People Management Job Trends

People Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring People Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 294 174
Rank change year-on-year +4 -120 +118
Permanent jobs citing People Management 478 737 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.94% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.16% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 283 354 475
10th Percentile £42,500 £33,825 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £104,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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

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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 18 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 18 September 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 -16 441 £72,000 +10.77% 316
UK excluding London -1 279 £65,000 +8.33% 268
London +1 179 £82,500 +11.86% 105
Work from Home +92 159 £75,000 -1.03% 119
North of England -1 92 £67,500 +22.73% 50
South East +36 80 £63,500 -3.63% 96
North West -19 54 £69,315 +31.40% 30
Midlands +35 46 £72,500 +16.00% 43
Yorkshire +40 37 £67,500 +6.91% 15
West Midlands +36 31 £72,500 +16.00% 28
East of England -20 19 £52,500 -30.00% 35
South West -9 16 £55,000 +5.36% 19
East Midlands +27 15 £72,500 +2.47% 14
Wales +20 12 £36,000 -61.08% 9
Scotland +25 10 £66,000 +7.32% 15
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 8
North East +14 1 £65,000 - 5

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 9 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.42%) Apache
3 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.42%) CICS
3 2 (0.42%) IIS
3 2 (0.42%) SAS
3 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.21%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.21%) TPMS
Applications
1 19 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.63%) Simulink
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.21%) InDesign
6 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) ResourceLink
1 4 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Primavera
2 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) Magento
3 2 (0.42%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.21%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 62 (12.97%) Azure
2 60 (12.55%) AWS
3 33 (6.90%) SaaS
4 27 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.09%) Amazon S3
5 10 (2.09%) GCP
6 9 (1.88%) Google Analytics
7 8 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.05%) GitHub
10 5 (1.05%) PaaS
11 4 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.84%) Serverless
12 3 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.14%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (1.26%) Firewall
3 5 (1.05%) LAN
3 5 (1.05%) Network Security
3 5 (1.05%) WAN
4 4 (0.84%) VPN
5 3 (0.63%) FTP
5 3 (0.63%) HTTP
5 3 (0.63%) SMTP
5 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.42%) BGP
6 2 (0.42%) DHCP
6 2 (0.42%) DNS
6 2 (0.42%) Wireless
7 1 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.21%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.21%) MPLS
7 1 (0.21%) OSPF
7 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.21%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.77%) Power BI
2 11 (2.30%) Tableau
3 8 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.26%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (1.26%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.84%) Looker
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.42%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.42%) DB2
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.42%) Power Query
7 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.21%) Big Data
8 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (1.46%) JIRA
2 4 (0.84%) Git
2 4 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.63%) WaveMaker
4 2 (0.42%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.42%) webpack
5 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Postman
5 1 (0.21%) Selenium
5 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 184 (38.49%) Finance
2 157 (32.85%) Social Skills
3 75 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (12.97%) Retail
5 55 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 48 (10.04%) Law
6 48 (10.04%) Marketing
7 45 (9.41%) Legal
8 30 (6.28%) Banking
9 26 (5.44%) Front Office
10 20 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
12 14 (2.93%) Advertising
12 14 (2.93%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.72%) Public Sector
13 13 (2.72%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.46%) Automotive
15 7 (1.46%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 87 (18.20%) Lead
