 1,234
London -32 811 £65,000 -7.14% 1,360
South East -27 480 £45,000 -21.74% 456
North of England -31 388 £55,000 +10.00% 312
Midlands -32 307 £52,500 -2.78% 265
North West +6 220 £52,500 +5.00% 160
South West -34 217 £53,750 -2.27% 179
East of England -27 184 £55,000 - 162
West Midlands -40 176 £52,500 -4.55% 159
East Midlands -8 130 £53,750 +6.92% 106
Yorkshire -41 113 £60,000 +11.11% 107
Scotland -45 68 £70,000 +16.67% 95
Northern Ireland -58 56 £70,000 +40.00% 49
North East -61 55 £58,000 +65.71% 47
Wales -63 48 £62,500 +2.88% 47

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
1 141 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 70 (2.61%) Confluence
3 68 (2.53%) CMS
4 27 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
5 19 (0.71%) WordPress
6 16 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.37%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.34%) IIS
8 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.30%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.19%) MS Project Server
11 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.075%) Totara
14 1 (0.037%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.037%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 274 (10.21%) Microsoft Project
2 266 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 257 (9.58%) Microsoft Office
4 87 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.71%) Trello
8 12 (0.45%) EPLAN
8 12 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
9 11 (0.41%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.22%) Revit
11 3 (0.11%) Blender
11 3 (0.11%) Maya
11 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.075%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.075%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.075%) InDesign
12 2 (0.075%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.037%) NUKE
13 1 (0.037%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 82 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 31 (1.16%) Primavera
3 31 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.56%) SAP EHS
5 11 (0.41%) Shopify
6 9 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.22%) iTrent
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.15%) Infor M3
9 4 (0.15%) Misys Midas
9 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.15%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 234 (8.72%) Azure
2 227 (8.46%) Power Platform
3 161 (6.00%) AWS
4 149 (5.55%) SaaS
5 126 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
6 79 (2.94%) PowerApps
7 77 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
8 58 (2.16%) Power Automate
9 56 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 45 (1.68%) Smartsheet
12 33 (1.23%) GCP
13 25 (0.93%) Entra ID
13 25 (0.93%) LangSmith
13 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
14 23 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
15 22 (0.82%) Serverless
16 21 (0.78%) IaaS
16 21 (0.78%) OneDrive
17 20 (0.75%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.09%) Firewall
2 28 (1.04%) LAN
2 28 (1.04%) WAN
3 26 (0.97%) DNS
4 19 (0.71%) VPN
5 18 (0.67%) Network Security
6 16 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (0.56%) Broadband
7 15 (0.56%) NGN
8 14 (0.52%) BGP
8 14 (0.52%) DHCP
8 14 (0.52%) Profibus
9 12 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.41%) Intranet
10 11 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.41%) Wireless
11 9 (0.34%) Multicast
11 9 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (0.30%) Internet
13 7 (0.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (7.42%) Power BI
2 61 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.86%) Big Data
4 21 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 20 (0.75%) Relational Database
5 20 (0.75%) Tableau
6 19 (0.71%) Metadata
7 18 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 17 (0.63%) MySQL
9 14 (0.52%) Hadoop
9 14 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.41%) Apache Hive
10 11 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.34%) GIS
12 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.26%) Data Mining
13 7 (0.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 231 (8.61%) JIRA
2 25 (0.93%) Git
3 12 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 11 (0.41%) Claude Code
4 11 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (0.30%) GitLab
7 6 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.19%) JUnit
8 5 (0.19%) LabVIEW
9 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.11%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.11%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) Taiga
10 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.11%) TestNG
10 3 (0.11%) VersionOne
General
1 1,177 (43.87%) Social Skills
2 840 (31.31%) Finance
3 515 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 319 (11.89%) Organisational Skills
5 287 (10.70%) Marketing
6 177 (6.60%) Legal
7 162 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 158 (5.89%) Influencing Skills
9 156 (5.81%) Retail
10 144 (5.37%) Manufacturing
10 144 (5.37%) Public Sector
11 107 (3.99%) Law
12 101 (3.76%) Aerospace
13 90 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
14 86 (3.21%) Banking
15 75 (2.80%) Telecoms
16 63 (2.35%) Electronics
17 52 (1.94%) Local Government
18 47 (1.75%) Aviation
19 44 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 552 (20.57%) Project Manager
2 398 (14.83%) Senior
3 230 (8.57%) Lead
4 200 (7.45%) Senior Manager
5 197 (7.34%) Analyst
6 185 (6.90%) Consultant
7 175 (6.52%) IT Manager
8 141 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
9 118 (4.40%) Business Analyst
10 103 (3.84%) IT Project Manager
11 76 (2.83%) Development Manager
12 67 (2.50%) Technical Manager
