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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 292 255
Rank change year-on-year -21 -37 -79
Permanent jobs citing People Management 673 462 749
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.94% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.06% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 423 276 335
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £64,500 £62,848
% change year-on-year -17.83% +2.63% +0.16%

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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -37 589 £60,100 -16.53% 548
UK excluding London -12 475 £53,000 -17.83% 285
Work from Home +8 209 £72,500 -3.33% 236
London -77 161 £90,000 +9.09% 308
South East +6 137 £65,000 -9.72% 79
North of England -35 126 £52,500 -22.22% 69
North West -10 72 £45,000 -35.71% 49
Midlands -17 69 £45,000 -37.93% 42
South West -38 53 £57,500 +4.55% 28
West Midlands -31 38 £51,250 -29.31% 26
North East -29 35 £62,500 -3.85% 6
East of England -30 34 £60,000 +14.29% 18
East Midlands -15 31 £45,000 -36.84% 16
Scotland +33 26 £53,481 -28.21% 33
Wales -57 23 £35,000 -2.78% 7
Yorkshire -55 19 £51,250 -24.07% 14
Northern Ireland -72 7 £63,750 - 11

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 25 (3.71%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.04%) SAS
3 4 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.04%) Acrobat
5 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.30%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.30%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 83 (12.33%) Azure
2 62 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (7.58%) SaaS
4 46 (6.84%) AWS
5 27 (4.01%) Power Platform
6 22 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 17 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (1.78%) GCP
13 11 (1.63%) IaaS
14 9 (1.34%) GitHub
15 8 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.19%) OneDrive
16 7 (1.04%) Serverless
17 6 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.67%) Firewall
2 13 (1.93%) Network Security
3 10 (1.49%) DNS
4 9 (1.34%) VLAN
5 8 (1.19%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (1.19%) VPN
6 7 (1.04%) Internet
7 6 (0.89%) VoIP
8 5 (0.74%) DHCP
8 5 (0.74%) SSH
8 5 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.59%) HTTP
9 4 (0.59%) PBX
9 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.45%) DKIM
10 3 (0.45%) DMARC
10 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.30%) NAS
11 2 (0.30%) SAN
11 2 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.67%) Power BI
2 17 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (1.78%) Tableau
5 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.45%) Metadata
7 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.45%) Redis
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.30%) Looker
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 30 (4.46%) Git
2 24 (3.57%) JIRA
3 9 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.19%) Postman
5 6 (0.89%) GitLab
5 6 (0.89%) IntelliJ
6 5 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.74%) Selenium
7 4 (0.59%) Maven
7 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.45%) Gatling
8 3 (0.45%) JMeter
8 3 (0.45%) Newman
9 2 (0.30%) RSpec
9 2 (0.30%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.15%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.15%) Mocha
10 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 243 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 188 (27.93%) Finance
3 71 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.81%) Retail
5 53 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (7.88%) Legal
6 49 (7.28%) Marketing
7 38 (5.65%) Manufacturing
8 36 (5.35%) Aerospace
9 35 (5.20%) Law
10 33 (4.90%) Public Sector
11 28 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (3.27%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.97%) Banking
14 18 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.93%) Electronics
16 9 (1.34%) Billing
17 8 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.19%) Public Speaking
17 8 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 137 (20.36%) Lead
2 108 (16.05%) Senior
3 43 (6.39%) Service Manager
4 42 (6.24%) Team Leader
5 40 (5.94%) Developer
6 38 (5.65%) Software Engineer
7 36 (5.35%) Senior Manager
8 33 (4.90%) Engineering Manager
9 31 (4.61%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (4.46%) IT Manager
11 27 (4.01%) Data Manager
12 25 (3.71%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.57%) Data Centre Manager
13 24 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
15 21 (3.12%) Architect
15 21 (3.12%) Operations Manager
16 19 (2.82%) Support Manager
