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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -39 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,640 4,073 7,040
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.41% 9.94% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 10.64% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,548 2,074 5,125
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,313 £73,750 £67,728
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 26 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 26 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 -44 2,214 £55,000 -4.49% 1,263
UK excluding London -46 1,743 £47,500 -13.64% 1,056
Work from Home -22 781 £57,500 -4.17% 423
London -23 681 £70,000 - 403
North of England -36 541 £42,500 -22.73% 233
South East -41 407 £52,000 -9.57% 313
Midlands -58 257 £48,750 -9.72% 175
North West -37 248 £42,750 -19.66% 119
West Midlands -43 191 £46,250 -15.91% 98
Yorkshire -29 184 £40,000 -33.33% 85
South West -37 179 £45,000 -18.18% 104
Scotland -12 137 £40,000 -28.89% 53
East of England -47 118 £55,000 +4.76% 137
North East -12 109 £40,000 -32.20% 31
Northern Ireland -11 72 £47,500 - 24
East Midlands -78 64 £52,500 +10.53% 76
Wales -42 39 £42,934 -20.19% 49

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
1 146 (5.53%) SharePoint
2 46 (1.74%) CMS
2 46 (1.74%) Confluence
3 35 (1.33%) WordPress
4 20 (0.76%) ArcGIS
5 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.15%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.11%) Apache
9 3 (0.11%) govService
9 3 (0.11%) SAS
9 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.076%) Drupal
10 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.038%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.038%) IIS
11 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
Applications
1 418 (15.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (5.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 120 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (0.61%) Trello
7 15 (0.57%) MS Visio
8 14 (0.53%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.38%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.23%) Maya
13 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
13 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
14 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.076%) Elementor
14 2 (0.076%) Notion
14 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 42 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.64%) SAP MDG
5 16 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
6 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
7 11 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
8 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.23%) Primavera
10 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 235 (8.90%) Azure
2 217 (8.22%) Power Platform
3 163 (6.17%) SaaS
4 159 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (3.94%) AWS
6 54 (2.05%) PowerApps
7 45 (1.70%) Asana
8 34 (1.29%) GCP
9 33 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.10%) Power Automate
11 28 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (0.95%) Smartsheet
13 22 (0.83%) Google Analytics
14 20 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (0.76%) OneDrive
15 19 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (0.64%) Canva
16 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (0.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.86%) Broadband
2 47 (1.78%) Firewall
3 40 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (0.98%) WAN
5 25 (0.95%) CHAP
6 23 (0.87%) DNS
7 22 (0.83%) Internet
8 20 (0.76%) DHCP
9 19 (0.72%) LAN
9 19 (0.72%) Network Security
9 19 (0.72%) TCP/IP
10 18 (0.68%) VPN
11 17 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
12 16 (0.61%) Wireless
13 13 (0.49%) VLAN
14 12 (0.45%) Intranet
15 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.38%) Multicast
17 8 (0.30%) VoIP
18 5 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.42%) Tableau
2 181 (6.86%) Power BI
3 171 (6.48%) Data Mining
4 34 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 24 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.83%) GIS
7 20 (0.76%) QGIS
7 20 (0.76%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 18 (0.68%) Power Query
10 13 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
11 12 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.34%) DB2
12 9 (0.34%) Metadata
13 7 (0.27%) Big Data
13 7 (0.27%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 110 (4.17%) JIRA
2 16 (0.61%) Git
3 12 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.27%) GitLab
5 3 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.076%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.076%) ESLint
6 2 (0.076%) Gradle
6 2 (0.076%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.076%) JMeter
6 2 (0.076%) JUnit
6 2 (0.076%) Maven
6 2 (0.076%) Mockito
6 2 (0.076%) Selenium
6 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.076%) TestNG
6 2 (0.076%) Zephyr
General
1 1,118 (42.35%) Social Skills
2 1,030 (39.02%) Finance
3 668 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (10.95%) Marketing
5 212 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
6 192 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 166 (6.29%) Manufacturing
8 161 (6.10%) Legal
9 137 (5.19%) Retail
10 133 (5.04%) Public Sector
11 123 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
12 121 (4.58%) Law
13 114 (4.32%) Banking
14 71 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
15 68 (2.58%) Games
16 57 (2.16%) Telecoms
17 53 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.82%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.44%) Local Government
