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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,952 7,746 12,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.02% 7.64% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.38% 7.99% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,422 4,485 6,635
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,701 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,025 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.60% +0.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,892 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 May 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 9 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 +7 7,046 £52,500 -10.64% 2,896
UK excluding London +4 5,771 £50,000 -9.09% 2,084
Work from Home +15 2,989 £55,000 -1.54% 1,228
London +17 1,785 £65,000 -3.70% 900
North of England +14 1,471 £50,000 -9.09% 494
South East +1 1,375 £47,500 -13.64% 520
Midlands +3 1,141 £52,375 -4.77% 416
North West +16 823 £50,000 -9.09% 306
South West +8 750 £48,500 -11.82% 285
West Midlands +1 635 £55,000 - 263
Yorkshire +21 492 £50,000 -8.90% 147
East Midlands +4 466 £47,500 -13.64% 153
East of England +15 444 £50,000 -9.09% 235
Scotland -22 361 £50,000 -9.09% 145
Wales +4 162 £42,500 -22.56% 58
North East +5 156 £52,500 -4.55% 48
Northern Ireland +46 68 £42,500 -10.53% 23
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
1 369 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 154 (1.94%) Confluence
3 132 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 105 (1.32%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 51 (0.64%) IIS
7 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 41 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 39 (0.49%) WordPress
10 36 (0.45%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 13 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (0.075%) IBM Notes
18 6 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 545 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 506 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
3 351 (4.41%) Microsoft Project
4 248 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 86 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 49 (0.62%) Trello
8 44 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 16 (0.20%) SPSS
11 13 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
12 12 (0.15%) InDesign
13 10 (0.13%) Simulink
14 9 (0.11%) Sketch
15 6 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
16 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
17 4 (0.050%) InVision
Business Applications
1 75 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 45 (0.57%) Primavera
5 40 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 31 (0.39%) Shopify
7 28 (0.35%) Magento
7 28 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
8 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 17 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 17 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 15 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 14 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 14 (0.18%) SAP HR
12 13 (0.16%) SAP EWM
12 13 (0.16%) SAP SCM
13 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
13 12 (0.15%) SAP MM
14 10 (0.13%) SAP FI
14 10 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 951 (11.96%) Azure
2 566 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
3 551 (6.93%) AWS
4 431 (5.42%) Power Platform
5 361 (4.54%) SaaS
6 275 (3.46%) GCP
7 206 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
8 126 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 88 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
10 85 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 76 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 68 (0.86%) Power Automate
14 53 (0.67%) IaaS
14 53 (0.67%) PaaS
15 48 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (0.45%) Smartsheet
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (0.41%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 266 (3.35%) Firewall
2 182 (2.29%) WAN
3 153 (1.92%) DNS
4 133 (1.67%) VPN
5 112 (1.41%) Intranet
6 110 (1.38%) LAN
7 106 (1.33%) Internet
8 96 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
9 89 (1.12%) Network Security
10 85 (1.07%) DHCP
10 85 (1.07%) TCP/IP
11 70 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 68 (0.86%) SSL
13 67 (0.84%) SAN
14 62 (0.78%) Wireless
15 61 (0.77%) IPsec
15 61 (0.77%) SNMP
16 53 (0.67%) 5G
16 53 (0.67%) BGP
17 45 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (4.20%) Power BI
2 174 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 173 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 121 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 102 (1.28%) MySQL
6 101 (1.27%) Tableau
7 83 (1.04%) BigQuery
8 82 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 79 (0.99%) RDBMS
10 74 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 73 (0.92%) Big Data
12 72 (0.91%) Looker
13 71 (0.89%) MongoDB
14 52 (0.65%) Oracle Database
15 47 (0.59%) NoSQL
16 43 (0.54%) Data Lake
16 43 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
17 42 (0.53%) Data Mining
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 411 (5.17%) JIRA
2 94 (1.18%) Git
3 79 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 29 (0.36%) Postman
6 24 (0.30%) GitLab
7 22 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 15 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.13%) Selenium
11 10 (0.13%) Subversion
12 9 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.10%) JUnit
14 7 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.063%) gulp
16 4 (0.050%) LabVIEW
16 4 (0.050%) MSI
16 4 (0.050%) Zephyr
General
1 3,411 (42.89%) Social Skills
2 1,956 (24.60%) Finance
3 1,304 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 675 (8.49%) Marketing
5 515 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
6 503 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 488 (6.14%) Retail
8 443 (5.57%) Manufacturing
8 443 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
9 400 (5.03%) Public Sector
10 370 (4.65%) Legal
11 267 (3.36%) Law
12 236 (2.97%) Telecoms
13 199 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 158 (1.99%) Banking
15 156 (1.96%) Aerospace
16 139 (1.75%) Billing
17 119 (1.50%) Local Government
18 115 (1.45%) Games
19 108 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,649 (33.31%) Project Manager
2 994 (12.50%) Senior
3 660 (8.30%) Lead
4 572 (7.19%) IT Manager
5 557 (7.00%) Analyst
6 547 (6.88%) Senior Manager
7 394 (4.95%) Architect
8 391 (4.92%) Consultant
9 383 (4.82%) Senior Project Manager
10 310 (3.90%) IT Project Manager
11 221 (2.78%) Developer
12 219 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
13 205 (2.58%) Digital Project Manager
