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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,980 5,261 4,115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.63% 7.84% 7.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 9.39% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,256 2,886
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,783 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,592 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,971 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -5.00% +3.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,325 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,748 £54,213 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.39% -1.43% +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 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -19 2,533 £55,233 -3.94% 2,625
UK excluding London -20 1,903 £50,748 -6.39% 1,964
Work from Home -18 835 £60,000 - 803
London -14 829 £70,000 - 896
South East -11 510 £57,636 +4.79% 539
North of England -24 464 £42,500 -21.30% 439
Midlands -32 297 £50,000 -9.09% 403
South West 0 218 £52,846 -3.92% 207
North West -29 213 £45,000 -16.56% 248
West Midlands -15 197 £48,000 -16.16% 250
Scotland -18 173 £54,855 +1.26% 90
East of England -33 169 £55,000 +5.77% 227
Yorkshire -11 166 £45,000 -18.18% 123
East Midlands -37 101 £51,385 -1.18% 152
North East +18 85 £32,500 -31.07% 75
Northern Ireland +1 37 £65,000 -3.70% 34
Wales -17 37 £60,000 +18.16% 56

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
1 160 (5.37%) SharePoint
2 67 (2.25%) Confluence
3 50 (1.68%) CMS
4 39 (1.31%) WordPress
5 25 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (0.70%) Kinematics
7 12 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.30%) Apache
9 7 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.23%) Drupal
10 6 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 4 (0.13%) IIS
12 4 (0.13%) Moodle
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
13 3 (0.10%) Magnolia
14 2 (0.067%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.067%) TPMS
15 1 (0.034%) Jupyter
Applications
1 397 (13.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 296 (9.93%) Microsoft Office
3 190 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 127 (4.26%) Microsoft Project
5 40 (1.34%) MS Visio
6 30 (1.01%) Maya
7 27 (0.91%) AutoCAD
8 22 (0.74%) Trello
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 14 (0.47%) Photoshop
11 13 (0.44%) Revit
12 12 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
14 8 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
14 8 (0.27%) Adobe XD
15 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
16 6 (0.20%) Navisworks
17 5 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
17 5 (0.17%) Civil 3D
17 5 (0.17%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 117 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.18%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 27 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
5 24 (0.81%) SAP CO
5 24 (0.81%) SAP FI
5 24 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
6 21 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
6 21 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
7 20 (0.67%) SAP IBP
8 19 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
9 16 (0.54%) NetSuite
10 15 (0.50%) Shopify
11 13 (0.44%) Sprinklr
12 12 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
12 12 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
13 11 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
13 11 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
13 11 (0.37%) SAP FSCM
13 11 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 242 (8.12%) Azure
2 201 (6.74%) Power Platform
3 147 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (3.86%) AWS
5 97 (3.26%) SaaS
6 57 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 41 (1.38%) Power Automate
9 39 (1.31%) GCP
10 36 (1.21%) Smartsheet
11 35 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
12 34 (1.14%) Snowflake
13 27 (0.91%) Entra ID
13 27 (0.91%) Google Analytics
14 23 (0.77%) IaaS
15 22 (0.74%) Google Workspace
15 22 (0.74%) PowerApps
16 20 (0.67%) Asana
16 20 (0.67%) PaaS
17 19 (0.64%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.61%) Firewall
2 36 (1.21%) WAN
3 32 (1.07%) VPN
4 30 (1.01%) LAN
4 30 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
5 29 (0.97%) Wireless
6 21 (0.70%) VLAN
7 20 (0.67%) Internet
7 20 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.64%) Unified Communications
9 18 (0.60%) DNS
10 15 (0.50%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.47%) Intranet
12 13 (0.44%) MPLS
12 13 (0.44%) Network Security
12 13 (0.44%) VoIP
13 12 (0.40%) Broadband
13 12 (0.40%) DHCP
14 9 (0.30%) BGP
15 7 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (5.70%) Power BI
2 118 (3.96%) Tableau
3 82 (2.75%) Data Mining
4 71 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 33 (1.11%) SAP BW
6 29 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.67%) Looker
8 17 (0.57%) Metadata
9 16 (0.54%) Big Data
10 15 (0.50%) Power Query
10 15 (0.50%) SAP HANA
11 14 (0.47%) Data Lake
12 12 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
14 10 (0.34%) MySQL
15 9 (0.30%) Relational Database
15 9 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (0.27%) GIS
16 8 (0.27%) MS Access
17 7 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 191 (6.41%) JIRA
2 21 (0.70%) Git
3 10 (0.34%) GitLab
4 8 (0.27%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.13%) JIRA Agile
5 4 (0.13%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.13%) Subversion
5 4 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.10%) ERwin
6 3 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.067%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.067%) Maven
7 2 (0.067%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.034%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.034%) gulp
8 1 (0.034%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.034%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.034%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.034%) webpack
General
1 1,369 (45.94%) Social Skills
2 1,251 (41.98%) Finance
3 854 (28.66%) Analytical Skills
4 332 (11.14%) Marketing
5 255 (8.56%) Law
6 222 (7.45%) Legal
6 222 (7.45%) Retail
7 213 (7.15%) Manufacturing
8 212 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 191 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
10 174 (5.84%) Public Sector
