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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 28 23
Rank change year-on-year -33 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,597 3,383 5,737
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.43% 6.76% 6.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 7.58% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,438 1,792 3,528
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,825 £43,497 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,909
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.30% -9.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £69,914
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 2,337 £55,000 -8.33% 1,344
UK excluding London -40 1,626 £52,000 -5.45% 1,095
Work from Home -17 1,081 £52,500 -8.70% 567
London -32 843 £65,000 -10.34% 419
South East -25 436 £45,000 -21.74% 312
North of England -22 406 £55,000 +5.77% 268
Midlands -48 247 £55,000 +1.85% 185
North West +3 206 £54,000 +6.93% 142
South West -54 197 £52,500 -8.70% 157
East of England -28 191 £55,000 - 108
West Midlands -52 138 £55,000 - 111
Yorkshire -32 134 £60,000 +9.09% 95
East Midlands -15 108 £55,000 +7.32% 74
North East -46 66 £58,000 +34.88% 34
Scotland -54 63 £70,000 +16.67% 53
Northern Ireland -60 46 £47,500 -11.63% 10
Wales -59 42 £55,000 -8.33% 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
1 117 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 68 (2.62%) Confluence
3 53 (2.04%) CMS
4 21 (0.81%) WordPress
5 14 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 9 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.27%) IIS
10 5 (0.19%) Apache Pig
10 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.15%) Moodle
12 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.077%) MS Project Server
13 2 (0.077%) Totara
14 1 (0.039%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 245 (9.43%) Microsoft Project
2 241 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 215 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.81%) Trello
6 20 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 19 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.12%) Blender
13 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 3 (0.12%) Revit
14 2 (0.077%) Camtasia
14 2 (0.077%) EPLAN
14 2 (0.077%) OrCAD
15 1 (0.039%) Houdini
15 1 (0.039%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 62 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.89%) Primavera
4 17 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.42%) Shopify
6 10 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (0.35%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
9 6 (0.23%) iTrent
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.23%) SAP Business One
10 5 (0.19%) SAP EHS
10 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
11 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 254 (9.78%) Azure
2 214 (8.24%) Power Platform
3 175 (6.74%) AWS
4 142 (5.47%) SaaS
5 127 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
7 74 (2.85%) PowerApps
8 67 (2.58%) Power Automate
9 52 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 47 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (1.50%) Smartsheet
12 37 (1.42%) GCP
13 31 (1.19%) Asana
14 28 (1.08%) Entra ID
15 23 (0.89%) OneDrive
15 23 (0.89%) Serverless
16 21 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (0.81%) Canva
16 21 (0.81%) IaaS
16 21 (0.81%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.00%) Firewall
2 32 (1.23%) Broadband
3 28 (1.08%) LAN
3 28 (1.08%) WAN
4 23 (0.89%) DNS
5 21 (0.81%) VPN
5 21 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (0.58%) NGN
6 15 (0.58%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.50%) BGP
7 13 (0.50%) Network Security
8 12 (0.46%) DHCP
8 12 (0.46%) Intranet
8 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.39%) Internet
9 10 (0.39%) Wireless
10 9 (0.35%) CHAP
10 9 (0.35%) Multicast
11 8 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (0.27%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (7.20%) Power BI
2 54 (2.08%) SQL Server
3 51 (1.96%) Tableau
4 35 (1.35%) Data Mining
5 25 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (0.73%) Big Data
8 18 (0.69%) GIS
8 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 17 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.65%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.62%) Metadata
11 15 (0.58%) MySQL
12 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
13 12 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
14 11 (0.42%) Apache Hive
14 11 (0.42%) Power Query
14 11 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.39%) QGIS
15 10 (0.39%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 216 (8.32%) JIRA
2 26 (1.00%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.35%) Claude Code
4 9 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.19%) JUnit
7 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.15%) GitLab
8 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.12%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.12%) PHPUnit
8 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.12%) Storybook
8 3 (0.12%) Taiga
8 3 (0.12%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.12%) TestNG
8 3 (0.12%) VersionOne
General
1 1,092 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 827 (31.84%) Finance
3 540 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (10.78%) Organisational Skills
5 272 (10.47%) Marketing
6 157 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 156 (6.01%) Retail
8 154 (5.93%) Legal
9 134 (5.16%) Manufacturing
10 133 (5.12%) Public Sector
11 131 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
12 110 (4.24%) Law
13 93 (3.58%) Banking
14 87 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
15 75 (2.89%) Aerospace
16 69 (2.66%) Telecoms
17 52 (2.00%) Local Government
18 47 (1.81%) Electronics
19 44 (1.69%) Advertising
20 41 (1.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 539 (20.75%) Project Manager
2 372 (14.32%) Senior
3 237 (9.13%) Analyst
4 199 (7.66%) Lead
5 190 (7.32%) Senior Manager
6 179 (6.89%) Consultant
6 179 (6.89%) IT Manager
