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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 28 23
Rank change year-on-year -37 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,625 3,246 5,609
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.38% 6.52% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 7.36% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 1,743 3,131
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,105
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £69,914
90th Percentile £92,575 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,445 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.65% +5.77% -5.45%

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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -29 2,362 £55,000 -8.33% 3,521
UK excluding London -38 1,687 £52,445 -4.65% 2,098
Work from Home -14 1,062 £50,500 -13.67% 1,511
London -29 824 £65,000 -7.14% 1,875
South East -20 467 £45,000 -21.74% 521
North of England -24 385 £55,000 +10.00% 446
Midlands -38 278 £55,000 +1.85% 299
North West +1 213 £52,500 +5.00% 260
South West -39 206 £55,000 -0.87% 312
East of England -24 185 £55,000 - 209
West Midlands -42 153 £55,000 - 183
East Midlands -12 124 £55,000 +4.76% 116
Yorkshire -54 115 £60,000 +10.30% 136
Scotland -45 65 £70,000 +16.67% 186
Northern Ireland -61 58 £47,500 -5.00% 103
North East -62 57 £58,000 +45.00% 56
Wales -56 44 £55,000 -8.33% 50

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
1 133 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 69 (2.63%) Confluence
3 64 (2.44%) CMS
4 27 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
5 17 (0.65%) WordPress
6 14 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 10 (0.38%) Headless CMS
8 9 (0.34%) IIS
9 8 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.30%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Apache Pig
11 5 (0.19%) MS Project Server
12 4 (0.15%) Moodle
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.076%) Totara
15 1 (0.038%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 256 (9.75%) Microsoft Project
2 244 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 231 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
4 72 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.76%) Trello
7 17 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.30%) EPLAN
10 6 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 3 (0.11%) Blender
11 3 (0.11%) Maya
11 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.11%) Revit
12 2 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.076%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.076%) OrCAD
13 1 (0.038%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.038%) InDesign
13 1 (0.038%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 78 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (1.10%) NetSuite
4 22 (0.84%) Primavera
5 11 (0.42%) Shopify
6 9 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 6 (0.23%) iTrent
9 5 (0.19%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.19%) SAP EHS
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.15%) Misys Midas
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
10 4 (0.15%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.15%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.15%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 237 (9.03%) Azure
2 225 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 161 (6.13%) AWS
4 143 (5.45%) SaaS
5 127 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.09%) PowerApps
7 76 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
8 60 (2.29%) Power Automate
9 54 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 37 (1.41%) Smartsheet
12 33 (1.26%) GCP
13 27 (1.03%) Entra ID
14 24 (0.91%) LangSmith
15 22 (0.84%) OneDrive
15 22 (0.84%) Serverless
16 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (0.76%) IaaS
17 20 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
18 19 (0.72%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 58 (2.21%) Firewall
2 28 (1.07%) LAN
2 28 (1.07%) WAN
3 25 (0.95%) DNS
4 21 (0.80%) VPN
5 18 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 17 (0.65%) Broadband
6 17 (0.65%) Network Security
7 15 (0.57%) NGN
8 14 (0.53%) BGP
9 13 (0.50%) DHCP
10 12 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.46%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.42%) Intranet
12 10 (0.38%) Profibus
12 10 (0.38%) Wireless
13 9 (0.34%) Internet
13 9 (0.34%) Multicast
14 8 (0.30%) Structured Cabling
15 7 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (7.54%) Power BI
2 59 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 36 (1.37%) Tableau
4 21 (0.80%) Big Data
4 21 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.76%) Data Mining
6 19 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.69%) Metadata
7 18 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 18 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.65%) MySQL
9 14 (0.53%) Hadoop
9 14 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.42%) Apache Hive
10 11 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.30%) GIS
12 8 (0.30%) Power Query
12 8 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 223 (8.50%) JIRA
2 26 (0.99%) Git
3 12 (0.46%) Visual Studio
4 11 (0.42%) Claude Code
5 10 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
6 9 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.23%) GitLab
7 6 (0.23%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.19%) JUnit
9 4 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.15%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.11%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.11%) Mercurial
10 3 (0.11%) PHPUnit
10 3 (0.11%) Selenium
10 3 (0.11%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.11%) TestNG
General
1 1,139 (43.39%) Social Skills
2 832 (31.70%) Finance
3 524 (19.96%) Analytical Skills
4 297 (11.31%) Organisational Skills
5 277 (10.55%) Marketing
6 161 (6.13%) Legal
7 159 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 154 (5.87%) Retail
9 142 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
10 137 (5.22%) Public Sector
11 135 (5.14%) Manufacturing
12 106 (4.04%) Law
13 90 (3.43%) Banking
13 90 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
14 85 (3.24%) Aerospace
15 68 (2.59%) Telecoms
16 52 (1.98%) Electronics
17 51 (1.94%) Local Government
18 43 (1.64%) Financial Institution
19 42 (1.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 553 (21.07%) Project Manager
