Microsoft Project
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Project skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Project over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 487 422 505
Rank change year-on-year -65 +83 +72
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Project 254 922 748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.75% 0.58%
As % of the Applications category 5.94% 8.18% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 199 490 516
10th Percentile £40,457 £38,128 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,357 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,600 £78,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +9.38%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft Project is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 4,274 11,266 10,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.07% 9.17% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,993 6,304 6,780
10th Percentile £25,124 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,200 £78,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -2.60% +2.67% -

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Project in the UK

Microsoft Project
Top 16 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 7 December 2023. 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 -48 229 £57,500 +2.68% 189
UK excluding London -70 148 £50,000 - 135
Work from Home -14 98 £55,000 - 60
London +122 96 £70,000 - 68
South East +18 46 £48,000 -12.73% 33
Midlands +83 29 £47,500 -6.86% 35
South West +13 28 £48,737 -2.53% 18
West Midlands +87 21 £47,500 -9.52% 31
North of England +1 20 £51,250 +2.50% 21
Scotland +33 12 £52,500 +16.67% 12
East Midlands +44 8 £49,990 +24.98% 3
Wales +9 8 £51,104 +24.64% 1
North East +32 7 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Yorkshire +14 7 £53,750 +7.50% 8
North West +67 6 £46,000 -14.02% 8
East of England +69 5 £57,500 +4.55% 17

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 32 (12.60%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.54%) Confluence
3 4 (1.57%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.39%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 87 (34.25%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (31.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (18.90%) MS Visio
4 46 (18.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (3.54%) AutoCAD
6 5 (1.97%) Trello
7 2 (0.79%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.39%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (4.72%) Unit4 Business World
2 9 (3.54%) Primavera
3 5 (1.97%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 31 (12.20%) Azure
2 27 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.91%) Smartsheet
5 14 (5.51%) AWS
6 6 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.97%) Asana
7 5 (1.97%) BrowserStack
8 2 (0.79%) Lucidchart
8 2 (0.79%) PaaS
8 2 (0.79%) SaaS
9 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Firewall
1 2 (0.79%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) 3G
2 1 (0.39%) 4G
2 1 (0.39%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.39%) Intranet
2 1 (0.39%) LAN
2 1 (0.39%) MPLS
2 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.39%) SSL
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.66%) Power BI
2 7 (2.76%) Tableau
3 2 (0.79%) GIS
3 2 (0.79%) Power Query
4 1 (0.39%) Big Data
4 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.39%) MS Access
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (16.14%) JIRA
2 5 (1.97%) NUnit
2 5 (1.97%) Selenium
2 5 (1.97%) SpecFlow
2 5 (1.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (42.52%) Finance
2 103 (40.55%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.08%) Public Sector
4 48 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (14.57%) Manufacturing
6 32 (12.60%) Telecoms
7 31 (12.20%) Electronics
7 31 (12.20%) Marketing
8 22 (8.66%) Legal
9 21 (8.27%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (6.69%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (6.69%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (3.94%) Retail
12 8 (3.15%) Banking
13 5 (1.97%) Back Office
13 5 (1.97%) Digital Health
13 5 (1.97%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.97%) Law
14 4 (1.57%) French Language
Job Titles
1 122 (48.03%) Project Manager
2 47 (18.50%) Senior
3 41 (16.14%) IT Manager
4 40 (15.75%) Senior Manager
5 34 (13.39%) Senior Project Manager
6 32 (12.60%) Analyst
7 30 (11.81%) IT Project Manager
8 22 (8.66%) Infrastructure Manager
9 21 (8.27%) Software Project Manager
10 18 (7.09%) Business Analyst
10 18 (7.09%) Programme Manager
11 17 (6.69%) Implementation Manager
11 17 (6.69%) Implementation Project Manager
12 16 (6.30%) IT Infrastructure Manager
13 15 (5.91%) Project Implementation Manager
13 15 (5.91%) Senior Software Project Manager
13 15 (5.91%) Software Implementation Manager
13 15 (5.91%) Software Implementation Project Manager
14 14 (5.51%) Lead
15 13 (5.12%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.97%) XML
2 4 (1.57%) Spring
3 3 (1.18%) WML
4 1 (0.39%) .NET
4 1 (0.39%) Middleware
4 1 (0.39%) RESTful
4 1 (0.39%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.69%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.51%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.12%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (4.72%) PMI
5 10 (3.94%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.36%) NHS
7 5 (1.97%) FMCG
8 3 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.39%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.39%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.39%) Smartcard
10 1 (0.39%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.27%) Windows
2 10 (3.94%) AIX
3 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (71.26%) Project Management
2 145 (57.09%) Project Delivery
3 125 (49.21%) Agile
4 86 (33.86%) PRINCE2
5 76 (29.92%) Waterfall
6 58 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (19.69%) Programme Management
9 46 (18.11%) Scrum
10 41 (16.14%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (15.75%) Business Case
12 36 (14.17%) Decision-Making
13 33 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (12.99%) ERP
14 30 (11.81%) Change Management
15 29 (11.42%) Business Analysis
15 29 (11.42%) Digital Marketing
15 29 (11.42%) SDLC
16 26 (10.24%) Project Governance
16 26 (10.24%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.72%) SQL
2 6 (2.36%) C#
3 2 (0.79%) Java
4 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (46.46%) Degree
2 44 (17.32%) PMI Certification
3 40 (15.75%) PMP
4 33 (12.99%) Security Cleared
5 19 (7.48%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (5.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.33%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.15%) ISEB
10 7 (2.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 5 (1.97%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.57%) APMP
13 3 (1.18%) APMG
13 3 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.39%) CAPM
15 1 (0.39%) HNC
15 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (25.98%) PMO
2 14 (5.51%) QA
3 4 (1.57%) GRC
4 3 (1.18%) GDPR
4 3 (1.18%) P3O
5 2 (0.79%) COBIT
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.36%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.39%) SCCM
3 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 139 (54.72%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.96%) SAP
3 16 (6.30%) Salesforce
4 12 (4.72%) Civica
4 12 (4.72%) Google
4 12 (4.72%) Northgate
5 6 (2.36%) HP
6 4 (1.57%) NEC
6 4 (1.57%) OpenText
6 4 (1.57%) Siebel
7 3 (1.18%) Oracle
7 3 (1.18%) Planview
7 3 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.79%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (0.79%) Remedy
8 2 (0.79%) VMware
9 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.39%) BT
9 1 (0.39%) Charles River
9 1 (0.39%) Dell