Project Planning Jobs in England

Project Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 328 362
Rank change year-on-year +90 +34 +75
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 695 726 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.40% 0.84% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.99% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 183 435 344
10th Percentile £43,000 £31,450 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,734 £46,876
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,967 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.93% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,475 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,757 £82,300 £81,250
UK median annual salary £61,967 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.93% -16.67% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Project Planning 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 46,624 73,570 84,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.18% 85.07% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23,570 53,896 50,325
10th Percentile £29,991 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,125
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 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in England

Project Planning
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 Planning within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Midlands +175 326 £50,500 -8.18% 85
West Midlands +158 207 £50,000 -9.09% 54
North of England +59 164 £61,967 +35.97% 75
North West +42 146 £61,967 +37.70% 38
East Midlands +101 119 £95,000 +94.87% 28
South East -3 99 £65,000 +32.65% 109
London +6 48 £82,500 +37.50% 133
East of England +15 32 £49,500 +23.75% 52
South West +78 19 £40,000 - 53
Yorkshire +40 17 £54,897 -4.53% 27
North East +35 1 - - 11
Project Planning
UK

Project Planning
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 11 (1.58%) IIS
2 9 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.01%) CMS
3 7 (1.01%) Kentico
4 2 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
2 27 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.73%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (1.01%) Trello
7 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.29%) Primavera
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (4.75%) Power Platform
2 29 (4.17%) Azure
3 21 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (1.58%) AWS
5 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (0.86%) Kontent
6 6 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (0.86%) SaaS
7 5 (0.72%) Asana
7 5 (0.72%) Smartsheet
8 4 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.58%) GitHub
9 3 (0.43%) Figma
10 2 (0.29%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.29%) Collibra
10 2 (0.29%) GCP
10 2 (0.29%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.29%) Matillion
10 2 (0.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.58%) 5G
1 11 (1.58%) Bluetooth
1 11 (1.58%) LTE
1 11 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (1.01%) Firewall
2 7 (1.01%) VoIP
3 5 (0.72%) ADSL
3 5 (0.72%) DHCP
3 5 (0.72%) DNS
3 5 (0.72%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) VLAN
3 5 (0.72%) VPN
4 3 (0.43%) BGP
4 3 (0.43%) MPLS
4 3 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.14%) GSM
5 1 (0.14%) Intranet
5 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.29%) Power BI
4 7 (1.01%) GIS
5 6 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.58%) Tableau
7 2 (0.29%) Ataccama
7 2 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.29%) Metadata
7 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.14%) Dremio
8 1 (0.14%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.14%) GCC
2 1 (0.14%) gcov
2 1 (0.14%) GDB
2 1 (0.14%) Git
2 1 (0.14%) GitLab
2 1 (0.14%) JDeveloper
2 1 (0.14%) LSMW
2 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (15.40%) Telecoms
2 106 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 99 (14.24%) Automotive
4 90 (12.95%) Finance
5 66 (9.50%) Electronics
6 57 (8.20%) Manufacturing
7 56 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
9 30 (4.32%) Legal
10 23 (3.31%) Law
11 22 (3.17%) Banking
12 21 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.88%) Retail
14 17 (2.45%) Billing
15 16 (2.30%) Marketing
16 10 (1.44%) Local Government
16 10 (1.44%) Public Sector
17 9 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (1.01%) Advertising
19 4 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (34.96%) Principal Engineer
1 243 (34.96%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 161 (23.17%) Systems Engineer
3 151 (21.73%) Senior
4 110 (15.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 95 (13.67%) Project Manager
6 81 (11.65%) Principal Modelling Engineer
7 55 (7.91%) Engineering Manager
8 41 (5.90%) Lead
9 39 (5.61%) Associate Engineer
9 39 (5.61%) Design Engineer
9 39 (5.61%) Electronics Design Engineer
9 39 (5.61%) Electronics Engineer
9 39 (5.61%) PCB Design Engineer
9 39 (5.61%) PCB Engineer
10 18 (2.59%) Senior Manager
10 18 (2.59%) Technical Manager
11 17 (2.45%) Consultant
12 16 (2.30%) Analyst
13 15 (2.16%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.30%) XML
2 11 (1.58%) .NET
3 7 (1.01%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.72%) HTML
5 4 (0.58%) CSS
5 4 (0.58%) JSON
6 2 (0.29%) REST
7 1 (0.14%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.14%) Android SDK
7 1 (0.14%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (0.14%) Django
7 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.14%) HTML5
7 1 (0.14%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.14%) JNI
7 1 (0.14%) jQuery
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ADF
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (1.58%) IoT
2 11 (1.58%) NB-IoT
3 9 (1.29%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.15%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.01%) Driving Licence
6 6 (0.86%) PMI
6 6 (0.86%) Social Media
6 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
7 5 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 5 (0.72%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.72%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.29%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.29%) SCADA
9 2 (0.29%) Tandem
10 1 (0.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.60%) Windows
2 24 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 17 (2.45%) Linux
4 6 (0.86%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (58.71%) Systems Engineering
2 195 (28.06%) Validation
3 190 (27.34%) Verification and Validation
4 147 (21.15%) SysML
5 135 (19.42%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 126 (18.13%) Project Management
7 100 (14.39%) Change Management
8 97 (13.96%) Project Delivery
9 94 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 80 (11.51%) Agile
11 59 (8.49%) Acceptance Criteria
12 58 (8.35%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (7.77%) Requirements Management
14 45 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (6.47%) Risk Management
15 39 (5.61%) Schematic Capture
16 38 (5.47%) PRINCE2
17 37 (5.32%) CRM
18 29 (4.17%) Waterfall
19 27 (3.88%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 23 (3.31%) SQL
2 18 (2.59%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.45%) Python
4 13 (1.87%) C
5 12 (1.73%) Ada
6 11 (1.58%) Bash
7 10 (1.44%) C#
8 4 (0.58%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.43%) C++
10 2 (0.29%) Java
10 2 (0.29%) R
11 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.14%) SAPscript
11 1 (0.14%) SOQL
11 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 414 (59.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 274 (39.42%) Degree
3 95 (13.67%) HND
4 68 (9.78%) Master's Degree
5 56 (8.06%) HNC
6 55 (7.91%) Chartered Engineer
7 24 (3.45%) PMP
8 21 (3.02%) PMI Certification
8 21 (3.02%) Security Cleared
9 12 (1.73%) SC Cleared
10 11 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (0.86%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.86%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.72%) CISSP
14 5 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.18%) QA
2 10 (1.44%) PMO
3 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (1.58%) vSphere
2 9 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Docker
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (1.58%) Ansible
1 11 (1.58%) Puppet
1 11 (1.58%) Terraform
2 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 67 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.61%) EMC
3 19 (2.73%) Oracle
4 13 (1.87%) SAP
5 11 (1.58%) VMware
6 7 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.58%) Adobe
7 4 (0.58%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.43%) Autodesk
8 3 (0.43%) Cisco
8 3 (0.43%) Databricks
8 3 (0.43%) Juniper
9 2 (0.29%) Google
10 1 (0.14%) Ariba
10 1 (0.14%) Concur
10 1 (0.14%) IBM
10 1 (0.14%) LexisNexis
10 1 (0.14%) Meraki
10 1 (0.14%) Murex
10 1 (0.14%) QNX