People Management Jobs

People Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited People Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 293 244
Rank change year-on-year +40 -49 +45
Permanent jobs citing People Management 573 904 1,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 0.98% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.13% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 415 547 759
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,439 £32,700
25th Percentile £60,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £78,125 £85,000 £88,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,315 £60,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year +15.53% +3.90% -3.75%

All Process and 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 47,236 80,210 105,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.56% 86.88% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,832 57,895 61,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,045
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing People Management.

Salary trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 16 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 1 April 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 +7 521 £69,315 +6.64% 750
UK excluding London +103 448 £69,315 +15.53% 334
North of England +54 205 £69,315 +20.55% 91
North West +63 183 £69,315 +6.64% 63
Work from Home +2 129 £69,018 +6.18% 355
London -42 116 £80,000 +6.67% 462
South East +82 104 £65,000 +5.05% 94
Midlands +43 62 £72,500 +20.83% 40
West Midlands +59 54 £72,500 +11.54% 26
East of England +53 24 £62,000 +12.73% 36
South West +63 23 £66,367 +8.35% 36
Scotland +114 22 £67,500 +17.39% 29
Yorkshire +1 22 £81,250 +41.30% 21
Northern Ireland +40 9 - - 7
East Midlands +17 8 £68,750 +44.74% 12
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

