Project Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 12 23
Rank change year-on-year -38 +11 +1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,813 3,443 3,809
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.89% 10.43% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.04% 11.52% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,017 1,487 2,812
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,481 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,991 29,876 43,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.14% 90.48% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20,941 13,352 33,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Project Management

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 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 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
North of England -26 523 £40,000 -27.27% 201
South East -26 471 £57,500 - 323
Midlands -44 286 £45,000 -18.18% 171
North West -29 233 £42,500 -19.05% 103
West Midlands -38 195 £45,000 -21.05% 97
South West -27 188 £45,564 -12.38% 119
Yorkshire -28 179 £40,000 -27.27% 74
Scotland -15 151 £40,000 -27.27% 49
North East -4 111 £40,000 -32.20% 29
East of England -37 109 £55,000 +10.00% 128
East Midlands -54 91 £43,100 -17.12% 74
Northern Ireland -2 57 £60,000 +26.32% 17
Wales -34 35 £60,000 +15.38% 49
Project Management
UK

Project Management
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
1 112 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.49%) Confluence
3 25 (1.38%) CMS
4 14 (0.77%) WordPress
5 11 (0.61%) Kinematics
5 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
7 3 (0.17%) govService
7 3 (0.17%) SAS
7 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.055%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.055%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.055%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 307 (16.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (8.66%) Microsoft Office
3 110 (6.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 81 (4.47%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.16%) AutoCAD
6 19 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 18 (0.99%) SOLIDWORKS
8 12 (0.66%) Trello
9 10 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 4 (0.22%) CATIA
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.11%) Elementor
12 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.11%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.11%) Revit
12 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 74 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 64 (3.53%) SAP MDG
3 37 (2.04%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 17 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 17 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
5 15 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
6 10 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
8 8 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
9 7 (0.39%) Shopify
10 6 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.22%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.17%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 133 (7.34%) Power Platform
2 115 (6.34%) Azure
3 93 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (3.25%) SaaS
5 50 (2.76%) AWS
6 35 (1.93%) PowerApps
7 23 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (0.88%) Asana
9 15 (0.83%) GCP
10 14 (0.77%) Smartsheet
11 13 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (0.72%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.66%) OCI
13 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (0.39%) Google Workspace
15 6 (0.33%) Entra ID
15 6 (0.33%) Snowflake
16 5 (0.28%) ChatGPT
16 5 (0.28%) Slack
17 4 (0.22%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
2 23 (1.27%) Firewall
3 21 (1.16%) Wireless
4 19 (1.05%) WAN
5 16 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
5 16 (0.88%) VPN
6 15 (0.83%) LAN
7 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.66%) VLAN
8 11 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.55%) Broadband
9 10 (0.55%) MPLS
10 9 (0.50%) BGP
11 8 (0.44%) Internet
11 8 (0.44%) Network Security
12 6 (0.33%) DNS
12 6 (0.33%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.33%) VoIP
13 5 (0.28%) Intranet
13 5 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (8.11%) Tableau
2 128 (7.06%) Data Mining
3 113 (6.23%) Power BI
4 25 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 13 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (0.50%) Big Data
7 8 (0.44%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.39%) Metadata
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.28%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.22%) Data Vault
10 4 (0.22%) MySQL
10 4 (0.22%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.11%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (3.36%) JIRA
2 7 (0.39%) GitLab
3 5 (0.28%) Git
3 5 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.17%) ERwin
4 3 (0.17%) JIRA Agile
4 3 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.11%) Checkstyle
5 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.11%) ESLint
5 2 (0.11%) Gradle
5 2 (0.11%) JUnit
5 2 (0.11%) Maven
5 2 (0.11%) Mockito
5 2 (0.11%) Selenium
5 2 (0.11%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.11%) TestNG
6 1 (0.055%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle APEX
General
1 806 (44.46%) Social Skills
2 726 (40.04%) Finance
3 551 (30.39%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (9.10%) Manufacturing
5 146 (8.05%) Marketing
6 102 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
7 97 (5.35%) Public Sector
8 96 (5.30%) Retail
9 93 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 82 (4.52%) Legal
11 79 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (3.92%) Law
13 50 (2.76%) Electronics
13 50 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 40 (2.21%) Aviation
