The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Project Management skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Project Management over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Management
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank191614
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Down-2
Matching permanent IT job ads10451122049459
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.667 %9.953 %9.907 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category11.75 %13.67 %13.99 %
Number of salaries quoted863098217555
Average salary£50,000£50,000£50,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,500£32,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£77,500£80,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
889158928967609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.73 %72.82 %70.81 %
Number of salaries quoted755227477355328
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

Project Management
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Project Management Demand Trend

Project Management
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK.

Project Management Salary Trend

Project Management
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Project Management over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Project Management Salary Histogram

Project Management
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-29772£50,000-
LondonDown-54794£57,500-
South EastDown-12137£47,500-
City of LondonDown-11192£60,000-4.00 %
East of EnglandDown-13589£45,000-
North WestDown-7572£40,000-
SurreyUp+2549£50,000+11.11 %
YorkshireNo change0458£41,000+2.50 %
BerkshireDown-4418£52,500-4.54 %
South WestDown-4403£45,000+7.46 %
West MidlandsDown-3377£40,000-11.11 %
HampshireUp+2349£45,000+7.14 %
ScotlandUp+1333£45,000+5.88 %
ManchesterDown-6315£40,000-
West YorkshireDown-3279£41,000+2.50 %
East MidlandsDown-3252£45,000+10.57 %
West SussexDown-1201£45,000-10.00 %
HertfordshireDown-14189£49,750+8.15 %
BuckinghamshireNo change0181£47,500+18.75 %
LeedsDown-1175£40,000+7.38 %
EdinburghUp+1160£45,000-6.25 %
CheshireDown-2157£35,000-17.64 %
CambridgeshireDown-19151£43,750+1.74 %
ReadingUp+2142£50,000-
BirminghamUp+10132£40,000-5.88 %
OxfordshireDown-6118£42,500-5.55 %
SouthamptonDown-4114£42,500-5.55 %
South YorkshireUp+8111£43,750+16.66 %
Milton KeynesUp+5109£50,000+23.64 %
GloucestershireDown-9107£45,000+5.88 %

Project Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Project Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Project Management.

16486 (31.51 %)Finance
24989 (24.24 %)PRINCE2
33359 (16.32 %)Degree
43009 (14.62 %)Microsoft
52565 (12.46 %)SQL
62186 (10.62 %).NET
72137 (10.38 %)MS Excel
82033 (9.878 %)Java
92025 (9.839 %)Oracle
101985 (9.644 %)Agile Software Development
111959 (9.518 %)Business Analysis
121876 (9.115 %)Windows
131857 (9.022 %)ITIL
141827 (8.877 %)SQL Server
151826 (8.872 %)Stakeholder Management
161745 (8.478 %)Banking
171632 (7.929 %)Scrum
181537 (7.468 %)E-Commerce
191439 (6.992 %)Change Management
201422 (6.909 %)Retail
211421 (6.904 %)C#
221339 (6.506 %)Marketing
231300 (6.316 %)SAP
241245 (6.049 %)QA
251214 (5.898 %)MS Project
261191 (5.787 %)PMI Certification
271168 (5.675 %)Risk Management
281145 (5.563 %)Service Delivery
291132 (5.500 %)Business Intelligence
301123 (5.456 %)HTML

Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Project Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12186 (10.62 %).NET
21123 (5.456 %)HTML
31028 (4.995 %)XML
4958 (4.655 %)CSS
5871 (4.232 %)ASP.NET
6744 (3.615 %)J2EE
7538 (2.614 %)Web Services
8393 (1.909 %)jQuery
9361 (1.754 %)Ajax
10313 (1.521 %)Spring
11267 (1.297 %)Hibernate
12251 (1.220 %)Middleware
13226 (1.098 %)WCF
14217 (1.054 %)XHTML
15208 (1.011 %)Flash
16206 (1.001 %)WebSphere
17198 (0.962 %)JSP
18189 (0.918 %)SOAP
19182 (0.884 %)XSLT
19182 (0.884 %)ASP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1937 (4.553 %)SharePoint
2395 (1.919 %)MS Exchange
3383 (1.861 %)Apache
4356 (1.730 %)CMS
5324 (1.574 %)IIS
6165 (0.802 %)Exchange Server 2010
7149 (0.724 %)Tomcat
8131 (0.636 %)SharePoint 2010
9128 (0.622 %)SAS
10118 (0.573 %)Exchange Server 2003
11109 (0.530 %)SharePoint Server
12105 (0.510 %)Drupal
13100 (0.486 %)WebLogic
1495 (0.462 %)Exchange Server 2007
1570 (0.340 %)Office Project Server
1668 (0.330 %)ESB
1668 (0.330 %)BizTalk Server
1765 (0.316 %)MQSeries
1765 (0.316 %)ActiveMQ
1853 (0.258 %)WordPress
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12137 (10.38 %)MS Excel
21214 (5.898 %)MS Project
31088 (5.286 %)MS Office
4913 (4.436 %)MS Visio
5459 (2.230 %)MS PowerPoint
6149 (0.724 %)Photoshop
768 (0.330 %)Spreadsheet
859 (0.287 %)Adobe Illustrator
949 (0.238 %)MATLAB
1045 (0.219 %)Google Apps
1131 (0.151 %)Office 365
1229 (0.141 %)Fireworks
1323 (0.112 %)InfoPath
1421 (0.102 %)SPSS
1520 (0.097 %)Acrobat
1614 (0.068 %)PowerPivot
1711 (0.053 %)InDesign
189 (0.044 %)Mingle
196 (0.029 %)CATIA
205 (0.024 %)FastStats
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1279 (1.356 %)Oracle EBS
2199 (0.967 %)Dynamics CRM
3187 (0.909 %)Oracle EBS R12
4153 (0.743 %)SAP FI
5129 (0.627 %)Dynamics AX
6126 (0.612 %)SAP FI/CO
6126 (0.612 %)SAP CO
796 (0.466 %)Dynamics NAV
884 (0.408 %)Oracle Applications
977 (0.374 %)Oracle Financials
1075 (0.364 %)SAP ERP
1171 (0.345 %)Oracle ERP
1270 (0.340 %)Google Analytics
1356 (0.272 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1455 (0.267 %)Siebel Analytics
1554 (0.262 %)SAP BPC
1649 (0.238 %)SAP R/3
1747 (0.228 %)HFM
1842 (0.204 %)SAP CRM
1842 (0.204 %)SAP HR
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1764 (3.712 %)Internet
2579 (2.813 %)WAN
3501 (2.434 %)SAN
4484 (2.352 %)LAN
5459 (2.230 %)Firewall
6282 (1.370 %)TCP/IP
7275 (1.336 %)Intranet
8232 (1.127 %)Wireless
9185 (0.899 %)DNS
10175 (0.850 %)Network Security
11167 (0.811 %)HTTP
12163 (0.792 %)VoIP
13159 (0.773 %)VPN
14135 (0.656 %)NAS
15110 (0.534 %)MPLS
1699 (0.481 %)VLAN
1791 (0.442 %)BGP
1791 (0.442 %)DHCP
1881 (0.394 %)Extranet
1881 (0.394 %)Unified Communications
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11827 (8.877 %)SQL Server
2597 (2.901 %)Data Warehouse
3533 (2.590 %)MySQL
4396 (1.924 %)SQL Server 2008
5389 (1.890 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
6372 (1.807 %)ETL
7359 (1.744 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8328 (1.594 %)SQL Server 2005
9244 (1.186 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
10193 (0.938 %)RDBMS
11165 (0.802 %)Crystal Reports
12162 (0.787 %)BusinessObjects
13146 (0.709 %)OLAP
14134 (0.651 %)Oracle Reports
14134 (0.651 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
15128 (0.622 %)Oracle BI EE
16115 (0.559 %)Oracle 10g
17110 (0.534 %)Oracle 8/8i
1892 (0.447 %)SAP BW
1987 (0.423 %)DB2
