Portfolio Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Portfolio Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 468 617
Rank change year-on-year -76 +149 -63
Permanent jobs citing Portfolio Management 385 684 721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.65% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.68% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 313 487 530
10th Percentile £41,000 £46,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,080 £67,479 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% -20.61% +9.68%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £113,500 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% +7.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Portfolio 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 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Portfolio Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Portfolio Management in the UK

Portfolio Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Portfolio Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 -46 352 £65,000 -5.02% 166
UK excluding London -15 210 £55,000 -8.33% 55
Work from Home +39 191 £61,500 -1.60% 56
London -56 152 £85,000 +13.33% 112
North of England +40 68 £62,500 +7.75% 11
South East +14 58 £57,500 -8.00% 22
Midlands +3 38 £48,687 -19.70% 5
West Midlands +17 30 £54,087 -20.97%
North West -3 27 £62,500 +8.70% 6
Yorkshire +88 26 £54,540 -7.96% 4
South West -9 26 £44,868 -33.03% 3
North East +13 15 £64,080 +28.16% 1
Scotland -65 12 £41,000 -36.92% 3
East Midlands -18 8 £48,687 -18.86% 5
East of England +21 5 £60,000 -31.43% 12
Wales 0 3 £51,997 -9.57%

Portfolio 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 11 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.56%) Confluence
3 5 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Appian
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
Applications
1 20 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (3.12%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (5.19%) Aladdin
2 7 (1.82%) thinkFolio
3 2 (0.52%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 30 (7.79%) AWS
2 15 (3.90%) Azure
3 10 (2.60%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.30%) SaaS
5 4 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.78%) GCP
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.52%) dbt
7 2 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.52%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.26%) GitHub
8 1 (0.26%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.26%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.26%) IaaS
8 1 (0.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) DHCP
1 1 (0.26%) DNS
1 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 17 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (2.86%) Big Data
4 10 (2.60%) Hadoop
4 10 (2.60%) Power BI
5 8 (2.08%) Apache Hive
5 8 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.82%) HBase
6 7 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 5 (1.30%) SAP BW
7 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.52%) Apache Arrow
9 2 (0.52%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (0.52%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 9 (2.34%) Git
2 7 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
2 7 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 159 (41.30%) Finance
2 106 (27.53%) Social Skills
3 49 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.61%) Front Office
5 28 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (7.01%) Marketing
7 20 (5.19%) Banking
7 20 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 20 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 19 (4.94%) Law
9 18 (4.68%) Legal
10 15 (3.90%) Back Office
10 15 (3.90%) Manufacturing
11 12 (3.12%) Billing
12 8 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.82%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.82%) Retail
14 3 (0.78%) Advertising
14 3 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (25.45%) Portfolio Manager
2 87 (22.60%) Analyst
3 72 (18.70%) Senior
4 44 (11.43%) Senior Manager
5 39 (10.13%) Lead
6 32 (8.31%) Business Analyst
7 31 (8.05%) Senior Portfolio Manager
8 29 (7.53%) PMO Analyst
9 24 (6.23%) Developer
10 19 (4.94%) Project Manager
10 19 (4.94%) Technical Analyst
11 16 (4.16%) Consultant
11 16 (4.16%) Financial Analyst
12 15 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
12 15 (3.90%) Finance Business Analyst
12 15 (3.90%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
12 15 (3.90%) Systems Analyst
13 14 (3.64%) Data Manager
13 14 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.12%) Charles River Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.82%) AngularJS
2 6 (1.56%) .NET
2 6 (1.56%) CSS
2 6 (1.56%) HTML
3 5 (1.30%) Angular 2
3 5 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (1.04%) EDI
4 4 (1.04%) Kafka
4 4 (1.04%) React
5 3 (0.78%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.78%) Pandas
5 3 (0.78%) PySpark
6 2 (0.52%) jQuery
6 2 (0.52%) Middleware
6 2 (0.52%) XML
6 2 (0.52%) XSLT
7 1 (0.26%) ADO
7 1 (0.26%) HTML5
7 1 (0.26%) NumPy
7 1 (0.26%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.10%) PMI
2 54 (14.03%) Hedge funds
3 51 (13.25%) Management Information System
4 45 (11.69%) Product Ownership
5 37 (9.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 36 (9.35%) Fixed Income
7 32 (8.31%) Equities
8 21 (5.45%) Derivative
8 21 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.08%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.82%) IoT
11 7 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.04%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.78%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.82%) Unix
2 5 (1.30%) Linux
2 5 (1.30%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Vista
3 1 (0.26%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (43.38%) Project Management
2 118 (30.65%) Coaching
3 117 (30.39%) Agile
4 114 (29.61%) PRINCE2
5 111 (28.83%) Project Delivery
6 104 (27.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 93 (24.16%) Mentoring
8 85 (22.08%) Roadmaps
9 69 (17.92%) Decision-Making
10 68 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 66 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (12.47%) Risk Management
13 44 (11.43%) Asset Management
14 43 (11.17%) Business Case
15 41 (10.65%) Investment Management
16 40 (10.39%) Business Strategy
17 39 (10.13%) Line Management
18 35 (9.09%) Change Management
19 33 (8.57%) Analytics
19 33 (8.57%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 60 (15.58%) SQL
2 44 (11.43%) Python
3 12 (3.12%) C#
4 11 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.08%) Java
6 7 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.56%) VBA
8 5 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Bash
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 63 (16.36%) PMI Certification
2 62 (16.10%) APMP
2 62 (16.10%) Degree
3 31 (8.05%) PMP
4 28 (7.27%) CAPM
4 28 (7.27%) PgMP
5 17 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.52%) APMG
8 2 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.52%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (17.14%) PMO
2 22 (5.71%) QA
3 8 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.82%) SOC 1
5 6 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.78%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.26%) P3O
8 1 (0.26%) PMBOK
System Software
1 7 (1.82%) HDFS
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.08%) Terraform
2 4 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (5.45%) Charles River
1 21 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.19%) Bloomberg
3 13 (3.38%) BISAM
4 11 (2.86%) Databricks
5 9 (2.34%) SAP
6 7 (1.82%) CheckPoint
6 7 (1.82%) Cloudera
6 7 (1.82%) Informatica
7 6 (1.56%) Oracle
8 5 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.04%) eFront
10 3 (0.78%) Google
11 2 (0.52%) Advent
11 2 (0.52%) Apple
11 2 (0.52%) Calypso
11 2 (0.52%) FactSet
12 1 (0.26%) Reuters
12 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.26%) Sun