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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 28 22
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,605 3,373 5,756
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 1,440 1,785 3,489
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,750 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,306 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.65% +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 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £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 £96,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -30 2,339 £55,000 -8.33% 2,716
UK excluding London -39 1,650 £52,445 -4.65% 1,778
Work from Home -17 1,075 £52,500 -8.70% 1,227
London -28 835 £65,000 -9.41% 1,315
South East -21 444 £45,000 -21.74% 434
North of England -23 397 £55,000 +5.77% 411
Midlands -45 256 £55,000 +1.85% 259
North West +1 209 £54,000 +6.93% 242
South West -45 200 £52,500 -8.70% 256
East of England -29 190 £55,000 - 168
West Midlands -51 141 £55,000 - 164
Yorkshire -30 126 £60,000 +9.09% 121
East Midlands -15 114 £55,000 +13.40% 95
Scotland -54 65 £70,000 +16.67% 168
North East -49 62 £58,000 +34.88% 53
Northern Ireland -61 58 £47,500 -11.63% 66
Wales -50 42 £55,000 -8.33% 47

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
1 132 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 68 (2.61%) Confluence
3 66 (2.53%) CMS
4 27 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
5 20 (0.77%) WordPress
6 14 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 8 (0.31%) IIS
8 8 (0.31%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pig
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
13 3 (0.12%) MS Project Server
13 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.077%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.077%) Totara
15 1 (0.038%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 248 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
2 246 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 219 (8.41%) Microsoft Office
4 63 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.81%) Trello
6 20 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.27%) Photoshop
10 6 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.15%) EPLAN
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.12%) Blender
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
12 3 (0.12%) Revit
13 2 (0.077%) Camtasia
13 2 (0.077%) OrCAD
14 1 (0.038%) Houdini
14 1 (0.038%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 76 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (0.88%) Primavera
4 20 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.42%) Shopify
6 9 (0.35%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.23%) iTrent
7 6 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.23%) SAP Business One
7 6 (0.23%) Unit4 Business World
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (0.19%) SAP EHS
8 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 248 (9.52%) Azure
2 228 (8.75%) Power Platform
3 171 (6.56%) AWS
4 138 (5.30%) SaaS
5 128 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
6 85 (3.26%) PowerApps
7 76 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
8 65 (2.50%) Power Automate
9 54 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (1.50%) Smartsheet
12 36 (1.38%) GCP
13 30 (1.15%) Asana
14 27 (1.04%) Entra ID
15 23 (0.88%) OneDrive
15 23 (0.88%) Serverless
16 22 (0.84%) LangSmith
17 21 (0.81%) Canva
18 20 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.07%) Firewall
2 27 (1.04%) Broadband
2 27 (1.04%) LAN
2 27 (1.04%) WAN
3 24 (0.92%) DNS
4 21 (0.81%) VPN
5 20 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (0.58%) NGN
7 14 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.50%) BGP
8 13 (0.50%) DHCP
8 13 (0.50%) Network Security
9 12 (0.46%) Intranet
9 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.38%) Internet
10 10 (0.38%) Wireless
11 9 (0.35%) CHAP
11 9 (0.35%) Multicast
12 8 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (7.72%) Power BI
2 56 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.65%) Tableau
4 27 (1.04%) Data Mining
5 23 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (0.73%) Big Data
8 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
9 17 (0.65%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.65%) Relational Database
10 16 (0.61%) Metadata
10 16 (0.61%) MySQL
11 15 (0.58%) GIS
12 14 (0.54%) Hadoop
13 12 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.42%) Apache Hive
15 10 (0.38%) Power Query
16 9 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 219 (8.41%) JIRA
2 27 (1.04%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) Visual Studio
4 10 (0.38%) Claude Code
5 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (0.23%) GitLab
6 6 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.19%) JUnit
8 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.12%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.12%) PHPUnit
9 3 (0.12%) Selenium
9 3 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.12%) Storybook
9 3 (0.12%) Taiga
9 3 (0.12%) VersionOne
General
1 1,109 (42.57%) Social Skills
2 834 (32.02%) Finance
3 528 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (10.86%) Marketing
4 283 (10.86%) Organisational Skills
5 156 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 155 (5.95%) Legal
6 155 (5.95%) Retail
7 136 (5.22%) Public Sector
8 134 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
8 134 (5.14%) Manufacturing
9 111 (4.26%) Law
10 93 (3.57%) Banking
11 87 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
12 79 (3.03%) Aerospace
13 71 (2.73%) Telecoms
14 52 (2.00%) Local Government
15 48 (1.84%) Electronics
16 45 (1.73%) Advertising
17 41 (1.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 543 (20.84%) Project Manager
2 385 (14.78%) Senior
3 229 (8.79%) Analyst
4 203 (7.79%) Lead
5 190 (7.29%) Senior Manager
6 179 (6.87%) Consultant
6 179 (6.87%) IT Manager
7 139 (5.34%) Senior Project Manager
8 126 (4.84%) Business Analyst
9 109 (4.18%) IT Project Manager
