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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,525 3,374 6,354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.50% 6.84% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% 7.62% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 1,792 4,149
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -10.77%
75th Percentile £73,125 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,573 £92,500 £84,971
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 26 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 26 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 -29 2,242 £55,000 -8.33% 1,209
UK excluding London -37 1,598 £51,500 -6.36% 913
Work from Home -14 1,059 £54,000 -6.09% 427
London -33 770 £67,500 -4.93% 469
North of England -12 448 £55,000 +4.76% 231
South East -24 426 £46,000 -17.38% 272
Midlands -54 231 £55,000 - 145
North West +8 218 £55,000 +8.91% 119
South West -44 187 £47,500 -23.69% 96
East of England -31 161 £60,000 +9.09% 105
Yorkshire -27 149 £60,000 +9.09% 83
West Midlands -45 139 £55,000 - 88
East Midlands -35 91 £55,000 +7.32% 57
North East -32 81 £58,000 +28.89% 31
Scotland -44 63 £47,500 -5.84% 42
Northern Ireland -54 45 £47,500 -17.39% 23
Wales -60 40 £60,000 - 23

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 94 (3.72%) SharePoint
2 60 (2.38%) Confluence
3 37 (1.47%) CMS
4 29 (1.15%) WordPress
5 20 (0.79%) ArcGIS
6 14 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.32%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.20%) Apache Pig
9 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.16%) Moodle
10 3 (0.12%) IIS
10 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.079%) Totara
12 1 (0.040%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 243 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 226 (8.95%) Microsoft Project
3 190 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
4 54 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.91%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.75%) Trello
7 18 (0.71%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.40%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.12%) Blender
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.079%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.079%) SOLIDWORKS
14 1 (0.040%) FrameMaker
14 1 (0.040%) Houdini
14 1 (0.040%) NUKE
14 1 (0.040%) Revit
Business Applications
1 46 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
3 15 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 12 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.48%) Primavera
5 11 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
5 11 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
5 11 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.40%) Shopify
7 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.24%) iTrent
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.24%) SAP Business One
8 6 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
9 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 241 (9.54%) Azure
2 207 (8.20%) Power Platform
3 162 (6.42%) AWS
4 151 (5.98%) SaaS
5 136 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
6 72 (2.85%) Cloud Computing
7 66 (2.61%) PowerApps
8 63 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 49 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
10 42 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (1.50%) Smartsheet
12 31 (1.23%) Asana
12 31 (1.23%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.07%) GCP
14 26 (1.03%) OneDrive
15 25 (0.99%) Canva
16 23 (0.91%) Serverless
17 21 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 21 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.02%) Firewall
2 43 (1.70%) Broadband
3 28 (1.11%) LAN
4 27 (1.07%) DNS
4 27 (1.07%) WAN
5 25 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (0.79%) VPN
7 16 (0.63%) DHCP
8 15 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.55%) NGN
10 13 (0.51%) BGP
11 12 (0.48%) CHAP
11 12 (0.48%) Internet
11 12 (0.48%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.44%) Network Security
13 10 (0.40%) Wireless
14 9 (0.36%) Structured Cabling
15 8 (0.32%) Intranet
16 7 (0.28%) Multicast
16 7 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (7.05%) Power BI
2 77 (3.05%) Tableau
3 61 (2.42%) Data Mining
4 46 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.11%) GIS
6 22 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.79%) QGIS
7 20 (0.79%) Spatial Data
8 16 (0.63%) Big Data
8 16 (0.63%) Metadata
8 16 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.55%) Hadoop
11 13 (0.51%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.48%) MySQL
12 12 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (0.44%) Apache Hive
13 11 (0.44%) Power Query
14 9 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 190 (7.52%) JIRA
2 21 (0.83%) Git
3 12 (0.48%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.12%) Claude Code
5 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.12%) GitLab
5 3 (0.12%) JUnit
5 3 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.12%) Storybook
5 3 (0.12%) Taiga
5 3 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.12%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.079%) Gatling
6 2 (0.079%) JMeter
6 2 (0.079%) Pa11y
6 2 (0.079%) PHPUnit
6 2 (0.079%) Postman
6 2 (0.079%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.079%) Yeoman
General
1 1,051 (41.62%) Social Skills
2 812 (32.16%) Finance
3 503 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (9.94%) Marketing
5 244 (9.66%) Organisational Skills
6 158 (6.26%) Retail
7 135 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 135 (5.35%) Legal
8 128 (5.07%) Public Sector
9 127 (5.03%) Manufacturing
10 107 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
10 107 (4.24%) Law
11 84 (3.33%) Banking
12 73 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
13 61 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 54 (2.14%) Local Government
15 50 (1.98%) Aerospace
16 46 (1.82%) Advertising
17 41 (1.62%) Financial Institution
18 40 (1.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 524 (20.75%) Project Manager
