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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 370 455
Rank change year-on-year -61 +85 +80
Permanent jobs citing PMP 100 246 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.50% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.82% 1.75% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 69 119 83
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,100
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £96,500 £80,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £71,098 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.50% -7.69% +13.04%

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 12,209 14,075 10,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.82% 28.55% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,884 5,708 7,060
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £67,146
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 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
South East +7 45 £82,500 +50.00% 76
North of England -39 28 £50,000 -11.11% 30
North West -35 20 £50,000 -9.09% 15
Midlands +13 12 £49,488 -10.02% 21
West Midlands +38 9 £59,527 +8.23% 11
East of England -9 6 £90,000 +20.00% 10
North East +14 5 £32,500 -43.48% 5
South West +41 3 £57,500 -12.21% 16
Yorkshire 0 3 £65,000 +8.33% 10
East Midlands -8 3 £39,449 -28.28% 9
Scotland -15 3 £45,000 +8.82% 14
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 9
Wales +15 1 £65,000 +73.33% 6
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 5 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (7.00%) MS Visio
3 7 (7.00%) Trello
4 4 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.00%) SAP WM
2 4 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.00%) Primavera
4 1 (1.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.00%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.00%) Azure
2 13 (13.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.00%) AWS
4 7 (7.00%) SaaS
5 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.00%) Collibra
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.00%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.00%) VPN
1 9 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (8.00%) LAN
2 8 (8.00%) Unified Communications
2 8 (8.00%) VoIP
2 8 (8.00%) WAN
3 7 (7.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (4.00%) Firewall
5 2 (2.00%) Wireless
6 1 (1.00%) 5G
6 1 (1.00%) Internet
6 1 (1.00%) Junos
6 1 (1.00%) Network Security
6 1 (1.00%) NGFW
6 1 (1.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) Power BI
2 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (3.00%) Metadata
3 3 (3.00%) SAP BW
3 3 (3.00%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 16 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.00%) ERwin
2 3 (3.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 56 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (37.00%) Finance
3 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Legal
4 7 (7.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.00%) Law
6 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.00%) Marketing
7 4 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.00%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.00%) Aviation
8 3 (3.00%) Games
8 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Publishing
9 2 (2.00%) Local Government
9 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Retail
10 1 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 25 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 16 (16.00%) Programme Manager
3 8 (8.00%) IT Manager
3 8 (8.00%) Lead
4 7 (7.00%) Head of IT
4 7 (7.00%) Head of IT Operations
4 7 (7.00%) Head of Operations
4 7 (7.00%) Senior
4 7 (7.00%) Workstream Lead
5 6 (6.00%) Coordinator
6 5 (5.00%) Applications Support
6 5 (5.00%) Commercial Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Commercial Project Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Head of Support
6 5 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (4.00%) PMO Coordinator
7 4 (4.00%) Security Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.00%) .NET
1 2 (2.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (2.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.00%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.00%) Operational Technology
3 9 (9.00%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.00%) Social Media
5 5 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.00%) IoT
7 2 (2.00%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.00%) PMI
7 2 (2.00%) SCADA
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.00%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (1.00%) SCORM
8 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (73.00%) Project Management
2 65 (65.00%) PRINCE2
3 53 (53.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (48.00%) Agile
5 41 (41.00%) Project Delivery
6 39 (39.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (34.00%) Change Management
8 30 (30.00%) ITIL
9 28 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (22.00%) Budget Management
11 22 (22.00%) ERP
11 22 (22.00%) Process Improvement
12 21 (21.00%) Waterfall
13 20 (20.00%) Risk Management
14 19 (19.00%) Service Delivery
15 17 (17.00%) Resource Management
16 16 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (15.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.00%) SQL
2 3 (3.00%) Python
3 2 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 94 (94.00%) PMI Certification
2 69 (69.00%) Degree
3 19 (19.00%) Master's Degree
4 8 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.00%) DBS Check
5 7 (7.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.00%) CCNP
5 7 (7.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (3.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (3.00%) SAP Certification
8 2 (2.00%) CBAP
8 2 (2.00%) CISM
8 2 (2.00%) CISSP
8 2 (2.00%) HND
8 2 (2.00%) RIBA
8 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.00%) QA
2 10 (10.00%) PMO
3 9 (9.00%) SLA
4 7 (7.00%) NIST
5 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (4.00%) Accessibility
7 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.00%) Basel III
8 1 (1.00%) EMIR
8 1 (1.00%) MiFID
8 1 (1.00%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.00%) CASB
1 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.00%) SAP
3 9 (9.00%) Cisco
4 2 (2.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.00%) JD Edwards
4 2 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (1.00%) Aruba
5 1 (1.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.00%) Dell
5 1 (1.00%) EMC
5 1 (1.00%) IBM
5 1 (1.00%) Juniper
5 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle
5 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.00%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.00%) Planon
5 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow