People Management Job Trends in Lancashire

People Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring People Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 56 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 -15 +25
Permanent jobs citing People Management 6 15 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.52% 1.88% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 2.06% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 1
10th Percentile £56,176 - -
25th Percentile £56,382 £36,250 £39,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,780 £40,000 £43,461
Median % change year-on-year +49.45% -7.96% -20.98%
75th Percentile £66,375 £62,505 £47,483
90th Percentile £67,500 £63,900 -
North West median annual salary £68,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +15.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

People 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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 968 727 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 84.62% 91.22% 77.71%
Number of salaries quoted 282 435 300
10th Percentile £25,087 £36,450 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +8.81% +2.22%
75th Percentile £54,798 £58,943 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,606 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

People Management job vacancy trend in Lancashire

People Management
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing People Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing People Management

People Management
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing People Management within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Nelson - 2 £65,000 - 1
Preston +6 1 £57,560 +4.65% 3
Blackpool -7 1 £57,560 -5.81%
Lancaster - 1 £62,000 -
People Management
North West

People Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Slack
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Radar Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Head of Digital
3 1 (16.67%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) MODAF
1 3 (50.00%) SysML
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) ChatOps
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft