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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,926 5,485 4,055
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.45% 8.16% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 9.62% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 2,435 2,826
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,750 £37,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,162 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £74,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,800 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% +4.76%

All Process and 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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -20 2,506 £55,000 -4.35% 2,076
UK excluding London -20 1,882 £50,000 -7.83% 1,840
London -15 806 £70,000 +2.30% 557
Work from Home -19 801 £60,000 +1.69% 590
South East -11 512 £57,772 +5.04% 558
North of England -24 471 £42,384 -21.51% 392
Midlands -31 299 £47,750 -13.18% 363
North West -29 217 £45,000 -16.56% 219
South West -2 213 £55,000 +0.92% 187
West Midlands -19 200 £45,000 -21.74% 233
Scotland -18 169 £54,855 +1.26% 91
Yorkshire -13 167 £45,000 -18.18% 110
East of England -35 163 £55,000 +5.77% 199
East Midlands -40 100 £52,500 +0.96% 129
North East +25 87 £32,500 -28.57% 70
Wales -19 32 £60,000 +16.38% 54
Northern Ireland -9 26 £65,000 -3.70% 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
1 157 (5.37%) SharePoint
2 63 (2.15%) Confluence
3 49 (1.67%) CMS
4 39 (1.33%) WordPress
5 26 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.68%) Kinematics
7 11 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.34%) Apache
9 8 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.24%) Drupal
11 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
12 5 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.14%) Moodle
14 3 (0.10%) Magnolia
14 3 (0.10%) PowerFactory
15 2 (0.068%) IIS
15 2 (0.068%) Skype for Business
15 2 (0.068%) TPMS
16 1 (0.034%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 397 (13.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 295 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
3 184 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 123 (4.20%) Microsoft Project
5 38 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.09%) Maya
7 26 (0.89%) AutoCAD
8 23 (0.79%) Trello
9 15 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 13 (0.44%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
12 10 (0.34%) Revit
13 8 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
13 8 (0.27%) Adobe XD
14 7 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
15 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
16 5 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
16 5 (0.17%) InDesign
17 4 (0.14%) CATIA
18 3 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 114 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.22%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.26%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 27 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
5 24 (0.82%) SAP CO
5 24 (0.82%) SAP FI
5 24 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
6 21 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 21 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
7 20 (0.68%) SAP IBP
8 19 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.51%) Shopify
10 13 (0.44%) Sprinklr
11 12 (0.41%) NetSuite
11 12 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
12 11 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
12 11 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
12 11 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
12 11 (0.38%) SAP FSCM
12 11 (0.38%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 247 (8.44%) Azure
2 202 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 151 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (4.07%) AWS
5 107 (3.66%) SaaS
6 56 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 42 (1.44%) GCP
9 38 (1.30%) Power Automate
10 36 (1.23%) Smartsheet
11 34 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
11 34 (1.16%) Snowflake
12 27 (0.92%) Entra ID
13 26 (0.89%) Google Analytics
14 24 (0.82%) IaaS
15 23 (0.79%) Google Workspace
15 23 (0.79%) PaaS
16 21 (0.72%) Asana
17 20 (0.68%) PowerApps
18 18 (0.62%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.74%) Firewall
2 38 (1.30%) WAN
3 34 (1.16%) VPN
4 31 (1.06%) LAN
5 30 (1.03%) Wireless
6 26 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (0.72%) DNS
7 21 (0.72%) Internet
7 21 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 19 (0.65%) Unified Communications
9 18 (0.62%) VLAN
10 17 (0.58%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.55%) Network Security
12 15 (0.51%) DHCP
12 15 (0.51%) MPLS
13 13 (0.44%) Intranet
13 13 (0.44%) VoIP
14 12 (0.41%) Broadband
15 10 (0.34%) BGP
16 8 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (5.88%) Power BI
2 121 (4.14%) Tableau
3 89 (3.04%) Data Mining
4 70 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.09%) SAP BW
6 28 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.68%) Looker
8 17 (0.58%) Big Data
8 17 (0.58%) Metadata
9 15 (0.51%) Power Query
10 14 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 11 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
12 10 (0.34%) MySQL
12 10 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (0.34%) SAP HANA
13 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.27%) MS Access
14 8 (0.27%) Relational Database
15 7 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 174 (5.95%) JIRA
2 20 (0.68%) Git
3 11 (0.38%) GitLab
4 10 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.14%) JIRA Agile
5 4 (0.14%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.14%) Subversion
5 4 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.10%) ERwin
6 3 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.068%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.068%) Maven
7 2 (0.068%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.034%) gulp
8 1 (0.034%) LSMW
8 1 (0.034%) Redmine
8 1 (0.034%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.034%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.034%) webpack
General
1 1,330 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1,219 (41.66%) Finance
3 856 (29.25%) Analytical Skills
4 326 (11.14%) Marketing
5 252 (8.61%) Law
6 208 (7.11%) Manufacturing
7 207 (7.07%) Legal
8 206 (7.04%) Retail
9 194 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 194 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
10 167 (5.71%) Public Sector
11 155 (5.30%) Presentation Skills
12 118 (4.03%) Banking
13 87 (2.97%) Telecoms
14 85 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
15 80 (2.73%) Electronics
16 66 (2.26%) Games
17 65 (2.22%) Advertising
18 64 (2.19%) Local Government
19 57 (1.95%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 458 (15.65%) Senior
2 443 (15.14%) Project Manager
3 375 (12.82%) Analyst
4 292 (9.98%) Lead
5 224 (7.66%) Senior Manager
6 188 (6.43%) IT Manager
7 174 (5.95%) Business Analyst
8 173 (5.91%) Trainee
9 164 (5.60%) Trainee Analyst
10 139 (4.75%) Architect
11 112 (3.83%) Business Manager
11 112 (3.83%) Consultant
12 109 (3.73%) Development Manager
13 103 (3.52%) Data Analyst
14 97 (3.32%) IT Project Manager
14 97 (3.32%) Product Manager
15 94 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
16 90 (3.08%) Coordinator
17 85 (2.90%) Senior Project Manager
18 84 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.64%) CSS
2 42 (1.44%) HTML
3 37 (1.26%) Middleware
4 21 (0.72%) .NET
5 17 (0.58%) React
6 12 (0.41%) Node.js
6 12 (0.41%) Web Services
7 11 (0.38%) EDI
8 10 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.27%) FHIR
9 8 (0.27%) Kafka
10 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (0.17%) Apache Beam
11 5 (0.17%) Flutter
11 5 (0.17%) Spring
12 4 (0.14%) FIDO
12 4 (0.14%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.14%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 216 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 133 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 130 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 109 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 103 (3.52%) FMCG
6 90 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 84 (2.87%) Robotics
8 79 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 75 (2.56%) Driving Licence
10 63 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
10 63 (2.15%) Social Media
11 47 (1.61%) NHS
12 45 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 44 (1.50%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.13%) IoT
15 29 (0.99%) Blog
16 26 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
17 24 (0.82%) Life Science
18 22 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
18 22 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.32%) Windows
2 27 (0.92%) Linux
3 25 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.27%) Android
5 8 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.27%) VMS
6 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.10%) zOS
8 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.034%) Unix
8 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
2 693 (23.68%) Agile
3 691 (23.62%) Project Delivery
4 617 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 519 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 435 (14.87%) Analytics
7 410 (14.01%) Change Management
8 395 (13.50%) Risk Management
9 390 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 336 (11.48%) PRINCE2
11 303 (10.36%) Business Analysis
12 302 (10.32%) ERP
13 301 (10.29%) AI
14 274 (9.36%) Process Improvement
15 269 (9.19%) Business Strategy
16 264 (9.02%) Roadmaps
17 252 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 248 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
19 241 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
20 236 (8.07%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 282 (9.64%) SQL
2 210 (7.18%) Python
3 57 (1.95%) JavaScript
4 48 (1.64%) C#
5 37 (1.26%) C
6 35 (1.20%) Java
7 30 (1.03%) C++
8 25 (0.85%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.51%) PHP
9 15 (0.51%) VBA
10 14 (0.48%) R
11 13 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.34%) Perl
14 7 (0.24%) Bash
14 7 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.21%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.14%) COBOL
16 4 (0.14%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 914 (31.24%) Degree
2 207 (7.07%) PMP
3 200 (6.84%) PMI Certification
4 194 (6.63%) Security Cleared
5 152 (5.19%) SC Cleared
6 126 (4.31%) Master's Degree
7 69 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (2.19%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
9 57 (1.95%) DBS Check
10 54 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.44%) CISSP
12 38 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 29 (0.99%) PhD
14 28 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
15 24 (0.82%) AWS Certification
15 24 (0.82%) DV Cleared
16 23 (0.79%) CCNP
17 21 (0.72%) APMP
18 20 (0.68%) CFA
18 20 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (8.13%) QA
2 190 (6.49%) PMO
3 103 (3.52%) GDPR
4 81 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 43 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.09%) ISO 9001
8 27 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (0.85%) NIST
10 20 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 19 (0.65%) MiFID
11 19 (0.65%) SLA
12 13 (0.44%) GxP
12 13 (0.44%) IFRS
13 12 (0.41%) COBIT
13 12 (0.41%) GRC
13 12 (0.41%) Solvency II
14 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.34%) IEC 61131
16 9 (0.31%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 60 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.72%) Docker
3 16 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.34%) Firmware
4 10 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.17%) vSphere
6 3 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.034%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.034%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 27 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.51%) Terraform
3 9 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.17%) Ansible
5 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.10%) SCCM
7 2 (0.068%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.068%) Grafana
7 2 (0.068%) Nagios
8 1 (0.034%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.034%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.034%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.034%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.034%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.034%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.034%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.034%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.034%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 665 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 251 (8.58%) SAP
3 101 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 85 (2.90%) Google
5 69 (2.36%) Oracle
6 61 (2.08%) Adobe
7 58 (1.98%) Cisco
8 37 (1.26%) Ariba
8 37 (1.26%) OpenText
9 33 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 25 (0.85%) HubSpot
11 24 (0.82%) Databricks
12 19 (0.65%) Sage
12 19 (0.65%) VMware
13 18 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 17 (0.58%) TikTok
15 16 (0.55%) NEC
16 15 (0.51%) Siemens
17 13 (0.44%) Guidewire
17 13 (0.44%) Meraki