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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 34 21
Rank change year-on-year -27 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,869 3,044 5,218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.43% 6.13% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 6.88% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,449 1,605 2,387
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,889 £92,500 £89,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,865 £53,000 £53,046
% change year-on-year -2.14% -0.09% -3.60%

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 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -26 2,575 £55,000 -4.57% 4,287
UK excluding London -33 1,900 £51,865 -2.14% 2,496
Work from Home -15 1,075 £50,000 -16.67% 1,605
London -34 839 £62,955 -10.07% 2,089
South East -20 516 £45,000 -25.00% 697
North of England -26 389 £55,000 +11.68% 535
Midlands -7 373 £52,500 - 385
South West -36 244 £55,000 - 257
North West +10 234 £53,500 +7.00% 290
West Midlands -24 203 £51,250 -2.38% 228
East of England -21 197 £52,500 +0.96% 275
East Midlands +9 170 £52,500 +6.31% 157
Yorkshire -40 105 £56,250 +14.21% 190
Scotland -34 80 £70,000 +21.74% 198
Northern Ireland -64 52 £70,000 +122.22% 120
Wales -54 50 £65,000 +8.33% 72
North East -75 50 £58,000 +78.46% 56

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 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 73 (2.54%) CMS
3 68 (2.37%) Confluence
4 27 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
5 21 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.73%) WordPress
6 16 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.31%) IIS
9 8 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.21%) Moodle
11 5 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.17%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.17%) MS Project Server
12 3 (0.10%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.070%) PowerFactory
13 2 (0.070%) Totara
14 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
14 1 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 297 (10.35%) Microsoft Office
2 296 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 289 (10.07%) Microsoft Project
4 100 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.87%) EPLAN
6 24 (0.84%) MS Visio
7 21 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 21 (0.73%) AutoCAD
8 17 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 17 (0.59%) Trello
9 10 (0.35%) Revit
10 3 (0.10%) Blender
10 3 (0.10%) Maya
10 3 (0.10%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.070%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.070%) Navisworks
11 2 (0.070%) PTC Creo
11 2 (0.070%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.070%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 80 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (1.46%) Primavera
3 36 (1.25%) NetSuite
4 27 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
5 25 (0.87%) SAP EHS
6 10 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
7 9 (0.31%) Fidessa
8 8 (0.28%) Infor M3
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
9 7 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 7 (0.24%) Shopify
10 6 (0.21%) iTrent
11 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
11 5 (0.17%) Sage 200
11 5 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
12 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.14%) Misys Midas
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 244 (8.50%) Azure
2 228 (7.95%) Power Platform
3 173 (6.03%) AWS
4 158 (5.51%) SaaS
5 135 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
6 84 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
7 72 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (2.37%) PowerApps
9 55 (1.92%) Smartsheet
10 50 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 47 (1.64%) Power Automate
12 36 (1.25%) GCP
13 34 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
14 29 (1.01%) LangSmith
15 28 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
16 26 (0.91%) Entra ID
17 25 (0.87%) Serverless
18 24 (0.84%) Google Analytics
19 20 (0.70%) IaaS
20 18 (0.63%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.92%) Firewall
2 32 (1.12%) WAN
3 31 (1.08%) DNS
3 31 (1.08%) LAN
4 26 (0.91%) Profibus
5 20 (0.70%) VPN
6 18 (0.63%) DHCP
7 16 (0.56%) Network Security
8 15 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.49%) BGP
10 13 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.45%) Wireless
11 12 (0.42%) Intranet
11 12 (0.42%) NGN
12 11 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
13 9 (0.31%) Modbus
13 9 (0.31%) Multicast
14 8 (0.28%) Internet
15 7 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (6.73%) Power BI
2 62 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 24 (0.84%) Metadata
4 23 (0.80%) Big Data
4 23 (0.80%) Relational Database
5 21 (0.73%) NoSQL
6 19 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (0.63%) MySQL
8 17 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.56%) Tableau
10 14 (0.49%) Hadoop
11 13 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (0.38%) Apache Hive
12 11 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.24%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.24%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.24%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 245 (8.54%) JIRA
2 19 (0.66%) Git
3 17 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
4 11 (0.38%) Claude Code
4 11 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.31%) LabVIEW
5 9 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (0.24%) GitLab
7 5 (0.17%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.17%) JUnit
8 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.10%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.10%) Selenium
9 3 (0.10%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.10%) Taiga
9 3 (0.10%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.10%) TestNG
9 3 (0.10%) VersionOne
General
1 1,227 (42.77%) Social Skills
2 925 (32.24%) Finance
3 546 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 373 (13.00%) Organisational Skills
5 305 (10.63%) Marketing
6 208 (7.25%) Legal
7 198 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 188 (6.55%) Manufacturing
9 180 (6.27%) Influencing Skills
10 170 (5.93%) Public Sector
11 157 (5.47%) Retail
12 137 (4.78%) Law
13 126 (4.39%) Aerospace
14 108 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
15 96 (3.35%) Electronics
16 87 (3.03%) Banking
17 84 (2.93%) Telecoms
