Project Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 5,788 4,979 6,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.82% 8.57% 8.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 8.97% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,898 2,646 3,612
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,260 £34,990
25th Percentile £39,750 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,014
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.65% +1.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
North of England +9 1,469 £50,000 -9.09% 564
South East +2 1,393 £47,500 -13.64% 521
Midlands 0 1,141 £51,000 -7.27% 475
North West +14 831 £50,000 -9.09% 333
South West +8 757 £50,000 -9.09% 318
West Midlands -1 633 £54,000 -1.82% 294
Yorkshire +15 484 £50,000 -8.90% 157
East Midlands +4 468 £47,500 -13.64% 180
East of England +11 443 £50,000 -9.09% 253
Scotland -23 355 £50,000 -9.09% 187
Wales +6 162 £43,750 -20.28% 55
North East +4 154 £52,500 -4.55% 80
Northern Ireland +42 69 £43,750 -2.78% 25
Isle of Man -5 8 £37,500 -48.28% 2
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 263 (4.54%) SharePoint
2 108 (1.87%) Confluence
3 91 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 88 (1.52%) CMS
5 58 (1.00%) Apache
6 44 (0.76%) IIS
7 40 (0.69%) WebLogic
8 30 (0.52%) WordPress
9 18 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 16 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 15 (0.26%) SAS
12 9 (0.16%) Drupal
13 7 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.12%) MS Project Server
14 6 (0.10%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.086%) JBoss
15 5 (0.086%) Joomla!
15 5 (0.086%) Kentico
15 5 (0.086%) Kinematics
15 5 (0.086%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 405 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 366 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
3 302 (5.22%) Microsoft Project
4 169 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.95%) AutoCAD
7 40 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 30 (0.52%) Trello
9 17 (0.29%) Windchill
10 11 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.17%) Simulink
11 10 (0.17%) Sketch
12 8 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.12%) InDesign
14 5 (0.086%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.086%) SOLIDWORKS
15 4 (0.069%) InVision
15 4 (0.069%) Solid Edge
15 4 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 37 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.64%) Primavera
3 26 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 24 (0.41%) Magento
5 22 (0.38%) Shopify
5 22 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 17 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 17 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 17 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 11 (0.19%) SAP WM
8 9 (0.16%) Sage 200
8 9 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 8 (0.14%) BPCS
9 8 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.10%) SAP GTS
12 5 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
12 5 (0.086%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 664 (11.47%) Azure
2 426 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
3 379 (6.55%) AWS
4 266 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 218 (3.77%) SaaS
6 194 (3.35%) GCP
7 157 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (1.26%) Amazon S3
10 54 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 54 (0.93%) Entra ID
11 53 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 43 (0.74%) Power Automate
13 41 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (0.47%) Smartsheet
16 24 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
17 23 (0.40%) GitHub
18 22 (0.38%) Amazon Kinesis
18 22 (0.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 186 (3.21%) Firewall
2 124 (2.14%) DNS
3 117 (2.02%) WAN
4 94 (1.62%) VPN
5 91 (1.57%) Intranet
6 87 (1.50%) Internet
7 74 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 73 (1.26%) Network Security
9 64 (1.11%) LAN
10 62 (1.07%) DHCP
11 61 (1.05%) SSL
12 56 (0.97%) SNMP
13 55 (0.95%) SAN
14 54 (0.93%) IPsec
15 52 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
16 50 (0.86%) SD-WAN
17 46 (0.79%) BGP
17 46 (0.79%) Wireless
18 39 (0.67%) 5G
19 26 (0.45%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (3.59%) Power BI
2 122 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 87 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.24%) BigQuery
5 72 (1.24%) Looker
6 71 (1.23%) MySQL
7 68 (1.17%) RDBMS
8 64 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
9 52 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 50 (0.86%) Big Data
11 46 (0.79%) Tableau
12 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 26 (0.45%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
14 21 (0.36%) NoSQL
15 18 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
15 18 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 296 (5.11%) JIRA
2 78 (1.35%) Git
3 47 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.40%) GitLab
4 23 (0.40%) Postman
5 22 (0.38%) Visual Studio
6 11 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.16%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.16%) Subversion
8 8 (0.14%) CircleCI
8 8 (0.14%) JUnit
8 8 (0.14%) Selenium
9 7 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.10%) AdminStudio
10 6 (0.10%) InstallShield
10 6 (0.10%) MSI
11 5 (0.086%) gulp
12 4 (0.069%) LabVIEW
13 3 (0.052%) Maven
General
1 2,475 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 1,327 (22.93%) Finance
3 898 (15.51%) Analytical Skills
4 415 (7.17%) Marketing
5 394 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
6 376 (6.50%) Retail
7 369 (6.38%) Manufacturing
8 361 (6.24%) Organisational Skills
9 360 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 266 (4.60%) Public Sector
11 246 (4.25%) Legal
12 203 (3.51%) Telecoms
13 187 (3.23%) Law
14 149 (2.57%) Aerospace
15 128 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 112 (1.94%) Billing
17 109 (1.88%) Banking
18 95 (1.64%) Electronics
18 95 (1.64%) Local Government
19 84 (1.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,053 (35.47%) Project Manager
2 695 (12.01%) Senior
3 493 (8.52%) Lead
4 422 (7.29%) IT Manager
5 377 (6.51%) Senior Manager
6 364 (6.29%) Analyst
7 292 (5.04%) Senior Project Manager
8 263 (4.54%) Architect
9 236 (4.08%) IT Project Manager
10 212 (3.66%) Consultant
11 155 (2.68%) Digital Project Manager
12 151 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
13 150 (2.59%) Developer
14 134 (2.32%) Coordinator
15 130 (2.25%) Presales Manager
