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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -49 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,518 3,837 7,442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.83% 9.13% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 9.84% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,493 1,983 5,392
10th Percentile £29,800 £35,429 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £84,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -47 2,177 £55,000 -4.76% 996
UK excluding London -50 1,649 £50,000 -9.09% 883
Work from Home -18 816 £57,500 - 409
London -27 671 £70,000 - 287
North of England -34 544 £45,000 -18.18% 192
South East -45 391 £50,000 -13.04% 273
Midlands -65 251 £52,500 - 148
North West -15 249 £46,500 -14.52% 94
West Midlands -49 187 £47,500 -13.64% 88
Yorkshire -42 182 £43,294 -21.28% 69
South West -43 172 £45,282 -16.14% 96
East of England -59 125 £75,000 +36.36% 123
North East -16 113 £50,000 -9.09% 35
Northern Ireland -9 77 £40,000 -25.58% 25
East Midlands -82 62 £55,000 +22.22% 59
Scotland -61 61 £40,000 -27.27% 32
Wales -51 35 £42,934 -30.75% 23

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 87 (3.46%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.07%) Confluence
3 42 (1.67%) CMS
4 34 (1.35%) WordPress
5 20 (0.79%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) Apache
9 3 (0.12%) govService
9 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.079%) Drupal
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.040%) IIS
11 1 (0.040%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 313 (12.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
3 136 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
4 70 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.60%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.56%) Trello
9 10 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 9 (0.36%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.079%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.079%) Notion
13 2 (0.079%) Weka
14 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.040%) Elementor
14 1 (0.040%) Sketch
14 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 20 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.28%) Shopify
8 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.24%) Primavera
8 6 (0.24%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 237 (9.41%) Azure
2 227 (9.02%) Power Platform
3 164 (6.51%) SaaS
4 138 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
5 105 (4.17%) AWS
6 66 (2.62%) PowerApps
7 48 (1.91%) Power Automate
8 47 (1.87%) Asana
9 38 (1.51%) GCP
10 33 (1.31%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
12 30 (1.19%) OneDrive
12 30 (1.19%) Smartsheet
13 28 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (1.07%) Google Analytics
15 23 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (0.83%) Canva
17 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
18 18 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
18 18 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.67%) Broadband
2 35 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (1.35%) Firewall
4 28 (1.11%) CHAP
5 24 (0.95%) WAN
6 21 (0.83%) DNS
7 19 (0.75%) DHCP
8 17 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
9 16 (0.64%) LAN
9 16 (0.64%) Network Security
10 13 (0.52%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.52%) Wireless
11 12 (0.48%) VPN
12 11 (0.44%) Internet
12 11 (0.44%) Intranet
13 9 (0.36%) Multicast
13 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.36%) VLAN
14 8 (0.32%) VoIP
15 5 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (7.63%) Power BI
2 176 (6.99%) Tableau
3 141 (5.60%) Data Mining
4 31 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.07%) GIS
6 22 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (0.79%) QGIS
8 20 (0.79%) Spatial Data
9 18 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (0.64%) Power Query
11 10 (0.40%) DB2
12 9 (0.36%) Big Data
12 9 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
13 6 (0.24%) Metadata
14 5 (0.20%) MySQL
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.16%) DB2 UDB
15 4 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 128 (5.08%) JIRA
2 21 (0.83%) Git
3 12 (0.48%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.28%) GitLab
5 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.12%) Storybook
7 2 (0.079%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.079%) ESLint
7 2 (0.079%) Gradle
7 2 (0.079%) JMeter
7 2 (0.079%) JUnit
7 2 (0.079%) Maven
7 2 (0.079%) Mockito
7 2 (0.079%) Selenium
7 2 (0.079%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.079%) TestNG
7 2 (0.079%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.040%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.040%) GCC
General
1 1,038 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 982 (39.00%) Finance
3 600 (23.83%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (11.44%) Marketing
5 228 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
6 182 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 160 (6.35%) Manufacturing
8 151 (6.00%) Legal
9 150 (5.96%) Retail
10 125 (4.96%) Public Sector
11 119 (4.73%) Banking
12 113 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
13 106 (4.21%) Law
14 73 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
15 64 (2.54%) Games
16 56 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
17 54 (2.14%) Telecoms
18 50 (1.99%) Financial Institution
19 44 (1.75%) Advertising
20 42 (1.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 425 (16.88%) Analyst
2 411 (16.32%) Project Manager
3 309 (12.27%) Senior
4 223 (8.86%) Trainee
5 216 (8.58%) Trainee Analyst
6 196 (7.78%) Business Analyst
7 166 (6.59%) Senior Manager
8 162 (6.43%) Lead
9 152 (6.04%) IT Manager
10 147 (5.84%) Data Analyst
