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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 290 287
Rank change year-on-year -112 -3 -122
Permanent jobs citing People Management 457 484 766
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.97% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.08% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 322 276 413
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,604
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,875 £118,750 £102,250
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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 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 16 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 -111 398 £60,100 -14.14% 494
UK excluding London -86 325 £55,000 -15.38% 308
Work from Home -27 151 £72,500 -5.54% 233
London -93 108 £92,500 +4.23% 266
North of England -56 89 £62,500 -7.41% 62
South East -65 75 £65,000 -7.14% 87
Midlands -14 69 £45,000 -36.84% 48
North West -18 48 £55,000 -21.43% 36
West Midlands -33 36 £52,500 -26.32% 25
East Midlands -7 33 £45,000 -36.84% 23
North East - 32 £62,500 - 12
South West -68 28 £55,000 - 32
East of England -28 25 £60,100 -3.06% 20
Scotland +15 23 £55,000 -20.00% 29
Wales -61 12 £46,250 +28.47% 14
Yorkshire -55 9 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 20

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 22 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.66%) SAS
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.88%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.66%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.09%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.44%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.22%) Maximo
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.22%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (15.32%) Azure
2 45 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (9.19%) SaaS
4 33 (7.22%) AWS
5 21 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 20 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (2.41%) IaaS
10 9 (1.97%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.75%) GCP
12 7 (1.53%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 5 (1.09%) GitHub
13 5 (1.09%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.88%) Azure AI
14 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (0.66%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.75%) Network Security
2 7 (1.53%) DNS
2 7 (1.53%) Firewall
3 6 (1.31%) VLAN
3 6 (1.31%) VoIP
4 5 (1.09%) VPN
5 4 (0.88%) HTTP
5 4 (0.88%) PBX
5 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.66%) Broadband
6 3 (0.66%) DKIM
6 3 (0.66%) DMARC
6 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.66%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.44%) DHCP
7 2 (0.44%) Intranet
7 2 (0.44%) SSH
8 1 (0.22%) FTP
8 1 (0.22%) SMTP
8 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.72%) Power BI
1 17 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.19%) Tableau
4 4 (0.88%) Redis
5 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.44%) Big Data
6 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.44%) Metadata
6 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.22%) Flink
7 1 (0.22%) GIS
Development Applications
1 22 (4.81%) Git
2 19 (4.16%) JIRA
3 3 (0.66%) Claude Code
3 3 (0.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.66%) Postman
4 2 (0.44%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.44%) RSpec
5 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.22%) Maven
5 1 (0.22%) Mocha
General
1 174 (38.07%) Social Skills
2 123 (26.91%) Finance
3 55 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (7.66%) Retail
6 28 (6.13%) Legal
7 26 (5.69%) Law
8 24 (5.25%) Aerospace
9 22 (4.81%) Public Sector
10 20 (4.38%) Marketing
11 15 (3.28%) Banking
11 15 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.41%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.75%) Billing
14 8 (1.75%) Electronics
15 6 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.09%) Cantonese Language
16 5 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 100 (21.88%) Lead
2 68 (14.88%) Senior
3 39 (8.53%) Team Leader
4 33 (7.22%) Developer
5 29 (6.35%) Data Manager
5 29 (6.35%) Engineering Manager
6 26 (5.69%) Lead Developer
7 25 (5.47%) Senior Manager
8 24 (5.25%) IT Manager
9 23 (5.03%) Data Centre Manager
10 20 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.16%) Development Manager
11 19 (4.16%) Principal Engineer
11 19 (4.16%) Service Manager
12 18 (3.94%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (3.50%) Operations Manager
14 14 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
15 13 (2.84%) Architect
15 13 (2.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 12 (2.63%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.60%) .NET
