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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 28 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,599 3,282 5,642
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.36% 6.55% 6.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 7.38% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,415 1,778 3,181
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,105
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £69,914
90th Percentile £92,000 £92,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -5.45%

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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -31 2,339 £55,000 -8.33% 1,780
UK excluding London -41 1,656 £52,000 -5.45% 1,219
Work from Home -15 1,058 £51,500 -10.43% 775
London -30 829 £65,000 -7.14% 825
South East -25 452 £45,000 -21.74% 369
North of England -32 383 £55,000 +7.58% 261
Midlands -37 267 £55,000 +1.85% 183
North West -8 210 £53,500 +4.90% 147
South West -43 206 £52,500 -6.20% 191
East of England -21 185 £55,000 - 122
West Midlands -51 145 £54,500 -0.91% 108
East Midlands -13 121 £55,000 +4.76% 75
Yorkshire -46 116 £60,000 +9.09% 80
Scotland -52 65 £70,000 +16.67% 63
Northern Ireland -58 58 £47,500 -5.00% 21
North East -58 57 £58,000 +45.00% 38
Wales -64 41 £55,000 -8.33% 34

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
1 131 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 69 (2.65%) Confluence
3 64 (2.46%) CMS
4 27 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
5 18 (0.69%) WordPress
6 14 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.38%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.35%) IIS
9 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pig
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.15%) MS Project Server
13 3 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.077%) Totara
15 1 (0.038%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 248 (9.54%) Microsoft Project
2 244 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 227 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
4 72 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.81%) Trello
6 20 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.31%) EPLAN
10 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.15%) Photoshop
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.12%) Blender
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
12 3 (0.12%) Revit
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.077%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.077%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.038%) Houdini
14 1 (0.038%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 78 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 25 (0.96%) NetSuite
4 23 (0.88%) Primavera
5 11 (0.42%) Shopify
6 9 (0.35%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.23%) iTrent
9 5 (0.19%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.19%) SAP EHS
9 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.15%) Misys Midas
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 240 (9.23%) Azure
2 222 (8.54%) Power Platform
3 162 (6.23%) AWS
4 141 (5.43%) SaaS
5 128 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.12%) PowerApps
7 76 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
8 59 (2.27%) Power Automate
9 52 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (1.42%) Smartsheet
11 35 (1.35%) GCP
12 26 (1.00%) Entra ID
13 23 (0.88%) LangSmith
14 22 (0.85%) OneDrive
14 22 (0.85%) Serverless
15 20 (0.77%) Asana
15 20 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
15 20 (0.77%) IaaS
15 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.12%) Firewall
2 28 (1.08%) LAN
2 28 (1.08%) WAN
3 24 (0.92%) DNS
4 21 (0.81%) VPN
5 19 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (0.62%) Broadband
6 16 (0.62%) Network Security
7 15 (0.58%) NGN
8 13 (0.50%) BGP
8 13 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.46%) DHCP
9 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.42%) Intranet
11 10 (0.38%) Profibus
11 10 (0.38%) Wireless
12 9 (0.35%) Internet
12 9 (0.35%) Multicast
13 8 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
14 7 (0.27%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (7.50%) Power BI
2 57 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 35 (1.35%) Tableau
4 21 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 20 (0.77%) Big Data
6 19 (0.73%) Data Mining
7 18 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.65%) Metadata
8 17 (0.65%) MySQL
9 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 13 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (0.42%) Apache Hive
11 11 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.35%) Power Query
13 8 (0.31%) GIS
13 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 220 (8.46%) JIRA
2 25 (0.96%) Git
3 12 (0.46%) Visual Studio
4 11 (0.42%) Claude Code
5 9 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.19%) GitLab
7 5 (0.19%) JUnit
8 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.15%) LabVIEW
9 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.12%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.12%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.12%) Selenium
9 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.12%) TestNG
General
1 1,123 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 819 (31.51%) Finance
3 524 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 292 (11.24%) Organisational Skills
5 281 (10.81%) Marketing
6 156 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 155 (5.96%) Legal
8 152 (5.85%) Retail
9 139 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
10 136 (5.23%) Manufacturing
11 135 (5.19%) Public Sector
12 104 (4.00%) Law
13 90 (3.46%) Banking
14 89 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
15 80 (3.08%) Aerospace
16 69 (2.65%) Telecoms
17 51 (1.96%) Electronics
18 50 (1.92%) Local Government
19 42 (1.62%) Financial Institution
19 42 (1.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 546 (21.01%) Project Manager
2 385 (14.81%) Senior
3 217 (8.35%) Analyst
