Project Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 5,734 5,138 5,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.19% 8.31% 8.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.69% 8.69% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,873 2,575 3,435
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £64,827 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
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 Project Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
North of England +19 1,462 £50,000 -9.09% 470
South East +2 1,363 £47,500 -13.64% 508
Midlands +2 1,122 £52,124 -5.23% 388
North West +18 814 £50,000 -9.09% 286
South West +13 752 £47,500 -9.52% 288
West Midlands +1 625 £55,000 - 246
Yorkshire +20 493 £51,250 -6.62% 146
East Midlands +4 459 £47,500 -13.64% 141
East of England +15 436 £50,000 -9.09% 216
Scotland -18 365 £50,000 -9.09% 154
Wales +7 165 £42,500 -18.27% 58
North East +13 155 £52,500 - 46
Northern Ireland +54 67 £42,500 -15.00% 19
Isle of Man - 8 £37,500 -
Project Management
UK

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 261 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 104 (1.81%) Confluence
3 89 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 84 (1.46%) CMS
5 58 (1.01%) Apache
6 42 (0.73%) IIS
7 40 (0.70%) WebLogic
8 29 (0.51%) WordPress
9 18 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.26%) SAS
11 14 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) Drupal
14 7 (0.12%) MS Project Server
15 6 (0.10%) WebSphere
16 5 (0.087%) JBoss
16 5 (0.087%) Joomla!
16 5 (0.087%) Kentico
16 5 (0.087%) Office Communications Server
17 4 (0.070%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 380 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 355 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 294 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
4 163 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.96%) AutoCAD
7 41 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
8 30 (0.52%) Trello
9 17 (0.30%) Windchill
10 11 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.17%) Simulink
12 9 (0.16%) Sketch
13 7 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.12%) InDesign
14 5 (0.087%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.087%) SOLIDWORKS
15 4 (0.070%) InVision
15 4 (0.070%) Solid Edge
15 4 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 41 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (0.61%) Primavera
4 28 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 24 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
6 23 (0.40%) Magento
7 22 (0.38%) Shopify
8 17 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 17 (0.30%) Teamcenter
9 11 (0.19%) NEC Housing
10 10 (0.17%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.17%) SAP MM
10 10 (0.17%) SAP WM
11 9 (0.16%) Sage 200
12 8 (0.14%) BPCS
12 8 (0.14%) Maximo
13 7 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
13 7 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.12%) SAP GTS
14 6 (0.10%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 675 (11.77%) Azure
2 415 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
3 393 (6.85%) AWS
4 262 (4.57%) Power Platform
5 217 (3.78%) SaaS
6 193 (3.37%) GCP
7 166 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 54 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
11 53 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 50 (0.87%) Entra ID
13 44 (0.77%) Power Automate
14 41 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (0.47%) Smartsheet
17 24 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (0.38%) Amazon Kinesis
18 22 (0.38%) GitHub
19 21 (0.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 184 (3.21%) Firewall
2 120 (2.09%) DNS
3 118 (2.06%) WAN
4 100 (1.74%) VPN
5 92 (1.60%) Intranet
6 85 (1.48%) Internet
7 75 (1.31%) TCP/IP
8 68 (1.19%) Network Security
9 64 (1.12%) LAN
10 63 (1.10%) DHCP
10 63 (1.10%) SSL
11 56 (0.98%) IPsec
11 56 (0.98%) SAN
11 56 (0.98%) SNMP
11 56 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
12 49 (0.85%) SD-WAN
13 47 (0.82%) Wireless
14 46 (0.80%) BGP
15 38 (0.66%) 5G
16 28 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (3.47%) Power BI
2 123 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 107 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 98 (1.71%) Relational Database
5 72 (1.26%) BigQuery
5 72 (1.26%) Looker
5 72 (1.26%) MySQL
6 69 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 64 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 53 (0.92%) MongoDB
9 50 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
10 45 (0.78%) Big Data
10 45 (0.78%) Oracle Database
11 44 (0.77%) Tableau
12 26 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 23 (0.40%) GIS
14 22 (0.38%) Data Lake
14 22 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 21 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 295 (5.14%) JIRA
2 81 (1.41%) Git
3 49 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 24 (0.42%) Postman
5 23 (0.40%) GitLab
6 18 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 16 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (0.17%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.17%) Subversion
9 9 (0.16%) Selenium
10 8 (0.14%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.14%) JUnit
10 8 (0.14%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.10%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.087%) gulp
12 5 (0.087%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.070%) AdminStudio
13 4 (0.070%) InstallShield
13 4 (0.070%) MSI
14 3 (0.052%) Zephyr
General
1 2,449 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 1,316 (22.95%) Finance
3 912 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 399 (6.96%) Marketing
5 367 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
6 364 (6.35%) Manufacturing
7 362 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
8 354 (6.17%) Retail
9 342 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 268 (4.67%) Public Sector
11 223 (3.89%) Legal
12 200 (3.49%) Telecoms
13 181 (3.16%) Law
14 131 (2.28%) Aerospace
15 127 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 112 (1.95%) Billing
17 99 (1.73%) Banking
18 91 (1.59%) Local Government
19 88 (1.53%) Electronics
20 85 (1.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 2,076 (36.21%) Project Manager
2 670 (11.68%) Senior
3 471 (8.21%) Lead
4 454 (7.92%) IT Manager
5 381 (6.64%) Senior Manager
6 375 (6.54%) Analyst
7 290 (5.06%) Senior Project Manager
8 257 (4.48%) IT Project Manager
9 256 (4.46%) Architect
10 223 (3.89%) Consultant
11 154 (2.69%) Digital Project Manager
12 150 (2.62%) Developer
