Project Management Jobs

Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 23 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 4,151 7,819 6,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.96% 7.34% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.66% 8.90% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,142 5,198 4,359
10th Percentile £35,035 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £47,149
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,075 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +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 54,176 87,872 84,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.80% 82.53% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 28,154 60,487 53,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management.

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 19 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 6 July 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 -9 3,465 £59,000 +12.38% 4,648
UK excluding London -9 2,806 £55,000 +10.00% 2,839
Work from Home -17 1,242 £57,500 +4.55% 1,711
London -8 1,015 £71,750 +11.97% 2,200
South East -9 694 £60,000 +26.32% 745
North of England -26 673 £54,793 +9.59% 690
Midlands -6 472 £53,688 +2.26% 465
North West -33 416 £54,793 +9.59% 395
East of England -6 323 £53,000 +6.00% 317
West Midlands -4 298 £55,000 +1.85% 297
Scotland +34 276 £42,500 -15.00% 179
South West -11 225 £56,373 +12.75% 316
Yorkshire -16 191 £54,897 +6.08% 236
East Midlands -29 174 £42,500 -10.53% 166
Wales +4 101 £64,000 +41.44% 89
North East +11 66 £51,000 -0.49% 66
Northern Ireland +12 37 £57,500 +21.05% 77
Isle of Man +11 5 £31,000 -17.33% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £87,500 -

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 137 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.73%) Confluence
3 50 (1.20%) CMS
3 50 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.75%) WordPress
5 24 (0.58%) Kinematics
6 22 (0.53%) IIS
7 13 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.26%) Moodle
9 10 (0.24%) Apache
10 9 (0.22%) PowerFactory
10 9 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.12%) Drupal
13 4 (0.096%) Apache Synapse
13 4 (0.096%) SAP Portal
14 3 (0.072%) Skype for Business
15 2 (0.048%) Mule
15 2 (0.048%) ThingWorx
15 2 (0.048%) WinCC
Applications
1 295 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 197 (4.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 195 (4.70%) Simulink
4 145 (3.49%) Microsoft Project
5 108 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 50 (1.20%) MS Visio
7 46 (1.11%) Trello
8 26 (0.63%) Maya
9 13 (0.31%) AutoCAD
10 10 (0.24%) Photoshop
10 10 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
11 8 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
11 8 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
12 7 (0.17%) Revit
13 6 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 5 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
14 5 (0.12%) InDesign
15 4 (0.096%) Adobe XD
15 4 (0.096%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.096%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 146 (3.52%) Teamcenter
2 80 (1.93%) NetSuite
3 57 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 40 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
5 32 (0.77%) SAP FI
6 22 (0.53%) Sage 200
7 16 (0.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 16 (0.39%) Sage CRM
7 16 (0.39%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
9 14 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
10 13 (0.31%) SAP IBP
11 12 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite
11 12 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
11 12 (0.29%) Shopify
11 12 (0.29%) Sprinklr
12 11 (0.26%) Magento
12 11 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
12 11 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
13 8 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 368 (8.87%) Azure
2 229 (5.52%) Power Platform
3 175 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 162 (3.90%) AWS
5 153 (3.69%) SaaS
6 92 (2.22%) Power Automate
7 87 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
8 81 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
9 62 (1.49%) Entra ID
10 54 (1.30%) IaaS
11 48 (1.16%) PowerApps
12 47 (1.13%) Google Analytics
13 46 (1.11%) GCP
14 44 (1.06%) PaaS
15 40 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
16 35 (0.84%) GitHub
17 32 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
18 30 (0.72%) Google Workspace
19 29 (0.70%) Boomi
20 28 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (1.59%) Firewall
