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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -30 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,820 3,076 5,336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.40% 6.24% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 7.01% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,433 1,614 2,486
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,153 £76,250 £71,200
90th Percentile £89,305 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -4.55%

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 85,804 43,854 61,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.92% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,130 24,461 33,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -30 2,532 £55,000 -8.33% 3,347
UK excluding London -32 1,867 £52,000 -5.45% 2,051
Work from Home -19 1,078 £50,000 -16.67% 1,318
London -32 820 £63,705 -8.99% 1,542
South East -17 516 £45,000 -23.09% 551
North of England -28 393 £55,000 +10.00% 448
Midlands -13 359 £52,500 - 305
South West -34 237 £55,000 - 216
North West +10 230 £53,500 +7.00% 241
West Midlands -26 204 £52,500 - 175
East of England -21 189 £53,000 - 213
East Midlands -1 155 £55,000 +13.40% 130
Yorkshire -39 111 £57,500 +15.00% 154
Scotland -45 73 £70,000 +18.14% 181
North East -66 52 £58,000 +71.85% 54
Northern Ireland -69 52 £70,000 +57.30% 114
Wales -47 49 £65,000 +8.33% 53

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
1 139 (4.93%) SharePoint
2 74 (2.62%) CMS
3 70 (2.48%) Confluence
4 27 (0.96%) Sitecore CMS
5 21 (0.74%) WordPress
6 16 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.43%) Headless CMS
9 9 (0.32%) IIS
10 8 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.28%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.18%) Moodle
11 5 (0.18%) MS Project Server
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.071%) Totara
15 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
15 1 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.035%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 292 (10.35%) Microsoft Project
2 288 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 283 (10.04%) Microsoft Office
4 95 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.89%) MS Visio
6 22 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.67%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.60%) EPLAN
8 17 (0.60%) Trello
9 15 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
10 8 (0.28%) Revit
11 3 (0.11%) Blender
11 3 (0.11%) Maya
11 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.071%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.071%) OrCAD
12 2 (0.071%) PTC Creo
12 2 (0.071%) Siemens NX
12 2 (0.071%) Solid Edge
12 2 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 78 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (1.52%) Primavera
3 34 (1.21%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
5 25 (0.89%) SAP EHS
6 9 (0.32%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.32%) Shopify
7 7 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 7 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.21%) iTrent
9 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.14%) Misys Midas
10 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.14%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 236 (8.37%) Azure
2 230 (8.16%) Power Platform
3 164 (5.82%) AWS
4 149 (5.28%) SaaS
5 126 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
7 71 (2.52%) PowerApps
8 65 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (1.99%) Smartsheet
10 51 (1.81%) Power Automate
11 49 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
12 34 (1.21%) GCP
13 31 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
14 27 (0.96%) LangSmith
15 26 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
16 23 (0.82%) Entra ID
16 23 (0.82%) Google Analytics
16 23 (0.82%) Serverless
17 20 (0.71%) Canva
18 18 (0.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (1.88%) Firewall
2 30 (1.06%) LAN
2 30 (1.06%) WAN
3 28 (0.99%) DNS
4 19 (0.67%) Profibus
4 19 (0.67%) VPN
5 16 (0.57%) DHCP
5 16 (0.57%) Network Security
6 14 (0.50%) BGP
6 14 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.43%) NGN
9 11 (0.39%) Intranet
9 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.39%) Wireless
10 9 (0.32%) Multicast
10 9 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
11 8 (0.28%) Internet
12 7 (0.25%) OSPF
12 7 (0.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.09%) Power BI
2 59 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.82%) Big Data
3 23 (0.82%) Metadata
4 22 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 21 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (0.74%) Tableau
6 19 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 19 (0.67%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.60%) MySQL
8 14 (0.50%) Hadoop
9 13 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.39%) Apache Hive
11 11 (0.39%) GIS
11 11 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.25%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 242 (8.58%) JIRA
2 23 (0.82%) Git
3 16 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
4 11 (0.39%) Claude Code
4 11 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (0.25%) GitLab
6 7 (0.25%) LabVIEW
7 5 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.18%) JUnit
8 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.11%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.11%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.11%) Selenium
9 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.11%) Taiga
9 3 (0.11%) TestNG
9 3 (0.11%) VersionOne
General
1 1,221 (43.30%) Social Skills
2 898 (31.84%) Finance
3 546 (19.36%) Analytical Skills
4 363 (12.87%) Organisational Skills
5 309 (10.96%) Marketing
6 209 (7.41%) Legal
7 188 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 178 (6.31%) Influencing Skills
9 172 (6.10%) Manufacturing
10 164 (5.82%) Public Sector
11 154 (5.46%) Retail
12 132 (4.68%) Law
13 119 (4.22%) Aerospace
14 103 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
15 83 (2.94%) Banking
15 83 (2.94%) Electronics
16 80 (2.84%) Telecoms
17 53 (1.88%) Local Government
18 47 (1.67%) Financial Institution
18 47 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 585 (20.74%) Project Manager
2 414 (14.68%) Senior
3 254 (9.01%) Lead
4 209 (7.41%) Senior Manager
5 201 (7.13%) Analyst
6 188 (6.67%) Consultant
