Project Management Job Trends

Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -36 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,441 3,567 7,604
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.66% 8.06% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 8.70% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,433 1,706 5,419
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,600 £43,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £84,393
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Project Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project 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 Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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 -36 2,115 £55,000 -8.33% 1,016
UK excluding London -38 1,597 £52,500 -4.55% 835
Work from Home -9 960 £55,000 -4.35% 413
London -28 676 £70,000 -1.41% 327
North of England -20 477 £55,000 +0.38% 202
South East -24 398 £50,000 -11.73% 250
Midlands -49 235 £55,000 +4.76% 133
North West +18 224 £55,000 +8.04% 96
South West -47 174 £47,500 -20.83% 83
West Midlands -44 153 £55,000 - 76
Yorkshire -41 151 £60,000 +9.09% 82
East of England -38 134 £69,500 +31.13% 106
North East -25 102 £60,000 +5.26% 27
East Midlands -35 81 £55,000 +29.41% 57
Northern Ireland -7 73 £47,500 -11.63% 25
Scotland -43 70 £40,000 -20.71% 40
Wales -55 40 £42,934 -30.19% 18

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 89 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.05%) Confluence
3 39 (1.60%) CMS
4 33 (1.35%) WordPress
5 20 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.16%) Moodle
8 3 (0.12%) govService
8 3 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.082%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.082%) Drupal
9 2 (0.082%) Totara
9 2 (0.082%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.082%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.082%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.041%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 256 (10.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 204 (8.36%) Microsoft Project
3 167 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
4 60 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 19 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.57%) Trello
8 8 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.29%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.20%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) Blender
11 3 (0.12%) Maya
12 2 (0.082%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.041%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 17 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 15 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
7 9 (0.37%) Shopify
8 8 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.29%) Fidessa
9 7 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.29%) Primavera
10 6 (0.25%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.20%) SAP PM
12 4 (0.16%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 245 (10.04%) Azure
2 218 (8.93%) Power Platform
3 146 (5.98%) SaaS
4 130 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (4.18%) AWS
6 78 (3.20%) PowerApps
7 57 (2.34%) Power Automate
8 39 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
9 35 (1.43%) GCP
10 33 (1.35%) Smartsheet
11 31 (1.27%) Asana
11 31 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (1.23%) Entra ID
12 30 (1.23%) OneDrive
13 25 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (1.02%) Canva
14 23 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
15 21 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 21 (0.86%) Google Analytics
16 19 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.68%) Broadband
2 33 (1.35%) Firewall
3 31 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
4 24 (0.98%) WAN
5 23 (0.94%) CHAP
6 18 (0.74%) LAN
7 16 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
8 14 (0.57%) DNS
9 12 (0.49%) DHCP
9 12 (0.49%) Network Security
10 11 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 10 (0.41%) Multicast
12 8 (0.33%) Wireless
13 7 (0.29%) Internet
13 7 (0.29%) VoIP
14 6 (0.25%) Intranet
14 6 (0.25%) VPN
15 5 (0.20%) DMVPN
15 5 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (7.21%) Power BI
2 113 (4.63%) Tableau
3 92 (3.77%) Data Mining
4 33 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.15%) GIS
6 21 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.82%) QGIS
7 20 (0.82%) Spatial Data
8 19 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.41%) Db2
10 10 (0.41%) Power Query
11 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.29%) Relational Database
14 5 (0.20%) Big Data
14 5 (0.20%) Metadata
15 4 (0.16%) DB2 UDB
15 4 (0.16%) Qlik Sense
15 4 (0.16%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 138 (5.65%) JIRA
2 24 (0.98%) Git
3 11 (0.45%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.20%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.20%) JUnit
6 4 (0.16%) GitLab
7 3 (0.12%) Selenium
7 3 (0.12%) Storybook
7 3 (0.12%) TestNG
8 2 (0.082%) Checkstyle
8 2 (0.082%) ESLint
8 2 (0.082%) Gradle
8 2 (0.082%) JMeter
8 2 (0.082%) Maven
8 2 (0.082%) Mockito
8 2 (0.082%) Postman
8 2 (0.082%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.082%) Yeoman
8 2 (0.082%) Zephyr
General
1 1,019 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 852 (34.90%) Finance
3 489 (20.03%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (10.90%) Marketing
5 218 (8.93%) Organisational Skills
6 153 (6.27%) Retail
7 150 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 148 (6.06%) Manufacturing
9 143 (5.86%) Legal
10 124 (5.08%) Public Sector
11 107 (4.38%) Law
12 102 (4.18%) Banking
13 78 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
14 65 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 62 (2.54%) Local Government
16 59 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
17 50 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
18 47 (1.93%) Financial Institution
19 46 (1.88%) Advertising
20 44 (1.80%) Games
Job Titles
1 498 (20.40%) Project Manager
2 351 (14.38%) Senior
3 324 (13.27%) Analyst
4 202 (8.28%) Senior Manager
5 185 (7.58%) Lead
6 173 (7.09%) IT Manager
7 159 (6.51%) Business Analyst
8 158 (6.47%) Senior Project Manager
