Microsoft Project Jobs

Microsoft Project
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Microsoft Project skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Project over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 442 574
Rank change year-on-year +49 +132 -56
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Project 318 490 519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Applications category 5.27% 5.68% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 214 321 367
10th Percentile £39,300 £32,500 £41,197
25th Percentile £40,748 £39,000 £46,553
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,397 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.52% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £67,350 £65,000 £68,497
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,245 £46,293 £51,750
% change year-on-year +10.70% -10.54% -1.43%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft Project falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 6,029 8,629 9,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.68% 9.56% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,071 5,916 5,275
10th Percentile £29,000 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £27,965 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £60,265 £53,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +42.86% -6.67% -2.60%

Microsoft Project
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Project as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Project.

Salary trend for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Project over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Project within the UK over the 6 months to 24 March 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 +19 268 £54,897 +15.57% 135
UK excluding London +55 237 £51,245 +10.70% 92
North of England +97 89 £40,748 -15.13% 10
North West +71 72 £40,748 -15.13% 6
London +69 61 £67,500 +17.39% 65
Work from Home +41 57 £55,000 +12.24% 81
Midlands +22 42 £52,344 +4.69% 15
South East -21 42 £65,000 +46.89% 32
West Midlands +34 27 £52,344 -0.30% 11
East of England +46 24 £64,743 +115.81% 9
Northern Ireland - 17 - - 3
East Midlands +28 15 £52,500 +23.53% 4
Yorkshire +71 13 £54,793 +16.83%
Wales +31 9 £48,768 +14.75% 2
Scotland +98 8 £60,000 +30.43% 12
South West +69 6 £62,500 +35.87% 11
North East +12 4 £25,000 -48.72% 4

Microsoft Project
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.40%) Confluence
3 2 (0.63%) CMS
3 2 (0.63%) Mule
3 2 (0.63%) WordPress
4 1 (0.31%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 107 (33.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (25.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (23.90%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (9.43%) Trello
5 29 (9.12%) MS Visio
6 12 (3.77%) AutoCAD
7 5 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.94%) CA PPM
2 3 (0.94%) Primavera
3 2 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (5.97%) Azure
2 10 (3.14%) Asana
2 10 (3.14%) Power Platform
3 9 (2.83%) Smartsheet
4 7 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.57%) AWS
6 5 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.94%) GCP
7 3 (0.94%) Google Sheets
7 3 (0.94%) Lucidchart
7 3 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.63%) Boomi
8 2 (0.63%) SaaS
8 2 (0.63%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.31%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.31%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.31%) Internet
2 1 (0.31%) LAN
2 1 (0.31%) RFID
2 1 (0.31%) SWIFTNet
2 1 (0.31%) VLAN
2 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.83%) Power BI
2 6 (1.89%) Tableau
3 5 (1.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.63%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (0.63%) QlikView
4 2 (0.63%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.31%) Looker
5 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.31%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 89 (27.99%) JIRA
2 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.31%) NUnit
2 1 (0.31%) Selenium
2 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (39.94%) Finance
2 121 (38.05%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.43%) Manufacturing
5 29 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (5.03%) Electronics
8 10 (3.14%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.52%) Banking
9 8 (2.52%) Law
9 8 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.20%) Retail
11 5 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.57%) Legal
11 5 (1.57%) Police
11 5 (1.57%) Publishing
12 4 (1.26%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.26%) Automotive
12 4 (1.26%) Marketing
12 4 (1.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 186 (58.49%) Project Manager
2 55 (17.30%) Senior
3 48 (15.09%) Senior Manager
4 47 (14.78%) Senior Project Manager
5 44 (13.84%) Assistant Project Manager
6 26 (8.18%) Lead
7 14 (4.40%) Head of Delivery
7 14 (4.40%) Head of IT
7 14 (4.40%) IT Manager
8 13 (4.09%) Technical Manager
9 12 (3.77%) Analyst
9 12 (3.77%) IT Project Manager
10 10 (3.14%) Infrastructure Manager
11 9 (2.83%) Business Analyst
11 9 (2.83%) Programme Manager
12 8 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (2.52%) Project Officer
13 7 (2.20%) Project Engineer
14 6 (1.89%) Support Officer
14 6 (1.89%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.20%) XML
2 2 (0.63%) CSS
2 2 (0.63%) FpML
2 2 (0.63%) HTML
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.31%) .NET
3 1 (0.31%) ADO
3 1 (0.31%) Middleware
3 1 (0.31%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.43%) PMI
2 17 (5.35%) Acoustics
3 16 (5.03%) Social Media
4 10 (3.14%) Driving Licence
4 10 (3.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.63%) DTCC
9 2 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.63%) PKI
9 2 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.63%) W3C
10 1 (0.31%) Life Science
10 1 (0.31%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.89%) Linux
1 6 (1.89%) Unix
2 5 (1.57%) Mac OS
2 5 (1.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (64.15%) Project Management
2 132 (41.51%) Project Delivery
3 101 (31.76%) PRINCE2
4 89 (27.99%) Agile
5 80 (25.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (17.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 55 (17.30%) Budget Management
9 41 (12.89%) Waterfall
10 36 (11.32%) Project Planning
10 36 (11.32%) Risk Management
11 31 (9.75%) Systems Engineering
12 30 (9.43%) Resource Management
12 30 (9.43%) Scrum
13 29 (9.12%) Time Management
14 27 (8.49%) Computer Science
14 27 (8.49%) Mentoring
15 25 (7.86%) Service Delivery
16 24 (7.55%) Process Improvement
16 24 (7.55%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.20%) SQL
2 4 (1.26%) Python
3 2 (0.63%) C#
3 2 (0.63%) C++
3 2 (0.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 121 (38.05%) Degree
2 71 (22.33%) PMI Certification
3 47 (14.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 43 (13.52%) PMP
5 19 (5.97%) DBS Check
6 12 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 10 (3.14%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.52%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.57%) MBA
10 4 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.26%) HNC
11 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.94%) HND
11 3 (0.94%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.63%) APMP
12 2 (0.63%) CCNP
12 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.63%) CISSP
12 2 (0.63%) ISEB
12 2 (0.63%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (14.15%) PMO
2 24 (7.55%) QA
3 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.57%) P3O
4 4 (1.26%) GDPR
5 3 (0.94%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.63%) EMIR
6 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.63%) MiFID
6 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) SEPA
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 163 (51.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.23%) NEC
3 19 (5.97%) SAP
4 7 (2.20%) Planview
5 6 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.57%) Google
7 3 (0.94%) Avaloq
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle
7 3 (0.94%) Pegasus
7 3 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.63%) Adobe
8 2 (0.63%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.63%) Calypso
8 2 (0.63%) Charles River
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco
8 2 (0.63%) Currenex
8 2 (0.63%) Marketo
8 2 (0.63%) Murex
8 2 (0.63%) Teradata
8 2 (0.63%) Varonis