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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 506 489
Rank change year-on-year +28 -17 +53
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 481 569 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.55% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 415 491 788
10th Percentile £37,159 £42,500 £41,175
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 5 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 5 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 +65 456 £54,000 -6.09% 74
UK excluding London +15 376 £52,500 -4.55% 57
Work from Home -50 160 £51,000 -7.27% 29
North of England +73 110 £48,000 -8.57% 17
London +37 91 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Midlands +28 89 £54,000 -1.82% 12
South East +16 84 £52,500 -12.50% 13
North West +48 63 £46,000 -16.36% 12
East Midlands +26 56 £54,000 -1.82% 2
East of England +22 43 £50,000 -9.09% 6
South West -20 39 £49,000 +5.95% 7
West Midlands -6 33 £55,000 -2.22% 10
Yorkshire +71 27 £48,750 +8.33% 4
North East 0 20 £52,500 +5.00% 1
Scotland -64 6 £51,500 -20.77% 3
Wales +11 4 £45,000 -0.83%
Northern Ireland +24 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 5 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.

1 315 (65.49%) Project Management
2 242 (50.31%) Agile
3 191 (39.71%) Social Skills
4 175 (36.38%) PRINCE2
5 161 (33.47%) Waterfall
6 158 (32.85%) Project Delivery
7 116 (24.12%) Finance
8 107 (22.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 80 (16.63%) Risk Management
9 80 (16.63%) Change Management
10 78 (16.22%) Degree
11 69 (14.35%) Business Case
12 65 (13.51%) PMI Certification
13 62 (12.89%) PMP
14 54 (11.23%) Microsoft
15 51 (10.60%) Self-Motivation
16 49 (10.19%) Business Change Management
17 44 (9.15%) Scrum
18 42 (8.73%) JIRA
19 39 (8.11%) PMO
20 36 (7.48%) ERP
21 35 (7.28%) Microsoft Project
21 35 (7.28%) Problem-Solving
22 34 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
23 32 (6.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
24 31 (6.44%) SDLC
25 30 (6.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
26 28 (5.82%) Cybersecurity
27 27 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
28 25 (5.20%) Business Analysis

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 (1.87%) Confluence
1 9 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.42%) CMS
4 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (7.28%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.66%) Trello
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.42%) CATIA
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 34 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (4.37%) Azure
3 16 (3.33%) SaaS
4 8 (1.66%) Power Platform
5 4 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (0.62%) Asana
6 3 (0.62%) AWS
6 3 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.62%) PaaS
6 3 (0.62%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.42%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.21%) Discord
8 1 (0.21%) GCP
8 1 (0.21%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.21%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.16%) Wi-Fi
2 14 (2.91%) Firewall
3 11 (2.29%) Intranet
4 8 (1.66%) Wireless
5 7 (1.46%) LAN
5 7 (1.46%) WAN
6 5 (1.04%) LTE
6 5 (1.04%) TETRA
7 4 (0.83%) VoIP
8 2 (0.42%) DNS
8 2 (0.42%) Extranet
8 2 (0.42%) IP Telephony
8 2 (0.42%) Network Security
8 2 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.42%) VLAN
8 2 (0.42%) WLAN
9 1 (0.21%) SAN
9 1 (0.21%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.25%) Power BI
2 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (8.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.42%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 191 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 116 (24.12%) Finance
3 25 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
3 25 (5.20%) Public Sector
4 19 (3.95%) Manufacturing
5 16 (3.33%) Banking
5 16 (3.33%) Law
5 16 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.49%) Retail
10 9 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.66%) Marketing
12 7 (1.46%) Billing
13 5 (1.04%) Electronics
13 5 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Legal
14 4 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.62%) Flash
2 2 (0.42%) ADO
2 2 (0.42%) Express.js
2 2 (0.42%) MERN Stack
2 2 (0.42%) Node.js
2 2 (0.42%) React
2 2 (0.42%) REST
2 2 (0.42%) Web Services
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.60%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (3.53%) PMI
3 12 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 8 (1.66%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.46%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.04%) NHS
6 5 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
7 4 (0.83%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.83%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.42%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.42%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.42%) FMCG
9 2 (0.42%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.42%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.21%) Life Science
10 1 (0.21%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.87%) Windows
2 5 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.83%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (65.49%) Project Management
2 242 (50.31%) Agile
3 175 (36.38%) PRINCE2
4 161 (33.47%) Waterfall
5 158 (32.85%) Project Delivery
6 107 (22.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 80 (16.63%) Change Management
7 80 (16.63%) Risk Management
8 69 (14.35%) Business Case
9 49 (10.19%) Business Change Management
10 44 (9.15%) Scrum
11 36 (7.48%) ERP
12 35 (7.28%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (6.44%) SDLC
14 28 (5.82%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (5.20%) Business Analysis
16 25 (5.20%) CRM
17 24 (4.99%) Budget Management
17 24 (4.99%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.62%) SQL
2 2 (0.42%) Python
Qualifications
1 78 (16.22%) Degree
2 65 (13.51%) PMI Certification
3 62 (12.89%) PMP
4 32 (6.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 30 (6.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 16 (3.33%) Security Cleared
7 15 (3.12%) SC Cleared
8 11 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.25%) RIBA
11 4 (0.83%) CAPM
12 2 (0.42%) CCNA
12 2 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.21%) APMP
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.11%) PMO
2 9 (1.87%) QA
3 7 (1.46%) ISO 9001
3 7 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.21%) GAMP
6 1 (0.21%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (0.83%) Hyper-V
1 4 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (0.42%) SmoothWall
2 1 (0.21%) SCCM
2 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.49%) Oracle
2 12 (2.49%) SAP
3 11 (2.29%) VMware
4 10 (2.08%) Cisco
5 8 (1.66%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.25%) Anaplan
6 6 (1.25%) Facebook
7 5 (1.04%) BT
7 5 (1.04%) CheckPoint
7 5 (1.04%) YouTube
8 4 (0.83%) Google
8 4 (0.83%) Meraki
9 3 (0.62%) Adobe
9 3 (0.62%) Apple
10 2 (0.42%) Aruba
10 2 (0.42%) CA
10 2 (0.42%) Civica
10 2 (0.42%) IFS
10 2 (0.42%) ServiceNow