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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,617 4,211 6,913
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.50% 9.84% 8.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 10.53% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,528 2,062 5,048
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,563 £73,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.55% +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 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 March 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 March 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 -39 2,199 £54,250 -5.65% 1,243
UK excluding London -43 1,722 £47,000 -14.55% 1,057
Work from Home -23 771 £57,500 -4.17% 432
London -25 679 £70,000 - 387
North of England -36 529 £40,000 -27.27% 246
South East -34 405 £52,500 -8.70% 306
Midlands -52 261 £47,500 -12.04% 177
North West -37 241 £42,750 -20.73% 119
West Midlands -41 196 £45,000 -18.18% 101
South West -34 182 £45,282 -16.14% 111
Yorkshire -31 181 £40,000 -31.91% 102
Scotland -15 137 £40,000 -27.27% 58
East of England -50 112 £55,000 +4.76% 135
North East -12 107 £40,000 -32.77% 30
Northern Ireland -10 65 £47,500 - 21
East Midlands -75 64 £52,500 +10.53% 76
Wales -41 38 £42,934 -20.19% 39

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
1 145 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.99%) Confluence
3 47 (1.80%) CMS
4 35 (1.34%) WordPress
5 20 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.19%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.11%) Apache
9 3 (0.11%) govService
9 3 (0.11%) SAS
9 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.076%) Drupal
10 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.038%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.038%) IIS
11 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 413 (15.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (7.49%) Microsoft Office
3 129 (4.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 116 (4.43%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.61%) Trello
8 15 (0.57%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.38%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.27%) Maya
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.076%) CATIA
13 2 (0.076%) Elementor
13 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 38 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.57%) SAP MDG
6 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.23%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.23%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.19%) Primavera
10 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 235 (8.98%) Azure
2 215 (8.22%) Power Platform
3 155 (5.92%) SaaS
4 154 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (4.05%) AWS
6 51 (1.95%) PowerApps
7 43 (1.64%) Asana
8 32 (1.22%) GCP
9 31 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 29 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (0.96%) Smartsheet
12 24 (0.92%) Power Automate
13 23 (0.88%) Google Analytics
14 22 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (0.69%) OneDrive
16 17 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (0.61%) Canva
17 16 (0.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.83%) Broadband
2 44 (1.68%) Firewall
3 42 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
4 27 (1.03%) WAN
5 25 (0.96%) CHAP
6 22 (0.84%) Internet
7 21 (0.80%) DNS
8 20 (0.76%) LAN
9 19 (0.73%) DHCP
9 19 (0.73%) Network Security
9 19 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
9 19 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.73%) VPN
10 17 (0.65%) Wireless
11 14 (0.53%) VLAN
12 12 (0.46%) Intranet
12 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.38%) Multicast
14 8 (0.31%) VoIP
15 6 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.64%) Tableau
2 179 (6.84%) Power BI
3 171 (6.53%) Data Mining
4 40 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 25 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.84%) GIS
7 20 (0.76%) QGIS
7 20 (0.76%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.65%) Power Query
10 14 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
11 12 (0.46%) Metadata
12 9 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.31%) Big Data
14 7 (0.27%) DB2
14 7 (0.27%) SAP BW
15 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (4.36%) JIRA
2 14 (0.53%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.076%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.076%) ESLint
6 2 (0.076%) Gradle
6 2 (0.076%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.076%) JMeter
6 2 (0.076%) JUnit
6 2 (0.076%) Maven
6 2 (0.076%) Mockito
6 2 (0.076%) Selenium
6 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.076%) TestNG
6 2 (0.076%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.076%) Zephyr
General
1 1,098 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 1,042 (39.82%) Finance
3 662 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (10.74%) Marketing
5 203 (7.76%) Organisational Skills
6 196 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 162 (6.19%) Manufacturing
8 157 (6.00%) Legal
9 142 (5.43%) Public Sector
10 130 (4.97%) Retail
11 123 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
12 120 (4.59%) Law
13 118 (4.51%) Banking
14 74 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
15 69 (2.64%) Games
16 54 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 54 (2.06%) Telecoms
