Project Planning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 294 277
Rank change year-on-year +113 -17 +44
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 664 661 703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 0.93% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.11% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 169 361 225
10th Percentile £42,900 £32,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,734 £45,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,967 £46,293 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.86% -15.83% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,750 £75,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £61,967 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.93% -16.67% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Project Planning 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 36,661 59,520 56,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.89% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,979 41,130 29,107
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,218 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK excluding London

Project Planning
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 Planning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Midlands +183 327 £50,000 -9.09% 47
West Midlands +153 208 £48,750 -11.36% 31
North of England +71 165 £61,967 +34.28% 40
North West +46 146 £61,967 +37.70% 21
East Midlands +94 119 £95,000 +94.87% 15
South East +12 103 £65,000 +32.65% 72
East of England +17 33 £55,000 +37.50% 24
South West +64 20 £47,000 +17.50% 31
Yorkshire +45 18 £54,793 -4.71% 11
Scotland +50 15 £55,000 -15.47% 25
Wales +14 3 £65,000 +60.29% 4
North East +41 1 - - 9
Channel Islands -2 1 - -
Project Planning
UK

Project Planning
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 11 (1.66%) IIS
1 11 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.05%) CMS
2 7 (1.05%) Kentico
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.51%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.05%) Trello
6 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.15%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (3.46%) Azure
2 21 (3.16%) Power Platform
3 10 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (0.90%) Kontent
5 6 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (0.90%) Smartsheet
6 5 (0.75%) Asana
7 4 (0.60%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.45%) AWS
9 2 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.30%) Collibra
9 2 (0.30%) Matillion
9 2 (0.30%) SaaS
9 2 (0.30%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.15%) Figma
10 1 (0.15%) GCP
10 1 (0.15%) GitHub
10 1 (0.15%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.15%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.66%) 5G
1 11 (1.66%) Bluetooth
1 11 (1.66%) LTE
1 11 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (1.05%) VoIP
3 6 (0.90%) Firewall
4 5 (0.75%) ADSL
4 5 (0.75%) DHCP
4 5 (0.75%) DNS
4 5 (0.75%) Network Security
4 5 (0.75%) VLAN
4 5 (0.75%) VPN
5 3 (0.45%) BGP
5 3 (0.45%) MPLS
5 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.45%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) FIX Connectivity
6 1 (0.15%) GSM
6 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.01%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.05%) GIS
3 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.75%) Power BI
4 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.60%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.60%) Tableau
5 2 (0.30%) Ataccama
5 2 (0.30%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.30%) Metadata
5 2 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 25 (3.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.15%) GCC
2 1 (0.15%) gcov
2 1 (0.15%) GDB
2 1 (0.15%) Git
2 1 (0.15%) GitLab
2 1 (0.15%) JDeveloper
2 1 (0.15%) LSMW
2 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (16.11%) Telecoms
2 99 (14.91%) Automotive
3 88 (13.25%) Social Skills
4 83 (12.50%) Finance
5 68 (10.24%) Electronics
6 58 (8.73%) Manufacturing
7 55 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (4.07%) Legal
10 22 (3.31%) Banking
11 17 (2.56%) Billing
12 15 (2.26%) Law
13 14 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.66%) Marketing
14 11 (1.66%) Retail
15 10 (1.51%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.05%) Advertising
17 5 (0.75%) Local Government
17 5 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (36.60%) Principal Engineer
1 243 (36.60%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 161 (24.25%) Systems Engineer
3 145 (21.84%) Senior
4 110 (16.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 82 (12.35%) Project Manager
6 81 (12.20%) Principal Modelling Engineer
7 55 (8.28%) Engineering Manager
8 39 (5.87%) Associate Engineer
8 39 (5.87%) Design Engineer
8 39 (5.87%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 39 (5.87%) Electronics Engineer
8 39 (5.87%) PCB Design Engineer
8 39 (5.87%) PCB Engineer
9 35 (5.27%) Lead
10 19 (2.86%) Developer
11 17 (2.56%) Senior Manager
12 15 (2.26%) Analyst
13 14 (2.11%) Software Team Leader
13 14 (2.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.56%) XML
2 12 (1.81%) .NET
3 9 (1.36%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.75%) HTML
5 2 (0.30%) ADO
5 2 (0.30%) JSON
6 1 (0.15%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.15%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (0.15%) CSS
6 1 (0.15%) Django
6 1 (0.15%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.15%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.15%) JNI
6 1 (0.15%) Middleware
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ADF
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.15%) React
6 1 (0.15%) REST
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Smart Forms
6 1 (0.15%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (1.66%) IoT
2 11 (1.66%) NB-IoT
3 10 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (1.20%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.05%) Driving Licence
6 6 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 6 (0.90%) PMI
6 6 (0.90%) Social Media
7 5 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.75%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.30%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.30%) SCADA
11 1 (0.15%) CCTV
11 1 (0.15%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.15%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.15%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.15%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.27%) Windows
2 24 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.71%) Linux
4 6 (0.90%) Windows Vista
5 2 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.15%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (61.45%) Systems Engineering
2 194 (29.22%) Validation
3 190 (28.61%) Verification and Validation
4 149 (22.44%) SysML
5 135 (20.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 106 (15.96%) Project Management
7 98 (14.76%) Change Management
8 97 (14.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 85 (12.80%) Project Delivery
10 58 (8.73%) Acceptance Criteria
11 55 (8.28%) Agile
11 55 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (8.13%) Requirements Management
13 44 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (5.87%) Schematic Capture
15 38 (5.72%) PRINCE2
16 32 (4.82%) CRM
17 29 (4.37%) Collaborative Working
18 28 (4.22%) Risk Management
19 27 (4.07%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 21 (3.16%) SQL
2 19 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 19 (2.86%) Python
3 16 (2.41%) C
4 14 (2.11%) Ada
5 12 (1.81%) C#
6 11 (1.66%) Bash
7 9 (1.36%) Java
8 5 (0.75%) C++
9 4 (0.60%) VBA
10 2 (0.30%) R
11 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.15%) SAPscript
11 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 414 (62.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 263 (39.61%) Degree
3 95 (14.31%) HND
4 63 (9.49%) Master's Degree
5 56 (8.43%) HNC
6 55 (8.28%) Chartered Engineer
7 22 (3.31%) PMP
8 18 (2.71%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.81%) Security Cleared
10 11 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (1.36%) SC Cleared
12 6 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.75%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.60%) MBA
15 3 (0.45%) CCNP
15 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.46%) QA
2 11 (1.66%) PMO
3 8 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.15%) P3O
5 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (1.66%) vSphere
3 9 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.30%) Docker
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (1.66%) Ansible
1 11 (1.66%) Puppet
1 11 (1.66%) Terraform
2 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (8.58%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.87%) EMC
3 17 (2.56%) Oracle
4 12 (1.81%) VMware
5 11 (1.66%) SAP
6 4 (0.60%) Blue Prism
6 4 (0.60%) Google
6 4 (0.60%) UiPath
7 3 (0.45%) Autodesk
7 3 (0.45%) Cisco
7 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.45%) Juniper
8 2 (0.30%) Databricks
9 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.15%) Concur
9 1 (0.15%) NYFIX
9 1 (0.15%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.15%) Sage
9 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.15%) Sitecore