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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 0
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,722 5,454 3,809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.60% 9.83% 7.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 10.93% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,524 2,334 2,684
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £36,729
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,628 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £57,500 £58,478
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -1.67% -2.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -14.55% +1.85% +1.30%

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 48,537 49,891 46,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.05% 89.96% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,419 24,819 35,711
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,532 £45,000 £42,750
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -30 2,330 £54,750 -4.78% 1,089
UK excluding London -30 1,792 £47,000 -14.55% 836
London -19 719 £70,000 +3.70% 421
Work from Home -29 692 £60,000 - 390
North of England -23 493 £40,000 -25.83% 208
South East -28 466 £57,500 +0.88% 263
Midlands -45 287 £45,000 -18.18% 137
North West -25 221 £42,500 -19.05% 110
South West -15 207 £50,000 -3.85% 89
West Midlands -39 194 £44,543 -21.85% 86
Yorkshire -13 168 £40,000 -27.27% 85
Scotland -15 161 £46,250 -15.91% 39
East of England -49 122 £55,000 +5.77% 97
North East +3 104 £32,500 -37.50% 18
East Midlands -53 93 £50,000 -3.85% 51
Wales -32 32 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Northern Ireland -14 28 £55,000 -18.52% 9

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
1 156 (5.73%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.87%) Confluence
3 42 (1.54%) CMS
4 27 (0.99%) WordPress
5 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.59%) Kinematics
7 9 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.26%) Apache
9 6 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Drupal
12 3 (0.11%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.073%) govService
13 2 (0.073%) IIS
13 2 (0.073%) TPMS
14 1 (0.037%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.037%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.037%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 422 (15.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 259 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 170 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (4.34%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (1.18%) Maya
6 31 (1.14%) MS Visio
7 25 (0.92%) AutoCAD
8 24 (0.88%) Trello
9 15 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 15 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.33%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
12 6 (0.22%) Revit
13 5 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
14 4 (0.15%) CATIA
14 4 (0.15%) InDesign
15 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.073%) Weka
Business Applications
1 103 (3.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.39%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.36%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 19 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
4 19 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 19 (0.70%) SAP IBP
5 17 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
6 16 (0.59%) Shopify
7 15 (0.55%) SAP CO
7 15 (0.55%) SAP FI
7 15 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
8 14 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.44%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.37%) SAP FSCM
10 10 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
11 9 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
11 9 (0.33%) SAP FS
12 8 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 228 (8.38%) Azure
2 213 (7.83%) Power Platform
3 143 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (4.34%) SaaS
5 105 (3.86%) AWS
6 50 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 40 (1.47%) GCP
9 33 (1.21%) Smartsheet
10 32 (1.18%) Power Automate
11 31 (1.14%) Entra ID
12 29 (1.07%) Snowflake
13 28 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (0.88%) PaaS
15 21 (0.77%) Asana
16 20 (0.73%) Google Workspace
17 19 (0.70%) IaaS
17 19 (0.70%) PowerApps
18 17 (0.62%) Fivetran
18 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 40 (1.47%) Firewall
2 34 (1.25%) WAN
2 34 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
3 33 (1.21%) VPN
4 30 (1.10%) Wireless
5 26 (0.96%) LAN
6 20 (0.73%) Internet
6 20 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 19 (0.70%) VLAN
8 17 (0.62%) DNS
8 17 (0.62%) Unified Communications
9 16 (0.59%) Network Security
10 15 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
10 15 (0.55%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.51%) MPLS
12 13 (0.48%) DHCP
13 12 (0.44%) CHAP
14 11 (0.40%) Intranet
14 11 (0.40%) VoIP
15 10 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (6.80%) Power BI
2 173 (6.36%) Tableau
3 122 (4.48%) Data Mining
4 64 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 30 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (0.84%) SAP BW
7 19 (0.70%) Looker
8 18 (0.66%) Metadata
9 16 (0.59%) Power Query
10 14 (0.51%) Big Data
10 14 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 12 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 6 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.18%) Crystal Reports
15 5 (0.18%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 135 (4.96%) JIRA
2 13 (0.48%) GitLab
3 11 (0.40%) Git
4 9 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.18%) 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 (0.073%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.073%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.073%) Gradle
8 2 (0.073%) JUnit
8 2 (0.073%) Mockito
8 2 (0.073%) Selenium
8 2 (0.073%) Subversion
8 2 (0.073%) TestNG
8 2 (0.073%) Vagrant
General
1 1,200 (44.09%) Finance
2 1,197 (43.98%) Social Skills
3 815 (29.94%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (11.02%) Marketing
5 213 (7.83%) Manufacturing
6 189 (6.94%) Law
7 180 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 178 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
9 169 (6.21%) Presentation Skills
10 156 (5.73%) Legal
11 151 (5.55%) Retail
12 137 (5.03%) Public Sector
