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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,898 5,472 4,091
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.45% 8.08% 7.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 9.58% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,612 2,423 2,862
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,000 £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 45,175 57,137 48,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 84.42% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,482 29,994 37,330
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 £79,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,235 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.42% +3.30% -

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 24 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 24 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 -19 2,477 £55,000 -4.35% 2,022
UK excluding London -19 1,861 £50,000 -7.83% 1,779
London -13 800 £70,000 +1.87% 531
Work from Home -19 798 £60,000 - 630
South East -12 507 £57,772 +5.04% 531
North of England -25 459 £42,500 -21.24% 377
Midlands -30 296 £47,750 -13.18% 352
South West +1 212 £52,846 -3.03% 190
North West -30 207 £45,000 -16.56% 210
West Midlands -16 198 £45,000 -21.74% 222
Scotland -16 170 £54,855 +1.26% 89
Yorkshire -12 165 £45,000 -18.18% 108
East of England -35 160 £55,000 +5.77% 194
East Midlands -35 99 £52,500 +0.96% 128
North East +26 87 £32,500 -28.57% 66
Wales -16 33 £60,000 +16.38% 52
Northern Ireland -9 26 £65,000 -3.70% 27

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
1 156 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 63 (2.17%) Confluence
3 50 (1.73%) CMS
4 39 (1.35%) WordPress
5 25 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.69%) Kinematics
7 10 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.31%) Apache
9 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.24%) Drupal
10 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
12 4 (0.14%) Moodle
13 3 (0.10%) Magnolia
13 3 (0.10%) PowerFactory
14 2 (0.069%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.069%) TPMS
15 1 (0.035%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.035%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 396 (13.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 293 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
3 184 (6.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 121 (4.18%) Microsoft Project
5 38 (1.31%) MS Visio
6 30 (1.04%) Maya
7 26 (0.90%) AutoCAD
8 23 (0.79%) Trello
9 15 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 14 (0.48%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.41%) Revit
11 12 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
12 9 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
13 8 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
13 8 (0.28%) Adobe XD
14 6 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
15 5 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.17%) InDesign
15 5 (0.17%) Navisworks
16 4 (0.14%) Civil 3D
Business Applications
1 111 (3.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.24%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 27 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 24 (0.83%) SAP CO
5 24 (0.83%) SAP FI
5 24 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
6 21 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 21 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
7 20 (0.69%) SAP IBP
8 19 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.52%) Shopify
10 13 (0.45%) 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
1 239 (8.25%) Azure
2 201 (6.94%) Power Platform
3 148 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
4 114 (3.93%) AWS
5 105 (3.62%) SaaS
6 56 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
8 39 (1.35%) GCP
9 38 (1.31%) Power Automate
10 36 (1.24%) Smartsheet
11 33 (1.14%) Snowflake
12 32 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
13 27 (0.93%) Google Analytics
14 26 (0.90%) Entra ID
15 23 (0.79%) Google Workspace
16 22 (0.76%) IaaS
17 21 (0.72%) Asana
17 21 (0.72%) PaaS
18 20 (0.69%) PowerApps
19 18 (0.62%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 50 (1.73%) Firewall
2 38 (1.31%) WAN
3 34 (1.17%) VPN
4 31 (1.07%) LAN
5 30 (1.04%) Wireless
6 26 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (0.72%) Internet
7 21 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.69%) DNS
9 19 (0.66%) Unified Communications
10 18 (0.62%) VLAN
11 16 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 15 (0.52%) MPLS
12 15 (0.52%) Network Security
13 14 (0.48%) DHCP
14 13 (0.45%) Intranet
14 13 (0.45%) VoIP
15 12 (0.41%) Broadband
16 10 (0.35%) BGP
17 8 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (5.90%) Power BI
2 121 (4.18%) Tableau
3 88 (3.04%) Data Mining
4 68 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 33 (1.14%) SAP BW
6 28 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.69%) Looker
8 17 (0.59%) Metadata
9 16 (0.55%) Big Data
10 15 (0.52%) Power Query
11 14 (0.48%) Data Lake
12 11 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
13 10 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (0.35%) SAP HANA
14 9 (0.31%) MySQL
14 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (0.28%) MS Access
15 8 (0.28%) Relational Database
16 7 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 174 (6.00%) JIRA
2 20 (0.69%) Git
3 10 (0.35%) GitLab
4 8 (0.28%) 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 (0.069%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.069%) Maven
7 2 (0.069%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.035%) gulp
8 1 (0.035%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.035%) Redmine
8 1 (0.035%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.035%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.035%) webpack
General
1 1,322 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 1,209 (41.72%) Finance
3 848 (29.26%) Analytical Skills
4 327 (11.28%) Marketing
5 247 (8.52%) Law
6 210 (7.25%) Retail
7 208 (7.18%) Legal
7 208 (7.18%) Manufacturing
8 196 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 193 (6.66%) Organisational Skills
