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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -38 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,611 4,173 6,948
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.46% 9.86% 8.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 10.55% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 2,069 5,060
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.55% +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 58,555 39,559 74,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.69% 93.50% 87.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,503 22,222 56,291
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,910 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -40 2,194 £54,000 -6.09% 1,286
UK excluding London -44 1,722 £47,000 -14.55% 1,092
Work from Home -24 769 £57,500 -4.17% 439
London -25 674 £70,000 - 394
North of England -36 530 £40,000 -27.27% 251
South East -40 406 £52,000 -9.57% 308
Midlands -56 257 £47,500 -13.64% 181
North West -37 244 £42,914 -20.42% 127
West Midlands -41 193 £45,000 -19.64% 101
South West -35 181 £45,000 -16.67% 113
Yorkshire -30 179 £40,000 -31.91% 96
Scotland -14 137 £40,000 -27.27% 61
East of England -44 115 £55,000 +4.76% 143
North East -13 107 £40,000 -32.20% 32
Northern Ireland -11 65 £47,500 - 25
East Midlands -82 63 £52,500 +10.53% 80
Wales -42 38 £42,934 -20.19% 46

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
1 147 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.91%) Confluence
3 47 (1.80%) CMS
4 35 (1.34%) WordPress
5 20 (0.77%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.19%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.11%) Apache
10 3 (0.11%) govService
10 3 (0.11%) SAS
10 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.077%) Drupal
11 2 (0.077%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.038%) IIS
12 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 414 (15.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (7.51%) Microsoft Office
3 131 (5.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 116 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 15 (0.57%) Trello
8 10 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.38%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
9 9 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.27%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.27%) Maya
11 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.077%) CATIA
12 2 (0.077%) Elementor
12 2 (0.077%) Weka
Business Applications
1 38 (1.46%) 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 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 15 (0.57%) SAP MDG
6 14 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
7 10 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
9 6 (0.23%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.19%) Primavera
10 5 (0.19%) SAP BPC
10 5 (0.19%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 232 (8.89%) Azure
2 213 (8.16%) Power Platform
3 160 (6.13%) SaaS
4 154 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (3.94%) AWS
6 52 (1.99%) PowerApps
7 44 (1.69%) Asana
8 32 (1.23%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.23%) GCP
9 31 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (0.96%) Power Automate
12 24 (0.92%) Smartsheet
13 23 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (0.84%) Google Analytics
15 18 (0.69%) OneDrive
16 17 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (0.65%) Canva
16 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
17 16 (0.61%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 48 (1.84%) Broadband
2 45 (1.72%) Firewall
3 39 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (1.00%) WAN
5 25 (0.96%) CHAP
6 22 (0.84%) Internet
7 21 (0.80%) DNS
8 19 (0.73%) DHCP
8 19 (0.73%) LAN
8 19 (0.73%) Network Security
8 19 (0.73%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.73%) VPN
9 17 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
9 17 (0.65%) Wireless
10 14 (0.54%) VLAN
11 12 (0.46%) Intranet
12 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.38%) Multicast
14 7 (0.27%) VoIP
15 6 (0.23%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (7.58%) Tableau
2 177 (6.78%) Power BI
3 171 (6.55%) Data Mining
4 38 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 25 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (0.84%) GIS
7 20 (0.77%) QGIS
7 20 (0.77%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.65%) Power Query
10 14 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
11 12 (0.46%) Metadata
12 9 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.31%) Big Data
14 7 (0.27%) DB2
14 7 (0.27%) SAP BW
15 6 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 113 (4.33%) JIRA
2 14 (0.54%) Git
3 11 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.34%) GitLab
5 3 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.077%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.077%) ESLint
6 2 (0.077%) Gradle
6 2 (0.077%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.077%) JMeter
6 2 (0.077%) JUnit
6 2 (0.077%) Maven
6 2 (0.077%) Mockito
6 2 (0.077%) Selenium
6 2 (0.077%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.077%) TestNG
6 2 (0.077%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.077%) Zephyr
General
1 1,099 (42.09%) Social Skills
2 1,033 (39.56%) Finance
3 663 (25.39%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (10.88%) Marketing
5 202 (7.74%) Organisational Skills
6 194 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 160 (6.13%) Manufacturing
8 157 (6.01%) Legal
9 136 (5.21%) Public Sector
10 133 (5.09%) Retail
11 125 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
12 117 (4.48%) Law
13 116 (4.44%) Banking
14 71 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
15 69 (2.64%) Games
16 53 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
17 50 (1.91%) Telecoms
18 48 (1.84%) Financial Institution
19 38 (1.46%) Local Government
20 37 (1.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 476 (18.23%) Analyst
