Project Management Job Trends

Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Project Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 3,214 5,247 4,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.50% 6.73% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.33% 8.32% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,671 2,663 3,538
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% +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 43,832 63,083 58,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.65% 80.93% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 24,681 36,451 44,024
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management 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 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 19 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 14 September 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 -13 2,658 £60,000 +9.09% 3,112
UK excluding London -13 1,942 £55,000 +5.77% 2,536
Work from Home -7 1,065 £60,000 +4.35% 1,064
London -1 945 £70,000 +3.86% 1,175
South East -2 537 £57,500 +15.00% 856
North of England -34 412 £50,000 -3.85% 528
Midlands -26 295 £53,250 -2.24% 426
East of England -28 243 £55,000 +5.77% 236
Scotland +25 209 £60,000 +18.23% 129
North West -74 196 £50,000 -5.80% 287
West Midlands -9 193 £55,000 -4.35% 266
South West -16 175 £55,000 - 285
Yorkshire -18 145 £54,000 +3.85% 172
East Midlands -47 103 £50,135 +0.27% 152
North East +22 71 £34,099 -19.08% 76
Wales +2 37 £60,750 +35.00% 64
Northern Ireland +10 32 £50,000 -9.09% 56
Isle of Man +8 4 - -
Channel Islands +3 4 £87,500 +75.00% 1

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 136 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 70 (2.18%) Confluence
3 48 (1.49%) CMS
4 46 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (1.03%) WordPress
6 27 (0.84%) Kinematics
7 15 (0.47%) IIS
8 13 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.34%) Moodle
10 10 (0.31%) PowerFactory
11 9 (0.28%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.25%) Apache
13 7 (0.22%) Drupal
14 6 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
15 5 (0.16%) Headless CMS
16 4 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
17 3 (0.093%) Magnolia
17 3 (0.093%) Skype for Business
17 3 (0.093%) Umbraco
18 2 (0.062%) TPMS
Applications
1 243 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
2 236 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 136 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
4 124 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 45 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 41 (1.28%) Maya
7 30 (0.93%) Trello
8 18 (0.56%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
10 11 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 9 (0.28%) Revit
12 8 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
13 7 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
13 7 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
14 6 (0.19%) InDesign
14 6 (0.19%) Navisworks
15 5 (0.16%) Civil 3D
16 4 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
17 3 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 110 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 61 (1.90%) NetSuite
3 53 (1.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 50 (1.56%) SAP MDG
5 40 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
6 39 (1.21%) SAP FI
7 26 (0.81%) SAP IBP
8 23 (0.72%) SAP CO
9 22 (0.68%) Sage 200
9 22 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
10 18 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
10 18 (0.56%) Shopify
11 17 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
12 16 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
12 16 (0.50%) Sage CRM
12 16 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
13 13 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
14 12 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
14 12 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
14 12 (0.37%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 328 (10.21%) Azure
2 234 (7.28%) Power Platform
3 161 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
4 150 (4.67%) AWS
5 146 (4.54%) SaaS
6 99 (3.08%) Power Automate
7 89 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 49 (1.52%) IaaS
11 48 (1.49%) GCP
12 44 (1.37%) PowerApps
13 42 (1.31%) Google Analytics
14 41 (1.28%) PaaS
15 38 (1.18%) Snowflake
16 31 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
17 28 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
18 27 (0.84%) Google Workspace
18 27 (0.84%) Smartsheet
19 26 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.87%) Firewall
2 53 (1.65%) WAN
3 48 (1.49%) VPN
4 42 (1.31%) Wireless
5 39 (1.21%) DNS
6 33 (1.03%) SD-WAN
7 26 (0.81%) LAN
7 26 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (0.78%) VLAN
9 20 (0.62%) Unified Communications
10 19 (0.59%) VoIP
11 17 (0.53%) DHCP
11 17 (0.53%) TCP/IP
12 16 (0.50%) SSL
13 13 (0.40%) Network Security
14 11 (0.34%) Internet
14 11 (0.34%) SAN
15 10 (0.31%) MPLS
16 9 (0.28%) Intranet
16 9 (0.28%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (5.69%) Power BI
2 86 (2.68%) SQL Server
3 74 (2.30%) Tableau
4 60 (1.87%) Data Lake
5 52 (1.62%) Big Data
6 37 (1.15%) SAP BW
7 33 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (0.78%) MySQL
9 22 (0.68%) SAP HANA
10 21 (0.65%) Data Mining
10 21 (0.65%) Looker
11 18 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 17 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (0.50%) Metadata
13 16 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (0.37%) GIS
15 9 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
16 8 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.25%) MS Access
16 8 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 239 (7.44%) JIRA
2 43 (1.34%) Git
3 11 (0.34%) GitLab
3 11 (0.34%) Selenium
4 10 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.16%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.12%) Subversion
6 4 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.093%) Vagrant
7 3 (0.093%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.062%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.062%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (0.062%) Maven
9 1 (0.031%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.031%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.031%) LSMW
9 1 (0.031%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.031%) Redmine
9 1 (0.031%) TeamCity
General
1 1,490 (46.36%) Social Skills
2 1,349 (41.97%) Finance
3 847 (26.35%) Analytical Skills
4 419 (13.04%) Law
5 394 (12.26%) Marketing
6 265 (8.25%) Retail
7 263 (8.18%) Legal
8 255 (7.93%) Manufacturing
9 225 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 224 (6.97%) Banking
11 216 (6.72%) Public Sector
12 206 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
