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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,595 4,329 6,774
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.56% 9.87% 8.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 10.55% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,498 2,047 4,948
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,752 £73,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,564 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.16% +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 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -38 2,173 £52,500 -8.70% 1,188
UK excluding London -43 1,721 £45,564 -17.16% 995
Work from Home -26 746 £57,500 -4.17% 450
London -26 656 £70,000 - 304
North of England -31 527 £40,000 -27.27% 209
South East -39 400 £55,000 -4.35% 306
Midlands -55 260 £45,000 -16.67% 169
North West -35 239 £42,750 -21.98% 103
West Midlands -40 192 £45,000 -18.18% 100
South West -28 191 £45,282 -16.14% 107
Yorkshire -30 182 £40,000 -33.33% 90
Scotland -14 140 £40,000 -30.43% 52
East of England -41 109 £55,000 +10.00% 135
North East -8 106 £40,000 -33.33% 23
East Midlands -83 67 £50,135 +5.55% 68
Northern Ireland -8 65 £55,000 +15.79% 16
Wales -40 36 £48,967 -6.89% 37

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
1 142 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.04%) Confluence
3 47 (1.81%) CMS
4 35 (1.35%) WordPress
5 20 (0.77%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.23%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.23%) Kinematics
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.15%) Apache
10 3 (0.12%) govService
10 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.077%) Drupal
11 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.039%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.039%) IIS
12 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.039%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 412 (15.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (4.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 110 (4.24%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.69%) AutoCAD
6 17 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.58%) Trello
8 10 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.39%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
9 9 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.27%) Maya
11 4 (0.15%) Revit
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.12%) CATIA
12 3 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 38 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
2 19 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 18 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.62%) SAP MDG
5 15 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
6 13 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 9 (0.35%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 7 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 7 (0.27%) SAP FI
10 7 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
11 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
11 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
12 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
12 5 (0.19%) Primavera
12 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 226 (8.71%) Azure
2 219 (8.44%) Power Platform
3 151 (5.82%) SaaS
4 148 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (4.01%) AWS
6 49 (1.89%) PowerApps
7 42 (1.62%) Asana
8 31 (1.19%) GCP
9 29 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.08%) Entra ID
11 24 (0.92%) Google Analytics
11 24 (0.92%) Smartsheet
12 22 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (0.85%) Power Automate
13 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 16 (0.62%) Miro
14 16 (0.62%) OneDrive
14 16 (0.62%) Snowflake
15 15 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.62%) Firewall
2 40 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
3 39 (1.50%) Broadband
4 27 (1.04%) WAN
5 24 (0.92%) CHAP
6 23 (0.89%) Internet
7 21 (0.81%) LAN
8 20 (0.77%) DNS
9 19 (0.73%) Network Security
9 19 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
9 19 (0.73%) TCP/IP
10 18 (0.69%) DHCP
10 18 (0.69%) VPN
11 17 (0.66%) Wireless
12 15 (0.58%) VLAN
13 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.42%) Intranet
15 10 (0.39%) Multicast
16 7 (0.27%) BGP
16 7 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (7.82%) Tableau
2 184 (7.09%) Power BI
3 170 (6.55%) Data Mining
4 42 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 26 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.85%) GIS
7 20 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.77%) QGIS
7 20 (0.77%) Spatial Data
8 17 (0.66%) Power Query
9 15 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
10 13 (0.50%) Metadata
11 11 (0.42%) Big Data
12 7 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.27%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.23%) DB2
13 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.19%) MySQL
14 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 110 (4.24%) JIRA
2 16 (0.62%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) GitLab
3 11 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.12%) ERwin
4 3 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.077%) Checkstyle
5 2 (0.077%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.077%) ESLint
5 2 (0.077%) Gradle
5 2 (0.077%) JIRA Agile
5 2 (0.077%) JMeter
5 2 (0.077%) JUnit
5 2 (0.077%) Maven
5 2 (0.077%) Mockito
5 2 (0.077%) Selenium
5 2 (0.077%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.077%) TestNG
5 2 (0.077%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.077%) Zephyr
General
1 1,103 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 1,051 (40.50%) Finance
3 665 (25.63%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (10.25%) Marketing
5 194 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 194 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
6 159 (6.13%) Manufacturing
7 157 (6.05%) Legal
8 143 (5.51%) Public Sector
9 126 (4.86%) Retail
10 123 (4.74%) Law
10 123 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
11 114 (4.39%) Banking
12 73 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
