Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,927 7,620 12,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.99% 7.64% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.35% 7.99% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,416 4,408 6,675
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £47,199 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.60% +0.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,607 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +8 7,026 £52,500 -11.76% 2,933
UK excluding London +3 5,751 £50,000 -9.09% 2,117
Work from Home +15 2,981 £55,000 -0.90% 1,328
London +17 1,783 £65,000 -3.70% 911
North of England +14 1,470 £50,000 -9.09% 512
South East +1 1,363 £47,500 -13.64% 527
Midlands +2 1,141 £51,997 -5.46% 427
North West +18 823 £50,000 -9.09% 319
South West +10 750 £49,000 -10.91% 285
West Midlands +2 635 £55,000 - 281
Yorkshire +21 491 £51,000 -7.27% 143
East Midlands +2 466 £47,500 -13.64% 145
East of England +12 441 £50,000 -9.09% 236
Scotland -19 359 £50,000 -9.09% 150
Wales +5 161 £42,500 -22.56% 56
North East +6 156 £52,500 -4.55% 58
Northern Ireland +47 67 £42,500 -10.53% 23
Isle of Man - 8 £37,500 - 3

Project 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
1 366 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 152 (1.92%) Confluence
3 132 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 105 (1.32%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 51 (0.64%) IIS
7 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 41 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 39 (0.49%) WordPress
10 35 (0.44%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
16 9 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
17 7 (0.088%) Joomla!
17 7 (0.088%) MS Project Server
18 6 (0.076%) IBM Notes
18 6 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 550 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 508 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 352 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
4 250 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 86 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 49 (0.62%) Trello
8 44 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 17 (0.21%) SPSS
11 13 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
12 12 (0.15%) InDesign
13 10 (0.13%) Simulink
14 9 (0.11%) Sketch
15 6 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
16 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
17 4 (0.050%) InVision
Business Applications
1 71 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 46 (0.58%) Primavera
5 40 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 31 (0.39%) Shopify
7 28 (0.35%) Magento
7 28 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
8 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 19 (0.24%) NEC Housing
10 16 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
11 15 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 15 (0.19%) SAP HR
12 13 (0.16%) SAP EWM
12 13 (0.16%) SAP SCM
13 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
13 12 (0.15%) SAP ERP
13 12 (0.15%) SAP MM
14 10 (0.13%) BPCS
14 10 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 955 (12.05%) Azure
2 564 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
3 554 (6.99%) AWS
4 427 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 363 (4.58%) SaaS
6 275 (3.47%) GCP
7 206 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 124 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
10 86 (1.08%) Entra ID
11 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 76 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 67 (0.85%) Power Automate
14 54 (0.68%) PaaS
15 53 (0.67%) IaaS
16 48 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
17 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (0.45%) Smartsheet
19 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
20 33 (0.42%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 266 (3.36%) Firewall
2 180 (2.27%) WAN
3 153 (1.93%) DNS
4 133 (1.68%) VPN
5 111 (1.40%) Intranet
6 110 (1.39%) LAN
7 106 (1.34%) Internet
8 96 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
9 91 (1.15%) Network Security
10 86 (1.08%) DHCP
11 85 (1.07%) TCP/IP
12 70 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 68 (0.86%) SSL
14 66 (0.83%) SAN
15 62 (0.78%) IPsec
16 61 (0.77%) SNMP
16 61 (0.77%) Wireless
17 54 (0.68%) BGP
18 52 (0.66%) 5G
19 46 (0.58%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (4.20%) Power BI
2 174 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 173 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 121 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 100 (1.26%) MySQL
5 100 (1.26%) Tableau
6 83 (1.05%) BigQuery
7 82 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 79 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 74 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 73 (0.92%) Big Data
11 72 (0.91%) Looker
12 71 (0.90%) MongoDB
13 52 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 47 (0.59%) NoSQL
15 44 (0.56%) Data Lake
16 42 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
17 40 (0.50%) Data Mining
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
18 34 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 408 (5.15%) JIRA
2 94 (1.19%) Git
3 78 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 29 (0.37%) Postman
6 24 (0.30%) GitLab
7 21 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 14 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.13%) Selenium
11 10 (0.13%) Subversion
12 9 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.10%) JUnit
14 7 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.063%) gulp
16 4 (0.050%) InstallShield
16 4 (0.050%) MSI
16 4 (0.050%) Zephyr
General
1 3,396 (42.84%) Social Skills
2 1,955 (24.66%) Finance
3 1,287 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 681 (8.59%) Marketing
5 518 (6.53%) Presentation Skills
6 504 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 490 (6.18%) Retail
8 438 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
9 434 (5.47%) Manufacturing
10 399 (5.03%) Public Sector
11 377 (4.76%) Legal
12 266 (3.36%) Law
13 235 (2.96%) Telecoms
14 198 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
15 160 (2.02%) Banking
16 157 (1.98%) Aerospace
17 140 (1.77%) Billing
18 120 (1.51%) Local Government
19 115 (1.45%) Games
20 106 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,617 (33.01%) Project Manager
2 996 (12.56%) Senior
3 667 (8.41%) Lead
4 560 (7.06%) Analyst
5 559 (7.05%) IT Manager
6 544 (6.86%) Senior Manager
7 395 (4.98%) Architect
8 385 (4.86%) Consultant
9 380 (4.79%) Senior Project Manager
10 302 (3.81%) IT Project Manager
11 220 (2.78%) Developer
12 216 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 206 (2.60%) Digital Project Manager
14 179 (2.26%) Business Analyst
15 162 (2.04%) Technical Manager
16 159 (2.01%) Coordinator
16 159 (2.01%) Presales Manager