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1291 (1.414 %)Visual Studio
2232 (1.127 %)Subversion
3176 (0.855 %)Git (software)
4139 (0.675 %)JIRA
5109 (0.530 %)VSS/SourceSafe
689 (0.432 %)Team Foundation Server
783 (0.403 %)JUnit
783 (0.403 %)Eclipse
880 (0.389 %)Ant
974 (0.360 %)QuickTest Pro
974 (0.360 %)LoadRunner
1065 (0.316 %)Selenium
1160 (0.292 %)Maven
1259 (0.287 %)Dreamweaver
1348 (0.233 %)Hudson
1446 (0.223 %)ClearCase
1537 (0.180 %)TestDirector
1537 (0.180 %)FitNesse
1634 (0.165 %)NUnit
1730 (0.146 %)WinRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16486 (31.51 %)Finance
21745 (8.478 %)Banking
31422 (6.909 %)Retail
41339 (6.506 %)Marketing
51050 (5.102 %)Telecoms
6534 (2.595 %)Manufacturing
7495 (2.405 %)Investment Banking
8493 (2.395 %)Back Office
9389 (1.890 %)Legal
10356 (1.730 %)Front Office
11343 (1.667 %)Advertising
12294 (1.428 %)Publishing
13269 (1.307 %)Games
14214 (1.040 %)Law
15178 (0.865 %)Financial Institution
16172 (0.836 %)Billing
17161 (0.782 %)German Language
18159 (0.773 %)French Language
19154 (0.748 %)Pharmaceutical
20146 (0.709 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16887 (33.46 %)Project Manager
22742 (13.32 %)Analyst
31860 (9.037 %)Developer
41698 (8.250 %)Consultant
51633 (7.934 %)Business Analyst
61176 (5.714 %)Senior Manager
7906 (4.402 %)Senior Project Manager
8786 (3.819 %)Architect
9707 (3.435 %)Programme Manager
10638 (3.100 %)Technical Manager
11579 (2.813 %)Development Manager
12561 (2.726 %)IT Project Manager
13502 (2.439 %)Team Leader
14481 (2.337 %)Business Manager
15480 (2.332 %)Senior Developer
16470 (2.284 %)Technical Project Manager
17397 (1.929 %)Delivery Manager
18379 (1.841 %)Java Developer
19378 (1.837 %)Infrastructure Manager
20374 (1.817 %)Service Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1856 (4.159 %)Management Information System
2707 (3.435 %)Computer Science
3569 (2.765 %)PMI
4352 (1.710 %)Social Media
5306 (1.487 %)Derivative
6284 (1.380 %)Mathematics
7240 (1.166 %)SaaS
8177 (0.860 %)Open Source
9173 (0.841 %)Hedge funds
10170 (0.826 %)FMCG
11157 (0.763 %)Digital Media
12155 (0.753 %)Cloud Computing
13149 (0.724 %)Fixed Income
14148 (0.719 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
15132 (0.641 %)Clustering
16128 (0.622 %)Client/Server
17121 (0.588 %)Blackberry
18113 (0.549 %)Credit Risk
19112 (0.544 %)iPhone
20109 (0.530 %)Online Games
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11876 (9.115 %)Windows
2968 (4.703 %)Linux
3835 (4.057 %)UNIX
4464 (2.254 %)Windows Server 2008
5413 (2.007 %)Windows Server 2003
6222 (1.079 %)Solaris
7199 (0.967 %)Windows 7
8183 (0.889 %)Android
9157 (0.763 %)Windows XP
10137 (0.666 %)Apple iOS
11115 (0.559 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1296 (0.466 %)AIX
1359 (0.287 %)Windows Vista
1452 (0.253 %)Windows 2000 Server
1540 (0.194 %)Windows 2000
1635 (0.170 %)HPUX
1723 (0.112 %)Mac OS
1819 (0.092 %)Windows NT
1918 (0.087 %)Debian
2017 (0.083 %)Mac OS X
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14989 (24.24 %)PRINCE2
21985 (9.644 %)Agile Software Development
31959 (9.518 %)Business Analysis
41857 (9.022 %)ITIL
51826 (8.872 %)Stakeholder Management
61632 (7.929 %)Scrum
71537 (7.468 %)E-Commerce
81439 (6.992 %)Change Management
91168 (5.675 %)Risk Management
101145 (5.563 %)Service Delivery
111132 (5.500 %)Business Intelligence
121120 (5.442 %)ERP
131065 (5.174 %)CRM
14923 (4.485 %)Programme Management
