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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 17 22
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,689 4,504 6,166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 3.77% 9.88% 7.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 10.60% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,496 2,038 4,500
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +7.48% -6.96%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,650 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 56,068 42,498 69,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.66% 93.26% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 33,637 21,727 52,919
10th Percentile £29,087 £32,750 £29,290
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,125 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 4 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 4 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 -37 2,259 £52,500 -8.70% 1,265
UK excluding London -40 1,794 £45,000 -18.18% 1,094
Work from Home -27 745 £58,758 -2.07% 425
London -27 666 £70,000 +1.94% 346
North of England -25 529 £40,000 -27.27% 242
South East -29 456 £55,020 -4.31% 313
Midlands -50 272 £45,000 -18.18% 177
North West -32 237 £42,625 -20.96% 128
West Midlands -41 193 £45,000 -19.64% 99
South West -28 192 £45,564 -15.62% 123
Yorkshire -30 183 £40,000 -33.33% 93
Scotland -18 141 £40,000 -28.89% 62
North East -9 109 £40,000 -33.33% 27
East of England -46 109 £55,000 +10.00% 152
East Midlands -71 78 £44,100 -9.54% 75
Northern Ireland -5 67 £60,000 +26.32% 21
Wales -38 35 £55,000 +4.58% 41

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
1 143 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 53 (1.97%) Confluence
3 45 (1.67%) CMS
4 33 (1.23%) WordPress
5 20 (0.74%) ArcGIS
6 13 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.30%) Kinematics
8 6 (0.22%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.15%) Apache
11 3 (0.11%) govService
11 3 (0.11%) SAS
11 3 (0.11%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.074%) Drupal
12 2 (0.074%) 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
1 412 (15.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 199 (7.40%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.89%) AutoCAD
6 22 (0.82%) MS Visio
7 17 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 17 (0.63%) Trello
8 15 (0.56%) Maya
9 13 (0.48%) SOLIDWORKS
10 10 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (0.37%) Photoshop
11 8 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
12 7 (0.26%) Adobe XD
13 6 (0.22%) Revit
14 4 (0.15%) CATIA
15 3 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
15 3 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
15 3 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
16 2 (0.074%) Weka
Business Applications
1 63 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.45%) SAP MDG
3 19 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
4 18 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
4 18 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 17 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 14 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
7 12 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
8 11 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
9 9 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
9 9 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.33%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.33%) SAP FI
9 9 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
10 8 (0.30%) SAP IBP
11 7 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
12 6 (0.22%) Elite 3E
12 6 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
13 5 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 223 (8.29%) Azure
2 216 (8.03%) Power Platform
3 142 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
4 141 (5.24%) SaaS
5 107 (3.98%) AWS
6 46 (1.71%) PowerApps
7 38 (1.41%) Asana
8 31 (1.15%) GCP
9 30 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.04%) Entra ID
11 26 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (0.93%) Smartsheet
13 24 (0.89%) Google Analytics
14 23 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (0.78%) Power Automate
16 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (0.67%) Snowflake
18 16 (0.60%) Miro
18 16 (0.60%) PaaS
19 15 (0.56%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.52%) Firewall
2 39 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
3 38 (1.41%) Broadband
4 30 (1.12%) WAN
5 23 (0.86%) LAN
6 22 (0.82%) CHAP
6 22 (0.82%) Internet
7 21 (0.78%) Network Security
8 20 (0.74%) DNS
8 20 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
8 20 (0.74%) VPN
9 19 (0.71%) Wireless
10 18 (0.67%) DHCP
10 18 (0.67%) TCP/IP
11 16 (0.60%) VLAN
12 14 (0.52%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.41%) Intranet
14 10 (0.37%) Multicast
15 9 (0.33%) BGP
15 9 (0.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (7.44%) Tableau
2 182 (6.77%) Power BI
3 167 (6.21%) Data Mining
4 46 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 29 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 20 (0.74%) GIS
6 20 (0.74%) QGIS
6 20 (0.74%) Spatial Data
7 16 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
8 15 (0.56%) Power Query
9 14 (0.52%) Big Data
10 13 (0.48%) Metadata
11 12 (0.45%) SAP BW
12 7 (0.26%) Looker
12 7 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.19%) DB2
14 5 (0.19%) MySQL
14 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 114 (4.24%) JIRA
2 15 (0.56%) Git
3 14 (0.52%) GitLab
4 11 (0.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.11%) ERwin
5 3 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.074%) Checkstyle
6 2 (0.074%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.074%) Gradle
6 2 (0.074%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (0.074%) JMeter
6 2 (0.074%) JUnit
6 2 (0.074%) Maven
6 2 (0.074%) Mockito
6 2 (0.074%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.074%) Selenium
6 2 (0.074%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.074%) TestNG
6 2 (0.074%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.074%) Zephyr
General
1 1,181 (43.92%) Social Skills
2 1,109 (41.24%) Finance
3 761 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (9.89%) Marketing
5 194 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 191 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
7 173 (6.43%) Legal
8 164 (6.10%) Manufacturing