2 55 (1.32%) WAN
3 48 (1.16%) DNS
4 39 (0.94%) Wireless
5 38 (0.92%) VPN
6 33 (0.79%) Network Security
7 30 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 29 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 24 (0.58%) LAN
10 22 (0.53%) DHCP
10 22 (0.53%) VLAN
10 22 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.41%) SSL
12 14 (0.34%) Internet
13 13 (0.31%) Intranet
14 12 (0.29%) SAN
14 12 (0.29%) VoIP
15 10 (0.24%) Wireless Security
16 9 (0.22%) 5G
16 9 (0.22%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (4.29%) Power BI
2 103 (2.48%) Big Data
3 102 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 69 (1.66%) Data Lake
5 57 (1.37%) Tableau
6 37 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 34 (0.82%) Relational Database
8 32 (0.77%) MySQL
9 27 (0.65%) SAP HANA
10 25 (0.60%) SAP BW
11 15 (0.36%) GIS
12 13 (0.31%) Metadata
12 13 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (0.29%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.26%) Data Mining
15 10 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
16 9 (0.22%) Hadoop
17 8 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 279 (6.72%) JIRA
2 146 (3.52%) Rational DOORS
3 70 (1.69%) Git
4 23 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 16 (0.39%) Selenium
6 12 (0.29%) GitLab
6 12 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.14%) Postman
7 6 (0.14%) Subversion
8 5 (0.12%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.072%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.072%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.072%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.048%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.048%) JMeter
11 2 (0.048%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.024%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.024%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.024%) TeamCity
General
1 1,953 (47.05%) Social Skills
2 1,549 (37.32%) Finance
3 875 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
4 447 (10.77%) Marketing
5 407 (9.80%) Law
6 278 (6.70%) Legal
7 273 (6.58%) Aerospace
8 272 (6.55%) Manufacturing
9 258 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 256 (6.17%) Electronics
10 256 (6.17%) Retail
11 249 (6.00%) Public Sector
12 246 (5.93%) Banking
13 221 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
14 186 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
15 141 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
16 135 (3.25%) Advertising
17 114 (2.75%) Telecoms
18 75 (1.81%) Local Government
19 64 (1.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 859 (20.69%) Senior
2 816 (19.66%) Project Manager
3 441 (10.62%) Senior Manager
4 392 (9.44%) Lead
5 316 (7.61%) Analyst
6 268 (6.46%) Engineering Manager
7 224 (5.40%) Systems Engineer
8 218 (5.25%) IT Manager
9 177 (4.26%) Junior
10 167 (4.02%) Security Manager
11 155 (3.73%) Architect
12 145 (3.49%) Consultant
12 145 (3.49%) Junior Systems Engineer
13 139 (3.35%) Developer
14 132 (3.18%) Senior Project Manager
15 126 (3.04%) Principal Engineer
16 113 (2.72%) Business Analyst
17 106 (2.55%) Security Engineer
18 103 (2.48%) Account Manager
19 101 (2.43%) Principal Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (1.98%) HTML
2 69 (1.66%) .NET
3 64 (1.54%) CSS
4 44 (1.06%) Middleware
5 42 (1.01%) React
5 42 (1.01%) XML
6 39 (0.94%) JSON
7 32 (0.77%) .NET Framework
8 30 (0.72%) OAuth
9 24 (0.58%) RESTful
10 21 (0.51%) Node.js
10 21 (0.51%) Web Services
11 19 (0.46%) SAML
12 16 (0.39%) .NET Core
13 15 (0.36%) EDI
14 14 (0.34%) HTML5
14 14 (0.34%) JWT
15 13 (0.31%) AngularJS
15 13 (0.31%) ASP.NET
16 12 (0.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 355 (8.55%) Management Information System
2 136 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 127 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 123 (2.96%) Driving Licence
5 119 (2.87%) FMCG
6 101 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 100 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 97 (2.34%) Digital Media
9 93 (2.24%) Marketing Technology
10 91 (2.19%) Social Media
11 82 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 75 (1.81%) NHS
13 68 (1.64%) PMI
14 60 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
15 41 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 38 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
17 34 (0.82%) Algorithms
18 33 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
19 30 (0.72%) SCADA
20 28 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 124 (2.99%) Windows
2 62 (1.49%) Windows Server
3 27 (0.65%) Linux
