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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -37 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,426 3,499 7,624
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.58% 7.80% 7.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 8.44% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 1,716 5,429
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £95,000 £93,764 £83,800
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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
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 19 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 19 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 2,110 £55,000 -8.33% 939
UK excluding London -38 1,567 £52,500 -4.55% 824
Work from Home -11 980 £55,000 -4.35% 362
London -32 694 £69,250 -4.48% 293
North of England -20 459 £55,000 +0.38% 200
South East -28 391 £50,000 -13.04% 253
Midlands -47 231 £55,000 +2.44% 118
North West +13 216 £55,000 +6.28% 104
South West -44 173 £47,500 -20.17% 89
Yorkshire -33 148 £60,000 +9.09% 71
West Midlands -43 146 £55,000 - 67
East of England -42 140 £60,500 +10.00% 102
North East -25 95 £60,000 +9.09% 29
East Midlands -36 84 £55,000 +22.22% 51
Northern Ireland -13 71 £47,500 -17.39% 22
Scotland -42 66 £40,000 -20.71% 36
Wales -59 40 £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 87 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.18%) Confluence
3 36 (1.48%) CMS
4 33 (1.36%) WordPress
5 20 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.21%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.16%) Moodle
9 3 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.12%) govService
9 3 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.082%) Drupal
10 2 (0.082%) Totara
10 2 (0.082%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.041%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 236 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 212 (8.74%) Microsoft Project
3 170 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
4 53 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 18 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.62%) Trello
8 9 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
10 7 (0.29%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
11 5 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
11 5 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.12%) Blender
12 3 (0.12%) Maya
13 2 (0.082%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
14 1 (0.041%) FrameMaker
14 1 (0.041%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 39 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 20 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 16 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
4 16 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
4 16 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.33%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.33%) Shopify
7 7 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.29%) Primavera
8 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
8 6 (0.25%) SAP Business One
9 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 4 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 234 (9.65%) Azure
2 213 (8.78%) Power Platform
3 144 (5.94%) SaaS
4 127 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
5 108 (4.45%) AWS
6 78 (3.22%) PowerApps
7 57 (2.35%) Power Automate
8 44 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (1.36%) GCP
10 32 (1.32%) Asana
10 32 (1.32%) Smartsheet
11 29 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (1.20%) OneDrive
12 26 (1.07%) Entra ID
13 25 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (1.03%) Canva
14 21 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 21 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
15 20 (0.82%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.77%) Broadband
2 37 (1.53%) Firewall
3 28 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (1.07%) WAN
5 20 (0.82%) LAN
6 19 (0.78%) CHAP
7 15 (0.62%) DNS
7 15 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
8 12 (0.49%) DHCP
8 12 (0.49%) Network Security
8 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.41%) Multicast
11 8 (0.33%) Wireless
12 7 (0.29%) VoIP
12 7 (0.29%) VPN
13 6 (0.25%) BGP
13 6 (0.25%) Internet
13 6 (0.25%) Intranet
14 5 (0.21%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (7.09%) Power BI
2 90 (3.71%) Tableau
3 78 (3.22%) Data Mining
4 36 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.15%) GIS
6 21 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (0.82%) QGIS
7 20 (0.82%) Spatial Data
8 17 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 11 (0.45%) Power Query
10 10 (0.41%) Db2
11 9 (0.37%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.25%) Big Data
13 6 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.21%) Metadata
15 4 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (0.16%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 150 (6.18%) JIRA
2 24 (0.99%) Git
3 11 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.21%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.21%) JUnit
6 4 (0.16%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) Storybook
7 3 (0.12%) TestNG
8 2 (0.082%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.082%) ESLint
8 2 (0.082%) Gradle
8 2 (0.082%) JMeter
8 2 (0.082%) Maven
8 2 (0.082%) Mockito
8 2 (0.082%) Postman
8 2 (0.082%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.082%) Yeoman
8 2 (0.082%) Zephyr
General
1 1,003 (41.34%) Social Skills
2 816 (33.64%) Finance
3 466 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (10.96%) Marketing
5 222 (9.15%) Organisational Skills
6 154 (6.35%) Retail
7 144 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 144 (5.94%) Manufacturing
8 142 (5.85%) Legal
9 122 (5.03%) Public Sector
10 105 (4.33%) Law
11 99 (4.08%) Banking
12 75 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
13 61 (2.51%) Local Government
14 60 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 50 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (1.94%) Advertising
17 45 (1.85%) Financial Institution
18 44 (1.81%) Aviation
19 41 (1.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 501 (20.65%) Project Manager
2 341 (14.06%) Senior
3 303 (12.49%) Analyst
4 187 (7.71%) Lead
5 186 (7.67%) Senior Manager
6 179 (7.38%) IT Manager
7 154 (6.35%) Senior Project Manager
8 149 (6.14%) Business Analyst
9 146 (6.02%) Consultant
10 117 (4.82%) Development Manager
11 102 (4.20%) IT Project Manager
12 93 (3.83%) Trainee
12 93 (3.83%) Trainee Analyst
13 82 (3.38%) Data Analyst
14 74 (3.05%) Product Manager
14 74 (3.05%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 61 (2.51%) Architect
15 61 (2.51%) IT Support
16 58 (2.39%) Security Manager
16 58 (2.39%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.77%) .NET
1 43 (1.77%) PyTorch
2 42 (1.73%) HTML
3 38 (1.57%) CSS
4 24 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
4 24 (0.99%) JSON
5 23 (0.95%) Hugging Face
5 23 (0.95%) TensorFlow
6 21 (0.87%) .NET Core
7 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (0.78%) SPFx
8 18 (0.74%) EDI
9 13 (0.54%) LangChain
9 13 (0.54%) LlamaIndex
9 13 (0.54%) Model Context Protocol
10 12 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (0.45%) Middleware
12 9 (0.37%) Flash
13 8 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
14 7 (0.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 175 (7.21%) Management Information System
2 125 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 90 (3.71%) Data Centre
4 82 (3.38%) Driving Licence
5 78 (3.22%) Product Ownership
6 56 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (2.31%) Social Media
7 53 (2.18%) FMCG
8 47 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 45 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 33 (1.36%) Cloud Native
11 33 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
11 33 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 32 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 30 (1.24%) Algorithms
14 27 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 26 (1.07%) PMI
16 24 (0.99%) AI Agents
16 24 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.22%) Windows
2 29 (1.20%) Linux
3 28 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 23 (0.95%) Android
5 16 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.25%) Unix
6 6 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.21%) 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
1 711 (29.31%) Agile
2 589 (24.28%) Project Delivery
3 537 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
4 496 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 465 (19.17%) PRINCE2
6 392 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 331 (13.64%) Decision-Making
8 304 (12.53%) Analytics
9 259 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 256 (10.55%) Mentoring
11 251 (10.35%) Roadmaps
12 250 (10.31%) AI
13 237 (9.77%) Coaching
14 231 (9.52%) Risk Management
15 226 (9.32%) Business Analysis
16 225 (9.27%) Change Management
17 205 (8.45%) Budget Management
18 202 (8.33%) Logistics
19 195 (8.04%) ERP
20 187 (7.71%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 225 (9.27%) SQL
2 221 (9.11%) Python
3 48 (1.98%) C#
4 46 (1.90%) JavaScript
5 32 (1.32%) PowerShell
5 32 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 27 (1.11%) VBA
7 17 (0.70%) Java
8 8 (0.33%) C
9 7 (0.29%) C++
10 6 (0.25%) Bash
10 6 (0.25%) PHP
11 4 (0.16%) ABAP
11 4 (0.16%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.12%) COBOL
12 3 (0.12%) Dart
12 3 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.12%) R
Qualifications
1 579 (23.87%) Degree
2 214 (8.82%) PMP
3 210 (8.66%) PMI Certification
4 125 (5.15%) DBS Check
5 117 (4.82%) Security Cleared
6 95 (3.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 87 (3.59%) CISSP
8 62 (2.56%) SC Cleared
9 60 (2.47%) CISM
10 57 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 43 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.48%) DV Cleared
13 28 (1.15%) CRISC
14 26 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 26 (1.07%) CISA
14 26 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
15 25 (1.03%) HNC
16 24 (0.99%) SANS
17 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
18 20 (0.82%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (7.50%) QA
2 154 (6.35%) PMO
3 109 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 101 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 92 (3.79%) NIST
6 88 (3.63%) GDPR
7 42 (1.73%) GRC
8 40 (1.65%) ISO 9001
9 33 (1.36%) Data Quality
10 32 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (1.07%) SLA
12 23 (0.95%) COBIT
12 23 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.95%) NIST 800
13 16 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 14 (0.58%) 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 44 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.82%) Docker
3 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.21%) 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
7 1 (0.041%) IAG
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (0.95%) SCCM
2 22 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.54%) Ansible
5 11 (0.45%) Grafana
6 10 (0.41%) Terraform
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) Puppet
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.082%) Argo
9 2 (0.082%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.082%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.082%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.082%) Salt
10 1 (0.041%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.041%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.041%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.041%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.041%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 489 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 99 (4.08%) SAP
3 98 (4.04%) Oracle
4 67 (2.76%) Adobe
5 60 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 57 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 54 (2.23%) Google
8 27 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.82%) Pardot
10 17 (0.70%) Cisco
11 16 (0.66%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.58%) Apple
12 14 (0.58%) JD Edwards
12 14 (0.58%) SonicWALL
13 12 (0.49%) Bloomberg
13 12 (0.49%) Instagram
13 12 (0.49%) Reuters
14 11 (0.45%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.45%) Sage
14 11 (0.45%) Wrike