10 79 (3.03%) Development Manager
11 66 (2.53%) Developer
12 65 (2.50%) Technical Manager
13 62 (2.38%) Senior Consultant
14 61 (2.34%) Product Manager
15 58 (2.23%) Architect
15 58 (2.23%) Coordinator
15 58 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
16 55 (2.11%) IT Support
17 52 (2.00%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.00%) HTML
2 50 (1.92%) .NET
3 48 (1.84%) CSS
4 32 (1.23%) PyTorch
5 28 (1.07%) TensorFlow
6 24 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
6 24 (0.92%) JSON
7 23 (0.88%) Hugging Face
8 22 (0.84%) LangChain
8 22 (0.84%) Langfuse
8 22 (0.84%) LlamaIndex
8 22 (0.84%) Model Context Protocol
9 21 (0.81%) Flash
10 20 (0.77%) .NET Core
11 19 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
11 19 (0.73%) SPFx
12 16 (0.61%) Kafka
13 12 (0.46%) Middleware
13 12 (0.46%) Node.js
14 11 (0.42%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 236 (9.06%) Onboarding
2 178 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 168 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 106 (4.07%) Driving Licence
5 101 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 83 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 71 (2.73%) Virtual Team
8 63 (2.42%) Blog
9 56 (2.15%) Social Media
10 52 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.73%) PMI
12 42 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 40 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 40 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
14 37 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
14 37 (1.42%) FMCG
14 37 (1.42%) Security Posture
15 34 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 33 (1.27%) AI Agents
17 31 (1.19%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 120 (4.61%) Windows
2 51 (1.96%) Linux
3 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.46%) Android
4 12 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.15%) Unix
7 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.12%) Debian
8 3 (0.12%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.038%) AIX
10 1 (0.038%) CentOS
10 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 733 (28.14%) Agile
2 683 (26.22%) Project Delivery
3 673 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
4 669 (25.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 524 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 473 (18.16%) PRINCE2
7 331 (12.71%) Decision-Making
8 303 (11.63%) Roadmaps
9 290 (11.13%) AI
10 285 (10.94%) Analytics
11 270 (10.36%) Mentoring
12 259 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 253 (9.71%) Risk Management
14 233 (8.94%) Budget Management
15 221 (8.48%) Change Management
16 219 (8.41%) Coaching
17 216 (8.29%) ERP
18 211 (8.10%) CRM
19 207 (7.95%) Service Delivery
20 202 (7.75%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 199 (7.64%) SQL
2 186 (7.14%) Python
3 63 (2.42%) JavaScript
4 50 (1.92%) C#
5 40 (1.54%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.38%) TypeScript
7 27 (1.04%) Java
8 18 (0.69%) C
9 14 (0.54%) PHP
10 11 (0.42%) C++
11 8 (0.31%) VB.NET
12 7 (0.27%) Assembly Language
12 7 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
12 7 (0.27%) VBA
13 6 (0.23%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.23%) Ruby
14 5 (0.19%) Bash
14 5 (0.19%) R
15 4 (0.15%) ABAP
15 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 668 (25.64%) Degree
2 224 (8.60%) PMI Certification
3 215 (8.25%) PMP
4 191 (7.33%) Security Cleared
5 139 (5.34%) DBS Check
6 105 (4.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 91 (3.49%) SC Cleared
8 67 (2.57%) DV Cleared
9 64 (2.46%) CISSP
10 58 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 49 (1.88%) Master's Degree
12 47 (1.80%) CISM
13 46 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 37 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
15 36 (1.38%) HNC
16 29 (1.11%) HND
17 25 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
17 25 (0.96%) CRISC
18 23 (0.88%) ACCA
18 23 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (6.87%) PMO
1 179 (6.87%) QA
2 106 (4.07%) Accessibility
2 106 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (2.88%) GDPR
4 69 (2.65%) NIST
5 67 (2.57%) Data Quality
6 53 (2.03%) SLA
7 40 (1.54%) ISO 9001
8 38 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 37 (1.42%) GRC
10 25 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 22 (0.84%) GMP
12 18 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 17 (0.65%) ISO 14000
13 17 (0.65%) ISO 14001
14 16 (0.61%) IFRS
14 16 (0.61%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.46%) COBIT
15 12 (0.46%) GAAP
System Software
1 37 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.77%) Docker
3 12 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.23%) Firmware
6 6 (0.23%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.077%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) IAG
9 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (1.07%) SCCM
2 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.69%) Puppet
4 16 (0.61%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 12 (0.46%) Terraform
7 10 (0.38%) Ansible
8 9 (0.35%) Grafana
9 7 (0.27%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
11 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (0.12%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.12%) ServiceCenter
13 2 (0.077%) Argo
13 2 (0.077%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.077%) Salt
13 2 (0.077%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.038%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.038%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 523 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 149 (5.72%) SAP
3 121 (4.64%) Oracle
4 69 (2.65%) ServiceNow
5 64 (2.46%) Adobe
6 56 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 54 (2.07%) Google
8 34 (1.31%) HubSpot
9 31 (1.19%) Fortinet
10 30 (1.15%) Cisco
11 28 (1.07%) Sitecore
12 20 (0.77%) SonicWALL
13 19 (0.73%) VMware
14 18 (0.69%) Remedy
15 17 (0.65%) NEC
15 17 (0.65%) Sage
16 16 (0.61%) HP
17 14 (0.54%) Bloomberg
17 14 (0.54%) IBM
17 14 (0.54%) Siemens