17 18 (2.67%) Development Manager
18 16 (2.38%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.65%) REST
2 28 (4.16%) .NET
3 18 (2.67%) React
4 16 (2.38%) Terraform
5 14 (2.08%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.08%) Blazor
6 12 (1.78%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.78%) gRPC
6 12 (1.78%) Kafka
6 12 (1.78%) Spring
7 10 (1.49%) EDI
7 10 (1.49%) HTML
7 10 (1.49%) Node.js
7 10 (1.49%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.04%) NestJS
8 7 (1.04%) Playwright
8 7 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (0.89%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.36%) Onboarding
2 58 (8.62%) Management Information System
3 38 (5.65%) Driving Licence
4 27 (4.01%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.38%) Life Science
7 14 (2.08%) IoT
8 13 (1.93%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.49%) NHS
11 9 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.19%) Podcast
13 7 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
13 7 (1.04%) Operational Technology
14 6 (0.89%) CCTV
14 6 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
14 6 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.74%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.35%) Windows
2 14 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.93%) Linux
4 10 (1.49%) macOS
5 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.45%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (30.16%) Continuous Improvement
2 169 (25.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 156 (23.18%) Coaching
3 156 (23.18%) Mentoring
4 148 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (17.38%) Decision-Making
6 114 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
7 105 (15.60%) Service Delivery
8 102 (15.16%) Agile
9 99 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 97 (14.41%) AI
11 86 (12.78%) Line Management
12 85 (12.63%) Roadmaps
13 69 (10.25%) Customer Experience
13 69 (10.25%) Cybersecurity
13 69 (10.25%) Performance Management
14 66 (9.81%) DevOps
15 64 (9.51%) Project Delivery
16 60 (8.92%) Customer Service
17 59 (8.77%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.28%) SQL
2 33 (4.90%) C#
2 33 (4.90%) Java
3 30 (4.46%) Python
4 25 (3.71%) TypeScript
5 22 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.89%) Bicep
7 6 (0.89%) PHP
7 6 (0.89%) SOQL
8 5 (0.74%) C++
8 5 (0.74%) Go
9 4 (0.59%) Ruby
10 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) C
11 2 (0.30%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 106 (15.75%) Degree
2 44 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.57%) ACCA
6 23 (3.42%) CIMA
7 22 (3.27%) Chartered Engineer
8 20 (2.97%) CISM
9 19 (2.82%) CISSP
10 17 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (2.53%) Master's Degree
11 14 (2.08%) DBS Check
12 12 (1.78%) HNC
13 11 (1.63%) CIPD
13 11 (1.63%) HND
13 11 (1.63%) MBA
14 9 (1.34%) CISMP
14 9 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (6.54%) QA
3 32 (4.75%) SLA
4 23 (3.42%) GDPR
5 17 (2.53%) ISO 14000
5 17 (2.53%) ISO 9001
6 13 (1.93%) GRC
7 10 (1.49%) NIST
8 9 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.19%) ISO 14001
10 6 (0.89%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.74%) COBIT
11 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.59%) IFRS
12 4 (0.59%) PMO
13 3 (0.45%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.45%) PERC
System Software
1 22 (3.27%) Docker
2 17 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.93%) Firmware
4 10 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.45%) vSphere
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.30%) Snort
8 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.53%) Kubernetes
1 17 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.63%) Ansible
3 8 (1.19%) Grafana
4 7 (1.04%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.45%) Autotask
5 3 (0.45%) cPanel
5 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.45%) Plesk
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
6 2 (0.30%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.30%) Packer
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) SCCM
6 2 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 140 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.01%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.67%) Sage
3 18 (2.67%) VMware
4 15 (2.23%) Cisco
4 15 (2.23%) Google
5 14 (2.08%) Adobe
6 13 (1.93%) YouTube
7 9 (1.34%) Databricks
8 8 (1.19%) OneTrust
8 8 (1.19%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.04%) Meraki
10 6 (0.89%) Workday
11 5 (0.74%) Juniper
11 5 (0.74%) Oracle
11 5 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.74%) Siemens
12 4 (0.59%) Anaplan
12 4 (0.59%) Thales
12 4 (0.59%) Veeam