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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 17 27
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,835 5,424 3,871
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.22% 8.49% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 9.88% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,580 2,414 2,793
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,375 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.66%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% -0.38% +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 45,523 54,873 47,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.89% 85.86% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 28,510 36,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 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 -19 2,430 £55,000 -4.35% 1,934
UK excluding London -22 1,832 £50,000 -8.75% 1,805
London -17 781 £70,000 +3.70% 528
Work from Home -23 757 £60,000 +2.13% 561
South East -17 490 £57,500 +4.55% 557
North of England -24 464 £41,075 -23.94% 438
Midlands -33 294 £47,500 -13.64% 343
North West -27 213 £45,000 -16.56% 250
South West -2 210 £50,000 -7.41% 169
West Midlands -21 196 £45,000 -21.74% 212
Scotland -12 167 £54,855 -0.26% 75
Yorkshire -16 164 £41,075 -25.32% 131
East of England -33 153 £55,000 +5.77% 183
East Midlands -39 99 £52,500 +0.48% 129
North East +20 87 £32,500 -28.57% 67
Wales -24 30 £60,000 +16.38% 51
Northern Ireland -11 27 £60,000 -11.11% 24

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
1 155 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 62 (2.19%) Confluence
3 47 (1.66%) CMS
4 38 (1.34%) WordPress
5 24 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.67%) Kinematics
7 10 (0.35%) Apache
7 10 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.21%) Drupal
9 6 (0.21%) Umbraco
10 5 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
10 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) Magnolia
11 3 (0.11%) Moodle
11 3 (0.11%) PowerFactory
12 2 (0.071%) IIS
12 2 (0.071%) TPMS
13 1 (0.035%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.035%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 396 (13.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 287 (10.12%) Microsoft Office
3 181 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (4.16%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.16%) Maya
7 25 (0.88%) AutoCAD
8 23 (0.81%) Trello
9 15 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 13 (0.46%) Photoshop
11 12 (0.42%) SOLIDWORKS
12 9 (0.32%) Revit
13 8 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
14 7 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
14 7 (0.25%) Adobe XD
15 5 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
15 5 (0.18%) InDesign
16 4 (0.14%) CATIA
17 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
17 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 112 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.29%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 25 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 25 (0.88%) SAP CO
4 25 (0.88%) SAP FI
4 25 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
5 21 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 21 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
6 20 (0.71%) SAP IBP
7 19 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.56%) Shopify
9 12 (0.42%) NetSuite
9 12 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
9 12 (0.42%) Sprinklr
10 11 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
10 11 (0.39%) SAP FSCM
10 11 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
11 10 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 229 (8.08%) Azure
2 197 (6.95%) Power Platform
3 147 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (3.95%) SaaS
5 111 (3.92%) AWS
6 52 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
8 39 (1.38%) GCP
9 36 (1.27%) Power Automate
9 36 (1.27%) Smartsheet
10 33 (1.16%) Snowflake
11 31 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
12 27 (0.95%) Entra ID
13 24 (0.85%) PaaS
14 23 (0.81%) Google Analytics
14 23 (0.81%) IaaS
15 22 (0.78%) Google Workspace
16 20 (0.71%) Asana
17 19 (0.67%) PowerApps
18 18 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.62%) Firewall
2 35 (1.23%) WAN
3 34 (1.20%) VPN
4 28 (0.99%) LAN
5 27 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (0.92%) Wireless
7 21 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 20 (0.71%) Internet
9 18 (0.63%) DNS
9 18 (0.63%) Unified Communications
10 17 (0.60%) VLAN
11 16 (0.56%) Network Security
11 16 (0.56%) TCP/IP
12 14 (0.49%) MPLS
13 13 (0.46%) DHCP
14 12 (0.42%) Broadband
14 12 (0.42%) Intranet
14 12 (0.42%) VoIP
15 9 (0.32%) BGP
16 8 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (5.96%) Power BI
2 124 (4.37%) Tableau
3 93 (3.28%) Data Mining
4 69 (2.43%) SQL Server
5 32 (1.13%) SAP BW
6 30 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.71%) Looker
8 18 (0.63%) Metadata
9 16 (0.56%) Big Data
9 16 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.53%) Power Query
11 11 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
12 9 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.32%) SAP HANA
12 9 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.28%) MySQL
14 7 (0.25%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 166 (5.86%) JIRA
2 17 (0.60%) Git
3 11 (0.39%) GitLab
4 10 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.14%) JIRA Agile
5 4 (0.14%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.11%) ERwin
6 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.071%) Maven
7 2 (0.071%) Subversion
7 2 (0.071%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.035%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.035%) gulp
8 1 (0.035%) LSMW
8 1 (0.035%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.035%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.035%) webpack
General
1 1,274 (44.94%) Social Skills
2 1,200 (42.33%) Finance
3 835 (29.45%) Analytical Skills
4 317 (11.18%) Marketing
5 240 (8.47%) Law
6 197 (6.95%) Manufacturing
7 196 (6.91%) Legal
8 192 (6.77%) Retail
9 189 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 186 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
11 159 (5.61%) Public Sector
12 154 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
13 113 (3.99%) Banking
14 85 (3.00%) Telecoms
15 83 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
16 77 (2.72%) Electronics
17 65 (2.29%) Games
18 63 (2.22%) Local Government