13 68 (2.62%) Games
14 53 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 52 (2.00%) Telecoms
16 49 (1.89%) Financial Institution
17 43 (1.66%) Electronics
18 41 (1.58%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 483 (18.61%) Analyst
2 384 (14.80%) Project Manager
3 352 (13.56%) Senior
4 286 (11.02%) Trainee
5 277 (10.67%) Trainee Analyst
6 222 (8.55%) Business Analyst
7 218 (8.40%) Senior Manager
8 193 (7.44%) Lead
9 178 (6.86%) Data Analyst
10 161 (6.20%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 152 (5.86%) IT Manager
12 116 (4.47%) Consultant
12 116 (4.47%) Trainee Business Analyst
13 114 (4.39%) Development Manager
14 95 (3.66%) Senior Project Manager
15 90 (3.47%) Architect
15 90 (3.47%) Product Manager
16 85 (3.28%) Business Manager
17 82 (3.16%) Systems Manager
18 75 (2.89%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.96%) EDI
2 24 (0.92%) HTML
3 23 (0.89%) PyTorch
4 22 (0.85%) .NET
5 16 (0.62%) CSS
6 11 (0.42%) Middleware
7 9 (0.35%) React
8 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.27%) REST
9 6 (0.23%) OAuth
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.15%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.15%) JSON
10 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.15%) Node.js
10 4 (0.15%) OpenID
10 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.15%) SAML
10 4 (0.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 206 (7.94%) Management Information System
2 115 (4.43%) Onboarding
2 115 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
3 81 (3.12%) Product Ownership
4 64 (2.47%) FMCG
5 63 (2.43%) Driving Licence
6 61 (2.35%) Social Media
7 57 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 45 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 45 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 44 (1.70%) Robotics
10 41 (1.58%) Algorithms
11 40 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 33 (1.27%) Blog
13 30 (1.16%) IoT
14 29 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 28 (1.08%) Low-Code
16 25 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
17 23 (0.89%) Security Posture
18 20 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (2.43%) Windows
2 31 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.00%) Android
4 20 (0.77%) Linux
5 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.12%) VMS
9 2 (0.077%) AIX
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.039%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (24.66%) Agile
2 631 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 532 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 510 (19.65%) Project Delivery
5 462 (17.80%) Analytics
6 452 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 392 (15.11%) Decision-Making
8 391 (15.07%) Business Analysis
9 359 (13.83%) Change Management
10 351 (13.53%) AI
11 350 (13.49%) PRINCE2
12 319 (12.29%) Data Analysis
13 275 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 268 (10.33%) Risk Management
15 252 (9.71%) Coaching
16 235 (9.06%) Data Analytics
17 228 (8.79%) Process Improvement
18 217 (8.36%) Roadmaps
19 212 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
20 202 (7.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 293 (11.29%) SQL
2 292 (11.25%) Python
3 35 (1.35%) VBA
4 30 (1.16%) C#
5 27 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 17 (0.66%) Java
7 15 (0.58%) C
7 15 (0.58%) C++
7 15 (0.58%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.46%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.27%) PHP
11 6 (0.23%) Bash
11 6 (0.23%) R
12 4 (0.15%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.12%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.12%) VB
14 2 (0.077%) COBOL
14 2 (0.077%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.077%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 702 (27.05%) Degree
2 224 (8.63%) PMP
3 211 (8.13%) PMI Certification
4 157 (6.05%) Security Cleared
5 112 (4.32%) SC Cleared
6 90 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.47%) CISSP
7 64 (2.47%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 58 (2.24%) DBS Check
9 47 (1.81%) CISM
10 44 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (1.31%) HNC
12 33 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (1.08%) SANS
14 27 (1.04%) CISA
14 27 (1.04%) MBA
15 26 (1.00%) ACCA
15 26 (1.00%) FFIEC
16 24 (0.92%) CGEIT
17 23 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (7.78%) QA
2 121 (4.66%) PMO
3 97 (3.74%) GDPR
4 91 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (2.16%) NIST
7 38 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 25 (0.96%) COBIT
9 22 (0.85%) GRC
9 22 (0.85%) ISO 9001
10 18 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.46%) SLA
13 9 (0.35%) IFRS
13 9 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.31%) GAAP
15 6 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 58 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.92%) Docker
3 13 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.27%) Firmware
6 5 (0.19%) vSphere
7 3 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (0.81%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.46%) Ansible
3 12 (0.46%) Terraform
4 8 (0.31%) SCCM
5 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.15%) Grafana
6 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
7 2 (0.077%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.039%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.039%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.039%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.039%) MOM
8 1 (0.039%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 630 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 125 (4.82%) SAP
3 78 (3.01%) Salesforce
4 67 (2.58%) Google
4 67 (2.58%) Oracle
5 47 (1.81%) Adobe
6 42 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 40 (1.54%) Cisco
8 28 (1.08%) Anaplan
9 26 (1.00%) HubSpot
10 20 (0.77%) Genesys
10 20 (0.77%) Verint
11 17 (0.66%) Ariba
12 15 (0.58%) Instagram
12 15 (0.58%) Pardot
13 14 (0.54%) Databricks
13 14 (0.54%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.54%) VMware
14 13 (0.50%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.46%) Apple