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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,731 4,862 5,732
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.02% 9.88% 7.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 10.70% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,513 2,121 4,188
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,995 £32,683
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,150
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.19% -9.75%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -8.90%

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 53,894 45,456 65,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.40% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,246 22,087 51,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,296 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -35 2,296 £53,688 -6.63% 1,103
UK excluding London -39 1,828 £45,000 -18.18% 1,019
Work from Home -29 724 £60,000 - 373
London -28 673 £69,500 +2.96% 317
North of England -27 523 £40,000 -27.27% 201
South East -25 476 £57,500 - 320
Midlands -48 281 £45,000 -18.18% 167
North West -31 233 £42,500 -19.05% 103
West Midlands -38 194 £45,000 -21.05% 87
South West -26 189 £45,282 -12.92% 120
Yorkshire -22 185 £40,000 -30.43% 79
Scotland -19 150 £40,000 -27.27% 45
East of England -35 111 £55,000 +10.00% 134
North East -9 105 £40,000 -32.20% 26
East Midlands -52 87 £42,500 -18.27% 80
Northern Ireland 0 68 £60,000 +26.32% 17
Wales -39 37 £57,515 +9.98% 47

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 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.94%) Confluence
3 40 (1.46%) CMS
4 32 (1.17%) WordPress
5 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.37%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
10 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.11%) govService
11 3 (0.11%) SAS
12 2 (0.073%) Drupal
12 2 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.037%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.037%) IIS
13 1 (0.037%) PowerFactory
13 1 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 425 (15.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 217 (7.95%) Microsoft Office
3 139 (5.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (1.06%) AutoCAD
6 27 (0.99%) MS Visio
7 20 (0.73%) Trello
8 19 (0.70%) Maya
9 18 (0.66%) SOLIDWORKS
10 17 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (0.29%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
12 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.22%) Revit
14 4 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.15%) CATIA
15 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
15 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
15 3 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 78 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.87%) SAP MDG
3 23 (0.84%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 19 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
5 17 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
6 16 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (0.40%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
9 11 (0.40%) SAP IBP
10 10 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.37%) Shopify
11 9 (0.33%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
13 6 (0.22%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 219 (8.02%) Azure
2 218 (7.98%) Power Platform
3 147 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (4.91%) SaaS
5 102 (3.73%) AWS
6 41 (1.50%) PowerApps
7 34 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (1.14%) GCP
9 28 (1.03%) Entra ID
10 27 (0.99%) Asana
11 26 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (0.92%) Google Analytics
13 24 (0.88%) Smartsheet
14 23 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (0.66%) Google Workspace
15 18 (0.66%) Snowflake
16 17 (0.62%) PaaS
16 17 (0.62%) Power Automate
17 16 (0.59%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.50%) Firewall
2 38 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
3 27 (0.99%) Broadband
4 26 (0.95%) WAN
5 22 (0.81%) Internet
5 22 (0.81%) Wireless
6 21 (0.77%) VPN
7 20 (0.73%) CHAP
7 20 (0.73%) Network Security
7 20 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
8 19 (0.70%) LAN
9 18 (0.66%) DNS
10 16 (0.59%) DHCP
10 16 (0.59%) VLAN
11 14 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.51%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.40%) Intranet
12 11 (0.40%) Multicast
13 9 (0.33%) BGP
13 9 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (7.21%) Tableau
2 186 (6.81%) Power BI
3 161 (5.90%) Data Mining
4 49 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 15 (0.55%) Power Query
7 15 (0.55%) SAP BW
8 14 (0.51%) Big Data
9 13 (0.48%) Metadata
10 12 (0.44%) GIS
10 12 (0.44%) QGIS
10 12 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
10 12 (0.44%) Spatial Data
11 10 (0.37%) Looker
12 8 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 5 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 117 (4.28%) JIRA
2 13 (0.48%) Git
2 13 (0.48%) GitLab
3 8 (0.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.073%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.073%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.073%) ESLint
6 2 (0.073%) Gradle
6 2 (0.073%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.073%) JUnit
6 2 (0.073%) Maven
6 2 (0.073%) Mockito
6 2 (0.073%) Selenium
6 2 (0.073%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.073%) TestNG
6 2 (0.073%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.037%) webpack
General
1 1,228 (44.97%) Social Skills
2 1,141 (41.78%) Finance
3 794 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (9.15%) Marketing
5 196 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
6 191 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 169 (6.19%) Legal
8 168 (6.15%) Manufacturing
9 150 (5.49%) Public Sector
10 147 (5.38%) Retail
11 135 (4.94%) Law
11 135 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
12 112 (4.10%) Banking
13 73 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
14 71 (2.60%) Games
15 62 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 59 (2.16%) Electronics
17 56 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.76%) Advertising
18 48 (1.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 480 (17.58%) Analyst
2 415 (15.20%) Senior
3 395 (14.46%) Project Manager
4 286 (10.47%) Trainee
5 277 (10.14%) Trainee Analyst
6 245 (8.97%) Lead
7 227 (8.31%) Senior Manager
8 226 (8.28%) Business Analyst
9 169 (6.19%) Data Analyst
10 152 (5.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 151 (5.53%) IT Manager
12 135 (4.94%) Architect
13 125 (4.58%) Trainee Business Analyst
14 110 (4.03%) Development Manager
15 109 (3.99%) Consultant
16 108 (3.95%) Business Manager
17 103 (3.77%) Senior Project Manager
18 93 (3.41%) Systems Manager
19 84 (3.08%) Product Manager
20 78 (2.86%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.17%) CSS
2 24 (0.88%) EDI
2 24 (0.88%) HTML
3 22 (0.81%) Middleware
4 16 (0.59%) .NET
5 15 (0.55%) PyTorch
6 10 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.33%) React
8 8 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.26%) Node.js
10 6 (0.22%) REST
11 5 (0.18%) AngularJS
12 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.15%) FIDO
12 4 (0.15%) Flutter
12 4 (0.15%) OAuth
12 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.15%) Web Services
12 4 (0.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (7.84%) Management Information System
2 133 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 127 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 80 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 76 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 69 (2.53%) FMCG
7 68 (2.49%) Robotics
8 60 (2.20%) Driving Licence
9 53 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 50 (1.83%) Social Media
11 44 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.35%) Algorithms
13 30 (1.10%) Blog
14 29 (1.06%) IoT
15 27 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (0.92%) Low-Code
17 21 (0.77%) Blockchain
17 21 (0.77%) PMI
18 20 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (2.16%) Windows
2 27 (0.99%) Linux
3 24 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 19 (0.70%) Android
5 17 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
6 7 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) VMS
8 2 (0.073%) AIX
8 2 (0.073%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.073%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (25.08%) Problem-Solving
2 664 (24.31%) Agile
3 592 (21.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 538 (19.70%) Project Delivery
5 499 (18.27%) Analytics
6 492 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 422 (15.45%) Change Management
8 397 (14.54%) Decision-Making
9 384 (14.06%) Business Analysis
10 353 (12.93%) PRINCE2
11 351 (12.85%) AI
12 332 (12.16%) Risk Management
13 314 (11.50%) Data Analysis
14 277 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 275 (10.07%) Process Improvement
16 257 (9.41%) Coaching
17 233 (8.53%) Business Intelligence
18 232 (8.50%) Roadmaps
19 225 (8.24%) Data Analytics
20 224 (8.20%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 296 (10.84%) SQL
2 286 (10.47%) Python
3 35 (1.28%) VBA
4 31 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 29 (1.06%) C#
6 27 (0.99%) C
6 27 (0.99%) Java
7 20 (0.73%) C++
8 14 (0.51%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.37%) Perl
10 10 (0.37%) PHP
10 10 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.22%) Bash
11 6 (0.22%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.18%) R
13 4 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
14 3 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.11%) Scala
14 3 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 766 (28.05%) Degree
2 225 (8.24%) PMP
3 216 (7.91%) PMI Certification
4 191 (6.99%) Security Cleared
5 146 (5.35%) SC Cleared
6 105 (3.84%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.34%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 53 (1.94%) DBS Check
9 51 (1.87%) CISSP
10 47 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 43 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (1.35%) CISM
13 34 (1.24%) HNC
14 27 (0.99%) MBA
15 25 (0.92%) DV Cleared
15 25 (0.92%) HND
16 23 (0.84%) ACCA
16 23 (0.84%) CISA
17 22 (0.81%) FFIEC
17 22 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (7.84%) QA
2 140 (5.13%) PMO
3 98 (3.59%) GDPR
4 72 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (1.72%) NIST
7 37 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 21 (0.77%) COBIT
8 21 (0.77%) ISO 9001
9 18 (0.66%) GRC
10 15 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.51%) SLA
12 13 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.37%) IEC 61131
14 9 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.26%) IFRS
17 6 (0.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 58 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.73%) Docker
3 13 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.33%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (0.77%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.37%) Ansible
3 10 (0.37%) Terraform
4 5 (0.18%) SCCM
4 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.15%) Grafana
6 3 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.037%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.037%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.037%) MOM
7 1 (0.037%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 649 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 184 (6.74%) SAP
3 97 (3.55%) Salesforce
4 70 (2.56%) Oracle
5 69 (2.53%) Google
6 44 (1.61%) Adobe
6 44 (1.61%) Cisco
7 42 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.21%) Ariba
9 30 (1.10%) HubSpot
10 28 (1.03%) Anaplan
11 23 (0.84%) OpenText
12 20 (0.73%) Genesys
12 20 (0.73%) Verint
13 16 (0.59%) Databricks
14 15 (0.55%) Pardot
15 14 (0.51%) VMware
16 13 (0.48%) Workday
17 12 (0.44%) Fortinet
17 12 (0.44%) Palo Alto