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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,985 5,122 4,234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.96% 7.55% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.15% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,581 2,203 2,996
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,899 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,509 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -5.82% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,250 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,175 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.09% -1.50% +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 43,586 55,994 49,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 82.59% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 26,170 29,448 38,129
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,063 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.53% +2.98% -

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 -13 2,488 £57,500 - 3,059
UK excluding London -14 1,886 £52,500 -3.09% 2,510
Work from Home -18 885 £60,000 - 1,043
London -9 841 £70,000 - 1,129
South East -2 510 £57,500 +4.55% 986
North of England -22 427 £45,000 -16.67% 483
Midlands -43 277 £50,135 -8.85% 389
Scotland -8 203 £57,500 +10.18% 105
South West -2 202 £55,000 - 212
North West -44 201 £47,683 -12.98% 272
East of England -18 187 £53,000 +1.92% 256
West Midlands -16 179 £49,000 -14.78% 239
Yorkshire -21 149 £47,500 -13.64% 139
East Midlands -47 99 £52,500 +0.96% 148
North East +23 77 £32,500 -27.49% 78
Northern Ireland +4 40 £65,000 -3.70% 44
Wales -8 39 £60,000 +20.60% 58
Channel Islands +5 2 £87,500 +75.00% 23

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
1 161 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 68 (2.28%) Confluence
3 46 (1.54%) CMS
4 36 (1.21%) WordPress
5 33 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (0.77%) Kinematics
7 13 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.27%) Apache
8 8 (0.27%) IIS
9 7 (0.23%) Drupal
10 6 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 5 (0.17%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.17%) Moodle
12 4 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 4 (0.13%) PowerFactory
12 4 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.10%) Magnolia
14 2 (0.067%) Skype for Business
14 2 (0.067%) TPMS
Applications
1 368 (12.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 301 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
3 188 (6.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 124 (4.15%) Microsoft Project
5 44 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 31 (1.04%) Maya
7 25 (0.84%) AutoCAD
8 24 (0.80%) Trello
9 15 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 14 (0.47%) Photoshop
11 13 (0.44%) Revit
12 10 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
13 9 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
13 9 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
14 8 (0.27%) Adobe XD
15 7 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
16 6 (0.20%) Navisworks
17 5 (0.17%) Civil 3D
17 5 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
17 5 (0.17%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 123 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.18%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.24%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 29 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
5 27 (0.90%) NetSuite
6 25 (0.84%) SAP CO
6 25 (0.84%) SAP FI
6 25 (0.84%) SAP FI/CO
7 22 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
8 21 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
8 21 (0.70%) SAP IBP
9 20 (0.67%) Sage 200
10 19 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
11 15 (0.50%) Shopify
12 14 (0.47%) Sage CRM
13 13 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
13 13 (0.44%) Sprinklr
14 12 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
14 12 (0.40%) SAP FSCM
14 12 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 265 (8.88%) Azure
2 207 (6.93%) Power Platform
3 148 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (4.22%) AWS
5 107 (3.58%) SaaS
6 73 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (2.14%) Power Automate
8 57 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
9 46 (1.54%) Entra ID
10 41 (1.37%) IaaS
11 40 (1.34%) GCP
12 35 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
12 35 (1.17%) PaaS
13 34 (1.14%) Snowflake
14 30 (1.01%) Smartsheet
15 28 (0.94%) Google Workspace
16 25 (0.84%) PowerApps
17 22 (0.74%) Google Analytics
18 21 (0.70%) Asana
19 20 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.04%) Firewall
2 48 (1.61%) WAN
3 45 (1.51%) VPN
4 37 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (1.07%) SD-WAN
6 31 (1.04%) DNS
7 30 (1.01%) Wireless
8 28 (0.94%) LAN
9 26 (0.87%) VLAN
10 19 (0.64%) Unified Communications
11 18 (0.60%) Internet
12 14 (0.47%) VoIP
13 12 (0.40%) Broadband
13 12 (0.40%) Intranet
13 12 (0.40%) TCP/IP
14 11 (0.37%) MPLS
14 11 (0.37%) Network Security
15 10 (0.34%) DHCP
16 8 (0.27%) SSL
17 7 (0.23%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (5.86%) Power BI
2 95 (3.18%) Tableau
3 74 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 62 (2.08%) Data Mining
5 34 (1.14%) SAP BW
6 30 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 30 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (0.80%) MySQL
8 21 (0.70%) SAP HANA
9 20 (0.67%) Looker
10 18 (0.60%) Metadata
11 16 (0.54%) Big Data
12 14 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.37%) GIS
15 10 (0.34%) Power Query
15 10 (0.34%) Qlik Sense
16 9 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 9 (0.30%) Relational Database
17 8 (0.27%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 208 (6.97%) JIRA
2 38 (1.27%) Git
3 8 (0.27%) GitLab
3 8 (0.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.20%) Selenium
5 4 (0.13%) JIRA Agile
5 4 (0.13%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.13%) Subversion
5 4 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.10%) ERwin
6 3 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.067%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.067%) Maven
7 2 (0.067%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.034%) gulp
8 1 (0.034%) LSMW
8 1 (0.034%) Redmine
8 1 (0.034%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.034%) webpack
General
1 1,364 (45.70%) Social Skills
2 1,237 (41.44%) Finance
3 821 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
4 327 (10.95%) Marketing
5 265 (8.88%) Law
6 238 (7.97%) Legal
7 230 (7.71%) Retail
8 222 (7.44%) Manufacturing
9 205 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 181 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
11 174 (5.83%) Public Sector
12 157 (5.26%) Banking
13 151 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
14 102 (3.42%) Telecoms
15 98 (3.28%) Electronics