11 165 (5.54%) Presentation Skills
12 122 (4.09%) Banking
13 91 (3.05%) Telecoms
14 85 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
15 83 (2.79%) Electronics
16 73 (2.45%) Local Government
17 68 (2.28%) Advertising
18 62 (2.08%) Aerospace
18 62 (2.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 477 (16.01%) Senior
2 455 (15.27%) Project Manager
3 363 (12.18%) Analyst
4 295 (9.90%) Lead
5 228 (7.65%) Senior Manager
6 190 (6.38%) IT Manager
7 169 (5.67%) Business Analyst
8 163 (5.47%) Trainee
9 154 (5.17%) Trainee Analyst
10 134 (4.50%) Architect
11 114 (3.83%) Consultant
12 112 (3.76%) Business Manager
13 108 (3.62%) Development Manager
14 98 (3.29%) IT Project Manager
14 98 (3.29%) Product Manager
15 97 (3.26%) Data Analyst
16 96 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
17 92 (3.09%) Coordinator
18 84 (2.82%) Senior Project Manager
19 82 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (1.68%) CSS
2 44 (1.48%) HTML
3 39 (1.31%) Middleware
4 24 (0.81%) .NET
5 18 (0.60%) React
6 12 (0.40%) EDI
6 12 (0.40%) Node.js
6 12 (0.40%) Web Services
7 10 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.27%) FHIR
8 8 (0.27%) Kafka
9 6 (0.20%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.20%) PyTorch
9 6 (0.20%) Spring
9 6 (0.20%) TensorFlow
10 5 (0.17%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.17%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.17%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.17%) Hugging Face
10 5 (0.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 232 (7.79%) Management Information System
2 135 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
3 130 (4.36%) Onboarding
4 108 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 103 (3.46%) FMCG
6 93 (3.12%) Data Centre
7 87 (2.92%) Robotics
8 84 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 79 (2.65%) Driving Licence
10 67 (2.25%) Social Media
11 60 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
12 57 (1.91%) NHS
13 48 (1.61%) Virtual Team
14 45 (1.51%) Algorithms
15 34 (1.14%) IoT
16 26 (0.87%) Blog
16 26 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
17 24 (0.81%) Life Science
17 24 (0.81%) SCADA
18 22 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 65 (2.18%) Windows
2 26 (0.87%) Linux
3 25 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.30%) VMS
6 7 (0.23%) Android
6 7 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.10%) zOS
9 2 (0.067%) Unix
10 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
2 717 (24.06%) Agile
3 695 (23.32%) Project Delivery
4 640 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 533 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 443 (14.87%) Analytics
7 413 (13.86%) Change Management
8 409 (13.72%) Risk Management
9 393 (13.19%) Decision-Making
10 343 (11.51%) PRINCE2
11 309 (10.37%) ERP
12 296 (9.93%) AI
13 293 (9.83%) Business Analysis
14 276 (9.26%) Process Improvement
15 268 (8.99%) Business Strategy
16 267 (8.96%) Roadmaps
17 259 (8.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 245 (8.22%) Mentoring
19 243 (8.15%) CRM
19 243 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 286 (9.60%) SQL
2 207 (6.95%) Python
3 62 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 51 (1.71%) C#
5 39 (1.31%) Java
6 38 (1.28%) C
7 30 (1.01%) C++
8 26 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 17 (0.57%) R
10 16 (0.54%) PHP
10 16 (0.54%) VBA
11 13 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.40%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.34%) Perl
14 7 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.20%) Bash
15 6 (0.20%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.17%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.13%) VB
17 4 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 936 (31.41%) Degree
2 208 (6.98%) PMP
3 204 (6.85%) PMI Certification
4 200 (6.71%) Security Cleared
5 154 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 134 (4.50%) Master's Degree
7 73 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (2.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
9 58 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 58 (1.95%) DBS Check
10 43 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 41 (1.38%) CISSP
12 33 (1.11%) PhD
13 28 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 25 (0.84%) CFA
15 23 (0.77%) CCNP
16 22 (0.74%) DV Cleared
17 21 (0.70%) APMP
17 21 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (8.15%) QA
2 199 (6.68%) PMO
3 107 (3.59%) GDPR
4 98 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 49 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 42 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.11%) ISO 9001
8 27 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (0.84%) NIST
10 21 (0.70%) SLA
11 20 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 19 (0.64%) MiFID
13 13 (0.44%) IFRS
14 12 (0.40%) COBIT
14 12 (0.40%) GxP
14 12 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
16 10 (0.34%) IEC 61131
17 9 (0.30%) GRC
17 9 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 60 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.67%) Docker
3 14 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.34%) Firmware
6 4 (0.13%) vSphere
7 3 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.034%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 28 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.40%) Terraform
3 9 (0.30%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.13%) Ansible
5 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.13%) SCCM
6 2 (0.067%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.067%) Grafana
6 2 (0.067%) Nagios
7 1 (0.034%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.034%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.034%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.034%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.034%) SmoothWall
7 1 (0.034%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 661 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 256 (8.59%) SAP
3 102 (3.42%) Salesforce
4 88 (2.95%) Google
5 76 (2.55%) Oracle
6 66 (2.21%) Adobe
7 57 (1.91%) Cisco
8 37 (1.24%) OpenText
9 35 (1.17%) Ariba
9 35 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 26 (0.87%) Databricks
11 25 (0.84%) HubSpot
12 22 (0.74%) Sage
13 19 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.60%) TikTok
14 18 (0.60%) VMware
15 16 (0.54%) NEC
16 15 (0.50%) Murex
16 15 (0.50%) Siemens
17 14 (0.47%) Autodesk