Project Management Job Trends in Suffolk

Project Management
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 6 16
Rank change year-on-year -30 +10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 17 34 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Suffolk 4.25% 11.97% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 13.49% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 3
10th Percentile £34,925 £51,625 £37,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £61,938 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £63,000
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -9.57% +6.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 359 252 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 89.75% 88.73% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 180 62 74
10th Percentile £31,200 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,875 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.60% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £73,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,800 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Project Management
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram in Suffolk

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Suffolk over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Management in Suffolk

Project Management
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 3 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
Ipswich -15 6 £62,500 -10.71% 5
Bury St Edmunds - 5 £38,500 -
Felixstowe - 2 - -
Woodbridge - 2 - -
Stowmarket +1 1 - -
Project Management
East of England

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Military
3 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Procurement Officer
2 5 (29.41%) PMO Officer
2 5 (29.41%) Project Officer
2 5 (29.41%) Project Support Officer
2 5 (29.41%) Support Officer
3 3 (17.65%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Project Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Tandem
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) PRINCE2
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Contract Management
2 7 (41.18%) Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (29.41%) Project Governance
4 3 (17.65%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (5.88%) Business Process Mapping
5 1 (5.88%) Coaching
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) People Management
5 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.88%) Scrum
5 1 (5.88%) Sequence Diagram
5 1 (5.88%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft