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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -37 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,514 3,362 6,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.47% 6.81% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 7.60% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,438 1,783 3,987
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,825 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -11.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,223 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.05% +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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 2,236 £55,000 -8.33% 1,294
UK excluding London -39 1,581 £52,223 -5.05% 951
Work from Home -15 1,051 £53,725 -6.57% 490
London -32 777 £65,750 -6.07% 528
North of England -10 429 £55,000 +4.76% 229
South East -27 424 £46,000 -17.38% 275
Midlands -54 234 £55,000 - 165
North West +7 211 £55,000 +7.58% 123
South West -45 188 £47,500 -20.83% 122
East of England -36 164 £60,000 +9.09% 101
Yorkshire -26 140 £60,000 +9.09% 79
West Midlands -50 136 £55,000 - 102
East Midlands -28 97 £55,000 +7.32% 63
North East -33 78 £58,000 +34.88% 30
Scotland -51 61 £40,000 -25.89% 37
Northern Ireland -56 45 £47,500 -17.39% 25
Wales -56 39 £58,758 -3.28% 27

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 98 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 62 (2.47%) Confluence
3 38 (1.51%) CMS
4 29 (1.15%) WordPress
5 20 (0.80%) ArcGIS
6 14 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.32%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.20%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.16%) Moodle
10 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.12%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.080%) Totara
Applications
1 236 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 226 (8.99%) Microsoft Project
3 193 (7.68%) Microsoft Office
4 54 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.76%) Trello
7 17 (0.68%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.20%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.12%) Blender
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.080%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.040%) Houdini
14 1 (0.040%) InDesign
14 1 (0.040%) NUKE
14 1 (0.040%) Revit
14 1 (0.040%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
3 14 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
4 12 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.48%) Primavera
5 10 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
5 10 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 10 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.40%) Shopify
6 9 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.24%) iTrent
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.24%) SAP Business One
8 6 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
9 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 242 (9.63%) Azure
2 203 (8.07%) Power Platform
3 161 (6.40%) AWS
4 149 (5.93%) SaaS
5 135 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
6 73 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
7 65 (2.59%) Power Automate
8 64 (2.55%) PowerApps
9 48 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
10 41 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (1.47%) Smartsheet
12 30 (1.19%) Entra ID
13 29 (1.15%) Asana
14 28 (1.11%) GCP
15 26 (1.03%) OneDrive
16 25 (0.99%) Canva
17 23 (0.91%) Serverless
18 21 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
18 21 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
18 21 (0.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.03%) Firewall
2 35 (1.39%) Broadband
3 28 (1.11%) LAN
4 27 (1.07%) WAN
5 26 (1.03%) DNS
6 25 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (0.80%) VPN
8 15 (0.60%) DHCP
8 15 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.56%) NGN
10 13 (0.52%) BGP
11 12 (0.48%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.44%) CHAP
12 11 (0.44%) Internet
12 11 (0.44%) Network Security
13 10 (0.40%) Intranet
13 10 (0.40%) Wireless
14 9 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
15 7 (0.28%) Multicast
15 7 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (6.96%) Power BI
2 69 (2.74%) Tableau
3 53 (2.11%) Data Mining
4 47 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.11%) GIS
6 23 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.80%) QGIS
7 20 (0.80%) Spatial Data
8 17 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 16 (0.64%) Big Data
10 15 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.56%) Hadoop
11 14 (0.56%) Metadata
12 13 (0.52%) Relational Database
13 12 (0.48%) MySQL
13 12 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (0.44%) Apache Hive
14 11 (0.44%) Power Query
15 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 194 (7.72%) JIRA
2 23 (0.91%) Git
3 12 (0.48%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.12%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.12%) JUnit
6 3 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.12%) Storybook
6 3 (0.12%) Taiga
6 3 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.12%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.080%) JMeter
7 2 (0.080%) Pa11y
7 2 (0.080%) PHPUnit
7 2 (0.080%) Postman
7 2 (0.080%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.080%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.080%) Yeoman
General
1 1,056 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 807 (32.10%) Finance
3 500 (19.89%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (9.86%) Marketing
5 247 (9.82%) Organisational Skills
6 154 (6.13%) Retail
7 141 (5.61%) Legal
8 137 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 132 (5.25%) Manufacturing
10 126 (5.01%) Public Sector
11 110 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
12 106 (4.22%) Law
13 85 (3.38%) Banking
14 77 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
15 62 (2.47%) Telecoms
16 55 (2.19%) Aerospace
17 54 (2.15%) Local Government
18 45 (1.79%) Advertising
19 42 (1.67%) Financial Institution
20 37 (1.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 532 (21.16%) Project Manager
