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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -49 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,489 3,821 7,457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.77% 9.01% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 9.71% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,476 1,980 5,403
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £41,064
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £84,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -47 2,159 £55,000 -4.35% 998
UK excluding London -51 1,617 £50,000 -9.09% 870
Work from Home -16 803 £57,500 - 357
London -30 678 £70,000 - 309
North of England -38 533 £47,000 -14.55% 200
South East -45 384 £50,000 -13.04% 258
Midlands -63 249 £52,500 - 145
North West -17 242 £46,750 -14.06% 105
West Midlands -48 184 £47,500 -13.64% 83
Yorkshire -40 178 £44,500 -19.09% 66
South West -45 168 £45,564 -16.40% 98
East of England -56 125 £75,000 +36.36% 117
North East -13 113 £51,500 -6.36% 35
Northern Ireland -9 75 £40,000 -25.58% 28
East Midlands -76 63 £55,000 +25.71% 61
Scotland -65 57 £40,000 -27.27% 31
Wales -52 33 £42,934 -32.92% 26

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 90 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 52 (2.09%) Confluence
3 41 (1.65%) CMS
4 33 (1.33%) WordPress
5 20 (0.80%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) Apache
9 3 (0.12%) govService
9 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.080%) Drupal
11 1 (0.040%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.040%) IIS
11 1 (0.040%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 309 (12.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 144 (5.79%) Microsoft Project
3 135 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
4 69 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 18 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.60%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.56%) Trello
9 10 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
10 9 (0.36%) Photoshop
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.080%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.080%) Notion
13 2 (0.080%) Weka
14 1 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.040%) Elementor
14 1 (0.040%) Sketch
14 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 17 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
6 15 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.28%) Shopify
9 6 (0.24%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.24%) Primavera
9 6 (0.24%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
11 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 240 (9.64%) Azure
2 232 (9.32%) Power Platform
3 163 (6.55%) SaaS
4 135 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (4.14%) AWS
6 70 (2.81%) PowerApps
7 52 (2.09%) Power Automate
8 47 (1.89%) Asana
9 37 (1.49%) GCP
10 32 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 32 (1.29%) OneDrive
10 32 (1.29%) Smartsheet
11 31 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (1.08%) Google Analytics
13 23 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (0.84%) Canva
15 20 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 20 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.69%) Broadband
2 36 (1.45%) Firewall
3 34 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
4 29 (1.17%) CHAP
5 23 (0.92%) WAN
6 19 (0.76%) DNS
7 17 (0.68%) DHCP
7 17 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
8 16 (0.64%) Network Security
9 15 (0.60%) LAN
10 12 (0.48%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.48%) VPN
10 12 (0.48%) Wireless
11 11 (0.44%) Internet
12 10 (0.40%) Intranet
13 9 (0.36%) Multicast
13 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.32%) VLAN
14 8 (0.32%) VoIP
15 5 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.87%) Power BI
2 173 (6.95%) Tableau
3 138 (5.54%) Data Mining
4 30 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.08%) GIS
6 22 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 21 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (0.80%) QGIS
8 20 (0.80%) Spatial Data
9 15 (0.60%) Power Query
10 10 (0.40%) DB2
11 9 (0.36%) Big Data
12 7 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
13 6 (0.24%) Metadata
14 5 (0.20%) MySQL
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.16%) DB2 UDB
15 4 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 127 (5.10%) JIRA
2 20 (0.80%) Git
3 11 (0.44%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.28%) GitLab
5 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.20%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.12%) Storybook
7 2 (0.080%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.080%) ESLint
7 2 (0.080%) Gradle
7 2 (0.080%) JMeter
7 2 (0.080%) JUnit
7 2 (0.080%) Maven
7 2 (0.080%) Mockito
7 2 (0.080%) Postman
7 2 (0.080%) Selenium
7 2 (0.080%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.080%) TestNG
7 2 (0.080%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.040%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,009 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 956 (38.41%) Finance
3 570 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (11.49%) Marketing
5 229 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
6 177 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 159 (6.39%) Manufacturing
8 145 (5.83%) Retail
9 144 (5.79%) Legal
10 114 (4.58%) Banking
11 111 (4.46%) Public Sector
12 105 (4.22%) Law
13 99 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
14 73 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
15 64 (2.57%) Games
16 58 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 53 (2.13%) Telecoms
18 52 (2.09%) Financial Institution
19 44 (1.77%) Advertising
20 43 (1.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 419 (16.83%) Analyst
2 407 (16.35%) Project Manager
3 305 (12.25%) Senior
4 213 (8.56%) Trainee
5 207 (8.32%) Trainee Analyst
6 191 (7.67%) Business Analyst
7 166 (6.67%) Lead
8 160 (6.43%) Senior Manager
9 155 (6.23%) IT Manager
