Project Management Jobs

Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 22 28
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +11
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 4,874 7,661 8,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 8.27% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 9.53% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,622 5,200 4,872
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £45,628 £41,250 £46,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -8.70% +0.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,964 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +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 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management.

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 19 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 2 April 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 +5 4,311 £57,000 +8.57% 5,259
UK excluding London +8 3,522 £55,000 +10.00% 2,604
Work from Home -3 1,223 £57,500 +4.55% 2,257
North of England +10 1,197 £55,043 +10.09% 650
London -6 1,066 £70,000 +7.69% 3,090
North West +10 840 £56,000 +12.00% 376
South East +2 739 £57,000 +21.28% 727
Midlands -2 694 £52,500 - 401
West Midlands +1 453 £55,000 +1.85% 242
South West +3 311 £51,000 +7.37% 282
East of England +3 245 £53,250 +6.50% 289
Yorkshire -4 231 £55,000 +4.76% 207
East Midlands 0 230 £42,500 -11.46% 147
Scotland +28 186 £44,000 -12.00% 187
North East +14 125 £57,000 +8.57% 75
Wales +7 110 £50,500 +12.22% 57
Northern Ireland +18 34 £53,750 +26.47% 64
Isle of Man +12 7 £43,000 +14.67%
Channel Islands - 3 £78,750 - 1

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 191 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 83 (1.70%) Confluence
3 62 (1.27%) CMS
4 49 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 39 (0.80%) WordPress
6 13 (0.27%) Kentico
7 12 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 12 (0.25%) IIS
7 12 (0.25%) Kinematics
7 12 (0.25%) SAS
8 9 (0.18%) Apache
9 6 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.10%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.082%) CloudStack
11 4 (0.082%) Moodle
11 4 (0.082%) SAP Portal
12 3 (0.062%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.062%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.062%) Drupal
13 2 (0.041%) Mule
Applications
1 370 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 274 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 197 (4.04%) Simulink
4 190 (3.90%) Microsoft Project
5 121 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 58 (1.19%) Trello
7 45 (0.92%) MS Visio
8 28 (0.57%) AutoCAD
9 20 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 18 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
11 14 (0.29%) Maya
12 12 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
13 11 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
13 11 (0.23%) InDesign
14 10 (0.21%) Photoshop
15 9 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
16 6 (0.12%) Chatbot
16 6 (0.12%) Stata
17 4 (0.082%) Adobe XD
17 4 (0.082%) Notion
Business Applications
1 154 (3.16%) Teamcenter
2 66 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 60 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 37 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 25 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 22 (0.45%) Shopify
7 19 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 18 (0.37%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 12 (0.25%) Aladdin
10 8 (0.16%) SAP HR
11 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
11 7 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 7 (0.14%) SAP CO
11 7 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite
12 6 (0.12%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
12 6 (0.12%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 359 (7.37%) Azure
2 199 (4.08%) Power Platform
3 198 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
4 160 (3.28%) SaaS
5 137 (2.81%) AWS
6 107 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (1.60%) GitHub
8 69 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
9 51 (1.05%) Power Automate
10 47 (0.96%) PowerApps
11 44 (0.90%) Entra ID
12 41 (0.84%) GCP
13 36 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
14 35 (0.72%) IaaS
15 30 (0.62%) PaaS
16 29 (0.59%) Boomi
17 27 (0.55%) Serverless
17 27 (0.55%) Smartsheet
18 26 (0.53%) Asana
19 25 (0.51%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 51 (1.05%) Firewall
2 50 (1.03%) Network Security
3 48 (0.98%) WAN
4 42 (0.86%) DNS
5 31 (0.64%) DHCP
6 27 (0.55%) VPN
7 26 (0.53%) Wireless
8 25 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 24 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 22 (0.45%) LAN
