Project Management Job Trends in Dorset

Project Management
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 17 27 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 3.70% 7.01% 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 7.71% 6.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 9
10th Percentile - £40,250 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £48,625 £19,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,000 £27,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.23% +92.59% -48.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,125 £32,500
90th Percentile - £61,750 £49,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -5.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 357 350 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 77.78% 90.91% 89.73%
Number of salaries quoted 267 185 282
10th Percentile £27,707 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £41,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £73,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in Dorset

Project Management
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Project Management

Project Management
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Wareham - 11 £75,000 - 2
Dorchester +3 2 - -
Bournemouth 0 2 - - 8
Project Management
South West

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub
1 2 (11.76%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) CockroachDB
1 2 (11.76%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Maven
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Checkstyle
3 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (11.76%) ESLint
3 2 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Gradle
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) JUnit
3 2 (11.76%) Mockito
3 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 2 (11.76%) TestNG
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (64.71%) Local Government
3 2 (11.76%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Technical Director
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.76%) JavaFX
1 2 (11.76%) JWT
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
1 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
1 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Security
1 2 (11.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Collaborative Working
2 11 (64.71%) Business Strategy
2 11 (64.71%) Due Diligence
2 11 (64.71%) Feasibility Study
2 11 (64.71%) Risk Management
2 11 (64.71%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Dependency Management
4 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) MVC
4 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Splunk