IT Project Manager
UK

The median IT Project Manager salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 501 484
Rank change year-on-year +11 -17 +75
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 468 548 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.56% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.62% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 402 470 839
10th Percentile £37,010 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,375 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IT Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager.

Salary trend for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Project Manager in the UK

IT Project Manager
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Manager within the UK 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
England +29 442 £52,500 -8.70% 62
UK excluding London +21 359 £51,250 -6.82% 47
Work from Home -56 149 £51,500 -6.36% 20
North of England +71 107 £48,375 -7.86% 12
London +62 94 £65,000 +4.00% 16
Midlands +11 83 £54,000 -6.09% 15
South East -6 81 £52,500 -12.50% 9
North West +42 64 £46,000 -16.36% 9
East Midlands +28 57 £54,000 -16.92% 4
East of England -7 38 £54,000 - 4
South West -24 38 £48,500 +7.78% 7
West Midlands -17 26 £55,000 -2.22% 11
Yorkshire +56 24 £48,750 +5.41% 2
North East +4 19 £52,500 - 1
Scotland -56 6 £51,500 -20.77%
Wales +1 5 £45,000 +9.09% 2
Northern Ireland +19 1 £32,500 -22.62%
Channel Islands - 1 - -

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, IT Project Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 296 (63.25%) Project Management
2 228 (48.72%) Agile
3 188 (40.17%) Social Skills
4 165 (35.26%) PRINCE2
5 152 (32.48%) Project Delivery
6 150 (32.05%) Waterfall
7 105 (22.44%) Stakeholder Management
8 103 (22.01%) Finance
9 81 (17.31%) Risk Management
10 80 (17.09%) Change Management
11 73 (15.60%) Degree
12 65 (13.89%) Business Case
13 60 (12.82%) PMI Certification
14 59 (12.61%) PMP
15 53 (11.32%) Microsoft
16 50 (10.68%) Self-Motivation
17 48 (10.26%) Business Change Management
18 41 (8.76%) Scrum
19 39 (8.33%) JIRA
19 39 (8.33%) PMO
20 35 (7.48%) ERP
21 34 (7.26%) Microsoft Project
22 33 (7.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
22 33 (7.05%) Problem-Solving
23 32 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
24 30 (6.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
24 30 (6.41%) SDLC
25 26 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
26 25 (5.34%) Business Analysis
26 25 (5.34%) CRM

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.50%) Confluence
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (7.26%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.71%) Trello
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.43%) CATIA
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) Maximo
2 1 (0.21%) Primavera
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (6.84%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (4.27%) Azure
3 13 (2.78%) SaaS
4 8 (1.71%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (0.85%) WhatsApp
6 3 (0.64%) Asana
6 3 (0.64%) AWS
6 3 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.43%) PaaS
7 2 (0.43%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.21%) Discord
8 1 (0.21%) GCP
8 1 (0.21%) Miro
8 1 (0.21%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.21%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
2 12 (2.56%) Firewall
3 11 (2.35%) Intranet
4 8 (1.71%) Wireless
5 6 (1.28%) LAN
6 5 (1.07%) LTE
6 5 (1.07%) TETRA
6 5 (1.07%) WAN
7 4 (0.85%) VoIP
8 2 (0.43%) Extranet
8 2 (0.43%) IP Telephony
8 2 (0.43%) Network Security
8 2 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.43%) WLAN
9 1 (0.21%) DNS
9 1 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.28%) Power BI
2 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 188 (40.17%) Social Skills
2 103 (22.01%) Finance
3 23 (4.91%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.70%) Law
5 21 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (3.85%) Banking
6 18 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.42%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (2.56%) Retail
12 8 (1.71%) Marketing
13 7 (1.50%) Billing
13 7 (1.50%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.28%) Legal
15 5 (1.07%) Electronics
16 4 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.64%) ADO
1 3 (0.64%) Flash
2 2 (0.43%) Express.js
2 2 (0.43%) MERN Stack
2 2 (0.43%) Node.js
2 2 (0.43%) React
2 2 (0.43%) REST
2 2 (0.43%) Web Services
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.68%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (2.99%) PMI
3 8 (1.71%) Data Centre
3 8 (1.71%) Driving Licence
4 7 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.07%) NHS
7 4 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (0.85%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.85%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.64%) FMCG
8 3 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.43%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.43%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.43%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.43%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.21%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.21%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.21%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.50%) Windows
2 4 (0.85%) Windows Vista
3 3 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (63.25%) Project Management
2 228 (48.72%) Agile
3 165 (35.26%) PRINCE2
4 152 (32.48%) Project Delivery
5 150 (32.05%) Waterfall
6 105 (22.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 81 (17.31%) Risk Management
8 80 (17.09%) Change Management
9 65 (13.89%) Business Case
10 48 (10.26%) Business Change Management
11 41 (8.76%) Scrum
12 35 (7.48%) ERP
13 33 (7.05%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (6.41%) SDLC
15 26 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (5.34%) Business Analysis
16 25 (5.34%) CRM
16 25 (5.34%) Cybersecurity
17 24 (5.13%) Roadmaps
18 23 (4.91%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.64%) SQL
2 2 (0.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 73 (15.60%) Degree
2 60 (12.82%) PMI Certification
3 59 (12.61%) PMP
4 33 (7.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 30 (6.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 17 (3.63%) Security Cleared
7 16 (3.42%) SC Cleared
8 11 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.35%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.85%) CAPM
10 2 (0.43%) CCNA
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.43%) RIBA
11 1 (0.21%) APMP
11 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.33%) PMO
2 11 (2.35%) QA
3 7 (1.50%) ISO 9001
3 7 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.21%) GAMP
6 1 (0.21%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (0.64%) Hyper-V
1 3 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (0.43%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 53 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.35%) Oracle
2 11 (2.35%) SAP
3 9 (1.92%) Cisco
3 9 (1.92%) VMware
4 8 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.28%) Facebook
6 5 (1.07%) BT
6 5 (1.07%) CheckPoint
6 5 (1.07%) YouTube
7 4 (0.85%) Anaplan
7 4 (0.85%) Google
7 4 (0.85%) Meraki
8 3 (0.64%) Adobe
8 3 (0.64%) Apple
9 2 (0.43%) Aruba
9 2 (0.43%) CA
9 2 (0.43%) Civica
9 2 (0.43%) IFS
9 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow