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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -48 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,476 3,831 7,449
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.72% 8.92% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 9.59% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,476 1,983 5,398
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £43,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 67,799 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.55% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42,318 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -47 2,151 £55,000 -4.35% 1,390
UK excluding London -52 1,601 £50,000 -9.09% 1,067
Work from Home -14 840 £57,500 - 539
London -28 684 £70,000 - 499
North of England -33 534 £47,500 -13.64% 269
South East -40 372 £50,000 -13.04% 307
Midlands -66 247 £52,500 - 169
North West -18 241 £47,500 -12.68% 142
West Midlands -49 185 £50,000 -9.09% 95
Yorkshire -42 177 £47,500 -13.64% 93
South West -52 163 £45,564 -17.16% 121
East of England -38 130 £75,000 +36.36% 137
North East -15 116 £54,500 -0.91% 39
Northern Ireland -7 71 £55,000 +2.33% 20
East Midlands -75 60 £55,000 +22.22% 74
Scotland -66 57 £40,000 -27.27% 43
Wales -51 34 £42,934 -32.92% 32

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 89 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.98%) Confluence
3 40 (1.62%) CMS
4 34 (1.37%) WordPress
5 20 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) govService
9 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.081%) Apache
10 2 (0.081%) Drupal
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.040%) IIS
11 1 (0.040%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 304 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
3 126 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
4 65 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.53%) Trello
8 12 (0.48%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 9 (0.36%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.081%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.081%) Notion
13 2 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.081%) Weka
14 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.040%) Elementor
14 1 (0.040%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
4 18 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 17 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
6 15 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.28%) Shopify
9 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.24%) Primavera
9 6 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
11 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 240 (9.69%) Azure
2 239 (9.65%) Power Platform
3 165 (6.66%) SaaS
4 135 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (4.12%) AWS
6 70 (2.83%) PowerApps
7 52 (2.10%) Power Automate
8 36 (1.45%) GCP
9 35 (1.41%) Asana
10 32 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 32 (1.29%) Smartsheet
11 31 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (1.25%) OneDrive
12 27 (1.09%) Google Analytics
13 23 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (0.85%) Canva
15 20 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.66%) Broadband
2 34 (1.37%) Firewall
2 34 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
3 29 (1.17%) CHAP
4 23 (0.93%) WAN
5 18 (0.73%) DNS
6 16 (0.65%) DHCP
6 16 (0.65%) LAN
6 16 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
7 15 (0.61%) Network Security
8 12 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.48%) VPN
9 11 (0.44%) Internet
10 10 (0.40%) Intranet
10 10 (0.40%) Wireless
11 9 (0.36%) Multicast
11 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.32%) VLAN
12 8 (0.32%) VoIP
13 4 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (8.16%) Power BI
2 169 (6.83%) Tableau
3 135 (5.45%) Data Mining
4 34 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.09%) GIS
6 21 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.81%) QGIS
7 20 (0.81%) Spatial Data
8 15 (0.61%) Power Query
9 10 (0.40%) DB2
10 8 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.24%) Metadata
11 6 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.20%) MySQL
12 5 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.20%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 118 (4.77%) JIRA
2 19 (0.77%) Git
3 11 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.32%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.28%) GitLab
6 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.12%) Storybook
8 2 (0.081%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.081%) ESLint
8 2 (0.081%) Gradle
8 2 (0.081%) JMeter
8 2 (0.081%) JUnit
8 2 (0.081%) Maven
8 2 (0.081%) Mockito
8 2 (0.081%) Postman
8 2 (0.081%) Selenium
8 2 (0.081%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.081%) TestNG
8 2 (0.081%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.040%) Balsamiq
General
1 984 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 957 (38.65%) Finance
3 576 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (11.51%) Marketing
5 226 (9.13%) Organisational Skills
6 179 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 157 (6.34%) Manufacturing
8 142 (5.74%) Retail
9 140 (5.65%) Legal
10 134 (5.41%) Public Sector
11 114 (4.60%) Banking
12 107 (4.32%) Law
13 97 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
14 74 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
15 63 (2.54%) Games
16 58 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
17 55 (2.22%) Telecoms
18 51 (2.06%) Financial Institution
19 43 (1.74%) Advertising
19 43 (1.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 413 (16.68%) Analyst
2 408 (16.48%) Project Manager
3 305 (12.32%) Senior
4 207 (8.36%) Trainee
5 202 (8.16%) Trainee Analyst
6 189 (7.63%) Business Analyst
7 165 (6.66%) Lead
8 158 (6.38%) Senior Manager