2 385 (14.67%) Senior
3 214 (8.15%) Analyst
4 211 (8.04%) Lead
5 190 (7.24%) Senior Manager
6 180 (6.86%) Consultant
7 179 (6.82%) IT Manager
8 137 (5.22%) Senior Project Manager
9 122 (4.65%) Business Analyst
10 107 (4.08%) IT Project Manager
11 77 (2.93%) Development Manager
12 66 (2.51%) Developer
12 66 (2.51%) Technical Manager
13 64 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
14 61 (2.32%) Senior Consultant
15 60 (2.29%) Architect
16 59 (2.25%) Coordinator
17 56 (2.13%) Product Manager
18 52 (1.98%) Programme Manager
19 51 (1.94%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.06%) HTML
2 52 (1.98%) CSS
3 51 (1.94%) .NET
4 30 (1.14%) TensorFlow
5 27 (1.03%) PyTorch
6 24 (0.91%) LangChain
6 24 (0.91%) Langfuse
6 24 (0.91%) LlamaIndex
6 24 (0.91%) Model Context Protocol
7 23 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
7 23 (0.88%) Hugging Face
7 23 (0.88%) JSON
8 21 (0.80%) Flash
9 18 (0.69%) .NET Core
9 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (0.69%) SPFx
10 16 (0.61%) ASP.NET
10 16 (0.61%) Kafka
11 15 (0.57%) jQuery
12 12 (0.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 248 (9.45%) Onboarding
2 176 (6.70%) Data Centre
3 172 (6.55%) Management Information System
4 117 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 116 (4.42%) Driving Licence
6 89 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 72 (2.74%) Virtual Team
8 65 (2.48%) Blog
9 53 (2.02%) Social Media
10 52 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
11 49 (1.87%) PMI
12 41 (1.56%) Cloud Native
12 41 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
13 37 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
14 36 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
15 35 (1.33%) AI Agents
15 35 (1.33%) FMCG
15 35 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
16 33 (1.26%) e-Learning
16 33 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 123 (4.69%) Windows
2 49 (1.87%) Linux
3 18 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) Android
7 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.11%) Debian
7 3 (0.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.11%) VMS
8 2 (0.076%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.076%) zOS
9 1 (0.038%) AIX
9 1 (0.038%) CentOS
9 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 731 (27.85%) Agile
2 717 (27.31%) Project Delivery
3 701 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
4 697 (26.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 551 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 484 (18.44%) PRINCE2
7 331 (12.61%) Decision-Making
8 304 (11.58%) Roadmaps
9 290 (11.05%) AI
10 274 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 268 (10.21%) Analytics
12 264 (10.06%) Mentoring
13 255 (9.71%) Risk Management
14 238 (9.07%) Budget Management
15 226 (8.61%) Coaching
16 218 (8.30%) CRM
17 216 (8.23%) ERP
18 215 (8.19%) Change Management
19 208 (7.92%) Service Delivery
20 206 (7.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 200 (7.62%) SQL
2 171 (6.51%) Python
3 76 (2.90%) JavaScript
4 51 (1.94%) C#
5 50 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 36 (1.37%) TypeScript
7 30 (1.14%) Java
8 20 (0.76%) C
9 14 (0.53%) PHP
10 11 (0.42%) C++
11 10 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
12 9 (0.34%) Assembly Language
12 9 (0.34%) VB.NET
13 6 (0.23%) Embedded C
13 6 (0.23%) R
13 6 (0.23%) Ruby
13 6 (0.23%) VBA
14 5 (0.19%) Bash
14 5 (0.19%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.15%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 685 (26.10%) Degree
2 228 (8.69%) PMI Certification
3 217 (8.27%) PMP
4 204 (7.77%) Security Cleared
5 143 (5.45%) DBS Check
6 107 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 96 (3.66%) SC Cleared
8 74 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 62 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 60 (2.29%) CISSP
11 51 (1.94%) HNC
12 47 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 46 (1.75%) Master's Degree
14 45 (1.71%) HND
15 44 (1.68%) CISM
16 37 (1.41%) Chartered Engineer
16 37 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
17 27 (1.03%) CRISC
18 24 (0.91%) ACCA
19 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (6.97%) PMO
2 176 (6.70%) QA
3 103 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 78 (2.97%) GDPR
6 75 (2.86%) Data Quality
7 63 (2.40%) NIST
8 54 (2.06%) SLA
9 39 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 38 (1.45%) GRC
10 38 (1.45%) ISO 9001
11 26 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 22 (0.84%) GMP
13 18 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14000
14 17 (0.65%) ISO 14001
15 16 (0.61%) NIST 800
16 15 (0.57%) IFRS
17 10 (0.38%) COBIT
17 10 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.65%) Docker
3 14 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.27%) vSphere
6 6 (0.23%) Firmware
7 3 (0.11%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.076%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.076%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.038%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.038%) IAG
9 1 (0.038%) NFS
9 1 (0.038%) Samba
9 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (1.10%) SCCM
2 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (0.69%) Puppet
4 14 (0.53%) Kubernetes
5 13 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 9 (0.34%) Ansible
6 9 (0.34%) Grafana
7 8 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.23%) Hadoop YARN
9 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
11 2 (0.076%) Argo
11 2 (0.076%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.076%) Salt
11 2 (0.076%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.038%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.038%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.038%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.038%) SCOM
12 1 (0.038%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 522 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 161 (6.13%) SAP
3 118 (4.50%) Oracle
4 69 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 63 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 61 (2.32%) Adobe
7 56 (2.13%) Google
8 34 (1.30%) HubSpot
9 33 (1.26%) Fortinet
10 32 (1.22%) Cisco
11 28 (1.07%) Sitecore
12 27 (1.03%) Sage
13 22 (0.84%) SonicWALL
14 21 (0.80%) VMware
15 20 (0.76%) Siemens
16 18 (0.69%) NEC
17 16 (0.61%) Remedy
18 14 (0.53%) Apple
18 14 (0.53%) Bloomberg
18 14 (0.53%) IBM