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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,604 3,314 5,764
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.39% 6.64% 6.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 7.47% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,422 1,773 3,394
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,736
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £69,914
90th Percentile £93,175 £92,500 £86,175
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -30 2,343 £55,000 -8.33% 2,308
UK excluding London -41 1,658 £52,000 -5.45% 1,375
Work from Home -11 1,075 £52,155 -9.30% 1,132
London -32 830 £65,000 -7.80% 1,196
South East -20 449 £45,000 -21.74% 283
North of England -26 394 £55,000 +5.77% 309
Midlands -34 265 £55,000 +0.92% 183
North West -1 213 £54,000 +5.38% 190
South West -44 201 £52,500 -8.70% 262
East of England -25 187 £55,000 - 137
West Midlands -53 148 £53,750 -2.27% 110
Yorkshire -41 123 £60,000 +9.09% 84
East Midlands -11 117 £55,000 +4.76% 73
Scotland -48 65 £70,000 +16.67% 132
North East -54 58 £58,000 +41.46% 38
Northern Ireland -56 58 £47,500 -5.00% 61
Wales -61 41 £55,000 -9.47% 37

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
1 132 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 70 (2.69%) Confluence
3 67 (2.57%) CMS
4 27 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
5 19 (0.73%) WordPress
6 14 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.38%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.35%) IIS
9 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pig
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.15%) MS Project Server
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.077%) Totara
15 1 (0.038%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 248 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
2 242 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 225 (8.64%) Microsoft Office
4 69 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.81%) Trello
6 20 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 19 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.15%) EPLAN
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.12%) Blender
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
12 3 (0.12%) Revit
13 2 (0.077%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.077%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.038%) NUKE
14 1 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 23 (0.88%) Primavera
4 11 (0.42%) Shopify
5 9 (0.35%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.23%) iTrent
7 6 (0.23%) SAP Business One
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.19%) SAP EHS
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.15%) Misys Midas
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 239 (9.18%) Azure
2 227 (8.72%) Power Platform
3 164 (6.30%) AWS
4 143 (5.49%) SaaS
5 128 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (3.15%) PowerApps
7 76 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
8 61 (2.34%) Power Automate
9 54 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 51 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (1.46%) Smartsheet
12 35 (1.34%) GCP
13 26 (1.00%) Entra ID
14 25 (0.96%) Asana
15 23 (0.88%) LangSmith
15 23 (0.88%) OneDrive
15 23 (0.88%) Serverless
16 21 (0.81%) Canva
17 20 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.11%) Firewall
2 29 (1.11%) LAN
2 29 (1.11%) WAN
3 24 (0.92%) Broadband
3 24 (0.92%) DNS
4 21 (0.81%) VPN
5 20 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (0.61%) Network Security
7 15 (0.58%) NGN
8 14 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.50%) BGP
10 12 (0.46%) DHCP
10 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.42%) Intranet
12 10 (0.38%) Wireless
13 9 (0.35%) CHAP
13 9 (0.35%) Internet
13 9 (0.35%) Multicast
14 8 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
15 7 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (7.64%) Power BI
2 57 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.31%) Tableau
4 21 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (0.77%) Big Data
6 19 (0.73%) Data Mining
7 18 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.65%) Metadata
8 17 (0.65%) MySQL
9 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 13 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 12 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (0.42%) Apache Hive
13 9 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.35%) GIS
13 9 (0.35%) Power Query
14 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 221 (8.49%) JIRA
2 26 (1.00%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) Claude Code
3 11 (0.42%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.23%) GitLab
6 6 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.19%) JUnit
8 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.12%) LabVIEW
9 3 (0.12%) Selenium
9 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) Storybook
9 3 (0.12%) Taiga
9 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.12%) TestNG
9 3 (0.12%) VersionOne
General
1 1,123 (43.13%) Social Skills
2 820 (31.49%) Finance
3 521 (20.01%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (11.14%) Organisational Skills
5 284 (10.91%) Marketing
6 154 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 154 (5.91%) Legal
7 152 (5.84%) Retail
8 138 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
9 136 (5.22%) Public Sector
10 135 (5.18%) Manufacturing
11 106 (4.07%) Law
12 91 (3.49%) Banking
13 90 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
14 80 (3.07%) Aerospace
15 70 (2.69%) Telecoms
16 51 (1.96%) Local Government
17 50 (1.92%) Electronics
18 43 (1.65%) Advertising
18 43 (1.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 546 (20.97%) Project Manager
2 383 (14.71%) Senior
3 222 (8.53%) Analyst
4 209 (8.03%) Lead
5 189 (7.26%) Senior Manager
6 177 (6.80%) IT Manager
7 174 (6.68%) Consultant
8 137 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
9 127 (4.88%) Business Analyst
10 108 (4.15%) IT Project Manager
11 80 (3.07%) Development Manager
12 66 (2.53%) Developer
12 66 (2.53%) Technical Manager
13 61 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 60 (2.30%) Product Manager
14 60 (2.30%) Senior Consultant
15 59 (2.27%) Architect
15 59 (2.27%) Coordinator
16 52 (2.00%) IT Support
17 51 (1.96%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.07%) HTML
2 50 (1.92%) .NET
2 50 (1.92%) CSS
3 29 (1.11%) TensorFlow
4 27 (1.04%) PyTorch
5 24 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
5 24 (0.92%) JSON
6 23 (0.88%) Hugging Face
6 23 (0.88%) LangChain
6 23 (0.88%) Langfuse
6 23 (0.88%) LlamaIndex
6 23 (0.88%) Model Context Protocol
7 21 (0.81%) Flash
8 20 (0.77%) .NET Core
9 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.73%) SPFx
10 16 (0.61%) Kafka
11 13 (0.50%) ASP.NET
11 13 (0.50%) jQuery
12 12 (0.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 242 (9.29%) Onboarding
2 177 (6.80%) Management Information System
3 173 (6.64%) Data Centre
4 111 (4.26%) Driving Licence
5 107 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 86 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 72 (2.76%) Virtual Team
8 63 (2.42%) Blog
9 55 (2.11%) Social Media
10 52 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 46 (1.77%) PMI
12 42 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 41 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
14 38 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 37 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
16 36 (1.38%) FMCG
17 35 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
18 34 (1.31%) AI Agents
19 33 (1.27%) Security Posture
20 32 (1.23%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 122 (4.69%) Windows
2 51 (1.96%) Linux
3 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.42%) Android
4 11 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.15%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) Debian
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
8 3 (0.12%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) AIX
10 1 (0.038%) CentOS
10 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (28.26%) Agile
2 696 (26.73%) Project Delivery
3 683 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
4 670 (25.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 531 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 475 (18.24%) PRINCE2
7 335 (12.86%) Decision-Making
8 307 (11.79%) Roadmaps
9 290 (11.14%) AI
10 270 (10.37%) Mentoring
11 268 (10.29%) Analytics
12 264 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 251 (9.64%) Risk Management
14 231 (8.87%) Budget Management
15 224 (8.60%) Coaching
16 217 (8.33%) Change Management
17 216 (8.29%) ERP
18 213 (8.18%) CRM
19 204 (7.83%) Service Delivery
20 201 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 193 (7.41%) SQL
2 171 (6.57%) Python
3 69 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 50 (1.92%) C#
5 44 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.08%) Java
8 18 (0.69%) C
9 14 (0.54%) PHP
10 11 (0.42%) C++
11 9 (0.35%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.27%) Assembly Language
12 7 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
13 6 (0.23%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.23%) R
13 6 (0.23%) Ruby
13 6 (0.23%) VBA
14 5 (0.19%) Bash
15 4 (0.15%) ABAP
15 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 679 (26.08%) Degree
2 228 (8.76%) PMI Certification
3 219 (8.41%) PMP
4 194 (7.45%) Security Cleared
5 142 (5.45%) DBS Check
6 105 (4.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 91 (3.49%) SC Cleared
8 70 (2.69%) DV Cleared
9 60 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 60 (2.30%) CISSP
10 49 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 48 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 44 (1.69%) CISM
13 40 (1.54%) HNC
14 36 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (1.31%) HND
16 28 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
17 25 (0.96%) ACCA
17 25 (0.96%) CRISC
18 23 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (7.03%) PMO
2 171 (6.57%) QA
3 102 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 95 (3.65%) Accessibility
5 74 (2.84%) GDPR
6 72 (2.76%) Data Quality
7 65 (2.50%) NIST
8 54 (2.07%) SLA
9 40 (1.54%) ISO 9001
10 38 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 37 (1.42%) GRC
12 25 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 22 (0.84%) GMP
14 18 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 17 (0.65%) ISO 14000
15 17 (0.65%) ISO 14001
16 16 (0.61%) IFRS
16 16 (0.61%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.46%) COBIT
18 11 (0.42%) GAAP
System Software
1 36 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.77%) Docker
3 13 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.23%) Firmware
6 6 (0.23%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.077%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) IAG
9 1 (0.038%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Samba
9 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (1.11%) SCCM
2 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.69%) Puppet
4 15 (0.58%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.35%) Ansible
6 9 (0.35%) Grafana
7 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.12%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.12%) ServiceCenter
11 2 (0.077%) Argo
11 2 (0.077%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.077%) Salt
11 2 (0.077%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.038%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 519 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 154 (5.91%) SAP
3 119 (4.57%) Oracle
4 69 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 65 (2.50%) Adobe
6 60 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.11%) Google
8 34 (1.31%) HubSpot
9 32 (1.23%) Cisco
9 32 (1.23%) Fortinet
10 28 (1.08%) Sitecore
11 21 (0.81%) Sage
11 21 (0.81%) SonicWALL
12 20 (0.77%) VMware
13 18 (0.69%) NEC
13 18 (0.69%) Remedy
14 16 (0.61%) Apple
14 16 (0.61%) HP
15 15 (0.58%) Bloomberg
16 14 (0.54%) Siemens