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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -47 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,465 3,840 7,460
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.70% 8.79% 7.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 9.45% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 1,973 5,407
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,755 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £84,964
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 68,096 40,631 82,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.48% 93.01% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,564 22,679 59,766
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% +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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -44 2,144 £55,000 -4.35% 1,313
UK excluding London -51 1,593 £50,000 -9.09% 1,031
Work from Home -14 843 £57,508 +0.01% 511
London -28 684 £70,000 - 451
North of England -32 531 £47,500 -13.64% 256
South East -40 370 £50,000 -13.04% 304
Midlands -63 248 £52,500 - 164
North West -12 242 £47,386 -13.52% 139
West Midlands -47 187 £50,000 -9.09% 93
Yorkshire -40 173 £49,973 -9.14% 84
South West -58 159 £47,500 -13.64% 116
East of England -38 131 £75,000 +36.36% 130
North East -15 116 £54,500 -0.91% 35
Northern Ireland -6 71 £55,000 +2.33% 20
East Midlands -72 59 £55,000 +25.71% 71
Scotland -70 56 £40,000 -27.27% 40
Wales -48 34 £42,934 -32.92% 31

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 88 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.03%) Confluence
3 40 (1.62%) CMS
4 33 (1.34%) WordPress
5 20 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) govService
9 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.081%) Apache
10 2 (0.081%) Drupal
11 1 (0.041%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.041%) IIS
11 1 (0.041%) Moodle
11 1 (0.041%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.041%) Umbraco
Applications
1 298 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 133 (5.40%) Microsoft Project
3 123 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.57%) Trello
8 11 (0.45%) AutoCAD
9 9 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
10 8 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.32%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
12 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.081%) Notion
13 2 (0.081%) Weka
14 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
14 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 17 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
4 17 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.28%) NetSuite
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%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 245 (9.94%) Azure
2 238 (9.66%) Power Platform
3 164 (6.65%) SaaS
4 137 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (4.22%) AWS
6 71 (2.88%) PowerApps
7 52 (2.11%) Power Automate
8 39 (1.58%) GCP
9 35 (1.42%) Asana
9 35 (1.42%) Entra ID
10 33 (1.34%) Smartsheet
11 32 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
12 31 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 30 (1.22%) OneDrive
14 26 (1.05%) Google Analytics
15 24 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (0.89%) Canva
17 21 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
19 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.66%) Broadband
2 34 (1.38%) Firewall
3 33 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
4 29 (1.18%) CHAP
5 24 (0.97%) WAN
6 18 (0.73%) DNS
6 18 (0.73%) LAN
7 16 (0.65%) DHCP
7 16 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
8 15 (0.61%) Network Security
9 12 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.49%) VPN
10 11 (0.45%) Internet
10 11 (0.45%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.41%) Wireless
12 9 (0.37%) Multicast
13 8 (0.32%) Intranet
13 8 (0.32%) VLAN
13 8 (0.32%) VoIP
14 4 (0.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (8.11%) Power BI
2 169 (6.86%) Tableau
3 135 (5.48%) Data Mining
4 34 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.10%) GIS
6 21 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.81%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.81%) QGIS
7 20 (0.81%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (0.61%) Power Query
10 10 (0.41%) DB2
11 8 (0.32%) Big Data
12 6 (0.24%) Metadata
12 6 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
12 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.20%) MySQL
13 5 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.20%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 119 (4.83%) JIRA
2 19 (0.77%) Git
3 11 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.28%) GitLab
6 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.12%) JUnit
7 3 (0.12%) Storybook
8 2 (0.081%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.081%) ESLint
8 2 (0.081%) Gradle
8 2 (0.081%) JMeter
8 2 (0.081%) Maven
8 2 (0.081%) Mockito
8 2 (0.081%) Postman
8 2 (0.081%) Selenium
8 2 (0.081%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.081%) TestNG
8 2 (0.081%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.041%) Balsamiq
General
1 984 (39.92%) Social Skills
2 954 (38.70%) Finance
3 568 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (11.48%) Marketing
5 225 (9.13%) Organisational Skills
6 176 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 157 (6.37%) Manufacturing
8 144 (5.84%) Retail
9 141 (5.72%) Legal
10 134 (5.44%) Public Sector
11 114 (4.62%) Banking
12 108 (4.38%) Law
13 96 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
15 62 (2.52%) Games
16 58 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
17 55 (2.23%) Telecoms
18 52 (2.11%) Financial Institution
19 44 (1.78%) Local Government
20 43 (1.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 409 (16.59%) Analyst
2 406 (16.47%) Project Manager
3 303 (12.29%) Senior
4 203 (8.24%) Trainee
5 200 (8.11%) Trainee Analyst
