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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 300 293
Rank change year-on-year -115 -7 -121
Permanent jobs citing People Management 438 482 781
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.97% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.08% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 307 274 434
10th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £33,622
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,838
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £70,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +12.90% -11.43%
75th Percentile £86,875 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,250 £102,125
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 77,641 44,566 67,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 89.32% 81.09%
Number of salaries quoted 53,461 25,406 43,850
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £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 £48,073 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.41% -3.85% -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 9 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 9 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 -115 383 £60,800 -13.14% 443
UK excluding London -84 312 £55,000 -15.38% 249
Work from Home -32 147 £72,500 -6.45% 183
London -104 102 £90,000 +5.88% 246
North of England -43 84 £62,500 -7.41% 55
South East -70 70 £63,500 -9.29% 73
Midlands -18 69 £45,000 -35.71% 41
North West -15 47 £55,000 -22.81% 30
West Midlands -33 37 £52,500 -26.32% 20
East Midlands -10 32 £45,000 -35.71% 21
North East - 29 £62,500 - 11
East of England -25 27 £60,100 -3.06% 20
South West -54 26 £55,000 - 24
Scotland +15 21 £55,000 -20.00% 21
Wales -64 11 £47,500 +31.94% 13
Yorkshire -61 8 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 7

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 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.68%) SAS
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.23%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.91%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.68%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.14%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.46%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Maximo
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.23%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.38%) Azure
2 40 (9.13%) SaaS
3 39 (8.90%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (7.08%) AWS
5 21 (4.79%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (2.51%) IaaS
8 10 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (2.05%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (2.05%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.60%) GCP
11 6 (1.37%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.14%) GitHub
13 4 (0.91%) Azure AI
14 3 (0.68%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.68%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.83%) Network Security
2 6 (1.37%) VoIP
3 5 (1.14%) DNS
3 5 (1.14%) Firewall
4 4 (0.91%) PBX
4 4 (0.91%) VLAN
4 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.68%) Broadband
5 3 (0.68%) DKIM
5 3 (0.68%) DMARC
5 3 (0.68%) HTTP
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.68%) VPN
6 2 (0.46%) Intranet
7 1 (0.23%) FTP
7 1 (0.23%) LAN
7 1 (0.23%) SMTP
7 1 (0.23%) SSL
7 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.11%) Power BI
2 14 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.28%) Tableau
4 9 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.91%) Redis
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.46%) Big Data
7 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.23%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (4.34%) Git
2 17 (3.88%) JIRA
3 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.46%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.46%) Postman
4 2 (0.46%) RSpec
5 1 (0.23%) Maven
General
1 164 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 120 (27.40%) Finance
3 55 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (7.99%) Retail
6 23 (5.25%) Aerospace
6 23 (5.25%) Legal
7 22 (5.02%) Law
7 22 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.11%) Marketing
9 15 (3.42%) Banking
9 15 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.74%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.83%) Billing
14 7 (1.60%) Advertising
14 7 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.60%) Electronics
15 6 (1.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 97 (22.15%) Lead
2 64 (14.61%) Senior
3 40 (9.13%) Team Leader
4 30 (6.85%) Developer
5 29 (6.62%) Data Manager
5 29 (6.62%) Engineering Manager
6 25 (5.71%) Senior Manager
7 24 (5.48%) IT Manager
8 23 (5.25%) Data Centre Manager
8 23 (5.25%) Lead Developer
9 19 (4.34%) Principal Engineer
10 18 (4.11%) Service Manager