2 360 (14.26%) Senior
3 268 (10.61%) Analyst
4 196 (7.76%) Lead
5 184 (7.29%) Senior Manager
6 181 (7.17%) Consultant
6 181 (7.17%) IT Manager
7 147 (5.82%) Senior Project Manager
8 126 (4.99%) Business Analyst
9 105 (4.16%) IT Project Manager
10 95 (3.76%) Development Manager
11 73 (2.89%) Data Analyst
12 66 (2.61%) IT Support
12 66 (2.61%) Senior Consultant
13 64 (2.53%) Developer
13 64 (2.53%) Trainee
13 64 (2.53%) Trainee Analyst
14 62 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
15 61 (2.42%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 60 (2.38%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.90%) HTML
2 47 (1.86%) .NET
3 43 (1.70%) PyTorch
4 40 (1.58%) CSS
5 24 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
5 24 (0.95%) JSON
5 24 (0.95%) TensorFlow
6 23 (0.91%) Hugging Face
7 21 (0.83%) .NET Core
7 21 (0.83%) Flash
8 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (0.75%) SPFx
9 18 (0.71%) LangChain
9 18 (0.71%) Langfuse
9 18 (0.71%) LlamaIndex
9 18 (0.71%) Model Context Protocol
10 16 (0.63%) Kafka
11 13 (0.51%) Middleware
12 12 (0.48%) EDI
12 12 (0.48%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 201 (7.96%) Onboarding
2 162 (6.42%) Management Information System
3 137 (5.43%) Data Centre
4 94 (3.72%) Driving Licence
5 81 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 74 (2.93%) Virtual Team
7 58 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (2.30%) Social Media
8 50 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.58%) Cloud Native
10 37 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 36 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 36 (1.43%) PMI
11 36 (1.43%) Security Posture
12 34 (1.35%) FMCG
13 30 (1.19%) Blog
14 29 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
14 29 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
15 27 (1.07%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 109 (4.32%) Windows
2 45 (1.78%) Linux
3 29 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.03%) Android
5 16 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.20%) Unix
7 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.16%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.079%) AIX
9 2 (0.079%) Debian
9 2 (0.079%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.079%) zOS
10 1 (0.040%) CentOS
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (28.51%) Agile
2 642 (25.43%) Project Delivery
3 619 (24.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 569 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
5 468 (18.53%) PRINCE2
6 450 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 326 (12.91%) Decision-Making
8 295 (11.68%) Analytics
9 277 (10.97%) Mentoring
10 273 (10.81%) AI
11 270 (10.69%) Roadmaps
12 265 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 235 (9.31%) Change Management
14 220 (8.71%) Risk Management
15 218 (8.63%) Budget Management
16 212 (8.40%) Business Analysis
17 209 (8.28%) ERP
18 207 (8.20%) Coaching
19 205 (8.12%) Logistics
20 190 (7.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 226 (8.95%) SQL
2 209 (8.28%) Python
3 53 (2.10%) JavaScript
4 50 (1.98%) C#
5 36 (1.43%) TypeScript
6 32 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 21 (0.83%) Java
8 14 (0.55%) C
9 13 (0.51%) PHP
10 10 (0.40%) VBA
11 6 (0.24%) C++
11 6 (0.24%) Ruby
12 5 (0.20%) Assembly Language
13 4 (0.16%) ABAP
13 4 (0.16%) Bash
13 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.12%) COBOL
14 3 (0.12%) Dart
14 3 (0.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 582 (23.05%) Degree
2 235 (9.31%) PMI Certification
3 230 (9.11%) PMP
4 152 (6.02%) Security Cleared
5 138 (5.47%) DBS Check
6 100 (3.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 69 (2.73%) CISSP
8 66 (2.61%) SC Cleared
9 49 (1.94%) CISM
10 44 (1.74%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.70%) DV Cleared
12 42 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 34 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
15 24 (0.95%) CRISC
16 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
17 20 (0.79%) ACCA
18 19 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 19 (0.75%) AWS Certification
18 19 (0.75%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (6.93%) QA
2 162 (6.42%) PMO
3 121 (4.79%) Accessibility
4 104 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 79 (3.13%) GDPR
6 73 (2.89%) NIST
7 46 (1.82%) Data Quality
8 42 (1.66%) SLA
9 40 (1.58%) ISO 9001
10 37 (1.47%) GRC
11 33 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 19 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 18 (0.71%) NIST 800
15 17 (0.67%) ISO 14000
15 17 (0.67%) ISO 14001
16 16 (0.63%) COBIT
16 16 (0.63%) GMP
17 13 (0.51%) GAAP
18 11 (0.44%) IFRS
System Software
1 42 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.83%) Docker
3 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.12%) vSphere
7 2 (0.079%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.079%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.040%) Firmware
8 1 (0.040%) IAG
8 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (1.11%) SCCM
2 26 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.67%) Puppet
5 13 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 10 (0.40%) Ansible
6 10 (0.40%) Terraform
7 9 (0.36%) Grafana
8 6 (0.24%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
10 2 (0.079%) Argo
10 2 (0.079%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.079%) Salt
11 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.040%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.040%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.040%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 519 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 124 (4.91%) SAP
3 112 (4.44%) Oracle
4 64 (2.53%) Adobe
5 62 (2.46%) ServiceNow
6 60 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 46 (1.82%) Google
8 28 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 24 (0.95%) Fortinet
10 22 (0.87%) Cisco
11 21 (0.83%) SonicWALL
12 18 (0.71%) Remedy
13 17 (0.67%) HP
14 16 (0.63%) Pardot
15 15 (0.59%) JD Edwards
16 14 (0.55%) IBM
16 14 (0.55%) VMware
17 12 (0.48%) Apple
17 12 (0.48%) Reuters
17 12 (0.48%) Sage