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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -43 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,635 4,004 7,158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.34% 9.78% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 10.51% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,554 2,054 5,180
10th Percentile £29,250 £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 £71,938 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,875 £88,750 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 60,590 38,104 77,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.71% 93.07% 86.51%
Number of salaries quoted 37,239 22,363 57,730
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.83%

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 31 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 31 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 -45 2,209 £55,000 -4.35% 1,263
UK excluding London -46 1,737 £47,500 -13.64% 1,056
Work from Home -21 787 £57,500 -4.17% 423
London -22 682 £70,000 - 403
North of England -35 544 £42,500 -22.73% 233
South East -44 399 £51,500 -9.65% 313
Midlands -59 255 £50,000 -7.41% 175
North West -39 249 £42,914 -21.68% 119
West Midlands -44 192 £45,000 -18.18% 98
Yorkshire -31 185 £40,000 -30.43% 85
South West -39 176 £45,000 -18.18% 104
Scotland -17 137 £40,000 -28.89% 53
East of England -49 122 £55,000 - 137
North East -11 110 £40,000 -29.82% 31
Northern Ireland -8 72 £47,500 -2.56% 24
East Midlands -84 61 £53,000 +11.58% 76
Wales -43 39 £42,934 -20.19% 49

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
1 147 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.82%) Confluence
3 44 (1.67%) CMS
4 35 (1.33%) WordPress
5 20 (0.76%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.15%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.11%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) govService
10 3 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.076%) Drupal
11 2 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.076%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.038%) IIS
12 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
Applications
1 421 (15.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 203 (7.70%) Microsoft Office
3 134 (5.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 123 (4.67%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 16 (0.61%) Trello
7 15 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.57%) MS Visio
8 10 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
9 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.23%) Maya
12 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.076%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.076%) Elementor
13 2 (0.076%) Notion
13 2 (0.076%) Weka
Business Applications
1 30 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 14 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
6 13 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
7 11 (0.42%) NetSuite
8 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.23%) Primavera
9 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 233 (8.84%) Azure
2 217 (8.24%) Power Platform
3 164 (6.22%) SaaS
4 154 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (4.10%) AWS
6 56 (2.13%) PowerApps
7 45 (1.71%) Asana
8 35 (1.33%) GCP
9 34 (1.29%) Entra ID
10 30 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.14%) Power Automate
11 26 (0.99%) Smartsheet
12 23 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (0.83%) Google Analytics
14 21 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (0.80%) OneDrive
15 20 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (0.72%) Canva
17 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
18 16 (0.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 49 (1.86%) Broadband
2 48 (1.82%) Firewall
3 40 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (0.99%) WAN
5 25 (0.95%) CHAP
6 23 (0.87%) DNS
6 23 (0.87%) Internet
7 20 (0.76%) DHCP
8 19 (0.72%) LAN
8 19 (0.72%) Network Security
8 19 (0.72%) TCP/IP
9 18 (0.68%) VPN
10 17 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
11 16 (0.61%) Wireless
12 13 (0.49%) VLAN
13 12 (0.46%) Intranet
14 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.38%) Multicast
16 8 (0.30%) VoIP
17 5 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.44%) Tableau
2 180 (6.83%) Power BI
3 171 (6.49%) Data Mining
4 33 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 25 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.83%) GIS
7 21 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 20 (0.76%) QGIS
8 20 (0.76%) Spatial Data
9 19 (0.72%) Power Query
10 13 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
12 9 (0.34%) DB2
12 9 (0.34%) Metadata
13 7 (0.27%) Big Data
13 7 (0.27%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 114 (4.33%) JIRA
2 15 (0.57%) Git
3 12 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.27%) GitLab
5 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.11%) ERwin
6 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.11%) Storybook
6 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.076%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.076%) ESLint
7 2 (0.076%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.076%) JMeter
7 2 (0.076%) JUnit
7 2 (0.076%) Maven
7 2 (0.076%) Mockito
7 2 (0.076%) Selenium
7 2 (0.076%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.076%) TestNG
7 2 (0.076%) Zephyr
General
1 1,112 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 1,024 (38.86%) Finance
3 653 (24.78%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (11.01%) Marketing
5 212 (8.05%) Organisational Skills
6 194 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 167 (6.34%) Manufacturing
8 161 (6.11%) Legal
9 135 (5.12%) Retail
10 134 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 122 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
12 117 (4.44%) Law
13 115 (4.36%) Banking