17 50 (1.91%) Financial Institution
18 38 (1.45%) Local Government
19 37 (1.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 478 (18.27%) Analyst
2 394 (15.06%) Project Manager
3 357 (13.64%) Senior
4 277 (10.58%) Trainee
5 269 (10.28%) Trainee Analyst
6 220 (8.41%) Senior Manager
7 213 (8.14%) Business Analyst
8 193 (7.37%) Lead
9 178 (6.80%) Data Analyst
10 162 (6.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 156 (5.96%) IT Manager
12 119 (4.55%) Consultant
13 117 (4.47%) Development Manager
14 107 (4.09%) Trainee Business Analyst
15 96 (3.67%) Senior Project Manager
16 90 (3.44%) Architect
17 88 (3.36%) Product Manager
18 78 (2.98%) Systems Manager
19 77 (2.94%) Business Manager
20 76 (2.90%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.96%) .NET
1 25 (0.96%) EDI
2 24 (0.92%) HTML
3 23 (0.88%) PyTorch
4 17 (0.65%) CSS
5 10 (0.38%) Middleware
5 10 (0.38%) React
6 8 (0.31%) REST
7 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.23%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.23%) JSON
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (0.23%) OAuth
9 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.15%) FIDO
9 4 (0.15%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (0.15%) OpenID
9 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 204 (7.80%) Management Information System
2 113 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
3 110 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 81 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 67 (2.56%) Driving Licence
6 64 (2.45%) Social Media
7 62 (2.37%) FMCG
8 56 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 45 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 40 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 38 (1.45%) Algorithms
13 37 (1.41%) Robotics
14 33 (1.26%) Blog
15 30 (1.15%) Mobile App
16 29 (1.11%) IoT
17 28 (1.07%) Low-Code
18 27 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
19 24 (0.92%) Security Posture
20 21 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (2.56%) Windows
2 31 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.99%) Android
4 21 (0.80%) Linux
5 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.11%) VMS
9 2 (0.076%) AIX
9 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (24.65%) Agile
2 631 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
3 532 (20.33%) Project Delivery
4 530 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 464 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 458 (17.50%) Analytics
7 400 (15.28%) Decision-Making
8 384 (14.67%) Business Analysis
9 361 (13.79%) PRINCE2
10 350 (13.37%) Change Management
11 345 (13.18%) AI
12 316 (12.07%) Data Analysis
13 276 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 265 (10.13%) Risk Management
15 258 (9.86%) Coaching
16 236 (9.02%) Data Analytics
17 224 (8.56%) Roadmaps
18 221 (8.44%) Process Improvement
19 207 (7.91%) Mentoring
20 205 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 293 (11.20%) Python
1 293 (11.20%) SQL
2 39 (1.49%) C#
3 35 (1.34%) VBA
4 25 (0.96%) JavaScript
5 18 (0.69%) Java
6 17 (0.65%) PowerShell
7 15 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 14 (0.53%) C++
9 12 (0.46%) C
10 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.27%) PHP
12 6 (0.23%) Bash
12 6 (0.23%) R
13 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.11%) VB
14 2 (0.076%) ANSI SQL
14 2 (0.076%) COBOL
14 2 (0.076%) Perl
14 2 (0.076%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 684 (26.14%) Degree
2 232 (8.87%) PMP
3 219 (8.37%) PMI Certification
4 142 (5.43%) Security Cleared
5 97 (3.71%) SC Cleared
6 86 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 68 (2.60%) CISSP
8 64 (2.45%) DBS Check
8 64 (2.45%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
9 50 (1.91%) CISM
10 39 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.30%) HNC
12 29 (1.11%) CISA
12 29 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.11%) SANS
13 27 (1.03%) FFIEC
13 27 (1.03%) MBA
14 25 (0.96%) ACCA
14 25 (0.96%) CGEIT
15 22 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (7.80%) QA
2 125 (4.78%) PMO
3 103 (3.94%) GDPR
4 94 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 64 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 59 (2.25%) NIST
7 38 (1.45%) Data Quality
8 27 (1.03%) GRC
9 26 (0.99%) COBIT
10 24 (0.92%) ISO 9001
11 19 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 14 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.46%) SLA
15 10 (0.38%) IFRS
15 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.34%) GAAP
17 8 (0.31%) PCI DSS
18 6 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 62 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.92%) Docker
3 13 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) Firmware
6 4 (0.15%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
3 12 (0.46%) Terraform
4 11 (0.42%) Grafana
5 9 (0.34%) SCCM
6 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.076%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 634 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 123 (4.70%) SAP
3 78 (2.98%) Salesforce
4 68 (2.60%) Oracle
5 64 (2.45%) Google
6 50 (1.91%) Adobe
7 43 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.41%) Cisco
9 28 (1.07%) Anaplan
10 26 (0.99%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 18 (0.69%) Ariba
13 16 (0.61%) Pardot
14 15 (0.57%) Instagram
14 15 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.53%) Apple
15 14 (0.53%) Databricks
15 14 (0.53%) VMware
16 13 (0.50%) Fortinet