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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,870 5,445 3,820
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.22% 8.59% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 9.94% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,615 2,437 2,748
10th Percentile £29,850 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,000 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
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 46,039 54,754 46,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 86.35% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 28,458 35,978
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% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -1.41%

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 4 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 4 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 -19 2,456 £55,000 -4.35% 2,026
UK excluding London -23 1,857 £50,000 -8.26% 1,814
London -16 786 £70,000 +3.70% 527
Work from Home -24 770 £60,000 +1.69% 618
South East -17 488 £57,500 +4.55% 485
North of England -23 476 £40,000 -25.23% 467
Midlands -35 300 £47,500 -13.64% 367
North West -25 219 £45,000 -15.06% 253
South West -3 214 £50,000 -7.41% 171
West Midlands -20 201 £45,000 -21.74% 229
Scotland -11 170 £54,855 -0.26% 85
Yorkshire -14 169 £41,075 -25.32% 151
East of England -35 155 £55,000 +5.77% 198
East Midlands -40 99 £52,500 +0.96% 136
North East +22 88 £32,500 -28.57% 72
Wales -22 31 £60,000 +16.38% 50
Northern Ireland -13 27 £60,000 -11.11% 28

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 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 62 (2.16%) Confluence
3 48 (1.67%) CMS
4 38 (1.32%) WordPress
5 24 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.66%) Kinematics
7 10 (0.35%) Apache
7 10 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.21%) Drupal
9 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
10 5 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.10%) Magnolia
11 3 (0.10%) Moodle
11 3 (0.10%) PowerFactory
12 2 (0.070%) IIS
12 2 (0.070%) TPMS
13 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 404 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 287 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 181 (6.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 119 (4.15%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.15%) Maya
7 24 (0.84%) AutoCAD
8 23 (0.80%) Trello
9 15 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 13 (0.45%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.42%) SOLIDWORKS
12 8 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.28%) Revit
13 7 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
13 7 (0.24%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
14 5 (0.17%) InDesign
15 4 (0.14%) CATIA
16 3 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
16 3 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 112 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.26%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 25 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.87%) SAP CO
4 25 (0.87%) SAP FI
4 25 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
5 21 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
6 20 (0.70%) SAP IBP
7 19 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.56%) Shopify
9 13 (0.45%) NetSuite
9 13 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.42%) Sprinklr
11 11 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
11 11 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
11 11 (0.38%) SAP FSCM
11 11 (0.38%) SAP IS-U
12 10 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 233 (8.12%) Azure
2 199 (6.93%) Power Platform
3 149 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (4.01%) SaaS
5 111 (3.87%) AWS
6 53 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
8 39 (1.36%) GCP
9 36 (1.25%) Power Automate
9 36 (1.25%) Smartsheet
10 33 (1.15%) Snowflake
11 31 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (1.05%) Entra ID
13 25 (0.87%) PaaS
14 23 (0.80%) Google Analytics
14 23 (0.80%) IaaS
15 22 (0.77%) Google Workspace
16 21 (0.73%) Asana
17 19 (0.66%) PowerApps
18 18 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.60%) Firewall
2 36 (1.25%) VPN
3 35 (1.22%) WAN
4 28 (0.98%) Wireless
5 27 (0.94%) LAN
5 27 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (0.73%) Internet
6 21 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 17 (0.59%) DNS
7 17 (0.59%) Network Security
7 17 (0.59%) Unified Communications
7 17 (0.59%) VLAN
8 16 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.49%) MPLS
10 13 (0.45%) DHCP
11 12 (0.42%) Broadband
11 12 (0.42%) Intranet
11 12 (0.42%) VoIP
12 9 (0.31%) BGP
13 8 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (5.96%) Power BI
2 131 (4.56%) Tableau
3 100 (3.48%) Data Mining
4 68 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.11%) SAP BW
6 30 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.70%) Looker
8 18 (0.63%) Metadata
9 17 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 16 (0.56%) Big Data
10 16 (0.56%) Power Query
11 11 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
12 9 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.31%) SAP HANA
12 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.28%) MySQL
14 7 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.24%) MS Access
14 7 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 167 (5.82%) JIRA
2 17 (0.59%) Git
3 11 (0.38%) 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 (0.10%) ERwin
6 3 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.070%) Maven
7 2 (0.070%) Subversion
7 2 (0.070%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.035%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.035%) gulp
8 1 (0.035%) LSMW
8 1 (0.035%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.035%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.035%) webpack
General
1 1,283 (44.70%) Social Skills
2 1,230 (42.86%) Finance
3 844 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 315 (10.98%) Marketing
5 235 (8.19%) Law
6 197 (6.86%) Manufacturing
7 194 (6.76%) Retail
8 193 (6.72%) Legal
9 191 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 187 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
11 158 (5.51%) Public Sector
12 154 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
13 113 (3.94%) Banking
14 83 (2.89%) Telecoms
15 80 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
16 76 (2.65%) Electronics
17 65 (2.26%) Games
18 63 (2.20%) Local Government
19 61 (2.13%) Advertising
20 55 (1.92%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 442 (15.40%) Senior
2 429 (14.95%) Project Manager
3 391 (13.62%) Analyst
4 275 (9.58%) Lead
5 223 (7.77%) Senior Manager
6 194 (6.76%) Trainee
7 189 (6.59%) IT Manager
8 185 (6.45%) Trainee Analyst
9 184 (6.41%) Business Analyst
10 134 (4.67%) Architect
11 114 (3.97%) Data Analyst
12 112 (3.90%) Consultant
13 111 (3.87%) Development Manager
14 109 (3.80%) Business Manager
15 99 (3.45%) Product Manager
16 98 (3.41%) IT Project Manager
17 94 (3.28%) Trainee Business Analyst
18 91 (3.17%) Trainee Data Analyst
19 90 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
20 86 (3.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.60%) CSS
2 37 (1.29%) HTML
3 36 (1.25%) Middleware
4 18 (0.63%) .NET
5 14 (0.49%) React
6 12 (0.42%) Web Services
7 11 (0.38%) EDI
8 10 (0.35%) Node.js
8 10 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.28%) FHIR
10 7 (0.24%) Kafka
11 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.17%) Apache Beam
13 4 (0.14%) .NET Framework
13 4 (0.14%) FIDO
13 4 (0.14%) Flutter
13 4 (0.14%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.14%) Spring
13 4 (0.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 214 (7.46%) Management Information System
2 132 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 129 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
4 107 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 103 (3.59%) FMCG
6 82 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.86%) Robotics
7 76 (2.65%) Driving Licence
8 73 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 64 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
10 56 (1.95%) Social Media
11 47 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 46 (1.60%) NHS
13 43 (1.50%) Algorithms
14 30 (1.05%) IoT
15 28 (0.98%) Blog
16 22 (0.77%) PMI
16 22 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
17 21 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.16%) Windows
2 26 (0.91%) Linux
3 22 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.28%) Android
5 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.28%) VMS
6 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.10%) 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
1 720 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
2 683 (23.80%) Agile
3 663 (23.10%) Project Delivery
4 610 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 512 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 439 (15.30%) Analytics
7 415 (14.46%) Change Management
8 389 (13.55%) Decision-Making
9 388 (13.52%) Risk Management
10 327 (11.39%) PRINCE2
11 321 (11.18%) Business Analysis
12 303 (10.56%) ERP
13 299 (10.42%) AI
14 269 (9.37%) Process Improvement
15 267 (9.30%) Business Strategy
16 261 (9.09%) Roadmaps
17 256 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 241 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
19 235 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
20 234 (8.15%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 283 (9.86%) SQL
2 219 (7.63%) Python
3 52 (1.81%) JavaScript
4 46 (1.60%) C#
5 36 (1.25%) C
6 30 (1.05%) Java
7 28 (0.98%) C++
8 21 (0.73%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.52%) VBA
10 14 (0.49%) PHP
10 14 (0.49%) R
11 13 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.42%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.35%) Perl
14 7 (0.24%) Bash
14 7 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.21%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.14%) COBOL
16 4 (0.14%) Ladder Logic
16 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 891 (31.05%) Degree
2 196 (6.83%) PMP
3 190 (6.62%) PMI Certification
4 187 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 150 (5.23%) SC Cleared
6 124 (4.32%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.23%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 58 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 54 (1.88%) DBS Check
10 52 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (1.36%) CISSP
12 37 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (0.94%) PhD
14 26 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.80%) DV Cleared
15 23 (0.80%) HND
16 22 (0.77%) ACCA
16 22 (0.77%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.77%) CCNP
17 20 (0.70%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (8.05%) QA
2 186 (6.48%) PMO
3 98 (3.41%) GDPR
4 80 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 44 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.01%) ISO 9001
8 27 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (0.87%) NIST
10 20 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 19 (0.66%) SLA
12 17 (0.59%) MiFID
13 13 (0.45%) IFRS
14 12 (0.42%) GxP
14 12 (0.42%) Solvency II
15 11 (0.38%) COBIT
15 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.35%) GRC
16 10 (0.35%) IEC 61131
17 9 (0.31%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 59 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.66%) Docker
3 16 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.38%) Firmware
5 9 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.17%) vSphere
7 3 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 24 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.49%) Terraform
3 7 (0.24%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.17%) Ansible
4 5 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.070%) Grafana
6 2 (0.070%) Nagios
6 2 (0.070%) SCCM
7 1 (0.035%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.035%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.035%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.035%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.035%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.035%) SmoothWall
7 1 (0.035%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 666 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 247 (8.61%) SAP
3 99 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 77 (2.68%) Google
5 69 (2.40%) Oracle
6 55 (1.92%) Adobe
7 54 (1.88%) Cisco
8 37 (1.29%) Ariba
8 37 (1.29%) OpenText
9 30 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.84%) Databricks
10 24 (0.84%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.70%) Sage
12 19 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 19 (0.66%) VMware
13 15 (0.52%) Siemens
13 15 (0.52%) TikTok
14 14 (0.49%) NEC
15 13 (0.45%) Guidewire
15 13 (0.45%) Workday