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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,545 3,467 7,294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.59% 7.07% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 7.83% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,451 1,797 5,056
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,979 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -9.48%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £84,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -29 2,230 £55,000 -8.33% 1,258
UK excluding London -37 1,625 £52,500 -4.55% 969
Work from Home -12 1,041 £55,000 -4.35% 494
London -31 749 £69,500 -4.14% 455
North of England +1 476 £55,000 +0.38% 247
South East -26 416 £46,150 -16.94% 317
Midlands -51 231 £55,000 - 141
North West +11 217 £55,000 +7.33% 141
South West -47 178 £47,500 -25.34% 99
East of England -37 157 £60,000 +9.09% 91
Yorkshire -22 156 £60,000 +9.09% 83
West Midlands -45 144 £55,000 - 88
North East -21 103 £60,000 +17.65% 26
East Midlands -41 86 £50,000 +3.09% 52
Northern Ireland -27 72 £47,500 -17.39% 32
Scotland -52 60 £47,500 -5.84% 38
Wales -56 39 £58,758 -3.28% 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 93 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.00%) Confluence
3 40 (1.57%) CMS
4 31 (1.22%) WordPress
5 20 (0.79%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.16%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.16%) Moodle
10 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.079%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.079%) Totara
12 1 (0.039%) Drupal
12 1 (0.039%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 237 (9.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 219 (8.61%) Microsoft Project
3 185 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.75%) Trello
7 16 (0.63%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Blender
11 3 (0.12%) Maya
11 3 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.079%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.039%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.039%) Houdini
13 1 (0.039%) InDesign
13 1 (0.039%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 44 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 17 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 13 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
4 13 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
4 13 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 12 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.39%) Primavera
6 10 (0.39%) Shopify
7 8 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.28%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.24%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.24%) iTrent
9 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.24%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 234 (9.19%) Azure
2 220 (8.64%) Power Platform
3 147 (5.78%) AWS
4 146 (5.74%) SaaS
5 136 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (3.22%) PowerApps
7 62 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
7 62 (2.44%) Power Automate
8 47 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (1.41%) Smartsheet
11 32 (1.26%) Asana
12 30 (1.18%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.14%) OneDrive
14 27 (1.06%) GCP
15 25 (0.98%) Canva
16 22 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.93%) Firewall
2 43 (1.69%) Broadband
3 29 (1.14%) WAN
4 27 (1.06%) LAN
5 26 (1.02%) DNS
5 26 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (0.67%) VPN
7 16 (0.63%) DHCP
8 15 (0.59%) CHAP
8 15 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.55%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.47%) BGP
10 12 (0.47%) Network Security
11 11 (0.43%) Internet
11 11 (0.43%) NGN
12 10 (0.39%) Wireless
13 9 (0.35%) Structured Cabling
14 7 (0.28%) OSPF
14 7 (0.28%) VoIP
15 6 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (6.95%) Power BI
2 81 (3.18%) Tableau
3 68 (2.67%) Data Mining
4 41 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.10%) GIS
6 23 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.79%) QGIS
7 20 (0.79%) Spatial Data
8 17 (0.67%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.55%) Big Data
9 14 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.51%) Metadata
11 12 (0.47%) Hadoop
12 11 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (0.43%) Power Query
13 10 (0.39%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.35%) Apache Hive
14 9 (0.35%) Db2
Development Applications
1 168 (6.60%) JIRA
2 24 (0.94%) Git
3 11 (0.43%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.12%) GitLab
5 3 (0.12%) JUnit
5 3 (0.12%) Storybook
5 3 (0.12%) Taiga
5 3 (0.12%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.079%) Gatling
6 2 (0.079%) JMeter
6 2 (0.079%) Pa11y
6 2 (0.079%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.079%) Postman
6 2 (0.079%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.079%) Yeoman
6 2 (0.079%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.039%) Plastic SCM
7 1 (0.039%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,059 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 805 (31.63%) Finance
3 472 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (10.88%) Marketing
5 243 (9.55%) Organisational Skills
6 152 (5.97%) Retail
7 143 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 143 (5.62%) Manufacturing
8 138 (5.42%) Legal
9 133 (5.23%) Public Sector
10 111 (4.36%) Law
11 89 (3.50%) Banking
12 77 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
14 57 (2.24%) Local Government
15 56 (2.20%) Telecoms
16 49 (1.93%) Advertising
17 46 (1.81%) Aerospace
18 45 (1.77%) Financial Institution
19 39 (1.53%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 530 (20.83%) Project Manager
2 376 (14.77%) Senior
3 273 (10.73%) Analyst
4 193 (7.58%) Senior Manager
5 185 (7.27%) Lead
6 182 (7.15%) IT Manager
7 181 (7.11%) Consultant
8 158 (6.21%) Senior Project Manager
9 129 (5.07%) Business Analyst
10 124 (4.87%) Development Manager
11 108 (4.24%) IT Project Manager
12 78 (3.06%) Product Manager
13 75 (2.95%) Data Analyst
14 68 (2.67%) Senior Consultant
15 67 (2.63%) Trainee
15 67 (2.63%) Trainee Analyst
16 66 (2.59%) IT Support
17 64 (2.51%) Trainee Data Analyst
18 61 (2.40%) Coordinator
19 60 (2.36%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.73%) HTML
2 43 (1.69%) .NET
2 43 (1.69%) PyTorch
3 38 (1.49%) CSS
4 24 (0.94%) HTML5 Canvas
4 24 (0.94%) JSON
5 23 (0.90%) Hugging Face
5 23 (0.90%) TensorFlow
6 21 (0.83%) .NET Core
6 21 (0.83%) Flash
7 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (0.75%) SPFx
8 16 (0.63%) EDI
8 16 (0.63%) LangChain
8 16 (0.63%) LlamaIndex
8 16 (0.63%) Model Context Protocol
9 15 (0.59%) Middleware
10 14 (0.55%) Kafka
11 12 (0.47%) Node.js
11 12 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 179 (7.03%) Onboarding
2 173 (6.80%) Management Information System
3 118 (4.64%) Data Centre
4 91 (3.58%) Driving Licence
5 80 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.24%) Social Media
7 56 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 55 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 53 (2.08%) FMCG
10 51 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 43 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 39 (1.53%) Cloud Native
13 36 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 35 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
15 34 (1.34%) PMI
16 33 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
17 29 (1.14%) Algorithms
17 29 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
18 27 (1.06%) Blog
18 27 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 97 (3.81%) Windows
2 40 (1.57%) Linux
3 29 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 24 (0.94%) Android
5 16 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.24%) Unix
6 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 2 (0.079%) Debian
9 2 (0.079%) zOS
10 1 (0.039%) CentOS
10 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.039%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.039%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (28.84%) Agile
2 669 (26.29%) Project Delivery
3 557 (21.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 553 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
5 489 (19.21%) PRINCE2
6 426 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 350 (13.75%) Decision-Making
8 300 (11.79%) Analytics
9 298 (11.71%) Mentoring
10 272 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 265 (10.41%) AI
12 260 (10.22%) Roadmaps
13 233 (9.16%) Coaching
14 225 (8.84%) Logistics
14 225 (8.84%) Risk Management
15 224 (8.80%) Change Management
16 216 (8.49%) Business Analysis
17 210 (8.25%) Budget Management
18 203 (7.98%) ERP
19 189 (7.43%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 227 (8.92%) SQL
2 209 (8.21%) Python
3 50 (1.96%) C#
3 50 (1.96%) JavaScript
4 33 (1.30%) TypeScript
5 32 (1.26%) PowerShell
6 26 (1.02%) VBA
7 19 (0.75%) Java
8 12 (0.47%) C
8 12 (0.47%) PHP
9 7 (0.28%) C++
10 5 (0.20%) Ruby
11 4 (0.16%) ABAP
11 4 (0.16%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.12%) Bash
12 3 (0.12%) COBOL
12 3 (0.12%) Dart
12 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 594 (23.34%) Degree
2 227 (8.92%) PMI Certification
3 222 (8.72%) PMP
4 148 (5.82%) Security Cleared
5 137 (5.38%) DBS Check
6 100 (3.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 81 (3.18%) CISSP
8 64 (2.51%) SC Cleared
9 57 (2.24%) CISM
10 54 (2.12%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 43 (1.69%) DV Cleared
12 31 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (1.14%) CRISC
14 24 (0.94%) HNC
15 23 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (0.86%) CISA
17 21 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.79%) SANS
19 19 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (7.66%) QA
2 171 (6.72%) PMO
3 116 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 107 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 84 (3.30%) GDPR
5 84 (3.30%) NIST
6 44 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 43 (1.69%) GRC
8 40 (1.57%) ISO 9001
9 37 (1.45%) SLA
10 32 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 23 (0.90%) NIST 800
12 19 (0.75%) COBIT
12 19 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 17 (0.67%) ISO 14001
14 13 (0.51%) GAAP
15 12 (0.47%) ISO 14000
16 11 (0.43%) IFRS
17 10 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 44 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.83%) Docker
3 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.079%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.079%) Firmware
6 2 (0.079%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.039%) IAG
7 1 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
1 25 (0.98%) SCCM
2 22 (0.86%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.59%) Puppet
4 11 (0.43%) Ansible
4 11 (0.43%) Progress Chef
4 11 (0.43%) Terraform
5 9 (0.35%) Grafana
6 5 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.079%) Argo
8 2 (0.079%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.079%) Salt
9 1 (0.039%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.039%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.039%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.039%) SCOM
Vendors
1 514 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 115 (4.52%) SAP
3 105 (4.13%) Oracle
4 69 (2.71%) Adobe
5 62 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 59 (2.32%) Salesforce
7 50 (1.96%) Google
8 26 (1.02%) HubSpot
9 22 (0.86%) Fortinet
10 21 (0.83%) Cisco
11 19 (0.75%) Pardot
11 19 (0.75%) SonicWALL
12 17 (0.67%) JD Edwards
13 16 (0.63%) Remedy
14 15 (0.59%) HP
15 14 (0.55%) Apple
15 14 (0.55%) Instagram
16 12 (0.47%) IBM
16 12 (0.47%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.47%) VMware