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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,720 4,907 5,632
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.08% 9.86% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 10.69% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,499 2,164 4,105
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,824 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 53,091 45,886 65,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.62% 92.19% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,704 22,437 50,836
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -35 2,300 £52,500 -8.70% 1,103
UK excluding London -37 1,836 £45,000 -18.18% 1,012
Work from Home -32 705 £57,500 -4.17% 354
London -27 667 £69,500 +2.96% 297
North of England -26 520 £40,000 -27.27% 202
South East -25 483 £57,500 - 317
Midlands -45 287 £45,000 -18.18% 162
North West -30 234 £42,500 -19.05% 103
West Midlands -38 197 £45,000 -21.05% 86
South West -27 189 £45,564 -12.38% 116
Yorkshire -28 179 £40,000 -30.43% 75
Scotland -19 151 £40,000 -27.27% 48
East of England -41 111 £55,000 +10.00% 132
North East -7 107 £40,000 -32.20% 30
East Midlands -56 90 £43,100 -17.12% 76
Northern Ireland +2 65 £60,000 +26.32% 17
Wales -36 37 £57,515 +10.61% 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
1 145 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.84%) Confluence
3 39 (1.43%) CMS
4 31 (1.14%) WordPress
5 14 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.37%) Kinematics
7 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.15%) Apache
9 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) govService
10 3 (0.11%) SAS
11 2 (0.074%) Drupal
11 2 (0.074%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.037%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.037%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.037%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 423 (15.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 222 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
3 141 (5.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (4.34%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (1.07%) AutoCAD
6 28 (1.03%) MS Visio
7 21 (0.77%) Maya
7 21 (0.77%) Trello
8 18 (0.66%) SOLIDWORKS
9 17 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 6 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
11 6 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 6 (0.22%) Revit
12 4 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.15%) CATIA
13 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
13 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 3 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 93 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.39%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.36%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 20 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 18 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
6 17 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
7 15 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.44%) SAP IBP
9 11 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 11 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
9 11 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
9 11 (0.40%) SAP CO
9 11 (0.40%) SAP FI
9 11 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
10 10 (0.37%) NetSuite
10 10 (0.37%) Shopify
11 9 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
13 7 (0.26%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 217 (7.98%) Power Platform
2 212 (7.79%) Azure
3 147 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
4 127 (4.67%) SaaS
5 96 (3.53%) AWS
6 40 (1.47%) PowerApps
7 34 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (1.14%) GCP
9 27 (0.99%) Entra ID
10 26 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (0.92%) Asana
11 25 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (0.88%) Smartsheet
13 23 (0.85%) Google Analytics
13 23 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (0.66%) Google Workspace
14 18 (0.66%) Snowflake
15 17 (0.63%) PaaS
15 17 (0.63%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.55%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.51%) Firewall
2 37 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
3 27 (0.99%) WAN
4 22 (0.81%) Broadband
4 22 (0.81%) Internet
4 22 (0.81%) VPN
4 22 (0.81%) Wireless
5 20 (0.74%) CHAP
5 20 (0.74%) LAN
5 20 (0.74%) Network Security
5 20 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
6 17 (0.63%) VLAN
7 16 (0.59%) DNS
8 14 (0.51%) DHCP
8 14 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 14 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.40%) Intranet
9 11 (0.40%) Multicast
10 9 (0.33%) BGP
10 9 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (7.21%) Tableau
2 185 (6.80%) Power BI
3 160 (5.88%) Data Mining
4 49 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 29 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.59%) SAP BW
8 15 (0.55%) Power Query
9 14 (0.51%) Big Data
10 13 (0.48%) Metadata
11 12 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
12 10 (0.37%) Looker
13 8 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 7 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.18%) GIS
15 5 (0.18%) MongoDB
15 5 (0.18%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.18%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 114 (4.19%) JIRA
2 13 (0.48%) GitLab
3 12 (0.44%) Git
4 7 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.11%) ERwin
6 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.074%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.074%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.074%) ESLint
7 2 (0.074%) Gradle
7 2 (0.074%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.074%) JUnit
7 2 (0.074%) Maven
7 2 (0.074%) Mockito
7 2 (0.074%) Selenium
7 2 (0.074%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.074%) TestNG
7 2 (0.074%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.037%) webpack
General
1 1,230 (45.22%) Social Skills
2 1,150 (42.28%) Finance
3 804 (29.56%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (9.41%) Marketing
5 194 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
6 186 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 175 (6.43%) Manufacturing
8 164 (6.03%) Legal
9 147 (5.40%) Retail
10 143 (5.26%) Public Sector
11 139 (5.11%) Law
12 132 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
