People Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for People Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited People 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 321 210 301
Rank change year-on-year -111 +91 +40
Permanent jobs citing People Management 909 1,725 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.77% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.85% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 597 661 1,052
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

People 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing People Management.

Salary trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People 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 People Management 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 -101 837 £62,500 -10.71% 341
UK excluding London -72 544 £57,500 -4.17% 243
London -33 320 £71,250 -20.83% 117
Work from Home -99 292 £64,375 -11.21% 137
North of England +14 223 £57,500 -8.00% 64
North West -37 126 £65,000 +23.81% 40
South East -32 115 £57,500 -23.33% 66
Yorkshire +101 83 £57,500 -14.81% 16
Midlands -76 83 £60,000 +9.09% 45
South West -21 56 £57,500 +1.55% 13
West Midlands -83 43 £65,000 +18.18% 26
East Midlands -6 40 £47,500 -9.52% 19
East of England -23 37 £55,000 +4.76% 26
Scotland -73 26 £57,500 -4.17% 26
North East +1 18 £42,500 -22.73% 8
Wales -1 9 £40,000 -2.44% 8
Northern Ireland +16 3 £57,500 +109.09% 3

People Management
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 16 (1.76%) Confluence
2 11 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.66%) Apache Pig
5 5 (0.55%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.44%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) CMS
7 2 (0.22%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.22%) JCAPS
7 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 38 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.55%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.11%) SPSS
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.77%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.77%) thinkFolio
3 6 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.44%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.33%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.22%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.22%) Primavera
6 2 (0.22%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.22%) SAP GTS
6 2 (0.22%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.22%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 103 (11.33%) Azure
2 63 (6.93%) AWS
3 42 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (2.86%) SaaS
5 24 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (2.64%) Power Platform
6 21 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (2.20%) Serverless
8 17 (1.87%) GCP
8 17 (1.87%) PaaS
9 16 (1.76%) IaaS
10 15 (1.65%) Amazon S3
10 15 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.21%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (1.21%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (0.66%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.41%) Firewall
2 19 (2.09%) LAN
3 18 (1.98%) WAN
3 18 (1.98%) Wireless
4 16 (1.76%) Network Security
5 11 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.21%) Wireshark
6 6 (0.66%) DNS
7 5 (0.55%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.44%) VPN
9 3 (0.33%) VSAN
9 3 (0.33%) WebEx
10 2 (0.22%) FTP
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) NGFW
10 2 (0.22%) RIP
11 1 (0.11%) DHCP
11 1 (0.11%) DSL
11 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (1.54%) OLAP
2 13 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (1.43%) Power BI
2 13 (1.43%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.32%) Big Data
3 12 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.77%) Hadoop
4 7 (0.77%) Tableau
5 6 (0.66%) Apache Hive
5 6 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.44%) GIS
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (2.97%) JIRA
2 13 (1.43%) Git
3 8 (0.88%) Cypress.io
3 8 (0.88%) JUnit
4 7 (0.77%) Selenium
5 6 (0.66%) Checkstyle
5 6 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.55%) Android Studio
6 5 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.55%) Postman
6 5 (0.55%) SoapUI
6 5 (0.55%) TestRail
6 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.44%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.33%) GCC
8 3 (0.33%) Maven
8 3 (0.33%) Storybook
9 2 (0.22%) Ant
9 2 (0.22%) Subversion
9 2 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 300 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 282 (31.02%) Finance
3 114 (12.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (10.45%) Legal
5 88 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 86 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
7 78 (8.58%) Billing
8 74 (8.14%) Public Sector
9 59 (6.49%) Manufacturing
10 50 (5.50%) Retail
11 43 (4.73%) Local Government
12 42 (4.62%) Law
13 39 (4.29%) Marketing
14 36 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
15 34 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (2.53%) Telecoms
17 19 (2.09%) Banking
18 14 (1.54%) Front Office
