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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 291 299
Rank change year-on-year -130 +8 -136
Permanent jobs citing People Management 385 491 937
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.00% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.10% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 276 270 583
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £33,604
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £71,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% +18.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -9.45%

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 72,826 44,439 83,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.81% 90.30% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,337 24,847 58,274
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -125 339 £62,500 -13.19% 226
UK excluding London -114 253 £55,000 -18.52% 143
Work from Home -15 143 £72,500 -5.54% 98
London -58 113 £95,000 +11.76% 114
North of England -48 61 £62,500 -9.83% 36
Midlands -38 58 £43,750 -37.50% 23
South East -78 55 £57,402 -25.93% 40
North West -31 39 £55,000 -20.65% 20
West Midlands -35 32 £56,250 -22.41% 12
East of England -8 27 £60,100 -3.06% 10
East Midlands -18 26 £42,500 -38.18% 11
Scotland +17 18 £55,000 -20.00% 11
South West -59 18 £55,000 -16.27% 16
North East - 18 £62,500 - 6
Wales -43 13 £47,500 +31.94% 3
Yorkshire -58 4 £90,000 +33.33% 11
Northern Ireland -58 3 £63,750 - 4

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 16 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.04%) CMS
3 3 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.78%) Drupal
3 3 (0.78%) SAS
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.04%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) InVision
6 1 (0.26%) Sketch
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.30%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.03%) Azure
2 31 (8.05%) SaaS
3 30 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.01%) AWS
5 25 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.42%) Figma
7 13 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.56%) IaaS
9 5 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.30%) GCP
9 5 (1.30%) Slack
10 4 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 4 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.04%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.04%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.42%) Broadband
2 9 (2.34%) Network Security
3 5 (1.30%) DNS
3 5 (1.30%) Firewall
3 5 (1.30%) VoIP
4 4 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.78%) DKIM
5 3 (0.78%) DMARC
5 3 (0.78%) PBX
5 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.78%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.78%) VLAN
6 2 (0.52%) Intranet
6 2 (0.52%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) FTP
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) SMTP
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.97%) Power BI
2 11 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.34%) Tableau
4 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.78%) Looker
6 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.52%) Metadata
7 2 (0.52%) Redis
7 2 (0.52%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.26%) Flink
8 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (3.64%) JIRA
2 10 (2.60%) Git
3 4 (1.04%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
General
1 124 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 108 (28.05%) Finance
3 55 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.53%) Retail
5 21 (5.45%) Law
5 21 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (4.94%) Aerospace
6 19 (4.94%) Banking
6 19 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.68%) Marketing
8 17 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.64%) Legal
10 12 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.34%) Back Office
11 9 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.08%) Advertising
12 8 (2.08%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.82%) Billing
14 6 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (22.86%) Lead
2 63 (16.36%) Senior
3 32 (8.31%) Team Leader
4 25 (6.49%) Data Manager
4 25 (6.49%) Engineering Manager
5 23 (5.97%) Senior Manager
6 22 (5.71%) Developer
7 21 (5.45%) IT Manager
8 16 (4.16%) Data Centre Manager
8 16 (4.16%) Systems Engineer
9 15 (3.90%) Lead Developer
9 15 (3.90%) Support Manager
10 13 (3.38%) Architect
11 12 (3.12%) IT Support
12 11 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
12 11 (2.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 10 (2.60%) Operations Manager
13 10 (2.60%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
14 9 (2.34%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.64%) .NET
2 7 (1.82%) .NET Core
3 5 (1.30%) React
3 5 (1.30%) Spring
4 4 (1.04%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.04%) Blazor
4 4 (1.04%) gRPC
4 4 (1.04%) REST
5 3 (0.78%) CSS
5 3 (0.78%) HTML
5 3 (0.78%) Kafka
5 3 (0.78%) LangChain
5 3 (0.78%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (0.78%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.52%) J2EE
6 2 (0.52%) NestJS
6 2 (0.52%) Node.js
6 2 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.26%) MACH
7 1 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.01%) Management Information System
1 27 (7.01%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.94%) Driving Licence
4 17 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.16%) Data Centre
6 14 (3.64%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (2.34%) NHS
10 8 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.30%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.78%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.78%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.94%) Windows
2 7 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.30%) Linux
4 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.78%) Unix
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 87 (22.60%) Mentoring
3 84 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (21.04%) Line Management
5 80 (20.78%) Coaching
6 75 (19.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (18.70%) Agile
8 70 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
9 69 (17.92%) Software Engineering
10 57 (14.81%) Decision-Making
11 53 (13.77%) Service Delivery
12 48 (12.47%) AI
12 48 (12.47%) DevOps
13 47 (12.21%) Project Delivery
14 45 (11.69%) Customer Experience
15 41 (10.65%) Project Management
16 38 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
16 38 (9.87%) Roadmaps
17 37 (9.61%) CI/CD
18 34 (8.83%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.61%) SQL
2 23 (5.97%) Python
3 17 (4.42%) Java
4 12 (3.12%) C#
4 12 (3.12%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.52%) ABAP
6 2 (0.52%) C++
6 2 (0.52%) VBA
7 1 (0.26%) Bash
7 1 (0.26%) Bicep
7 1 (0.26%) Go
7 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (16.36%) Degree
2 25 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 23 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.42%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.90%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.60%) ACCA
6 10 (2.60%) CIMA
7 9 (2.34%) Chartered Engineer
7 9 (2.34%) CISM
8 8 (2.08%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.82%) CIPD
9 7 (1.82%) CISSP
9 7 (1.82%) HNC
9 7 (1.82%) HND
9 7 (1.82%) ICAEW
9 7 (1.82%) PMP
10 6 (1.56%) CRISC
11 5 (1.30%) CISA
12 4 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.78%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.42%) ISO 9001
3 14 (3.64%) NIST
4 12 (3.12%) ISO 14000
4 12 (3.12%) QA
5 11 (2.86%) GDPR
6 8 (2.08%) COBIT
6 8 (2.08%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.82%) SLA
8 6 (1.56%) GRC
8 6 (1.56%) ISO 14001
8 6 (1.56%) PMO
9 5 (1.30%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.30%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.78%) ITGC
10 3 (0.78%) TickIT
11 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (1.56%) Docker
2 5 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.30%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.78%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.08%) Terraform
3 4 (1.04%) Ansible
3 4 (1.04%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.78%) Argo
4 3 (0.78%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.78%) cPanel
4 3 (0.78%) Plesk
5 2 (0.52%) Puppet
5 2 (0.52%) Salt
5 2 (0.52%) SCCM
5 2 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.26%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 60 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.71%) Adobe
3 15 (3.90%) Google
4 9 (2.34%) Cisco
4 9 (2.34%) Oracle
4 9 (2.34%) VMware
5 5 (1.30%) Juniper
5 5 (1.30%) Palo Alto
5 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.30%) SAP
5 5 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.04%) Databricks
6 4 (1.04%) Informatica
6 4 (1.04%) Meraki
6 4 (1.04%) Xero
7 3 (0.78%) Infor
7 3 (0.78%) NETGEAR
7 3 (0.78%) SonicWALL
7 3 (0.78%) Veeam
7 3 (0.78%) WatchGuard