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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -48 +6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,488 3,819 7,455
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.77% 9.03% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 9.72% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 1,980 5,399
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £41,000
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 £84,050
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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £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 £78,500 £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 1 May 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 1 May 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% 1,272
UK excluding London -53 1,612 £50,000 -9.09% 977
Work from Home -17 812 £57,500 - 505
London -29 682 £70,000 - 447
North of England -36 531 £47,000 -14.55% 239
South East -42 381 £50,000 -13.04% 297
Midlands -65 249 £52,500 - 165
North West -16 242 £47,000 -13.60% 131
West Midlands -49 184 £47,500 -13.64% 97
Yorkshire -41 176 £45,750 -16.82% 75
South West -51 167 £45,564 -16.40% 102
East of England -52 127 £75,000 +36.36% 123
North East -16 113 £51,500 -6.36% 38
Northern Ireland -9 75 £40,000 -25.58% 14
East Midlands -76 63 £55,000 +22.22% 67
Scotland -73 57 £40,000 -27.27% 39
Wales -52 32 £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 51 (2.05%) 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
1 305 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 142 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
3 134 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
4 68 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.68%) 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 (9.65%) Azure
2 235 (9.45%) Power Platform
3 164 (6.59%) SaaS
4 135 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (4.14%) AWS
6 70 (2.81%) PowerApps
7 52 (2.09%) Power Automate
8 46 (1.85%) Asana
9 37 (1.49%) GCP
10 32 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 32 (1.29%) Smartsheet
11 31 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (1.25%) OneDrive
12 27 (1.09%) 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 41 (1.65%) Broadband
2 35 (1.41%) Firewall
3 34 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
4 29 (1.17%) CHAP
5 22 (0.88%) 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
11 11 (0.44%) Internet
11 11 (0.44%) Wireless
12 10 (0.40%) Intranet
13 9 (0.36%) Multicast
14 8 (0.32%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.32%) VLAN
14 8 (0.32%) VoIP
15 4 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (8.00%) Power BI
2 170 (6.83%) Tableau
3 135 (5.43%) Data Mining
4 30 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.09%) 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
1 126 (5.06%) 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 1,005 (40.39%) Social Skills
2 950 (38.18%) Finance
3 569 (22.87%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (11.45%) Marketing
5 228 (9.16%) Organisational Skills
6 178 (7.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 159 (6.39%) Manufacturing
8 144 (5.79%) Legal
8 144 (5.79%) Retail
9 116 (4.66%) Banking
10 112 (4.50%) Public Sector
11 106 (4.26%) Law
12 100 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
13 74 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
14 64 (2.57%) Games
15 58 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
16 54 (2.17%) Telecoms
17 52 (2.09%) Financial Institution
18 44 (1.77%) Advertising
19 43 (1.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 415 (16.68%) Analyst
2 411 (16.52%) Project Manager
3 307 (12.34%) Senior
4 210 (8.44%) Trainee
5 204 (8.20%) Trainee Analyst
6 191 (7.68%) Business Analyst
7 168 (6.75%) Lead
8 160 (6.43%) Senior Manager
9 155 (6.23%) IT Manager
10 140 (5.63%) Data Analyst
11 130 (5.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 126 (5.06%) Consultant
13 124 (4.98%) Development Manager
14 99 (3.98%) Senior Project Manager
15 92 (3.70%) Product Manager
16 79 (3.18%) IT Project Manager
17 74 (2.97%) Trainee Business Analyst
18 73 (2.93%) Architect
19 71 (2.85%) Systems Manager
20 62 (2.49%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.69%) .NET
2 38 (1.53%) HTML
3 33 (1.33%) CSS
4 29 (1.17%) 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
10 9 (0.36%) TensorFlow
11 8 (0.32%) REST
12 7 (0.28%) Hugging Face
12 7 (0.28%) Matplotlib
12 7 (0.28%) OAuth
12 7 (0.28%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (0.28%) Seaborn
13 6 (0.24%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (0.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 196 (7.88%) Management Information System
2 111 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 91 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 64 (2.57%) Driving Licence
7 63 (2.53%) FMCG
8 59 (2.37%) Social Media
9 41 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 40 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 39 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 37 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 33 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.17%) Blog
15 27 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
17 24 (0.96%) Low-Code
18 23 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
19 22 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
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
1 653 (26.25%) Agile
2 570 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
3 566 (22.75%) Project Delivery
4 481 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 437 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 397 (15.96%) Analytics
7 390 (15.68%) PRINCE2
8 381 (15.31%) Decision-Making
9 316 (12.70%) Business Analysis
10 285 (11.45%) Change Management
11 277 (11.13%) AI
12 271 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 267 (10.73%) Data Analysis
14 256 (10.29%) Risk Management
15 221 (8.88%) Mentoring
16 219 (8.80%) Roadmaps
17 209 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
18 203 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
19 201 (8.08%) Data Analytics
20 186 (7.48%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 273 (10.97%) Python
2 268 (10.77%) 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
14 2 (0.080%) Perl
Qualifications
1 650 (26.13%) Degree
2 244 (9.81%) PMP
3 229 (9.20%) PMI Certification
4 120 (4.82%) Security Cleared
5 93 (3.74%) CISSP
6 92 (3.70%) DBS Check
7 77 (3.09%) 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%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.21%) FFIEC
14 29 (1.17%) CGEIT
14 29 (1.17%) CRISC
15 27 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 24 (0.96%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (6.23%) QA
2 128 (5.14%) PMO
3 99 (3.98%) GDPR
4 98 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 95 (3.82%) Accessibility
6 89 (3.58%) NIST
7 45 (1.81%) GRC
8 39 (1.57%) ISO 9001
9 36 (1.45%) Data Quality
10 31 (1.25%) COBIT
11 28 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 22 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 21 (0.84%) NIST 800
14 16 (0.64%) SLA
15 12 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
15 12 (0.48%) GAAP
16 11 (0.44%) IFRS
16 11 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 9 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 9 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (2.01%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.92%) Docker
3 7 (0.28%) 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
1 545 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 90 (3.62%) SAP
3 71 (2.85%) Salesforce
4 65 (2.61%) Adobe
4 65 (2.61%) Google
4 65 (2.61%) Oracle
5 51 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 28 (1.13%) Anaplan
7 26 (1.05%) HubSpot
8 21 (0.84%) Cisco
8 21 (0.84%) Pardot
9 20 (0.80%) Genesys
9 20 (0.80%) Verint
10 14 (0.56%) Apple
11 13 (0.52%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.48%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.48%) Instagram
13 11 (0.44%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.44%) Workday
13 11 (0.44%) Wrike