Project Management Jobs in England

Project Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +11
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 3,629 7,077 6,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.36% 7.88% 7.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.83% 9.38% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 4,911 3,938
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -11.76% +3.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £84,964 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +1.78%

All Process and 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 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management in England.

Salary trend for Project Management in England

Project Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 -8 975 £70,000 +7.69% 2,050
North of England -13 839 £54,793 +9.59% 530
South East -9 641 £60,000 +26.32% 457
Midlands -9 524 £50,500 -0.98% 353
North West -22 517 £54,793 +9.59% 314
West Midlands -4 331 £55,000 +1.85% 223
South West +1 298 £54,000 +8.00% 217
East of England -15 288 £53,000 +6.00% 198
Yorkshire -10 210 £54,897 +9.79% 172
East Midlands -26 189 £40,101 -15.58% 127
North East +9 111 £57,000 +8.57% 52
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 128 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 74 (2.04%) Confluence
3 37 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (0.99%) CMS
5 25 (0.69%) WordPress
6 22 (0.61%) IIS
7 17 (0.47%) Kinematics
8 11 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 10 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.19%) Apache
10 7 (0.19%) Kentico
10 7 (0.19%) Moodle
11 3 (0.083%) Drupal
12 2 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.055%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.055%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.055%) ThingWorx
13 1 (0.028%) EPiServer
13 1 (0.028%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.028%) Umbraco
Applications
1 249 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
2 162 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 153 (4.22%) Simulink
4 118 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
5 85 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 50 (1.38%) Trello
7 46 (1.27%) MS Visio
8 24 (0.66%) Maya
9 11 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
10 10 (0.28%) AutoCAD
11 9 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 6 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
12 6 (0.17%) Stata
13 5 (0.14%) Chatbot
13 5 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
14 4 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
14 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
14 4 (0.11%) InDesign
14 4 (0.11%) Notion
14 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 104 (2.87%) Teamcenter
2 84 (2.31%) NetSuite
3 34 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 30 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 22 (0.61%) SAP FI
6 17 (0.47%) Sage 200
7 16 (0.44%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 16 (0.44%) Sage CRM
8 14 (0.39%) Shopify
9 13 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
10 10 (0.28%) SAP IBP
11 9 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite
11 9 (0.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
12 8 (0.22%) Elite 3E
13 7 (0.19%) Aladdin
13 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
14 6 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
14 6 (0.17%) SAP BPC
14 6 (0.17%) SAP CO
15 5 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 326 (8.98%) Azure
2 195 (5.37%) Power Platform
3 156 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
4 139 (3.83%) AWS
5 137 (3.78%) SaaS
6 80 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (2.12%) Power Automate
8 64 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
9 57 (1.57%) Entra ID
10 47 (1.30%) IaaS
10 47 (1.30%) PowerApps
11 39 (1.07%) PaaS
12 37 (1.02%) GCP
13 36 (0.99%) GitHub
14 33 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (0.80%) Google Workspace
15 29 (0.80%) Serverless
16 28 (0.77%) Boomi
17 27 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
18 25 (0.69%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 55 (1.52%) Firewall
2 51 (1.41%) WAN
3 45 (1.24%) DNS
4 36 (0.99%) Wireless
5 34 (0.94%) Network Security
6 30 (0.83%) VPN
7 29 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 26 (0.72%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.58%) DHCP
10 20 (0.55%) LAN
11 16 (0.44%) SSL
12 12 (0.33%) SAN
13 11 (0.30%) Internet
13 11 (0.30%) VLAN
13 11 (0.30%) VoIP
14 10 (0.28%) Intranet
15 9 (0.25%) DMARC
15 9 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.22%) 5G
16 8 (0.22%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (4.13%) Power BI
2 99 (2.73%) Big Data
3 95 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 63 (1.74%) Tableau
5 60 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 37 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 33 (0.91%) MySQL
8 29 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
10 15 (0.41%) GIS
11 14 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (0.39%) SAP BW
12 11 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.28%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.25%) Metadata
15 8 (0.22%) SAP HANA
16 7 (0.19%) Data Mining
16 7 (0.19%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 234 (6.45%) JIRA
2 104 (2.87%) Rational DOORS
3 65 (1.79%) Git
4 27 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 16 (0.44%) Selenium
6 10 (0.28%) GitLab
7 8 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.17%) Postman
8 6 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.14%) Subversion
10 4 (0.11%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.083%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.083%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.055%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.055%) JMeter
12 2 (0.055%) Metasploit
13 1 (0.028%) Bugzilla
13 1 (0.028%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.028%) TeamCity
General
1 1,743 (48.03%) Social Skills
2 1,288 (35.49%) Finance
3 781 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 390 (10.75%) Marketing
5 334 (9.20%) Law
6 286 (7.88%) Manufacturing
7 226 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 217 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
9 202 (5.57%) Public Sector
10 201 (5.54%) Legal
11 186 (5.13%) Retail
12 182 (5.02%) Aerospace
13 171 (4.71%) Electronics
14 159 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
15 126 (3.47%) Banking
16 125 (3.44%) Advertising
17 101 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
18 76 (2.09%) Telecoms
19 53 (1.46%) Local Government
