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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -36 -5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,480 3,416 7,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.58% 7.39% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 8.06% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,448 1,737 5,291
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £84,250
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 70,466 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,630 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 2,164 £55,000 -8.33% 1,008
UK excluding London -36 1,595 £52,500 -4.55% 871
Work from Home -10 1,002 £55,000 -4.35% 362
London -31 717 £69,500 -2.11% 324
North of England -8 462 £55,000 +0.38% 188
South East -24 410 £48,885 -12.38% 283
Midlands -51 229 £55,000 +1.85% 136
North West +4 212 £55,000 +6.28% 109
South West -42 175 £47,500 -20.17% 83
Yorkshire -27 153 £60,000 +9.09% 63
East of England -37 148 £60,000 +9.09% 107
West Midlands -47 144 £55,000 - 85
North East -26 97 £60,000 +17.65% 18
East Midlands -33 84 £53,750 +13.16% 50
Northern Ireland -10 71 £47,500 -17.39% 38
Scotland -44 63 £43,750 -13.27% 34
Wales -52 41 £55,008 -14.05% 25

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 91 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 54 (2.18%) Confluence
3 39 (1.57%) CMS
4 33 (1.33%) WordPress
5 20 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.32%) WebLogic
6 8 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.16%) Moodle
10 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.081%) govService
11 2 (0.081%) Totara
12 1 (0.040%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.040%) Drupal
12 1 (0.040%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 233 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (8.67%) Microsoft Project
3 176 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
4 53 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.65%) Trello
7 9 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 8 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
12 3 (0.12%) Blender
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.081%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
14 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
14 1 (0.040%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 41 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 15 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
4 15 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 11 (0.44%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.36%) Shopify
8 8 (0.32%) Primavera
8 8 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.24%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 238 (9.60%) Azure
2 221 (8.91%) Power Platform
3 149 (6.01%) SaaS
4 131 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 124 (5.00%) AWS
6 82 (3.31%) PowerApps
7 62 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 45 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 33 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (1.33%) Smartsheet
11 32 (1.29%) Asana
12 30 (1.21%) GCP
13 29 (1.17%) OneDrive
14 27 (1.09%) Entra ID
15 24 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (0.97%) Canva
16 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.73%) Broadband
2 41 (1.65%) Firewall
3 28 (1.13%) WAN
4 27 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (0.97%) LAN
6 19 (0.77%) CHAP
7 18 (0.73%) DNS
8 14 (0.56%) DHCP
8 14 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
9 13 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.48%) Network Security
10 12 (0.48%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.36%) NGN
11 9 (0.36%) VPN
11 9 (0.36%) Wireless
12 8 (0.32%) BGP
12 8 (0.32%) Multicast
13 7 (0.28%) Internet
13 7 (0.28%) VoIP
14 6 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (7.22%) Power BI
2 84 (3.39%) Tableau
3 72 (2.90%) Data Mining
4 38 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.13%) GIS
6 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (0.81%) QGIS
8 20 (0.81%) Spatial Data
9 18 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.44%) Power Query
11 10 (0.40%) Metadata
11 10 (0.40%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.36%) Db2
12 9 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.32%) Big Data
13 8 (0.32%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 156 (6.29%) JIRA
2 24 (0.97%) Git
3 11 (0.44%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.16%) GitLab
5 4 (0.16%) JUnit
6 3 (0.12%) Storybook
7 2 (0.081%) Gatling
7 2 (0.081%) JMeter
7 2 (0.081%) Pa11y
7 2 (0.081%) Postman
7 2 (0.081%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.081%) Selenium
7 2 (0.081%) TestNG
7 2 (0.081%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.081%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.040%) Checkstyle
8 1 (0.040%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.040%) Maven
General
1 1,029 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 809 (32.62%) Finance
3 465 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (10.93%) Marketing
5 231 (9.31%) Organisational Skills
6 151 (6.09%) Retail
7 144 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 143 (5.77%) Manufacturing
9 138 (5.56%) Legal
10 125 (5.04%) Public Sector
11 106 (4.27%) Law
12 97 (3.91%) Banking
13 71 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (2.46%) Local Government
15 59 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
16 58 (2.34%) Telecoms
17 47 (1.90%) Advertising
17 47 (1.90%) Financial Institution
18 42 (1.69%) Aerospace
18 42 (1.69%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 511 (20.60%) Project Manager
2 354 (14.27%) Senior
3 289 (11.65%) Analyst
4 185 (7.46%) Lead
4 185 (7.46%) Senior Manager
5 179 (7.22%) IT Manager
6 164 (6.61%) Consultant
7 153 (6.17%) Senior Project Manager
8 139 (5.60%) Business Analyst
9 127 (5.12%) Development Manager
10 104 (4.19%) IT Project Manager
