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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -25 +10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,849 5,458 3,855
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 8.79% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 10.13% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 2,443 2,782
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,745 £46,264
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +3.66%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £88,267
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% +4.76%

All Process and 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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -25 2,438 £55,000 -4.35% 1,807
UK excluding London -30 1,849 £50,000 -8.26% 1,648
London -16 774 £70,000 +3.70% 474
Work from Home -25 756 £60,000 +2.56% 485
North of England -24 490 £40,000 -25.53% 408
South East -17 478 £57,636 +4.79% 456
Midlands -45 298 £45,000 -18.18% 330
North West -26 221 £45,000 -15.83% 227
South West -9 212 £50,000 -7.41% 158
West Midlands -33 200 £45,000 -21.74% 207
Yorkshire -13 172 £41,075 -25.32% 131
Scotland -12 167 £54,855 -0.26% 83
East of England -41 149 £55,000 +5.77% 178
East Midlands -42 98 £52,500 +0.96% 121
North East +21 97 £32,500 -28.57% 61
Wales -29 30 £60,000 +18.16% 49
Northern Ireland -10 29 £60,000 -11.11% 27

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
1 156 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 58 (2.04%) Confluence
3 47 (1.65%) CMS
4 37 (1.30%) WordPress
5 24 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.67%) Kinematics
7 10 (0.35%) Apache
7 10 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
10 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.11%) Magnolia
12 3 (0.11%) Moodle
12 3 (0.11%) PowerFactory
13 2 (0.070%) IIS
13 2 (0.070%) TPMS
14 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 398 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 285 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 176 (6.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 117 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (1.16%) Maya
6 32 (1.12%) MS Visio
7 26 (0.91%) AutoCAD
8 24 (0.84%) Trello
9 15 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 14 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
11 13 (0.46%) Photoshop
12 8 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.28%) Revit
13 7 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
13 7 (0.25%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
14 5 (0.18%) InDesign
15 4 (0.14%) CATIA
16 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 111 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.28%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.30%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 25 (0.88%) SAP CO
4 25 (0.88%) SAP FI
4 25 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
5 24 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
6 21 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
6 21 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
7 20 (0.70%) SAP IBP
8 19 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
9 16 (0.56%) Shopify
10 13 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
11 12 (0.42%) NetSuite
12 11 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
12 11 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
12 11 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
12 11 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
12 11 (0.39%) Sprinklr
13 10 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 230 (8.07%) Azure
2 208 (7.30%) Power Platform
3 150 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (3.97%) SaaS
5 106 (3.72%) AWS
6 52 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 39 (1.37%) GCP
9 36 (1.26%) Power Automate
10 35 (1.23%) Smartsheet
11 33 (1.16%) Snowflake
12 31 (1.09%) Entra ID
13 30 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (0.84%) PaaS
15 23 (0.81%) Google Workspace
16 22 (0.77%) Asana
16 22 (0.77%) Google Analytics
16 22 (0.77%) IaaS
17 20 (0.70%) PowerApps
18 18 (0.63%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.58%) Firewall
2 36 (1.26%) VPN
3 35 (1.23%) WAN
4 28 (0.98%) Wireless
5 27 (0.95%) LAN
5 27 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (0.74%) Internet
6 21 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 17 (0.60%) DNS
7 17 (0.60%) Unified Communications
7 17 (0.60%) VLAN
8 16 (0.56%) Network Security
8 16 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.49%) MPLS
10 13 (0.46%) DHCP
11 12 (0.42%) Broadband
11 12 (0.42%) Intranet
11 12 (0.42%) VoIP
12 9 (0.32%) BGP
13 8 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.32%) Power BI
2 143 (5.02%) Tableau
3 101 (3.55%) Data Mining
4 68 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.12%) SAP BW
6 30 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.70%) Looker
8 18 (0.63%) Metadata
9 16 (0.56%) Big Data
9 16 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.56%) Power Query
10 11 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
11 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.28%) SAP HANA
13 7 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.25%) MS Access
13 7 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 163 (5.72%) JIRA
2 16 (0.56%) Git
3 11 (0.39%) GitLab
4 10 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.14%) JIRA Agile
5 4 (0.14%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.11%) ERwin
6 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.070%) Maven
7 2 (0.070%) Subversion
7 2 (0.070%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.035%) gulp
8 1 (0.035%) LSMW
8 1 (0.035%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.035%) webpack
General
1 1,262 (44.30%) Social Skills
2 1,215 (42.65%) Finance
3 840 (29.48%) Analytical Skills
4 320 (11.23%) Marketing
5 231 (8.11%) Law
6 205 (7.20%) Manufacturing
7 191 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 189 (6.63%) Legal
8 189 (6.63%) Retail
9 185 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
10 165 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
11 152 (5.34%) Public Sector
12 109 (3.83%) Banking
13 82 (2.88%) Telecoms
14 79 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
15 76 (2.67%) Games
16 75 (2.63%) Electronics