2 364 (14.48%) Senior
3 256 (10.18%) Analyst
4 193 (7.68%) Lead
5 188 (7.48%) Senior Manager
6 181 (7.20%) Consultant
7 178 (7.08%) IT Manager
8 149 (5.93%) Senior Project Manager
9 124 (4.93%) Business Analyst
10 103 (4.10%) IT Project Manager
11 94 (3.74%) Development Manager
12 66 (2.63%) Senior Consultant
13 65 (2.59%) Data Analyst
13 65 (2.59%) IT Support
14 62 (2.47%) Developer
15 60 (2.39%) Coordinator
16 58 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
16 58 (2.31%) Product Manager
16 58 (2.31%) Technical Manager
17 56 (2.23%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.91%) HTML
2 46 (1.83%) .NET
3 43 (1.71%) PyTorch
4 40 (1.59%) CSS
5 24 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
5 24 (0.95%) JSON
5 24 (0.95%) TensorFlow
6 23 (0.91%) Hugging Face
7 21 (0.84%) .NET Core
7 21 (0.84%) Flash
8 19 (0.76%) LangChain
8 19 (0.76%) Langfuse
8 19 (0.76%) LlamaIndex
8 19 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (0.76%) Model Context Protocol
8 19 (0.76%) SPFx
9 16 (0.64%) Kafka
10 13 (0.52%) Middleware
11 12 (0.48%) EDI
11 12 (0.48%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 199 (7.92%) Onboarding
2 157 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 140 (5.57%) Data Centre
4 95 (3.78%) Driving Licence
5 79 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 59 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
8 55 (2.19%) Social Media
9 51 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.63%) Cloud Native
11 38 (1.51%) FMCG
12 37 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 36 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 35 (1.39%) PMI
15 32 (1.27%) Blog
16 31 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
16 31 (1.23%) Mobile App
17 30 (1.19%) AI Agents
17 30 (1.19%) Algorithms
18 29 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (4.34%) Windows
2 45 (1.79%) Linux
3 22 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 19 (0.76%) Android
5 16 (0.64%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.20%) Unix
7 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.080%) AIX
9 2 (0.080%) Debian
9 2 (0.080%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.080%) zOS
10 1 (0.040%) CentOS
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (28.56%) Agile
2 652 (25.93%) Project Delivery
3 626 (24.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 576 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
5 470 (18.70%) PRINCE2
6 463 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 321 (12.77%) Decision-Making
8 284 (11.30%) Analytics
9 271 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 270 (10.74%) AI
10 270 (10.74%) Roadmaps
11 267 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 233 (9.27%) Change Management
13 226 (8.99%) Budget Management
14 220 (8.75%) Risk Management
15 208 (8.27%) Coaching
16 206 (8.19%) ERP
17 205 (8.15%) Business Analysis
18 204 (8.11%) Logistics
19 191 (7.60%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 216 (8.59%) SQL
2 206 (8.19%) Python
3 51 (2.03%) C#
3 51 (2.03%) JavaScript
4 34 (1.35%) TypeScript
5 32 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 22 (0.88%) Java
7 14 (0.56%) C
8 13 (0.52%) PHP
9 9 (0.36%) VBA
10 8 (0.32%) C++
11 6 (0.24%) Ruby
12 5 (0.20%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.16%) ABAP
13 4 (0.16%) Bash
13 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.12%) COBOL
14 3 (0.12%) Dart
14 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 592 (23.55%) Degree
2 235 (9.35%) PMI Certification
3 231 (9.19%) PMP
4 158 (6.28%) Security Cleared
5 141 (5.61%) DBS Check
6 101 (4.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 68 (2.70%) CISSP
7 68 (2.70%) SC Cleared
8 48 (1.91%) CISM
9 46 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 43 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (1.71%) Master's Degree
11 34 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 31 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (0.95%) CRISC
14 21 (0.84%) ACCA
14 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 19 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 19 (0.76%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.96%) QA
2 163 (6.48%) PMO
3 117 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 103 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (3.10%) GDPR
6 72 (2.86%) NIST
7 49 (1.95%) Data Quality
8 42 (1.67%) SLA
9 40 (1.59%) ISO 9001
10 37 (1.47%) GRC
11 33 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 21 (0.84%) GMP
14 19 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 18 (0.72%) NIST 800
16 17 (0.68%) ISO 14000
16 17 (0.68%) ISO 14001
17 15 (0.60%) COBIT
18 13 (0.52%) GAAP
19 12 (0.48%) IFRS
System Software
1 40 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.84%) Docker
3 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.12%) vSphere
7 2 (0.080%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.080%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.040%) Firmware
8 1 (0.040%) IAG
8 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (1.11%) SCCM
2 24 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (0.80%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.68%) Puppet
5 13 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.40%) Ansible
6 10 (0.40%) Terraform
7 9 (0.36%) Grafana
8 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
10 2 (0.080%) Argo
10 2 (0.080%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.080%) Salt
11 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.040%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.040%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.040%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 515 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.93%) SAP
3 111 (4.42%) Oracle
4 62 (2.47%) Adobe
5 61 (2.43%) ServiceNow
6 59 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 48 (1.91%) Google
8 27 (1.07%) HubSpot
9 25 (0.99%) Fortinet
10 22 (0.88%) Cisco
11 21 (0.84%) SonicWALL
12 18 (0.72%) Remedy
13 17 (0.68%) HP
14 15 (0.60%) JD Edwards
14 15 (0.60%) Pardot
15 14 (0.56%) IBM
15 14 (0.56%) VMware
16 12 (0.48%) Apple
16 12 (0.48%) Reuters
16 12 (0.48%) Sage