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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 28 23
Rank change year-on-year -33 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,478 3,438 7,426
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.56% 7.33% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 8.02% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,441 1,766 5,266
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,159 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £94,389 £84,607
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 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 2 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 2,164 £55,000 -8.33% 1,433
UK excluding London -38 1,586 £52,500 -4.55% 1,060
Work from Home -11 1,006 £55,000 -4.35% 580
London -31 723 £69,500 -4.14% 574
North of England -4 466 £55,000 +0.38% 252
South East -28 407 £48,885 -12.38% 327
Midlands -52 226 £55,000 +0.92% 146
North West +4 211 £55,000 +5.26% 151
South West -40 173 £47,500 -20.83% 113
Yorkshire -28 155 £60,000 +9.09% 80
East of England -39 146 £60,000 +9.09% 111
West Midlands -52 141 £55,000 - 88
North East -24 100 £60,000 +17.65% 23
East Midlands -35 84 £52,500 +10.53% 57
Northern Ireland -14 71 £47,500 -17.39% 43
Scotland -49 62 £43,750 -13.27% 55
Wales -57 39 £57,515 -5.33% 30

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 90 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.10%) Confluence
3 40 (1.61%) CMS
4 33 (1.33%) WordPress
5 20 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 8 (0.32%) WebLogic
6 8 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.16%) Moodle
10 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.081%) Totara
12 1 (0.040%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.040%) Drupal
12 1 (0.040%) govService
12 1 (0.040%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 233 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 213 (8.60%) Microsoft Project
3 178 (7.18%) Microsoft Office
4 55 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.69%) Trello
7 15 (0.61%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.12%) Blender
13 3 (0.12%) Maya
14 2 (0.081%) Camtasia
15 1 (0.040%) Adobe Captivate
15 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
15 1 (0.040%) Houdini
15 1 (0.040%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 42 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
4 15 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
4 15 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 14 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.36%) Shopify
8 8 (0.32%) Primavera
8 8 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.28%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
10 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 6 (0.24%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.20%) iTrent
11 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 236 (9.52%) Azure
2 219 (8.84%) Power Platform
3 148 (5.97%) SaaS
4 131 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (4.92%) AWS
6 81 (3.27%) PowerApps
7 62 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 46 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 34 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (1.29%) Asana
11 32 (1.29%) Smartsheet
12 29 (1.17%) OneDrive
13 28 (1.13%) Entra ID
13 28 (1.13%) GCP
14 25 (1.01%) Canva
15 24 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (0.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 44 (1.78%) Broadband
2 42 (1.69%) Firewall
3 29 (1.17%) WAN
4 26 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (1.01%) LAN
6 19 (0.77%) DNS
7 17 (0.69%) CHAP
8 15 (0.61%) DHCP
9 14 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.52%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.48%) Network Security
12 11 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
13 10 (0.40%) VPN
14 9 (0.36%) NGN
14 9 (0.36%) Wireless
15 8 (0.32%) BGP
16 7 (0.28%) Internet
16 7 (0.28%) Multicast
16 7 (0.28%) VoIP
17 6 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (7.14%) Power BI
2 84 (3.39%) Tableau
3 72 (2.91%) Data Mining
4 38 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.13%) GIS
6 22 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (0.81%) QGIS
8 20 (0.81%) Spatial Data
9 18 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.44%) Power Query
11 10 (0.40%) Metadata
11 10 (0.40%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.36%) Db2
12 9 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.32%) Big Data
13 8 (0.32%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 155 (6.26%) JIRA
2 24 (0.97%) Git
3 11 (0.44%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.12%) GitLab
5 3 (0.12%) JUnit
5 3 (0.12%) Storybook
6 2 (0.081%) Gatling
6 2 (0.081%) JMeter
6 2 (0.081%) Pa11y
6 2 (0.081%) Postman
6 2 (0.081%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.081%) Yeoman
6 2 (0.081%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.040%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.040%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.040%) Selenium
7 1 (0.040%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.040%) TestNG
General
1 1,031 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 806 (32.53%) Finance
3 463 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (10.94%) Marketing
5 235 (9.48%) Organisational Skills
6 148 (5.97%) Retail
7 143 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 142 (5.73%) Manufacturing
9 136 (5.49%) Legal
10 126 (5.08%) Public Sector
11 107 (4.32%) Law
12 94 (3.79%) Banking
13 69 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
15 60 (2.42%) Local Government
16 56 (2.26%) Telecoms
17 50 (2.02%) Advertising
18 46 (1.86%) Financial Institution
19 43 (1.74%) Aerospace
20 41 (1.65%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 511 (20.62%) Project Manager
2 357 (14.41%) Senior
3 290 (11.70%) Analyst
4 186 (7.51%) Senior Manager
5 184 (7.43%) Lead
6 177 (7.14%) IT Manager
7 165 (6.66%) Consultant
8 154 (6.21%) Senior Project Manager
9 140 (5.65%) Business Analyst
10 125 (5.04%) Development Manager
11 104 (4.20%) IT Project Manager
12 79 (3.19%) Data Analyst
13 78 (3.15%) Product Manager
13 78 (3.15%) Trainee
13 78 (3.15%) Trainee Analyst
14 68 (2.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 64 (2.58%) IT Support
16 59 (2.38%) Coordinator
16 59 (2.38%) Developer
17 58 (2.34%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.74%) .NET
1 43 (1.74%) PyTorch
2 42 (1.69%) HTML
3 37 (1.49%) CSS
4 24 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
4 24 (0.97%) JSON
5 23 (0.93%) Hugging Face
5 23 (0.93%) TensorFlow
6 21 (0.85%) .NET Core
6 21 (0.85%) Flash
7 19 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (0.77%) SPFx
8 18 (0.73%) EDI
9 15 (0.61%) LangChain
9 15 (0.61%) LlamaIndex
9 15 (0.61%) Middleware
9 15 (0.61%) Model Context Protocol
10 12 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (0.36%) Node.js
12 8 (0.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 174 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 151 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 105 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 84 (3.39%) Driving Licence
5 79 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.30%) Social Media
7 53 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (2.10%) FMCG
9 46 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 45 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
11 44 (1.78%) Security Posture
12 36 (1.45%) Cloud Native
13 34 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
15 31 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
16 29 (1.17%) Algorithms
16 29 (1.17%) PMI
17 28 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
18 27 (1.09%) Web Conferencing
19 26 (1.05%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 85 (3.43%) Windows
2 34 (1.37%) Linux
3 28 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.93%) Android
5 18 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.24%) Unix
6 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 2 (0.081%) zOS
10 1 (0.040%) CentOS
10 1 (0.040%) Debian
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (29.10%) Agile
2 631 (25.46%) Project Delivery
3 542 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
4 530 (21.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 474 (19.13%) PRINCE2
6 397 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 343 (13.84%) Decision-Making
8 299 (12.07%) Analytics
9 273 (11.02%) Mentoring
10 265 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 259 (10.45%) AI
12 254 (10.25%) Roadmaps
13 232 (9.36%) Coaching
14 231 (9.32%) Risk Management
15 223 (9.00%) Business Analysis
16 221 (8.92%) Change Management
17 216 (8.72%) Logistics
18 209 (8.43%) Budget Management
19 196 (7.91%) ERP
20 182 (7.34%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 224 (9.04%) SQL
2 210 (8.47%) Python
3 49 (1.98%) JavaScript
4 47 (1.90%) C#
5 33 (1.33%) PowerShell
5 33 (1.33%) TypeScript
6 27 (1.09%) VBA
7 15 (0.61%) Java
8 9 (0.36%) C
9 8 (0.32%) PHP
10 7 (0.28%) C++
11 4 (0.16%) ABAP
11 4 (0.16%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.16%) Bash
11 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.12%) COBOL
12 3 (0.12%) Dart
12 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.081%) RPG
Qualifications
1 580 (23.41%) Degree
2 215 (8.68%) PMI Certification
3 214 (8.64%) PMP
4 133 (5.37%) DBS Check
5 129 (5.21%) Security Cleared
6 99 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 83 (3.35%) CISSP
8 62 (2.50%) SC Cleared
9 58 (2.34%) CISM
10 55 (2.22%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 41 (1.65%) DV Cleared
13 29 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
14 28 (1.13%) CRISC
15 24 (0.97%) CISA
15 24 (0.97%) HNC
15 24 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (0.89%) SANS
18 19 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (7.83%) QA
2 160 (6.46%) PMO
3 113 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 105 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 88 (3.55%) NIST
6 84 (3.39%) GDPR
7 42 (1.69%) GRC
8 41 (1.65%) Data Quality
9 40 (1.61%) ISO 9001
10 34 (1.37%) SLA
11 33 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.93%) NIST 800
14 21 (0.85%) COBIT
15 18 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 16 (0.65%) ISO 14001
17 14 (0.56%) GAAP
18 11 (0.44%) IFRS
19 10 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
19 10 (0.40%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 43 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.77%) Docker
3 8 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.081%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.081%) Firmware
6 2 (0.081%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.040%) IAG
7 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (0.89%) SCCM
3 20 (0.81%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.48%) Ansible
5 11 (0.44%) Terraform
6 9 (0.36%) Grafana
7 8 (0.32%) Puppet
8 5 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
10 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.081%) Argo
11 2 (0.081%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.081%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.081%) Salt
12 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.040%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 1 (0.040%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.040%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 494 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 102 (4.12%) SAP
3 98 (3.95%) Oracle
4 69 (2.78%) Adobe
5 60 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 59 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.06%) Google
8 27 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.81%) Cisco
9 20 (0.81%) Pardot
10 17 (0.69%) Fortinet
10 17 (0.69%) JD Edwards
11 15 (0.61%) SonicWALL
12 14 (0.56%) Apple
12 14 (0.56%) Instagram
12 14 (0.56%) Remedy
13 12 (0.48%) VMware
14 11 (0.44%) Bloomberg
14 11 (0.44%) Reuters
14 11 (0.44%) Sage