13 65 (2.42%) Coordinator
13 65 (2.42%) Developer
14 64 (2.39%) Senior Consultant
15 63 (2.35%) Delivery Manager
16 62 (2.31%) Architect
17 58 (2.16%) Product Manager
18 51 (1.90%) Service Manager
19 50 (1.86%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.05%) HTML
2 52 (1.94%) .NET
2 52 (1.94%) CSS
3 33 (1.23%) TensorFlow
4 30 (1.12%) PyTorch
5 25 (0.93%) Hugging Face
5 25 (0.93%) LangChain
5 25 (0.93%) Langfuse
5 25 (0.93%) LlamaIndex
5 25 (0.93%) Model Context Protocol
6 22 (0.82%) HTML5 Canvas
6 22 (0.82%) JSON
7 21 (0.78%) Flash
8 18 (0.67%) ASP.NET
9 17 (0.63%) .NET Core
9 17 (0.63%) jQuery
9 17 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
9 17 (0.63%) SPFx
10 16 (0.60%) Kafka
11 13 (0.48%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 274 (10.21%) Onboarding
2 195 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 189 (7.04%) Data Centre
4 125 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
5 120 (4.47%) Driving Licence
6 87 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 70 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 66 (2.46%) Blog
9 63 (2.35%) Social Media
10 61 (2.27%) PMI
11 53 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
12 44 (1.64%) Marketing Technology
13 41 (1.53%) Cloud Native
14 39 (1.45%) Robotics
15 37 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
16 36 (1.34%) AI Agents
17 35 (1.30%) FMCG
17 35 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
18 34 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
18 34 (1.27%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 120 (4.47%) Windows
2 48 (1.79%) Linux
3 18 (0.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Debian
7 3 (0.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.11%) VMS
8 2 (0.075%) AIX
8 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.075%) zOS
9 1 (0.037%) CentOS
9 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.037%) Solaris
9 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (27.62%) Agile
2 732 (27.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 726 (27.06%) Project Delivery
4 724 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
5 592 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 493 (18.37%) PRINCE2
7 348 (12.97%) Decision-Making
8 307 (11.44%) Roadmaps
9 302 (11.26%) AI
10 299 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 268 (9.99%) Analytics
12 259 (9.65%) Mentoring
13 253 (9.43%) Risk Management
14 240 (8.95%) Budget Management
15 236 (8.80%) ERP
16 234 (8.72%) CRM
17 230 (8.57%) Coaching
18 219 (8.16%) Change Management
19 206 (7.68%) Service Delivery
20 205 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 189 (7.04%) SQL
2 160 (5.96%) Python
3 82 (3.06%) JavaScript
4 56 (2.09%) PowerShell
5 53 (1.98%) C#
6 34 (1.27%) Java
6 34 (1.27%) TypeScript
7 20 (0.75%) C
8 14 (0.52%) Ladder Logic
8 14 (0.52%) PHP
9 13 (0.48%) C++
10 9 (0.34%) Assembly Language
10 9 (0.34%) VB.NET
11 8 (0.30%) R
12 6 (0.22%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.22%) Ruby
12 6 (0.22%) VBA
13 5 (0.19%) Bash
13 5 (0.19%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 715 (26.65%) Degree
2 237 (8.83%) PMI Certification
3 233 (8.68%) Security Cleared
4 216 (8.05%) PMP
5 144 (5.37%) DBS Check
6 123 (4.58%) SC Cleared
7 105 (3.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 77 (2.87%) DV Cleared
9 65 (2.42%) HNC
10 64 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 57 (2.12%) HND
12 55 (2.05%) CISSP
13 51 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 50 (1.86%) Master's Degree
15 46 (1.71%) Chartered Engineer
16 41 (1.53%) CISM
17 39 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
18 29 (1.08%) CRISC
19 26 (0.97%) ACCA
20 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (6.93%) PMO
2 175 (6.52%) QA
3 96 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 83 (3.09%) Accessibility
6 77 (2.87%) GDPR
7 58 (2.16%) NIST
8 55 (2.05%) SLA
9 34 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 34 (1.27%) ISO 9001
10 33 (1.23%) GRC
11 22 (0.82%) GMP
12 21 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 17 (0.63%) ISO 14000
14 16 (0.60%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 14 (0.52%) ISO 14001
17 12 (0.45%) IFRS
18 10 (0.37%) IEC 61131
18 10 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.63%) Docker
2 17 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.34%) vSphere
5 7 (0.26%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.075%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.075%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.037%) IAG
9 1 (0.037%) NFS
9 1 (0.037%) Samba
9 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (1.01%) SCCM
2 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.67%) Puppet
4 14 (0.52%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.37%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.34%) Ansible
8 8 (0.30%) Grafana
9 6 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.075%) Argo
12 2 (0.075%) EnCase
12 2 (0.075%) FTK
12 2 (0.075%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.075%) Salt
12 2 (0.075%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.037%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.037%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 533 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 173 (6.45%) SAP
3 116 (4.32%) Oracle
4 72 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 69 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 63 (2.35%) Adobe
6 63 (2.35%) Google
7 42 (1.57%) HubSpot
8 35 (1.30%) Sage
9 34 (1.27%) Cisco
10 32 (1.19%) Fortinet
11 28 (1.04%) Sitecore
12 26 (0.97%) Siemens
13 24 (0.89%) VMware
14 21 (0.78%) SonicWALL
15 19 (0.71%) NEC
16 15 (0.56%) Remedy
17 14 (0.52%) IBM
18 13 (0.48%) Bloomberg
18 13 (0.48%) HP