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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 0
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,621 5,285 4,057
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.42% 9.84% 7.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 10.87% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 2,270 2,854
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,628 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -3.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -0.94%

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 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 2,244 £52,501 -8.69% 1,210
UK excluding London -33 1,728 £45,000 -18.18% 1,135
London -19 696 £70,000 +3.70% 278
Work from Home -30 666 £60,000 - 507
North of England -23 472 £40,000 -25.93% 225
South East -24 456 £57,772 +0.47% 342
Midlands -45 280 £45,000 -18.18% 196
North West -27 217 £42,500 -19.05% 107
South West -15 198 £47,500 -8.65% 124
West Midlands -36 188 £44,772 -22.14% 123
Yorkshire -22 165 £40,000 -27.27% 96
Scotland -12 158 £40,000 -27.27% 57
East of England -49 108 £55,000 +10.00% 153
East Midlands -54 92 £50,000 -4.76% 73
North East -3 90 £32,500 -37.50% 30
Wales -34 32 £55,000 +10.55% 40
Northern Ireland -15 28 £55,000 -6.38% 29

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
1 154 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.98%) Confluence
3 39 (1.49%) CMS
4 28 (1.07%) WordPress
5 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.53%) Kinematics
7 8 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.23%) Apache
9 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.15%) Drupal
10 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) govService
12 2 (0.076%) IIS
12 2 (0.076%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.076%) TPMS
13 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
13 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 413 (15.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 244 (9.31%) Microsoft Office
3 159 (6.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 120 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 29 (1.11%) Maya
7 25 (0.95%) AutoCAD
8 24 (0.92%) Trello
9 16 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
10 14 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.27%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.23%) Revit
13 5 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
13 5 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
14 4 (0.15%) CATIA
14 4 (0.15%) InDesign
15 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 101 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.48%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.41%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 19 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 18 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
5 18 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
6 17 (0.65%) SAP IBP
7 16 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
8 14 (0.53%) SAP CO
8 14 (0.53%) SAP FI
8 14 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
8 14 (0.53%) Shopify
9 13 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
10 12 (0.46%) NetSuite
11 11 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
12 9 (0.34%) SAP FS
12 9 (0.34%) SAP FSCM
12 9 (0.34%) SAP IS-U
13 8 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
14 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 225 (8.58%) Azure
2 202 (7.71%) Power Platform
3 143 (5.46%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (4.20%) SaaS
5 101 (3.85%) AWS
6 43 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.45%) GCP
8 34 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.11%) Entra ID
10 28 (1.07%) Smartsheet
11 27 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
11 27 (1.03%) Snowflake
12 25 (0.95%) Power Automate
13 21 (0.80%) Asana
13 21 (0.80%) PaaS
14 20 (0.76%) Google Workspace
14 20 (0.76%) PowerApps
15 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.65%) Google Analytics
17 15 (0.57%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.45%) Firewall
2 36 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
3 30 (1.14%) WAN
4 29 (1.11%) VPN
5 25 (0.95%) Wireless
6 24 (0.92%) LAN
7 20 (0.76%) Internet
8 19 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
9 18 (0.69%) VLAN
10 17 (0.65%) Network Security
11 16 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.53%) CHAP
12 14 (0.53%) DNS
12 14 (0.53%) TCP/IP
12 14 (0.53%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.42%) Broadband
13 11 (0.42%) Intranet
13 11 (0.42%) Multicast
14 10 (0.38%) DHCP
14 10 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.87%) Power BI
2 173 (6.60%) Tableau
3 125 (4.77%) Data Mining
4 60 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 31 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (0.80%) SAP BW
7 17 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.61%) Looker
8 16 (0.61%) Power Query
9 14 (0.53%) Metadata
10 13 (0.50%) Big Data
11 12 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 7 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 132 (5.04%) JIRA
2 13 (0.50%) GitLab
3 11 (0.42%) Git
4 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.15%) JIRA Agile
6 4 (0.15%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.15%) Maven
6 4 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.11%) ERwin
7 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.076%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.076%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.076%) ESLint
8 2 (0.076%) Gradle
8 2 (0.076%) JUnit
8 2 (0.076%) Mockito
8 2 (0.076%) Selenium
8 2 (0.076%) Subversion
8 2 (0.076%) TestNG
General
1 1,163 (44.37%) Social Skills
2 1,150 (43.88%) Finance
3 800 (30.52%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (9.88%) Marketing
5 189 (7.21%) Manufacturing
6 173 (6.60%) Law
7 171 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
