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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 249 207
Rank change year-on-year -38 -42 +61
Permanent jobs citing People Management 452 722 882
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.09% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.28% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 279 333 403
10th Percentile £46,650 £41,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,315 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,250 £109,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,750 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.00% +4.17%

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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 November 2025.

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 29 November 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 -19 410 £71,000 +2.43% 135
UK excluding London -30 269 £61,750 -5.00% 124
Work from Home +91 160 £73,000 -3.67% 65
London -9 149 £90,000 +5.88% 46
North of England +44 106 £65,000 +18.18% 30
South East +6 58 £70,000 -3.11% 44
North West +25 55 £62,500 +19.05% 12
Yorkshire +36 49 £67,500 -14.29% 14
Midlands +32 37 £61,500 -23.13% 21
South West -39 29 £55,000 +5.36% 11
East Midlands +26 21 £30,000 -57.14% 7
East of England +14 18 £52,500 -33.33% 18
West Midlands +33 16 £63,250 -20.94% 14
Wales +11 12 £36,000 -62.11%
Scotland -22 9 £74,500 +10.37% 6
North East +6 2 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Northern Ireland -3 2 - -

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 7 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.66%) Apache
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) CICS
4 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.22%) TPMS
4 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.44%) Trello
5 1 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.66%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.44%) Magento
3 2 (0.44%) Primavera
3 2 (0.44%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Shopify
3 2 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.27%) AWS
2 57 (12.61%) Azure
3 40 (8.85%) SaaS
4 20 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (4.42%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.20%) GCP
6 11 (2.43%) GitHub
7 7 (1.55%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.11%) Slack
9 4 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.88%) dbt
9 4 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (0.88%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.66%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.66%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.55%) Firewall
2 5 (1.11%) BGP
2 5 (1.11%) LAN
2 5 (1.11%) WAN
2 5 (1.11%) Wireless
3 4 (0.88%) DHCP
3 4 (0.88%) DNS
3 4 (0.88%) MPLS
4 3 (0.66%) Network Security
4 3 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.44%) Broadband
5 2 (0.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.44%) SAN
5 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.22%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.22%) OSPF
6 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.88%) Power BI
2 6 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (1.11%) Data Lake
3 5 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.88%) Tableau
5 3 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.66%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.66%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.66%) Looker
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) Power Query
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.22%) Big Data
7 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
1 6 (1.33%) JIRA
1 6 (1.33%) Selenium
2 3 (0.66%) GitLab
3 2 (0.44%) Git
3 2 (0.44%) WaveMaker
4 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 148 (32.74%) Finance
2 142 (31.42%) Social Skills
3 58 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (11.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (10.84%) Retail
6 46 (10.18%) Legal
7 33 (7.30%) Law
8 31 (6.86%) Marketing
9 23 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (3.76%) Banking
10 17 (3.76%) Manufacturing
11 15 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.65%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.43%) Front Office
14 10 (2.21%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.77%) Advertising
16 8 (1.77%) Back Office
16 8 (1.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (22.12%) Lead
2 69 (15.27%) Senior
3 44 (9.73%) Engineering Manager
4 40 (8.85%) Senior Manager
5 30 (6.64%) Analyst
5 30 (6.64%) IT Manager
6 29 (6.42%) Team Leader
7 25 (5.53%) Delivery Manager
8 23 (5.09%) Business Analyst
9 21 (4.65%) Development Manager
10 19 (4.20%) Service Manager
11 17 (3.76%) Project Manager
12 16 (3.54%) Lead Business Analyst
13 15 (3.32%) Service Delivery Manager
13 15 (3.32%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.32%) Support Team Leader
14 14 (3.10%) Infrastructure Manager
15 13 (2.88%) Software Engineering Manager
16 12 (2.65%) Developer
16 12 (2.65%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.42%) .NET
2 17 (3.76%) React
3 11 (2.43%) Spring Boot
4 10 (2.21%) Spring
5 8 (1.77%) Node.js
6 6 (1.33%) REST
7 5 (1.11%) Micronaut
7 5 (1.11%) Software Packaging
8 3 (0.66%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.66%) CSS
8 3 (0.66%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.66%) Hibernate
8 3 (0.66%) HTML
8 3 (0.66%) Pandas
9 2 (0.44%) EDI
9 2 (0.44%) JSON
9 2 (0.44%) Kafka
9 2 (0.44%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (0.44%) RxJava
9 2 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.08%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.87%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.98%) NHS
5 15 (3.32%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.77%) Derivative
9 7 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.88%) Driving Licence
12 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) Social Media
13 3 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.87%) Windows
2 12 (2.65%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.21%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.99%) Linux
5 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.44%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (27.21%) Agile
2 93 (20.58%) Coaching
3 92 (20.35%) Mentoring
4 88 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (16.37%) Project Delivery
6 71 (15.71%) Project Management
7 67 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (14.60%) Service Delivery
9 65 (14.38%) Roadmaps
9 65 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (12.83%) Line Management
11 52 (11.50%) Decision-Making
12 48 (10.62%) Software Engineering
13 47 (10.40%) Risk Management
14 46 (10.18%) CI/CD
15 43 (9.51%) Customer Service
16 42 (9.29%) Change Management
17 40 (8.85%) DevOps
18 37 (8.19%) Analytics
18 37 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 50 (11.06%) Python
2 33 (7.30%) SQL
3 29 (6.42%) C#
4 28 (6.19%) Java
5 14 (3.10%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.43%) R
7 7 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.11%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.22%) Ada
10 1 (0.22%) Bash
10 1 (0.22%) C
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) PHP
10 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (11.28%) Degree
2 35 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.08%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.88%) CISM
4 13 (2.88%) CISSP
4 13 (2.88%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.65%) CIPD
5 12 (2.65%) CRISC
6 8 (1.77%) ACCA
6 8 (1.77%) CIMA
6 8 (1.77%) CTC Cleared
7 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.55%) CISA
8 6 (1.33%) Postgraduate
9 5 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.11%) PMP
10 4 (0.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.97%) QA
2 19 (4.20%) SLA
3 16 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.88%) PMO
6 11 (2.43%) GDPR
7 6 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.11%) IFRS
8 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.88%) GAAP
10 3 (0.66%) GRC
11 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.44%) NIST
12 1 (0.22%) FINRA
12 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (3.54%) Docker
2 12 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.11%) Firmware
3 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.22%) RACF
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (3.54%) Terraform
2 15 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.43%) Ansible
4 10 (2.21%) Grafana
5 8 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.66%) SCCM
6 3 (0.66%) SCOM
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.44%) WSUS
8 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.42%) Cisco
3 17 (3.76%) SAP
4 11 (2.43%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.43%) VMware
5 10 (2.21%) Google
6 8 (1.77%) Oracle
6 8 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.55%) Databricks
8 6 (1.33%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.33%) Splunk
9 5 (1.11%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.88%) F5
10 4 (0.88%) Siemens
10 4 (0.88%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.88%) TikTok
11 3 (0.66%) Adobe
11 3 (0.66%) Juniper
11 3 (0.66%) Workday
12 2 (0.44%) Red Hat