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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 17 25
Rank change year-on-year -32 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,663 5,168 4,971
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.25% 9.79% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 10.73% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,470 2,257 3,603
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +6.80% -4.11%

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 50,353 48,156 59,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.28% 91.19% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 29,725 23,186 46,025
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -33 2,261 £52,500 -8.70% 1,437
UK excluding London -36 1,753 £45,000 -18.18% 1,395
London -20 699 £70,000 +3.70% 300
Work from Home -29 680 £60,000 - 479
North of England -25 484 £40,000 -27.27% 251
South East -26 456 £57,500 - 436
Midlands -42 290 £45,000 -18.18% 241
North West -30 219 £42,500 -20.13% 107
West Midlands -35 195 £45,000 -21.40% 133
South West -21 185 £47,250 -9.13% 163
Yorkshire -22 170 £40,000 -27.27% 103
Scotland -21 155 £40,000 -28.26% 58
East of England -40 107 £55,000 +10.00% 195
North East -6 95 £32,500 -44.92% 48
East Midlands -51 95 £44,100 -16.00% 108
Northern Ireland 0 48 £55,000 +12.82% 30
Wales -35 33 £57,500 +10.58% 59

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
1 154 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.84%) Confluence
3 39 (1.46%) CMS
4 27 (1.01%) WordPress
5 20 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.45%) Kinematics
7 8 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.23%) Apache
8 6 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.19%) Drupal
9 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.11%) govService
11 2 (0.075%) IIS
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.038%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.038%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.038%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.038%) PowerFactory
12 1 (0.038%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.038%) TPMS
Applications
1 418 (15.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
3 160 (6.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 115 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (1.09%) Maya
6 28 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 26 (0.98%) AutoCAD
8 23 (0.86%) Trello
9 17 (0.64%) SOLIDWORKS
10 15 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 7 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
11 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.26%) Photoshop
12 6 (0.23%) Revit
13 5 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
13 5 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
14 4 (0.15%) CATIA
14 4 (0.15%) InDesign
15 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.075%) Weka
Business Applications
1 99 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 65 (2.44%) SAP MDG
3 37 (1.39%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 18 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 18 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 18 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
5 17 (0.64%) SAP IBP
6 16 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
7 14 (0.53%) SAP CO
7 14 (0.53%) SAP FI
7 14 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
8 13 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 13 (0.49%) Shopify
9 11 (0.41%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
11 9 (0.34%) SAP FS
11 9 (0.34%) SAP FSCM
11 9 (0.34%) SAP IS-U
12 8 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 221 (8.30%) Azure
2 219 (8.22%) Power Platform
3 149 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (4.21%) SaaS
5 100 (3.76%) AWS
6 40 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (1.39%) GCP
8 36 (1.35%) PowerApps
9 30 (1.13%) Entra ID
10 28 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
10 28 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (0.90%) Smartsheet
12 23 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
12 23 (0.86%) Snowflake
13 22 (0.83%) Asana
13 22 (0.83%) Power Automate
14 21 (0.79%) PaaS
15 20 (0.75%) Google Workspace
16 19 (0.71%) Google Analytics
17 14 (0.53%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.58%) Firewall
2 36 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
3 30 (1.13%) WAN
4 26 (0.98%) VPN
5 25 (0.94%) Wireless
6 23 (0.86%) LAN
7 20 (0.75%) Internet
8 19 (0.71%) Network Security
9 18 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
9 18 (0.68%) VLAN
10 17 (0.64%) CHAP
11 16 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 15 (0.56%) DNS
13 14 (0.53%) TCP/IP
14 11 (0.41%) Broadband
14 11 (0.41%) DHCP
14 11 (0.41%) Intranet
14 11 (0.41%) Multicast
14 11 (0.41%) Unified Communications
15 10 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (7.02%) Power BI
2 174 (6.53%) Tableau
3 132 (4.96%) Data Mining
4 57 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 21 (0.79%) SAP BW
7 16 (0.60%) Power Query
8 14 (0.53%) Looker
9 13 (0.49%) Big Data
9 13 (0.49%) Metadata
10 12 (0.45%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 7 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.19%) MongoDB
14 5 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 119 (4.47%) JIRA
2 14 (0.53%) Git
3 13 (0.49%) GitLab
4 9 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.15%) JIRA Agile
6 4 (0.15%) Maven
6 4 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.11%) ERwin
7 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.075%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.075%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.075%) ESLint
8 2 (0.075%) Gradle
8 2 (0.075%) JUnit
8 2 (0.075%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.075%) Mockito
8 2 (0.075%) Selenium
8 2 (0.075%) Subversion
8 2 (0.075%) TestNG
General
1 1,195 (44.87%) Social Skills
2 1,129 (42.40%) Finance
3 803 (30.15%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (9.69%) Marketing
5 186 (6.98%) Manufacturing
6 182 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
