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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 298 293
Rank change year-on-year -82 -5 -120
Permanent jobs citing People Management 497 483 760
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.96% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.09% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 339 283 389
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,963 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £119,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -11.54%

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 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -101 433 £60,050 -16.60% 444
UK excluding London -77 354 £55,000 -18.52% 265
Work from Home -39 160 £72,500 -3.33% 184
London -90 120 £92,500 +8.82% 260
South East -25 92 £67,500 +6.30% 67
North of England -71 89 £62,500 -7.41% 54
Midlands -22 66 £45,000 -37.93% 35
North West -17 47 £55,000 -22.81% 27
South West -53 37 £55,000 - 46
West Midlands -32 34 £44,241 -38.98% 23
East Midlands -8 32 £45,000 -37.93% 12
North East - 32 £62,500 - 11
East of England -10 27 £60,100 +14.48% 21
Scotland +12 24 £53,481 -22.21% 23
Wales -65 14 £45,000 +25.00% 13
Yorkshire -62 10 £57,500 -14.81% 17
Northern Ireland - 5 £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 22 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (0.80%) CMS
2 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.80%) SAS
3 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.21%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.41%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.01%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.20%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.20%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.68%) Azure
2 48 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (9.05%) SaaS
4 31 (6.24%) AWS
5 22 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.82%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.02%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (2.21%) IaaS
11 9 (1.81%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (1.61%) GCP
13 7 (1.41%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
15 5 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 5 (1.01%) GitHub
15 5 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.01%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.81%) DNS
1 9 (1.81%) Firewall
2 8 (1.61%) Network Security
2 8 (1.61%) VLAN
3 7 (1.41%) VPN
4 6 (1.21%) VoIP
5 4 (0.80%) DHCP
5 4 (0.80%) HTTP
5 4 (0.80%) PBX
5 4 (0.80%) SSH
5 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.60%) Broadband
6 3 (0.60%) DKIM
6 3 (0.60%) DMARC
6 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.60%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.40%) Intranet
8 1 (0.20%) FTP
8 1 (0.20%) LAN
8 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.02%) Power BI
3 13 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.01%) Tableau
5 4 (0.80%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.80%) Redis
5 4 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.60%) Metadata
6 3 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.40%) Big Data
7 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.20%) Flink
8 1 (0.20%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (5.23%) Git
2 21 (4.23%) JIRA
3 8 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.21%) Postman
5 4 (0.80%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.60%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.60%) Gatling
6 3 (0.60%) GitLab
6 3 (0.60%) JMeter
6 3 (0.60%) Maven
6 3 (0.60%) Newman
6 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.40%) RSpec
8 1 (0.20%) Mocha
General
1 182 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 142 (28.57%) Finance
3 59 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (8.85%) Legal
6 39 (7.85%) Retail
7 32 (6.44%) Law
8 30 (6.04%) Aerospace
9 25 (5.03%) Marketing
10 21 (4.23%) Public Sector
11 20 (4.02%) Manufacturing
12 17 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (3.22%) Banking
14 12 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 11 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (1.61%) Billing
16 8 (1.61%) Electronics
17 5 (1.01%) Back Office
17 5 (1.01%) Cantonese Language
17 5 (1.01%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 105 (21.13%) Lead
2 79 (15.90%) Senior
3 39 (7.85%) Team Leader
4 32 (6.44%) Engineering Manager
5 31 (6.24%) Developer
6 28 (5.63%) Data Manager
7 27 (5.43%) Software Engineer
8 26 (5.23%) Lead Developer
9 25 (5.03%) Data Centre Manager
9 25 (5.03%) Senior Manager
10 24 (4.83%) IT Manager
10 24 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
11 23 (4.63%) Service Manager
12 21 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
13 20 (4.02%) Development Manager
14 19 (3.82%) Operations Manager
