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 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 53 100
Rank change year-on-year -63 +47 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,354 3,566 2,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.79% 4.01% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 4.24% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 773 2,627 2,124
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 44,066 84,104 79,158
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.65% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,206 62,399 50,596
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £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 29 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 29 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 -28 477 £55,250 +16.32% 170
North West -25 361 £56,000 +17.89% 100
London -96 237 £70,000 +16.67% 357
South East -53 213 £60,000 +14.29% 239
South West +3 172 £56,373 +17.44% 56
Midlands -97 143 £55,000 +10.00% 95
Yorkshire -37 89 £55,000 +16.53% 66
East of England -62 88 £52,500 -2.78% 57
West Midlands -72 85 £55,000 +10.00% 60
East Midlands -78 54 £55,000 +10.02% 33
North East -13 27 £59,000 +24.21% 11
Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 1,033 (76.29%) Project Management
2 562 (41.51%) Finance
3 502 (37.08%) Project Delivery
4 449 (33.16%) Social Skills
5 320 (23.63%) Risk Management
6 313 (23.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 262 (19.35%) Agile
8 255 (18.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 238 (17.58%) Degree
10 236 (17.43%) PRINCE2
11 182 (13.44%) Microsoft
12 176 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
13 161 (11.89%) Driving Licence
14 157 (11.60%) Manufacturing
15 138 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 137 (10.12%) Microsoft Office
17 132 (9.75%) Scorecard
18 130 (9.60%) Budget Management
18 130 (9.60%) Waterfall
19 127 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
20 123 (9.08%) Business Case
21 121 (8.94%) Balanced Scorecard
22 109 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
23 98 (7.24%) Change Management
24 96 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
25 95 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
26 91 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
27 89 (6.57%) PMP
28 85 (6.28%) Project Planning
29 77 (5.69%) 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 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.07%) Confluence
3 10 (0.74%) CMS
4 7 (0.52%) Kentico
5 2 (0.15%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 137 (10.12%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
3 109 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 95 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.81%) Trello
7 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.22%) Magento
3 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.15%) Maximo
4 2 (0.15%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.074%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.074%) Relativity
5 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.074%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.074%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.074%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (2.44%) Azure
2 27 (1.99%) SaaS
3 20 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (1.11%) Power Platform
5 13 (0.96%) AWS
6 11 (0.81%) Asana
6 11 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (0.66%) Google Workspace
7 9 (0.66%) Smartsheet
8 7 (0.52%) Kontent
9 4 (0.30%) BigCommerce
9 4 (0.30%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (0.30%) Zapier
10 3 (0.22%) ClickUp
10 3 (0.22%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.22%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.22%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.22%) Storyblok
11 2 (0.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) 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 (0.074%) Broadband
4 1 (0.074%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.074%) Mobile Broadband
4 1 (0.074%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.074%) SWIFTNet
4 1 (0.074%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.074%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 13 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (0.89%) Power BI
4 7 (0.52%) 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 (0.074%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.074%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.074%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.074%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.074%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.074%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.074%) MySQL
8 1 (0.074%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.074%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.074%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.074%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (4.80%) JIRA
2 2 (0.15%) MSI
3 1 (0.074%) Yeoman
General
1 562 (41.51%) Finance
2 449 (33.16%) Social Skills
3 157 (11.60%) Manufacturing
4 138 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (4.36%) Law
8 53 (3.91%) Public Sector
9 51 (3.77%) Legal
10 45 (3.32%) Retail
11 42 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.36%) Banking
12 32 (2.36%) Marketing
13 31 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.62%) Local Government
16 21 (1.55%) Health Technology
17 18 (1.33%) Electronics
17 18 (1.33%) Military
18 17 (1.26%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.44%) Middleware
2 3 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.15%) .NET
4 1 (0.074%) EDI
4 1 (0.074%) Kafka
4 1 (0.074%) Spring
4 1 (0.074%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.074%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (11.89%) Driving Licence
2 47 (3.47%) Management Information System
3 39 (2.88%) FMCG
4 25 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (1.48%) PMI
6 19 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.33%) Cyberattack
8 17 (1.26%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.18%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.03%) Social Media
11 13 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 10 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (0.74%) Life Science
13 6 (0.44%) Derivative
13 6 (0.44%) NHS
13 6 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.30%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.96%) Windows
2 6 (0.44%) Windows Vista
3 4 (0.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.074%) Linux
4 1 (0.074%) Unix
4 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,033 (76.29%) Project Management
2 502 (37.08%) Project Delivery
3 320 (23.63%) Risk Management
4 313 (23.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 262 (19.35%) Agile
6 236 (17.43%) PRINCE2
7 176 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (9.75%) Scorecard
9 130 (9.60%) Budget Management
9 130 (9.60%) Waterfall
10 123 (9.08%) Business Case
11 121 (8.94%) Balanced Scorecard
12 98 (7.24%) Change Management
13 96 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 85 (6.28%) Project Planning
15 77 (5.69%) Quality Management
16 73 (5.39%) ERP
17 72 (5.32%) Budgeting
17 72 (5.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 59 (4.36%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 17 (1.26%) SQL
2 3 (0.22%) Java
3 2 (0.15%) C++
3 2 (0.15%) Python
4 1 (0.074%) PHP
4 1 (0.074%) VBA
Qualifications
1 255 (18.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 238 (17.58%) Degree
3 89 (6.57%) PMP
4 71 (5.24%) PMI Certification
5 50 (3.69%) HNC
6 48 (3.55%) Security Cleared
7 33 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.62%) HND
9 20 (1.48%) APMP
9 20 (1.48%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 18 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.18%) MBA
12 12 (0.89%) SC Cleared
13 11 (0.81%) MRICS
14 8 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 7 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
16 6 (0.44%) CCNP
16 6 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.44%) MAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.73%) NEBOSH
2 60 (4.43%) QA
3 39 (2.88%) PMO
4 18 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.33%) PMBOK
5 10 (0.74%) 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 (0.074%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.074%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.074%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.074%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.074%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.074%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (0.074%) Netcool
Vendors
1 182 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.73%) SAP
3 41 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 33 (2.44%) NEC
5 30 (2.22%) Oracle
6 18 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 12 (0.89%) Google
8 11 (0.81%) Capita
9 10 (0.74%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.59%) Cisco
11 6 (0.44%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.37%) Adobe
13 4 (0.30%) 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