16 81 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
17 80 (2.68%) Local Government
18 73 (2.45%) Aerospace
19 69 (2.31%) Advertising
20 65 (2.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 529 (17.72%) Senior
2 462 (15.48%) Project Manager
3 315 (10.55%) Analyst
4 295 (9.88%) Lead
5 233 (7.81%) Senior Manager
6 191 (6.40%) IT Manager
7 143 (4.79%) Business Analyst
8 132 (4.42%) Architect
9 118 (3.95%) Trainee
10 112 (3.75%) Consultant
11 111 (3.72%) Development Manager
12 110 (3.69%) Trainee Analyst
13 106 (3.55%) Business Manager
14 104 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
15 94 (3.15%) Coordinator
15 94 (3.15%) IT Project Manager
16 93 (3.12%) Product Manager
17 84 (2.81%) Senior Project Manager
18 81 (2.71%) IT Support
19 74 (2.48%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (1.78%) CSS
2 47 (1.57%) HTML
3 42 (1.41%) Middleware
4 26 (0.87%) .NET
5 18 (0.60%) React
6 12 (0.40%) EDI
6 12 (0.40%) Node.js
6 12 (0.40%) Web Services
7 10 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (0.30%) Kafka
9 8 (0.27%) FHIR
10 7 (0.23%) JSON
10 7 (0.23%) XML
11 6 (0.20%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.20%) REST
11 6 (0.20%) Spring
12 5 (0.17%) Flutter
12 5 (0.17%) HTML5
12 5 (0.17%) PyTorch
12 5 (0.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 239 (8.01%) Management Information System
2 131 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
3 128 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 112 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 106 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 103 (3.45%) FMCG
7 86 (2.88%) Driving Licence
8 81 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 80 (2.68%) Robotics
10 74 (2.48%) NHS
11 70 (2.35%) Social Media
12 67 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
13 49 (1.64%) Algorithms
14 36 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 33 (1.11%) IoT
16 27 (0.90%) SCADA
17 26 (0.87%) e-Learning
17 26 (0.87%) Operational Technology
17 26 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
18 24 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 72 (2.41%) Windows
2 27 (0.90%) Linux
3 26 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 9 (0.30%) VMS
6 6 (0.20%) Android
6 6 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.17%) Unix
8 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.10%) zOS
10 2 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.034%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (26.16%) Agile
2 733 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
3 703 (23.55%) Project Delivery
4 642 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 544 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 406 (13.60%) Change Management
7 404 (13.53%) Analytics
8 403 (13.50%) Risk Management
9 374 (12.53%) Decision-Making
10 335 (11.22%) PRINCE2
11 316 (10.59%) ERP
12 296 (9.92%) AI
13 277 (9.28%) Roadmaps
14 275 (9.21%) Process Improvement
15 269 (9.01%) Business Strategy
16 264 (8.84%) CRM
17 251 (8.41%) Mentoring
18 250 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 247 (8.27%) Business Analysis
20 245 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 300 (10.05%) SQL
2 182 (6.10%) Python
3 67 (2.24%) JavaScript
4 56 (1.88%) C#
5 45 (1.51%) PowerShell
6 44 (1.47%) Java
7 39 (1.31%) C
8 32 (1.07%) C++
9 19 (0.64%) PHP
10 18 (0.60%) Bicep
10 18 (0.60%) VBA
11 17 (0.57%) R
12 11 (0.37%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.34%) Perl
14 8 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.23%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.20%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.13%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.13%) VB
17 4 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 933 (31.26%) Degree
2 210 (7.04%) PMI Certification
3 202 (6.77%) PMP
4 193 (6.47%) Security Cleared
5 145 (4.86%) Master's Degree
5 145 (4.86%) SC Cleared
6 81 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 74 (2.48%) DBS Check
8 64 (2.14%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
9 58 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (1.37%) CISSP
11 40 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 37 (1.24%) PhD
13 35 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
14 33 (1.11%) Azure Certification
15 25 (0.84%) CCNP
16 24 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 22 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
18 21 (0.70%) CFA
19 20 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (8.91%) QA
2 195 (6.53%) PMO
3 136 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 102 (3.42%) GDPR
5 47 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (1.44%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.14%) ISO 9001
8 30 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 24 (0.80%) SLA
10 23 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 23 (0.77%) NIST
11 18 (0.60%) MiFID
12 14 (0.47%) IFRS
12 14 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.37%) GxP
13 11 (0.37%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.34%) IEC 61131
15 9 (0.30%) NEBOSH
16 8 (0.27%) IFRS 17
16 8 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 65 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.64%) Docker
3 18 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.34%) Firmware
7 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.13%) vSphere
9 3 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.034%) Forefront TMG
10 1 (0.034%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.034%) Varnish
10 1 (0.034%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 33 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (0.34%) Terraform
4 9 (0.30%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.17%) SCCM
6 4 (0.13%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.067%) Ansible
7 2 (0.067%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.067%) Grafana
7 2 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.067%) Nagios
7 2 (0.067%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.034%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.034%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.034%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.034%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.034%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.034%) SCOM
8 1 (0.034%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.034%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 653 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 262 (8.78%) SAP
3 101 (3.38%) Salesforce
4 94 (3.15%) Google
5 88 (2.95%) Oracle
6 69 (2.31%) Adobe
7 61 (2.04%) Cisco
8 42 (1.41%) Databricks
9 37 (1.24%) OpenText
10 36 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 35 (1.17%) Ariba
12 33 (1.11%) Sage
13 28 (0.94%) Meraki
14 25 (0.84%) HubSpot
15 24 (0.80%) IBM
16 21 (0.70%) VMware
17 19 (0.64%) Atlassian
17 19 (0.64%) BMC
18 18 (0.60%) TikTok
19 17 (0.57%) Facebook