11 18 (0.37%) Internet
11 18 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.27%) VLAN
13 12 (0.25%) Intranet
14 11 (0.23%) 5G
14 11 (0.23%) Ethernet
15 10 (0.21%) VoIP
16 8 (0.16%) Unified Communications
17 7 (0.14%) Cisco Firepower
18 6 (0.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (2.89%) Power BI
2 118 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 99 (2.03%) Big Data
4 59 (1.21%) Tableau
5 46 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 34 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 33 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (0.68%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
9 25 (0.51%) MySQL
10 19 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.33%) NoSQL
12 12 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.23%) GIS
13 11 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.21%) Metadata
14 10 (0.21%) MS Access
15 9 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
15 9 (0.18%) Hadoop
15 9 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 260 (5.33%) JIRA
2 148 (3.04%) Rational DOORS
3 83 (1.70%) Git
4 37 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 18 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 12 (0.25%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.21%) GitLab
8 9 (0.18%) Postman
9 6 (0.12%) Subversion
10 5 (0.10%) Jenkins
10 5 (0.10%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.10%) Selenium
10 5 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.082%) LSMW
12 3 (0.062%) Ant
13 2 (0.041%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.041%) JMeter
13 2 (0.041%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.041%) TestRail
13 2 (0.041%) webpack
General
1 2,210 (45.34%) Social Skills
2 1,734 (35.58%) Finance
3 837 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
4 444 (9.11%) Marketing
5 395 (8.10%) Manufacturing
6 313 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
7 291 (5.97%) Law
8 255 (5.23%) Public Sector
9 238 (4.88%) Legal
10 231 (4.74%) Retail
11 226 (4.64%) Aerospace
12 215 (4.41%) Electronics
13 209 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 192 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
15 138 (2.83%) Banking
16 122 (2.50%) Advertising
17 119 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
18 80 (1.64%) Telecoms
19 69 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
20 62 (1.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,706 (35.00%) Project Manager
2 870 (17.85%) Senior
3 576 (11.82%) Senior Manager
4 408 (8.37%) Lead
5 393 (8.06%) Senior Project Manager
6 383 (7.86%) Analyst
7 265 (5.44%) IT Manager
8 215 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
9 192 (3.94%) Delivery Project Manager
10 170 (3.49%) Security Engineer
11 169 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
11 169 (3.47%) Principal Security Engineer
12 167 (3.43%) Junior
13 166 (3.41%) Developer
14 162 (3.32%) Consultant
15 161 (3.30%) Development Manager
16 145 (2.97%) Junior Systems Engineer
17 143 (2.93%) IT Project Manager
18 130 (2.67%) Product Manager
19 112 (2.30%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (2.24%) .NET
2 98 (2.01%) HTML
3 89 (1.83%) CSS
4 66 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 63 (1.29%) React
6 61 (1.25%) XML
7 46 (0.94%) JSON
8 33 (0.68%) ASP.NET
9 31 (0.64%) HTML5
10 26 (0.53%) .NET Core
10 26 (0.53%) Web Services
11 25 (0.51%) OAuth
12 23 (0.47%) EDI
12 23 (0.47%) Middleware
12 23 (0.47%) RESTful
13 22 (0.45%) Laravel
14 20 (0.41%) SAML
15 18 (0.37%) Sass
16 16 (0.33%) CSS3
16 16 (0.33%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 308 (6.32%) Driving Licence
2 307 (6.30%) Management Information System
3 169 (3.47%) FMCG
4 148 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
5 125 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 124 (2.54%) Onboarding
7 94 (1.93%) Marketing Technology
8 89 (1.83%) Digital Media
9 88 (1.81%) Social Media
10 74 (1.52%) PMI
11 51 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 51 (1.05%) Life Science
12 49 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 42 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 42 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 40 (0.82%) Mobile App
15 32 (0.66%) IoT
16 30 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (0.55%) Credit Risk
17 27 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 177 (3.63%) Windows
2 94 (1.93%) Windows Server
3 53 (1.09%) Linux
4 22 (0.45%) Windows Vista
5 20 (0.41%) Android
6 19 (0.39%) Unix
7 18 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.31%) Windows 10
9 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.12%) AIX
10 6 (0.12%) CentOS
11 5 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.10%) VMS
