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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 302 290
Rank change year-on-year -111 -12 -118
Permanent jobs citing People Management 437 479 779
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.96% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.07% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 306 273 432
10th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £33,585
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £86,153 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,500 £102,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -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 77,887 44,584 67,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 89.31% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 53,644 25,395 43,808
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 10 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 10 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 -118 382 £60,100 -14.14% 453
UK excluding London -81 311 £55,000 -15.38% 257
Work from Home -25 147 £72,500 -6.45% 190
London -109 102 £92,500 +7.25% 251
North of England -47 84 £62,500 -7.41% 56
Midlands -21 69 £45,000 -35.71% 43
South East -59 69 £63,500 -9.29% 73
North West -17 47 £55,000 -22.81% 32
West Midlands -30 37 £52,500 -26.32% 22
East Midlands -7 32 £45,000 -35.71% 21
North East - 29 £62,500 - 11
East of England -25 27 £60,100 -3.06% 22
South West -59 26 £55,000 - 25
Scotland +19 21 £55,000 -20.00% 23
Wales -53 11 £47,500 +31.94% 13
Yorkshire -63 8 £65,000 -3.70% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 7

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 21 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.69%) SAS
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.92%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.14%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.46%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Maximo
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.23%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.42%) Azure
2 40 (9.15%) SaaS
3 39 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (7.09%) AWS
5 20 (4.58%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (2.52%) IaaS
8 10 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (2.06%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.60%) GCP
11 6 (1.37%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.14%) GitHub
13 4 (0.92%) Azure AI
14 3 (0.69%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (0.69%) Google Sheets
14 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.83%) Network Security
2 6 (1.37%) VoIP
3 5 (1.14%) DNS
3 5 (1.14%) Firewall
4 4 (0.92%) PBX
4 4 (0.92%) VLAN
4 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.69%) Broadband
5 3 (0.69%) DKIM
5 3 (0.69%) DMARC
5 3 (0.69%) HTTP
5 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.69%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.69%) VPN
6 2 (0.46%) Intranet
7 1 (0.23%) LAN
7 1 (0.23%) SSL
7 1 (0.23%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
7 1 (0.23%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.89%) Power BI
2 14 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.29%) Tableau
4 9 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.92%) Redis
6 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.46%) Big Data
7 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.46%) Metadata
7 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (4.35%) Git
2 17 (3.89%) JIRA
3 3 (0.69%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.46%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.46%) Postman
4 2 (0.46%) RSpec
5 1 (0.23%) Maven
General
1 165 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 119 (27.23%) Finance
3 55 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (8.01%) Retail
6 25 (5.72%) Legal
7 24 (5.49%) Law
8 23 (5.26%) Aerospace
9 22 (5.03%) Public Sector
10 20 (4.58%) Marketing
11 15 (3.43%) Banking
11 15 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.29%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.83%) Billing
16 7 (1.60%) Advertising
16 7 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.60%) Electronics
17 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (22.20%) Lead
2 64 (14.65%) Senior
3 40 (9.15%) Team Leader
4 30 (6.86%) Developer
5 29 (6.64%) Data Manager
5 29 (6.64%) Engineering Manager
6 25 (5.72%) Senior Manager
7 24 (5.49%) IT Manager
8 23 (5.26%) Data Centre Manager
8 23 (5.26%) Lead Developer
9 18 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
9 18 (4.12%) Service Manager
9 18 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (3.43%) Development Manager
11 14 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
11 14 (3.20%) Operations Manager
12 13 (2.97%) Architect
12 13 (2.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 12 (2.75%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.89%) .NET
2 14 (3.20%) REST
3 11 (2.52%) Blazor
4 10 (2.29%) .NET Core
5 9 (2.06%) ASP.NET
5 9 (2.06%) gRPC
6 7 (1.60%) React
7 5 (1.14%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.14%) Spring
8 4 (0.92%) Node.js
9 3 (0.69%) HTML
9 3 (0.69%) Kafka
9 3 (0.69%) LangChain
9 3 (0.69%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.69%) Semantic Kernel
9 3 (0.69%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.46%) CSS
10 2 (0.46%) Google JAX
10 2 (0.46%) JAX
10 2 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.24%) Management Information System
2 34 (7.78%) Driving Licence
3 32 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.29%) NHS
9 9 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.14%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.92%) Blog
12 4 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (0.92%) Social Media
13 3 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.03%) Windows
2 9 (2.06%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.83%) Linux
4 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (27.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 99 (22.65%) Mentoring
3 96 (21.97%) Coaching
4 95 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 90 (20.59%) Technical Leadership
6 87 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (18.99%) Agile
8 75 (17.16%) Line Management
9 73 (16.70%) Software Engineering
10 72 (16.48%) Decision-Making
11 69 (15.79%) Service Delivery
12 67 (15.33%) AI
13 55 (12.59%) DevOps
13 55 (12.59%) Project Delivery
14 51 (11.67%) Roadmaps
15 46 (10.53%) Project Management
16 45 (10.30%) CI/CD
17 44 (10.07%) Commercial Awareness
18 43 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
19 40 (9.15%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (9.15%) SQL
2 19 (4.35%) C#
2 19 (4.35%) Python
3 18 (4.12%) Java
4 12 (2.75%) TypeScript
5 8 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.69%) C++
6 3 (0.69%) Ruby
7 2 (0.46%) ABAP
7 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.46%) Bicep
7 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.46%) SOQL
7 2 (0.46%) VBA
8 1 (0.23%) Bash
8 1 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 76 (17.39%) Degree
2 29 (6.64%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.43%) DBS Check
6 14 (3.20%) ACCA
7 13 (2.97%) Chartered Engineer
7 13 (2.97%) CIMA
8 10 (2.29%) CISM
9 9 (2.06%) HNC
9 9 (2.06%) HND
10 8 (1.83%) CIPD
10 8 (1.83%) CISSP
10 8 (1.83%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.83%) PMP
11 7 (1.60%) ICAEW
12 6 (1.37%) CRISC
12 6 (1.37%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.37%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (5.72%) QA
3 23 (5.26%) SLA
4 21 (4.81%) ISO 9001
5 17 (3.89%) GDPR
5 17 (3.89%) ISO 14000
6 14 (3.20%) NIST
7 8 (1.83%) GRC
7 8 (1.83%) ISO 14001
8 7 (1.60%) COBIT
8 7 (1.60%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.37%) PMO
10 5 (1.14%) Accessibility
10 5 (1.14%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.14%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.69%) TickIT
System Software
1 12 (2.75%) Docker
2 11 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.83%) Firmware
4 6 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.52%) Terraform
2 9 (2.06%) Ansible
3 8 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.60%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.92%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.69%) Argo
6 3 (0.69%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.69%) cPanel
6 3 (0.69%) Plesk
7 2 (0.46%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.46%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) Packer
7 2 (0.46%) Puppet
7 2 (0.46%) Salt
7 2 (0.46%) SCCM
7 2 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.20%) Google
3 11 (2.52%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.29%) VMware
5 8 (1.83%) Adobe
5 8 (1.83%) Cisco
6 7 (1.60%) Sage
7 5 (1.14%) Juniper
7 5 (1.14%) Oracle
7 5 (1.14%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.14%) SAP
8 4 (0.92%) Foundry
8 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.92%) Veeam
9 3 (0.69%) Acronis
9 3 (0.69%) IBM
9 3 (0.69%) Infor
9 3 (0.69%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.69%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.69%) WatchGuard