11 136 (5.40%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 125 (4.96%) Development Manager
13 124 (4.92%) Consultant
14 105 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
15 92 (3.65%) Product Manager
16 87 (3.46%) Architect
17 80 (3.18%) Trainee Business Analyst
18 79 (3.14%) Systems Manager
19 76 (3.02%) IT Project Manager
20 71 (2.82%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (1.55%) .NET
2 36 (1.43%) HTML
3 31 (1.23%) CSS
4 25 (0.99%) PyTorch
5 24 (0.95%) EDI
6 22 (0.87%) JSON
7 21 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
8 18 (0.71%) .NET Core
9 17 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (0.64%) SPFx
11 9 (0.36%) React
11 9 (0.36%) REST
12 8 (0.32%) Oracle Fusion
13 7 (0.28%) Matplotlib
13 7 (0.28%) OAuth
13 7 (0.28%) Seaborn
14 6 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
15 5 (0.20%) Middleware
15 5 (0.20%) SAML
15 5 (0.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 195 (7.74%) Management Information System
2 110 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 102 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 63 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 63 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 62 (2.46%) FMCG
7 59 (2.34%) Social Media
8 48 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 39 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 38 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (1.51%) Security Posture
11 33 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 32 (1.27%) Blog
13 29 (1.15%) Robotics
14 28 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 25 (0.99%) Low-Code
16 22 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
17 21 (0.83%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.90%) Windows
2 31 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.03%) Android
4 24 (0.95%) Linux
5 17 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.32%) Unix
7 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.079%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.079%) zOS
10 1 (0.040%) CentOS
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (25.81%) Agile
2 597 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
3 577 (22.92%) Project Delivery
4 484 (19.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 455 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 417 (16.56%) Analytics
7 398 (15.81%) Decision-Making
8 392 (15.57%) PRINCE2
9 328 (13.03%) Business Analysis
10 297 (11.80%) AI
11 292 (11.60%) Change Management
12 277 (11.00%) Data Analysis
13 267 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 258 (10.25%) Risk Management
15 217 (8.62%) Mentoring
16 211 (8.38%) Roadmaps
17 209 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
18 207 (8.22%) Data Analytics
19 198 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
20 192 (7.63%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 276 (10.96%) SQL
2 274 (10.88%) Python
3 47 (1.87%) C#
4 37 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.27%) VBA
6 30 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 26 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 16 (0.64%) Java
9 9 (0.36%) Bash
10 8 (0.32%) C
10 8 (0.32%) C++
10 8 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.20%) PHP
11 5 (0.20%) R
11 5 (0.20%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.16%) COBOL
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.12%) Dart
13 3 (0.12%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 660 (26.21%) Degree
2 245 (9.73%) PMP
3 227 (9.02%) PMI Certification
4 129 (5.12%) Security Cleared
5 91 (3.61%) CISSP
5 91 (3.61%) DBS Check
6 86 (3.42%) SC Cleared
7 70 (2.78%) Master's Degree
8 68 (2.70%) CISM
9 36 (1.43%) CISA
10 34 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 34 (1.35%) HNC
11 33 (1.31%) SANS
12 32 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.19%) DV Cleared
14 29 (1.15%) FFIEC
15 28 (1.11%) CGEIT
15 28 (1.11%) CRISC
16 27 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 24 (0.95%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.04%) QA
2 128 (5.08%) PMO
3 100 (3.97%) GDPR
4 92 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 91 (3.61%) Accessibility
6 85 (3.38%) NIST
7 43 (1.71%) GRC
8 38 (1.51%) ISO 9001
9 34 (1.35%) Data Quality
10 30 (1.19%) COBIT
11 26 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 20 (0.79%) NIST 800
14 16 (0.64%) SLA
15 13 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.48%) GAAP
17 11 (0.44%) IFRS
18 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 10 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 25 (0.99%) Docker
3 9 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.079%) Firmware
6 2 (0.079%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.040%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 23 (0.91%) Kubernetes
2 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.71%) Ansible
4 17 (0.68%) SCCM
5 15 (0.60%) Terraform
6 11 (0.44%) Grafana
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
7 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.079%) Argo
9 2 (0.079%) Puppet
9 2 (0.079%) Salt
10 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.040%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.040%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.040%) MOM
10 1 (0.040%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 551 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 94 (3.73%) SAP
3 71 (2.82%) Salesforce
4 67 (2.66%) Oracle
5 65 (2.58%) Google
6 62 (2.46%) Adobe
7 49 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.11%) Anaplan
9 27 (1.07%) HubSpot
10 21 (0.83%) Cisco
10 21 (0.83%) Pardot
11 20 (0.79%) Genesys
11 20 (0.79%) Verint
12 14 (0.56%) Apple
13 13 (0.52%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.48%) Instagram
15 11 (0.44%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.44%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.44%) Workday
15 11 (0.44%) Wrike