18 54 (1.88%) Local Government
19 50 (1.74%) Financial Institution
20 49 (1.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 597 (20.81%) Project Manager
2 425 (14.81%) Senior
3 257 (8.96%) Lead
4 214 (7.46%) Senior Manager
5 194 (6.76%) Analyst
6 185 (6.45%) Consultant
7 181 (6.31%) IT Manager
8 145 (5.05%) Senior Project Manager
9 112 (3.90%) Business Analyst
10 111 (3.87%) IT Project Manager
11 79 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
11 79 (2.75%) Technical Manager
12 74 (2.58%) Coordinator
13 69 (2.41%) Development Manager
14 62 (2.16%) Architect
14 62 (2.16%) Marketing Manager
14 62 (2.16%) Product Manager
14 62 (2.16%) Senior Consultant
15 61 (2.13%) Developer
16 60 (2.09%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (1.74%) .NET
2 49 (1.71%) HTML
3 47 (1.64%) CSS
4 33 (1.15%) TensorFlow
5 30 (1.05%) PyTorch
6 29 (1.01%) LangChain
6 29 (1.01%) Langfuse
6 29 (1.01%) LlamaIndex
6 29 (1.01%) Model Context Protocol
7 25 (0.87%) Hugging Face
8 21 (0.73%) Flash
9 19 (0.66%) ASP.NET
10 18 (0.63%) jQuery
11 17 (0.59%) Terraform
12 15 (0.52%) HTML5 Canvas
12 15 (0.52%) JSON
13 14 (0.49%) Kafka
14 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
14 12 (0.42%) Node.js
14 12 (0.42%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 312 (10.87%) Onboarding
2 242 (8.43%) Management Information System
3 205 (7.15%) Data Centre
4 138 (4.81%) Driving Licence
5 134 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
6 90 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 75 (2.61%) PMI
8 68 (2.37%) Virtual Team
9 66 (2.30%) Social Media
10 63 (2.20%) Blog
11 56 (1.95%) Robotics
12 55 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
13 48 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
14 46 (1.60%) Cloud Native
14 46 (1.60%) SCADA
15 42 (1.46%) AI Agents
16 39 (1.36%) e-Learning
17 36 (1.25%) FMCG
18 34 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
19 32 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 119 (4.15%) Windows
2 47 (1.64%) Linux
3 20 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.14%) VMS
6 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.10%) AIX
7 3 (0.10%) Android
7 3 (0.10%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.10%) Debian
7 3 (0.10%) Unix
8 2 (0.070%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.070%) Solaris
9 1 (0.035%) CentOS
9 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 795 (27.71%) Agile
2 795 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
3 774 (26.98%) Project Delivery
4 665 (23.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 506 (17.64%) PRINCE2
6 384 (13.38%) Decision-Making
7 356 (12.41%) AI
8 328 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 325 (11.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 286 (9.97%) Analytics
11 272 (9.48%) Risk Management
12 266 (9.27%) Mentoring
13 252 (8.78%) ERP
14 250 (8.71%) Budget Management
15 249 (8.68%) CRM
16 244 (8.50%) Coaching
17 233 (8.12%) Change Management
18 226 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
19 216 (7.53%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 174 (6.06%) SQL
2 159 (5.54%) Python
3 75 (2.61%) JavaScript
4 52 (1.81%) PowerShell
5 44 (1.53%) C#
6 41 (1.43%) Java
7 30 (1.05%) TypeScript
8 23 (0.80%) Ladder Logic
9 21 (0.73%) C
10 15 (0.52%) C++
11 13 (0.45%) PHP
12 9 (0.31%) Assembly Language
12 9 (0.31%) R
12 9 (0.31%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.21%) Ruby
13 6 (0.21%) VBA
14 5 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.17%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.14%) ABAP
15 4 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 807 (28.13%) Degree
2 279 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 249 (8.68%) PMI Certification
4 217 (7.56%) PMP
5 157 (5.47%) SC Cleared
6 142 (4.95%) DBS Check
7 112 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 89 (3.10%) HNC
9 80 (2.79%) DV Cleared
10 79 (2.75%) HND
11 69 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 65 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
12 65 (2.27%) Master's Degree
13 56 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
14 48 (1.67%) CISSP
15 39 (1.36%) ACCA
15 39 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
16 35 (1.22%) CISM
17 33 (1.15%) CIMA
18 31 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (6.94%) PMO
2 162 (5.65%) QA
3 99 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 93 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 83 (2.89%) Accessibility
6 77 (2.68%) GDPR
7 58 (2.02%) SLA
8 56 (1.95%) NIST
9 35 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 25 (0.87%) GRC
11 22 (0.77%) ISO 9001
12 19 (0.66%) GMP
12 19 (0.66%) IEC 61131
13 17 (0.59%) ISO 14000
14 15 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 14 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 12 (0.42%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.38%) IFRS
17 11 (0.38%) ISO 14001
18 10 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 37 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.63%) Docker
4 15 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.38%) Firmware
5 11 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.35%) vSphere
7 4 (0.14%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.14%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.10%) VMware Server
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 23 (0.80%) SCCM
2 18 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.59%) Kubernetes
4 16 (0.56%) Puppet
5 13 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.31%) Functional Safety
8 7 (0.24%) EnCase
8 7 (0.24%) FTK
9 6 (0.21%) Ansible
9 6 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.070%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.070%) SCOM
11 2 (0.070%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.070%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.035%) Grafana
12 1 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.035%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 596 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 176 (6.13%) SAP
3 120 (4.18%) Oracle
4 75 (2.61%) Google
5 73 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 71 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.06%) Adobe
8 50 (1.74%) HubSpot
9 49 (1.71%) Siemens
10 38 (1.32%) Sage
11 35 (1.22%) Cisco
12 32 (1.12%) VMware
13 30 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 27 (0.94%) Sitecore
15 22 (0.77%) NEC
16 20 (0.70%) Remedy
16 20 (0.70%) SonicWALL
17 14 (0.49%) HP
18 13 (0.45%) Bloomberg
18 13 (0.45%) Citrix