14 71 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
15 68 (2.58%) Games
16 56 (2.13%) Telecoms
17 53 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 48 (1.82%) Financial Institution
19 39 (1.48%) Local Government
20 38 (1.44%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 472 (17.91%) Analyst
2 401 (15.22%) Project Manager
3 361 (13.70%) Senior
4 276 (10.47%) Trainee
5 269 (10.21%) Trainee Analyst
6 222 (8.43%) Senior Manager
7 209 (7.93%) Business Analyst
8 177 (6.72%) Data Analyst
9 175 (6.64%) Lead
10 162 (6.15%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 161 (6.11%) IT Manager
12 121 (4.59%) Consultant
13 120 (4.55%) Development Manager
14 107 (4.06%) Trainee Business Analyst
15 97 (3.68%) Senior Project Manager
16 89 (3.38%) Product Manager
17 87 (3.30%) Architect
18 79 (3.00%) IT Project Manager
18 79 (3.00%) Systems Manager
19 75 (2.85%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.06%) .NET
1 28 (1.06%) HTML
2 25 (0.95%) EDI
3 23 (0.87%) PyTorch
4 21 (0.80%) CSS
5 12 (0.46%) React
6 9 (0.34%) .NET Core
6 9 (0.34%) JSON
6 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (0.34%) Middleware
6 9 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.30%) REST
8 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
8 7 (0.27%) OAuth
8 7 (0.27%) SPFx
9 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.19%) OpenID
9 5 (0.19%) SAML
10 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 205 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 114 (4.33%) Onboarding
3 107 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (3.04%) Product Ownership
5 69 (2.62%) Driving Licence
6 67 (2.54%) Social Media
7 63 (2.39%) FMCG
8 56 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 48 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 39 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 39 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 37 (1.40%) Algorithms
11 37 (1.40%) Robotics
12 34 (1.29%) Blog
13 32 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.10%) IoT
15 28 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (1.06%) Low-Code
16 26 (0.99%) Security Posture
17 21 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (2.85%) Windows
2 31 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.99%) Android
4 23 (0.87%) Linux
5 18 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.076%) AIX
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.076%) VMS
8 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
9 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (24.17%) Agile
2 627 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
3 553 (20.99%) Project Delivery
4 532 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 470 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 454 (17.23%) Analytics
7 395 (14.99%) Decision-Making
8 383 (14.54%) Business Analysis
9 371 (14.08%) PRINCE2
10 352 (13.36%) Change Management
11 333 (12.64%) AI
12 323 (12.26%) Data Analysis
13 273 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 250 (9.49%) Risk Management
15 247 (9.37%) Coaching
16 238 (9.03%) Data Analytics
17 219 (8.31%) Roadmaps
18 218 (8.27%) Process Improvement
19 208 (7.89%) Mentoring
20 203 (7.70%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 299 (11.35%) SQL
2 295 (11.20%) Python
3 40 (1.52%) C#
4 36 (1.37%) VBA
5 25 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 22 (0.83%) PowerShell
7 20 (0.76%) TypeScript
8 17 (0.65%) Java
9 14 (0.53%) C++
10 12 (0.46%) C
11 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.23%) Bash
12 6 (0.23%) PHP
12 6 (0.23%) R
13 4 (0.15%) COBOL
14 3 (0.11%) Dart
14 3 (0.11%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
14 3 (0.11%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 692 (26.26%) Degree
2 241 (9.15%) PMP
3 225 (8.54%) PMI Certification
4 136 (5.16%) Security Cleared
5 94 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 87 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 75 (2.85%) CISSP
8 69 (2.62%) DBS Check
9 64 (2.43%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
10 54 (2.05%) CISM
11 36 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.29%) HNC
13 32 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
14 30 (1.14%) CISA
14 30 (1.14%) SANS
15 27 (1.02%) MBA
16 26 (0.99%) FFIEC
17 25 (0.95%) ACCA
17 25 (0.95%) CGEIT
18 23 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (7.89%) QA
2 123 (4.67%) PMO
3 108 (4.10%) GDPR
4 95 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 69 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.35%) NIST
7 39 (1.48%) Data Quality
8 32 (1.21%) GRC
9 29 (1.10%) ISO 9001
10 26 (0.99%) COBIT
11 21 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 15 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.49%) NIST 800
14 13 (0.49%) SLA
15 10 (0.38%) GAAP
15 10 (0.38%) IFRS
16 8 (0.30%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 64 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.99%) Docker
3 13 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
6 3 (0.11%) vSphere
7 2 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.57%) Ansible
4 13 (0.49%) SCCM
5 12 (0.46%) Terraform
6 11 (0.42%) Grafana
7 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
9 2 (0.076%) Argo
9 2 (0.076%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.076%) Puppet
9 2 (0.076%) Salt
10 1 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.038%) MOM
10 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 644 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 116 (4.40%) SAP
3 73 (2.77%) Salesforce
4 67 (2.54%) Oracle
5 63 (2.39%) Google
6 57 (2.16%) Adobe
7 48 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 31 (1.18%) Cisco
9 28 (1.06%) Anaplan
10 23 (0.87%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.76%) Genesys
11 20 (0.76%) Verint
12 17 (0.65%) Pardot
13 16 (0.61%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.57%) Apple
14 15 (0.57%) Fortinet
14 15 (0.57%) Instagram
15 14 (0.53%) Databricks
15 14 (0.53%) VMware
16 11 (0.42%) Wrike