6 186 (7.55%) Business Analyst
7 167 (6.77%) Lead
8 158 (6.41%) Senior Manager
9 153 (6.21%) IT Manager
10 141 (5.72%) Data Analyst
11 130 (5.27%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 125 (5.07%) Consultant
12 125 (5.07%) Development Manager
13 99 (4.02%) Senior Project Manager
14 96 (3.89%) Architect
15 93 (3.77%) Product Manager
16 79 (3.20%) IT Project Manager
17 70 (2.84%) Trainee Business Analyst
18 63 (2.56%) Systems Manager
19 60 (2.43%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.70%) .NET
2 38 (1.54%) HTML
3 34 (1.38%) CSS
4 29 (1.18%) PyTorch
5 25 (1.01%) JSON
6 24 (0.97%) EDI
6 24 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
7 21 (0.85%) .NET Core
8 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.77%) SPFx
10 9 (0.37%) TensorFlow
11 8 (0.32%) Hugging Face
11 8 (0.32%) REST
12 7 (0.28%) Matplotlib
12 7 (0.28%) OAuth
12 7 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.28%) React
12 7 (0.28%) Seaborn
13 6 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (0.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 188 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 108 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 89 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
4 77 (3.12%) Product Ownership
5 69 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 66 (2.68%) Driving Licence
7 63 (2.56%) FMCG
8 60 (2.43%) Virtual Team
9 58 (2.35%) Social Media
10 41 (1.66%) Security Posture
11 39 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 34 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 28 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 27 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
16 26 (1.05%) Blog
17 25 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
18 24 (0.97%) Low-Code
19 23 (0.93%) Cloud Native
19 23 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.96%) Windows
2 30 (1.22%) Apple iOS
3 25 (1.01%) Android
3 25 (1.01%) Linux
4 15 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.32%) Unix
6 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 2 (0.081%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.081%) zOS
9 1 (0.041%) CentOS
9 1 (0.041%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (26.41%) Agile
2 577 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
3 550 (22.31%) Project Delivery
4 475 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 430 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 420 (17.04%) Analytics
7 383 (15.54%) Decision-Making
7 383 (15.54%) PRINCE2
8 313 (12.70%) Business Analysis
9 292 (11.85%) AI
10 280 (11.36%) Change Management
11 269 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 259 (10.51%) Data Analysis
13 251 (10.18%) Risk Management
14 223 (9.05%) Roadmaps
15 217 (8.80%) Mentoring
16 207 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
17 205 (8.32%) Data Analytics
18 200 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
19 188 (7.63%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 267 (10.83%) SQL
2 266 (10.79%) Python
3 49 (1.99%) C#
4 38 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 29 (1.18%) TypeScript
6 29 (1.18%) VBA
7 14 (0.57%) Java
8 9 (0.37%) Bash
9 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.24%) C++
11 5 (0.20%) C
11 5 (0.20%) PHP
12 4 (0.16%) COBOL
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.16%) R
12 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) Dart
14 2 (0.081%) JCL
14 2 (0.081%) Scala
Qualifications
1 622 (25.23%) Degree
2 233 (9.45%) PMP
3 221 (8.97%) PMI Certification
4 109 (4.42%) Security Cleared
5 94 (3.81%) CISSP
5 94 (3.81%) DBS Check
6 71 (2.88%) CISM
7 67 (2.72%) SC Cleared
8 64 (2.60%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.54%) CISA
10 37 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 34 (1.38%) SANS
12 33 (1.34%) HNC
13 31 (1.26%) DV Cleared
13 31 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 30 (1.22%) FFIEC
15 29 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
15 29 (1.18%) CGEIT
15 29 (1.18%) CRISC
16 24 (0.97%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.21%) QA
2 130 (5.27%) PMO
3 100 (4.06%) Accessibility
4 97 (3.94%) GDPR
4 97 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 89 (3.61%) NIST
6 45 (1.83%) GRC
7 38 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 37 (1.50%) ISO 9001
9 32 (1.30%) COBIT
10 28 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 21 (0.85%) NIST 800
13 17 (0.69%) SLA
14 12 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.49%) GAAP
15 11 (0.45%) IFRS
15 11 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 8 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.85%) Docker
3 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.081%) Firmware
6 2 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.081%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.041%) IAG
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.73%) SCCM
4 17 (0.69%) Ansible
5 15 (0.61%) Terraform
6 11 (0.45%) 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 (0.081%) Argo
9 2 (0.081%) Puppet
9 2 (0.081%) Salt
10 1 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.041%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.041%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.041%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.041%) MOM
10 1 (0.041%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 537 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 91 (3.69%) SAP
3 69 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 67 (2.72%) Oracle
5 65 (2.64%) Adobe
6 61 (2.47%) Google
7 53 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.14%) Anaplan
9 26 (1.05%) HubSpot
10 21 (0.85%) Pardot
11 20 (0.81%) Genesys
11 20 (0.81%) Verint
12 17 (0.69%) Cisco
13 14 (0.57%) Apple
14 13 (0.53%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.49%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.49%) Instagram
16 11 (0.45%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.45%) Wrike
17 10 (0.41%) Workday