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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -45 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,595 3,987 7,233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.18% 9.73% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 10.46% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 2,030 5,232
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,585 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +9.69% -8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,875 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 62,259 38,133 78,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.22% 93.03% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 38,393 22,512 58,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,184
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,487 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -7.94%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -50 2,190 £55,000 -4.35% 1,263
UK excluding London -49 1,703 £47,500 -13.64% 1,056
Work from Home -20 791 £57,500 -4.17% 423
London -25 675 £70,000 - 403
North of England -40 543 £42,850 -22.09% 233
South East -44 396 £51,000 -8.59% 313
Midlands -55 256 £52,500 -1.58% 175
North West -38 248 £45,000 -17.87% 119
West Midlands -43 193 £47,500 -13.64% 98
Yorkshire -32 185 £40,000 -28.89% 85
South West -44 172 £45,000 -18.18% 104
Scotland -24 116 £40,000 -28.89% 53
East of England -55 116 £55,000 - 137
North East -12 110 £40,000 -29.82% 31
Northern Ireland -10 72 £47,500 -11.63% 24
East Midlands -80 61 £55,000 +18.92% 76
Wales -43 39 £42,934 -20.19% 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
1 129 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 48 (1.85%) Confluence
3 45 (1.73%) CMS
4 34 (1.31%) WordPress
5 20 (0.77%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.12%) Apache
10 3 (0.12%) govService
10 3 (0.12%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.12%) SAS
11 2 (0.077%) Drupal
11 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.039%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.039%) IIS
12 1 (0.039%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.039%) Umbraco
Applications
1 393 (15.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 183 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
4 117 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.62%) Trello
8 15 (0.58%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.39%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
10 9 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
11 6 (0.23%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
12 3 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.077%) Elementor
13 2 (0.077%) Notion
13 2 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 27 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 19 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
3 19 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 16 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
5 14 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 14 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.27%) Shopify
8 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.23%) Primavera
8 6 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.19%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.15%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 231 (8.90%) Azure
2 226 (8.71%) Power Platform
3 166 (6.40%) SaaS
4 150 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
5 110 (4.24%) AWS
6 58 (2.24%) PowerApps
7 47 (1.81%) Asana
8 37 (1.43%) GCP
9 34 (1.31%) Power Automate
10 33 (1.27%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (1.00%) Smartsheet
13 22 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (0.85%) Google Analytics
13 22 (0.85%) OneDrive
14 21 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (0.77%) Canva
15 20 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
16 18 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (0.62%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 45 (1.73%) Broadband
2 39 (1.50%) Firewall
3 36 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
4 25 (0.96%) CHAP
4 25 (0.96%) WAN
5 22 (0.85%) Internet
6 21 (0.81%) DNS
7 20 (0.77%) DHCP
8 18 (0.69%) LAN
8 18 (0.69%) Network Security
9 17 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
10 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
10 16 (0.62%) VPN
10 16 (0.62%) Wireless
11 12 (0.46%) Intranet
11 12 (0.46%) VLAN
12 10 (0.39%) Multicast
12 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.31%) VoIP
14 5 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (7.28%) Power BI
1 189 (7.28%) Tableau
2 156 (6.01%) Data Mining
3 31 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.04%) GIS
5 22 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 22 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.77%) QGIS
6 20 (0.77%) Spatial Data
7 18 (0.69%) Power Query
8 13 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (0.35%) DB2
11 7 (0.27%) Big Data
12 6 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.19%) Metadata
13 5 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 117 (4.51%) JIRA
2 20 (0.77%) Git
3 12 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.27%) GitLab
5 5 (0.19%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.12%) Storybook
6 3 (0.12%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.077%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.077%) ESLint
7 2 (0.077%) Gradle
7 2 (0.077%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (0.077%) JMeter
7 2 (0.077%) JUnit
7 2 (0.077%) Maven
7 2 (0.077%) Mockito
7 2 (0.077%) Selenium
7 2 (0.077%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.077%) TestNG
7 2 (0.077%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.039%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,081 (41.66%) Social Skills
2 993 (38.27%) Finance
3 635 (24.47%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (11.48%) Marketing
5 213 (8.21%) Organisational Skills
6 197 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 168 (6.47%) Manufacturing
8 162 (6.24%) Legal
9 137 (5.28%) Retail