8 169 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 161 (6.14%) Legal
10 150 (5.72%) Presentation Skills
11 138 (5.27%) Retail
12 134 (5.11%) Public Sector
13 104 (3.97%) Banking
14 80 (3.05%) Telecoms
15 72 (2.75%) Games
16 64 (2.44%) Electronics
16 64 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
17 57 (2.17%) Advertising
18 49 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
19 47 (1.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 438 (16.71%) Analyst
2 399 (15.22%) Senior
3 361 (13.77%) Project Manager
4 254 (9.69%) Trainee
5 245 (9.35%) Trainee Analyst
6 223 (8.51%) Senior Manager
7 220 (8.39%) Lead
8 215 (8.20%) Business Analyst
9 164 (6.26%) IT Manager
10 149 (5.68%) Architect
11 140 (5.34%) Data Analyst
12 125 (4.77%) Trainee Business Analyst
13 120 (4.58%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 112 (4.27%) Development Manager
15 104 (3.97%) Business Manager
16 92 (3.51%) Product Manager
17 91 (3.47%) Consultant
18 81 (3.09%) Senior Project Manager
19 80 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
19 80 (3.05%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.30%) CSS
2 29 (1.11%) Middleware
3 24 (0.92%) HTML
4 17 (0.65%) EDI
5 12 (0.46%) .NET
6 9 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.34%) Web Services
7 8 (0.31%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.27%) FHIR
8 7 (0.27%) React
9 6 (0.23%) Node.js
9 6 (0.23%) REST
10 5 (0.19%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.15%) FIDO
11 4 (0.15%) Flutter
11 4 (0.15%) Pandas
11 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 198 (7.55%) Management Information System
2 126 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 122 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 87 (3.32%) FMCG
5 86 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 76 (2.90%) Data Centre
7 74 (2.82%) Robotics
8 68 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 63 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 62 (2.37%) Driving Licence
11 45 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.64%) Social Media
13 33 (1.26%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.07%) IoT
15 27 (1.03%) Blog
16 22 (0.84%) NHS
17 20 (0.76%) Blockchain
17 20 (0.76%) PMI
18 18 (0.69%) Digital Signage
18 18 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.37%) Windows
2 30 (1.14%) Linux
3 23 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.31%) Android
5 8 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.27%) VMS
7 5 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.19%) Unix
8 2 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
2 618 (23.58%) Agile
3 603 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 536 (20.45%) Project Delivery
5 450 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 436 (16.63%) Analytics
7 419 (15.99%) Change Management
8 400 (15.26%) Decision-Making
9 360 (13.74%) Business Analysis
10 349 (13.32%) Risk Management
11 305 (11.64%) AI
11 305 (11.64%) PRINCE2
12 273 (10.42%) Process Improvement
13 262 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 252 (9.61%) ERP
15 249 (9.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 244 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
17 242 (9.23%) Business Strategy
18 226 (8.62%) Roadmaps
19 214 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 278 (10.61%) SQL
2 246 (9.39%) Python
3 35 (1.34%) C#
4 31 (1.18%) C
5 30 (1.14%) Java
5 30 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 23 (0.88%) C++
7 18 (0.69%) VBA
8 17 (0.65%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (0.46%) Perl
10 10 (0.38%) PHP
11 6 (0.23%) Bash
11 6 (0.23%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.19%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
13 4 (0.15%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.15%) R
13 4 (0.15%) Ruby
13 4 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 835 (31.86%) Degree
2 206 (7.86%) PMP
3 197 (7.52%) PMI Certification
4 182 (6.94%) Security Cleared
5 151 (5.76%) SC Cleared
6 104 (3.97%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.44%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 52 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (1.60%) DBS Check
11 39 (1.49%) CISSP
12 24 (0.92%) MBA
13 23 (0.88%) CISM
13 23 (0.88%) DV Cleared
14 22 (0.84%) ACCA
14 22 (0.84%) HND
15 21 (0.80%) CFA
15 21 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (0.80%) PhD
16 20 (0.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (7.44%) QA
2 157 (5.99%) PMO
3 93 (3.55%) GDPR
4 49 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (1.22%) NIST
7 25 (0.95%) ISO 9001
8 23 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.61%) COBIT
10 14 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.53%) SLA
11 10 (0.38%) IEC 61131
11 10 (0.38%) IFRS
12 9 (0.34%) GRC
12 9 (0.34%) IFRS 17
12 9 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 7 (0.27%) HL7
13 7 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 57 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.69%) Docker
3 16 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Firmware
4 11 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) vSphere
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.38%) Terraform
4 7 (0.27%) Ansible
5 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.15%) Grafana
7 3 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.076%) Nagios
8 2 (0.076%) SCCM
9 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 637 (24.30%) Microsoft
2 221 (8.43%) SAP
3 92 (3.51%) Salesforce
4 70 (2.67%) Oracle
5 62 (2.37%) Google
6 45 (1.72%) Cisco
6 45 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.41%) OpenText
8 36 (1.37%) Ariba
9 32 (1.22%) Adobe
10 27 (1.03%) Anaplan
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 18 (0.69%) Databricks
12 18 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 18 (0.69%) VMware
13 15 (0.57%) Sage
14 14 (0.53%) Siemens
14 14 (0.53%) Workday
15 13 (0.50%) NEC