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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,997 5,218 4,570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.09% 7.34% 8.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 8.93% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,599 2,323 3,258
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £54,000 £56,021
% change year-on-year -1.85% -3.61% +6.71%

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 43,732 58,410 52,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.90% 82.19% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 24,546 31,188 40,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,997 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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 14 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 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 14 October 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 -14 2,466 £57,500 +2.68% 2,549
UK excluding London -17 1,851 £53,000 -1.85% 2,124
Work from Home -16 961 £59,750 +3.91% 976
London -4 879 £70,000 +3.70% 834
South East -11 484 £59,250 +10.75% 723
North of England -42 393 £48,500 -8.76% 482
Midlands -39 276 £52,500 -4.55% 368
Scotland -7 233 £57,500 +10.58% 97
East of England -25 213 £52,000 +4.00% 200
North West -80 190 £50,000 -7.41% 297
South West -6 184 £55,000 - 195
West Midlands -18 176 £52,500 -8.70% 236
Yorkshire -19 133 £52,000 -1.89% 126
East Midlands -56 101 £50,269 -0.46% 131
North East +21 70 £32,500 -27.49% 66
Wales -8 38 £60,000 +20.00% 44
Northern Ireland +1 31 £31,500 -48.32% 39
Channel Islands +4 2 £87,500 +75.00%

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 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 76 (2.54%) Confluence
3 49 (1.63%) CMS
4 40 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (1.10%) WordPress
6 23 (0.77%) Kinematics
7 13 (0.43%) IIS
8 12 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.27%) Apache
10 8 (0.27%) Moodle
10 8 (0.27%) PowerFactory
11 7 (0.23%) Drupal
12 6 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
15 3 (0.10%) Magnolia
15 3 (0.10%) Skype for Business
16 2 (0.067%) TPMS
Applications
1 314 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 285 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
3 168 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 121 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (1.53%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.10%) Maya
7 23 (0.77%) Trello
8 21 (0.70%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.43%) Photoshop
9 13 (0.43%) Revit
10 10 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 9 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
12 8 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
12 8 (0.27%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
13 7 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
14 6 (0.20%) InDesign
14 6 (0.20%) Navisworks
15 5 (0.17%) Civil 3D
16 4 (0.13%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 122 (4.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.17%) SAP MDG
3 44 (1.47%) NetSuite
4 37 (1.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 33 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 25 (0.83%) SAP CO
6 25 (0.83%) SAP FI
7 24 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
8 22 (0.73%) Sage 200
8 22 (0.73%) SAP IBP
9 18 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
10 17 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
11 16 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
11 16 (0.53%) Sage CRM
12 15 (0.50%) Shopify
13 13 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
13 13 (0.43%) Sprinklr
14 12 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
14 12 (0.40%) SAP FSCM
14 12 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 289 (9.64%) Azure
2 208 (6.94%) Power Platform
3 158 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
4 127 (4.24%) AWS
5 109 (3.64%) SaaS
6 73 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (2.40%) Power Automate
8 68 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 57 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 45 (1.50%) IaaS
11 41 (1.37%) GCP
12 38 (1.27%) Snowflake
13 37 (1.23%) PaaS
14 36 (1.20%) Google Analytics
15 33 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
16 29 (0.97%) Smartsheet
17 28 (0.93%) Google Workspace
18 24 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
19 22 (0.73%) PowerApps
20 21 (0.70%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.14%) Firewall
2 47 (1.57%) WAN
3 46 (1.53%) VPN
4 37 (1.23%) Wireless
5 34 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
6 33 (1.10%) DNS
7 31 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 28 (0.93%) VLAN
9 27 (0.90%) LAN
10 19 (0.63%) Unified Communications
11 18 (0.60%) VoIP
12 16 (0.53%) SSL
13 14 (0.47%) Internet
13 14 (0.47%) TCP/IP
14 11 (0.37%) Broadband
14 11 (0.37%) DHCP
14 11 (0.37%) SAN
15 10 (0.33%) MPLS
16 9 (0.30%) DMARC
16 9 (0.30%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (5.71%) Power BI
2 82 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 76 (2.54%) Tableau
4 45 (1.50%) Data Mining
5 35 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (1.17%) SAP BW
6 32 (1.07%) Data Lake
7 25 (0.83%) MySQL
8 23 (0.77%) SAP HANA
9 22 (0.73%) Looker
10 20 (0.67%) Metadata
11 19 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (0.57%) Big Data
13 14 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (0.40%) GIS
15 11 (0.37%) Relational Database
16 9 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
16 9 (0.30%) Power Query
17 8 (0.27%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 221 (7.37%) JIRA
2 41 (1.37%) Git
3 10 (0.33%) GitLab
4 9 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.30%) Selenium
5 5 (0.17%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.13%) Subversion
6 4 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.10%) ERwin
7 3 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.10%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.067%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.067%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (0.067%) Maven
8 2 (0.067%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.033%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.033%) LSMW
9 1 (0.033%) Redmine
9 1 (0.033%) TeamCity
General
1 1,366 (45.58%) Social Skills
2 1,270 (42.38%) Finance
3 782 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 338 (11.28%) Marketing
5 290 (9.68%) Law
6 242 (8.07%) Legal
7 240 (8.01%) Retail
8 221 (7.37%) Manufacturing
9 200 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 193 (6.44%) Banking
11 188 (6.27%) Organisational Skills
12 167 (5.57%) Public Sector