17 62 (2.18%) Local Government
18 60 (2.11%) Advertising
19 54 (1.90%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 450 (15.80%) Senior
2 414 (14.53%) Project Manager
3 389 (13.65%) Analyst
4 272 (9.55%) Lead
5 233 (8.18%) Senior Manager
6 194 (6.81%) Trainee
7 188 (6.60%) IT Manager
8 186 (6.53%) Trainee Analyst
9 182 (6.39%) Business Analyst
10 144 (5.05%) Architect
11 120 (4.21%) Development Manager
12 115 (4.04%) Data Analyst
13 111 (3.90%) Consultant
14 109 (3.83%) Business Manager
15 105 (3.69%) Product Manager
16 96 (3.37%) IT Project Manager
17 94 (3.30%) Trainee Business Analyst
18 92 (3.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
19 87 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
20 84 (2.95%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.54%) CSS
2 36 (1.26%) HTML
2 36 (1.26%) Middleware
3 18 (0.63%) .NET
4 12 (0.42%) EDI
4 12 (0.42%) React
4 12 (0.42%) Web Services
5 10 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.32%) Node.js
7 8 (0.28%) FHIR
8 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (0.21%) Kafka
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Beam
10 4 (0.14%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.14%) FIDO
10 4 (0.14%) Flutter
10 4 (0.14%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.14%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 208 (7.30%) Management Information System
2 130 (4.56%) Onboarding
2 130 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (3.90%) FMCG
4 104 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 81 (2.84%) Robotics
6 80 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 72 (2.53%) Driving Licence
8 70 (2.46%) Product Ownership
9 64 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 55 (1.93%) Social Media
11 46 (1.61%) NHS
11 46 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.51%) Algorithms
13 29 (1.02%) IoT
14 28 (0.98%) Blog
15 21 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (0.74%) PMI
15 21 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
16 20 (0.70%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.18%) Windows
2 26 (0.91%) Linux
3 22 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.28%) Android
5 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.28%) VMS
6 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.11%) zOS
8 2 (0.070%) Unix
9 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
2 669 (23.48%) Agile
3 659 (23.13%) Project Delivery
4 621 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 515 (18.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 433 (15.20%) Analytics
7 408 (14.32%) Change Management
8 407 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 385 (13.51%) Risk Management
10 320 (11.23%) Business Analysis
11 318 (11.16%) PRINCE2
12 298 (10.46%) ERP
13 296 (10.39%) AI
14 268 (9.41%) Business Strategy
15 266 (9.34%) Process Improvement
16 261 (9.16%) Roadmaps
17 253 (8.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 249 (8.74%) Business Intelligence
19 234 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
19 234 (8.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 279 (9.79%) SQL
2 219 (7.69%) Python
3 49 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 45 (1.58%) C#
5 36 (1.26%) C
6 28 (0.98%) C++
6 28 (0.98%) Java
7 22 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 16 (0.56%) VBA
9 14 (0.49%) PHP
9 14 (0.49%) R
10 13 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.39%) Perl
11 11 (0.39%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.25%) Bash
12 7 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.21%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.14%) COBOL
14 4 (0.14%) Ladder Logic
14 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 898 (31.52%) Degree
2 205 (7.20%) PMP
3 199 (6.98%) PMI Certification
4 188 (6.60%) Security Cleared
5 151 (5.30%) SC Cleared
6 122 (4.28%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.25%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 56 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 54 (1.90%) DBS Check
10 40 (1.40%) CISSP
11 34 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 26 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.88%) PhD
14 23 (0.81%) HND
15 22 (0.77%) CCNP
15 22 (0.77%) DV Cleared
16 21 (0.74%) ACCA
16 21 (0.74%) MBA
17 20 (0.70%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (7.93%) QA
2 183 (6.42%) PMO
3 97 (3.40%) GDPR
4 79 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 44 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.98%) ISO 9001
8 27 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (0.88%) NIST
10 20 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 18 (0.63%) SLA
12 15 (0.53%) MiFID
13 13 (0.46%) IFRS
14 12 (0.42%) Solvency II
15 11 (0.39%) COBIT
15 11 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.35%) GRC
16 10 (0.35%) GxP
16 10 (0.35%) IEC 61131
17 9 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 61 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.63%) Docker
3 16 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.39%) Firmware
5 9 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.18%) vSphere
7 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 25 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.49%) Terraform
3 6 (0.21%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.18%) Ansible
4 5 (0.18%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.070%) Grafana
5 2 (0.070%) Nagios
5 2 (0.070%) SCCM
6 1 (0.035%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.035%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.035%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.035%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.035%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.035%) SmoothWall
6 1 (0.035%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 661 (23.20%) Microsoft
2 245 (8.60%) SAP
3 98 (3.44%) Salesforce
4 73 (2.56%) Google
5 66 (2.32%) Oracle
6 54 (1.90%) Cisco
7 53 (1.86%) Adobe
8 41 (1.44%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.30%) Ariba
9 37 (1.30%) OpenText
10 24 (0.84%) Databricks
11 22 (0.77%) HubSpot
12 20 (0.70%) Sage
13 19 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 19 (0.67%) VMware
14 15 (0.53%) Anaplan
15 14 (0.49%) NEC
15 14 (0.49%) Siemens
16 13 (0.46%) Guidewire
16 13 (0.46%) Workday