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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 26 23
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,444 3,431 7,591
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.58% 7.60% 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 8.23% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,439 1,723 5,408
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,125 £43,979 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,955 £93,778 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -32 2,129 £55,000 -8.33% 952
UK excluding London -35 1,576 £52,500 -4.55% 836
Work from Home -10 983 £55,000 -4.35% 345
London -30 702 £69,500 -3.14% 304
North of England -10 461 £55,000 - 193
South East -22 393 £50,000 -10.38% 271
Midlands -53 231 £55,000 +2.15% 120
North West +10 214 £55,000 +5.77% 100
South West -31 175 £47,500 -20.83% 74
Yorkshire -28 152 £60,000 +9.09% 72
West Midlands -51 146 £55,000 - 69
East of England -41 144 £60,000 +9.09% 107
North East -28 95 £60,000 +4.35% 26
East Midlands -35 84 £55,000 +22.22% 50
Northern Ireland -12 71 £47,500 -17.39% 30
Scotland -41 66 £40,000 -20.71% 37
Wales -55 39 £52,500 -17.97% 27

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 86 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.17%) Confluence
3 39 (1.60%) CMS
4 33 (1.35%) WordPress
5 20 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.25%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.25%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) Moodle
9 3 (0.12%) govService
9 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 3 (0.12%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.082%) Drupal
10 2 (0.082%) Totara
11 1 (0.041%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 232 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 211 (8.63%) Microsoft Project
3 173 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 17 (0.70%) MS Visio
7 16 (0.65%) Trello
8 9 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.25%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
12 4 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
13 3 (0.12%) Blender
13 3 (0.12%) Maya
14 2 (0.082%) Camtasia
15 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
15 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
15 1 (0.041%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 40 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 16 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
4 16 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
4 16 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.37%) Fidessa
7 9 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.33%) Shopify
9 7 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.29%) Primavera
10 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.25%) SAP Business One
11 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 237 (9.70%) Azure
2 215 (8.80%) Power Platform
3 144 (5.89%) SaaS
4 127 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
5 115 (4.71%) AWS
6 79 (3.23%) PowerApps
7 58 (2.37%) Power Automate
8 44 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (1.31%) Asana
9 32 (1.31%) GCP
9 32 (1.31%) Smartsheet
10 30 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (1.19%) OneDrive
12 27 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
13 26 (1.06%) Entra ID
14 25 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (0.98%) Canva
16 21 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 21 (0.86%) Google Analytics
16 21 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.76%) Broadband
2 39 (1.60%) Firewall
3 27 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (1.06%) WAN
5 21 (0.86%) LAN
6 19 (0.78%) CHAP
7 18 (0.74%) DNS
8 16 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
9 14 (0.57%) DHCP
10 13 (0.53%) Network Security
11 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.49%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.45%) Multicast
13 9 (0.37%) VPN
13 9 (0.37%) Wireless
14 8 (0.33%) BGP
15 7 (0.29%) VoIP
16 6 (0.25%) Internet
16 6 (0.25%) NGN
16 6 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (7.12%) Power BI
2 90 (3.68%) Tableau
3 78 (3.19%) Data Mining
4 38 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.15%) GIS
6 21 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.82%) QGIS
7 20 (0.82%) Spatial Data
8 18 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.45%) Power Query
10 9 (0.37%) Db2
11 8 (0.33%) Big Data
11 8 (0.33%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.25%) Metadata
13 6 (0.25%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 152 (6.22%) JIRA
2 24 (0.98%) Git
3 11 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.16%) GitLab
5 4 (0.16%) JUnit
6 3 (0.12%) Storybook
7 2 (0.082%) JMeter
7 2 (0.082%) Postman
7 2 (0.082%) Selenium
7 2 (0.082%) TestNG
7 2 (0.082%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.082%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.041%) Checkstyle
8 1 (0.041%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.041%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.041%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.041%) Maven
8 1 (0.041%) WebDriver
General
1 1,002 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 816 (33.39%) Finance
3 468 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (10.80%) Marketing
5 224 (9.17%) Organisational Skills
6 153 (6.26%) Retail
7 147 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 144 (5.89%) Manufacturing
9 140 (5.73%) Legal
10 121 (4.95%) Public Sector
11 105 (4.30%) Law
12 98 (4.01%) Banking
13 72 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
14 61 (2.50%) Local Government
15 59 (2.41%) Telecoms
16 50 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
17 47 (1.92%) Advertising
18 46 (1.88%) Financial Institution
19 44 (1.80%) Aviation
20 42 (1.72%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 500 (20.46%) Project Manager
2 346 (14.16%) Senior
3 309 (12.64%) Analyst
4 185 (7.57%) Lead
5 183 (7.49%) Senior Manager
6 179 (7.32%) IT Manager
7 154 (6.30%) Consultant
8 153 (6.26%) Business Analyst
9 150 (6.14%) Senior Project Manager
10 121 (4.95%) Development Manager
11 103 (4.21%) IT Project Manager
12 93 (3.81%) Trainee
12 93 (3.81%) Trainee Analyst
13 83 (3.40%) Data Analyst
14 75 (3.07%) Product Manager
15 74 (3.03%) Trainee Data Analyst
16 62 (2.54%) IT Support
17 58 (2.37%) Security Manager
17 58 (2.37%) Systems Manager
18 57 (2.33%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.76%) .NET
1 43 (1.76%) HTML
1 43 (1.76%) PyTorch
2 39 (1.60%) CSS
3 24 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
3 24 (0.98%) JSON
4 23 (0.94%) Hugging Face
4 23 (0.94%) TensorFlow
5 21 (0.86%) .NET Core
6 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (0.78%) SPFx
7 18 (0.74%) EDI
8 15 (0.61%) Flash
9 14 (0.57%) LangChain
9 14 (0.57%) LlamaIndex
9 14 (0.57%) Model Context Protocol
10 12 (0.49%) Middleware
10 12 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (0.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 174 (7.12%) Management Information System
2 135 (5.52%) Onboarding
3 96 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 81 (3.31%) Driving Licence
5 77 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 57 (2.33%) Social Media
7 54 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (2.13%) FMCG
9 46 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 45 (1.84%) Virtual Team
11 35 (1.43%) Cloud Native
12 34 (1.39%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.35%) Cyber Defence
14 32 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
15 30 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 27 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
17 26 (1.06%) AI Agents
17 26 (1.06%) PMI
18 24 (0.98%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 83 (3.40%) Windows
2 32 (1.31%) Linux
3 28 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.94%) Android
5 18 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 6 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.082%) zOS
11 1 (0.041%) CentOS
11 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (29.30%) Agile
2 597 (24.43%) Project Delivery
3 539 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
4 504 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 465 (19.03%) PRINCE2
6 394 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 330 (13.50%) Decision-Making
8 304 (12.44%) Analytics
9 262 (10.72%) Mentoring
9 262 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 253 (10.35%) AI
10 253 (10.35%) Roadmaps
11 237 (9.70%) Coaching
12 231 (9.45%) Business Analysis
13 229 (9.37%) Risk Management
14 224 (9.17%) Change Management
15 206 (8.43%) Logistics
16 205 (8.39%) Budget Management
17 196 (8.02%) ERP
18 186 (7.61%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 227 (9.29%) SQL
2 221 (9.04%) Python
3 49 (2.00%) C#
4 47 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 34 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 32 (1.31%) TypeScript
7 27 (1.10%) VBA
8 17 (0.70%) Java
9 9 (0.37%) C
10 7 (0.29%) C++
10 7 (0.29%) PHP
11 5 (0.20%) Bash
12 4 (0.16%) ABAP
12 4 (0.16%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.12%) COBOL
13 3 (0.12%) Dart
13 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.082%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 577 (23.61%) Degree
2 212 (8.67%) PMP
3 209 (8.55%) PMI Certification
4 128 (5.24%) DBS Check
5 123 (5.03%) Security Cleared
6 95 (3.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 87 (3.56%) CISSP
8 62 (2.54%) SC Cleared
9 60 (2.45%) CISM
10 56 (2.29%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 38 (1.55%) DV Cleared
13 28 (1.15%) CRISC
14 27 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (1.06%) CISA
16 25 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
17 24 (0.98%) HNC
17 24 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
17 24 (0.98%) SANS
18 20 (0.82%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (7.65%) QA
2 155 (6.34%) PMO
3 110 (4.50%) Accessibility
4 101 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 92 (3.76%) NIST
6 87 (3.56%) GDPR
7 42 (1.72%) GRC
8 40 (1.64%) ISO 9001
9 33 (1.35%) Data Quality
10 32 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 29 (1.19%) SLA
12 23 (0.94%) COBIT
12 23 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.94%) NIST 800
13 16 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 14 (0.57%) ISO 14001
15 12 (0.49%) GAAP
16 11 (0.45%) IFRS
17 10 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
18 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 45 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.82%) Docker
3 8 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.082%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.082%) Firmware
6 2 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.082%) vSphere
7 1 (0.041%) IAG
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (0.94%) SCCM
2 21 (0.86%) Kubernetes
3 20 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.53%) Ansible
5 11 (0.45%) Terraform
6 10 (0.41%) Grafana
7 6 (0.25%) Puppet
8 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.16%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
9 3 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.12%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.082%) Argo
10 2 (0.082%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.082%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.082%) Salt
11 1 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.041%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.041%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.041%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 493 (20.17%) Microsoft
2 101 (4.13%) Oracle
3 98 (4.01%) SAP
4 67 (2.74%) Adobe
5 61 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 58 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 54 (2.21%) Google
8 27 (1.10%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.82%) Pardot
10 18 (0.74%) Cisco
11 17 (0.70%) Fortinet
12 15 (0.61%) JD Edwards
12 15 (0.61%) SonicWALL
13 14 (0.57%) Apple
14 13 (0.53%) Bloomberg
14 13 (0.53%) Instagram
14 13 (0.53%) Reuters
15 11 (0.45%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.45%) Remedy
15 11 (0.45%) Wrike