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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,930 8,013 11,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.09% 7.66% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.41% 8.01% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,394 4,557 6,702
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,090 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,213 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,749 £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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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%

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 27 April 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 27 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 +7 7,015 £52,500 -8.70% 2,792
UK excluding London +4 5,734 £50,000 -9.09% 2,021
Work from Home +15 2,986 £55,000 -4.35% 1,092
London +17 1,793 £65,000 -3.70% 896
North of England +19 1,462 £50,000 -9.09% 470
South East +2 1,363 £47,500 -13.64% 508
Midlands +2 1,122 £52,124 -5.23% 388
North West +18 814 £50,000 -9.09% 286
South West +13 752 £47,500 -9.52% 288
West Midlands +1 625 £55,000 - 246
Yorkshire +20 493 £51,250 -6.62% 146
East Midlands +4 459 £47,500 -13.64% 141
East of England +15 436 £50,000 -9.09% 216
Scotland -18 365 £50,000 -9.09% 154
Wales +7 165 £42,500 -18.27% 58
North East +13 155 £52,500 - 46
Northern Ireland +54 67 £42,500 -15.00% 19
Isle of Man - 8 £37,500 -

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
1 364 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 147 (1.85%) Confluence
3 135 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 104 (1.31%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 50 (0.63%) IIS
7 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 44 (0.55%) Apache Spark
9 39 (0.49%) WordPress
10 36 (0.45%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 15 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 14 (0.18%) ArcGIS
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
1 529 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 505 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
3 352 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
4 243 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 84 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 49 (0.62%) Trello
8 44 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 15 (0.19%) SPSS
11 14 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 13 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.15%) InDesign
14 10 (0.13%) Simulink
15 9 (0.11%) Sketch
16 6 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
17 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
17 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
18 4 (0.050%) InVision
Business Applications
1 75 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 44 (0.55%) Primavera
5 40 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 31 (0.39%) Shopify
7 30 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
8 28 (0.35%) Magento
9 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 19 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 17 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
12 15 (0.19%) NEC Housing
12 15 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
12 15 (0.19%) SAP EWM
12 15 (0.19%) SAP SCM
13 14 (0.18%) SAP HR
13 14 (0.18%) SAP MM
14 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.15%) SAP FI
15 11 (0.14%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 955 (12.04%) Azure
2 561 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
3 553 (6.97%) AWS
4 424 (5.35%) Power Platform
5 361 (4.55%) SaaS
6 276 (3.48%) GCP
7 210 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 90 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
10 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 82 (1.03%) Entra ID
12 78 (0.98%) PowerApps
13 68 (0.86%) Power Automate
14 52 (0.66%) IaaS
15 51 (0.64%) PaaS
16 48 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
17 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (0.45%) Smartsheet
19 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
20 32 (0.40%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 267 (3.37%) Firewall
2 181 (2.28%) WAN
3 152 (1.92%) DNS
4 140 (1.77%) VPN
5 111 (1.40%) Intranet
6 108 (1.36%) LAN
7 104 (1.31%) Internet
8 97 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
9 90 (1.13%) DHCP
10 86 (1.08%) TCP/IP
11 85 (1.07%) Network Security
12 70 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 69 (0.87%) SSL
14 68 (0.86%) SAN
15 63 (0.79%) Wireless
16 62 (0.78%) IPsec
17 61 (0.77%) SNMP
18 53 (0.67%) 5G
18 53 (0.67%) BGP
19 47 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 326 (4.11%) Power BI
2 179 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 171 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 105 (1.32%) MySQL
6 99 (1.25%) Tableau
7 83 (1.05%) BigQuery
7 83 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 79 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 74 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (0.91%) Looker
11 71 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 69 (0.87%) Big Data
13 52 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 48 (0.61%) NoSQL
15 46 (0.58%) Data Mining
16 45 (0.57%) Data Lake
17 44 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
18 36 (0.45%) Hadoop
19 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 411 (5.18%) JIRA
2 97 (1.22%) Git
3 82 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 29 (0.37%) Postman
4 29 (0.37%) Visual Studio
5 24 (0.30%) GitLab
6 23 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 16 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.13%) Selenium
10 10 (0.13%) Subversion
11 9 (0.11%) SonarQube
12 8 (0.10%) JUnit
13 7 (0.088%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.063%) gulp
14 5 (0.063%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.050%) MSI
15 4 (0.050%) Zephyr
General
1 3,408 (42.98%) Social Skills
2 1,964 (24.77%) Finance
3 1,295 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 670 (8.45%) Marketing
5 504 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
6 484 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 476 (6.00%) Retail
8 447 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
9 428 (5.40%) Manufacturing
10 404 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 364 (4.59%) Legal
12 259 (3.27%) Law
13 239 (3.01%) Telecoms
14 192 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
15 148 (1.87%) Banking
16 147 (1.85%) Aerospace
17 138 (1.74%) Billing
18 116 (1.46%) Games
19 115 (1.45%) Local Government
20 108 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,667 (33.63%) Project Manager
2 1,004 (12.66%) Senior
3 658 (8.30%) Lead