2 391 (14.98%) Project Manager
3 360 (13.79%) Senior
4 277 (10.61%) Trainee
5 269 (10.30%) Trainee Analyst
6 222 (8.50%) Senior Manager
7 211 (8.08%) Business Analyst
8 187 (7.16%) Lead
9 178 (6.82%) Data Analyst
10 162 (6.20%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 155 (5.94%) IT Manager
12 119 (4.56%) Consultant
13 115 (4.40%) Development Manager
14 107 (4.10%) Trainee Business Analyst
15 98 (3.75%) Senior Project Manager
16 89 (3.41%) Architect
17 88 (3.37%) Product Manager
18 78 (2.99%) Systems Manager
19 75 (2.87%) Business Manager
19 75 (2.87%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.96%) .NET
1 25 (0.96%) EDI
2 24 (0.92%) HTML
3 23 (0.88%) PyTorch
4 16 (0.61%) CSS
5 10 (0.38%) Middleware
5 10 (0.38%) React
6 8 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (0.31%) REST
7 7 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (0.23%) .NET Core
8 6 (0.23%) JSON
8 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (0.23%) OAuth
9 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.15%) FIDO
9 4 (0.15%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (0.15%) OpenID
9 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.15%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 205 (7.85%) Management Information System
2 113 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
3 111 (4.25%) Onboarding
4 82 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 70 (2.68%) Driving Licence
6 65 (2.49%) Social Media
7 62 (2.37%) FMCG
8 52 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 40 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 38 (1.46%) Algorithms
12 38 (1.46%) Robotics
13 34 (1.30%) Blog
14 30 (1.15%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.11%) IoT
16 28 (1.07%) Low-Code
17 26 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
18 24 (0.92%) Security Posture
19 21 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (2.60%) Windows
2 31 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.00%) Android
4 21 (0.80%) Linux
5 17 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.27%) Unix
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.11%) VMS
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
10 1 (0.038%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (24.44%) Agile
2 626 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
3 536 (20.53%) Project Delivery
4 531 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 460 (17.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 456 (17.46%) Analytics
7 400 (15.32%) Decision-Making
8 381 (14.59%) Business Analysis
9 355 (13.60%) PRINCE2
10 350 (13.40%) Change Management
11 345 (13.21%) AI
12 315 (12.06%) Data Analysis
13 271 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 266 (10.19%) Risk Management
15 257 (9.84%) Coaching
16 236 (9.04%) Data Analytics
17 226 (8.66%) Roadmaps
18 224 (8.58%) Process Improvement
19 209 (8.00%) Mentoring
20 203 (7.77%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 294 (11.26%) SQL
2 293 (11.22%) Python
3 39 (1.49%) C#
4 35 (1.34%) VBA
5 24 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 18 (0.69%) Java
7 17 (0.65%) PowerShell
8 15 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 14 (0.54%) C++
10 12 (0.46%) C
11 11 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.23%) Bash
12 6 (0.23%) PHP
12 6 (0.23%) R
13 3 (0.11%) Ladder Logic
13 3 (0.11%) VB
14 2 (0.077%) ANSI SQL
14 2 (0.077%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.077%) Ruby
14 2 (0.077%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 684 (26.20%) Degree
2 231 (8.85%) PMP
3 218 (8.35%) PMI Certification
4 140 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 97 (3.72%) SC Cleared
6 85 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 68 (2.60%) CISSP
8 64 (2.45%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
9 63 (2.41%) DBS Check
10 50 (1.91%) CISM
11 37 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.30%) HNC
13 29 (1.11%) CISA
13 29 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.11%) SANS
14 27 (1.03%) MBA
15 26 (1.00%) FFIEC
16 25 (0.96%) CGEIT
17 24 (0.92%) ACCA
17 24 (0.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (7.77%) QA
2 122 (4.67%) PMO
3 103 (3.94%) GDPR
4 94 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 65 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (2.22%) NIST
7 37 (1.42%) Data Quality
8 28 (1.07%) GRC
9 26 (1.00%) COBIT
9 26 (1.00%) ISO 9001
10 19 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 14 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.46%) SLA
14 10 (0.38%) IFRS
14 10 (0.38%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.34%) GAAP
16 8 (0.31%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 63 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.92%) Docker
3 13 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.15%) Firmware
5 4 (0.15%) vSphere
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (0.80%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.50%) Ansible
4 12 (0.46%) Terraform
5 11 (0.42%) Grafana
6 9 (0.34%) SCCM
7 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.15%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.15%) ServiceCenter
9 2 (0.077%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.038%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.038%) Argo
10 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.038%) MOM
10 1 (0.038%) Puppet
10 1 (0.038%) Salt
10 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 631 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 122 (4.67%) SAP
3 75 (2.87%) Salesforce
4 68 (2.60%) Oracle
5 62 (2.37%) Google
6 51 (1.95%) Adobe
7 44 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 35 (1.34%) Cisco
9 28 (1.07%) Anaplan
10 26 (1.00%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.77%) Genesys
11 20 (0.77%) Verint
12 19 (0.73%) Ariba
13 16 (0.61%) Pardot
14 15 (0.57%) Apple
14 15 (0.57%) Instagram
14 15 (0.57%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.54%) Databricks
15 14 (0.54%) VMware
16 13 (0.50%) Fortinet