16 126 (2.18%) Business Analyst
17 116 (2.00%) Engineering Manager
18 107 (1.85%) Technical Manager
19 105 (1.81%) Data Manager
20 101 (1.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (2.21%) .NET
2 102 (1.76%) HTML
2 102 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
3 94 (1.62%) CSS
4 76 (1.31%) EDI
5 65 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 50 (0.86%) YAML
7 47 (0.81%) React
8 46 (0.79%) XML
9 44 (0.76%) JSON
10 35 (0.60%) Spring
11 33 (0.57%) jQuery
12 32 (0.55%) RESTful
12 32 (0.55%) Web Services
13 31 (0.54%) Laravel
14 28 (0.48%) SOAP
15 27 (0.47%) AngularJS
16 24 (0.41%) Vue
17 23 (0.40%) HTML5
18 21 (0.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 496 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 382 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
3 240 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 194 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 180 (3.11%) Driving Licence
6 161 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 146 (2.52%) PMI
8 120 (2.07%) Public Cloud
9 81 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 80 (1.38%) NHS
11 79 (1.36%) FMCG
12 76 (1.31%) PKI
13 75 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 67 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
15 61 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
15 61 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 49 (0.85%) IoT
17 45 (0.78%) Social Media
18 42 (0.73%) Algorithms
19 41 (0.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 358 (6.19%) Windows
2 262 (4.53%) Linux
3 138 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 49 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
6 43 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 42 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (0.66%) Android
9 37 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (0.47%) Apple iOS
11 26 (0.45%) Unix
12 16 (0.28%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.28%) VMS
13 14 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.21%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.16%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.14%) AIX
17 8 (0.14%) Solaris
18 7 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,782 (30.79%) Agile
2 1,353 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
3 1,248 (21.56%) Project Delivery
4 839 (14.50%) PRINCE2
5 660 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 657 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 626 (10.82%) Mentoring
8 578 (9.99%) Change Management
9 521 (9.00%) Decision-Making
10 516 (8.91%) Actionable Insight
11 495 (8.55%) Risk Management
12 431 (7.45%) Coaching
13 427 (7.38%) Customer Service
14 404 (6.98%) ITIL
15 398 (6.88%) SDLC
16 386 (6.67%) Agile Project Management
17 378 (6.53%) Collaborative Working
17 378 (6.53%) Scrum
18 363 (6.27%) DevOps
19 362 (6.25%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 322 (5.56%) SQL
2 215 (3.71%) Python
3 149 (2.57%) JavaScript
4 133 (2.30%) C#
5 110 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 99 (1.71%) Java
7 80 (1.38%) C
8 76 (1.31%) PHP
9 57 (0.98%) C++
10 39 (0.67%) VB
11 28 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 26 (0.45%) R
12 26 (0.45%) TypeScript
13 24 (0.41%) Bash
13 24 (0.41%) VBA
14 20 (0.35%) MATLAB
15 16 (0.28%) Perl
16 14 (0.24%) VB.NET
17 10 (0.17%) RPG
17 10 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,415 (24.45%) Degree
2 581 (10.04%) Security Cleared
3 344 (5.94%) SC Cleared
4 321 (5.55%) PMI Certification
5 271 (4.68%) PMP
6 138 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 134 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 111 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 98 (1.69%) DBS Check
10 89 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 88 (1.52%) APMP
12 87 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 87 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
13 81 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 70 (1.21%) Azure Certification
15 65 (1.12%) HNC
16 55 (0.95%) HND
17 54 (0.93%) CCNA
18 53 (0.92%) DV Cleared
19 49 (0.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (7.93%) PMO
2 333 (5.75%) QA
3 133 (2.30%) GDPR
4 110 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 81 (1.40%) SLA
6 61 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 56 (0.97%) ISO 9001
8 48 (0.83%) Data Quality
9 43 (0.74%) NIST
10 32 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 29 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
12 27 (0.47%) NCSC
12 27 (0.47%) NEBOSH
13 16 (0.28%) GMP
13 16 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.26%) GRC
15 14 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 13 (0.22%) GxP
16 13 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.21%) COSHH
System Software
1 214 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 172 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.54%) Docker
5 38 (0.66%) Firmware
6 26 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 15 (0.26%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.086%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.086%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.069%) pfSense
14 2 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.017%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.017%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.017%) NFS
15 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 128 (2.21%) Ansible
2 88 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.17%) vCenter Server
4 59 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 46 (0.79%) SCCM
7 42 (0.73%) Terraform
8 27 (0.47%) ZABBIX
9 23 (0.40%) WSUS
10 21 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (0.36%) SCOM
11 14 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (0.22%) Puppet
13 12 (0.21%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.21%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.21%) VxRail
14 6 (0.10%) Nessus
15 5 (0.086%) Microsoft Clustering
16 4 (0.069%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,082 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 225 (3.89%) Google
3 206 (3.56%) VMware
4 179 (3.09%) SAP
5 158 (2.73%) Oracle
6 129 (2.23%) Cisco
7 102 (1.76%) Salesforce
8 81 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.05%) NetApp
10 59 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 55 (0.95%) NEC
12 54 (0.93%) IFS
13 53 (0.92%) Adobe
14 50 (0.86%) ServiceNow
15 49 (0.85%) SolidFire
16 45 (0.78%) Dell
17 43 (0.74%) Sage
17 43 (0.74%) Veeam
18 41 (0.71%) Sparx
19 35 (0.60%) Citrix