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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 319 317
Rank change year-on-year -79 -2 -109
Permanent jobs citing People Management 363 407 878
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.93% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.00% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 238 234 569
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,887 £35,800
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,195 £47,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,018 £60,600
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% +13.89% -13.43%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £104,850 £97,695
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,100 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.96% +17.39% -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 67,346 40,822 82,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.74% 93.29% 85.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43,359 22,211 59,550
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 May 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 16 May 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 -78 327 £62,500 -9.44% 185
UK excluding London -87 233 £60,100 -10.96% 146
Work from Home +40 149 £70,000 - 149
London -12 110 £71,875 -10.16% 64
North of England -34 51 £80,000 +15.42% 42
South East -79 50 £50,000 -23.08% 39
Midlands -42 46 £60,000 -14.29% 22
South West -28 35 £59,000 -11.10% 13
North West -4 31 £91,250 +31.65% 28
East of England +1 29 £60,100 -3.06% 19
West Midlands -70 24 £62,500 -13.79% 14
East Midlands -15 22 £42,500 -37.04% 8
Wales -16 13 £47,500 - 5
Yorkshire -60 12 £80,000 +6.67% 9
Scotland -9 9 £60,000 -17.24% 4
North East - 8 £62,500 - 6

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 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.10%) CMS
2 4 (1.10%) Drupal
3 3 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 27 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.83%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.83%) InVision
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.83%) Sketch
5 2 (0.55%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.28%) Maximo
4 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.85%) Azure
2 31 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (7.99%) SaaS
4 27 (7.44%) AWS
4 27 (7.44%) Power Platform
5 26 (7.16%) Figma
6 8 (2.20%) Power Automate
6 8 (2.20%) PowerApps
7 7 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.93%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.65%) Slack
9 5 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (1.38%) GCP
10 4 (1.10%) GitHub
10 4 (1.10%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.10%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.10%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.83%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.83%) Contentsquare
11 3 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.61%) Broadband
2 5 (1.38%) Network Security
3 3 (0.83%) DNS
3 3 (0.83%) Firewall
4 2 (0.55%) SAN
5 1 (0.28%) DHCP
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Intranet
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.61%) Power BI
2 7 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.65%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.38%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.38%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (1.10%) Tableau
6 3 (0.83%) Looker
6 3 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.55%) Metadata
7 2 (0.55%) Redis
7 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.28%) Flink
8 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.03%) JIRA
2 5 (1.38%) Claude Code
2 5 (1.38%) Git
3 2 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 111 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 90 (24.79%) Finance
3 39 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.99%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (6.89%) Back Office
6 23 (6.34%) Law
7 20 (5.51%) Retail
8 19 (5.23%) Banking
9 18 (4.96%) Legal
9 18 (4.96%) Public Sector
10 16 (4.41%) Marketing
11 14 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (3.03%) Aerospace
14 10 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.93%) Advertising
16 5 (1.38%) Social Housing
16 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
17 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (22.87%) Lead
2 57 (15.70%) Senior
3 32 (8.82%) Team Leader
4 24 (6.61%) IT Manager
5 23 (6.34%) Data Manager
6 19 (5.23%) Developer
6 19 (5.23%) Support Manager
7 18 (4.96%) Senior Manager
8 16 (4.41%) Desktop Engineer
8 16 (4.41%) Desktop Support
8 16 (4.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 16 (4.41%) Site Engineer
8 16 (4.41%) Support Engineer
9 12 (3.31%) Lead Developer
10 11 (3.03%) Engineering Manager
10 11 (3.03%) Infrastructure Manager
10 11 (3.03%) IT Support
10 11 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Designer
11 10 (2.75%) Head of Operations
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.31%) .NET
2 5 (1.38%) .NET Core
2 5 (1.38%) Spring
3 4 (1.10%) CSS
3 4 (1.10%) HTML
3 4 (1.10%) Node.js
3 4 (1.10%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.83%) Kafka
4 3 (0.83%) LangChain
4 3 (0.83%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (0.55%) EDI
5 2 (0.55%) J2EE
5 2 (0.55%) NestJS
5 2 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.28%) ADO
6 1 (0.28%) MACH
6 1 (0.28%) PySpark
6 1 (0.28%) SPFx
6 1 (0.28%) XML
6 1 (0.28%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.79%) Cloud Native
1 21 (5.79%) Mobile App
2 20 (5.51%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.31%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.93%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.38%) Mobile Computing
9 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.10%) NHS
10 3 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
10 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.83%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.16%) Windows
2 16 (4.41%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.65%) Linux
4 3 (0.83%) Unix
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (28.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 80 (22.04%) Mentoring
2 80 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (19.01%) Line Management
4 68 (18.73%) Coaching
5 62 (17.08%) Agile
6 59 (16.25%) Software Engineering
7 55 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
8 53 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 52 (14.33%) Customer Experience
10 45 (12.40%) AI
10 45 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (12.12%) Analytics
12 41 (11.29%) DevOps
12 41 (11.29%) Project Delivery
13 36 (9.92%) Service Delivery
14 35 (9.64%) Collaborative Culture
14 35 (9.64%) Customer Service
15 34 (9.37%) CI/CD
15 34 (9.37%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (8.82%) SQL
2 30 (8.26%) Python
3 17 (4.68%) Java
4 13 (3.58%) C#
5 7 (1.93%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.83%) ABAP
8 2 (0.55%) Bash
8 2 (0.55%) C++
8 2 (0.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.28%) Go
9 1 (0.28%) Perl
9 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (16.80%) Degree
2 39 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.41%) CTC Cleared
5 15 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.58%) DBS Check
7 9 (2.48%) CIPD
8 7 (1.93%) CISM
8 7 (1.93%) CISSP
9 6 (1.65%) CISA
9 6 (1.65%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.38%) PMP
11 4 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (1.10%) HNC
11 4 (1.10%) HND
11 4 (1.10%) OSCP
12 3 (0.83%) ACCA
12 3 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.61%) SLA
3 13 (3.58%) QA
4 12 (3.31%) GDPR
4 12 (3.31%) ISO 9001
5 9 (2.48%) NIST
6 8 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.20%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.65%) ISO 14000
8 5 (1.38%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (1.38%) ISO 26262
9 4 (1.10%) COBIT
9 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.10%) PMO
10 3 (0.83%) GRC
10 3 (0.83%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.83%) ITGC
10 3 (0.83%) TickIT
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (0.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.48%) Terraform
3 4 (1.10%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.83%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.83%) Puppet
5 2 (0.55%) Argo
5 2 (0.55%) Salt
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.44%) Adobe
3 23 (6.34%) Cisco
4 18 (4.96%) Google
5 11 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.75%) Oracle
7 7 (1.93%) Informatica
7 7 (1.93%) UiPath
8 5 (1.38%) Foundry
8 5 (1.38%) SAP
8 5 (1.38%) VMware
9 4 (1.10%) Xero
10 3 (0.83%) Databricks
10 3 (0.83%) Hotjar
10 3 (0.83%) IBM
10 3 (0.83%) Meraki
10 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.55%) Cvent
12 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.28%) YouTube