People Management
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 14 (2.44%) IIS
2 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) CMS
3 4 (0.70%) Drupal
3 4 (0.70%) SAS
4 2 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) Mule
5 1 (0.17%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 29 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
6 1 (0.17%) Simulink
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Shopify
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (11.52%) Azure
2 52 (9.08%) AWS
3 39 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (5.24%) SaaS
5 28 (4.89%) Power Platform
6 11 (1.92%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.57%) Google Analytics
8 7 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.05%) GCP
10 5 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (0.87%) Serverless
11 4 (0.70%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.70%) Collibra
11 4 (0.70%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (0.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.27%) Internet
2 11 (1.92%) LAN
2 11 (1.92%) WAN
3 7 (1.22%) Firewall
4 6 (1.05%) FTP
4 6 (1.05%) HTTP
4 6 (1.05%) Network Security
4 6 (1.05%) SMTP
4 6 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.05%) VPN
5 5 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.70%) Broadband
7 3 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.35%) VoIP
9 1 (0.17%) PSTN
9 1 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.54%) Power BI
2 21 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.09%) Tableau
5 9 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.70%) Ataccama
7 4 (0.70%) Metadata
7 4 (0.70%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.17%) Flink
10 1 (0.17%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Git
2 7 (1.22%) JIRA
3 3 (0.52%) FitNesse
3 3 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (0.52%) Selenium
3 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.35%) webpack
5 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) Postman
5 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
General
1 265 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 143 (24.96%) Finance
3 66 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.38%) Retail
5 37 (6.46%) Marketing
6 34 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (5.58%) Banking
8 31 (5.41%) Legal
9 25 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (4.19%) Telecoms
11 18 (3.14%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (2.44%) Law
14 12 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.75%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.57%) Games
16 9 (1.57%) Public Sector
17 5 (0.87%) Advertising
17 5 (0.87%) Billing
17 5 (0.87%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 120 (20.94%) Commissioning Manager
2 87 (15.18%) Lead
3 55 (9.60%) Senior
4 34 (5.93%) Service Manager
5 31 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 23 (4.01%) Head of Analytics
6 23 (4.01%) Infrastructure Manager
6 23 (4.01%) Systems Engineer
7 22 (3.84%) Data Manager
7 22 (3.84%) Risk Manager
8 21 (3.66%) Senior Manager
9 20 (3.49%) Engineering Manager
9 20 (3.49%) Head of IT
10 19 (3.32%) IT Manager
10 19 (3.32%) Team Leader
11 18 (3.14%) Head of AI
11 18 (3.14%) Technology Risk Manager
12 15 (2.62%) Integration Manager
12 15 (2.62%) Service Integration Manager
13 13 (2.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.41%) .NET
2 15 (2.62%) React
3 12 (2.09%) CSS
4 11 (1.92%) Web Services
5 10 (1.75%) AngularJS
5 10 (1.75%) HTML
5 10 (1.75%) REST
6 9 (1.57%) Vue
7 6 (1.05%) LDAP
8 5 (0.87%) HTML5
8 5 (0.87%) PySpark
9 4 (0.70%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.70%) Django
9 4 (0.70%) jQuery
9 4 (0.70%) Kafka
9 4 (0.70%) Laravel
9 4 (0.70%) RESTful
9 4 (0.70%) XML
10 3 (0.52%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.52%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.65%) Management Information System
2 21 (3.66%) Client/Server
3 18 (3.14%) Blockchain
3 18 (3.14%) Robotics
4 17 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 11 (1.92%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.75%) Digital Media
7 10 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.05%) IoT
10 6 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.87%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.87%) Multi-touch
12 4 (0.70%) CMDB
12 4 (0.70%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.70%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.44%) Windows
2 6 (1.05%) Android
2 6 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.35%) Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (23.56%) Agile
2 121 (21.12%) Performance Optimisation
3 103 (17.98%) Project Management
4 96 (16.75%) Analytics
5 92 (16.06%) Mentoring
6 80 (13.96%) Project Delivery
7 78 (13.61%) ITIL
8 71 (12.39%) Risk Management
9 68 (11.87%) Coaching
9 68 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (11.34%) Decision-Making
11 64 (11.17%) Performance Management
12 59 (10.30%) Line Management
12 59 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
14 52 (9.08%) Roadmaps
14 52 (9.08%) Service Delivery
15 48 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
16 47 (8.20%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 25 (4.36%) Python
2 20 (3.49%) C#
3 19 (3.32%) JavaScript
4 16 (2.79%) SQL
5 14 (2.44%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.09%) Java
7 11 (1.92%) MATLAB
8 8 (1.40%) PHP
9 7 (1.22%) Bash
9 7 (1.22%) C++
9 7 (1.22%) Perl
9 7 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.52%) Swift
11 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.35%) Go
11 2 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.17%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.17%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 233 (40.66%) Degree
2 132 (23.04%) Master's Degree
3 121 (21.12%) MBA
4 83 (14.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (5.58%) Security Cleared
6 27 (4.71%) SC Cleared
7 24 (4.19%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.44%) CISM
8 14 (2.44%) CISSP
8 14 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.92%) CRISC
10 10 (1.75%) PMP
11 6 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.87%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.70%) ACCA
13 4 (0.70%) PhD
14 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.52%) HND
15 2 (0.35%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.58%) QA
2 30 (5.24%) SLA
3 22 (3.84%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.14%) ITGC
5 16 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (2.79%) GDPR
5 16 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (2.44%) NIST
7 10 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (1.40%) IFRS
9 7 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.87%) GRC
12 4 (0.70%) COBIT
12 4 (0.70%) CRD IV
12 4 (0.70%) GAAP
12 4 (0.70%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.52%) PMO
14 2 (0.35%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 21 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.17%) Docker
3 1 (0.17%) Firmware
3 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (1.40%) SCCM
2 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.05%) QRadar
4 5 (0.87%) Terraform
5 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.52%) Control-M
7 2 (0.35%) Marathon
8 1 (0.17%) Autotask
8 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.49%) Oracle
3 17 (2.97%) Google
4 8 (1.40%) Adobe
4 8 (1.40%) Cisco
5 7 (1.22%) Databricks
5 7 (1.22%) Duck Creek
6 6 (1.05%) Apple
6 6 (1.05%) SAP
6 6 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.05%) Splunk
6 6 (1.05%) VMware
7 5 (0.87%) Dell
7 5 (0.87%) HP
7 5 (0.87%) Yahoo!
8 3 (0.52%) MikroTik
8 3 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.35%) TikTok
9 2 (0.35%) WooCommerce