Project Manager Jobs in England

Project Manager
UK > England

The median Project Manager salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 52 101
Rank change year-on-year -60 +49 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,370 3,549 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.83% 4.01% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.12% 4.24% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 785 2,626 2,141
10th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,818 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Manager in England

Project Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England -26 482 £55,250 +16.32% 144
North West -24 363 £56,000 +17.89% 81
London -97 231 £67,500 +12.50% 314
South East -58 218 £60,000 +14.29% 133
South West +6 173 £56,373 +17.44% 48
Midlands -92 150 £55,000 +10.00% 90
Yorkshire -36 92 £55,000 +15.79% 54
East of England -58 92 £55,000 +1.85% 50
West Midlands -65 87 £55,000 +10.00% 62
East Midlands -71 58 £55,000 +10.02% 28
North East -11 27 £59,000 +24.21% 9
Project Manager
UK

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Project Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 1,038 (75.77%) Project Management
2 563 (41.09%) Finance
3 502 (36.64%) Project Delivery
4 447 (32.63%) Social Skills
5 320 (23.36%) Risk Management
6 313 (22.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 259 (18.91%) Agile
8 255 (18.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 239 (17.45%) Degree
10 238 (17.37%) PRINCE2
11 182 (13.28%) Microsoft
12 173 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
13 165 (12.04%) Driving Licence
14 160 (11.68%) Manufacturing
15 137 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
15 137 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 132 (9.64%) Budget Management
16 132 (9.64%) Scorecard
17 130 (9.49%) Waterfall
18 125 (9.12%) Microsoft Project
19 121 (8.83%) Balanced Scorecard
19 121 (8.83%) Business Case
20 109 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
21 98 (7.15%) Change Management
21 98 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
22 94 (6.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
23 89 (6.50%) PMP
23 89 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
24 88 (6.42%) Project Planning
25 77 (5.62%) Quality Management

Project Manager Skill Set
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 43 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.97%) Confluence
3 11 (0.80%) CMS
4 8 (0.58%) Kentico
5 2 (0.15%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 137 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 125 (9.12%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 94 (6.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.80%) Trello
7 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.22%) Magento
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.15%) Maximo
5 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.073%) Relativity
6 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.073%) Shopify
6 1 (0.073%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.073%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (2.34%) Azure
2 28 (2.04%) SaaS
3 19 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (1.09%) Power Platform
5 13 (0.95%) AWS
6 11 (0.80%) Asana
7 10 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (0.73%) Google Workspace
8 9 (0.66%) Smartsheet
9 8 (0.58%) Kontent
10 4 (0.29%) BigCommerce
10 4 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (0.29%) Zapier
11 3 (0.22%) ClickUp
11 3 (0.22%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.22%) Google Sheets
11 3 (0.22%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.22%) Storyblok
12 2 (0.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) WAN
2 3 (0.22%) Network Security
2 3 (0.22%) Wireless
3 2 (0.15%) Internet
3 2 (0.15%) LAN
3 2 (0.15%) MQTT
3 2 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.073%) Broadband
4 1 (0.073%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.073%) Mobile Broadband
4 1 (0.073%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.073%) SWIFTNet
4 1 (0.073%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.073%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.31%) Electronic Patient Records
2 13 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (0.88%) Power BI
4 7 (0.51%) Tableau
5 6 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.15%) Big Data
7 2 (0.15%) GIS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.073%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.073%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.073%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.073%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.073%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.073%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.073%) MySQL
8 1 (0.073%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.073%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.073%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.073%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (4.67%) JIRA
2 2 (0.15%) MSI
3 1 (0.073%) Yeoman
General
1 563 (41.09%) Finance
2 447 (32.63%) Social Skills
3 160 (11.68%) Manufacturing
4 137 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (4.31%) Public Sector
8 58 (4.23%) Law
9 50 (3.65%) Legal
10 48 (3.50%) Retail
11 41 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (2.48%) Marketing
13 31 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.12%) Banking
15 27 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.75%) Local Government
17 21 (1.53%) Health Technology
18 18 (1.31%) Electronics
18 18 (1.31%) Military
19 17 (1.24%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.44%) Middleware
2 3 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.15%) .NET
4 1 (0.073%) EDI
4 1 (0.073%) Kafka
4 1 (0.073%) Spring
4 1 (0.073%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.073%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 165 (12.04%) Driving Licence
2 47 (3.43%) Management Information System
3 39 (2.85%) FMCG
4 27 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (1.46%) PMI
6 19 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.31%) Cyberattack
8 17 (1.24%) Data Centre
8 17 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.02%) Social Media
10 13 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 12 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (0.73%) Life Science
13 7 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
14 6 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.44%) NHS
15 5 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.29%) Algorithms
16 4 (0.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.95%) Windows
2 6 (0.44%) Windows Vista
3 4 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.073%) Linux
4 1 (0.073%) Unix
4 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,038 (75.77%) Project Management
2 502 (36.64%) Project Delivery
3 320 (23.36%) Risk Management
4 313 (22.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 259 (18.91%) Agile
6 238 (17.37%) PRINCE2
7 173 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (9.64%) Budget Management
8 132 (9.64%) Scorecard
9 130 (9.49%) Waterfall
10 121 (8.83%) Balanced Scorecard
10 121 (8.83%) Business Case
11 98 (7.15%) Change Management
11 98 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 88 (6.42%) Project Planning
13 77 (5.62%) Quality Management
14 72 (5.26%) Budgeting
14 72 (5.26%) ERP
15 71 (5.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 59 (4.31%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 16 (1.17%) SQL
2 3 (0.22%) Java
3 2 (0.15%) C++
3 2 (0.15%) Python
4 1 (0.073%) PHP
4 1 (0.073%) VBA
Qualifications
1 255 (18.61%) BPSS Clearance
2 239 (17.45%) Degree
3 89 (6.50%) PMP
4 71 (5.18%) PMI Certification
5 50 (3.65%) HNC
6 48 (3.50%) Security Cleared
7 33 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.61%) HND
9 20 (1.46%) APMP
9 20 (1.46%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 18 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.17%) MBA
12 14 (1.02%) MRICS
13 12 (0.88%) SC Cleared
14 8 (0.58%) MAPM
14 8 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 7 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
16 6 (0.44%) CCNP
16 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.74%) NEBOSH
2 60 (4.38%) QA
3 39 (2.85%) PMO
4 18 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.31%) PMBOK
5 10 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.22%) MiFID
8 2 (0.15%) EMIR
8 2 (0.15%) GDPR
8 2 (0.15%) GRC
8 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.073%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.073%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.073%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.073%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.073%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.073%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (0.073%) Netcool
Vendors
1 182 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.60%) SAP
3 42 (3.07%) Salesforce
4 34 (2.48%) NEC
5 30 (2.19%) Oracle
6 18 (1.31%) Atlassian
7 13 (0.95%) Google
8 11 (0.80%) Capita
9 10 (0.73%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.58%) Cisco
11 6 (0.44%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.36%) Adobe
13 4 (0.29%) IBM
14 3 (0.22%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.22%) OpenText
14 3 (0.22%) Workday
15 2 (0.15%) Databricks
15 2 (0.15%) GoldenSource
15 2 (0.15%) Marketo
15 2 (0.15%) Snow