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 with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 437 390
Rank change year-on-year -58 -47 +59
Permanent jobs citing PMP 177 102 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.29% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.23% 0.80% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 93 71 124
10th Percentile £44,447 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £87,500 £68,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £65,875 £73,750 £58,700
% change year-on-year -10.68% +25.64% -9.69%

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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,366 12,810 14,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.61% 37.02% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,051 4,921 6,244
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,900 £48,122 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.24% -8.34% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -1.72%

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 job vacancy trend 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.

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 October 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 October 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
South East -41 53 £50,600 -36.75% 98
North of England -50 40 £50,000 -4.31% 77
Midlands -30 31 £57,500 -3.41% 56
North West -28 23 £53,500 +2.39% 43
East Midlands -22 19 £52,500 +2.99% 27
East of England -33 18 £60,000 -33.33% 45
South West -57 17 £77,500 +34.78% 33
West Midlands -40 12 £58,514 -1.70% 29
Wales -64 12 £66,786 +2.75% 20
Yorkshire -25 10 £44,447 -31.62% 27
North East -59 7 £41,500 +27.69% 7
Scotland +9 3 - - 48
Northern Ireland -85 3 - - 11
PMP
UK

PMP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.26%) Confluence
1 4 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Mendix
Applications
1 34 (19.21%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.26%) Trello
5 4 (2.26%) Windchill
6 2 (1.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (3.95%) Infor M3
3 4 (2.26%) Sage 200
3 4 (2.26%) SAP Business One
4 3 (1.69%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.13%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.13%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.56%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.56%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (12.99%) Power Platform
2 21 (11.86%) Azure
3 15 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.21%) Smartsheet
5 10 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.52%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.39%) SaaS
9 4 (2.26%) GitHub
10 3 (1.69%) Asana
10 3 (1.69%) AWS
11 1 (0.56%) Dataform
11 1 (0.56%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) Network Security
2 4 (2.26%) LAN
2 4 (2.26%) WAN
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.99%) Power BI
2 2 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.56%) DTS
3 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.56%) GIS
3 1 (0.56%) Looker
3 1 (0.56%) Metadata
3 1 (0.56%) Power Query
3 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (19.21%) JIRA
General
1 81 (45.76%) Social Skills
2 79 (44.63%) Finance
3 38 (21.47%) Manufacturing
4 23 (12.99%) Influencing Skills
5 21 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (11.86%) Pharmaceutical
6 15 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (7.34%) Public Sector
8 12 (6.78%) Law
9 9 (5.08%) Legal
10 8 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (4.52%) Retail
10 8 (4.52%) Telecoms
11 6 (3.39%) Military
12 4 (2.26%) Environmental Health
12 4 (2.26%) Marketing
13 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.13%) Automotive
13 2 (1.13%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 69 (38.98%) Project Manager
2 29 (16.38%) Senior
3 27 (15.25%) Programme Manager
4 26 (14.69%) Senior Manager
5 24 (13.56%) IT Manager
6 20 (11.30%) IT Project Manager
6 20 (11.30%) Lead
7 17 (9.60%) Senior Project Manager
8 13 (7.34%) Technical Manager
9 9 (5.08%) ERP Manager
9 9 (5.08%) ERP Project Manager
9 9 (5.08%) Portfolio Manager
9 9 (5.08%) Technical Project Manager
10 7 (3.95%) Business Systems Manager
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Service Manager
11 6 (3.39%) Development Manager
11 6 (3.39%) Development Project Manager
11 6 (3.39%) Senior Development Manager
12 5 (2.82%) Analyst
12 5 (2.82%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.56%) Pandas
1 1 (0.56%) PySpark
1 1 (0.56%) REST
1 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) PMI
2 11 (6.21%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.08%) Operational Technology
4 8 (4.52%) FMCG
4 8 (4.52%) LIMS
5 7 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.39%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.26%) EPoS
8 4 (2.26%) Life Science
8 4 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (1.13%) CMDB
10 2 (1.13%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.13%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.13%) NHS
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (87.57%) PRINCE2
2 127 (71.75%) Project Management
3 117 (66.10%) Agile
4 99 (55.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 75 (42.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 68 (38.42%) Project Delivery
7 56 (31.64%) ITIL
8 55 (31.07%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (25.99%) ERP
10 37 (20.90%) Decision-Making
11 33 (18.64%) Waterfall
12 32 (18.08%) Change Management
12 32 (18.08%) Scrum
13 30 (16.95%) Budget Management
14 27 (15.25%) Change Control
14 27 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 26 (14.69%) Risk Management
16 25 (14.12%) Business Intelligence
16 25 (14.12%) Logistics
16 25 (14.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.65%) SQL
2 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 158 (89.27%) PMI Certification
2 64 (36.16%) Degree
3 26 (14.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 17 (9.60%) Security Cleared
5 14 (7.91%) DBS Check
6 12 (6.78%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.08%) CAPM
8 8 (4.52%) APMP
9 7 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (3.39%) PgMP
10 6 (3.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (2.26%) CCNA
11 4 (2.26%) CCNP
11 4 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (2.26%) ISEB
12 3 (1.69%) CISM
12 3 (1.69%) CISSP
13 2 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (1.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.43%) QA
2 16 (9.04%) PMO
3 12 (6.78%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.65%) Accessibility
5 9 (5.08%) GxP
6 5 (2.82%) GDPR
6 5 (2.82%) SLA
7 4 (2.26%) Def Stans
7 4 (2.26%) GMP
7 4 (2.26%) ISO 9000
7 4 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 4 (2.26%) NEBOSH
8 2 (1.13%) ISO 9001
8 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.13%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.04%) SAP
3 9 (5.08%) Sage
4 7 (3.95%) Infor
5 6 (3.39%) Cisco
6 5 (2.82%) Oracle
6 5 (2.82%) Pega
7 3 (1.69%) Planview
7 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.69%) UiPath
8 2 (1.13%) IFS
8 2 (1.13%) Minitab
8 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.13%) VMware
9 1 (0.56%) Dell
9 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.56%) Google
9 1 (0.56%) Juniper
9 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.56%) Talend