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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,760 5,444 3,745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.70% 9.50% 7.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 10.65% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 2,411 2,658
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £37,270
25th Percentile £35,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £73,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,250 £54,793 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.94% -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 48,869 51,114 45,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.21% 89.15% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28,622 26,047 34,927
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
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% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,952 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +4.76% -2.78%

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 17 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 17 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 2,365 £55,000 -4.35% 1,594
UK excluding London -31 1,811 £48,250 -11.94% 1,466
London -18 732 £70,000 +3.70% 414
Work from Home -27 715 £57,500 -4.17% 390
North of England -24 493 £40,000 -25.83% 371
South East -30 465 £57,500 +4.55% 396
Midlands -47 296 £45,000 -18.18% 290
North West -26 221 £45,000 -16.56% 197
South West -14 208 £50,000 -4.76% 145
West Midlands -40 196 £45,000 -21.74% 173
Yorkshire -22 169 £40,000 -27.27% 133
Scotland -15 162 £52,500 -4.55% 65
East of England -41 133 £55,000 +5.77% 170
North East +9 103 £32,500 -31.07% 48
East Midlands -49 100 £50,269 -3.79% 116
Northern Ireland -12 30 £60,000 -11.11% 25
Wales -33 28 £55,000 +8.32% 42

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
1 157 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.88%) Confluence
3 47 (1.70%) CMS
4 32 (1.16%) WordPress
5 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.62%) Kinematics
7 9 (0.33%) Apache
7 9 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.22%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 4 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.11%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.072%) IIS
13 2 (0.072%) TPMS
14 1 (0.036%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.036%) Moodle
14 1 (0.036%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.036%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 408 (14.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 266 (9.64%) Microsoft Office
3 175 (6.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (3.84%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (1.20%) Maya
6 26 (0.94%) MS Visio
7 24 (0.87%) AutoCAD
8 22 (0.80%) Trello
9 15 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 14 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
11 11 (0.40%) Photoshop
12 7 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
12 7 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
12 7 (0.25%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.22%) Revit
14 5 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
15 4 (0.14%) CATIA
15 4 (0.14%) InDesign
16 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
17 2 (0.072%) Weka
Business Applications
1 106 (3.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.36%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.34%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 21 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
4 21 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 20 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 20 (0.72%) SAP IBP
6 19 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
6 19 (0.69%) SAP CO
6 19 (0.69%) SAP FI
6 19 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
7 16 (0.58%) Shopify
8 15 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
9 11 (0.40%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (0.40%) SAP FSCM
9 11 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
10 10 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
10 10 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.36%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 229 (8.30%) Azure
2 215 (7.79%) Power Platform
3 148 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (4.28%) SaaS
5 103 (3.73%) AWS
6 54 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 37 (1.34%) GCP
9 34 (1.23%) Power Automate
10 33 (1.20%) Smartsheet
11 32 (1.16%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.09%) Snowflake
13 28 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
14 24 (0.87%) PaaS
15 21 (0.76%) Asana
15 21 (0.76%) IaaS
16 20 (0.72%) Google Workspace
17 19 (0.69%) PowerApps
18 18 (0.65%) Google Analytics
19 17 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.49%) Firewall
2 35 (1.27%) VPN
2 35 (1.27%) WAN
3 29 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
3 29 (1.05%) Wireless
4 27 (0.98%) LAN
5 21 (0.76%) Internet
5 21 (0.76%) SD-WAN
6 18 (0.65%) VLAN
7 17 (0.62%) DNS
7 17 (0.62%) Unified Communications
8 15 (0.54%) Network Security
8 15 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.51%) MPLS
10 13 (0.47%) DHCP
11 12 (0.43%) VoIP
12 10 (0.36%) Broadband
12 10 (0.36%) Intranet
12 10 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
13 9 (0.33%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (6.74%) Power BI
2 159 (5.76%) Tableau
3 110 (3.99%) Data Mining
4 65 (2.36%) SQL Server
5 30 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (0.94%) SAP BW
7 19 (0.69%) Looker
8 18 (0.65%) Metadata
9 16 (0.58%) Power Query
10 15 (0.54%) Big Data
11 14 (0.51%) Data Lake
12 12 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
13 10 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.25%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 6 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 151 (5.47%) JIRA
2 16 (0.58%) Git
3 11 (0.40%) GitLab
4 9 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.14%) JIRA Agile
6 4 (0.14%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.11%) ERwin
7 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.072%) Maven
8 2 (0.072%) Subversion
8 2 (0.072%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.036%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.036%) gulp
9 1 (0.036%) LSMW
9 1 (0.036%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.036%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.036%) webpack
General
1 1,213 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 1,185 (42.93%) Finance
