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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -38 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,679 4,550 6,214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.71% 9.93% 7.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 10.63% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,513 2,059 4,538
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,100
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.29% -7.65%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 56,699 42,799 69,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.53% 93.38% 87.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34,103 21,982 53,104
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,288
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -38 2,247 £52,500 -8.96% 1,220
UK excluding London -42 1,782 £45,000 -18.18% 1,041
Work from Home -30 756 £57,508 -4.15% 456
London -30 667 £70,000 - 380
North of England -27 530 £40,000 -27.27% 222
South East -32 441 £55,000 -4.35% 332
Midlands -49 269 £45,000 -18.18% 169
North West -35 240 £42,750 -20.73% 116
South West -29 196 £45,564 -16.40% 99
West Midlands -42 193 £45,000 -21.05% 96
Yorkshire -33 181 £40,000 -33.33% 85
Scotland -22 141 £40,000 -27.27% 59
East of England -44 110 £55,000 +10.00% 142
North East -9 109 £40,000 -33.33% 25
East Midlands -70 75 £44,500 -8.72% 73
Northern Ireland -5 67 £60,000 +26.32% 16
Wales -41 35 £55,000 +4.58% 35

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
1 144 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.02%) Confluence
3 45 (1.68%) CMS
4 34 (1.27%) WordPress
5 20 (0.75%) ArcGIS
6 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.30%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
11 3 (0.11%) govService
11 3 (0.11%) SAS
11 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.075%) Drupal
12 2 (0.075%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.037%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.037%) IIS
13 1 (0.037%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 414 (15.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (4.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 111 (4.14%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.78%) AutoCAD
6 19 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 17 (0.63%) Trello
9 12 (0.45%) Maya
10 11 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
10 11 (0.41%) Photoshop
10 11 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
11 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
12 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.22%) Revit
14 4 (0.15%) CATIA
15 3 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
15 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
15 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.075%) Weka
Business Applications
1 49 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.01%) SAP MDG
3 19 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
4 18 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
6 12 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
7 11 (0.41%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 11 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 9 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.30%) SAP CO
9 8 (0.30%) SAP FI
9 8 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
10 7 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
11 6 (0.22%) Elite 3E
11 6 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (0.22%) SAP IBP
12 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 230 (8.59%) Azure
2 217 (8.10%) Power Platform
3 148 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
4 144 (5.38%) SaaS
5 108 (4.03%) AWS
6 47 (1.75%) PowerApps
7 41 (1.53%) Asana
8 32 (1.19%) GCP
9 30 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.05%) Entra ID
11 25 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (0.93%) Smartsheet
12 24 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (0.90%) Google Analytics
13 21 (0.78%) Power Automate
14 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (0.67%) Snowflake
16 16 (0.60%) Miro
17 15 (0.56%) Canva
17 15 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.53%) Firewall
2 40 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
3 38 (1.42%) Broadband
4 30 (1.12%) WAN
5 23 (0.86%) LAN
6 22 (0.82%) CHAP
6 22 (0.82%) Internet
7 21 (0.78%) Network Security
8 20 (0.75%) DNS
8 20 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
8 20 (0.75%) VPN
9 19 (0.71%) Wireless
10 18 (0.67%) DHCP
10 18 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.60%) VLAN
12 14 (0.52%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.41%) Intranet
14 10 (0.37%) Multicast
15 9 (0.34%) BGP
15 9 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (7.43%) Tableau
2 183 (6.83%) Power BI
3 167 (6.23%) Data Mining
4 46 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 20 (0.75%) GIS
6 20 (0.75%) QGIS
6 20 (0.75%) Spatial Data
7 16 (0.60%) Power Query
7 16 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
8 14 (0.52%) Big Data
9 13 (0.49%) Metadata
10 10 (0.37%) SAP BW
11 7 (0.26%) Looker
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.22%) DB2
12 6 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 115 (4.29%) JIRA
2 15 (0.56%) Git
3 14 (0.52%) GitLab
4 11 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.075%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.075%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.075%) ESLint
6 2 (0.075%) Gradle
6 2 (0.075%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.075%) JMeter
6 2 (0.075%) JUnit
6 2 (0.075%) Maven
6 2 (0.075%) Mockito
6 2 (0.075%) Selenium
6 2 (0.075%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.075%) TestNG
6 2 (0.075%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.075%) Zephyr
General
1 1,162 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 1,100 (41.06%) Finance
3 736 (27.47%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (9.97%) Marketing
5 194 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 191 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
7 171 (6.38%) Legal
8 165 (6.16%) Manufacturing