12 150 (2.62%) Presales Manager
13 149 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
14 136 (2.37%) Coordinator
15 127 (2.21%) Business Analyst
16 122 (2.13%) Engineering Manager
17 110 (1.92%) Data Manager
18 102 (1.78%) Technical Manager
19 101 (1.76%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (2.35%) .NET
2 102 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
3 99 (1.73%) HTML
4 89 (1.55%) CSS
5 77 (1.34%) EDI
6 64 (1.12%) Spring Boot
7 51 (0.89%) React
8 50 (0.87%) YAML
9 45 (0.78%) XML
10 43 (0.75%) JSON
11 37 (0.65%) Spring
12 35 (0.61%) RESTful
13 34 (0.59%) SOAP
14 33 (0.58%) AngularJS
15 31 (0.54%) jQuery
16 30 (0.52%) Web Services
17 29 (0.51%) Laravel
18 23 (0.40%) REST
18 23 (0.40%) Vue
19 22 (0.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 481 (8.39%) Management Information System
2 376 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
3 241 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 190 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 182 (3.17%) Driving Licence
6 154 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 146 (2.55%) PMI
8 118 (2.06%) Public Cloud
9 82 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 77 (1.34%) NHS
11 76 (1.33%) PKI
12 74 (1.29%) FMCG
13 68 (1.19%) Mobile App
14 66 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
15 60 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
16 57 (0.99%) Virtual Team
17 48 (0.84%) IoT
18 46 (0.80%) Social Media
19 40 (0.70%) Algorithms
20 34 (0.59%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 355 (6.19%) Windows
2 258 (4.50%) Linux
3 135 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 73 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 49 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
6 44 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 41 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 29 (0.51%) Android
10 28 (0.49%) Unix
11 21 (0.37%) Apple iOS
12 17 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.28%) VMS
14 15 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
15 12 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.21%) Windows XP
16 8 (0.14%) AIX
16 8 (0.14%) Solaris
17 7 (0.12%) Ubuntu
17 7 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,818 (31.71%) Agile
2 1,331 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
3 1,279 (22.31%) Project Delivery
4 831 (14.49%) PRINCE2
5 662 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 633 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 626 (10.92%) Mentoring
8 574 (10.01%) Change Management
9 551 (9.61%) Actionable Insight
10 509 (8.88%) Decision-Making
11 477 (8.32%) Risk Management
12 426 (7.43%) Customer Service
13 419 (7.31%) Coaching
14 413 (7.20%) SDLC
15 406 (7.08%) Agile Project Management
16 402 (7.01%) ITIL
17 383 (6.68%) Scrum
18 380 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
18 380 (6.63%) DevOps
19 366 (6.38%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 337 (5.88%) SQL
2 221 (3.85%) Python
3 159 (2.77%) JavaScript
4 134 (2.34%) C#
5 104 (1.81%) PowerShell
6 100 (1.74%) Java
7 75 (1.31%) PHP
8 72 (1.26%) C
9 48 (0.84%) C++
10 38 (0.66%) T-SQL
11 37 (0.65%) VB
12 30 (0.52%) TypeScript
13 26 (0.45%) R
14 24 (0.42%) VBA
15 22 (0.38%) Bash
16 18 (0.31%) MATLAB
17 14 (0.24%) VB.NET
18 13 (0.23%) Perl
19 10 (0.17%) VBScript
20 9 (0.16%) RPG
Qualifications
1 1,378 (24.03%) Degree
2 579 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 351 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 319 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 266 (4.64%) PMP
6 136 (2.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 131 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 103 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 92 (1.60%) Master's Degree
10 89 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 89 (1.55%) DBS Check
11 85 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 77 (1.34%) APMP
13 75 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 66 (1.15%) Azure Certification
15 65 (1.13%) HNC
16 58 (1.01%) HND
17 53 (0.92%) CCNA
18 49 (0.85%) AWS Certification
19 48 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (8.00%) PMO
2 327 (5.70%) QA
3 128 (2.23%) GDPR
4 104 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.31%) SLA
6 67 (1.17%) Accessibility
7 57 (0.99%) ISO 9001
8 50 (0.87%) Data Quality
9 41 (0.72%) NIST
10 27 (0.47%) NEBOSH
11 26 (0.45%) NCSC
12 23 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.28%) GMP
13 16 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 15 (0.26%) GRC
15 14 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 13 (0.23%) ITGC
17 12 (0.21%) COSHH
17 12 (0.21%) GxP
17 12 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 209 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 170 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 102 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 89 (1.55%) Docker
5 30 (0.52%) Firmware
6 26 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (0.24%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.087%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.070%) pfSense
12 4 (0.070%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.017%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.017%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.017%) NFS
13 1 (0.017%) RACF
13 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.017%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 127 (2.21%) Ansible
2 86 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.19%) vCenter Server
4 59 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 44 (0.77%) SCCM
7 41 (0.72%) Terraform
8 27 (0.47%) ZABBIX
9 21 (0.37%) WSUS
10 20 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (0.35%) SCOM
11 14 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (0.23%) Puppet
13 12 (0.21%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.21%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.21%) VxRail
14 6 (0.10%) Nessus
15 4 (0.070%) Backup Exec
15 4 (0.070%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 1,053 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 224 (3.91%) Google
3 206 (3.59%) VMware
4 178 (3.10%) SAP
5 156 (2.72%) Oracle
6 123 (2.15%) Cisco
7 99 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 77 (1.34%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.06%) NetApp
10 60 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 58 (1.01%) Dell
12 56 (0.98%) Adobe
13 52 (0.91%) IFS
14 49 (0.85%) SolidFire
15 46 (0.80%) Sage
16 45 (0.78%) NEC
17 44 (0.77%) ServiceNow
18 43 (0.75%) Veeam
19 41 (0.72%) Sparx
20 35 (0.61%) IBM