Project Manager
UK

The median Project Manager salary in the UK is £50,000 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 60 103 122
Rank change year-on-year +43 +19 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 4,027 3,209 5,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.92% 3.30% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.14% 3.61% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,925 2,344 3,424
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,494 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +8.16%

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%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the UK

Project Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Manager in the UK

Project Manager
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Project Manager in the UK

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 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 +47 3,566 £52,500 -12.50% 1,067
UK excluding London +45 3,070 £50,000 -9.09% 879
Work from Home +21 1,438 £51,000 -7.27% 432
North of England +69 826 £47,500 -13.64% 214
London +19 766 £60,000 -11.76% 270
Midlands +61 652 £50,000 -14.53% 180
South East +3 601 £52,500 -11.02% 201
North West +80 452 £47,500 -17.39% 140
South West +24 412 £48,000 -8.57% 114
West Midlands +44 343 £50,000 -9.50% 103
East of England +41 285 £54,000 -2.26% 87
East Midlands +64 278 £49,990 -16.68% 76
Yorkshire +64 264 £47,200 -10.10% 54
Scotland -23 154 £50,000 - 83
Wales +48 117 £40,553 -26.27% 29
North East +40 110 £47,500 -9.52% 24
Northern Ireland +40 27 £47,500 -5.00% 7
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 Project Manager in the job title.

1 2,613 (64.89%) Project Management
2 1,403 (34.84%) Social Skills
3 1,268 (31.49%) Agile
4 1,124 (27.91%) Project Delivery
5 957 (23.76%) Finance
6 857 (21.28%) PRINCE2
7 743 (18.45%) Degree
8 593 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 480 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
10 415 (10.31%) Microsoft
11 408 (10.13%) Risk Management
12 358 (8.89%) Waterfall
13 353 (8.77%) Change Management
14 313 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
15 308 (7.65%) Budget Management
16 294 (7.30%) Security Cleared
17 281 (6.98%) Decision-Making
18 273 (6.78%) SDLC
19 272 (6.75%) PMI Certification
20 258 (6.41%) Agile Project Management
21 256 (6.36%) PMP
22 252 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
23 247 (6.13%) Project Planning
24 246 (6.11%) Manufacturing
25 243 (6.03%) Retail
26 242 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
27 236 (5.86%) Microsoft Project
28 234 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
29 233 (5.79%) Business Case
30 230 (5.71%) PMO