13 168 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
14 136 (4.23%) Telecoms
15 131 (4.08%) Electronics
16 99 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
17 88 (2.74%) Local Government
18 77 (2.40%) Advertising
18 77 (2.40%) Games
19 68 (2.12%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 596 (18.54%) Senior
2 517 (16.09%) Project Manager
3 355 (11.05%) Lead
4 262 (8.15%) Analyst
5 206 (6.41%) IT Manager
6 183 (5.69%) Senior Manager
7 139 (4.32%) Architect
8 137 (4.26%) Consultant
9 108 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
10 102 (3.17%) Development Manager
11 99 (3.08%) Business Analyst
12 97 (3.02%) Product Manager
13 96 (2.99%) Developer
13 96 (2.99%) IT Project Manager
14 93 (2.89%) Designer
15 92 (2.86%) IT Support
15 92 (2.86%) Operations Manager
16 83 (2.58%) Coordinator
16 83 (2.58%) Senior Designer
17 80 (2.49%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (1.99%) CSS
2 58 (1.80%) HTML
3 54 (1.68%) Middleware
4 37 (1.15%) .NET
5 20 (0.62%) OAuth
6 18 (0.56%) RESTful
7 17 (0.53%) Node.js
7 17 (0.53%) React
8 16 (0.50%) EDI
8 16 (0.50%) JSON
8 16 (0.50%) Web Services
9 15 (0.47%) XML
10 14 (0.44%) JWT
11 12 (0.37%) Kafka
12 11 (0.34%) SAML
13 10 (0.31%) REST
14 9 (0.28%) HTML5
14 9 (0.28%) SOAP
15 8 (0.25%) .NET Framework
15 8 (0.25%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 227 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 127 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 119 (3.70%) FMCG
3 119 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 118 (3.67%) Onboarding
5 116 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 84 (2.61%) NHS
6 84 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 81 (2.52%) Social Media
8 76 (2.36%) Driving Licence
9 74 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
10 57 (1.77%) Robotics
11 52 (1.62%) PMI
12 43 (1.34%) Algorithms
13 35 (1.09%) SCADA
14 33 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
16 28 (0.87%) Life Science
16 28 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
17 25 (0.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 103 (3.20%) Windows
2 43 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 33 (1.03%) Linux
4 12 (0.37%) Unix
4 12 (0.37%) VMS
5 11 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.16%) Android
7 5 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.093%) zOS
9 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.031%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 959 (29.84%) Agile
2 845 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
3 836 (26.01%) Project Delivery
4 717 (22.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 593 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 448 (13.94%) Risk Management
7 416 (12.94%) Analytics
8 375 (11.67%) Decision-Making
9 373 (11.61%) PRINCE2
10 366 (11.39%) ERP
11 352 (10.95%) Change Management
11 352 (10.95%) Roadmaps
12 351 (10.92%) Mentoring
13 325 (10.11%) CRM
14 297 (9.24%) Business Strategy
14 297 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
15 270 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
16 267 (8.31%) Process Improvement
17 265 (8.25%) Collaborative Working
18 264 (8.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 272 (8.46%) SQL
2 125 (3.89%) Python
3 82 (2.55%) C#
4 80 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 73 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 61 (1.90%) Java
7 37 (1.15%) C
8 30 (0.93%) C++
9 24 (0.75%) R
10 19 (0.59%) Bicep
11 16 (0.50%) PHP
11 16 (0.50%) VBA
12 13 (0.40%) Bash
13 12 (0.37%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.31%) Perl
15 8 (0.25%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.22%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.16%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.16%) VB
18 3 (0.093%) JCL
Qualifications
1 983 (30.58%) Degree
2 279 (8.68%) PMI Certification
3 244 (7.59%) PMP
4 220 (6.85%) Security Cleared
5 153 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 108 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 106 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 78 (2.43%) DBS Check
9 75 (2.33%) CISSP
10 56 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 52 (1.62%) DV Cleared
12 49 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 49 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
13 43 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 37 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
15 33 (1.03%) PhD
16 28 (0.87%) CCNP
17 25 (0.78%) AWS Certification
18 23 (0.72%) CISM
19 21 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (6.81%) QA
2 197 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 191 (5.94%) PMO
4 128 (3.98%) GDPR
5 79 (2.46%) Data Quality
6 76 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 56 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 34 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 31 (0.96%) SLA
10 28 (0.87%) NIST
11 25 (0.78%) ISO 9001
12 22 (0.68%) GxP
13 19 (0.59%) PMBOK
14 15 (0.47%) MiFID
15 14 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 14 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.37%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.34%) IFRS
18 10 (0.31%) IEC 61131
19 9 (0.28%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 86 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.44%) Docker
3 14 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.22%) Firmware
5 7 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.031%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.031%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (0.031%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.031%) Varnish
7 1 (0.031%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (0.72%) Terraform
4 15 (0.47%) Kubernetes
5 7 (0.22%) SCCM
6 6 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.16%) Argo
7 5 (0.16%) CSIRT
8 4 (0.12%) Ansible
8 4 (0.12%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.093%) QRadar
9 3 (0.093%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.062%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.062%) Nagios
10 2 (0.062%) SCOM
11 1 (0.031%) BMC PATROL
11 1 (0.031%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.031%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.031%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.031%) OPNET
Vendors
1 636 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 294 (9.15%) SAP
3 145 (4.51%) Salesforce
4 140 (4.36%) Google
5 93 (2.89%) Oracle
6 78 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 71 (2.21%) Adobe
8 62 (1.93%) Cisco
9 41 (1.28%) Databricks
10 39 (1.21%) Sage
11 38 (1.18%) Meraki
12 37 (1.15%) OpenText
13 33 (1.03%) Facebook
14 32 (1.00%) YouTube
15 28 (0.87%) Workday
16 27 (0.84%) Ariba
16 27 (0.84%) Concur
17 25 (0.78%) IBM
17 25 (0.78%) VMware
18 24 (0.75%) TikTok