Project Management Job Trends in England

Project Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -41 -3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,110 2,965 6,851
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 7.52% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 8.09% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,347 1,562 4,911
10th Percentile £34,000 £32,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,688 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -11.02%
75th Percentile £74,750 £76,190 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £84,964
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,519 36,661 75,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.25% 92.99% 82.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,500 19,807 55,411
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £29,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £93,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in England

Project Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Management in England

Project Management
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
London -28 676 £70,000 -1.41% 504
North of England -21 479 £55,000 +0.38% 235
South East -27 392 £50,000 -10.38% 267
Midlands -60 235 £55,000 +4.76% 150
North West +2 226 £55,000 +6.28% 120
South West -47 174 £47,500 -20.17% 95
West Midlands -49 154 £55,000 - 91
Yorkshire -39 151 £60,000 +9.09% 85
East of England -45 132 £72,500 +36.79% 120
North East -28 102 £60,000 +5.26% 33
East Midlands -37 80 £55,000 +29.41% 58
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 84 (3.98%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.13%) Confluence
3 32 (1.52%) CMS
4 27 (1.28%) WordPress
5 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.19%) Moodle
7 3 (0.14%) govService
7 3 (0.14%) SAS
8 2 (0.095%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.095%) Totara
8 2 (0.095%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.095%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.095%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.047%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 232 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
3 116 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 14 (0.66%) Trello
8 7 (0.33%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.14%) Blender
11 3 (0.14%) Maya
12 2 (0.095%) Camtasia
13 1 (0.047%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.047%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 28 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
3 21 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 20 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 17 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
5 17 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
6 15 (0.71%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.38%) Shopify
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.28%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.24%) Primavera
10 5 (0.24%) SAP PM
11 4 (0.19%) SAP Business One
11 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
11 4 (0.19%) SAP QM
11 4 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 207 (9.81%) Azure
2 200 (9.48%) Power Platform
3 132 (6.26%) SaaS
4 126 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 76 (3.60%) PowerApps
6 74 (3.51%) AWS
7 55 (2.61%) Power Automate
8 35 (1.66%) GCP
9 33 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.37%) OneDrive
11 28 (1.33%) Asana
11 28 (1.33%) Entra ID
12 27 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (1.04%) Smartsheet
16 21 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (0.95%) Canva
18 19 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.94%) Broadband
2 32 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
3 31 (1.47%) Firewall
4 23 (1.09%) CHAP
4 23 (1.09%) WAN
5 17 (0.81%) LAN
6 16 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
7 14 (0.66%) DNS
8 12 (0.57%) DHCP
8 12 (0.57%) Network Security
9 11 (0.52%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.52%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.43%) Multicast
11 7 (0.33%) Internet
11 7 (0.33%) VoIP
11 7 (0.33%) Wireless
12 6 (0.28%) VPN
13 5 (0.24%) BGP
13 5 (0.24%) DMVPN
13 5 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (7.87%) Power BI
2 101 (4.79%) Tableau
3 83 (3.93%) Data Mining
4 30 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 21 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.47%) Db2
8 10 (0.47%) Power Query
9 9 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.33%) GIS
12 6 (0.28%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.24%) Qlik Sense
14 4 (0.19%) DB2 UDB
14 4 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.19%) QlikView
15 3 (0.14%) Big Data
15 3 (0.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 118 (5.59%) JIRA
2 24 (1.14%) Git
3 11 (0.52%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.24%) JUnit
6 3 (0.14%) Selenium
6 3 (0.14%) TestNG
7 2 (0.095%) Checkstyle
7 2 (0.095%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.095%) ESLint
7 2 (0.095%) GitLab
7 2 (0.095%) Gradle
7 2 (0.095%) JMeter
7 2 (0.095%) Maven
7 2 (0.095%) Mockito
7 2 (0.095%) Postman
7 2 (0.095%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.095%) Yeoman
7 2 (0.095%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.047%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 832 (39.43%) Social Skills
2 754 (35.73%) Finance
3 421 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (11.42%) Marketing
5 160 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
6 146 (6.92%) Retail
7 140 (6.64%) Manufacturing
8 129 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 124 (5.88%) Legal
10 105 (4.98%) Public Sector
11 102 (4.83%) Law
12 100 (4.74%) Banking
13 70 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
14 63 (2.99%) Telecoms
15 58 (2.75%) Local Government
16 47 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
16 47 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (2.13%) Financial Institution
18 41 (1.94%) Advertising
19 39 (1.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 426 (20.19%) Project Manager
2 299 (14.17%) Senior
3 298 (14.12%) Analyst
4 159 (7.54%) IT Manager
5 158 (7.49%) Lead
6 157 (7.44%) Senior Manager
7 143 (6.78%) Business Analyst
