Project Planning Job Trends in the East Midlands

Project Planning
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Project Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 118 109
Rank change year-on-year -10 -9 +36
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 9 11 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 0.50% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.56% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £33,875 - £35,500
25th Percentile £37,813 £52,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £54,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.54% +27.06% -22.73%
75th Percentile £42,375 £56,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £43,950 £57,200 £71,350
England median annual salary £63,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Project Planning 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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,992 1,950 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.84% 88.44% 85.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,251 819 1,285
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,125 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,150
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Project Planning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Project Planning job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Project Planning
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Project Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the East Midlands

Project Planning
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Leicestershire +7 3 - - 1
Derbyshire -13 3 £36,250 -34.09%
Nottinghamshire +17 1 £41,500 - 1
Northamptonshire -2 1 - - 2
Lincolnshire - 1 £45,000 -
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) AutoCAD
1 1 (11.11%) EPLAN
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Electronics
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Law
1 1 (11.11%) Legal
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
1 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Planning Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 2 (22.22%) Coaching
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) SysML
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (11.11%) IEC 61131
2 1 (11.11%) IEC 61508
2 1 (11.11%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (11.11%) NEC
1 1 (11.11%) Rockwell