15 39 (2.15%) Telecoms
16 35 (1.93%) Aerospace
17 27 (1.49%) Aeronautics
17 27 (1.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 352 (19.42%) Analyst
2 243 (13.40%) Project Manager
3 242 (13.35%) Trainee
4 241 (13.29%) Senior
5 233 (12.85%) Trainee Analyst
6 166 (9.16%) Business Analyst
7 159 (8.77%) Lead
8 149 (8.22%) Senior Manager
9 123 (6.78%) Data Analyst
10 121 (6.67%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 113 (6.23%) Architect
12 112 (6.18%) Trainee Business Analyst
13 100 (5.52%) Development Manager
14 78 (4.30%) IT Manager
15 76 (4.19%) Systems Manager
16 75 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
17 73 (4.03%) Product Manager
18 69 (3.81%) Quality Manager
19 65 (3.59%) Product Development Manager
20 64 (3.53%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.32%) CSS
2 14 (0.77%) Middleware
3 13 (0.72%) HTML
4 11 (0.61%) EDI
5 7 (0.39%) .NET
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.28%) REST
6 5 (0.28%) Web Services
7 4 (0.22%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.22%) React
8 2 (0.11%) Bootstrap
8 2 (0.11%) JSON
8 2 (0.11%) Node.js
8 2 (0.11%) OAuth
8 2 (0.11%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.11%) Pandas
8 2 (0.11%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.11%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.11%) Spring Security
8 2 (0.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 125 (6.89%) Management Information System
2 79 (4.36%) FMCG
3 73 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 66 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 65 (3.59%) Robotics
6 60 (3.31%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.26%) Driving Licence
8 38 (2.10%) Product Ownership
9 30 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 25 (1.38%) Blog
11 24 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 21 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
14 16 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
14 16 (0.88%) Social Media
15 15 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.77%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.77%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.49%) Windows
2 15 (0.83%) Linux
3 9 (0.50%) Android
3 9 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.055%) Unix
6 1 (0.055%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
2 475 (26.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 380 (20.96%) Project Delivery
4 363 (20.02%) Agile
5 319 (17.60%) Change Management
6 303 (16.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 281 (15.50%) Analytics
8 274 (15.11%) Decision-Making
9 271 (14.95%) Business Analysis
10 220 (12.13%) Risk Management
11 217 (11.97%) PRINCE2
12 212 (11.69%) Data Analysis
13 195 (10.76%) AI
13 195 (10.76%) Process Improvement
14 178 (9.82%) Coaching
15 160 (8.83%) ERP
16 152 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 145 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
18 143 (7.89%) Data Analytics
19 131 (7.23%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 201 (11.09%) SQL
2 181 (9.98%) Python
3 33 (1.82%) VBA
4 25 (1.38%) C
5 19 (1.05%) C#
6 16 (0.88%) C++
6 16 (0.88%) Java
7 10 (0.55%) Perl
8 7 (0.39%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.28%) Bash
9 5 (0.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.22%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.22%) Ladder Logic
10 4 (0.22%) PHP
11 3 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (0.17%) R
11 3 (0.17%) Tcl
11 3 (0.17%) VB
12 2 (0.11%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 554 (30.56%) Degree
2 158 (8.71%) Security Cleared
3 153 (8.44%) PMP
4 136 (7.50%) PMI Certification
5 133 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 70 (3.86%) Master's Degree
7 64 (3.53%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
8 48 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.93%) DBS Check
10 30 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.60%) HNC
12 20 (1.10%) MBA
13 18 (0.99%) APMP
13 18 (0.99%) HND
13 18 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 14 (0.77%) CCNP
14 14 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.72%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
16 11 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (8.27%) QA
2 103 (5.68%) PMO
3 36 (1.99%) GDPR
4 32 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.16%) ISO 9001
7 15 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.55%) IEC 61131
9 8 (0.44%) SLA
10 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.33%) NIST
11 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 5 (0.28%) P3O
12 4 (0.22%) GxP
12 4 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.17%) GRC
13 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.55%) Firmware
2 10 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.50%) Docker
4 6 (0.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.33%) vSphere
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.055%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (0.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.28%) Ansible
2 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.22%) Terraform
4 2 (0.11%) Grafana
4 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.055%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.055%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.055%) MOM
5 1 (0.055%) SCCM
5 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 437 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 139 (7.67%) SAP
3 53 (2.92%) Salesforce
4 39 (2.15%) Oracle
5 37 (2.04%) OpenText
6 32 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.60%) Cisco
8 27 (1.49%) Ariba
9 21 (1.16%) Adobe
9 21 (1.16%) HubSpot
10 19 (1.05%) Google
11 18 (0.99%) Anaplan
11 18 (0.99%) Genesys
11 18 (0.99%) Verint
12 10 (0.55%) Siemens
12 10 (0.55%) VMware
13 8 (0.44%) Allen-Bradley
13 8 (0.44%) Toshiba
14 7 (0.39%) Epicor
14 7 (0.39%) Infor