2 69 (14.44%) Senior
3 50 (10.46%) Engineering Manager
4 41 (8.58%) Senior Manager
5 28 (5.86%) Analyst
6 26 (5.44%) Delivery Manager
7 25 (5.23%) Team Leader
8 23 (4.81%) Development Manager
9 21 (4.39%) Business Analyst
9 21 (4.39%) Data Manager
9 21 (4.39%) Software Engineering Manager
10 20 (4.18%) Project Manager
10 20 (4.18%) Software Manager
10 20 (4.18%) Support Manager
11 18 (3.77%) Service Manager
12 16 (3.35%) Technical Manager
13 15 (3.14%) Desktop Support
13 15 (3.14%) IT Manager
13 15 (3.14%) Lead Business Analyst
13 15 (3.14%) Support Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.81%) .NET
2 14 (2.93%) React
3 10 (2.09%) REST
4 8 (1.67%) Spring Boot
5 7 (1.46%) Spring
6 5 (1.05%) CSS
6 5 (1.05%) Hibernate
6 5 (1.05%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.84%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.84%) Vue
7 4 (0.84%) Web Services
8 3 (0.63%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.63%) Android Jetpack
8 3 (0.63%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.63%) HTML
8 3 (0.63%) Jetpack Compose
8 3 (0.63%) SwiftUI
9 2 (0.42%) JSON
9 2 (0.42%) LDAP
9 2 (0.42%) MSMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.60%) Derivative
4 18 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.77%) NHS
5 12 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.88%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.46%) Digital Media
10 7 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.26%) FMCG
11 6 (1.26%) Multi-touch
12 5 (1.05%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.05%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.05%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.60%) Windows
2 5 (1.05%) Android
2 5 (1.05%) Linux
3 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (35.77%) Agile
2 118 (24.69%) Mentoring
3 113 (23.64%) Coaching
4 89 (18.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 88 (18.41%) Project Management
6 85 (17.78%) Project Delivery
7 82 (17.15%) Roadmaps
8 77 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (13.81%) Software Engineering
11 64 (13.39%) Line Management
12 62 (12.97%) Analytics
13 50 (10.46%) Risk Management
13 50 (10.46%) Service Delivery
14 48 (10.04%) Decision-Making
15 46 (9.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 43 (9.00%) Performance Management
17 40 (8.37%) CI/CD
17 40 (8.37%) Process Improvement
18 39 (8.16%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 55 (11.51%) Python
2 48 (10.04%) SQL
3 44 (9.21%) Java
4 39 (8.16%) C#
5 17 (3.56%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.56%) R
6 8 (1.67%) MATLAB
7 7 (1.46%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.63%) Swift
8 3 (0.63%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.42%) C++
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.21%) Bash
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 80 (16.74%) Degree
2 23 (4.81%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.97%) PMP
4 18 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 16 (3.35%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.09%) CISM
7 10 (2.09%) CISSP
8 9 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 8 (1.67%) CRISC
10 7 (1.46%) Postgraduate
11 6 (1.26%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.84%) ACCA
13 4 (0.84%) APMG
13 4 (0.84%) CIMA
13 4 (0.84%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.23%) SLA
2 20 (4.18%) QA
3 16 (3.35%) PMO
4 12 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.67%) GDPR
6 7 (1.46%) NIST
7 6 (1.26%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.05%) GRC
8 5 (1.05%) ITGC
9 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.42%) COBIT
11 1 (0.21%) FINRA
11 1 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 21 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.72%) Docker
3 3 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.42%) RACF
5 1 (0.21%) Firmware
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.09%) Kubernetes
1 10 (2.09%) Terraform
2 6 (1.26%) Ansible
2 6 (1.26%) Grafana
3 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.63%) SCCM
3 3 (0.63%) SCOM
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.42%) WSUS
5 1 (0.21%) QRadar
Vendors
1 86 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.35%) Google
3 14 (2.93%) Cisco
3 14 (2.93%) SAP
4 12 (2.51%) Databricks
5 10 (2.09%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.67%) TikTok
7 7 (1.46%) Oracle
8 6 (1.26%) Adobe
8 6 (1.26%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.26%) Splunk
8 6 (1.26%) Yahoo!
9 4 (0.84%) Cognos
9 4 (0.84%) Juniper
9 4 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.84%) VMware
9 4 (0.84%) Workday
10 3 (0.63%) Pinterest
10 3 (0.63%) Sage
11 2 (0.42%) Red Hat