11 79 (3.19%) Data Analyst
12 78 (3.15%) Product Manager
12 78 (3.15%) Trainee
12 78 (3.15%) Trainee Analyst
13 68 (2.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 64 (2.58%) IT Support
15 59 (2.38%) Developer
16 58 (2.34%) Security Manager
17 57 (2.30%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.73%) .NET
1 43 (1.73%) HTML
1 43 (1.73%) PyTorch
2 38 (1.53%) CSS
3 24 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
3 24 (0.97%) JSON
4 23 (0.93%) Hugging Face
4 23 (0.93%) TensorFlow
5 21 (0.85%) .NET Core
5 21 (0.85%) Flash
6 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (0.77%) SPFx
7 18 (0.73%) EDI
8 15 (0.60%) Middleware
9 14 (0.56%) LangChain
9 14 (0.56%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (0.56%) Model Context Protocol
10 12 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (0.36%) Node.js
12 8 (0.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 174 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 149 (6.01%) Onboarding
3 108 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 84 (3.39%) Driving Licence
5 81 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.26%) Social Media
7 53 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (2.06%) FMCG
9 46 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 44 (1.77%) Security Posture
11 35 (1.41%) Cloud Native
12 34 (1.37%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 31 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
15 29 (1.17%) Algorithms
16 28 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 28 (1.13%) PMI
17 27 (1.09%) Web Conferencing
18 25 (1.01%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 87 (3.51%) Windows
2 33 (1.33%) Linux
3 28 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.93%) Android
5 19 (0.77%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.24%) Unix
8 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.081%) zOS
11 1 (0.040%) CentOS
11 1 (0.040%) Debian
11 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (29.15%) Agile
2 623 (25.12%) Project Delivery
3 541 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
4 524 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 475 (19.15%) PRINCE2
6 400 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 343 (13.83%) Decision-Making
8 301 (12.14%) Analytics
9 273 (11.01%) Mentoring
10 264 (10.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 261 (10.52%) AI
12 260 (10.48%) Roadmaps
13 234 (9.44%) Coaching
13 234 (9.44%) Risk Management
14 222 (8.95%) Change Management
15 219 (8.83%) Business Analysis
16 216 (8.71%) Logistics
17 210 (8.47%) Budget Management
18 198 (7.98%) ERP
19 185 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 227 (9.15%) SQL
2 212 (8.55%) Python
3 49 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 48 (1.94%) C#
5 33 (1.33%) PowerShell
5 33 (1.33%) TypeScript
6 28 (1.13%) VBA
7 17 (0.69%) Java
8 9 (0.36%) C
9 8 (0.32%) PHP
10 7 (0.28%) C++
11 5 (0.20%) Bash
12 4 (0.16%) ABAP
12 4 (0.16%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) COBOL
13 3 (0.12%) Dart
13 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.081%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 576 (23.23%) Degree
2 215 (8.67%) PMP
3 214 (8.63%) PMI Certification
4 133 (5.36%) DBS Check
5 127 (5.12%) Security Cleared
6 99 (3.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 85 (3.43%) CISSP
8 61 (2.46%) SC Cleared
9 60 (2.42%) CISM
10 55 (2.22%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 39 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 29 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.13%) CRISC
15 26 (1.05%) CISA
16 24 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
16 24 (0.97%) HNC
16 24 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (0.97%) SANS
17 20 (0.81%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (7.78%) QA
2 160 (6.45%) PMO
3 112 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 104 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (3.63%) NIST
6 86 (3.47%) GDPR
7 42 (1.69%) GRC
8 41 (1.65%) ISO 9001
9 39 (1.57%) Data Quality
10 33 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 33 (1.33%) SLA
11 24 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.93%) COBIT
12 23 (0.93%) NIST 800
13 18 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 16 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 13 (0.52%) GAAP
16 11 (0.44%) IFRS
17 10 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 44 (1.77%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.81%) Docker
3 8 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.081%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.081%) Firmware
6 2 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.081%) vSphere
7 1 (0.040%) IAG
7 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 22 (0.89%) SCCM
2 21 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.48%) Ansible
4 11 (0.44%) Terraform
5 10 (0.40%) Grafana
6 8 (0.32%) Puppet
7 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.081%) Argo
10 2 (0.081%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.081%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.081%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.081%) Salt
11 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.040%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.040%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 497 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 100 (4.03%) Oracle
3 99 (3.99%) SAP
4 68 (2.74%) Adobe
5 59 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 58 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 53 (2.14%) Google
8 27 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.81%) Cisco
9 20 (0.81%) Pardot
10 17 (0.69%) Fortinet
10 17 (0.69%) JD Edwards
11 15 (0.60%) SonicWALL
12 14 (0.56%) Apple
12 14 (0.56%) Remedy
13 13 (0.52%) Instagram
14 11 (0.44%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.44%) Sage
14 11 (0.44%) VMware
14 11 (0.44%) Wrike