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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -30 -11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,837 3,059 5,269
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.41% 6.18% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 6.94% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 1,600 2,438
10th Percentile £31,285 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,094 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £89,374 £92,625 £89,825
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -4.55%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -28 2,546 £55,000 -8.33% 3,827
UK excluding London -34 1,874 £52,000 -5.45% 2,302
Work from Home -18 1,080 £50,000 -16.67% 1,531
London -35 829 £63,409 -9.42% 1,804
South East -21 515 £45,000 -25.00% 609
North of England -30 391 £55,000 +10.00% 495
Midlands -11 364 £52,500 - 355
South West -34 239 £55,000 - 266
North West +11 231 £53,500 +7.00% 268
West Midlands -25 204 £52,500 - 212
East of England -23 189 £53,000 - 238
East Midlands +3 160 £55,000 +13.40% 143
Yorkshire -41 109 £57,500 +10.58% 172
Scotland -40 76 £70,000 +18.14% 194
Northern Ireland -67 52 £70,000 +57.30% 104
North East -67 51 £58,000 +71.85% 57
Wales -60 49 £65,000 +8.33% 74

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
1 141 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 74 (2.61%) CMS
3 70 (2.47%) Confluence
4 27 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
5 20 (0.70%) WordPress
6 16 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.32%) IIS
9 8 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.21%) Moodle
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.18%) MS Project Server
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.070%) Totara
15 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
15 1 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.035%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 291 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
2 288 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 281 (9.90%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 19 (0.67%) AutoCAD
8 18 (0.63%) EPLAN
9 17 (0.60%) Trello
10 16 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
11 9 (0.32%) Revit
12 3 (0.11%) Blender
12 3 (0.11%) Maya
12 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.070%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.070%) Navisworks
13 2 (0.070%) OrCAD
13 2 (0.070%) PTC Creo
13 2 (0.070%) Siemens NX
13 2 (0.070%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 79 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 42 (1.48%) Primavera
3 35 (1.23%) NetSuite
4 28 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
5 25 (0.88%) SAP EHS
6 9 (0.32%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.32%) Shopify
7 8 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
7 8 (0.28%) Infor M3
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 6 (0.21%) iTrent
10 5 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.18%) Sage 200
10 5 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
11 4 (0.14%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.14%) Misys Midas
11 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 239 (8.42%) Azure
2 232 (8.18%) Power Platform
3 166 (5.85%) AWS
4 154 (5.43%) SaaS
5 128 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
7 70 (2.47%) PowerApps
8 68 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (1.97%) Smartsheet
10 51 (1.80%) Power Automate
11 50 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
12 36 (1.27%) GCP
13 32 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
14 28 (0.99%) LangSmith
15 26 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
16 24 (0.85%) Serverless
17 23 (0.81%) Entra ID
17 23 (0.81%) Google Analytics
18 19 (0.67%) Canva
19 18 (0.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (1.83%) Firewall
2 30 (1.06%) LAN
2 30 (1.06%) WAN
3 28 (0.99%) DNS
4 20 (0.70%) Profibus
5 19 (0.67%) VPN
6 16 (0.56%) DHCP
6 16 (0.56%) Network Security
7 14 (0.49%) BGP
7 14 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.46%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.42%) NGN
10 11 (0.39%) Intranet
10 11 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.39%) Wireless
11 9 (0.32%) Multicast
11 9 (0.32%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (0.28%) Internet
12 8 (0.28%) Modbus
13 7 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (7.08%) Power BI
2 59 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 23 (0.81%) Big Data
3 23 (0.81%) Metadata
4 21 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (0.74%) Relational Database
4 21 (0.74%) Tableau
5 20 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 18 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 17 (0.60%) MySQL
8 14 (0.49%) Hadoop
9 13 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (0.39%) Apache Hive
11 11 (0.39%) GIS
11 11 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.25%) Data Mining
13 7 (0.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 247 (8.71%) JIRA
2 23 (0.81%) Git
3 17 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
4 11 (0.39%) Claude Code
4 11 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (0.28%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.25%) GitLab
8 5 (0.18%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.18%) JUnit
9 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.11%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.11%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.11%) Selenium
10 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.11%) TestNG
10 3 (0.11%) VersionOne
General
1 1,224 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 908 (32.01%) Finance
3 551 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 366 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
5 308 (10.86%) Marketing
6 207 (7.30%) Legal
7 192 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 180 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
9 179 (6.31%) Manufacturing
10 164 (5.78%) Public Sector
11 157 (5.53%) Retail
12 138 (4.86%) Law
13 121 (4.27%) Aerospace
14 105 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
15 86 (3.03%) Banking
16 84 (2.96%) Electronics
17 81 (2.86%) Telecoms
18 53 (1.87%) Local Government
19 48 (1.69%) Financial Institution
19 48 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 588 (20.73%) Project Manager
2 416 (14.66%) Senior
3 257 (9.06%) Lead
4 210 (7.40%) Senior Manager
5 200 (7.05%) Analyst