7 178 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 172 (6.46%) Legal
9 170 (6.38%) Law
10 143 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
11 142 (5.33%) Public Sector
12 140 (5.26%) Retail
13 111 (4.17%) Banking
14 73 (2.74%) Games
14 73 (2.74%) Telecoms
15 64 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
16 58 (2.18%) Electronics
17 56 (2.10%) Advertising
18 49 (1.84%) Aviation
19 48 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 450 (16.90%) Analyst
2 414 (15.55%) Senior
3 367 (13.78%) Project Manager
4 257 (9.65%) Trainee
5 248 (9.31%) Trainee Analyst
6 226 (8.49%) Senior Manager
7 225 (8.45%) Lead
8 224 (8.41%) Business Analyst
9 155 (5.82%) IT Manager
10 154 (5.78%) Architect
11 142 (5.33%) Data Analyst
12 125 (4.69%) Trainee Business Analyst
13 123 (4.62%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 115 (4.32%) Development Manager
15 109 (4.09%) Business Manager
16 98 (3.68%) Product Manager
17 93 (3.49%) Consultant
18 91 (3.42%) Senior Project Manager
19 86 (3.23%) Systems Manager
20 83 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (1.28%) CSS
2 27 (1.01%) Middleware
3 24 (0.90%) HTML
4 21 (0.79%) EDI
5 10 (0.38%) .NET
5 10 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.34%) React
7 8 (0.30%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.26%) FHIR
8 7 (0.26%) Node.js
8 7 (0.26%) Web Services
9 6 (0.23%) REST
10 5 (0.19%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.15%) FIDO
11 4 (0.15%) Flutter
11 4 (0.15%) Pandas
11 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 205 (7.70%) Management Information System
2 131 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
3 121 (4.54%) Onboarding
4 85 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 85 (3.19%) FMCG
5 77 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 71 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 71 (2.67%) Robotics
7 66 (2.48%) Driving Licence
8 64 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (1.65%) Social Media
9 44 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 31 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 29 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.05%) IoT
13 26 (0.98%) Blog
14 23 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (0.86%) Low-Code
15 22 (0.83%) Blockchain
15 22 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 61 (2.29%) Windows
2 29 (1.09%) Linux
3 22 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.23%) Android
6 6 (0.23%) Unix
6 6 (0.23%) VMS
7 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.038%) AIX
9 1 (0.038%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
2 648 (24.33%) Agile
3 609 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 550 (20.65%) Project Delivery
5 459 (17.24%) Analytics
6 448 (16.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 409 (15.36%) Decision-Making
8 404 (15.17%) Change Management
9 367 (13.78%) Business Analysis
10 346 (12.99%) Risk Management
11 327 (12.28%) PRINCE2
12 319 (11.98%) AI
13 278 (10.44%) Process Improvement
14 272 (10.21%) Data Analysis
15 254 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 245 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
17 240 (9.01%) Roadmaps
18 238 (8.94%) Coaching
19 235 (8.82%) ERP
20 232 (8.71%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 279 (10.48%) SQL
2 251 (9.43%) Python
3 33 (1.24%) C#
3 33 (1.24%) VBA
4 31 (1.16%) Java
5 29 (1.09%) C
5 29 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 22 (0.83%) C++
7 17 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 12 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (0.45%) Perl
9 10 (0.38%) PHP
10 6 (0.23%) Bash
10 6 (0.23%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.19%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
12 4 (0.15%) R
12 4 (0.15%) Ruby
12 4 (0.15%) VB
13 3 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 831 (31.21%) Degree
2 201 (7.55%) PMP
3 194 (7.29%) PMI Certification
4 193 (7.25%) Security Cleared
5 155 (5.82%) SC Cleared
6 111 (4.17%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.40%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 52 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (1.80%) CISSP
9 48 (1.80%) DBS Check
10 44 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (1.20%) CISM
12 26 (0.98%) MBA
13 25 (0.94%) DV Cleared
13 25 (0.94%) HND
14 22 (0.83%) CFA
14 22 (0.83%) HNC
14 22 (0.83%) PhD
15 21 (0.79%) ACCA
15 21 (0.79%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (7.51%) QA
2 160 (6.01%) PMO
3 94 (3.53%) GDPR
4 49 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 43 (1.61%) NIST
7 42 (1.58%) Data Quality
8 24 (0.90%) ISO 9001
9 18 (0.68%) COBIT
9 18 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.60%) GRC
11 15 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.45%) SLA
13 10 (0.38%) IEC 61131
13 10 (0.38%) IFRS
14 9 (0.34%) IFRS 17
14 9 (0.34%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.75%) Docker
3 16 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.41%) Firmware
4 11 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) vSphere
6 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.038%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.41%) Terraform
4 9 (0.34%) Ansible
5 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.15%) Grafana
7 3 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.11%) SCCM
8 2 (0.075%) Nagios
9 1 (0.038%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.038%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.038%) MOM
9 1 (0.038%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 650 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 213 (8.00%) SAP
3 95 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 72 (2.70%) Oracle
5 67 (2.52%) Google
6 45 (1.69%) Cisco
7 42 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.39%) OpenText
9 36 (1.35%) Adobe
9 36 (1.35%) Ariba
10 28 (1.05%) Anaplan
11 20 (0.75%) Genesys
11 20 (0.75%) HubSpot
11 20 (0.75%) Verint
12 18 (0.68%) VMware
13 17 (0.64%) Databricks
14 14 (0.53%) Sage
14 14 (0.53%) Workday
15 13 (0.49%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.45%) Fortinet