20 37 (1.40%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 477 (18.07%) Analyst
2 396 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 360 (13.64%) Senior
4 277 (10.49%) Trainee
5 269 (10.19%) Trainee Analyst
6 222 (8.41%) Senior Manager
7 212 (8.03%) Business Analyst
8 185 (7.01%) Lead
9 177 (6.70%) Data Analyst
10 162 (6.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 158 (5.98%) IT Manager
12 121 (4.58%) Consultant
13 117 (4.43%) Development Manager
14 107 (4.05%) Trainee Business Analyst
15 97 (3.67%) Senior Project Manager
16 89 (3.37%) Product Manager
17 87 (3.30%) Architect
18 78 (2.95%) Systems Manager
19 76 (2.88%) IT Project Manager
20 75 (2.84%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.02%) .NET
2 26 (0.98%) HTML
3 24 (0.91%) EDI
4 23 (0.87%) PyTorch
5 18 (0.68%) CSS
6 10 (0.38%) React
7 9 (0.34%) Middleware
8 8 (0.30%) .NET Core
8 8 (0.30%) JSON
8 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.30%) REST
9 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.27%) OAuth
10 6 (0.23%) HTML5 Canvas
10 6 (0.23%) SPFx
11 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.19%) OpenID
11 5 (0.19%) SAML
12 4 (0.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 204 (7.73%) Management Information System
2 113 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 110 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 69 (2.61%) Driving Licence
6 66 (2.50%) Social Media
7 63 (2.39%) FMCG
8 56 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 48 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 40 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 37 (1.40%) Robotics
12 33 (1.25%) Blog
13 30 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.06%) IoT
14 28 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
14 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 26 (0.98%) Security Posture
16 21 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.77%) Windows
2 31 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.98%) Android
4 23 (0.87%) Linux
5 18 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.076%) AIX
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.076%) VMS
8 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
9 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (24.02%) Agile
2 627 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
3 541 (20.49%) Project Delivery
4 534 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 465 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 457 (17.31%) Analytics
7 400 (15.15%) Decision-Making
8 384 (14.55%) Business Analysis
9 371 (14.05%) PRINCE2
10 351 (13.30%) Change Management
11 343 (12.99%) AI
12 321 (12.16%) Data Analysis
13 274 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 264 (10.00%) Risk Management
15 255 (9.66%) Coaching
16 239 (9.05%) Data Analytics
17 223 (8.45%) Roadmaps
18 222 (8.41%) Process Improvement
19 208 (7.88%) Mentoring
20 205 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 295 (11.17%) SQL
2 292 (11.06%) Python
3 39 (1.48%) C#
4 35 (1.33%) VBA
5 24 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 20 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 17 (0.64%) Java
7 17 (0.64%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.49%) C++
9 11 (0.42%) C
9 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.23%) Bash
10 6 (0.23%) PHP
10 6 (0.23%) R
11 4 (0.15%) COBOL
12 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
12 3 (0.11%) VB
13 2 (0.076%) Ada
13 2 (0.076%) Scala
13 2 (0.076%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 689 (26.10%) Degree
2 237 (8.98%) PMP
3 222 (8.41%) PMI Certification
4 138 (5.23%) Security Cleared
5 95 (3.60%) SC Cleared
6 86 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 73 (2.77%) CISSP
8 67 (2.54%) DBS Check
9 64 (2.42%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
10 53 (2.01%) CISM
11 36 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.29%) HNC
13 30 (1.14%) CISA
13 30 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.14%) SANS
14 27 (1.02%) MBA
15 26 (0.98%) ACCA
15 26 (0.98%) FFIEC
16 25 (0.95%) CGEIT
17 23 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (7.88%) QA
2 122 (4.62%) PMO
3 107 (4.05%) GDPR
4 95 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 68 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.35%) NIST
7 37 (1.40%) Data Quality
8 30 (1.14%) GRC
9 27 (1.02%) ISO 9001
10 26 (0.98%) COBIT
11 20 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.45%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.45%) SLA
16 10 (0.38%) GAAP
16 10 (0.38%) IFRS
17 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
18 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 64 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.98%) Docker
3 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
6 3 (0.11%) vSphere
7 2 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.57%) Ansible
4 12 (0.45%) Terraform
5 11 (0.42%) Grafana
5 11 (0.42%) SCCM
6 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.076%) Argo
8 2 (0.076%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.076%) Puppet
8 2 (0.076%) Salt
9 1 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 644 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 128 (4.85%) SAP
3 74 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 67 (2.54%) Oracle
5 64 (2.42%) Google
6 54 (2.05%) Adobe
7 46 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 32 (1.21%) Cisco
9 28 (1.06%) Anaplan
10 25 (0.95%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 19 (0.72%) Ariba
13 17 (0.64%) Pardot
14 16 (0.61%) Palo Alto
15 15 (0.57%) Apple
15 15 (0.57%) Fortinet
15 15 (0.57%) Instagram
16 14 (0.53%) Databricks
16 14 (0.53%) VMware