10 132 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 118 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
12 116 (4.47%) Banking
13 111 (4.28%) Law
14 69 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
15 63 (2.43%) Games
16 54 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
17 53 (2.04%) Telecoms
18 48 (1.85%) Financial Institution
19 36 (1.39%) Advertising
19 36 (1.39%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 449 (17.30%) Analyst
2 402 (15.49%) Project Manager
3 343 (13.22%) Senior
4 253 (9.75%) Trainee
5 246 (9.48%) Trainee Analyst
6 205 (7.90%) Senior Manager
7 201 (7.75%) Business Analyst
8 165 (6.36%) Data Analyst
9 164 (6.32%) Lead
10 159 (6.13%) IT Manager
11 150 (5.78%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 123 (4.74%) Consultant
13 122 (4.70%) Development Manager
14 97 (3.74%) Senior Project Manager
15 96 (3.70%) Trainee Business Analyst
16 92 (3.55%) Product Manager
17 86 (3.31%) Architect
18 80 (3.08%) Systems Manager
19 79 (3.04%) IT Project Manager
20 73 (2.81%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.16%) HTML
2 29 (1.12%) .NET
3 26 (1.00%) EDI
4 23 (0.89%) PyTorch
5 22 (0.85%) CSS
6 12 (0.46%) React
7 11 (0.42%) JSON
8 10 (0.39%) .NET Core
8 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (0.35%) HTML5 Canvas
9 9 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (0.35%) REST
10 8 (0.31%) Middleware
10 8 (0.31%) SPFx
11 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (0.27%) Matplotlib
11 7 (0.27%) OAuth
11 7 (0.27%) Seaborn
12 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 200 (7.71%) Management Information System
2 116 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 104 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 68 (2.62%) Social Media
6 65 (2.50%) FMCG
7 64 (2.47%) Driving Licence
8 55 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 48 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 36 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 35 (1.35%) Robotics
13 34 (1.31%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.31%) Blog
14 32 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (1.04%) IoT
16 27 (1.04%) Low-Code
17 26 (1.00%) Security Posture
18 21 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (2.74%) Windows
2 31 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.00%) Android
4 23 (0.89%) Linux
5 16 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.077%) AIX
9 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.077%) zOS
10 1 (0.039%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.039%) VMS
10 1 (0.039%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (24.82%) Agile
2 612 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
3 570 (21.97%) Project Delivery
4 517 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 481 (18.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 442 (17.03%) Analytics
7 405 (15.61%) Decision-Making
8 378 (14.57%) PRINCE2
9 357 (13.76%) Business Analysis
10 330 (12.72%) Change Management
11 326 (12.56%) AI
12 309 (11.91%) Data Analysis
13 273 (10.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 240 (9.25%) Risk Management
15 226 (8.71%) Coaching
16 224 (8.63%) Data Analytics
17 213 (8.21%) Roadmaps
18 209 (8.05%) Process Improvement
19 207 (7.98%) Mentoring
20 204 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 287 (11.06%) Python
1 287 (11.06%) SQL
2 42 (1.62%) C#
3 36 (1.39%) VBA
4 29 (1.12%) JavaScript
5 21 (0.81%) PowerShell
5 21 (0.81%) TypeScript
6 17 (0.66%) Java
7 13 (0.50%) C++
8 11 (0.42%) C
9 10 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.27%) Bash
10 7 (0.27%) PHP
11 6 (0.23%) R
12 4 (0.15%) COBOL
13 3 (0.12%) Dart
13 3 (0.12%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.12%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.12%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 673 (25.93%) Degree
2 244 (9.40%) PMP
3 227 (8.75%) PMI Certification
4 133 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 91 (3.51%) SC Cleared
6 81 (3.12%) Master's Degree
7 75 (2.89%) CISSP
8 74 (2.85%) DBS Check
9 54 (2.08%) CISM
10 48 (1.85%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
11 36 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.31%) HNC
13 30 (1.16%) CISA
13 30 (1.16%) SANS
14 29 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.04%) MBA
16 26 (1.00%) FFIEC
17 25 (0.96%) ACCA
17 25 (0.96%) CGEIT
18 22 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (7.36%) QA
2 122 (4.70%) PMO
3 106 (4.08%) GDPR
4 94 (3.62%) Accessibility
5 72 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (2.39%) NIST
7 35 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.35%) ISO 9001
8 33 (1.27%) GRC
9 26 (1.00%) COBIT
10 23 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 20 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 14 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.46%) SLA
15 10 (0.39%) GAAP
16 9 (0.35%) IFRS
16 9 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 8 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 26 (1.00%) Docker
3 10 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.077%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.077%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.62%) Ansible
4 13 (0.50%) SCCM
4 13 (0.50%) Terraform
5 11 (0.42%) Grafana
6 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.077%) Argo
9 2 (0.077%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.077%) Puppet
9 2 (0.077%) Salt
10 1 (0.039%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.039%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.039%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.039%) MOM
Vendors
1 605 (23.31%) Microsoft
2 107 (4.12%) SAP
3 74 (2.85%) Salesforce
4 65 (2.50%) Oracle
5 64 (2.47%) Google
6 60 (2.31%) Adobe
7 48 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.08%) Anaplan
9 27 (1.04%) Cisco
10 23 (0.89%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.77%) Genesys
11 20 (0.77%) Verint
12 17 (0.66%) Pardot
13 15 (0.58%) Apple
13 15 (0.58%) Instagram
13 15 (0.58%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.54%) Databricks
15 13 (0.50%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.42%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.42%) VMware