13 114 (4.19%) Banking
14 71 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
15 68 (2.50%) Games
16 62 (2.28%) Telecoms
17 57 (2.10%) Electronics
18 55 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
19 48 (1.76%) Advertising
20 47 (1.73%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 480 (17.65%) Analyst
2 404 (14.85%) Senior
3 389 (14.30%) Project Manager
4 285 (10.48%) Trainee
5 276 (10.15%) Trainee Analyst
6 239 (8.79%) Lead
7 226 (8.31%) Business Analyst
8 222 (8.16%) Senior Manager
9 168 (6.18%) Data Analyst
10 151 (5.55%) IT Manager
10 151 (5.55%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 150 (5.51%) Architect
12 125 (4.60%) Trainee Business Analyst
13 115 (4.23%) Development Manager
14 109 (4.01%) Business Manager
15 98 (3.60%) Consultant
15 98 (3.60%) Senior Project Manager
16 92 (3.38%) Product Manager
16 92 (3.38%) Systems Manager
17 83 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.18%) CSS
2 23 (0.85%) HTML
2 23 (0.85%) Middleware
3 22 (0.81%) EDI
4 16 (0.59%) .NET
5 10 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.33%) React
7 8 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (0.29%) PyTorch
8 7 (0.26%) Node.js
9 6 (0.22%) REST
10 5 (0.18%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.18%) FHIR
11 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.15%) FIDO
11 4 (0.15%) Flutter
11 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.15%) Web Services
12 3 (0.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 214 (7.87%) Management Information System
2 128 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 127 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
4 81 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 79 (2.90%) FMCG
5 79 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 75 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 68 (2.50%) Robotics
8 60 (2.21%) Driving Licence
9 54 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
10 47 (1.73%) Social Media
11 41 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 30 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 29 (1.07%) Blog
14 28 (1.03%) IoT
15 27 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (0.92%) Low-Code
17 22 (0.81%) Blockchain
18 21 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
18 21 (0.77%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 58 (2.13%) Windows
2 26 (0.96%) Linux
3 18 (0.66%) Apple iOS
3 18 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.51%) Android
5 7 (0.26%) Unix
5 7 (0.26%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.11%) VMS
7 2 (0.074%) AIX
7 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.074%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.074%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
2 657 (24.15%) Agile
3 594 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 551 (20.26%) Project Delivery
5 489 (17.98%) Analytics
6 485 (17.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 421 (15.48%) Change Management
8 406 (14.93%) Decision-Making
9 383 (14.08%) Business Analysis
10 350 (12.87%) PRINCE2
11 346 (12.72%) Risk Management
12 338 (12.43%) AI
13 301 (11.07%) Data Analysis
14 274 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 272 (10.00%) Process Improvement
16 248 (9.12%) Coaching
17 234 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
18 230 (8.46%) Roadmaps
19 224 (8.24%) ERP
20 223 (8.20%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 296 (10.88%) SQL
2 277 (10.18%) Python
3 34 (1.25%) VBA
4 31 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 29 (1.07%) C#
6 27 (0.99%) C
6 27 (0.99%) Java
7 20 (0.74%) C++
8 14 (0.51%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.37%) Perl
10 10 (0.37%) PHP
10 10 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.22%) Bash
11 6 (0.22%) MATLAB
12 5 (0.18%) R
13 4 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
14 3 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.11%) Scala
14 3 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 780 (28.68%) Degree
2 224 (8.24%) PMP
3 215 (7.90%) PMI Certification
4 187 (6.88%) Security Cleared
5 146 (5.37%) SC Cleared
6 103 (3.79%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.35%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 52 (1.91%) DBS Check
9 49 (1.80%) CISSP
10 48 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 43 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (1.36%) CISM
13 31 (1.14%) HNC
14 25 (0.92%) HND
14 25 (0.92%) MBA
15 24 (0.88%) DV Cleared
16 23 (0.85%) CISA
17 22 (0.81%) ACCA
17 22 (0.81%) FFIEC
18 21 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (7.54%) QA
2 143 (5.26%) PMO
3 96 (3.53%) GDPR
4 59 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 50 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (1.69%) NIST
7 37 (1.36%) Data Quality
8 22 (0.81%) ISO 9001
9 21 (0.77%) COBIT
10 18 (0.66%) GRC
11 15 (0.55%) SLA
12 14 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.37%) IEC 61131
15 9 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.33%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.29%) IFRS
16 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 57 (2.10%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.66%) Docker
3 14 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.33%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.037%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (0.70%) Kubernetes
2 18 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (0.33%) Ansible
3 9 (0.33%) Terraform
4 5 (0.18%) SCCM
4 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.15%) Grafana
6 3 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.037%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.037%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.037%) MOM
7 1 (0.037%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 648 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 201 (7.39%) SAP
3 98 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 71 (2.61%) Oracle
5 65 (2.39%) Google
6 44 (1.62%) Cisco
6 44 (1.62%) ServiceNow
7 43 (1.58%) Adobe
8 37 (1.36%) OpenText
9 34 (1.25%) Ariba
10 28 (1.03%) Anaplan
10 28 (1.03%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.74%) Genesys
11 20 (0.74%) Verint
12 16 (0.59%) Databricks
13 15 (0.55%) Pardot
13 15 (0.55%) VMware
14 12 (0.44%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.44%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.44%) Workday