19 13 (1.43%) Aerospace
20 12 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 126 (13.86%) Lead
2 87 (9.57%) Senior
3 67 (7.37%) Project Manager
4 55 (6.05%) Service Manager
4 55 (6.05%) Software Manager
5 53 (5.83%) Audit Manager
6 50 (5.50%) Development Manager
7 47 (5.17%) Developer
7 47 (5.17%) Team Leader
8 43 (4.73%) Senior Manager
9 36 (3.96%) Audio Visual Technician
9 36 (3.96%) Engineering Manager
10 35 (3.85%) Software Development Manager
11 31 (3.41%) Consultant
12 29 (3.19%) IT Manager
13 27 (2.97%) Applications Manager
13 27 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
14 26 (2.86%) Lead Developer
15 25 (2.75%) Operations Manager
16 23 (2.53%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (8.03%) .NET
2 30 (3.30%) .NET Core
3 26 (2.86%) HTML
4 25 (2.75%) CSS
5 17 (1.87%) React
6 15 (1.65%) EDI
7 14 (1.54%) .NET Framework
8 11 (1.21%) Unity DI Container
9 9 (0.99%) Spring
10 8 (0.88%) J2EE
10 8 (0.88%) Node.js
11 7 (0.77%) RESTful
11 7 (0.77%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.66%) Middleware
13 5 (0.55%) Kafka
13 5 (0.55%) OAuth
13 5 (0.55%) Playwright
13 5 (0.55%) SOAP
14 4 (0.44%) AngularJS
14 4 (0.44%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.72%) Driving Licence
3 39 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.85%) NHS
5 31 (3.41%) Housing Association
6 26 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.42%) Reinsurance
8 19 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.43%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.32%) Hedge funds
13 11 (1.21%) Blog
13 11 (1.21%) Credit Risk
13 11 (1.21%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
14 10 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.99%) FMCG
16 8 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
17 7 (0.77%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.18%) Windows
2 22 (2.42%) Android
3 17 (1.87%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.77%) Linux
6 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (23.65%) Agile
2 175 (19.25%) Coaching
2 175 (19.25%) Project Management
3 157 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
4 134 (14.74%) Mentoring
5 130 (14.30%) Performance Management
6 129 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 125 (13.75%) Line Management
9 114 (12.54%) Service Management
10 99 (10.89%) Business Development
11 89 (9.79%) ITIL
12 83 (9.13%) Project Delivery
13 82 (9.02%) DevOps
14 75 (8.25%) Software Engineering
15 74 (8.14%) Roadmaps
16 73 (8.03%) Service Delivery
17 69 (7.59%) Scrum
18 66 (7.26%) Decision-Making
19 62 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 76 (8.36%) SQL
2 58 (6.38%) C#
3 52 (5.72%) Python
4 41 (4.51%) JavaScript
5 36 (3.96%) Java
6 19 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.21%) R
9 6 (0.66%) C++
9 6 (0.66%) VB
9 6 (0.66%) VB6
10 5 (0.55%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.44%) PHP
11 4 (0.44%) Scala
11 4 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.22%) Bash
13 2 (0.22%) Perl
13 2 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 201 (22.11%) Degree
2 73 (8.03%) ACCA
3 69 (7.59%) Security Cleared
4 46 (5.06%) SC Cleared
5 40 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.96%) APMG
7 26 (2.86%) CISSP
8 21 (2.31%) APMP
9 17 (1.87%) HNC
9 17 (1.87%) PMI Certification
10 16 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.54%) DBS Check
12 14 (1.54%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.43%) CEH
13 13 (1.43%) PMP
14 12 (1.32%) CIPD
14 12 (1.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.14%) IFRS
2 73 (8.03%) GAAP
3 65 (7.15%) QA
4 28 (3.08%) GDPR
5 27 (2.97%) PMO
6 20 (2.20%) SLA
7 19 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.98%) NIST
9 11 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.88%) Data Quality
11 7 (0.77%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.66%) Def Stans
13 5 (0.55%) ITGC
13 5 (0.55%) NEBOSH
14 3 (0.33%) GMP
15 2 (0.22%) COBIT
15 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
16 1 (0.11%) ISO 9000
16 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 21 (2.31%) Active Directory
1 21 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
2 15 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 10 (1.10%) Firmware
4 7 (0.77%) Docker
4 7 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.66%) HDFS
6 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.44%) vSphere
8 3 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.21%) Nmap
4 9 (0.99%) FortiGate
5 7 (0.77%) NetBackup
5 7 (0.77%) SCCM
5 7 (0.77%) SCOM
6 2 (0.22%) Ansible
6 2 (0.22%) Control-M
6 2 (0.22%) Terraform
7 1 (0.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 178 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.25%) CA
3 27 (2.97%) Salesforce
4 25 (2.75%) SAP
5 14 (1.54%) Bloomberg
6 13 (1.43%) IFS
7 12 (1.32%) Splunk
8 11 (1.21%) Google
8 11 (1.21%) Qualys
8 11 (1.21%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.21%) Thycotic
8 11 (1.21%) VMware
9 10 (1.10%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.88%) Dell
11 7 (0.77%) Charles River
11 7 (0.77%) McAfee
12 6 (0.66%) Cisco
12 6 (0.66%) Oracle
13 5 (0.55%) Adobe
13 5 (0.55%) EMC