Project Management Jobs in Lancashire

Project Management
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 14 24
Rank change year-on-year -53 +10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 146 122 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 6.29% 9.28% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 11.71% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 128 104 52
10th Percentile £46,878 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £40,988 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,647 £57,732 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +4.97% +19.57%
75th Percentile £54,793 £70,000 £62,813
90th Percentile - £80,000 £73,750
North West median annual salary £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +3.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,288 1,042 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 98.54% 79.24% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 876 353
10th Percentile £42,415 £28,000 £28,379
25th Percentile £47,683 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £54,793 £62,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,772 £70,480
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Lancashire

Project Management
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Project Management in Lancashire

Project Management
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Lancashire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Management in Lancashire

Project 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 Project Management within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Preston -6 37 £54,793 +6.39% 11
Blackpool -26 26 £54,793 -8.68% 2
Blackburn -14 22 £54,793 +15.35% 14
Lytham St Annes - 22 £54,793 - 1
Chorley -8 6 £52,500 -34.38% 3
Burnley +7 2 £47,500 +35.71% 2
Lancaster +7 1 £51,245 +13.88% 1
Nelson -4 1 £45,000 -35.71%
Project Management
North West

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 17 (11.64%) Confluence
2 2 (1.37%) Apache
Applications
1 57 (39.04%) Simulink
2 53 (36.30%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (10.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (9.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.37%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (1.37%) Asana
2 2 (1.37%) Azure
3 1 (0.68%) AWS
3 1 (0.68%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
1 2 (1.37%) FTP
1 2 (1.37%) HTTP
1 2 (1.37%) HTTPS
1 2 (1.37%) Intranet
1 2 (1.37%) SSH
1 2 (1.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.37%) MySQL
1 2 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (5.48%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.37%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.68%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.68%) ClearQuest
General
1 68 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 58 (39.73%) Aerospace
3 42 (28.77%) Finance
4 32 (21.92%) Manufacturing
5 27 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (9.59%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (6.85%) Aeronautics
8 7 (4.79%) Electronics
9 2 (1.37%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Aviation
10 1 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (60.27%) Senior
2 65 (44.52%) Project Manager
3 58 (39.73%) Systems Engineer
4 50 (34.25%) Lead
4 50 (34.25%) Lead Systems Engineer
4 50 (34.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 50 (34.25%) Team Leader
5 35 (23.97%) Senior Manager
6 32 (21.92%) Senior Project Manager
7 30 (20.55%) Infrastructure Manager
7 30 (20.55%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 15 (10.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 15 (10.27%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
8 15 (10.27%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
9 13 (8.90%) ERP Manager
9 13 (8.90%) ERP Project Manager
10 9 (6.16%) Analyst
11 7 (4.79%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.79%) Junior
11 7 (4.79%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.37%) EDI
1 2 (1.37%) LAMP
1 2 (1.37%) Loki
1 2 (1.37%) XML
2 1 (0.68%) .NET
2 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (0.68%) CSS
2 1 (0.68%) Flutter
2 1 (0.68%) HTML
2 1 (0.68%) jQuery
2 1 (0.68%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.37%) Life Science
3 2 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (1.37%) Replication
4 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.37%) AIX
1 2 (1.37%) CentOS
1 2 (1.37%) Linux
1 2 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (56.85%) Agile
2 57 (39.04%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 57 (39.04%) SysML
2 57 (39.04%) Systems Engineering
3 52 (35.62%) System Testing
4 51 (34.93%) Coaching
5 50 (34.25%) Safety Engineering
6 40 (27.40%) Software Delivery
6 40 (27.40%) Technical Leadership
7 36 (24.66%) Customer Requirements
8 32 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 30 (20.55%) Business Case
9 30 (20.55%) Quality Management
10 26 (17.81%) Line Management
11 25 (17.12%) Business Continuity
12 22 (15.07%) Programme Management
12 22 (15.07%) Waterfall
13 21 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (13.70%) Situational Awareness
15 18 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.79%) MATLAB
2 4 (2.74%) PHP
3 2 (1.37%) AWK
3 2 (1.37%) C
3 2 (1.37%) C++
3 2 (1.37%) Korn
3 2 (1.37%) Perl
3 2 (1.37%) Python
4 1 (0.68%) C#
4 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (45.89%) BPSS Clearance
1 67 (45.89%) Degree
2 30 (20.55%) HNC
3 17 (11.64%) PMP
4 3 (2.05%) CISSP
4 3 (2.05%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.55%) NEBOSH
2 8 (5.48%) QA
3 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.37%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.37%) KVM
1 2 (1.37%) Postfix
1 2 (1.37%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (1.37%) Grafana
1 2 (1.37%) Nagios
1 2 (1.37%) Nessus
Vendors
1 72 (49.32%) Microsoft
2 50 (34.25%) MathWorks
3 17 (11.64%) Atlassian
4 10 (6.85%) IBM
5 5 (3.42%) SAP
6 4 (2.74%) Oracle
7 2 (1.37%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.37%) Tenable