7 138 (5.31%) Senior Project Manager
8 126 (4.85%) Business Analyst
9 108 (4.16%) IT Project Manager
10 80 (3.08%) Development Manager
11 67 (2.58%) Technical Manager
12 65 (2.50%) Developer
13 63 (2.43%) Product Manager
13 63 (2.43%) Senior Consultant
14 60 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
15 58 (2.23%) Architect
15 58 (2.23%) Coordinator
16 57 (2.19%) IT Support
17 53 (2.04%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (1.93%) HTML
2 48 (1.85%) .NET
3 45 (1.73%) CSS
4 35 (1.35%) PyTorch
5 28 (1.08%) TensorFlow
6 24 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
6 24 (0.92%) JSON
7 23 (0.89%) Hugging Face
8 21 (0.81%) .NET Core
8 21 (0.81%) Flash
8 21 (0.81%) LangChain
8 21 (0.81%) Langfuse
8 21 (0.81%) LlamaIndex
8 21 (0.81%) Model Context Protocol
9 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.73%) SPFx
10 16 (0.62%) Kafka
11 12 (0.46%) Middleware
11 12 (0.46%) Node.js
12 10 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 235 (9.05%) Onboarding
2 165 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 162 (6.24%) Data Centre
4 100 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 86 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 83 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 72 (2.77%) Virtual Team
8 58 (2.23%) Social Media
9 51 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (1.89%) Blog
11 46 (1.77%) PMI
12 43 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 42 (1.62%) Cloud Native
14 37 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
14 37 (1.42%) FMCG
14 37 (1.42%) Security Posture
15 33 (1.27%) AI Agents
16 32 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
17 31 (1.19%) Digital Media
17 31 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 120 (4.62%) Windows
2 52 (2.00%) Linux
3 17 (0.65%) Android
3 17 (0.65%) Apple iOS
3 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.15%) Unix
6 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.15%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.12%) Debian
8 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.077%) zOS
9 1 (0.039%) AIX
9 1 (0.039%) CentOS
9 1 (0.039%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (28.34%) Agile
2 678 (26.11%) Project Delivery
3 667 (25.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 661 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
5 518 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 472 (18.17%) PRINCE2
7 335 (12.90%) Decision-Making
8 311 (11.98%) Roadmaps
9 299 (11.51%) AI
10 287 (11.05%) Analytics
11 271 (10.44%) Mentoring
12 257 (9.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 250 (9.63%) Risk Management
14 229 (8.82%) Budget Management
15 223 (8.59%) Change Management
16 215 (8.28%) Coaching
17 214 (8.24%) ERP
18 207 (7.97%) Service Delivery
19 201 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
20 198 (7.62%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 206 (7.93%) SQL
2 191 (7.35%) Python
3 57 (2.19%) JavaScript
4 50 (1.93%) C#
5 35 (1.35%) PowerShell
5 35 (1.35%) TypeScript
6 28 (1.08%) Java
7 16 (0.62%) C
8 14 (0.54%) PHP
9 10 (0.39%) C++
10 7 (0.27%) VB.NET
10 7 (0.27%) VBA
11 6 (0.23%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.23%) Ruby
12 5 (0.19%) Assembly Language
12 5 (0.19%) Bash
12 5 (0.19%) Ladder Logic
12 5 (0.19%) R
13 4 (0.15%) ABAP
13 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 655 (25.22%) Degree
2 224 (8.63%) PMI Certification
3 214 (8.24%) PMP
4 188 (7.24%) Security Cleared
5 139 (5.35%) DBS Check
6 105 (4.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 89 (3.43%) SC Cleared
8 66 (2.54%) CISSP
8 66 (2.54%) DV Cleared
9 54 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 49 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 47 (1.81%) CISM
12 45 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 35 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
14 33 (1.27%) HNC
15 25 (0.96%) CRISC
16 23 (0.89%) ACCA
16 23 (0.89%) HND
17 21 (0.81%) AWS Certification
17 21 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (7.12%) QA
2 178 (6.85%) PMO
3 115 (4.43%) Accessibility
4 105 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (2.96%) GDPR
6 70 (2.70%) NIST
7 66 (2.54%) Data Quality
8 51 (1.96%) SLA
9 40 (1.54%) ISO 9001
10 38 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 38 (1.46%) GRC
11 25 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 22 (0.85%) GMP
13 18 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 16 (0.62%) IFRS
15 16 (0.62%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.46%) COBIT
16 12 (0.46%) GAAP
System Software
1 38 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.81%) Docker
3 10 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) Firmware
5 6 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.15%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.077%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.039%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) IAG
9 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (1.08%) SCCM
2 23 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.69%) Puppet
4 17 (0.65%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 11 (0.42%) Ansible
7 10 (0.39%) Terraform
8 9 (0.35%) Grafana
9 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
12 2 (0.077%) Argo
12 2 (0.077%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.077%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.077%) Salt
12 2 (0.077%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.039%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.039%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 526 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 148 (5.70%) SAP
3 121 (4.66%) Oracle
4 70 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 68 (2.62%) Adobe
6 57 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.12%) Google
8 34 (1.31%) HubSpot
9 31 (1.19%) Fortinet
10 29 (1.12%) Cisco
11 20 (0.77%) SonicWALL
12 19 (0.73%) Remedy
13 17 (0.65%) HP
14 16 (0.62%) NEC
14 16 (0.62%) VMware
15 15 (0.58%) Bloomberg
15 15 (0.58%) Sitecore
16 14 (0.54%) Apple
16 14 (0.54%) IBM
16 14 (0.54%) Reuters