17 151 (1.90%) Engineering Manager
18 141 (1.78%) Solutions Architect
19 134 (1.69%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (2.33%) .NET
2 131 (1.65%) HTML
3 113 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 111 (1.40%) CSS
5 87 (1.10%) EDI
6 81 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 75 (0.95%) React
8 60 (0.76%) YAML
9 59 (0.74%) JSON
10 56 (0.71%) XML
11 49 (0.62%) Spring
12 48 (0.61%) Web Services
13 47 (0.59%) RESTful
14 43 (0.54%) SOAP
15 40 (0.50%) Kafka
16 39 (0.49%) AngularJS
17 36 (0.45%) ASP.NET
18 35 (0.44%) jQuery
18 35 (0.44%) Laravel
19 33 (0.42%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 642 (8.10%) Management Information System
2 485 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 288 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 249 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 248 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 207 (2.61%) PMI
7 199 (2.51%) Driving Licence
8 170 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 114 (1.44%) NHS
10 112 (1.41%) Social Media
11 103 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 94 (1.19%) PKI
12 94 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
12 94 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 89 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 88 (1.11%) FMCG
15 76 (0.96%) IoT
16 69 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
17 57 (0.72%) Algorithms
18 51 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 461 (5.82%) Windows
2 329 (4.15%) Linux
3 172 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 86 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 60 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 57 (0.72%) Android
7 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
8 50 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 46 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 35 (0.44%) Unix
12 30 (0.38%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.21%) VMS
13 17 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
14 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.10%) AIX
16 8 (0.10%) Solaris
17 7 (0.088%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,493 (31.45%) Agile
2 1,791 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
3 1,679 (21.18%) Project Delivery
4 1,136 (14.33%) PRINCE2
5 917 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 845 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 840 (10.60%) Mentoring
8 750 (9.46%) Change Management
9 746 (9.41%) Decision-Making
10 658 (8.30%) Risk Management
11 631 (7.96%) Actionable Insight
12 579 (7.30%) Coaching
13 537 (6.77%) Customer Service
14 533 (6.72%) ITIL
14 533 (6.72%) Scrum
15 524 (6.61%) Collaborative Working
16 523 (6.60%) SDLC
17 508 (6.41%) Roadmaps
18 497 (6.27%) Agile Project Management
19 476 (6.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 512 (6.46%) SQL
2 314 (3.96%) Python
3 196 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 171 (2.16%) C#
5 162 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 143 (1.80%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 81 (1.02%) C
9 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 60 (0.76%) C++
11 50 (0.63%) R
12 48 (0.61%) Bash
13 43 (0.54%) TypeScript
14 40 (0.50%) VB
15 29 (0.37%) VBA
16 24 (0.30%) Perl
17 20 (0.25%) Scala
18 19 (0.24%) MATLAB
19 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
20 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,025 (25.55%) Degree
2 712 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 470 (5.93%) PMI Certification
4 421 (5.31%) SC Cleared
5 389 (4.91%) PMP
6 190 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 167 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 167 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 142 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 142 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 120 (1.51%) APMP
9 120 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 119 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 99 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 95 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 83 (1.05%) HNC
14 75 (0.95%) CCNA
15 74 (0.93%) DV Cleared
16 70 (0.88%) HND
17 61 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 565 (7.13%) PMO
2 486 (6.13%) QA
3 169 (2.13%) GDPR
4 158 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 93 (1.17%) SLA
6 86 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 82 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 76 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 60 (0.76%) NIST
10 39 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.40%) NCSC
12 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
13 26 (0.33%) GRC
14 23 (0.29%) ITGC
15 21 (0.26%) GMP
15 21 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 21 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.23%) IFRS
18 16 (0.20%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 292 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 216 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 122 (1.54%) Docker
5 61 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 41 (0.52%) Firmware
7 38 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.24%) vSphere
9 16 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.063%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.050%) pfSense
12 4 (0.050%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.038%) NFS
13 3 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 2 (0.025%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.013%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.013%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 139 (1.75%) Ansible
2 122 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 78 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 73 (0.92%) Terraform
4 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 46 (0.58%) SCCM
7 38 (0.48%) WSUS
8 27 (0.34%) ZABBIX
9 24 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (0.25%) SCOM
11 18 (0.23%) Puppet
12 15 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
13 14 (0.18%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.15%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.15%) VxRail
15 9 (0.11%) Nessus
16 8 (0.10%) PaperCut
17 7 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,508 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 322 (4.06%) Google
3 304 (3.83%) SAP
4 278 (3.51%) VMware
5 236 (2.98%) Oracle
6 181 (2.28%) Cisco
7 144 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 108 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 76 (0.96%) IFS
10 75 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 73 (0.92%) Adobe
11 73 (0.92%) Dell
12 72 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 68 (0.86%) NetApp
14 64 (0.81%) IBM
15 59 (0.74%) NEC
15 59 (0.74%) Sage
16 54 (0.68%) HP
16 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
17 49 (0.62%) Sparx