13 104 (3.82%) Banking
14 84 (3.09%) Telecoms
15 77 (2.83%) Games
16 70 (2.57%) Electronics
17 62 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
18 57 (2.09%) Advertising
19 52 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
20 49 (1.80%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 431 (15.83%) Analyst
2 414 (15.21%) Senior
3 377 (13.85%) Project Manager
4 243 (8.93%) Trainee
5 234 (8.60%) Trainee Analyst
6 233 (8.56%) Senior Manager
7 226 (8.30%) Lead
8 204 (7.49%) Business Analyst
9 173 (6.36%) IT Manager
10 155 (5.69%) Architect
11 137 (5.03%) Data Analyst
12 129 (4.74%) Development Manager
13 118 (4.34%) Trainee Business Analyst
14 116 (4.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 109 (4.00%) Business Manager
15 109 (4.00%) Product Manager
16 102 (3.75%) Consultant
17 85 (3.12%) IT Project Manager
18 83 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
19 81 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.21%) CSS
1 33 (1.21%) Middleware
2 23 (0.84%) HTML
3 15 (0.55%) EDI
4 14 (0.51%) .NET
5 10 (0.37%) Web Services
6 9 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.29%) React
8 7 (0.26%) FHIR
8 7 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.26%) Node.js
9 5 (0.18%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.18%) REST
10 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.15%) FIDO
10 4 (0.15%) Flutter
10 4 (0.15%) Pandas
10 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 208 (7.64%) Management Information System
2 130 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
3 125 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 110 (4.04%) FMCG
5 87 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 76 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 76 (2.79%) Robotics
7 66 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 65 (2.39%) Driving Licence
9 64 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 48 (1.76%) Social Media
11 45 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.32%) Algorithms
13 28 (1.03%) IoT
14 27 (0.99%) Blog
15 25 (0.92%) NHS
16 21 (0.77%) PMI
17 20 (0.73%) Life Science
18 19 (0.70%) Blockchain
18 19 (0.70%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 62 (2.28%) Windows
2 28 (1.03%) Linux
3 24 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.29%) Android
5 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.26%) VMS
7 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.18%) Unix
8 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.037%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
2 631 (23.18%) Agile
3 626 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 586 (21.53%) Project Delivery
5 472 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 434 (15.94%) Analytics
7 427 (15.69%) Change Management
8 425 (15.61%) Decision-Making
9 367 (13.48%) Risk Management
10 356 (13.08%) Business Analysis
11 311 (11.43%) PRINCE2
12 299 (10.98%) AI
13 274 (10.07%) ERP
13 274 (10.07%) Process Improvement
14 262 (9.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 261 (9.59%) Data Analysis
16 258 (9.48%) Business Strategy
17 252 (9.26%) Business Intelligence
18 225 (8.27%) Roadmaps
19 220 (8.08%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 279 (10.25%) SQL
2 243 (8.93%) Python
3 38 (1.40%) C#
4 33 (1.21%) C
5 31 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 29 (1.07%) Java
7 25 (0.92%) C++
8 19 (0.70%) VBA
9 17 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 12 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.44%) Perl
11 10 (0.37%) PHP
12 8 (0.29%) R
13 6 (0.22%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.22%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.22%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.18%) Bash
15 4 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
15 4 (0.15%) Ruby
15 4 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 890 (32.70%) Degree
2 212 (7.79%) PMP
3 204 (7.49%) PMI Certification
4 181 (6.65%) Security Cleared
5 149 (5.47%) SC Cleared
6 110 (4.04%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.35%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 52 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (1.62%) DBS Check
11 39 (1.43%) CISSP
12 25 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (0.92%) MBA
13 24 (0.88%) DV Cleared
14 23 (0.84%) CISM
14 23 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 22 (0.81%) ACCA
15 22 (0.81%) CCNP
15 22 (0.81%) HND
15 22 (0.81%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (7.71%) QA
2 161 (5.91%) PMO
3 96 (3.53%) GDPR
4 58 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 41 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.07%) NIST
8 26 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 25 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 15 (0.55%) COBIT
11 15 (0.55%) SLA
12 13 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.40%) IFRS
14 10 (0.37%) GRC
14 10 (0.37%) IEC 61131
14 10 (0.37%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.33%) IFRS 17
16 7 (0.26%) HL7
16 7 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 59 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.62%) Docker
3 16 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.40%) Firmware
4 11 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.22%) vSphere
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.037%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 19 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.40%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.37%) Terraform
4 6 (0.22%) Ansible
5 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.15%) Grafana
7 3 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.073%) Nagios
9 1 (0.037%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.037%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.037%) MOM
9 1 (0.037%) SCCM
9 1 (0.037%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 656 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 230 (8.45%) SAP
3 93 (3.42%) Salesforce
4 71 (2.61%) Oracle
5 62 (2.28%) Google
6 52 (1.91%) Cisco
7 47 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.36%) Ariba
8 37 (1.36%) OpenText
9 35 (1.29%) Adobe
10 25 (0.92%) Anaplan
11 20 (0.73%) Genesys
11 20 (0.73%) Verint
11 20 (0.73%) VMware
12 19 (0.70%) Databricks
13 18 (0.66%) HubSpot
14 16 (0.59%) Sage
15 15 (0.55%) Workday
16 14 (0.51%) NEC
16 14 (0.51%) Siemens