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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 17 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 0
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,833 5,447 3,885
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.23% 8.40% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 9.82% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 2,426 2,803
10th Percentile £30,150 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,563 £46,250 £46,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.66%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% -0.38% +4.76%

All Process and 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 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 1 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 1 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 -20 2,427 £55,000 -4.35% 1,796
UK excluding London -24 1,831 £50,000 -8.75% 1,662
London -16 779 £70,000 +3.70% 447
Work from Home -24 756 £60,000 +1.69% 473
South East -14 492 £57,500 +4.55% 462
North of England -24 461 £41,075 -23.94% 407
Midlands -33 293 £47,500 -13.64% 337
North West -27 211 £45,000 -16.56% 231
South West -1 210 £50,000 -7.41% 165
West Midlands -23 195 £45,000 -21.74% 211
Scotland -14 167 £54,855 -0.26% 71
Yorkshire -14 163 £41,075 -25.32% 121
East of England -37 154 £55,000 +5.77% 183
East Midlands -39 99 £52,500 +0.48% 124
North East +21 87 £32,500 -28.57% 65
Wales -22 30 £60,000 +16.38% 48
Northern Ireland -11 27 £60,000 -11.11% 22

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 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 62 (2.19%) Confluence
3 47 (1.66%) CMS
4 38 (1.34%) WordPress
5 24 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.67%) Kinematics
7 10 (0.35%) Apache
7 10 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.21%) Drupal
9 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
10 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Magnolia
11 3 (0.11%) Moodle
11 3 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 2 (0.071%) IIS
12 2 (0.071%) TPMS
13 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 398 (14.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 288 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
3 182 (6.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 119 (4.20%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.13%) Maya
7 25 (0.88%) AutoCAD
8 23 (0.81%) Trello
9 15 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 13 (0.46%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.42%) SOLIDWORKS
12 9 (0.32%) Revit
13 8 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
14 7 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
14 7 (0.25%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.18%) InDesign
16 4 (0.14%) CATIA
16 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
17 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 112 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.29%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 25 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.88%) SAP CO
4 25 (0.88%) SAP FI
4 25 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
5 21 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
6 20 (0.71%) SAP IBP
7 19 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
8 15 (0.53%) Shopify
9 12 (0.42%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.42%) Sprinklr
10 11 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
10 11 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
10 11 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
11 10 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 228 (8.05%) Azure
2 195 (6.88%) Power Platform
3 147 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (3.92%) AWS
5 110 (3.88%) SaaS
6 52 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
8 39 (1.38%) GCP
9 36 (1.27%) Power Automate
9 36 (1.27%) Smartsheet
10 33 (1.16%) Snowflake
11 30 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
12 27 (0.95%) Entra ID
13 24 (0.85%) PaaS
14 23 (0.81%) Google Analytics
14 23 (0.81%) IaaS
15 22 (0.78%) Google Workspace
16 21 (0.74%) Asana
17 19 (0.67%) PowerApps
18 18 (0.64%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.62%) Firewall
2 35 (1.24%) WAN
3 34 (1.20%) VPN
4 28 (0.99%) LAN
5 27 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (0.92%) Wireless
7 21 (0.74%) Internet
7 21 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 18 (0.64%) DNS
8 18 (0.64%) Unified Communications
9 17 (0.60%) VLAN
10 16 (0.56%) Network Security
10 16 (0.56%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.49%) MPLS
12 13 (0.46%) DHCP
13 12 (0.42%) Broadband
13 12 (0.42%) Intranet
13 12 (0.42%) VoIP
14 9 (0.32%) BGP
15 8 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (5.97%) Power BI
2 124 (4.38%) Tableau
3 93 (3.28%) Data Mining
4 66 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.13%) SAP BW
6 28 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.71%) Looker
8 18 (0.64%) Metadata
9 16 (0.56%) Big Data
10 15 (0.53%) Power Query
11 14 (0.49%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
13 9 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
13 9 (0.32%) SAP HANA
13 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.25%) MS Access
15 7 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 165 (5.82%) JIRA
2 17 (0.60%) Git
3 11 (0.39%) GitLab
4 10 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.14%) JIRA Agile
5 4 (0.14%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.11%) ERwin
6 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.071%) Maven
7 2 (0.071%) Subversion
7 2 (0.071%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.035%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.035%) gulp
8 1 (0.035%) LSMW
8 1 (0.035%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.035%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.035%) webpack
General
1 1,276 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 1,199 (42.32%) Finance
3 834 (29.44%) Analytical Skills
4 317 (11.19%) Marketing
5 241 (8.51%) Law
6 197 (6.95%) Manufacturing
7 195 (6.88%) Legal
8 192 (6.78%) Retail
9 190 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 188 (6.64%) Organisational Skills
11 160 (5.65%) Public Sector
12 154 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
13 112 (3.95%) Banking
14 85 (3.00%) Telecoms