15 16 (3.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 14 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
16 14 (2.82%) Principal Software Engineer
17 13 (2.62%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.83%) .NET
2 23 (4.63%) REST
3 14 (2.82%) ASP.NET
3 14 (2.82%) Blazor
4 13 (2.62%) .NET Core
4 13 (2.62%) Terraform
5 12 (2.41%) gRPC
6 10 (2.01%) React
7 7 (1.41%) HTML
8 6 (1.21%) EDI
9 5 (1.01%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.01%) Node.js
9 5 (1.01%) Playwright
9 5 (1.01%) Spring
10 4 (0.80%) XML
11 3 (0.60%) CSS
11 3 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.60%) Kafka
11 3 (0.60%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.05%) Onboarding
2 39 (7.85%) Management Information System
3 35 (7.04%) Driving Licence
4 25 (5.03%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.22%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.01%) NHS
9 9 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.41%) IoT
12 6 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.01%) Biopharmaceutical
13 5 (1.01%) CCTV
13 5 (1.01%) Life Science
13 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Licensing
14 4 (0.80%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.80%) Blog
14 4 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.63%) Windows
2 9 (1.81%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.61%) Linux
4 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.60%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 111 (22.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (21.53%) Coaching
3 107 (21.53%) Mentoring
4 106 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (19.32%) Technical Leadership
6 88 (17.71%) Software Engineering
7 86 (17.30%) Agile
8 82 (16.50%) Decision-Making
9 77 (15.49%) Line Management
10 76 (15.29%) Service Delivery
11 75 (15.09%) AI
12 60 (12.07%) DevOps
13 53 (10.66%) Roadmaps
14 52 (10.46%) Project Delivery
15 50 (10.06%) Performance Management
16 49 (9.86%) Project Management
17 48 (9.66%) Commercial Awareness
18 47 (9.46%) CI/CD
19 45 (9.05%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.26%) SQL
2 26 (5.23%) C#
2 26 (5.23%) Java
3 24 (4.83%) Python
4 14 (2.82%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.41%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.80%) C++
6 4 (0.80%) Go
7 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.60%) Ruby
8 2 (0.40%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.40%) Bicep
8 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.40%) SOQL
8 2 (0.40%) VBA
9 1 (0.20%) Bash
9 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (17.10%) Degree
2 31 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (5.84%) Security Cleared
4 20 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.62%) ACCA
5 18 (3.62%) Chartered Engineer
6 17 (3.42%) CIMA
7 13 (2.62%) CIPD
7 13 (2.62%) DBS Check
7 13 (2.62%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (2.21%) HNC
8 11 (2.21%) HND
8 11 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.81%) MBA
10 7 (1.41%) CISM
10 7 (1.41%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.41%) ICAEW
10 7 (1.41%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.41%) PMP
11 5 (1.01%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (7.65%) QA
3 29 (5.84%) SLA
4 24 (4.83%) ISO 9001
5 21 (4.23%) GDPR
6 17 (3.42%) ISO 14000
7 9 (1.81%) GRC
7 9 (1.81%) NIST
8 8 (1.61%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.21%) PMO
10 5 (1.01%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.01%) COBIT
10 5 (1.01%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.80%) IFRS
11 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.60%) TickIT
System Software
1 17 (3.42%) Docker
2 13 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.01%) Firmware
4 7 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.62%) Ansible
2 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.01%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.01%) Grafana
5 4 (0.80%) Argo
5 4 (0.80%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.60%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.60%) cPanel
6 3 (0.60%) Plesk
7 2 (0.40%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.40%) Packer
7 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.40%) Puppet
7 2 (0.40%) Salt
7 2 (0.40%) SCCM
7 2 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 95 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.42%) Google
3 16 (3.22%) Salesforce
4 13 (2.62%) Sage
5 11 (2.21%) Adobe
6 10 (2.01%) VMware
7 8 (1.61%) Cisco
8 5 (1.01%) Juniper
8 5 (1.01%) Oracle
8 5 (1.01%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.80%) Anaplan
9 4 (0.80%) Foundry
9 4 (0.80%) Meraki
9 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.80%) Veeam
9 4 (0.80%) Xero
10 3 (0.60%) Acronis
10 3 (0.60%) Infor
10 3 (0.60%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.60%) WatchGuard