People Management Job Trends

People Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring People Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 294 295
Rank change year-on-year -129 +1 -125
Permanent jobs citing People Management 422 487 776
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.98% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.10% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 303 277 434
10th Percentile £37,999 £42,500 £33,170
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

People Management 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing People Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

People Management job vacancy trend in the UK

People Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing People Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing People Management

People Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing People Management within the UK over the 6 months to 6 August 2026. 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 -130 369 £61,500 -14.58% 443
UK excluding London -91 303 £55,000 -15.38% 242
Work from Home -36 146 £72,500 -6.45% 184
London -108 98 £95,000 +10.14% 246
North of England -45 81 £62,500 -7.41% 57
Midlands -28 67 £45,000 -35.71% 37
South East -70 67 £60,402 -22.06% 75
North West -12 46 £55,000 -21.43% 33
West Midlands -34 35 £52,500 -26.32% 18
East Midlands -1 32 £45,000 -35.71% 19
North East - 28 £62,500 - 11
East of England -20 27 £60,100 -3.06% 20
South West -58 24 £55,000 - 22
Scotland +35 21 £55,000 -20.00% 17
Wales -53 12 £47,500 +31.94% 11
Yorkshire -50 7 £65,000 -3.70% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 8

People Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.71%) SAS
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.24%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 23 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.95%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.90%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.18%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.47%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.47%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.24%) Maximo
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.24%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.24%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.93%) Azure
2 39 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (8.77%) SaaS
4 28 (6.64%) AWS
5 22 (5.21%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.61%) IaaS
8 10 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (2.13%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.66%) GCP
11 6 (1.42%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 4 (0.95%) Azure AI
13 4 (0.95%) GitHub
14 3 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.71%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.90%) Network Security
2 6 (1.42%) VoIP
3 5 (1.18%) DNS
3 5 (1.18%) Firewall
4 4 (0.95%) PBX
4 4 (0.95%) VLAN
4 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.71%) Broadband
5 3 (0.71%) DKIM
5 3 (0.71%) DMARC
5 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.71%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.71%) VPN
6 2 (0.47%) HTTP
6 2 (0.47%) Intranet
7 1 (0.24%) LAN
7 1 (0.24%) SSL
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) Wireless
7 1 (0.24%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.50%) Power BI
2 14 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.37%) Tableau
4 9 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.71%) Redis
6 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.47%) Big Data
6 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.47%) Metadata
6 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.47%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.24%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.24%) Looker
7 1 (0.24%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 18 (4.27%) Git
2 17 (4.03%) JIRA
3 3 (0.71%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.24%) Postman
5 1 (0.24%) RSpec
General
1 160 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 115 (27.25%) Finance
3 56 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (7.82%) Retail
5 23 (5.45%) Aerospace
6 22 (5.21%) Law
7 20 (4.74%) Legal
7 20 (4.74%) Public Sector
8 17 (4.03%) Marketing
9 15 (3.55%) Banking
10 13 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.61%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.90%) Billing
14 7 (1.66%) Advertising
14 7 (1.66%) Electronics
15 6 (1.42%) Back Office
15 6 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (22.27%) Lead
2 61 (14.45%) Senior
3 38 (9.00%) Team Leader
4 30 (7.11%) Data Manager
4 30 (7.11%) Developer
5 26 (6.16%) Engineering Manager
6 25 (5.92%) IT Manager
7 24 (5.69%) Senior Manager
8 22 (5.21%) Data Centre Manager
8 22 (5.21%) Lead Developer
9 18 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
10 17 (4.03%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (3.55%) Development Manager
11 15 (3.55%) Service Manager
11 15 (3.55%) Software Engineer
12 13 (3.08%) Architect
12 13 (3.08%) Delivery Manager
12 13 (3.08%) Operations Manager
12 13 (3.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.08%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.79%) .NET
2 13 (3.08%) REST
3 10 (2.37%) .NET Core
3 10 (2.37%) Blazor
4 9 (2.13%) ASP.NET
4 9 (2.13%) gRPC
5 7 (1.66%) React
6 5 (1.18%) Spring
7 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.71%) Kafka
8 3 (0.71%) LangChain
8 3 (0.71%) Node.js
8 3 (0.71%) Semantic Kernel
8 3 (0.71%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.47%) Google JAX
9 2 (0.47%) JAX
9 2 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.47%) NestJS
9 2 (0.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.06%) Driving Licence
1 34 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.21%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 17 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.37%) NHS
9 9 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.18%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.95%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.21%) Windows
2 9 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.66%) Linux
4 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (27.96%) Continuous Improvement
2 95 (22.51%) Mentoring
3 94 (22.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 93 (22.04%) Coaching
5 88 (20.85%) Technical Leadership
6 83 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (18.48%) Agile
8 77 (18.25%) Line Management
9 71 (16.82%) Decision-Making
10 67 (15.88%) Software Engineering
11 64 (15.17%) Service Delivery
12 61 (14.45%) AI
13 55 (13.03%) DevOps
13 55 (13.03%) Project Delivery
14 49 (11.61%) Roadmaps
15 46 (10.90%) Project Management
16 43 (10.19%) CI/CD
17 42 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
18 41 (9.72%) Commercial Awareness
19 38 (9.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.00%) SQL
2 19 (4.50%) Python
3 18 (4.27%) C#
3 18 (4.27%) Java
4 12 (2.84%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.71%) C++
7 2 (0.47%) ABAP
7 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.47%) Bicep
7 2 (0.47%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.47%) Ruby
7 2 (0.47%) SOQL
7 2 (0.47%) VBA
8 1 (0.24%) Bash
8 1 (0.24%) Go
8 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 73 (17.30%) Degree
2 27 (6.40%) BPSS Clearance
2 27 (6.40%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.55%) DBS Check
5 14 (3.32%) ACCA
6 13 (3.08%) CIMA
7 11 (2.61%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (2.37%) CISM
9 8 (1.90%) CIPD
9 8 (1.90%) CISSP
9 8 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.90%) PMP
10 7 (1.66%) HNC
10 7 (1.66%) HND
10 7 (1.66%) ICAEW
11 6 (1.42%) CRISC
12 5 (1.18%) CISA
12 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.98%) ISO 9001
2 21 (4.98%) QA
3 20 (4.74%) SLA
4 17 (4.03%) ISO 14000
5 14 (3.32%) GDPR
5 14 (3.32%) NIST
6 8 (1.90%) GRC
6 8 (1.90%) ISO 14001
7 7 (1.66%) COBIT
7 7 (1.66%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.42%) PMO
9 5 (1.18%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.18%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.71%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.71%) TickIT
System Software
1 12 (2.84%) Docker
2 11 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.66%) Firmware
4 6 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.61%) Terraform
2 8 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.66%) Ansible
4 4 (0.95%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.71%) Argo
5 3 (0.71%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.71%) cPanel
5 3 (0.71%) Plesk
6 2 (0.47%) Puppet
6 2 (0.47%) Salt
6 2 (0.47%) SCCM
6 2 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Packer
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 69 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.55%) Google
3 10 (2.37%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.37%) VMware
4 8 (1.90%) Adobe
4 8 (1.90%) Cisco
5 6 (1.42%) Oracle
5 6 (1.42%) Sage
6 5 (1.18%) Juniper
6 5 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.18%) SAP
7 4 (0.95%) Databricks
7 4 (0.95%) Foundry
7 4 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.95%) Veeam
8 3 (0.71%) Acronis
8 3 (0.71%) Datto
8 3 (0.71%) Meraki
8 3 (0.71%) SonicWALL
8 3 (0.71%) WatchGuard