4 583 (7.35%) IT Manager
5 552 (6.96%) Analyst
6 550 (6.94%) Senior Manager
7 404 (5.09%) Architect
8 399 (5.03%) Consultant
9 384 (4.84%) Senior Project Manager
10 316 (3.98%) IT Project Manager
11 220 (2.77%) Developer
12 215 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
13 203 (2.56%) Digital Project Manager
14 183 (2.31%) Business Analyst
14 183 (2.31%) Presales Manager
15 161 (2.03%) Engineering Manager
16 160 (2.02%) Coordinator
17 154 (1.94%) Technical Manager
18 153 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
19 137 (1.73%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (2.41%) .NET
2 132 (1.66%) HTML
3 113 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
4 110 (1.39%) CSS
5 90 (1.13%) EDI
6 79 (1.00%) Spring Boot
7 78 (0.98%) React
8 62 (0.78%) JSON
9 60 (0.76%) YAML
10 58 (0.73%) XML
11 50 (0.63%) Web Services
12 49 (0.62%) RESTful
13 48 (0.61%) SOAP
14 47 (0.59%) Spring
15 41 (0.52%) AngularJS
16 40 (0.50%) Kafka
17 37 (0.47%) ASP.NET
17 37 (0.47%) REST
18 35 (0.44%) Laravel
19 34 (0.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 632 (7.97%) Management Information System
2 483 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
3 288 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 245 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 240 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 211 (2.66%) PMI
7 202 (2.55%) Driving Licence
8 168 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 111 (1.40%) NHS
10 109 (1.37%) Social Media
11 101 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 94 (1.19%) PKI
12 94 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
13 89 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 84 (1.06%) FMCG
15 79 (1.00%) Mobile App
16 71 (0.90%) IoT
17 68 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
18 55 (0.69%) Algorithms
19 52 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 470 (5.93%) Windows
2 332 (4.19%) Linux
3 178 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 90 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 58 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
7 51 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 50 (0.63%) Android
9 48 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 42 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 37 (0.47%) Unix
12 33 (0.42%) Mac OS
13 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (0.23%) VMS
15 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
16 8 (0.10%) AIX
16 8 (0.10%) Solaris
17 7 (0.088%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,540 (32.03%) Agile
2 1,784 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1,747 (22.03%) Project Delivery
4 1,132 (14.27%) PRINCE2
5 943 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 842 (10.62%) Mentoring
7 833 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 755 (9.52%) Change Management
9 725 (9.14%) Decision-Making
10 661 (8.34%) Actionable Insight
11 644 (8.12%) Risk Management
12 567 (7.15%) Coaching
13 541 (6.82%) Customer Service
13 541 (6.82%) SDLC
14 537 (6.77%) ITIL
15 535 (6.75%) Scrum
16 525 (6.62%) Collaborative Working
17 521 (6.57%) Agile Project Management
18 513 (6.47%) Roadmaps
19 483 (6.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 514 (6.48%) SQL
2 320 (4.04%) Python
3 202 (2.55%) JavaScript
4 172 (2.17%) C#
5 160 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 136 (1.72%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 77 (0.97%) C
9 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 57 (0.72%) C++
11 52 (0.66%) R
12 49 (0.62%) Bash
13 46 (0.58%) TypeScript
14 39 (0.49%) VB
15 27 (0.34%) VBA
16 26 (0.33%) Perl
17 22 (0.28%) MATLAB
18 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.21%) Scala
19 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,017 (25.44%) Degree
2 717 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 469 (5.91%) PMI Certification
4 435 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 386 (4.87%) PMP
6 190 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 176 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 163 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 135 (1.70%) DBS Check
10 133 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 118 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 114 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 110 (1.39%) APMP
14 101 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
15 92 (1.16%) Azure Certification
16 83 (1.05%) HNC
17 75 (0.95%) CCNA
18 73 (0.92%) HND
19 70 (0.88%) DV Cleared
20 62 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 573 (7.23%) PMO
2 480 (6.05%) QA
3 163 (2.06%) GDPR
4 148 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 88 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 87 (1.10%) SLA
7 84 (1.06%) Data Quality
8 77 (0.97%) ISO 9001
9 58 (0.73%) NIST
10 32 (0.40%) NCSC
11 30 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
12 28 (0.35%) ITGC
13 26 (0.33%) GRC
14 21 (0.26%) GMP
14 21 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 20 (0.25%) IFRS
15 20 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 19 (0.24%) PCI DSS
17 15 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 294 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 219 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 123 (1.55%) Docker
5 63 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (0.48%) Firmware
7 33 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.24%) vSphere
9 15 (0.19%) 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 1 (0.013%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.013%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.013%) HDFS
14 1 (0.013%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 139 (1.75%) Ansible
2 118 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 78 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 72 (0.91%) Terraform
6 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 49 (0.62%) SCCM
8 40 (0.50%) WSUS
9 27 (0.34%) ZABBIX
10 24 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.25%) SCOM
12 18 (0.23%) Puppet
13 14 (0.18%) 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
15 9 (0.11%) PaperCut
16 8 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,483 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 325 (4.10%) Google
3 303 (3.82%) SAP
4 282 (3.56%) VMware
5 237 (2.99%) Oracle
6 176 (2.22%) Cisco
7 140 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 105 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 82 (1.03%) Dell
10 78 (0.98%) Adobe
11 75 (0.95%) IFS
11 75 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 73 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 68 (0.86%) NetApp
14 65 (0.82%) IBM
15 62 (0.78%) Sage
16 59 (0.74%) HP
17 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
18 52 (0.66%) NEC
19 49 (0.62%) Sparx