IT Project Leader Job Trends

IT Project Lead
UK

The median IT Project Lead salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 738 -
Rank change year-on-year +87 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Project Leader 2 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.013% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.014% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £36,750 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.69% - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £36,750 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 45,308 64,292 50,905
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 95.05% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,732 36,346 39,519
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,592
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,027 £42,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

IT Project Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'IT Project Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IT Project Leader job vacancy trend in the UK

IT Project Leader
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for IT Project Leader job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for IT Project Leader job vacancies in the UK

IT Project Leader
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 4 November 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
England +91 1 - - 13
Work from Home +64 1 £80,000 -
London +50 1 - - 10

IT Project Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, IT Project Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring IT Project Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Planview
2 1 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake

IT Project Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Planview