2 19 (4.16%) REST
3 13 (2.84%) Blazor
4 12 (2.63%) .NET Core
4 12 (2.63%) ASP.NET
5 11 (2.41%) gRPC
6 9 (1.97%) React
7 5 (1.09%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.09%) HTML
7 5 (1.09%) Node.js
7 5 (1.09%) Spring
8 3 (0.66%) CSS
8 3 (0.66%) Kafka
8 3 (0.66%) LangChain
8 3 (0.66%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (0.66%) Semantic Kernel
8 3 (0.66%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.44%) Google JAX
9 2 (0.44%) JAX
9 2 (0.44%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.32%) Management Information System
2 36 (7.88%) Driving Licence
3 33 (7.22%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.72%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.19%) NHS
10 8 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.09%) IoT
12 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Licensing
13 4 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.88%) Blog
13 4 (0.88%) CCTV
13 4 (0.88%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.88%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.81%) Windows
2 9 (1.97%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.75%) Linux
4 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.66%) Unix
5 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (27.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 104 (22.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (22.32%) Mentoring
4 98 (21.44%) Coaching
5 95 (20.79%) Technical Leadership
6 94 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (18.38%) Agile
8 80 (17.51%) Software Engineering
9 78 (17.07%) Decision-Making
10 73 (15.97%) Line Management
11 72 (15.75%) Service Delivery
12 67 (14.66%) AI
13 58 (12.69%) DevOps
14 56 (12.25%) Roadmaps
15 54 (11.82%) Project Delivery
16 48 (10.50%) Project Management
17 45 (9.85%) CI/CD
18 44 (9.63%) Commercial Awareness
19 43 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
19 43 (9.41%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.97%) SQL
2 23 (5.03%) C#
3 21 (4.60%) Java
4 19 (4.16%) Python
5 14 (3.06%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.41%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.88%) C++
8 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.66%) Ruby
9 2 (0.44%) ABAP
9 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.44%) Bicep
9 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.44%) SOQL
9 2 (0.44%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) Bash
10 1 (0.22%) Go
10 1 (0.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (16.41%) Degree
2 30 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.28%) ACCA
6 14 (3.06%) CIMA
6 14 (3.06%) DBS Check
7 13 (2.84%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (2.19%) CIPD
9 9 (1.97%) CISM
9 9 (1.97%) HNC
9 9 (1.97%) HND
10 8 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.53%) CISSP
11 7 (1.53%) ICAEW
11 7 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.53%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.53%) PMP
12 6 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (6.35%) QA
3 25 (5.47%) SLA
4 22 (4.81%) ISO 9001
5 17 (3.72%) ISO 14000
6 16 (3.50%) GDPR
7 13 (2.84%) NIST
8 8 (1.75%) GRC
8 8 (1.75%) ISO 14001
9 7 (1.53%) COBIT
10 6 (1.31%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.31%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.31%) PMO
11 5 (1.09%) Automotive SPICE
11 5 (1.09%) ISO 26262
11 5 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.66%) IFRS
13 3 (0.66%) TickIT
System Software
1 16 (3.50%) Docker
2 12 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.19%) Firmware
4 7 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.84%) Terraform
2 11 (2.41%) Ansible
3 10 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.88%) Argo
4 4 (0.88%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.66%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.66%) cPanel
5 3 (0.66%) Grafana
5 3 (0.66%) Plesk
6 2 (0.44%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.44%) Packer
6 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.44%) Puppet
6 2 (0.44%) Salt
6 2 (0.44%) SCCM
6 2 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 81 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.50%) Google
3 11 (2.41%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.19%) VMware
5 9 (1.97%) Adobe
5 9 (1.97%) Cisco
6 8 (1.75%) Sage
7 5 (1.09%) Juniper
7 5 (1.09%) Oracle
7 5 (1.09%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.88%) Foundry
8 4 (0.88%) Meraki
8 4 (0.88%) SAP
8 4 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.88%) Veeam
9 3 (0.66%) Acronis
9 3 (0.66%) Infor
9 3 (0.66%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.66%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.66%) WatchGuard