6 189 (6.66%) Consultant
7 182 (6.42%) IT Manager
8 144 (5.08%) Senior Project Manager
9 118 (4.16%) Business Analyst
10 110 (3.88%) IT Project Manager
11 78 (2.75%) Technical Manager
12 76 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
13 72 (2.54%) Development Manager
14 71 (2.50%) Coordinator
15 63 (2.22%) Architect
16 62 (2.19%) Product Manager
16 62 (2.19%) Senior Consultant
17 61 (2.15%) Developer
18 59 (2.08%) Service Manager
19 58 (2.04%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.69%) .NET
1 48 (1.69%) HTML
2 45 (1.59%) CSS
3 33 (1.16%) TensorFlow
4 30 (1.06%) PyTorch
5 28 (0.99%) LangChain
5 28 (0.99%) Langfuse
5 28 (0.99%) LlamaIndex
5 28 (0.99%) Model Context Protocol
6 25 (0.88%) Hugging Face
7 20 (0.70%) Flash
8 18 (0.63%) ASP.NET
9 17 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
9 17 (0.60%) jQuery
9 17 (0.60%) JSON
10 16 (0.56%) Terraform
11 14 (0.49%) Kafka
12 12 (0.42%) .NET Core
12 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
12 12 (0.42%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 295 (10.40%) Onboarding
2 231 (8.14%) Management Information System
3 194 (6.84%) Data Centre
4 135 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 134 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 93 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 74 (2.61%) PMI
8 67 (2.36%) Social Media
9 66 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 64 (2.26%) Blog
11 54 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.73%) Robotics
13 48 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
14 46 (1.62%) Cloud Native
15 40 (1.41%) AI Agents
16 38 (1.34%) e-Learning
17 37 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
17 37 (1.30%) SCADA
18 36 (1.27%) FMCG
19 32 (1.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 114 (4.02%) Windows
2 46 (1.62%) Linux
3 17 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.14%) VMS
6 4 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) AIX
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Debian
7 3 (0.11%) Unix
8 2 (0.070%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.070%) Solaris
9 1 (0.035%) CentOS
9 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (28.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 800 (28.20%) Agile
3 783 (27.60%) Problem-Solving
4 782 (27.56%) Project Delivery
5 655 (23.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 512 (18.05%) PRINCE2
7 385 (13.57%) Decision-Making
8 340 (11.98%) AI
9 329 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 322 (11.35%) Roadmaps
11 289 (10.19%) Analytics
12 266 (9.38%) Risk Management
13 263 (9.27%) Mentoring
14 250 (8.81%) ERP
15 247 (8.71%) Budget Management
16 246 (8.67%) CRM
17 241 (8.49%) Coaching
18 235 (8.28%) Change Management
19 219 (7.72%) Service Delivery
20 217 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 178 (6.27%) SQL
2 160 (5.64%) Python
3 77 (2.71%) JavaScript
4 50 (1.76%) PowerShell
5 43 (1.52%) C#
6 39 (1.37%) Java
7 30 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 20 (0.70%) C
9 18 (0.63%) Ladder Logic
10 14 (0.49%) PHP
11 13 (0.46%) C++
12 9 (0.32%) Assembly Language
12 9 (0.32%) R
12 9 (0.32%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.21%) Ruby
13 6 (0.21%) VBA
14 5 (0.18%) Bash
14 5 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.18%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.14%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 783 (27.60%) Degree
2 269 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 251 (8.85%) PMI Certification
4 220 (7.75%) PMP
5 148 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 144 (5.08%) DBS Check
7 112 (3.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 79 (2.78%) HNC
9 78 (2.75%) DV Cleared
10 70 (2.47%) HND
11 69 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (2.01%) Master's Degree
13 54 (1.90%) Chartered Engineer
14 51 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 48 (1.69%) CISSP
16 39 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
17 36 (1.27%) ACCA
18 35 (1.23%) CISM
19 30 (1.06%) CIMA
20 28 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (7.08%) PMO
2 164 (5.78%) QA
3 97 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 97 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 77 (2.71%) GDPR
6 56 (1.97%) NIST
6 56 (1.97%) SLA
7 37 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (1.02%) ISO 9001
9 25 (0.88%) GRC
10 20 (0.70%) GMP
11 17 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 17 (0.60%) ISO 14000
12 16 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 14 (0.49%) IEC 61131
14 13 (0.46%) ISO 14001
15 12 (0.42%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.39%) IFRS
17 10 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 33 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.60%) Docker
4 11 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.35%) Firmware
5 10 (0.35%) vSphere
6 7 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.11%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.070%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.035%) IAG
9 1 (0.035%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.035%) NFS
9 1 (0.035%) Samba
9 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) XenApp
9 1 (0.035%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (0.81%) SCCM
2 16 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (0.56%) Puppet
3 15 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.46%) Progress Chef
5 10 (0.35%) FortiGate
6 7 (0.25%) Ansible
6 7 (0.25%) Functional Safety
7 6 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
8 5 (0.18%) EnCase
8 5 (0.18%) FTK
9 4 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.070%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.070%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.035%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.035%) Grafana
11 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.035%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.035%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 573 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 176 (6.20%) SAP
3 118 (4.16%) Oracle
4 74 (2.61%) Google
5 71 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 70 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 61 (2.15%) Adobe
8 48 (1.69%) HubSpot
9 40 (1.41%) Siemens
10 38 (1.34%) Sage
11 33 (1.16%) Cisco
12 30 (1.06%) Fortinet
13 28 (0.99%) Sitecore
13 28 (0.99%) VMware
14 21 (0.74%) NEC
15 20 (0.70%) Remedy
15 20 (0.70%) SonicWALL
16 15 (0.53%) Intapp
17 13 (0.46%) Aderant
17 13 (0.46%) Bloomberg