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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -37 +8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,738 4,829 5,708
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.01% 9.88% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 10.68% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,517 2,126 4,169
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,125 £32,705
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -8.26%

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 54,175 45,213 65,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.32% 92.48% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 22,205 50,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -35 2,301 £52,500 -8.70% 1,086
UK excluding London -38 1,832 £45,000 -18.18% 997
Work from Home -28 726 £60,000 - 361
London -26 677 £69,250 +2.59% 314
North of England -27 527 £40,000 -27.27% 201
South East -26 476 £57,062 -0.76% 313
Midlands -50 282 £45,000 -18.18% 162
North West -34 234 £42,500 -19.05% 98
West Midlands -40 196 £45,000 -21.05% 81
South West -28 189 £45,282 -12.92% 116
Yorkshire -27 187 £40,000 -30.43% 84
Scotland -18 150 £40,000 -27.27% 45
East of England -43 110 £55,000 +10.00% 134
North East -8 106 £40,000 -32.20% 26
East Midlands -61 86 £43,100 -17.12% 80
Northern Ireland 0 68 £60,000 +26.32% 14
Wales -38 37 £57,515 +9.98% 43

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
1 146 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.90%) Confluence
3 40 (1.46%) CMS
4 32 (1.17%) WordPress
5 13 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.33%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
10 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.11%) govService
11 3 (0.11%) SAS
12 2 (0.073%) Drupal
12 2 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.037%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.037%) IIS
13 1 (0.037%) PowerFactory
13 1 (0.037%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 430 (15.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (7.85%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 118 (4.31%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (1.06%) AutoCAD
6 27 (0.99%) MS Visio
7 19 (0.69%) Maya
8 18 (0.66%) SOLIDWORKS
8 18 (0.66%) Trello
9 17 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 8 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.29%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
12 6 (0.22%) Revit
13 4 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
13 4 (0.15%) CATIA
14 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
14 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
14 3 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 79 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 51 (1.86%) SAP MDG
3 23 (0.84%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 20 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
4 20 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 18 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
6 16 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
6 16 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
7 12 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
8 11 (0.40%) SAP CO
8 11 (0.40%) SAP FI
8 11 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.40%) SAP IBP
9 10 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
9 10 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
9 10 (0.37%) Shopify
10 9 (0.33%) NetSuite
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
12 6 (0.22%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 223 (8.14%) Azure
2 220 (8.04%) Power Platform
3 147 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
4 136 (4.97%) SaaS
5 102 (3.73%) AWS
6 43 (1.57%) PowerApps
7 34 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (1.17%) GCP
9 29 (1.06%) Entra ID
10 28 (1.02%) Asana
11 27 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
12 25 (0.91%) Google Analytics
13 24 (0.88%) Smartsheet
14 23 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
15 20 (0.73%) Snowflake
16 18 (0.66%) Google Workspace
16 18 (0.66%) Power Automate
17 17 (0.62%) PaaS
18 16 (0.58%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.50%) Firewall
2 38 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
3 28 (1.02%) WAN
4 27 (0.99%) Broadband
5 22 (0.80%) Internet
5 22 (0.80%) Wireless
6 21 (0.77%) LAN
6 21 (0.77%) Network Security
6 21 (0.77%) VPN
7 20 (0.73%) CHAP
7 20 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
8 19 (0.69%) DNS
9 17 (0.62%) DHCP
10 16 (0.58%) VLAN
11 15 (0.55%) TCP/IP
12 14 (0.51%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.40%) Intranet
14 10 (0.37%) Multicast
15 9 (0.33%) BGP
15 9 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (7.45%) Tableau
2 187 (6.83%) Power BI
3 168 (6.14%) Data Mining
4 49 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 30 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 16 (0.58%) Power Query
8 15 (0.55%) SAP BW
9 14 (0.51%) Big Data
9 14 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
10 13 (0.47%) GIS
10 13 (0.47%) Metadata
10 13 (0.47%) QGIS
10 13 (0.47%) Spatial Data
11 10 (0.37%) Looker
12 8 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 5 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 116 (4.24%) JIRA
2 13 (0.47%) Git
2 13 (0.47%) GitLab
3 9 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.073%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.073%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.073%) ESLint
6 2 (0.073%) Gradle
6 2 (0.073%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.073%) JUnit
6 2 (0.073%) Maven
6 2 (0.073%) Mockito
6 2 (0.073%) Selenium
6 2 (0.073%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.073%) TestNG
6 2 (0.073%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1,227 (44.81%) Social Skills
2 1,151 (42.04%) Finance
3 803 (29.33%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (9.13%) Marketing
5 194 (7.09%) Organisational Skills
6 193 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 169 (6.17%) Legal
7 169 (6.17%) Manufacturing
8 149 (5.44%) Public Sector
9 148 (5.41%) Retail
10 137 (5.00%) Law
11 134 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
12 113 (4.13%) Banking