10 18 (4.11%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (3.42%) Development Manager
12 14 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (3.20%) Operations Manager
13 13 (2.97%) Architect
13 13 (2.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 12 (2.74%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.88%) .NET
2 14 (3.20%) REST
3 11 (2.51%) Blazor
4 10 (2.28%) .NET Core
5 9 (2.05%) ASP.NET
5 9 (2.05%) gRPC
6 7 (1.60%) React
7 5 (1.14%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.14%) Spring
8 4 (0.91%) Node.js
9 3 (0.68%) Kafka
9 3 (0.68%) LangChain
9 3 (0.68%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.68%) Semantic Kernel
9 3 (0.68%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.46%) Google JAX
10 2 (0.46%) JAX
10 2 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.46%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.22%) Management Information System
2 34 (7.76%) Driving Licence
3 32 (7.31%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.25%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.11%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.11%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.28%) NHS
9 9 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.14%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.91%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.91%) Blog
12 4 (0.91%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (0.91%) Social Media
13 3 (0.68%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.02%) Windows
2 9 (2.05%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.83%) Linux
4 3 (0.68%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.68%) Unix
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (27.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 99 (22.60%) Mentoring
3 96 (21.92%) Coaching
3 96 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (20.55%) Technical Leadership
5 86 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (18.72%) Agile
7 77 (17.58%) Line Management
8 74 (16.89%) Software Engineering
9 72 (16.44%) Decision-Making
10 69 (15.75%) Service Delivery
11 67 (15.30%) AI
12 56 (12.79%) DevOps
13 55 (12.56%) Project Delivery
14 51 (11.64%) Roadmaps
15 46 (10.50%) Project Management
16 45 (10.27%) CI/CD
17 43 (9.82%) Commercial Awareness
17 43 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
18 39 (8.90%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (9.36%) SQL
2 20 (4.57%) Python
3 19 (4.34%) C#
3 19 (4.34%) Java
4 12 (2.74%) TypeScript
5 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.68%) C++
6 3 (0.68%) Ruby
7 2 (0.46%) ABAP
7 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.46%) Bicep
7 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.46%) SOQL
7 2 (0.46%) VBA
8 1 (0.23%) Bash
8 1 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 75 (17.12%) Degree
2 29 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (4.34%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.42%) DBS Check
6 14 (3.20%) ACCA
7 13 (2.97%) Chartered Engineer
7 13 (2.97%) CIMA
8 10 (2.28%) CISM
9 9 (2.05%) HNC
9 9 (2.05%) HND
10 8 (1.83%) CIPD
10 8 (1.83%) CISSP
10 8 (1.83%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.83%) PMP
11 7 (1.60%) ICAEW
12 6 (1.37%) CRISC
12 6 (1.37%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (5.71%) QA
3 23 (5.25%) SLA
4 21 (4.79%) ISO 9001
5 17 (3.88%) ISO 14000
6 16 (3.65%) GDPR
7 14 (3.20%) NIST
8 8 (1.83%) GRC
8 8 (1.83%) ISO 14001
9 7 (1.60%) COBIT
9 7 (1.60%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.37%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.37%) PMO
11 5 (1.14%) Automotive SPICE
11 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.14%) ISO 26262
11 5 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.68%) TickIT
System Software
1 12 (2.74%) Docker
2 11 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.83%) Firmware
4 6 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.51%) Terraform
2 9 (2.05%) Ansible
3 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.60%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.91%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.68%) Argo
6 3 (0.68%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.68%) cPanel
6 3 (0.68%) Plesk
7 2 (0.46%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.46%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) Packer
7 2 (0.46%) Puppet
7 2 (0.46%) Salt
7 2 (0.46%) SCCM
7 2 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.20%) Google
3 11 (2.51%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.28%) VMware
5 8 (1.83%) Adobe
5 8 (1.83%) Cisco
6 7 (1.60%) Sage
7 6 (1.37%) Oracle
8 5 (1.14%) Juniper
8 5 (1.14%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.14%) SAP
9 4 (0.91%) Foundry
9 4 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.91%) Veeam
10 3 (0.68%) Acronis
10 3 (0.68%) IBM
10 3 (0.68%) Infor
10 3 (0.68%) NETGEAR
10 3 (0.68%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.68%) WatchGuard