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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 302 316
Rank change year-on-year -81 +14 -102
Permanent jobs citing People Management 377 418 868
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.99% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.06% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 244 251 554
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £39,439
25th Percentile £52,188 £54,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £84,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,100 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,800 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.46% +13.04% -4.17%

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 67,110 39,339 81,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.81% 92.87% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,656 22,592 59,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 29 April 2026.

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 29 April 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 -62 335 £65,000 -3.70% 136
UK excluding London -93 242 £60,800 -6.46% 112
Work from Home +28 170 £75,000 +8.67% 53
London -17 109 £77,500 -3.13% 42
North of England -49 61 £75,000 +8.20% 27
South East -98 48 £57,303 -11.84% 28
South West -18 42 £59,000 -11.10% 7
Midlands -56 39 £61,500 -12.14% 28
North West -33 36 £75,000 +15.38% 20
East of England -9 27 £60,100 -3.06% 17
East Midlands -32 24 £42,500 -37.04% 7
Yorkshire -66 17 £80,000 -1.54% 5
West Midlands -69 15 £76,500 +7.37% 21
Wales - 14 £47,500 - 1
Scotland -31 11 £60,000 -17.24% 2
North East - 8 £62,500 - 3

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 8 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.06%) CMS
2 4 (1.06%) Drupal
3 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 35 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.80%) InVision
5 3 (0.80%) Sketch
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.20%) Azure
2 39 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (9.55%) AWS
4 30 (7.96%) SaaS
5 27 (7.16%) Figma
6 22 (5.84%) Power Platform
7 8 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.12%) GCP
7 8 (2.12%) GitHub
7 8 (2.12%) Slack
7 8 (2.12%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.86%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.86%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (1.06%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.06%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.90%) Broadband
2 6 (1.59%) Firewall
3 5 (1.33%) Network Security
4 4 (1.06%) DNS
5 3 (0.80%) Internet
6 2 (0.53%) BGP
6 2 (0.53%) DHCP
6 2 (0.53%) LAN
6 2 (0.53%) MPLS
6 2 (0.53%) SAN
6 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.53%) WAN
6 2 (0.53%) Wireless
7 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.31%) Power BI
2 8 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.33%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
4 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.80%) Looker
5 3 (0.80%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.53%) Metadata
6 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.53%) Redis
6 2 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 12 (3.18%) JIRA
2 5 (1.33%) Claude Code
2 5 (1.33%) Git
3 4 (1.06%) GitLab
4 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 121 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 95 (25.20%) Finance
3 33 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (8.75%) Back Office
4 31 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
5 23 (6.10%) Law
6 21 (5.57%) Legal
7 18 (4.77%) Banking
7 18 (4.77%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.77%) Retail
8 17 (4.51%) Marketing
9 12 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.86%) Advertising
11 7 (1.86%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.33%) Social Housing
14 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (24.67%) Lead
2 57 (15.12%) Senior
3 34 (9.02%) Team Leader
4 27 (7.16%) IT Manager
5 24 (6.37%) Desktop Engineer
5 24 (6.37%) Desktop Support
5 24 (6.37%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 24 (6.37%) Site Engineer
5 24 (6.37%) Support Engineer
6 21 (5.57%) Data Manager
7 20 (5.31%) Developer
8 19 (5.04%) Support Manager
9 15 (3.98%) Infrastructure Manager
9 15 (3.98%) Senior Manager
10 13 (3.45%) Lead Developer
11 12 (3.18%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (2.92%) Designer
12 11 (2.92%) Head of Operations
13 10 (2.65%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.65%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.71%) .NET
2 5 (1.33%) .NET Core
2 5 (1.33%) Node.js
3 4 (1.06%) CSS
3 4 (1.06%) HTML
3 4 (1.06%) Kafka
3 4 (1.06%) Spring
3 4 (1.06%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.80%) LangChain
4 3 (0.80%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (0.53%) EDI
5 2 (0.53%) J2EE
5 2 (0.53%) Micronaut
5 2 (0.53%) NestJS
5 2 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.53%) React
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.27%) ADO
6 1 (0.27%) XML
6 1 (0.27%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.84%) Mobile App
3 21 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 20 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.92%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.86%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.33%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
11 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.80%) IoT
11 3 (0.80%) Social Media
11 3 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.75%) Windows
2 24 (6.37%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.59%) Linux
4 4 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (29.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 85 (22.55%) Mentoring
3 72 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (18.83%) Coaching
5 63 (16.71%) Agile
6 62 (16.45%) Line Management
7 59 (15.65%) Customer Experience
7 59 (15.65%) Software Engineering
8 56 (14.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (14.06%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
11 48 (12.73%) Analytics
12 47 (12.47%) Customer Service
13 45 (11.94%) AI
14 43 (11.41%) DevOps
14 43 (11.41%) Project Delivery
15 41 (10.88%) ITIL
16 38 (10.08%) CI/CD
17 37 (9.81%) Project Management
18 35 (9.28%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (9.02%) Python
2 27 (7.16%) SQL
3 15 (3.98%) Java
4 13 (3.45%) C#
5 8 (2.12%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.80%) ABAP
8 2 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.27%) Go
9 1 (0.27%) Perl
9 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (15.38%) Degree
2 44 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 41 (10.88%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.37%) CTC Cleared
5 12 (3.18%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.39%) CIPD
7 7 (1.86%) CISM
7 7 (1.86%) CISSP
8 6 (1.59%) CISA
9 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.06%) OSCP
10 4 (1.06%) PMP
11 3 (0.80%) ACCA
11 3 (0.80%) CIMA
12 2 (0.53%) CIPFA
12 2 (0.53%) HNC
12 2 (0.53%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.49%) SLA
2 26 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.77%) QA
4 17 (4.51%) GDPR
5 9 (2.39%) ISO 9001
5 9 (2.39%) NIST
6 8 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.12%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.12%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
7 5 (1.33%) ISO 14000
7 5 (1.33%) ISO 26262
8 4 (1.06%) COBIT
8 4 (1.06%) PMO
9 3 (0.80%) ITGC
9 3 (0.80%) TickIT
10 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.53%) GRC
10 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (1.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.53%) Firmware
2 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.92%) Terraform
3 6 (1.59%) Ansible
4 5 (1.33%) Grafana
4 5 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.80%) Puppet
6 2 (0.53%) Argo
6 2 (0.53%) Salt
7 1 (0.27%) QRadar
7 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 45 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.49%) Cisco
3 26 (6.90%) Adobe
4 19 (5.04%) Google
5 13 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.39%) Oracle
7 8 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.86%) Informatica
8 7 (1.86%) UiPath
8 7 (1.86%) VMware
9 6 (1.59%) SAP
10 5 (1.33%) Foundry
11 4 (1.06%) Xero
12 3 (0.80%) Databricks
12 3 (0.80%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.80%) IBM
12 3 (0.80%) Splunk
13 2 (0.53%) Cvent
13 2 (0.53%) Meraki
13 2 (0.53%) YouTube