13 150 (5.01%) Presentation Skills
14 113 (3.77%) Telecoms
15 106 (3.54%) Electronics
16 89 (2.97%) Local Government
17 82 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
18 74 (2.47%) Advertising
19 69 (2.30%) Aerospace
20 67 (2.24%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 563 (18.79%) Senior
2 469 (15.65%) Project Manager
3 299 (9.98%) Lead
4 282 (9.41%) Analyst
5 217 (7.24%) Senior Manager
6 196 (6.54%) IT Manager
7 128 (4.27%) Business Analyst
8 125 (4.17%) Architect
9 120 (4.00%) Consultant
10 108 (3.60%) Development Manager
11 105 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
12 98 (3.27%) Product Manager
13 93 (3.10%) IT Support
14 92 (3.07%) Designer
15 91 (3.04%) IT Project Manager
16 88 (2.94%) Business Manager
17 86 (2.87%) Coordinator
18 83 (2.77%) Senior Designer
19 82 (2.74%) Operations Manager
20 80 (2.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.97%) CSS
2 52 (1.74%) HTML
3 48 (1.60%) Middleware
4 28 (0.93%) .NET
5 18 (0.60%) React
6 15 (0.50%) Node.js
7 13 (0.43%) EDI
7 13 (0.43%) Web Services
8 12 (0.40%) JSON
8 12 (0.40%) XML
9 10 (0.33%) Kafka
9 10 (0.33%) REST
10 9 (0.30%) SOAP
11 8 (0.27%) FHIR
12 6 (0.20%) Flash
12 6 (0.20%) HTML5
12 6 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (0.20%) SAML
12 6 (0.20%) Spring
13 5 (0.17%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 232 (7.74%) Management Information System
2 124 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
3 120 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 115 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 104 (3.47%) FMCG
6 100 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 86 (2.87%) Driving Licence
8 84 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 78 (2.60%) NHS
10 73 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
11 69 (2.30%) Social Media
12 61 (2.04%) Robotics
13 42 (1.40%) Algorithms
14 30 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
15 27 (0.90%) Operational Technology
16 26 (0.87%) Virtual Team
17 25 (0.83%) e-Learning
17 25 (0.83%) PMI
17 25 (0.83%) SCADA
18 24 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 88 (2.94%) Windows
2 31 (1.03%) Linux
2 31 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.43%) VMS
4 11 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.33%) Unix
6 5 (0.17%) Android
6 5 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.10%) zOS
9 1 (0.033%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (27.96%) Agile
2 724 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
3 706 (23.56%) Project Delivery
4 596 (19.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 591 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 401 (13.38%) Risk Management
7 392 (13.08%) Change Management
8 379 (12.65%) Analytics
9 356 (11.88%) Decision-Making
10 328 (10.94%) ERP
11 321 (10.71%) PRINCE2
12 309 (10.31%) Roadmaps
13 306 (10.21%) CRM
14 275 (9.18%) Mentoring
15 264 (8.81%) Business Strategy
16 251 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
17 249 (8.31%) AI
18 244 (8.14%) Process Improvement
19 243 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
20 241 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 293 (9.78%) SQL
2 155 (5.17%) Python
3 72 (2.40%) JavaScript
4 63 (2.10%) PowerShell
5 59 (1.97%) C#
6 47 (1.57%) Java
7 37 (1.23%) C
8 29 (0.97%) C++
9 20 (0.67%) R
10 19 (0.63%) Bicep
10 19 (0.63%) PHP
11 16 (0.53%) VBA
12 13 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.33%) Perl
14 7 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.20%) Bash
15 6 (0.20%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.17%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 916 (30.56%) Degree
2 209 (6.97%) PMI Certification
3 192 (6.41%) PMP
4 171 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 140 (4.67%) Master's Degree
6 122 (4.07%) SC Cleared
7 94 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 76 (2.54%) DBS Check
9 59 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 56 (1.87%) CISSP
11 48 (1.60%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 46 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 42 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 40 (1.33%) Azure Certification
15 36 (1.20%) PhD
16 27 (0.90%) CCNP
17 26 (0.87%) AWS Certification
18 25 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
19 19 (0.63%) CFA
20 18 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (8.74%) QA
2 195 (6.51%) PMO
3 185 (6.17%) Accessibility
4 108 (3.60%) GDPR
5 65 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (1.50%) Data Quality
7 43 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 29 (0.97%) ISO 9001
9 28 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 28 (0.93%) SLA
10 24 (0.80%) NIST
11 19 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 16 (0.53%) MiFID
13 15 (0.50%) GxP
14 14 (0.47%) IFRS
15 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
16 10 (0.33%) IEC 61131
17 9 (0.30%) NEBOSH
17 9 (0.30%) WCAG
18 8 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 81 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (0.57%) Docker
4 15 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 15 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.37%) Firmware
6 7 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.13%) vSphere
8 3 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.033%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.033%) Forefront TMG
9 1 (0.033%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.033%) Varnish
9 1 (0.033%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 47 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
3 14 (0.47%) Terraform
4 10 (0.33%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.20%) SCCM
6 3 (0.10%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.10%) SmoothWall
7 2 (0.067%) Ansible
7 2 (0.067%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.067%) Nagios
7 2 (0.067%) SCOM
8 1 (0.033%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.033%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.033%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.033%) Puppet
8 1 (0.033%) Salt
8 1 (0.033%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.033%) SCSM
8 1 (0.033%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 635 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 258 (8.61%) SAP
3 119 (3.97%) Google
4 115 (3.84%) Salesforce
5 91 (3.04%) Oracle
6 71 (2.37%) Adobe
7 61 (2.04%) Cisco
8 41 (1.37%) Databricks
9 37 (1.23%) Ariba
9 37 (1.23%) OpenText
9 37 (1.23%) Sage
10 35 (1.17%) Meraki
10 35 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 26 (0.87%) IBM
12 23 (0.77%) VMware
13 22 (0.73%) HubSpot
14 20 (0.67%) TikTok
15 19 (0.63%) Atlassian
15 19 (0.63%) BMC
15 19 (0.63%) Facebook