3 821 (29.75%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (11.38%) Marketing
5 209 (7.57%) Manufacturing
6 207 (7.50%) Law
7 181 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 181 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
8 170 (6.16%) Presentation Skills
9 162 (5.87%) Retail
10 161 (5.83%) Legal
11 141 (5.11%) Public Sector
12 102 (3.70%) Banking
13 83 (3.01%) Games
13 83 (3.01%) Telecoms
14 73 (2.64%) Electronics
15 70 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
16 59 (2.14%) Advertising
17 50 (1.81%) Aerospace
18 49 (1.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 432 (15.65%) Senior
2 401 (14.53%) Analyst
3 395 (14.31%) Project Manager
4 239 (8.66%) Lead
5 237 (8.59%) Senior Manager
6 210 (7.61%) Trainee
7 201 (7.28%) Trainee Analyst
8 183 (6.63%) Business Analyst
9 181 (6.56%) IT Manager
10 152 (5.51%) Architect
11 128 (4.64%) Development Manager
12 123 (4.46%) Data Analyst
13 114 (4.13%) Consultant
14 108 (3.91%) Business Manager
14 108 (3.91%) Product Manager
15 102 (3.70%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 99 (3.59%) Trainee Business Analyst
17 91 (3.30%) IT Project Manager
18 83 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
18 83 (3.01%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (1.49%) CSS
2 34 (1.23%) Middleware
3 32 (1.16%) HTML
4 19 (0.69%) .NET
5 15 (0.54%) EDI
6 12 (0.43%) React
6 12 (0.43%) Web Services
7 9 (0.33%) Node.js
7 9 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.29%) FHIR
9 6 (0.22%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.18%) Kafka
11 4 (0.14%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.14%) Apache Beam
11 4 (0.14%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.14%) Flutter
11 4 (0.14%) Pandas
11 4 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.14%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 202 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 131 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
3 122 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 111 (4.02%) FMCG
5 100 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
6 77 (2.79%) Robotics
7 72 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 69 (2.50%) Driving Licence
9 68 (2.46%) Product Ownership
10 66 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
11 53 (1.92%) Social Media
12 48 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 39 (1.41%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.05%) IoT
15 28 (1.01%) Blog
16 25 (0.91%) NHS
17 22 (0.80%) PMI
18 21 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
19 20 (0.72%) Life Science
19 20 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 58 (2.10%) Windows
2 25 (0.91%) Linux
3 22 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.29%) Android
5 8 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.25%) VMS
7 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.14%) Unix
9 1 (0.036%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
2 644 (23.33%) Agile
3 615 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 608 (22.03%) Project Delivery
5 498 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 429 (15.54%) Analytics
7 419 (15.18%) Decision-Making
8 409 (14.82%) Change Management
9 365 (13.22%) Risk Management
10 331 (11.99%) Business Analysis
11 310 (11.23%) PRINCE2
12 297 (10.76%) AI
13 291 (10.54%) ERP
14 266 (9.64%) Process Improvement
15 265 (9.60%) Business Strategy
16 258 (9.35%) Business Intelligence
16 258 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 245 (8.88%) Data Analysis
18 235 (8.51%) Roadmaps
19 226 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 282 (10.22%) SQL
2 228 (8.26%) Python
3 47 (1.70%) JavaScript
4 43 (1.56%) C#
5 34 (1.23%) C
6 26 (0.94%) C++
7 25 (0.91%) Java
8 21 (0.76%) PowerShell
9 18 (0.65%) VBA
10 13 (0.47%) PHP
11 12 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (0.43%) Perl
12 11 (0.40%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.29%) R
14 7 (0.25%) Bash
14 7 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.22%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.14%) COBOL
16 4 (0.14%) Ruby
16 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 870 (31.52%) Degree
2 208 (7.54%) PMP
3 202 (7.32%) PMI Certification
4 180 (6.52%) Security Cleared
5 149 (5.40%) SC Cleared
6 114 (4.13%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.32%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 53 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 47 (1.70%) DBS Check
11 39 (1.41%) CISSP
12 27 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 25 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 24 (0.87%) DV Cleared
14 24 (0.87%) PhD
15 22 (0.80%) CCNP
15 22 (0.80%) HND
15 22 (0.80%) MBA
16 21 (0.76%) ACCA
16 21 (0.76%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (8.01%) QA
2 170 (6.16%) PMO
3 99 (3.59%) GDPR
4 59 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 43 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (0.94%) NIST
9 24 (0.87%) ISO 9001
10 20 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 17 (0.62%) SLA
12 13 (0.47%) COBIT
12 13 (0.47%) IFRS
13 12 (0.43%) MiFID
13 12 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.43%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.36%) GRC
14 10 (0.36%) IEC 61131
15 9 (0.33%) IFRS 17
16 8 (0.29%) HL7
System Software
1 62 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.69%) Docker
3 15 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.40%) Firmware
5 10 (0.36%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.22%) vSphere
7 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.036%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.47%) Terraform
3 7 (0.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.18%) Ansible
4 5 (0.18%) FortiGate
4 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.072%) Grafana
5 2 (0.072%) Nagios
6 1 (0.036%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.036%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.036%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.036%) MOM
6 1 (0.036%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.036%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 648 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 236 (8.55%) SAP
3 94 (3.41%) Salesforce
4 64 (2.32%) Oracle
5 62 (2.25%) Google
6 52 (1.88%) Cisco
7 49 (1.78%) Adobe
7 49 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.34%) Ariba
8 37 (1.34%) OpenText
9 24 (0.87%) Anaplan
10 21 (0.76%) Databricks
11 20 (0.72%) Genesys
11 20 (0.72%) Sage
11 20 (0.72%) Verint
12 19 (0.69%) HubSpot
12 19 (0.69%) VMware
13 16 (0.58%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.54%) Workday
15 14 (0.51%) NEC