9 133 (5.45%) Consultant
10 122 (5.00%) Development Manager
10 122 (5.00%) Trainee
10 122 (5.00%) Trainee Analyst
11 96 (3.93%) IT Project Manager
12 93 (3.81%) Data Analyst
13 88 (3.61%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 76 (3.11%) Product Manager
15 68 (2.79%) Architect
16 61 (2.50%) IT Support
17 58 (2.38%) Systems Manager
18 56 (2.29%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (1.84%) .NET
2 41 (1.68%) HTML
2 41 (1.68%) PyTorch
3 38 (1.56%) CSS
4 24 (0.98%) HTML5 Canvas
4 24 (0.98%) JSON
5 22 (0.90%) EDI
6 21 (0.86%) .NET Core
6 21 (0.86%) Hugging Face
6 21 (0.86%) TensorFlow
7 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (0.78%) SPFx
8 9 (0.37%) Flash
8 9 (0.37%) LangChain
8 9 (0.37%) LlamaIndex
8 9 (0.37%) Model Context Protocol
9 8 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (0.29%) Matplotlib
10 7 (0.29%) OAuth
10 7 (0.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 183 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 111 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 85 (3.48%) Data Centre
4 80 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 78 (3.20%) Driving Licence
6 66 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 56 (2.29%) FMCG
8 53 (2.17%) Social Media
9 46 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 45 (1.84%) Virtual Team
11 34 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 32 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 30 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 30 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
14 28 (1.15%) Cloud Native
15 27 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 25 (1.02%) PMI
17 24 (0.98%) Low-Code
18 23 (0.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 74 (3.03%) Windows
2 28 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 27 (1.11%) Linux
4 23 (0.94%) Android
5 16 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.37%) Unix
7 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.12%) AIX
8 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.082%) zOS
10 1 (0.041%) CentOS
10 1 (0.041%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.041%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (29.25%) Agile
2 597 (24.46%) Project Delivery
3 548 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
4 498 (20.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 465 (19.05%) PRINCE2
6 410 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 352 (14.42%) Decision-Making
8 327 (13.40%) Analytics
9 261 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 251 (10.28%) AI
11 249 (10.20%) Business Analysis
12 248 (10.16%) Roadmaps
13 245 (10.04%) Coaching
14 243 (9.95%) Change Management
14 243 (9.95%) Mentoring
15 235 (9.63%) Risk Management
16 204 (8.36%) Budget Management
17 201 (8.23%) Logistics
18 200 (8.19%) Data Analysis
19 198 (8.11%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 235 (9.63%) SQL
2 232 (9.50%) Python
3 47 (1.93%) C#
4 44 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 31 (1.27%) TypeScript
6 27 (1.11%) VBA
7 15 (0.61%) Java
8 7 (0.29%) C
8 7 (0.29%) C++
9 6 (0.25%) Bash
10 5 (0.20%) PHP
11 4 (0.16%) Assembly Language
11 4 (0.16%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.12%) COBOL
12 3 (0.12%) Dart
12 3 (0.12%) R
13 2 (0.082%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.082%) Scala
Qualifications
1 615 (25.19%) Degree
2 229 (9.38%) PMP
3 224 (9.18%) PMI Certification
4 117 (4.79%) DBS Check
5 106 (4.34%) Security Cleared
6 92 (3.77%) CISSP
7 89 (3.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 63 (2.58%) CISM
9 61 (2.50%) SC Cleared
10 59 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 40 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 35 (1.43%) DV Cleared
13 31 (1.27%) CISA
14 28 (1.15%) CRISC
14 28 (1.15%) SANS
15 26 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (1.02%) HNC
17 24 (0.98%) FFIEC
18 23 (0.94%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (7.05%) QA
2 150 (6.15%) PMO
3 107 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 98 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 94 (3.85%) NIST
6 88 (3.61%) GDPR
7 42 (1.72%) GRC
8 39 (1.60%) ISO 9001
9 31 (1.27%) Data Quality
10 30 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 27 (1.11%) COBIT
12 23 (0.94%) NIST 800
12 23 (0.94%) SLA
13 22 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 15 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 12 (0.49%) ISO 14001
16 11 (0.45%) GAAP
17 10 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
17 10 (0.41%) IFRS
18 9 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 47 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 18 (0.74%) Docker
3 7 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.12%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.082%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.082%) Firmware
6 2 (0.082%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.041%) IAG
7 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (0.90%) SCCM
2 20 (0.82%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.53%) Ansible
5 11 (0.45%) Grafana
6 10 (0.41%) Terraform
7 4 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.16%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.082%) Argo
9 2 (0.082%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.082%) Puppet
9 2 (0.082%) Salt
10 1 (0.041%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.041%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.041%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.041%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.041%) MOM
10 1 (0.041%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 502 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 94 (3.85%) SAP
3 88 (3.61%) Oracle
4 64 (2.62%) Adobe
5 61 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 60 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 55 (2.25%) Google
8 27 (1.11%) HubSpot
9 20 (0.82%) Pardot
10 15 (0.61%) Cisco
11 14 (0.57%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.53%) Anaplan
12 13 (0.53%) Apple
12 13 (0.53%) SonicWALL
13 12 (0.49%) Instagram
14 11 (0.45%) Bloomberg
14 11 (0.45%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.45%) JD Edwards
14 11 (0.45%) Reuters
14 11 (0.45%) Wrike