10 167 (5.76%) Public Sector
11 155 (5.35%) Presentation Skills
12 115 (3.97%) Banking
13 87 (3.00%) Telecoms
14 82 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
15 80 (2.76%) Electronics
16 66 (2.28%) Advertising
17 65 (2.24%) Local Government
18 62 (2.14%) Games
19 59 (2.04%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 459 (15.84%) Senior
2 436 (15.04%) Project Manager
3 370 (12.77%) Analyst
4 287 (9.90%) Lead
5 224 (7.73%) Senior Manager
6 186 (6.42%) IT Manager
7 171 (5.90%) Business Analyst
7 171 (5.90%) Trainee
8 162 (5.59%) Trainee Analyst
9 135 (4.66%) Architect
10 112 (3.86%) Business Manager
11 109 (3.76%) Consultant
11 109 (3.76%) Development Manager
12 103 (3.55%) Data Analyst
13 97 (3.35%) Product Manager
14 96 (3.31%) IT Project Manager
15 93 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
16 90 (3.11%) Coordinator
17 84 (2.90%) Senior Project Manager
18 83 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.66%) CSS
2 42 (1.45%) HTML
3 37 (1.28%) Middleware
4 20 (0.69%) .NET
5 17 (0.59%) React
6 12 (0.41%) Node.js
6 12 (0.41%) Web Services
7 11 (0.38%) EDI
8 10 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (0.28%) FHIR
10 7 (0.24%) Kafka
11 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.17%) Flutter
12 5 (0.17%) Spring
13 4 (0.14%) Apache Beam
13 4 (0.14%) FIDO
13 4 (0.14%) PyTorch
13 4 (0.14%) TensorFlow
13 4 (0.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (7.45%) Management Information System
2 131 (4.52%) Onboarding
3 130 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
4 108 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 103 (3.55%) FMCG
6 88 (3.04%) Data Centre
7 84 (2.90%) Robotics
8 78 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 76 (2.62%) Driving Licence
10 63 (2.17%) Social Media
11 60 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
12 48 (1.66%) NHS
13 45 (1.55%) Virtual Team
14 44 (1.52%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.14%) IoT
16 26 (0.90%) Blog
16 26 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
17 24 (0.83%) Life Science
18 22 (0.76%) SCADA
19 21 (0.72%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 63 (2.17%) Windows
2 26 (0.90%) Linux
3 24 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.31%) VMS
6 7 (0.24%) Android
6 7 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.10%) zOS
9 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.035%) Unix
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
2 686 (23.67%) Agile
3 677 (23.36%) Project Delivery
4 608 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 513 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 433 (14.94%) Analytics
7 403 (13.91%) Change Management
8 391 (13.49%) Risk Management
9 384 (13.25%) Decision-Making
10 332 (11.46%) PRINCE2
11 302 (10.42%) ERP
12 299 (10.32%) Business Analysis
13 293 (10.11%) AI
14 273 (9.42%) Process Improvement
15 263 (9.08%) Business Strategy
16 260 (8.97%) Roadmaps
17 249 (8.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 240 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
19 239 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
20 235 (8.11%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 281 (9.70%) SQL
2 208 (7.18%) Python
3 57 (1.97%) JavaScript
4 47 (1.62%) C#
5 37 (1.28%) C
6 35 (1.21%) Java
7 30 (1.04%) C++
8 24 (0.83%) PowerShell
9 17 (0.59%) R
10 15 (0.52%) VBA
11 14 (0.48%) PHP
12 13 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.41%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.35%) Perl
15 7 (0.24%) Bash
15 7 (0.24%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.21%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.14%) COBOL
17 4 (0.14%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 904 (31.19%) Degree
2 198 (6.83%) PMP
3 196 (6.76%) Security Cleared
4 194 (6.69%) PMI Certification
5 152 (5.24%) SC Cleared
6 125 (4.31%) Master's Degree
7 68 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (2.21%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
9 58 (2.00%) DBS Check
10 53 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.38%) CISSP
12 38 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 28 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (0.97%) PhD
14 23 (0.79%) AWS Certification
14 23 (0.79%) CCNP
14 23 (0.79%) DV Cleared
15 21 (0.72%) APMP
16 20 (0.69%) CFA
17 18 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (8.14%) QA
2 193 (6.66%) PMO
3 101 (3.49%) GDPR
4 89 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 41 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.10%) ISO 9001
8 26 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (0.86%) NIST
10 19 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 19 (0.66%) SLA
11 18 (0.62%) MiFID
12 13 (0.45%) IFRS
13 12 (0.41%) COBIT
13 12 (0.41%) GxP
14 11 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.38%) Solvency II
15 10 (0.35%) GRC
15 10 (0.35%) IEC 61131
16 9 (0.31%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 59 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.66%) Docker
3 15 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.35%) Firmware
4 10 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.14%) vSphere
6 3 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.45%) Terraform
3 8 (0.28%) 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 (0.069%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.069%) Grafana
7 2 (0.069%) Nagios
8 1 (0.035%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.035%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.035%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.035%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.035%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 659 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 246 (8.49%) SAP
3 100 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 84 (2.90%) Google
5 69 (2.38%) Oracle
6 62 (2.14%) Adobe
7 58 (2.00%) Cisco
8 37 (1.28%) OpenText
9 35 (1.21%) Ariba
10 33 (1.14%) ServiceNow
11 25 (0.86%) HubSpot
12 23 (0.79%) Databricks
13 19 (0.66%) Sage
14 18 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 18 (0.62%) VMware
15 17 (0.59%) TikTok
16 16 (0.55%) NEC
17 15 (0.52%) Siemens
18 13 (0.45%) Autodesk
18 13 (0.45%) Meraki