10 143 (5.75%) Data Analyst
11 133 (5.34%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 125 (5.02%) Consultant
12 125 (5.02%) Development Manager
13 99 (3.98%) Senior Project Manager
14 92 (3.70%) Product Manager
15 79 (3.17%) IT Project Manager
16 74 (2.97%) Trainee Business Analyst
17 73 (2.93%) Architect
17 73 (2.93%) Systems Manager
18 65 (2.61%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.69%) .NET
2 38 (1.53%) HTML
3 33 (1.33%) CSS
4 27 (1.08%) PyTorch
5 25 (1.00%) JSON
6 24 (0.96%) EDI
6 24 (0.96%) HTML5 Canvas
7 21 (0.84%) .NET Core
8 20 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
9 19 (0.76%) SPFx
10 9 (0.36%) React
11 8 (0.32%) REST
12 7 (0.28%) Matplotlib
12 7 (0.28%) OAuth
12 7 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.28%) Seaborn
12 7 (0.28%) TensorFlow
13 6 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (0.20%) OpenID
14 5 (0.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 197 (7.91%) Management Information System
2 111 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 89 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 67 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 64 (2.57%) Driving Licence
7 63 (2.53%) FMCG
8 59 (2.37%) Social Media
9 40 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 39 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 33 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 29 (1.17%) Blog
14 27 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
15 25 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
16 24 (0.96%) Low-Code
17 23 (0.92%) Robotics
18 22 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (2.93%) Windows
2 30 (1.21%) Apple iOS
3 25 (1.00%) Android
4 24 (0.96%) Linux
5 15 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.32%) Unix
7 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
9 2 (0.080%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.080%) zOS
10 1 (0.040%) CentOS
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.040%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.040%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.040%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (26.20%) Agile
2 569 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 566 (22.74%) Project Delivery
4 482 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 436 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 399 (16.03%) Analytics
7 389 (15.63%) PRINCE2
8 384 (15.43%) Decision-Making
9 320 (12.86%) Business Analysis
10 286 (11.49%) Change Management
11 276 (11.09%) AI
12 272 (10.93%) Data Analysis
13 270 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 260 (10.45%) Risk Management
15 219 (8.80%) Mentoring
16 215 (8.64%) Roadmaps
17 210 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
18 203 (8.16%) Data Analytics
19 200 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
20 186 (7.47%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 274 (11.01%) Python
2 272 (10.93%) SQL
3 51 (2.05%) C#
4 38 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.29%) PowerShell
5 32 (1.29%) VBA
6 29 (1.17%) TypeScript
7 16 (0.64%) Java
8 9 (0.36%) Bash
9 8 (0.32%) C
9 8 (0.32%) C++
10 7 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.20%) PHP
11 5 (0.20%) R
12 4 (0.16%) COBOL
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) Dart
13 3 (0.12%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 651 (26.16%) Degree
2 244 (9.80%) PMP
3 229 (9.20%) PMI Certification
4 121 (4.86%) Security Cleared
5 93 (3.74%) CISSP
6 92 (3.70%) DBS Check
7 79 (3.17%) SC Cleared
8 70 (2.81%) CISM
8 70 (2.81%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.53%) CISA
10 35 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 34 (1.37%) HNC
11 34 (1.37%) SANS
12 32 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 30 (1.21%) FFIEC
14 29 (1.17%) CGEIT
14 29 (1.17%) CRISC
14 29 (1.17%) DV Cleared
15 27 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (0.96%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.23%) QA
2 130 (5.22%) PMO
3 99 (3.98%) GDPR
4 97 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 92 (3.70%) Accessibility
6 89 (3.58%) NIST
7 45 (1.81%) GRC
8 38 (1.53%) ISO 9001
9 34 (1.37%) Data Quality
10 31 (1.25%) COBIT
11 26 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 21 (0.84%) NIST 800
13 16 (0.64%) SLA
14 13 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.48%) GAAP
16 11 (0.44%) IFRS
17 10 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 9 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
18 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.92%) Docker
3 8 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.080%) Firmware
6 2 (0.080%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.040%) IAG
7 1 (0.040%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (0.88%) Kubernetes
2 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.72%) SCCM
4 17 (0.68%) Ansible
5 15 (0.60%) Terraform
6 11 (0.44%) Grafana
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
7 4 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.080%) Argo
9 2 (0.080%) Puppet
9 2 (0.080%) Salt
10 1 (0.040%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.040%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.040%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.040%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.040%) MOM
10 1 (0.040%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 548 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 91 (3.66%) SAP
3 71 (2.85%) Salesforce
4 66 (2.65%) Oracle
5 65 (2.61%) Adobe
5 65 (2.61%) Google
6 51 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 28 (1.12%) Anaplan
8 26 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 21 (0.84%) Cisco
9 21 (0.84%) Pardot
10 20 (0.80%) Genesys
10 20 (0.80%) Verint
11 14 (0.56%) Apple
12 13 (0.52%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.48%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.48%) Instagram
14 11 (0.44%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.44%) Workday
14 11 (0.44%) Wrike