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 79 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 60 (1.49%) CMS
3 33 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.74%) Confluence
5 12 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 12 (0.30%) SAS
6 9 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
7 8 (0.20%) Drupal
7 8 (0.20%) WordPress
8 7 (0.17%) MS Project Server
8 7 (0.17%) Umbraco
9 5 (0.12%) Kentico
10 4 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.074%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.050%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.050%) Joomla!
13 1 (0.025%) Apache Spark
13 1 (0.025%) Documentum
13 1 (0.025%) IIS
Applications
1 252 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 236 (5.86%) Microsoft Project
3 222 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
4 134 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 38 (0.94%) AutoCAD
7 28 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 19 (0.47%) Trello
9 2 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.050%) CATIA
9 2 (0.050%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.050%) InDesign
9 2 (0.050%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.40%) Shopify
4 13 (0.32%) Primavera
5 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.17%) Magento
8 5 (0.12%) Maximo
8 5 (0.12%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
8 5 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.099%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.099%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.099%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.074%) BPCS
10 3 (0.074%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (0.074%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.074%) SAP WM
11 2 (0.050%) C-CURE
11 2 (0.050%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.050%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 150 (3.72%) Azure
2 105 (2.61%) SaaS
3 102 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (1.09%) AWS
7 39 (0.97%) Power Platform
8 21 (0.52%) Smartsheet
9 12 (0.30%) Slack
10 10 (0.25%) Basecamp
10 10 (0.25%) OCI
10 10 (0.25%) PaaS
11 8 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 8 (0.20%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (0.20%) Entra ID
11 8 (0.20%) Google Sheets
12 7 (0.17%) GCP
12 7 (0.17%) Mavenlink
12 7 (0.17%) Power Automate
12 7 (0.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 62 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
2 45 (1.12%) LAN
3 38 (0.94%) WAN
4 35 (0.87%) Firewall
5 33 (0.82%) Wireless
6 26 (0.65%) Internet
7 21 (0.52%) DNS
7 21 (0.52%) Intranet
8 18 (0.45%) DHCP
8 18 (0.45%) MPLS
8 18 (0.45%) VPN
9 17 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
9 17 (0.42%) TETRA
9 17 (0.42%) VLAN
10 16 (0.40%) Network Security
11 14 (0.35%) Extranet
12 11 (0.27%) 5G
13 10 (0.25%) LTE
14 9 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
15 8 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
1 22 (0.55%) Power BI
2 20 (0.50%) Tableau
3 10 (0.25%) Big Data
4 5 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (0.12%) Metadata
4 5 (0.12%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.099%) GIS
6 2 (0.050%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.050%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.050%) MySQL
6 2 (0.050%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.025%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.025%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.025%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.025%) Impala
7 1 (0.025%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.025%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.025%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.025%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 155 (3.85%) JIRA
2 6 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.074%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.050%) JIRA Agile
4 2 (0.050%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.025%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,403 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 957 (23.76%) Finance
3 313 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (6.11%) Manufacturing
5 243 (6.03%) Retail
6 234 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 216 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
8 211 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 208 (5.17%) Marketing
10 167 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
11 150 (3.72%) Legal
12 133 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
13 117 (2.91%) Law
14 111 (2.76%) Telecoms
15 91 (2.26%) Banking
16 73 (1.81%) Games
17 71 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
18 57 (1.42%) Local Government
19 56 (1.39%) Aerospace
20 42 (1.04%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (0.97%) EDI
2 34 (0.84%) .NET
3 17 (0.42%) SOAP
4 16 (0.40%) RESTful
5 10 (0.25%) CSS
5 10 (0.25%) HTML
6 8 (0.20%) ADO
6 8 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (0.17%) Flash
7 7 (0.17%) JSON
8 5 (0.12%) React Native
9 3 (0.074%) FHIR
9 3 (0.074%) Node.js
9 3 (0.074%) React
9 3 (0.074%) REST
10 2 (0.050%) Express.js
10 2 (0.050%) MERN Stack
10 2 (0.050%) Web Services
10 2 (0.050%) XML
11 1 (0.025%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 224 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 159 (3.95%) Driving Licence
3 97 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 90 (2.23%) Renewable Energy
5 88 (2.19%) PMI
6 82 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 71 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 64 (1.59%) FMCG
8 64 (1.59%) NHS
9 45 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 24 (0.60%) Robotics
11 21 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (0.50%) Freedom of Information
12 20 (0.50%) Product Ownership
13 18 (0.45%) Digital Signage
13 18 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.45%) Life Science
13 18 (0.45%) Public Cloud
13 18 (0.45%) Social Media
14 17 (0.42%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (0.99%) Windows
2 23 (0.57%) Android
3 16 (0.40%) Linux
4 13 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.27%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.099%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,613 (64.89%) Project Management
2 1,268 (31.49%) Agile
3 1,124 (27.91%) Project Delivery
4 857 (21.28%) PRINCE2
5 593 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 480 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
7 408 (10.13%) Risk Management
8 358 (8.89%) Waterfall
9 353 (8.77%) Change Management
10 308 (7.65%) Budget Management
11 281 (6.98%) Decision-Making
12 273 (6.78%) SDLC
13 258 (6.41%) Agile Project Management
14 247 (6.13%) Project Planning
15 242 (6.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 233 (5.79%) Business Case
17 221 (5.49%) Mentoring
18 208 (5.17%) Actionable Insight
18 208 (5.17%) Presales
19 205 (5.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (0.60%) JavaScript
2 20 (0.50%) SQL
3 13 (0.32%) C#
4 10 (0.25%) Python
5 8 (0.20%) Java
6 4 (0.099%) PHP
7 2 (0.050%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.025%) Ada
8 1 (0.025%) C
8 1 (0.025%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.025%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.025%) Scala
8 1 (0.025%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.025%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 743 (18.45%) Degree
2 294 (7.30%) Security Cleared
3 272 (6.75%) PMI Certification
4 256 (6.36%) PMP
5 192 (4.77%) SC Cleared
6 155 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 146 (3.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 95 (2.36%) HNC
9 49 (1.22%) HND
10 46 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 43 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 42 (1.04%) APMP
13 27 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 22 (0.55%) NVQ Level 3
15 17 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (0.32%) ACCA
16 13 (0.32%) CAPM
17 12 (0.30%) CIMA
18 11 (0.27%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (5.71%) PMO
2 143 (3.55%) QA
3 45 (1.12%) GDPR
4 37 (0.92%) NEBOSH
5 36 (0.89%) ISO 9001
6 23 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
8 14 (0.35%) SLA
9 13 (0.32%) GMP
10 11 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.22%) COSHH
12 8 (0.20%) GxP
13 7 (0.17%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.17%) ISO 9000
14 6 (0.15%) GAMP
14 6 (0.15%) GLP
15 5 (0.12%) ISO 13485
15 5 (0.12%) ISO 14001
16 4 (0.099%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 29 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 19 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
3 19 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.30%) Firmware
5 3 (0.074%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.025%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (0.40%) WSUS
2 15 (0.37%) SCOM
3 4 (0.099%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.050%) SmoothWall
5 1 (0.025%) FTK
5 1 (0.025%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 415 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 86 (2.14%) SAP
3 64 (1.59%) Salesforce
4 41 (1.02%) Google
4 41 (1.02%) Oracle
5 40 (0.99%) Cisco
6 31 (0.77%) IFS
7 28 (0.70%) VMware
8 27 (0.67%) Adobe
9 26 (0.65%) NEC
10 25 (0.62%) Progress
11 19 (0.47%) Workday
12 17 (0.42%) Sage
13 16 (0.40%) BT
13 16 (0.40%) Ruckus Wireless
14 15 (0.37%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.30%) Northgate
16 11 (0.27%) Civica
17 10 (0.25%) Apple
17 10 (0.25%) Sitecore