15 83 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
16 77 (2.72%) Electronics
17 64 (2.26%) Games
18 63 (2.22%) Local Government
19 61 (2.15%) Advertising
20 56 (1.98%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 448 (15.81%) Senior
2 425 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 367 (12.95%) Analyst
4 276 (9.74%) Lead
5 224 (7.91%) Senior Manager
6 186 (6.57%) IT Manager
7 177 (6.25%) Trainee
8 171 (6.04%) Business Analyst
9 168 (5.93%) Trainee Analyst
10 134 (4.73%) Architect
11 110 (3.88%) Consultant
12 109 (3.85%) Business Manager
12 109 (3.85%) Development Manager
13 107 (3.78%) Data Analyst
14 96 (3.39%) IT Project Manager
14 96 (3.39%) Product Manager
15 91 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
16 87 (3.07%) Coordinator
17 85 (3.00%) Senior Project Manager
18 84 (2.97%) Trainee Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.62%) CSS
2 37 (1.31%) HTML
3 36 (1.27%) Middleware
4 17 (0.60%) .NET
5 14 (0.49%) React
6 12 (0.42%) Web Services
7 10 (0.35%) EDI
7 10 (0.35%) Node.js
7 10 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.28%) FHIR
9 7 (0.25%) Kafka
10 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Beam
12 4 (0.14%) FIDO
12 4 (0.14%) Flutter
12 4 (0.14%) Pandas
12 4 (0.14%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.14%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 209 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 134 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 129 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 103 (3.64%) FMCG
6 82 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.89%) Robotics
7 74 (2.61%) Driving Licence
8 72 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 63 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 58 (2.05%) Social Media
11 46 (1.62%) NHS
11 46 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 30 (1.06%) IoT
14 29 (1.02%) Blog
15 23 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
16 22 (0.78%) PMI
17 21 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 63 (2.22%) Windows
2 26 (0.92%) Linux
3 23 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.28%) Android
5 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.28%) VMS
6 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.11%) zOS
8 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.035%) Unix
8 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
2 673 (23.76%) Agile
3 662 (23.37%) Project Delivery
4 600 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 513 (18.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 427 (15.07%) Analytics
7 401 (14.15%) Change Management
8 383 (13.52%) Risk Management
9 382 (13.48%) Decision-Making
10 322 (11.37%) PRINCE2
11 303 (10.70%) Business Analysis
12 297 (10.48%) ERP
13 296 (10.45%) AI
14 267 (9.42%) Process Improvement
15 264 (9.32%) Business Strategy
16 259 (9.14%) Roadmaps
17 249 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 238 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
19 235 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
20 226 (7.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 273 (9.64%) SQL
2 209 (7.38%) Python
3 51 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 45 (1.59%) C#
5 36 (1.27%) C
6 30 (1.06%) Java
7 28 (0.99%) C++
8 22 (0.78%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.53%) VBA
10 14 (0.49%) R
11 13 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.42%) PHP
12 12 (0.42%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.35%) Perl
14 7 (0.25%) Bash
14 7 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.21%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.14%) COBOL
16 4 (0.14%) Ladder Logic
16 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 886 (31.27%) Degree
2 194 (6.85%) PMP
3 188 (6.64%) PMI Certification
4 184 (6.49%) Security Cleared
5 148 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 124 (4.38%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.26%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 58 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 53 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 51 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.41%) CISSP
12 36 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (0.95%) PhD
14 26 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.81%) DV Cleared
15 23 (0.81%) HND
16 22 (0.78%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.78%) CCNP
17 20 (0.71%) ACCA
17 20 (0.71%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (8.19%) QA
2 185 (6.53%) PMO
3 97 (3.42%) GDPR
4 78 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.66%) Data Quality
6 39 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.02%) ISO 9001
8 27 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (0.88%) NIST
10 20 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 20 (0.71%) SLA
11 17 (0.60%) MiFID
12 13 (0.46%) IFRS
13 12 (0.42%) GxP
13 12 (0.42%) Solvency II
14 11 (0.39%) COBIT
15 10 (0.35%) GRC
15 10 (0.35%) IEC 61131
15 10 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 58 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.67%) Docker
3 16 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.35%) Firmware
5 9 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 24 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.49%) Terraform
3 7 (0.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.18%) Ansible
5 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.071%) Grafana
6 2 (0.071%) Nagios
6 2 (0.071%) SCCM
7 1 (0.035%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.035%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.035%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.035%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.035%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.035%) SmoothWall
7 1 (0.035%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 648 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 248 (8.75%) SAP
3 98 (3.46%) Salesforce
4 76 (2.68%) Google
5 67 (2.36%) Oracle
6 56 (1.98%) Adobe
7 54 (1.91%) Cisco
8 37 (1.31%) Ariba
8 37 (1.31%) OpenText
9 30 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.85%) HubSpot
11 22 (0.78%) Databricks
12 19 (0.67%) Sage
12 19 (0.67%) VMware
13 18 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.53%) NEC
14 15 (0.53%) Siemens
14 15 (0.53%) TikTok
15 13 (0.46%) Guidewire
16 12 (0.42%) Meraki