Project Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 107 86
Rank change year-on-year +51 -21 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 3,042 1,956 2,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.34% 3.18% 3.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.58% 3.57% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,207 1,281 1,727
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £71,875
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.17% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,441 54,823 67,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.23% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,080 31,110 43,010
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +86 830 £47,500 -9.52% 199
Midlands +64 643 £50,000 -12.66% 139
South East -3 574 £52,500 -8.70% 214
North West +78 445 £47,500 -13.64% 113
South West +50 410 £48,500 -3.00% 101
West Midlands +56 340 £50,000 -9.09% 89
East of England +44 288 £54,000 -1.82% 85
Yorkshire +83 276 £47,500 -5.00% 71
East Midlands +60 272 £50,000 -16.67% 48
Scotland -25 160 £50,313 -8.52% 55
Wales +53 112 £40,553 -26.27% 17
North East +47 109 £47,500 -9.52% 20
Northern Ireland +49 29 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Project Manager
UK

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Project Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 2,082 (68.44%) Project Management
2 1,076 (35.37%) Social Skills
3 1,000 (32.87%) Agile
4 897 (29.49%) Project Delivery
5 744 (24.46%) Finance
6 696 (22.88%) PRINCE2
7 583 (19.17%) Degree
8 441 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 370 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
10 314 (10.32%) Risk Management
11 300 (9.86%) Change Management
12 289 (9.50%) Waterfall
13 273 (8.97%) Microsoft
14 253 (8.32%) SDLC
15 252 (8.28%) Security Cleared
16 249 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
17 236 (7.76%) Agile Project Management
17 236 (7.76%) Decision-Making
18 223 (7.33%) Business Case
19 206 (6.77%) Microsoft Project
20 198 (6.51%) Manufacturing
20 198 (6.51%) Budget Management
20 198 (6.51%) Presales
21 196 (6.44%) PMO
21 196 (6.44%) PMI Certification
22 195 (6.41%) Actionable Insight
22 195 (6.41%) Software Delivery
23 191 (6.28%) PMP
24 187 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
25 181 (5.95%) Mentoring

Project Manager Skill Set
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 45 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 40 (1.31%) CMS
3 16 (0.53%) Confluence
4 10 (0.33%) ArcGIS
4 10 (0.33%) SAS
5 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.23%) MS Project Server
6 5 (0.16%) Kentico
6 5 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
6 5 (0.16%) WordPress
7 4 (0.13%) Drupal
8 3 (0.099%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.066%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.066%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.066%) Captiva
9 2 (0.066%) Documentum
10 1 (0.033%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 206 (6.77%) Microsoft Project
2 179 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 158 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
4 92 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 34 (1.12%) AutoCAD
7 23 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.49%) Trello
9 6 (0.20%) InDesign
10 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.066%) CATIA
11 2 (0.066%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.36%) Shopify
3 9 (0.30%) Primavera
3 9 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
4 7 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.20%) Magento
6 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.099%) Maximo
7 3 (0.099%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.066%) C-CURE
8 2 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.033%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.033%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.033%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.033%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (3.91%) Azure
2 76 (2.50%) SaaS
3 61 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
6 31 (1.02%) AWS
7 24 (0.79%) Power Platform
8 19 (0.62%) Smartsheet
9 8 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 8 (0.26%) Slack
10 7 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (0.23%) Mavenlink
10 7 (0.23%) Power Automate
10 7 (0.23%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.20%) Basecamp
11 6 (0.20%) Google Sheets
12 5 (0.16%) Asana
12 5 (0.16%) Intacct
12 5 (0.16%) Kontent
13 4 (0.13%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
2 29 (0.95%) Wireless
3 23 (0.76%) Internet
4 21 (0.69%) Intranet
5 18 (0.59%) LAN
6 16 (0.53%) Firewall
7 15 (0.49%) WAN
8 12 (0.39%) Extranet
9 10 (0.33%) LTE
9 10 (0.33%) TETRA
10 7 (0.23%) VoIP
11 6 (0.20%) Network Security
12 5 (0.16%) Broadband
13 3 (0.099%) 4G
13 3 (0.099%) 5G
13 3 (0.099%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.099%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.099%) WebEx
14 2 (0.066%) DNS
14 2 (0.066%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (0.62%) Power BI
2 18 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
3 15 (0.49%) Tableau
4 10 (0.33%) Big Data
5 6 (0.20%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.13%) Metadata
6 4 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.099%) GIS
8 2 (0.066%) EDMS
9 1 (0.033%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.033%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.033%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.033%) Impala
9 1 (0.033%) MySQL