7 178 (6.31%) IT Manager
8 144 (5.11%) Senior Project Manager
9 118 (4.18%) Business Analyst
10 109 (3.87%) IT Project Manager
11 77 (2.73%) Technical Manager
12 75 (2.66%) Development Manager
13 74 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
14 71 (2.52%) Coordinator
15 63 (2.23%) Architect
15 63 (2.23%) Product Manager
16 62 (2.20%) Senior Consultant
17 60 (2.13%) Developer
18 58 (2.06%) Marketing Manager
19 57 (2.02%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.70%) HTML
2 46 (1.63%) .NET
3 45 (1.60%) CSS
4 33 (1.17%) TensorFlow
5 30 (1.06%) PyTorch
6 27 (0.96%) LangChain
6 27 (0.96%) Langfuse
6 27 (0.96%) LlamaIndex
6 27 (0.96%) Model Context Protocol
7 25 (0.89%) Hugging Face
8 20 (0.71%) Flash
9 18 (0.64%) ASP.NET
10 17 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
10 17 (0.60%) jQuery
10 17 (0.60%) JSON
11 15 (0.53%) Terraform
12 14 (0.50%) Kafka
13 12 (0.43%) .NET Core
13 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
13 12 (0.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 291 (10.32%) Onboarding
2 227 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 195 (6.91%) Data Centre
4 133 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 132 (4.68%) Driving Licence
6 92 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 74 (2.62%) PMI
8 68 (2.41%) Social Media
9 66 (2.34%) Virtual Team
10 65 (2.30%) Blog
11 53 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.70%) Marketing Technology
13 46 (1.63%) Robotics
14 44 (1.56%) Cloud Native
15 38 (1.35%) AI Agents
16 37 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
17 36 (1.28%) e-Learning
17 36 (1.28%) FMCG
18 35 (1.24%) SCADA
19 32 (1.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 116 (4.11%) Windows
2 46 (1.63%) Linux
3 17 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.14%) VMS
6 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) AIX
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Debian
7 3 (0.11%) Unix
8 2 (0.071%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.071%) Solaris
9 1 (0.035%) CentOS
9 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (28.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 795 (28.19%) Agile
3 776 (27.52%) Project Delivery
4 773 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
5 646 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 510 (18.09%) PRINCE2
7 385 (13.65%) Decision-Making
8 333 (11.81%) AI
9 325 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 316 (11.21%) Roadmaps
11 289 (10.25%) Analytics
12 267 (9.47%) Risk Management
13 260 (9.22%) Mentoring
14 246 (8.72%) Budget Management
14 246 (8.72%) ERP
15 244 (8.65%) CRM
16 237 (8.40%) Coaching
17 232 (8.23%) Change Management
18 216 (7.66%) Service Delivery
19 215 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 179 (6.35%) SQL
2 160 (5.67%) Python
3 77 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 51 (1.81%) PowerShell
5 41 (1.45%) C#
6 39 (1.38%) Java
7 29 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 21 (0.74%) C
9 17 (0.60%) Ladder Logic
10 14 (0.50%) PHP
11 13 (0.46%) C++
12 9 (0.32%) Assembly Language
12 9 (0.32%) R
12 9 (0.32%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.21%) Ruby
13 6 (0.21%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.21%) VBA
14 5 (0.18%) Bash
14 5 (0.18%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.14%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 780 (27.66%) Degree
2 268 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 252 (8.94%) PMI Certification
4 220 (7.80%) PMP
5 147 (5.21%) SC Cleared
6 143 (5.07%) DBS Check
7 112 (3.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 78 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 78 (2.77%) HNC
9 69 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 69 (2.45%) HND
10 58 (2.06%) Master's Degree
11 53 (1.88%) Chartered Engineer
12 51 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 49 (1.74%) CISSP
14 39 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
15 36 (1.28%) CISM
16 35 (1.24%) ACCA
17 29 (1.03%) CIMA
18 27 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (7.09%) PMO
2 167 (5.92%) QA
3 97 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 96 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 86 (3.05%) Accessibility
6 78 (2.77%) GDPR
7 57 (2.02%) NIST
7 57 (2.02%) SLA
8 36 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 28 (0.99%) ISO 9001
10 27 (0.96%) GRC
11 20 (0.71%) GMP
12 17 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 17 (0.60%) ISO 14000
13 16 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 13 (0.46%) IEC 61131
14 13 (0.46%) ISO 14001
14 13 (0.46%) NIST 800
15 11 (0.39%) IFRS
16 10 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 33 (1.17%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.57%) Docker
4 11 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.35%) Firmware
5 10 (0.35%) vSphere
6 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.071%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.035%) IAG
9 1 (0.035%) NFS
9 1 (0.035%) Samba
9 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) XenApp
9 1 (0.035%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (0.89%) SCCM
2 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (0.57%) Puppet
3 15 (0.53%) Kubernetes
4 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
5 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.25%) Ansible
6 7 (0.25%) Functional Safety
7 6 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.18%) EnCase
8 5 (0.18%) FTK
9 4 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.071%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.071%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.035%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.035%) Grafana
11 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.035%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.035%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 568 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 175 (6.21%) SAP
3 117 (4.15%) Oracle
4 73 (2.59%) Google
5 71 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 70 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 62 (2.20%) Adobe
8 48 (1.70%) HubSpot
9 39 (1.38%) Siemens
10 36 (1.28%) Sage
11 33 (1.17%) Cisco
12 31 (1.10%) Fortinet
13 28 (0.99%) Sitecore
13 28 (0.99%) VMware
14 21 (0.74%) NEC
14 21 (0.74%) SonicWALL
15 20 (0.71%) Remedy
16 15 (0.53%) Intapp
17 13 (0.46%) Aderant
17 13 (0.46%) Databricks