4 204 (7.85%) Lead
5 192 (7.39%) Senior Manager
6 178 (6.85%) IT Manager
7 174 (6.69%) Consultant
8 138 (5.31%) Senior Project Manager
9 125 (4.81%) Business Analyst
10 107 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
11 78 (3.00%) Development Manager
12 68 (2.62%) Technical Manager
13 65 (2.50%) Developer
14 63 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
15 61 (2.35%) Senior Consultant
16 60 (2.31%) Product Manager
17 59 (2.27%) Architect
17 59 (2.27%) Coordinator
18 51 (1.96%) IT Support
19 50 (1.92%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (2.04%) HTML
2 51 (1.96%) CSS
3 50 (1.92%) .NET
4 29 (1.12%) TensorFlow
5 26 (1.00%) PyTorch
6 24 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
6 24 (0.92%) JSON
7 23 (0.88%) Hugging Face
7 23 (0.88%) LangChain
7 23 (0.88%) Langfuse
7 23 (0.88%) LlamaIndex
7 23 (0.88%) Model Context Protocol
8 21 (0.81%) Flash
9 19 (0.73%) .NET Core
9 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.73%) SPFx
10 16 (0.62%) Kafka
11 14 (0.54%) ASP.NET
12 13 (0.50%) jQuery
13 12 (0.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 247 (9.50%) Onboarding
2 173 (6.66%) Data Centre
3 172 (6.62%) Management Information System
4 113 (4.35%) Driving Licence
5 110 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 88 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 72 (2.77%) Virtual Team
8 64 (2.46%) Blog
9 53 (2.04%) Social Media
10 52 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 47 (1.81%) PMI
12 42 (1.62%) Cloud Native
13 41 (1.58%) Marketing Technology
14 37 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
15 36 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
15 36 (1.39%) FMCG
16 35 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (1.31%) AI Agents
18 33 (1.27%) Security Posture
19 32 (1.23%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 121 (4.66%) Windows
2 50 (1.92%) Linux
3 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.15%) Unix
6 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.12%) Android
7 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.12%) Debian
7 3 (0.12%) VMS
8 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.077%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.077%) zOS
9 1 (0.038%) AIX
9 1 (0.038%) CentOS
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 730 (28.09%) Agile
2 700 (26.93%) Project Delivery
3 688 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 682 (26.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 540 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 475 (18.28%) PRINCE2
7 330 (12.70%) Decision-Making
8 301 (11.58%) Roadmaps
9 282 (10.85%) AI
10 267 (10.27%) Analytics
11 266 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 264 (10.16%) Mentoring
13 252 (9.70%) Risk Management
14 235 (9.04%) Budget Management
15 222 (8.54%) Coaching
16 215 (8.27%) Change Management
16 215 (8.27%) ERP
17 214 (8.23%) CRM
18 203 (7.81%) Service Delivery
19 202 (7.77%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 197 (7.58%) SQL
2 167 (6.43%) Python
3 70 (2.69%) JavaScript
4 50 (1.92%) C#
5 46 (1.77%) PowerShell
6 37 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.08%) Java
8 18 (0.69%) C
9 14 (0.54%) PHP
10 11 (0.42%) C++
10 11 (0.42%) Ladder Logic
11 9 (0.35%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.27%) Assembly Language
13 6 (0.23%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.23%) Ruby
13 6 (0.23%) VBA
14 5 (0.19%) Bash
14 5 (0.19%) R
15 4 (0.15%) ABAP
15 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 681 (26.20%) Degree
2 225 (8.66%) PMI Certification
3 216 (8.31%) PMP
4 197 (7.58%) Security Cleared
5 143 (5.50%) DBS Check
6 106 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 93 (3.58%) SC Cleared
8 70 (2.69%) DV Cleared
9 59 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 59 (2.27%) CISSP
10 48 (1.85%) HNC
11 47 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 47 (1.81%) Master's Degree
12 43 (1.65%) CISM
13 42 (1.62%) HND
14 36 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
14 36 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (1.00%) CRISC
16 24 (0.92%) ACCA
17 22 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (6.93%) PMO
2 173 (6.66%) QA
3 102 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (3.31%) Accessibility
5 74 (2.85%) GDPR
6 72 (2.77%) Data Quality
7 63 (2.42%) NIST
8 53 (2.04%) SLA
9 39 (1.50%) ISO 9001
10 38 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 38 (1.46%) GRC
11 25 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 22 (0.85%) GMP
13 18 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 16 (0.62%) NIST 800
16 15 (0.58%) IFRS
17 10 (0.38%) COBIT
17 10 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.65%) Docker
3 13 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.23%) Firmware
6 6 (0.23%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.077%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) IAG
9 1 (0.038%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Samba
9 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (1.08%) SCCM
2 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.69%) Puppet
4 14 (0.54%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.35%) Ansible
6 9 (0.35%) Grafana
7 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.077%) Argo
11 2 (0.077%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.077%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.077%) Salt
11 2 (0.077%) ServiceCenter
11 2 (0.077%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.038%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.038%) SCOM
Vendors
1 517 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 156 (6.00%) SAP
3 118 (4.54%) Oracle
4 69 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.42%) Adobe
6 62 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.19%) Google
8 35 (1.35%) HubSpot
9 32 (1.23%) Fortinet
10 31 (1.19%) Cisco
11 28 (1.08%) Sitecore
12 23 (0.88%) Sage
13 21 (0.81%) SonicWALL
14 20 (0.77%) VMware
15 18 (0.69%) NEC
15 18 (0.69%) Siemens
16 17 (0.65%) Remedy
17 15 (0.58%) Apple
17 15 (0.58%) Bloomberg
17 15 (0.58%) HP