9 155 (6.26%) IT Manager
10 141 (5.69%) Data Analyst
11 130 (5.25%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 124 (5.01%) Development Manager
13 122 (4.93%) Consultant
14 98 (3.96%) Senior Project Manager
15 96 (3.88%) Architect
16 92 (3.72%) Product Manager
17 79 (3.19%) IT Project Manager
18 72 (2.91%) Trainee Business Analyst
19 65 (2.63%) Systems Manager
20 60 (2.42%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.70%) .NET
2 38 (1.53%) HTML
3 33 (1.33%) CSS
4 28 (1.13%) PyTorch
5 25 (1.01%) JSON
6 24 (0.97%) EDI
6 24 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
7 21 (0.85%) .NET Core
8 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.77%) SPFx
10 8 (0.32%) React
10 8 (0.32%) REST
10 8 (0.32%) TensorFlow
11 7 (0.28%) Hugging Face
11 7 (0.28%) Matplotlib
11 7 (0.28%) OAuth
11 7 (0.28%) Seaborn
12 6 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (0.24%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (0.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 188 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 109 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 90 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
4 76 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 65 (2.63%) Driving Licence
7 63 (2.54%) FMCG
8 60 (2.42%) Virtual Team
9 59 (2.38%) Social Media
10 41 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 40 (1.62%) Security Posture
12 34 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 34 (1.37%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.17%) Blog
14 28 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 27 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
17 24 (0.97%) Low-Code
18 23 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
19 22 (0.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.95%) Windows
2 30 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 25 (1.01%) Android
4 24 (0.97%) Linux
5 15 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.32%) Unix
7 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 2 (0.081%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.081%) zOS
10 1 (0.040%) CentOS
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (26.21%) Agile
2 586 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
3 555 (22.42%) Project Delivery
4 480 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 426 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 422 (17.04%) Analytics
7 383 (15.47%) PRINCE2
8 382 (15.43%) Decision-Making
9 314 (12.68%) Business Analysis
10 297 (12.00%) AI
11 282 (11.39%) Change Management
12 271 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 261 (10.54%) Data Analysis
14 251 (10.14%) Risk Management
15 220 (8.89%) Roadmaps
16 215 (8.68%) Mentoring
17 210 (8.48%) Business Intelligence
18 205 (8.28%) Data Analytics
19 200 (8.08%) Cybersecurity
20 188 (7.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 268 (10.82%) SQL
2 266 (10.74%) Python
3 49 (1.98%) C#
4 38 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.29%) PowerShell
6 29 (1.17%) TypeScript
6 29 (1.17%) VBA
7 14 (0.57%) Java
8 9 (0.36%) Bash
9 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.24%) C++
11 5 (0.20%) C
11 5 (0.20%) PHP
12 4 (0.16%) COBOL
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.16%) R
12 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) Dart
14 2 (0.081%) JCL
14 2 (0.081%) Scala
Qualifications
1 632 (25.53%) Degree
2 235 (9.49%) PMP
3 220 (8.89%) PMI Certification
4 109 (4.40%) Security Cleared
5 96 (3.88%) DBS Check
6 93 (3.76%) CISSP
7 70 (2.83%) CISM
8 68 (2.75%) SC Cleared
9 66 (2.67%) Master's Degree
10 38 (1.53%) CISA
11 36 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
12 34 (1.37%) HNC
12 34 (1.37%) SANS
13 30 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.21%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.21%) FFIEC
14 29 (1.17%) CGEIT
14 29 (1.17%) CRISC
15 28 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (0.97%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (6.18%) QA
2 128 (5.17%) PMO
3 100 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 98 (3.96%) GDPR
4 98 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 89 (3.59%) NIST
6 45 (1.82%) GRC
7 38 (1.53%) Data Quality
8 37 (1.49%) ISO 9001
9 32 (1.29%) COBIT
10 28 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 21 (0.85%) NIST 800
13 16 (0.65%) SLA
14 12 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
14 12 (0.48%) GAAP
15 11 (0.44%) IFRS
15 11 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 9 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.85%) Docker
3 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.081%) Firmware
6 2 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.081%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.040%) IAG
7 1 (0.040%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.73%) SCCM
4 17 (0.69%) Ansible
5 15 (0.61%) Terraform
6 11 (0.44%) Grafana
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
7 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.081%) Argo
9 2 (0.081%) Puppet
9 2 (0.081%) Salt
10 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.040%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.040%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.040%) MOM
10 1 (0.040%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 537 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 90 (3.63%) SAP
3 70 (2.83%) Salesforce
4 65 (2.63%) Oracle
5 64 (2.58%) Adobe
5 64 (2.58%) Google
6 52 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 28 (1.13%) Anaplan
8 26 (1.05%) HubSpot
9 21 (0.85%) Pardot
10 20 (0.81%) Genesys
10 20 (0.81%) Verint
11 17 (0.69%) Cisco
12 14 (0.57%) Apple
13 13 (0.53%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.48%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.48%) Instagram
15 11 (0.44%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.44%) Workday
15 11 (0.44%) Wrike