8 120 (5.69%) Senior Project Manager
9 106 (5.02%) Development Manager
9 106 (5.02%) Trainee
10 105 (4.98%) Trainee Analyst
11 102 (4.83%) Consultant
12 87 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
13 84 (3.98%) Data Analyst
14 79 (3.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 72 (3.41%) Product Manager
16 62 (2.94%) IT Support
17 53 (2.51%) Systems Manager
18 51 (2.42%) Developer
19 47 (2.23%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.09%) .NET
2 39 (1.85%) HTML
3 35 (1.66%) CSS
4 24 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
4 24 (1.14%) JSON
5 21 (1.00%) .NET Core
5 21 (1.00%) Hugging Face
5 21 (1.00%) PyTorch
5 21 (1.00%) TensorFlow
6 19 (0.90%) EDI
6 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (0.90%) SPFx
7 9 (0.43%) LangChain
7 9 (0.43%) LlamaIndex
7 9 (0.43%) Model Context Protocol
8 8 (0.38%) Flash
8 8 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.33%) Matplotlib
9 7 (0.33%) Middleware
9 7 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 169 (8.01%) Management Information System
2 99 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 78 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 74 (3.51%) Driving Licence
5 71 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 53 (2.51%) FMCG
7 47 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (2.18%) Security Posture
9 45 (2.13%) Social Media
10 42 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 31 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
14 29 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (1.28%) Cloud Native
15 27 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (1.14%) Low-Code
16 24 (1.14%) PMI
17 21 (1.00%) AI Agents
17 21 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 70 (3.32%) Windows
2 28 (1.33%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.23%) Linux
4 23 (1.09%) Android
5 14 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.43%) Unix
7 6 (0.28%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.14%) AIX
10 2 (0.095%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.095%) zOS
11 1 (0.047%) CentOS
11 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.047%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.047%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (29.38%) Agile
2 487 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 484 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
4 417 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 359 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 322 (15.26%) PRINCE2
7 318 (15.07%) Decision-Making
8 269 (12.75%) Analytics
9 238 (11.28%) Roadmaps
10 236 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 227 (10.76%) Business Analysis
12 214 (10.14%) Risk Management
13 208 (9.86%) AI
14 204 (9.67%) Change Management
15 202 (9.57%) Mentoring
16 183 (8.67%) Coaching
17 180 (8.53%) ERP
18 174 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
19 170 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
20 164 (7.77%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 224 (10.62%) SQL
2 199 (9.43%) Python
3 46 (2.18%) C#
4 43 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.42%) PowerShell
6 28 (1.33%) TypeScript
7 27 (1.28%) VBA
8 14 (0.66%) Java
9 7 (0.33%) C
10 6 (0.28%) Bash
10 6 (0.28%) C++
11 5 (0.24%) PHP
12 4 (0.19%) Assembly Language
12 4 (0.19%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.19%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.14%) COBOL
13 3 (0.14%) R
14 2 (0.095%) ABAP
14 2 (0.095%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.095%) Scala
Qualifications
1 508 (24.08%) Degree
2 192 (9.10%) PMP
3 189 (8.96%) PMI Certification
4 97 (4.60%) Security Cleared
5 95 (4.50%) DBS Check
6 92 (4.36%) CISSP
7 63 (2.99%) CISM
8 59 (2.80%) SC Cleared
9 52 (2.46%) Master's Degree
10 50 (2.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 37 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (1.71%) DV Cleared
13 31 (1.47%) CISA
14 28 (1.33%) CRISC
14 28 (1.33%) SANS
15 26 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
16 24 (1.14%) FFIEC
16 24 (1.14%) HNC
17 23 (1.09%) CGEIT
18 21 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.21%) PMO
2 119 (5.64%) QA
3 95 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 94 (4.45%) NIST
5 80 (3.79%) Accessibility
6 79 (3.74%) GDPR
7 42 (1.99%) GRC
8 36 (1.71%) ISO 9001
9 28 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (1.23%) COBIT
11 24 (1.14%) Data Quality
12 23 (1.09%) NIST 800
12 23 (1.09%) SLA
13 20 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 13 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 10 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.47%) IFRS
15 10 (0.47%) ISO 14001
16 9 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 9 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.76%) Docker
3 5 (0.24%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.14%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.095%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.095%) Firmware
5 2 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.047%) IAG
6 1 (0.047%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (1.00%) SCCM
2 20 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.62%) Ansible
5 11 (0.52%) Grafana
6 9 (0.43%) Terraform
7 4 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (0.19%) ServiceCenter
8 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.095%) Argo
9 2 (0.095%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.095%) Puppet
9 2 (0.095%) Salt
10 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.047%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.047%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.047%) MOM
10 1 (0.047%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 463 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.27%) SAP
3 80 (3.79%) Oracle
4 58 (2.75%) Adobe
5 56 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 50 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.04%) Google
8 21 (1.00%) HubSpot
9 19 (0.90%) Pardot
10 15 (0.71%) Cisco
11 13 (0.62%) Apple
11 13 (0.62%) Fortinet
12 12 (0.57%) SonicWALL
13 11 (0.52%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.52%) Instagram
13 11 (0.52%) JD Edwards
13 11 (0.52%) Wrike
14 10 (0.47%) Intapp
14 10 (0.47%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.47%) Reuters