14 179 (2.25%) Business Analyst
15 171 (2.15%) Presales Manager
16 161 (2.02%) Technical Manager
17 160 (2.01%) Coordinator
18 155 (1.95%) Engineering Manager
19 143 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
20 134 (1.69%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (2.35%) .NET
2 131 (1.65%) HTML
3 113 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
4 111 (1.40%) CSS
5 88 (1.11%) EDI
6 81 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 76 (0.96%) React
8 60 (0.75%) YAML
9 59 (0.74%) JSON
10 56 (0.70%) XML
11 49 (0.62%) Spring
11 49 (0.62%) Web Services
12 47 (0.59%) RESTful
13 43 (0.54%) SOAP
14 40 (0.50%) AngularJS
14 40 (0.50%) Kafka
15 36 (0.45%) ASP.NET
16 35 (0.44%) jQuery
16 35 (0.44%) Laravel
17 34 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 641 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 486 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
3 288 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 247 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 245 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 209 (2.63%) PMI
7 200 (2.52%) Driving Licence
8 170 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 113 (1.42%) NHS
10 111 (1.40%) Social Media
11 103 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 94 (1.18%) PKI
12 94 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
13 92 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 89 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 88 (1.11%) FMCG
16 75 (0.94%) IoT
17 69 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
18 55 (0.69%) Algorithms
19 50 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 464 (5.84%) Windows
2 331 (4.16%) Linux
3 172 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 59 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 58 (0.73%) Android
7 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
8 51 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 47 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 35 (0.44%) Unix
12 32 (0.40%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.23%) VMS
13 18 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 13 (0.16%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.10%) AIX
17 8 (0.10%) Solaris
18 7 (0.088%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,510 (31.56%) Agile
2 1,806 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
3 1,710 (21.50%) Project Delivery
4 1,140 (14.34%) PRINCE2
5 930 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 844 (10.61%) Mentoring
7 843 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 754 (9.48%) Change Management
9 742 (9.33%) Decision-Making
10 654 (8.22%) Risk Management
11 644 (8.10%) Actionable Insight
12 581 (7.31%) Coaching
13 540 (6.79%) Customer Service
14 538 (6.77%) ITIL
15 535 (6.73%) Scrum
16 534 (6.72%) Collaborative Working
16 534 (6.72%) SDLC
17 519 (6.53%) Roadmaps
18 509 (6.40%) Agile Project Management
19 476 (5.99%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 512 (6.44%) SQL
2 315 (3.96%) Python
3 196 (2.46%) JavaScript
4 172 (2.16%) C#
5 162 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 142 (1.79%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 80 (1.01%) C
9 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 60 (0.75%) C++
11 51 (0.64%) R
12 48 (0.60%) Bash
13 45 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 39 (0.49%) VB
15 28 (0.35%) VBA
16 24 (0.30%) Perl
17 20 (0.25%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.23%) Scala
19 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
20 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,023 (25.44%) Degree
2 713 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 471 (5.92%) PMI Certification
4 425 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 388 (4.88%) PMP
6 191 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 171 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 165 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 142 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 140 (1.76%) DBS Check
11 120 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 119 (1.50%) APMP
12 119 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
13 101 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
14 95 (1.19%) Azure Certification
15 83 (1.04%) HNC
16 75 (0.94%) CCNA
17 72 (0.91%) DV Cleared
18 70 (0.88%) HND
19 61 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 575 (7.23%) PMO
2 486 (6.11%) QA
3 169 (2.13%) GDPR
4 156 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 91 (1.14%) SLA
6 90 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 86 (1.08%) Data Quality
8 76 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 60 (0.75%) NIST
10 38 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.40%) NCSC
12 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
13 27 (0.34%) GRC
14 25 (0.31%) ITGC
15 21 (0.26%) GMP
15 21 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 21 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 18 (0.23%) IFRS
18 15 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 293 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 216 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 123 (1.55%) Docker
5 61 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (0.50%) Firmware
7 36 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.24%) vSphere
9 16 (0.20%) 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 2 (0.025%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.013%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.013%) RACF
15 1 (0.013%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 139 (1.75%) Ansible
2 121 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 79 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 72 (0.91%) Terraform
6 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 48 (0.60%) SCCM
8 38 (0.48%) 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 15 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (0.18%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.15%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.15%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.15%) VxRail
16 9 (0.11%) Nessus
16 9 (0.11%) PaperCut
17 8 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,498 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 322 (4.05%) Google
3 307 (3.86%) SAP
4 279 (3.51%) VMware
5 237 (2.98%) Oracle
6 180 (2.26%) Cisco
7 143 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 109 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 76 (0.96%) IFS
10 75 (0.94%) ServiceNow
11 74 (0.93%) Adobe
12 73 (0.92%) Dell
12 73 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 68 (0.86%) NetApp
14 64 (0.80%) IBM
15 60 (0.75%) Sage
16 56 (0.70%) HP
16 56 (0.70%) NEC
17 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
18 49 (0.62%) Sparx