15842 (4.091 %)Waterfall
16838 (4.072 %)Project Planning
17767 (3.727 %)PRINCE
18649 (3.153 %)Migration
19640 (3.110 %)Web Development
20637 (3.095 %)UML
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12565 (12.46 %)SQL
22033 (9.878 %)Java
31421 (6.904 %)C#
41076 (5.228 %)JavaScript
5690 (3.352 %)C++
6588 (2.857 %)PHP
7531 (2.580 %)C
8378 (1.837 %)Perl
9356 (1.730 %)VB
10310 (1.506 %)PL/SQL
11307 (1.492 %)VB.NET
12288 (1.399 %)T-SQL
13236 (1.147 %)Python
14175 (0.850 %)VBA
15162 (0.787 %)Shell Script
16161 (0.782 %)Ruby
17121 (0.588 %)ActionScript
1873 (0.355 %)VBScript
1968 (0.330 %)Delphi
2065 (0.316 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13359 (16.32 %)Degree
21191 (5.787 %)PMI Certification
3874 (4.246 %)PRINCE2 Certification
4833 (4.047 %)PMP
5571 (2.774 %)Security Cleared
6481 (2.337 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
7384 (1.866 %)Microsoft Certification
8383 (1.861 %)ISEB
9322 (1.564 %)Cisco Certification
10254 (1.234 %)ITIL Certification
11233 (1.132 %)SC Cleared
12218 (1.059 %)CISSP
13208 (1.011 %)MCSE
14171 (0.831 %)CCNA
15154 (0.748 %)APMP
16150 (0.729 %)CCNP
17130 (0.632 %)MBA
18127 (0.617 %)DV Cleared
19126 (0.612 %)CISA
20122 (0.593 %)CIMA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11245 (6.049 %)QA
2354 (1.720 %)SLA
3196 (0.952 %)ISO/IEC 27001
4176 (0.855 %)ISO 9001
5164 (0.797 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
6138 (0.670 %)PCI DSS
7135 (0.656 %)COBIT
7135 (0.656 %)Data Quality
871 (0.345 %)Solvency II
956 (0.272 %)Basel II
1048 (0.233 %)ISO 9000
1129 (0.141 %)Basel III
1218 (0.087 %)WCAG
1315 (0.073 %)COSO
1413 (0.063 %)ISO/IEC 17799
1510 (0.049 %)GCP
169 (0.044 %)BS7799
169 (0.044 %)TickIT
178 (0.039 %)JTAG
186 (0.029 %)HIPAA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1568 (2.760 %)Active Directory
2434 (2.109 %)VMware Infrastructure
3156 (0.758 %)Hyper-V
4138 (0.670 %)vSphere
5115 (0.559 %)VMware ESX
690 (0.437 %)XenApp
751 (0.248 %)Citrix Presentation Server
844 (0.214 %)XenDesktop
935 (0.170 %)Xen
1032 (0.155 %)Terminal Services
1032 (0.155 %)VMware ESXi
1128 (0.136 %)XenServer
1226 (0.126 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1322 (0.107 %)ISA Server
1418 (0.087 %)Oracle RMAN
1517 (0.083 %)Oracle RAC
1615 (0.073 %)Terminal Server
1615 (0.073 %)UAG
179 (0.044 %)Samba
188 (0.039 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1101 (0.491 %)HP Quality Center
278 (0.379 %)SCCM
360 (0.292 %)SCOM
455 (0.267 %)NetBackup
549 (0.238 %)OpenView
645 (0.219 %)Tivoli
741 (0.199 %)Backup Exec
832 (0.155 %)BladeLogic
930 (0.146 %)Puppet
1029 (0.141 %)Cisco CUCM
1127 (0.131 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1225 (0.121 %)Nagios
1321 (0.102 %)BMC PATROL
1321 (0.102 %)ZABBIX
1420 (0.097 %)Ionix
1519 (0.092 %)vCenter
1519 (0.092 %)Netcool
1618 (0.087 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1618 (0.087 %)MOM
1618 (0.087 %)Norton AntiVirus
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13009 (14.62 %)Microsoft
22025 (9.839 %)Oracle
31300 (6.316 %)SAP
4809 (3.931 %)Cisco
4809 (3.931 %)VMware
5514 (2.497 %)HP
6421 (2.045 %)Citrix
7362 (1.759 %)IBM
8325 (1.579 %)Business Objects
9207 (1.006 %)Siebel
10198 (0.962 %)Cognos
11187 (0.909 %)EMC
12183 (0.889 %)Google
13165 (0.802 %)Salesforce.com
14154 (0.748 %)NetApp
15141 (0.685 %)CheckPoint
16134 (0.651 %)Sun
16134 (0.651 %)Sage
17130 (0.632 %)Informatica
18127 (0.617 %)JD Edwards