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 £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 58 102
Rank change year-on-year -13 +44 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,409 3,025 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.54% 4.22% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.90% 4.45% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 775 2,224 1,340
10th Percentile £40,748 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £45,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 36,142 67,932 52,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.86% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,697 47,996 30,020
10th Percentile £26,987 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 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
North of England -25 503 £55,000 +15.79% 172
North West -27 374 £55,500 +16.84% 109
South East -27 258 £60,000 +14.29% 256
Midlands -75 182 £55,000 +10.00% 105
South West -2 180 £56,373 +16.23% 76
Yorkshire -28 101 £55,000 +15.79% 56
East of England -53 99 £55,000 +1.85% 81
West Midlands -69 99 £55,000 +10.00% 59
Wales +10 77 £64,000 +57.82% 9
East Midlands -64 76 £55,000 +10.02% 43
Scotland +34 55 £55,000 +10.00% 50
Northern Ireland +48 54 £40,221 -15.32% 17
North East -17 28 £48,250 +1.58% 14
Channel Islands 0 1 - - 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 19 May 2025, 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 1,067 (75.73%) Project Management
2 601 (42.65%) Finance
3 487 (34.56%) Social Skills
4 427 (30.31%) Project Delivery
5 343 (24.34%) Risk Management
6 282 (20.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 272 (19.30%) Degree
8 257 (18.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 243 (17.25%) Driving Licence
10 200 (14.19%) Scorecard
11 199 (14.12%) PRINCE2
12 189 (13.41%) Balanced Scorecard
13 172 (12.21%) Manufacturing
14 168 (11.92%) Agile
15 166 (11.78%) Microsoft
16 135 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
17 134 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
18 121 (8.59%) Budget Management
19 119 (8.45%) Business Case
20 114 (8.09%) Microsoft Project
21 112 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 101 (7.17%) Waterfall
23 98 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
24 85 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
25 84 (5.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
26 81 (5.75%) Project Planning
27 80 (5.68%) Change Management
28 74 (5.25%) Quality Management
28 74 (5.25%) Public Sector
29 72 (5.11%) Analytical Skills

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 33 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.28%) Confluence
3 10 (0.71%) CMS
4 9 (0.64%) Kentico
5 2 (0.14%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.071%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 134 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (8.09%) Microsoft Project
3 98 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 84 (5.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.71%) Trello
7 8 (0.57%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.50%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.21%) Maximo
3 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.071%) Magento
4 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (1.14%) Azure
2 15 (1.06%) SaaS
3 11 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (0.71%) Asana
4 10 (0.71%) Google Workspace
5 9 (0.64%) Kontent
6 8 (0.57%) Smartsheet
7 7 (0.50%) AWS
8 5 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.28%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.28%) BigCommerce
10 3 (0.21%) ClickUp
10 3 (0.21%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.21%) Storyblok
11 2 (0.14%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 1 (0.071%) dbt
12 1 (0.071%) Dropbox
12 1 (0.071%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.14%) Internet
1 2 (0.14%) Network Security
1 2 (0.14%) VLAN
2 1 (0.071%) Broadband
2 1 (0.071%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.071%) Mobile Broadband
2 1 (0.071%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.071%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.071%) VoIP
2 1 (0.071%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (1.42%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (0.21%) MS Access
2 3 (0.21%) Tableau
3 2 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.14%) GIS
3 2 (0.14%) Power BI
3 2 (0.14%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.071%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.071%) Big Data
4 1 (0.071%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.071%) MySQL
4 1 (0.071%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (2.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.071%) Yeoman
General
1 601 (42.65%) Finance
2 487 (34.56%) Social Skills
3 172 (12.21%) Manufacturing
4 112 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 74 (5.25%) Public Sector
6 72 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (4.68%) Retail
9 46 (3.26%) Law
10 36 (2.56%) Legal
11 34 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.92%) Local Government
13 27 (1.92%) Marketing
14 24 (1.70%) Electronics
15 22 (1.56%) Health Technology
15 22 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.06%) Billing
17 13 (0.92%) Military
18 10 (0.71%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.071%) .NET
1 1 (0.071%) Kafka
1 1 (0.071%) Middleware
1 1 (0.071%) REST
1 1 (0.071%) Spring
1 1 (0.071%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 243 (17.25%) Driving Licence
2 41 (2.91%) FMCG
3 37 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 19 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 13 (0.92%) Life Science
6 13 (0.92%) PMI
6 13 (0.92%) Social Media
7 11 (0.78%) Data Centre
7 11 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 11 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
8 9 (0.64%) Virtual Team
9 8 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.43%) Cyberattack
10 6 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.35%) NHS
12 4 (0.28%) IoT
12 4 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.92%) Windows
2 10 (0.71%) Windows Vista
3 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,067 (75.73%) Project Management
2 427 (30.31%) Project Delivery
3 343 (24.34%) Risk Management
4 282 (20.01%) Stakeholder Management
5 200 (14.19%) Scorecard
6 199 (14.12%) PRINCE2
7 189 (13.41%) Balanced Scorecard
8 168 (11.92%) Agile
9 135 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (8.59%) Budget Management
11 119 (8.45%) Business Case
12 101 (7.17%) Waterfall
13 85 (6.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (5.75%) Project Planning
15 80 (5.68%) Change Management
16 74 (5.25%) Quality Management
17 68 (4.83%) Budgeting
18 64 (4.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 56 (3.97%) Customer Requirements
20 53 (3.76%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (0.35%) SQL
2 3 (0.21%) Java
3 2 (0.14%) C++
3 2 (0.14%) Python
4 1 (0.071%) PHP
Qualifications
1 272 (19.30%) Degree
2 257 (18.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 67 (4.76%) HNC
4 64 (4.54%) PMP
5 46 (3.26%) PMI Certification
6 37 (2.63%) HND
7 28 (1.99%) Security Cleared
8 26 (1.85%) MRICS
9 19 (1.35%) APMP
9 19 (1.35%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.21%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 14 (0.99%) MAPM
12 14 (0.99%) MBA
13 13 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 9 (0.64%) SC Cleared
15 6 (0.43%) RIBA
16 2 (0.14%) Chartered Engineer
16 2 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (5.04%) NEBOSH
2 38 (2.70%) QA
3 22 (1.56%) PMO
4 19 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 8 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.43%) PMBOK
7 3 (0.21%) GDPR
8 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.071%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.071%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.071%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (0.071%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (0.071%) Netcool
Vendors
1 166 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.69%) SAP
3 51 (3.62%) NEC
4 24 (1.70%) Salesforce
5 17 (1.21%) Atlassian
5 17 (1.21%) Oracle
6 11 (0.78%) Capita
7 9 (0.64%) Google
8 3 (0.21%) IBM
8 3 (0.21%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.14%) Cisco
9 2 (0.14%) Databricks
10 1 (0.071%) Adobe
10 1 (0.071%) Cramer
10 1 (0.071%) ESRI
10 1 (0.071%) Freshdesk
10 1 (0.071%) Informatica
10 1 (0.071%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.071%) Progress
10 1 (0.071%) VMware