19 61 (2.15%) Advertising
20 55 (1.94%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 447 (15.77%) Senior
2 426 (15.03%) Project Manager
3 367 (12.95%) Analyst
4 276 (9.74%) Lead
5 223 (7.87%) Senior Manager
6 188 (6.63%) IT Manager
7 177 (6.24%) Trainee
8 171 (6.03%) Business Analyst
9 168 (5.93%) Trainee Analyst
10 134 (4.73%) Architect
11 111 (3.92%) Consultant
12 109 (3.84%) Business Manager
12 109 (3.84%) Development Manager
13 107 (3.77%) Data Analyst
14 96 (3.39%) IT Project Manager
14 96 (3.39%) Product Manager
15 91 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
16 86 (3.03%) Senior Project Manager
17 85 (3.00%) Coordinator
18 84 (2.96%) Trainee Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.62%) CSS
2 37 (1.31%) HTML
3 36 (1.27%) Middleware
4 18 (0.63%) .NET
5 14 (0.49%) React
6 12 (0.42%) Web Services
7 10 (0.35%) EDI
7 10 (0.35%) Node.js
7 10 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (0.28%) FHIR
9 7 (0.25%) Kafka
10 6 (0.21%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
11 5 (0.18%) Apache Beam
12 4 (0.14%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.14%) FIDO
12 4 (0.14%) Flutter
12 4 (0.14%) PyTorch
12 4 (0.14%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 208 (7.34%) Management Information System
2 132 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 129 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 103 (3.63%) FMCG
6 82 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 82 (2.89%) Robotics
7 74 (2.61%) Driving Licence
8 72 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 64 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 57 (2.01%) Social Media
11 46 (1.62%) NHS
11 46 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 30 (1.06%) IoT
14 29 (1.02%) Blog
15 23 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
16 22 (0.78%) PMI
17 21 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (0.74%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 63 (2.22%) Windows
2 26 (0.92%) Linux
3 23 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.28%) Android
5 8 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.28%) VMS
6 5 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.11%) zOS
8 1 (0.035%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.035%) Unix
8 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 706 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
2 675 (23.81%) Agile
3 666 (23.49%) Project Delivery
4 601 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 513 (18.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 427 (15.06%) Analytics
7 402 (14.18%) Change Management
8 385 (13.58%) Decision-Making
9 384 (13.54%) Risk Management
10 322 (11.36%) PRINCE2
11 303 (10.69%) Business Analysis
12 298 (10.51%) ERP
13 297 (10.48%) AI
14 265 (9.35%) Business Strategy
14 265 (9.35%) Process Improvement
15 259 (9.14%) Roadmaps
16 252 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 240 (8.47%) Business Intelligence
18 236 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
19 227 (8.01%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 274 (9.66%) SQL
2 211 (7.44%) Python
3 51 (1.80%) JavaScript
4 46 (1.62%) C#
5 36 (1.27%) C
6 30 (1.06%) Java
7 28 (0.99%) C++
8 22 (0.78%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.53%) VBA
10 14 (0.49%) PHP
10 14 (0.49%) R
11 13 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (0.42%) TypeScript
13 10 (0.35%) Perl
14 7 (0.25%) Bash
14 7 (0.25%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.21%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.14%) COBOL
16 4 (0.14%) Ladder Logic
16 4 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 884 (31.18%) Degree
2 194 (6.84%) PMP
3 188 (6.63%) PMI Certification
4 184 (6.49%) Security Cleared
5 148 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 124 (4.37%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.26%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 58 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 52 (1.83%) DBS Check
10 51 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.41%) CISSP
12 36 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 27 (0.95%) PhD
14 26 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
15 23 (0.81%) DV Cleared
15 23 (0.81%) HND
16 22 (0.78%) AWS Certification
16 22 (0.78%) CCNP
17 20 (0.71%) ACCA
17 20 (0.71%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (8.15%) QA
2 185 (6.53%) PMO
3 98 (3.46%) GDPR
4 78 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 47 (1.66%) Data Quality
6 40 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.02%) ISO 9001
8 28 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (0.88%) NIST
10 21 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 19 (0.67%) SLA
12 17 (0.60%) MiFID
13 13 (0.46%) IFRS
14 12 (0.42%) GxP
14 12 (0.42%) Solvency II
15 11 (0.39%) COBIT
16 10 (0.35%) GRC
16 10 (0.35%) IEC 61131
16 10 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 58 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 19 (0.67%) Docker
3 16 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.35%) Firmware
5 9 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.18%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.035%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 24 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.49%) Terraform
3 7 (0.25%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.18%) Ansible
5 4 (0.14%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.071%) Grafana
6 2 (0.071%) Nagios
6 2 (0.071%) SCCM
7 1 (0.035%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.035%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.035%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.035%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.035%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.035%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.035%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.035%) SmoothWall
7 1 (0.035%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 651 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 248 (8.75%) SAP
3 98 (3.46%) Salesforce
4 77 (2.72%) Google
5 67 (2.36%) Oracle
6 56 (1.98%) Adobe
7 55 (1.94%) Cisco
8 37 (1.31%) Ariba
8 37 (1.31%) OpenText
9 30 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.85%) Databricks
10 24 (0.85%) HubSpot
11 19 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 19 (0.67%) Sage
11 19 (0.67%) VMware
12 15 (0.53%) NEC
12 15 (0.53%) Siemens
12 15 (0.53%) TikTok
13 13 (0.46%) Guidewire
14 12 (0.42%) Meraki