9 145 (5.41%) Public Sector
10 144 (5.38%) Retail
11 132 (4.93%) Law
12 128 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
13 113 (4.22%) Banking
14 74 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
15 73 (2.72%) Games
16 59 (2.20%) Telecoms
17 54 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
18 51 (1.90%) Electronics
19 49 (1.83%) Financial Institution
20 42 (1.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 481 (17.95%) Analyst
2 391 (14.59%) Project Manager
3 381 (14.22%) Senior
4 282 (10.53%) Trainee
5 273 (10.19%) Trainee Analyst
6 222 (8.29%) Senior Manager
7 221 (8.25%) Lead
8 220 (8.21%) Business Analyst
9 176 (6.57%) Data Analyst
10 159 (5.94%) IT Manager
11 158 (5.90%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 117 (4.37%) Consultant
13 115 (4.29%) Trainee Business Analyst
14 114 (4.26%) Development Manager
15 104 (3.88%) Architect
16 99 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
17 98 (3.66%) Business Manager
18 90 (3.36%) Product Manager
19 89 (3.32%) Systems Manager
20 77 (2.87%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.93%) EDI
2 24 (0.90%) HTML
3 23 (0.86%) PyTorch
4 21 (0.78%) .NET
5 16 (0.60%) CSS
6 15 (0.56%) Middleware
7 9 (0.34%) React
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.26%) REST
10 6 (0.22%) Node.js
10 6 (0.22%) OAuth
11 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.15%) FIDO
11 4 (0.15%) Flutter
11 4 (0.15%) OpenID
11 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.15%) SAML
11 4 (0.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 122 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 122 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 79 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 73 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 70 (2.61%) FMCG
6 67 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 63 (2.35%) Driving Licence
8 61 (2.28%) Social Media
9 55 (2.05%) Robotics
10 45 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 44 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 32 (1.19%) Blog
13 30 (1.12%) IoT
14 29 (1.08%) Mobile App
15 28 (1.05%) Low-Code
16 25 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (0.78%) Security Posture
18 20 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (2.24%) Windows
2 31 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.97%) Android
4 20 (0.75%) Linux
5 17 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
7 6 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.19%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.11%) VMS
10 2 (0.075%) AIX
10 2 (0.075%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.075%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
2 654 (24.41%) Agile
3 560 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 514 (19.19%) Project Delivery
5 489 (18.25%) Analytics
5 489 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 404 (15.08%) Decision-Making
7 386 (14.41%) Change Management
8 385 (14.37%) Business Analysis
9 368 (13.74%) AI
10 355 (13.25%) PRINCE2
11 319 (11.91%) Data Analysis
12 295 (11.01%) Risk Management
13 275 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 252 (9.41%) Coaching
15 248 (9.26%) Process Improvement
16 237 (8.85%) Roadmaps
17 233 (8.70%) Data Analytics
18 222 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
19 205 (7.65%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 292 (10.90%) SQL
2 290 (10.82%) Python
3 35 (1.31%) VBA
4 30 (1.12%) C#
5 29 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.67%) C++
6 18 (0.67%) Java
7 17 (0.63%) C
8 14 (0.52%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.26%) PHP
11 6 (0.22%) Bash
11 6 (0.22%) MATLAB
11 6 (0.22%) R
12 3 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
12 3 (0.11%) Tcl
12 3 (0.11%) VB
13 2 (0.075%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 731 (27.29%) Degree
2 229 (8.55%) PMP
3 218 (8.14%) PMI Certification
4 179 (6.68%) Security Cleared
5 132 (4.93%) SC Cleared
6 94 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.39%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 58 (2.16%) CISSP
9 56 (2.09%) DBS Check
10 49 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.57%) CISM
12 36 (1.34%) HNC
13 33 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.08%) MBA
15 26 (0.97%) SANS
16 25 (0.93%) ACCA
16 25 (0.93%) CISA
16 25 (0.93%) DV Cleared
17 24 (0.90%) FFIEC
18 22 (0.82%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (7.88%) QA
2 134 (5.00%) PMO
3 96 (3.58%) GDPR
4 90 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (1.98%) NIST
7 38 (1.42%) Data Quality
8 23 (0.86%) COBIT
9 21 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 19 (0.71%) GRC
11 14 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.45%) SLA
14 10 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.34%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.34%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.26%) IFRS
17 6 (0.22%) MiFID
18 5 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 58 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.90%) Docker
3 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.30%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.075%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.45%) Ansible
3 12 (0.45%) Terraform
4 6 (0.22%) SCCM
5 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 3 (0.11%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.075%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.037%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.037%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.037%) MOM
9 1 (0.037%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 641 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 147 (5.49%) SAP
3 86 (3.21%) Salesforce
4 69 (2.58%) Oracle
5 68 (2.54%) Google
6 48 (1.79%) Adobe
7 46 (1.72%) Cisco
8 42 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.08%) HubSpot
10 28 (1.05%) Anaplan
11 20 (0.75%) Genesys
11 20 (0.75%) Verint
12 19 (0.71%) Ariba
13 15 (0.56%) Databricks
13 15 (0.56%) Instagram
13 15 (0.56%) Pardot
14 14 (0.52%) VMware
15 13 (0.49%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.49%) Workday
16 12 (0.45%) Fortinet