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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 300 286
Rank change year-on-year -58 -14 -114
Permanent jobs citing People Management 560 472 733
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.96% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.08% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 369 278 353
10th Percentile £37,250 £42,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +10.94% -8.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £123,750 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 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 September 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 -77 490 £60,100 -16.53% 1,080
UK excluding London -27 392 £55,000 -15.38% 576
Work from Home -18 181 £72,500 -4.61% 439
London -74 138 £90,000 +9.09% 609
South East -21 103 £67,500 +6.30% 133
North of England -44 100 £55,000 -18.52% 141
Midlands -32 65 £45,000 -37.93% 79
North West -18 56 £45,000 -35.08% 81
South West -48 49 £55,000 - 56
West Midlands -38 34 £44,241 -38.98% 44
North East - 32 £62,500 - 11
East Midlands -12 31 £45,000 -37.93% 35
East of England -20 28 £60,100 +14.48% 59
Wales -62 22 £35,000 -2.78% 28
Scotland +13 18 £55,000 -29.03% 60
Yorkshire -66 12 £50,000 -25.93% 51
Northern Ireland -72 7 £63,750 - 27

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 23 (4.11%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.25%) SAS
3 4 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.71%) CMS
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 38 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.25%) Acrobat
5 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.89%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.36%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.36%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.18%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (13.39%) Azure
2 57 (10.18%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (8.75%) SaaS
4 37 (6.61%) AWS
5 25 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (3.93%) Power Platform
7 17 (3.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 15 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 11 (1.96%) IaaS
13 8 (1.43%) GCP
14 7 (1.25%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.07%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (1.07%) Serverless
16 5 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 5 (0.89%) GitHub
16 5 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.79%) DNS
1 10 (1.79%) Firewall
2 9 (1.61%) VLAN
3 8 (1.43%) Network Security
3 8 (1.43%) VPN
4 6 (1.07%) VoIP
5 5 (0.89%) DHCP
5 5 (0.89%) SSH
6 4 (0.71%) HTTP
6 4 (0.71%) PBX
6 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.54%) DKIM
7 3 (0.54%) DMARC
7 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.54%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.36%) Internet
8 2 (0.36%) Intranet
9 1 (0.18%) FTP
9 1 (0.18%) SSL
9 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.86%) Power BI
3 13 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.79%) Tableau
5 7 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.54%) Metadata
8 3 (0.54%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.54%) Redis
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.36%) Big Data
9 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.18%) Flink
10 1 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 31 (5.54%) Git
2 23 (4.11%) JIRA
3 8 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.07%) Postman
5 4 (0.71%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.71%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.54%) Gatling
6 3 (0.54%) GitLab
6 3 (0.54%) JMeter
6 3 (0.54%) Maven
6 3 (0.54%) Newman
6 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.54%) Selenium
7 2 (0.36%) RSpec
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
General
1 200 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 157 (28.04%) Finance
3 65 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 49 (8.75%) Legal
6 43 (7.68%) Retail
7 37 (6.61%) Law
8 33 (5.89%) Marketing
9 32 (5.71%) Aerospace
10 29 (5.18%) Manufacturing
11 24 (4.29%) Public Sector
12 20 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (3.04%) Banking
14 14 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.61%) Electronics
17 8 (1.43%) Billing
18 7 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (1.07%) Back Office
20 5 (0.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 110 (19.64%) Lead
2 84 (15.00%) Senior
3 40 (7.14%) Team Leader
4 37 (6.61%) Developer
4 37 (6.61%) Service Manager
5 33 (5.89%) Engineering Manager
6 32 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 29 (5.18%) Data Manager
8 28 (5.00%) IT Manager
8 28 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
9 26 (4.64%) Senior Manager
10 25 (4.46%) Data Centre Manager
10 25 (4.46%) Lead Developer
11 20 (3.57%) Operations Manager
12 19 (3.39%) Development Manager
12 19 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
13 18 (3.21%) Architect
13 18 (3.21%) Support Manager
14 16 (2.86%) Principal Software Engineer
15 14 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.82%) REST
2 26 (4.64%) .NET
3 15 (2.68%) React
3 15 (2.68%) Terraform
4 14 (2.50%) ASP.NET
4 14 (2.50%) Blazor
5 13 (2.32%) .NET Core
6 12 (2.14%) gRPC
7 10 (1.79%) EDI
8 9 (1.61%) HTML
9 7 (1.25%) Kafka
9 7 (1.25%) Spring
10 6 (1.07%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.07%) Node.js
11 5 (0.89%) Playwright
11 5 (0.89%) RESTful
11 5 (0.89%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.71%) Middleware
12 4 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.46%) Onboarding
2 44 (7.86%) Management Information System
3 36 (6.43%) Driving Licence
4 25 (4.46%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.32%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.79%) IoT
9 10 (1.79%) NHS
10 9 (1.61%) Life Science
11 8 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.25%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.89%) CCTV
13 5 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Licensing
14 4 (0.71%) Blog
14 4 (0.71%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.71%) Windows
2 10 (1.79%) Mac OS
3 9 (1.61%) Linux
3 9 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.54%) Unix
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (30.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 130 (23.21%) Coaching
3 127 (22.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 120 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 111 (19.82%) Mentoring
6 100 (17.86%) Decision-Making
7 98 (17.50%) Agile
8 94 (16.79%) Software Engineering
9 93 (16.61%) Technical Leadership
10 88 (15.71%) Service Delivery
11 83 (14.82%) Line Management
12 81 (14.46%) AI
13 65 (11.61%) DevOps
14 64 (11.43%) Roadmaps
15 60 (10.71%) Performance Management
16 54 (9.64%) Customer Experience
17 53 (9.46%) CI/CD
17 53 (9.46%) ITIL
17 53 (9.46%) Project Delivery
18 49 (8.75%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.75%) SQL
2 30 (5.36%) C#
3 27 (4.82%) Java
4 24 (4.29%) Python
5 17 (3.04%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (0.71%) Apex Code
6 4 (0.71%) Bicep
6 4 (0.71%) C++
6 4 (0.71%) Go
6 4 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.71%) SOQL
7 3 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.54%) Ruby
8 2 (0.36%) PHP
8 2 (0.36%) VBA
9 1 (0.18%) Bash
9 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (15.89%) Degree
2 34 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (4.29%) SC Cleared
5 22 (3.93%) ACCA
6 21 (3.75%) CIMA
7 16 (2.86%) Chartered Engineer
7 16 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (2.50%) CIPD
8 14 (2.50%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.14%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.96%) CISM
10 11 (1.96%) HNC
10 11 (1.96%) HND
10 11 (1.96%) MBA
11 9 (1.61%) CISSP
12 8 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.43%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.25%) ICAEW
14 6 (1.07%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (6.96%) QA
3 29 (5.18%) SLA
4 22 (3.93%) GDPR
5 21 (3.75%) ISO 9001
6 17 (3.04%) ISO 14000
7 10 (1.79%) GRC
8 9 (1.61%) NIST
9 8 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.43%) ISO 14001
10 5 (0.89%) COBIT
10 5 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.71%) Automotive SPICE
11 4 (0.71%) IFRS
11 4 (0.71%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.71%) PMO
12 3 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.54%) TickIT
System Software
1 17 (3.04%) Docker
2 14 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.96%) Firmware
4 8 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.32%) Ansible
2 12 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.89%) Grafana
4 4 (0.71%) Argo
4 4 (0.71%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.54%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.54%) cPanel
5 3 (0.54%) Plesk
6 2 (0.36%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.36%) Packer
6 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.36%) Puppet
6 2 (0.36%) Salt
6 2 (0.36%) SCCM
6 2 (0.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 116 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.39%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.04%) VMware
4 16 (2.86%) Sage
5 14 (2.50%) Google
6 12 (2.14%) Adobe
7 11 (1.96%) YouTube
8 8 (1.43%) Cisco
9 5 (0.89%) Juniper
9 5 (0.89%) Oracle
9 5 (0.89%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.89%) Xero
10 4 (0.71%) Anaplan
10 4 (0.71%) Databricks
10 4 (0.71%) Meraki
10 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.71%) Veeam
11 3 (0.54%) Acronis
11 3 (0.54%) Infor
11 3 (0.54%) NETGEAR