12 4 (0.082%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.062%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.041%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.041%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,142 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,047 (21.48%) Project Delivery
3 993 (20.37%) Agile
4 864 (17.73%) Risk Management
5 765 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 751 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 666 (13.66%) PRINCE2
8 431 (8.84%) Mentoring
9 403 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
10 384 (7.88%) Collaborative Working
10 384 (7.88%) Computer Science
11 340 (6.98%) ERP
12 334 (6.85%) Roadmaps
13 332 (6.81%) Change Management
14 311 (6.38%) Decision-Making
15 306 (6.28%) Coaching
16 303 (6.22%) Analytics
17 301 (6.18%) Process Improvement
18 298 (6.11%) Budget Management
19 292 (5.99%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 264 (5.42%) SQL
2 173 (3.55%) Python
3 149 (3.06%) MATLAB
4 104 (2.13%) C#
5 100 (2.05%) JavaScript
6 89 (1.83%) Java
7 65 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 53 (1.09%) PHP
9 44 (0.90%) C++
10 38 (0.78%) C
11 27 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 20 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.37%) Bash
14 15 (0.31%) VBA
15 14 (0.29%) Objective-C
16 13 (0.27%) R
17 12 (0.25%) ABAP
18 8 (0.16%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.16%) Ruby
18 8 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,505 (30.88%) Degree
2 673 (13.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 247 (5.07%) PMI Certification
3 247 (5.07%) PMP
4 227 (4.66%) CISSP
5 186 (3.82%) CISM
6 185 (3.80%) Security Cleared
7 169 (3.47%) CESG Certified Professional
8 135 (2.77%) Master's Degree
9 101 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 97 (1.99%) DBS Check
11 78 (1.60%) HNC
12 57 (1.17%) HND
12 57 (1.17%) SC Cleared
13 54 (1.11%) MBA
14 51 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 48 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 37 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 37 (0.76%) MRICS
17 36 (0.74%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (6.93%) QA
2 219 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 189 (3.88%) PMO
4 180 (3.69%) NIST
5 169 (3.47%) JSP 440
5 169 (3.47%) RMADS
6 108 (2.22%) NEBOSH
7 99 (2.03%) Data Quality
8 92 (1.89%) GDPR
9 88 (1.81%) Accessibility
10 39 (0.80%) SLA
11 38 (0.78%) IFRS
12 30 (0.62%) GMP
13 28 (0.57%) GAAP
14 22 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 22 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
15 15 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.31%) WCAG
16 14 (0.29%) NCSC
17 13 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 88 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 29 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (0.57%) Docker
4 24 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.23%) Firmware
6 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.18%) vSphere
7 8 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.082%) pfSense
10 3 (0.062%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.062%) Terminal Server
10 3 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.041%) KVM
11 2 (0.041%) Postfix
11 2 (0.041%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.041%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.021%) HDFS
12 1 (0.021%) NFS
12 1 (0.021%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 46 (0.94%) Terraform
2 43 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 34 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (0.68%) Ansible
5 19 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.25%) SCCM
7 10 (0.21%) ZABBIX
8 6 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.082%) BMC PATROL
9 4 (0.082%) NetBackup
9 4 (0.082%) QRadar
10 3 (0.062%) Puppet
11 2 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.041%) Argo
11 2 (0.041%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.041%) Grafana
11 2 (0.041%) Nagios
11 2 (0.041%) Nessus
11 2 (0.041%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.021%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 840 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 282 (5.79%) SAP
3 154 (3.16%) IBM
4 119 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 95 (1.95%) Oracle
6 76 (1.56%) Google
7 65 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 58 (1.19%) Cisco
9 50 (1.03%) MathWorks
10 48 (0.98%) Adobe
11 44 (0.90%) VMware
12 31 (0.64%) Workday
13 29 (0.59%) NEC
14 25 (0.51%) SolarWinds
14 25 (0.51%) YouTube
15 23 (0.47%) Concur
16 22 (0.45%) Atlassian
16 22 (0.45%) Informatica
16 22 (0.45%) Meraki
17 21 (0.43%) Siemens