20 47 (1.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,040 (28.66%) Project Manager
2 637 (17.55%) Senior
3 375 (10.33%) Senior Manager
4 339 (9.34%) Analyst
5 317 (8.74%) Lead
6 217 (5.98%) Senior Project Manager
7 169 (4.66%) Systems Engineer
8 168 (4.63%) IT Manager
9 160 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
10 152 (4.19%) Delivery Project Manager
11 149 (4.11%) Security Engineer
12 147 (4.05%) Principal Security Engineer
13 130 (3.58%) Junior
14 126 (3.47%) Consultant
15 123 (3.39%) Architect
16 119 (3.28%) Product Manager
17 112 (3.09%) Engineering Manager
18 110 (3.03%) Developer
19 103 (2.84%) Business Analyst
19 103 (2.84%) Junior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (2.07%) .NET
2 65 (1.79%) HTML
3 61 (1.68%) CSS
4 52 (1.43%) XML
5 47 (1.30%) React
6 38 (1.05%) JSON
7 37 (1.02%) .NET Framework
7 37 (1.02%) Middleware
8 29 (0.80%) OAuth
9 23 (0.63%) RESTful
10 20 (0.55%) .NET Core
11 19 (0.52%) SAML
11 19 (0.52%) Web Services
12 16 (0.44%) EDI
13 15 (0.41%) Node.js
14 14 (0.39%) ASP.NET
14 14 (0.39%) JWT
15 13 (0.36%) Laravel
16 12 (0.33%) REST
17 11 (0.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 205 (5.65%) Management Information System
2 172 (4.74%) Driving Licence
3 159 (4.38%) FMCG
4 118 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 106 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (2.51%) Marketing Technology
7 90 (2.48%) Digital Media
8 81 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 67 (1.85%) Data Centre
10 62 (1.71%) Social Media
11 59 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 47 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 43 (1.18%) PMI
14 33 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 32 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
15 32 (0.88%) NHS
16 29 (0.80%) Mobile App
17 26 (0.72%) Life Science
18 25 (0.69%) Algorithms
19 19 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 125 (3.44%) Windows
2 66 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 28 (0.77%) Linux
4 18 (0.50%) Unix
5 12 (0.33%) Android
6 11 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.19%) VMS
10 6 (0.17%) Windows Vista
11 4 (0.11%) AIX
11 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.083%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.055%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.028%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.028%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
2 817 (22.51%) Project Delivery
3 801 (22.07%) Agile
4 650 (17.91%) Risk Management
5 589 (16.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 573 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 430 (11.85%) Mentoring
8 407 (11.22%) PRINCE2
9 359 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
10 333 (9.18%) Collaborative Working
11 315 (8.68%) Computer Science
12 311 (8.57%) Analytics
13 310 (8.54%) Roadmaps
14 282 (7.77%) Strategic Thinking
15 281 (7.74%) ERP
16 268 (7.38%) Process Improvement
17 263 (7.25%) Information Security
18 262 (7.22%) Decision-Making
19 261 (7.19%) Change Management
20 249 (6.86%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 254 (7.00%) SQL
2 122 (3.36%) Python
3 106 (2.92%) MATLAB
4 95 (2.62%) C#
5 87 (2.40%) PowerShell
6 83 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 76 (2.09%) Java
8 33 (0.91%) PHP
9 31 (0.85%) C++
10 24 (0.66%) R
11 22 (0.61%) C
12 16 (0.44%) Bicep
13 14 (0.39%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.36%) VBA
15 9 (0.25%) Bash
15 9 (0.25%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.19%) ABAP
17 6 (0.17%) Ada
18 5 (0.14%) Scala
18 5 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,189 (32.76%) Degree
2 630 (17.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 246 (6.78%) CISSP
4 228 (6.28%) PMP
5 226 (6.23%) PMI Certification
6 166 (4.57%) CISM
7 164 (4.52%) Security Cleared
8 147 (4.05%) CESG Certified Professional
9 98 (2.70%) Master's Degree
10 85 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 76 (2.09%) DBS Check
12 46 (1.27%) SC Cleared
13 43 (1.18%) Azure Certification
14 37 (1.02%) Chartered Engineer
14 37 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 36 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 35 (0.96%) DV Cleared
17 33 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
18 31 (0.85%) HNC
19 30 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (8.35%) QA
2 209 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 167 (4.60%) NIST
4 148 (4.08%) JSP 440
5 147 (4.05%) RMADS
6 136 (3.75%) PMO
7 91 (2.51%) Data Quality
8 85 (2.34%) GDPR
9 68 (1.87%) Accessibility
10 65 (1.79%) NEBOSH
11 37 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
12 21 (0.58%) SLA
13 19 (0.52%) GxP
14 18 (0.50%) PMBOK
15 17 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 17 (0.47%) WCAG
16 13 (0.36%) HIPAA
17 11 (0.30%) ISO 9001
17 11 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 10 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 22 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.50%) Docker
3 18 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.25%) Firmware
5 9 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.11%) vSphere
8 3 (0.083%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.028%) Forefront TMG
10 1 (0.028%) HDFS
10 1 (0.028%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.028%) NFS
10 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 51 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
2 47 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (0.94%) Terraform
4 23 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 18 (0.50%) Ansible
6 8 (0.22%) SCCM
7 6 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (0.14%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.14%) QRadar
8 5 (0.14%) ZABBIX
9 4 (0.11%) Argo
9 4 (0.11%) Functional Safety
10 3 (0.083%) SCOM
10 3 (0.083%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.055%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.055%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.055%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.055%) Nmap
11 2 (0.055%) SmoothWall
12 1 (0.028%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 640 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 218 (6.01%) SAP
3 117 (3.22%) IBM
4 113 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 111 (3.06%) Google
6 91 (2.51%) Oracle
7 74 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 52 (1.43%) Cisco
9 50 (1.38%) MathWorks
10 46 (1.27%) Adobe
11 36 (0.99%) Meraki
11 36 (0.99%) VMware
12 32 (0.88%) YouTube
13 30 (0.83%) Workday
14 29 (0.80%) Databricks
14 29 (0.80%) Facebook
15 27 (0.74%) MuleSoft
16 23 (0.63%) Concur
16 23 (0.63%) Sage
17 19 (0.52%) Informatica