Project Management Job Trends in the East of England

Project Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 9 20
Rank change year-on-year -51 +11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 119 397 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.88% 11.08% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 12.78% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 92 115 83
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,980 £42,100
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -9.57% +6.48%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £53,594 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.79% -4.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,121 3,107 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.57% 86.72% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 1,233 1,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Project Management
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the East of England

Project Management
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cambridgeshire +1 39 £55,000 -1.79% 18
Hertfordshire -53 37 £45,000 -25.00% 32
Suffolk -26 18 £38,500 -45.00% 8
Essex -35 14 £75,000 +50.00% 24
Bedfordshire +2 7 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Norfolk -1 4 £47,500 -5.00% 4
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 15 (12.61%) Kinematics
2 5 (4.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.84%) Apache
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.24%) SaaS
2 7 (5.88%) AWS
3 4 (3.36%) Azure
4 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.68%) IaaS
4 2 (1.68%) PaaS
4 2 (1.68%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.84%) Figma
5 1 (0.84%) GCP
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.84%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.56%) Data Mining
2 8 (6.72%) Tableau
3 2 (1.68%) Redis
3 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.84%) Big Data
4 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (5.04%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.84%) Git
3 1 (0.84%) gulp
3 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 57 (47.90%) Social Skills
2 37 (31.09%) Finance
3 30 (25.21%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (19.33%) Electronics
5 20 (16.81%) Aerospace
5 20 (16.81%) Aviation
6 17 (14.29%) Marketing
7 6 (5.04%) Legal
7 6 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Military
9 4 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.68%) Billing
11 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.68%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (15.97%) Lead
2 18 (15.13%) Coordinator
3 15 (12.61%) Robotics Engineer
4 14 (11.76%) Analyst
5 12 (10.08%) Architect
5 12 (10.08%) IT Manager
6 11 (9.24%) Project Manager
6 11 (9.24%) Trainee
6 11 (9.24%) Trainee Analyst
7 9 (7.56%) Procurement Officer
7 9 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.72%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.72%) Integration Architect
8 8 (6.72%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 6 (5.04%) ITSM Architect
9 6 (5.04%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.04%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.20%) Account Manager
10 5 (4.20%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) Middleware
2 2 (1.68%) .NET
2 2 (1.68%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.68%) JSON
2 2 (1.68%) REST
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Beam
3 1 (0.84%) CSS
3 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.84%) HTML
3 1 (0.84%) Kafka
3 1 (0.84%) React
3 1 (0.84%) Sass
3 1 (0.84%) Three.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 15 (12.61%) Algorithms
2 15 (12.61%) Robotics
3 9 (7.56%) Tandem
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.68%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.68%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.84%) IoT
9 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.84%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.45%) Project Delivery
2 34 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (19.33%) Agile
5 20 (16.81%) Data Management
5 20 (16.81%) ERP
5 20 (16.81%) Process Improvement
6 19 (15.97%) Collaborative Working
6 19 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 15 (12.61%) Business Analysis
8 15 (12.61%) Control Theory
8 15 (12.61%) OO
9 14 (11.76%) Change Management
9 14 (11.76%) PRINCE2
9 14 (11.76%) Service Delivery
10 12 (10.08%) CRM
11 10 (8.40%) B2B
11 10 (8.40%) Contract Management
12 9 (7.56%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.85%) SQL
2 15 (12.61%) C
2 15 (12.61%) C#
2 15 (12.61%) C++
3 8 (6.72%) Python
4 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (26.89%) Degree
2 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (1.68%) DBS Check
2 2 (1.68%) ISSAP
3 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.84%) PMP
3 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.97%) QA
2 6 (5.04%) PMO
3 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.36%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.68%) Oracle
4 1 (0.84%) Databricks
4 1 (0.84%) Salesforce