PMP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London citing PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	487	414	384
Rank change year-on-year	-73	-30	+67
Permanent jobs citing PMP	184	120	233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	0.20%	0.34%	0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category	1.23%	1.02%	1.66%
Number of salaries quoted	92	78	111
10^th Percentile	£41,570	£31,250	£40,000
25^th Percentile	£47,188	£49,063	£50,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£62,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	-8.00%	+13.64%	-0.90%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£83,438	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£94,750	£96,250	£80,000
UK median annual salary	£65,000	£73,750	£60,250
% change year-on-year	-11.86%	+22.41%	-7.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

PMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing academic qualifications or professional certifications	14,944	11,754	14,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	16.51%	33.66%	29.20%
Number of salaries quoted	8,743	5,065	5,539
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,000	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£42,000	£32,500	£41,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£47,683	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+15.35%	-13.30%	+4.76%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£66,250	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£80,000	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£60,000	£55,000	£58,000
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-5.17%	+0.87%

PMP Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PMP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PMP Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PMP.

PMP Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 November 2026.

Salary histogram for PMP in the UK excluding London

PMP Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
South East	-71	55	£50,600	-35.75%	39
North of England	-75	38	£50,000	-	19
Midlands	-50	28	£57,500	+9.52%	16
East of England	-33	27	£60,000	-33.33%	15
North West	-54	19	£51,750	+3.50%	6
East Midlands	-38	15	£52,500	+17.39%	6
South West	-69	15	£90,000	+56.52%	15
West Midlands	-56	13	£66,250	+11.29%	10
Wales	-63	13	£66,750	+2.69%	7
Yorkshire	-33	10	£44,447	-28.88%	10
North East	-66	9	£41,500	+27.69%	3
Northern Ireland	-75	6	-	-	5
Scotland	-13	2	-	-	4
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PMP Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 November 2026, job vacancies citing PMP also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region citing PMP.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PMI Certification	86.4%	159
1	PRINCE2	86.4%	159
3	Project Management	76.1%	140
4	Agile	67.9%	125
5	Stakeholder Management	59.8%	110
6	Continuous Improvement	41.8%	77
6	Project Delivery	41.8%	77
8	Degree	32.6%	60
9	Problem-Solving	29.9%	55
10	ITIL	27.2%	50
11	ERP	25.5%	47
12	Microsoft	23.4%	43
13	Scrum	22.8%	42
14	Waterfall	22.3%	41
15	JIRA	21.2%	39
16	Decision-Making	20.7%	38
17	Change Control	19.6%	36
18	Microsoft Project	19.0%	35
19	Change Management	17.9%	33
20	Risk Management	17.4%	32
21	Budget Management	15.8%	29
22	Azure	14.7%	27
22	PRINCE2 Practitioner	14.7%	27
24	Project Governance	14.1%	26
25	Cybersecurity	13.6%	25
25	Validation	13.6%	25
27	Logistics	13.0%	24
28	Business Intelligence	12.5%	23
28	Digital Transformation Programme	12.5%	23
28	Migration	12.5%	23

PMP Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Qualifications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	PMI Certification	86.4%	159
2	Degree	32.6%	60
3	PRINCE2 Practitioner	14.7%	27
4	Security Cleared	8.7%	16
5	DBS Check	7.1%	13
6	SC Cleared	6.0%	11
7	CAPM	4.9%	9
8	APMP	4.3%	8
9	Microsoft Certification	3.8%	7
10	DV Cleared	3.3%	6
10	PgMP	3.3%	6
10	PRINCE2 Certification	3.3%	6
13	CCNA	2.7%	5
13	CCNP	2.7%	5
13	Cisco Certification	2.7%	5
16	ISEB	2.2%	4
16	Six Sigma Green Belt	2.2%	4
18	ITIL Certification	1.1%	2
19	AWS Certification	0.5%	1
19	CISM	0.5%	1