Project Planning Jobs in the South East

Project Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 214 210
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -47
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 87 210 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.91% 1.13% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.38% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 35 103 79
10th Percentile £57,500 £31,350 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,625 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,293 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.41% -5.52% -18.33%
75th Percentile - £56,250 £58,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £63,500 £72,750
England median annual salary £61,967 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.93% -13.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,786 15,235 12,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.58% 82.05% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,339 10,398 7,576
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in the South East.

Salary trend for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the South East

Project Planning
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Planning within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Thames Valley -21 45 £60,000 +29.61% 49
Buckinghamshire -9 37 £60,000 +37.93% 14
Surrey +69 12 £62,500 +38.89% 10
Isle of Wight - 12 £65,000 -
Hampshire +54 10 £59,000 +25.53% 12
Oxfordshire +27 7 £62,500 +35.01% 2
Kent +41 4 £91,500 - 1
West Sussex +39 3 £62,500 - 2
Sussex +17 1 £75,000 +21.95% 2
Berkshire +5 1 £80,000 +60.00% 33
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) CMS
2 1 (1.15%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
1 5 (5.75%) Smartsheet
2 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.30%) Asana
4 1 (1.15%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) 5G
1 9 (10.34%) Bluetooth
1 9 (10.34%) LTE
1 9 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (6.90%) Network Security
3 4 (4.60%) DHCP
3 4 (4.60%) DNS
3 4 (4.60%) InfiniBand
4 3 (3.45%) BGP
4 3 (3.45%) MPLS
4 3 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.45%) WAN
5 2 (2.30%) Firewall
6 1 (1.15%) VoIP
6 1 (1.15%) VPN
6 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.15%) Power BI
2 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) JIRA
General
1 35 (40.23%) Electronics
2 33 (37.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (36.78%) Social Skills
4 28 (32.18%) Manufacturing
5 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (11.49%) Finance
7 5 (5.75%) Law
7 5 (5.75%) Legal
7 5 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Local Government
9 3 (3.45%) Marketing
9 3 (3.45%) Music Industry
9 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.30%) Banking
10 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.30%) Retail
11 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Lead
2 24 (27.59%) Associate Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) Design Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) Electronics Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) PCB Design Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) PCB Engineer
3 17 (19.54%) Project Manager
4 12 (13.79%) Software Team Leader
4 12 (13.79%) Team Leader
5 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior
7 4 (4.60%) .NET Software Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Angular Developer
7 4 (4.60%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (4.60%) C# Software Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) XML
2 4 (4.60%) .NET
2 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (10.34%) IoT
2 9 (10.34%) NB-IoT
3 6 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.60%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.45%) PMI
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.30%) SCADA
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.94%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Windows
3 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.18%) Project Delivery
2 24 (27.59%) Schematic Capture
3 20 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
5 16 (18.39%) Project Management
5 16 (18.39%) SDLC
5 16 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (13.79%) Agile
6 12 (13.79%) OO
6 12 (13.79%) OOD
6 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.79%) Quality Management
6 12 (13.79%) Software Engineering
6 12 (13.79%) SysML
6 12 (13.79%) UML
7 10 (11.49%) PRINCE2
8 9 (10.34%) Asset Management
8 9 (10.34%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (10.34%) Software Testing
8 9 (10.34%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) Ada
1 12 (13.79%) Bash
1 12 (13.79%) C
1 12 (13.79%) Python
2 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.75%) SQL
4 4 (4.60%) C#
5 3 (3.45%) Perl
6 1 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 46 (52.87%) Degree
2 24 (27.59%) HND
3 13 (14.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (10.34%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (10.34%) Network+ Certification
5 7 (8.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 5 (5.75%) PMI Certification
7 4 (4.60%) CCNP
7 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.45%) LPIC
8 3 (3.45%) MCSE
8 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.45%) RHCE
9 2 (2.30%) PMP
10 1 (1.15%) CCNA
10 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.45%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (10.34%) vSphere
2 4 (4.60%) NFS
3 3 (3.45%) GPFS
3 3 (3.45%) Lustre
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Ansible
1 9 (10.34%) Puppet
1 9 (10.34%) Terraform
2 3 (3.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) EMC
2 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.34%) VMware
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco
4 3 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.45%) Juniper
4 3 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.15%) Concur