9 147 (5.47%) Retail
10 146 (5.43%) Public Sector
11 134 (4.98%) Law
12 129 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
13 116 (4.31%) Banking
14 77 (2.86%) Games
15 74 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
16 60 (2.23%) Telecoms
17 54 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
18 50 (1.86%) Electronics
19 49 (1.82%) Financial Institution
20 42 (1.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 477 (17.74%) Analyst
2 389 (14.47%) Senior
3 385 (14.32%) Project Manager
4 282 (10.49%) Trainee
5 273 (10.15%) Trainee Analyst
6 232 (8.63%) Lead
7 219 (8.14%) Senior Manager
8 216 (8.03%) Business Analyst
9 176 (6.55%) Data Analyst
10 158 (5.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 153 (5.69%) IT Manager
12 118 (4.39%) Architect
12 118 (4.39%) Consultant
13 115 (4.28%) Trainee Business Analyst
14 114 (4.24%) Development Manager
15 99 (3.68%) Business Manager
16 98 (3.64%) Senior Project Manager
17 90 (3.35%) Systems Manager
18 87 (3.24%) Product Manager
19 76 (2.83%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (0.93%) EDI
2 23 (0.86%) HTML
2 23 (0.86%) PyTorch
3 21 (0.78%) CSS
4 20 (0.74%) .NET
5 16 (0.60%) Middleware
6 9 (0.33%) React
7 8 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (0.26%) REST
9 6 (0.22%) Node.js
9 6 (0.22%) OAuth
10 4 (0.15%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.15%) FIDO
10 4 (0.15%) Flutter
10 4 (0.15%) OpenID
10 4 (0.15%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.15%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.15%) SAML
10 4 (0.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 218 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 126 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 122 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 77 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 76 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 72 (2.68%) FMCG
8 61 (2.27%) Driving Licence
8 61 (2.27%) Social Media
9 56 (2.08%) Robotics
10 47 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
11 45 (1.67%) Virtual Team
12 43 (1.60%) Algorithms
13 32 (1.19%) Blog
14 30 (1.12%) IoT
15 28 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 27 (1.00%) Mobile App
17 25 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (0.78%) Blockchain
18 21 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (2.19%) Windows
2 31 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 26 (0.97%) Android
4 22 (0.82%) Linux
5 17 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.22%) Unix
6 6 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.19%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.11%) VMS
9 2 (0.074%) AIX
9 2 (0.074%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.037%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.037%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
2 648 (24.10%) Agile
3 571 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 515 (19.15%) Project Delivery
5 501 (18.63%) Analytics
6 492 (18.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 404 (15.02%) Decision-Making
8 395 (14.69%) Change Management
9 381 (14.17%) Business Analysis
10 368 (13.69%) AI
11 353 (13.13%) PRINCE2
12 318 (11.83%) Data Analysis
13 311 (11.57%) Risk Management
14 274 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 252 (9.37%) Coaching
15 252 (9.37%) Process Improvement
16 236 (8.78%) Roadmaps
17 234 (8.70%) Data Analytics
18 223 (8.29%) Business Intelligence
19 208 (7.74%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 292 (10.86%) Python
1 292 (10.86%) SQL
2 35 (1.30%) VBA
3 29 (1.08%) C#
4 28 (1.04%) JavaScript
5 22 (0.82%) Java
6 20 (0.74%) C
7 18 (0.67%) C++
8 13 (0.48%) PowerShell
9 11 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.37%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.26%) PHP
12 6 (0.22%) Bash
12 6 (0.22%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.22%) R
13 5 (0.19%) Perl
14 3 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.11%) Tcl
14 3 (0.11%) VB
15 2 (0.074%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 735 (27.33%) Degree
2 225 (8.37%) PMP
3 215 (8.00%) PMI Certification
4 180 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 132 (4.91%) SC Cleared
6 96 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 64 (2.38%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 58 (2.16%) CISSP
9 54 (2.01%) DBS Check
10 48 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 42 (1.56%) CISM
12 36 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.34%) HNC
13 28 (1.04%) MBA
14 26 (0.97%) DV Cleared
14 26 (0.97%) SANS
15 25 (0.93%) ACCA
15 25 (0.93%) CISA
16 24 (0.89%) FFIEC
17 22 (0.82%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (7.85%) QA
2 131 (4.87%) PMO
3 97 (3.61%) GDPR
4 87 (3.24%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (1.97%) NIST
7 38 (1.41%) Data Quality
8 23 (0.86%) COBIT
9 20 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 19 (0.71%) GRC
11 14 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (0.45%) SLA
14 10 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.30%) IFRS
17 6 (0.22%) MiFID
18 5 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 24 (0.89%) Docker
3 13 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.45%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.30%) Firmware
6 6 (0.22%) vSphere
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (0.78%) Kubernetes
2 19 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (0.45%) Ansible
3 12 (0.45%) Terraform
4 6 (0.22%) SCCM
5 5 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.15%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 3 (0.11%) ServiceCenter
8 2 (0.074%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.037%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.037%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.037%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.037%) MOM
9 1 (0.037%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 636 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.06%) SAP
3 88 (3.27%) Salesforce
4 69 (2.57%) Oracle
5 68 (2.53%) Google
6 46 (1.71%) Adobe
6 46 (1.71%) Cisco
7 42 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.04%) Anaplan
8 28 (1.04%) HubSpot
9 26 (0.97%) Ariba
10 20 (0.74%) Genesys
10 20 (0.74%) Verint
11 17 (0.63%) OpenText
12 15 (0.56%) Databricks
12 15 (0.56%) Instagram
12 15 (0.56%) Pardot
13 14 (0.52%) VMware
14 13 (0.48%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.48%) Workday