4 16 (0.39%) Unix
5 9 (0.22%) Android
5 9 (0.22%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.19%) VMS
6 8 (0.19%) Windows Vista
7 4 (0.096%) AIX
7 4 (0.096%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.096%) zOS
8 3 (0.072%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.048%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.048%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,071 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
2 1,047 (25.22%) Agile
3 923 (22.24%) Project Delivery
4 758 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 714 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 628 (15.13%) Mentoring
7 573 (13.80%) Risk Management
8 461 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 451 (10.86%) PRINCE2
10 392 (9.44%) Analytics
11 385 (9.27%) Cybersecurity
12 373 (8.99%) Roadmaps
13 364 (8.77%) Collaborative Working
14 338 (8.14%) Information Security
15 326 (7.85%) Strategic Thinking
16 325 (7.83%) ERP
17 322 (7.76%) Change Management
18 313 (7.54%) Decision-Making
19 306 (7.37%) CRM
20 301 (7.25%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 286 (6.89%) SQL
2 148 (3.57%) MATLAB
3 125 (3.01%) Python
4 100 (2.41%) JavaScript
5 99 (2.38%) C#
6 86 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 74 (1.78%) Java
8 36 (0.87%) C++
9 29 (0.70%) R
10 28 (0.67%) C
11 27 (0.65%) PHP
12 19 (0.46%) Bicep
13 18 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.43%) VBA
14 15 (0.36%) Bash
15 11 (0.26%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.19%) VB
17 7 (0.17%) ABAP
17 7 (0.17%) Ada
18 5 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,506 (36.28%) Degree
2 714 (17.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 325 (7.83%) CISSP
4 293 (7.06%) PMI Certification
5 251 (6.05%) PMP
6 202 (4.87%) Security Cleared
7 141 (3.40%) Master's Degree
8 128 (3.08%) CISM
9 115 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 102 (2.46%) CESG Certified Professional
11 97 (2.34%) DBS Check
12 66 (1.59%) Chartered Engineer
13 55 (1.32%) SC Cleared
14 53 (1.28%) DV Cleared
14 53 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 49 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
16 47 (1.13%) Azure Certification
17 46 (1.11%) HNC
18 42 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
19 37 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (6.72%) QA
2 190 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 188 (4.53%) Accessibility
4 167 (4.02%) PMO
5 127 (3.06%) GDPR
6 126 (3.04%) NIST
7 102 (2.46%) JSP 440
8 101 (2.43%) RMADS
9 86 (2.07%) Data Quality
10 48 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 48 (1.16%) NEBOSH
11 35 (0.84%) SLA
12 27 (0.65%) GxP
12 27 (0.65%) IEC 61508
13 26 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 24 (0.58%) DO-254
15 22 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.46%) ISO 9001
16 19 (0.46%) PMBOK
17 16 (0.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 92 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (0.53%) Docker
4 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.22%) Firmware
7 8 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.072%) vSphere
11 1 (0.024%) Forefront TMG
11 1 (0.024%) HDFS
11 1 (0.024%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.024%) NFS
11 1 (0.024%) Varnish
11 1 (0.024%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.024%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
3 40 (0.96%) Terraform
4 22 (0.53%) Kubernetes
5 16 (0.39%) Ansible
6 9 (0.22%) SCCM
7 6 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.12%) Argo
8 5 (0.12%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.12%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.12%) QRadar
8 5 (0.12%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.072%) SCOM
9 3 (0.072%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.048%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.048%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.048%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.048%) Nmap
11 1 (0.024%) Netcool
11 1 (0.024%) OPNET
Vendors
1 705 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 279 (6.72%) SAP
3 173 (4.17%) IBM
4 156 (3.76%) Google
5 130 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 99 (2.38%) Oracle
7 81 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 68 (1.64%) Adobe
9 53 (1.28%) Cisco
10 50 (1.20%) MathWorks
11 39 (0.94%) Databricks
11 39 (0.94%) Facebook
12 37 (0.89%) VMware
12 37 (0.89%) YouTube
13 34 (0.82%) Meraki
14 30 (0.72%) Workday
15 29 (0.70%) TikTok
16 28 (0.67%) Sage
17 27 (0.65%) MuleSoft
18 24 (0.58%) Concur