13 73 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
14 71 (2.59%) Games
15 62 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 58 (2.12%) Electronics
17 56 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 47 (1.72%) Aviation
18 47 (1.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 487 (17.79%) Analyst
2 416 (15.19%) Senior
3 396 (14.46%) Project Manager
4 293 (10.70%) Trainee
5 284 (10.37%) Trainee Analyst
6 244 (8.91%) Lead
7 227 (8.29%) Senior Manager
8 225 (8.22%) Business Analyst
9 176 (6.43%) Data Analyst
10 159 (5.81%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 152 (5.55%) IT Manager
12 134 (4.89%) Architect
13 125 (4.57%) Trainee Business Analyst
14 111 (4.05%) Consultant
15 110 (4.02%) Development Manager
16 107 (3.91%) Business Manager
17 103 (3.76%) Senior Project Manager
18 94 (3.43%) Systems Manager
19 84 (3.07%) Product Manager
20 78 (2.85%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.21%) CSS
2 25 (0.91%) HTML
3 24 (0.88%) EDI
4 21 (0.77%) Middleware
5 17 (0.62%) .NET
6 16 (0.58%) PyTorch
7 10 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (0.33%) React
9 7 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (0.26%) Node.js
10 6 (0.22%) REST
11 5 (0.18%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.18%) OAuth
12 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
12 4 (0.15%) FIDO
12 4 (0.15%) Flutter
12 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.15%) Web Services
12 4 (0.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.93%) Management Information System
2 132 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 127 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
4 82 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 79 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.85%) Data Centre
7 70 (2.56%) FMCG
8 67 (2.45%) Robotics
9 60 (2.19%) Driving Licence
10 53 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 50 (1.83%) Social Media
12 45 (1.64%) Virtual Team
13 37 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 30 (1.10%) Blog
15 28 (1.02%) IoT
16 27 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
16 27 (0.99%) Low-Code
17 21 (0.77%) Blockchain
17 21 (0.77%) PMI
18 20 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (2.12%) Windows
2 26 (0.95%) Linux
3 24 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 19 (0.69%) Android
5 17 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.26%) Unix
6 7 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.11%) VMS
7 3 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.073%) AIX
8 2 (0.073%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
2 665 (24.29%) Agile
3 594 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 540 (19.72%) Project Delivery
5 510 (18.63%) Analytics
6 498 (18.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 421 (15.38%) Change Management
8 399 (14.57%) Decision-Making
9 393 (14.35%) Business Analysis
10 357 (13.04%) AI
11 354 (12.93%) PRINCE2
12 333 (12.16%) Risk Management
13 322 (11.76%) Data Analysis
14 275 (10.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 274 (10.01%) Process Improvement
16 256 (9.35%) Coaching
17 234 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
17 234 (8.55%) Roadmaps
18 233 (8.51%) Data Analytics
19 227 (8.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 306 (11.18%) SQL
2 294 (10.74%) Python
3 35 (1.28%) VBA
4 31 (1.13%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.10%) C#
6 28 (1.02%) Java
7 26 (0.95%) C
8 19 (0.69%) C++
9 13 (0.47%) PowerShell
10 11 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 10 (0.37%) Perl
11 10 (0.37%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.33%) PHP
13 6 (0.22%) Bash
13 6 (0.22%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.18%) R
15 4 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
16 3 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (0.11%) Scala
16 3 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 763 (27.87%) Degree
2 225 (8.22%) PMP
3 215 (7.85%) PMI Certification
4 190 (6.94%) Security Cleared
5 144 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 101 (3.69%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.34%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 54 (1.97%) DBS Check
9 52 (1.90%) CISSP
10 47 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 37 (1.35%) CISM
13 34 (1.24%) HNC
14 26 (0.95%) MBA
15 25 (0.91%) DV Cleared
15 25 (0.91%) HND
16 23 (0.84%) ACCA
16 23 (0.84%) CISA
16 23 (0.84%) SANS
17 22 (0.80%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (7.82%) QA
2 138 (5.04%) PMO
3 98 (3.58%) GDPR
4 75 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.75%) NIST
7 37 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 21 (0.77%) COBIT
8 21 (0.77%) ISO 9001
9 19 (0.69%) GRC
10 15 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.51%) SLA
12 13 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.37%) IEC 61131
14 9 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 7 (0.26%) IFRS
17 6 (0.22%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 59 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.73%) Docker
3 13 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.33%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (0.77%) Kubernetes
2 20 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (0.40%) Ansible
4 10 (0.37%) Terraform
5 5 (0.18%) SCCM
5 5 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.073%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.037%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.037%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.037%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.037%) MOM
9 1 (0.037%) ServiceCenter
9 1 (0.037%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 656 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 183 (6.68%) SAP
3 97 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 70 (2.56%) Google
4 70 (2.56%) Oracle
5 46 (1.68%) Cisco
6 43 (1.57%) Adobe
7 42 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.21%) Ariba
9 29 (1.06%) HubSpot
10 28 (1.02%) Anaplan
11 23 (0.84%) OpenText
12 20 (0.73%) Genesys
12 20 (0.73%) Verint
13 16 (0.58%) Databricks
14 15 (0.55%) Pardot
15 14 (0.51%) VMware
15 14 (0.51%) Workday
16 12 (0.44%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.44%) Palo Alto