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.033%) Power Query
9 1 (0.033%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.033%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 121 (3.98%) JIRA
2 6 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.066%) JIRA Agile
3 2 (0.066%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.033%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,076 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 744 (24.46%) Finance
3 249 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (6.51%) Manufacturing
5 187 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
6 175 (5.75%) Retail
7 173 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 170 (5.59%) Public Sector
9 144 (4.73%) Marketing
10 127 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
11 104 (3.42%) Telecoms
12 92 (3.02%) Legal
13 89 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
14 74 (2.43%) Law
15 66 (2.17%) Games
16 49 (1.61%) Aerospace
17 43 (1.41%) Local Government
18 41 (1.35%) Banking
19 35 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
20 31 (1.02%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (1.25%) EDI
2 31 (1.02%) .NET
3 21 (0.69%) RESTful
3 21 (0.69%) SOAP
4 10 (0.33%) CSS
4 10 (0.33%) HTML
5 7 (0.23%) Flash
6 6 (0.20%) JSON
7 3 (0.099%) ADO
8 2 (0.066%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.066%) REST
8 2 (0.066%) Web Services
9 1 (0.033%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.033%) Kafka
9 1 (0.033%) Leaflet
9 1 (0.033%) Middleware
9 1 (0.033%) Node.js
9 1 (0.033%) React
9 1 (0.033%) Spring
9 1 (0.033%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 180 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
2 129 (4.24%) Driving Licence
3 69 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
4 63 (2.07%) Management Information System
4 63 (2.07%) PMI
5 62 (2.04%) FMCG
6 58 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 49 (1.61%) NHS
8 39 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 26 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 17 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (0.53%) Digital Signage
12 13 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (0.43%) Derivative
13 12 (0.39%) Credit Risk
13 12 (0.39%) Freedom of Information
13 12 (0.39%) Robotics
14 11 (0.36%) Client/Server
14 11 (0.36%) Product Ownership
15 9 (0.30%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 21 (0.69%) Windows
2 15 (0.49%) Android
3 12 (0.39%) Linux
4 8 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 8 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,082 (68.44%) Project Management
2 1,000 (32.87%) Agile
3 897 (29.49%) Project Delivery
4 696 (22.88%) PRINCE2
5 441 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 370 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
7 314 (10.32%) Risk Management
8 300 (9.86%) Change Management
9 289 (9.50%) Waterfall
10 253 (8.32%) SDLC
11 236 (7.76%) Agile Project Management
11 236 (7.76%) Decision-Making
12 223 (7.33%) Business Case
13 198 (6.51%) Budget Management
13 198 (6.51%) Presales
14 195 (6.41%) Actionable Insight
14 195 (6.41%) Software Delivery
15 181 (5.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 181 (5.95%) Mentoring
16 156 (5.13%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (0.95%) JavaScript
2 8 (0.26%) Python
3 7 (0.23%) SQL
4 6 (0.20%) Java
5 5 (0.16%) C#
6 1 (0.033%) Ada
6 1 (0.033%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.033%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.033%) Scala
Qualifications
1 583 (19.17%) Degree
2 252 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 196 (6.44%) PMI Certification
4 191 (6.28%) PMP
5 167 (5.49%) SC Cleared
6 133 (4.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 113 (3.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 69 (2.27%) HNC
9 38 (1.25%) HND
10 31 (1.02%) DV Cleared
11 30 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 20 (0.66%) APMP
13 16 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.43%) CAPM
14 13 (0.43%) RIBA
15 10 (0.33%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.30%) NVQ Level 3
17 6 (0.20%) ACCA
17 6 (0.20%) CIMA
17 6 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (6.44%) PMO
2 68 (2.24%) QA
3 40 (1.31%) GDPR
4 35 (1.15%) NEBOSH
5 33 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 18 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.46%) SLA
8 13 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
9 9 (0.30%) COSHH
10 8 (0.26%) GMP
10 8 (0.26%) GxP
11 6 (0.20%) GLP
12 4 (0.13%) IEC 62304
12 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.099%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.099%) ISO 14001
13 3 (0.099%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.066%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (0.20%) Firmware
2 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.099%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.033%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (0.26%) SCOM
2 2 (0.066%) SmoothWall
3 1 (0.033%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.033%) SCCM
3 1 (0.033%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 273 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 53 (1.74%) SAP
3 45 (1.48%) Salesforce
4 32 (1.05%) Google
5 30 (0.99%) Oracle
6 28 (0.92%) IFS
7 26 (0.85%) Adobe
8 21 (0.69%) Progress
9 18 (0.59%) NEC
10 17 (0.56%) BT
11 16 (0.53%) Workday
12 14 (0.46%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.39%) Northgate
13 12 (0.39%) Sage
14 11 (0.36%) Civica
15 10 (0.33%) Autodesk
15 10 (0.33%) Cisco
15 10 (0.33%) VMware
16 7 (0.23%) Anaplan
17 6 (0.20%) Facebook