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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 297 304
Rank change year-on-year -123 +7 -132
Permanent jobs citing People Management 376 482 947
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.01% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.11% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 271 268 592
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £33,585
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +20.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,303 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.11% +17.39% -8.00%

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 71,495 43,542 85,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 90.95% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49,394 24,103 60,537
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -134 332 £63,835 -11.34% 276
UK excluding London -109 246 £57,303 -15.11% 168
Work from Home -23 138 £72,500 -6.45% 130
London -66 113 £90,000 +2.86% 140
North of England -56 61 £62,500 -9.83% 43
South East -83 54 £57,500 -20.69% 46
Midlands -34 53 £42,500 -41.38% 30
North West -22 42 £55,000 -20.65% 21
West Midlands -37 30 £61,250 -15.52% 15
East of England -6 28 £60,100 -3.06% 11
East Midlands -16 23 £42,500 -39.29% 15
Scotland +21 18 £55,000 -20.00% 14
South West -66 16 £55,000 -17.13% 17
North East - 15 £62,500 - 6
Wales -49 13 £47,500 +33.80% 3
Yorkshire -57 4 £108,000 +60.00% 16
Northern Ireland -49 3 £63,750 - 5

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 16 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.06%) CMS
3 3 (0.80%) Drupal
3 3 (0.80%) SAS
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.06%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.53%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.27%) InVision
7 1 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.13%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.33%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.53%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) Maximo
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 53 (14.10%) Azure
2 31 (8.24%) SaaS
3 29 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (7.45%) AWS
5 25 (6.65%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.52%) Figma
7 13 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.60%) Slack
9 5 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.33%) GCP
9 5 (1.33%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 4 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.06%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.06%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.06%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.52%) Broadband
2 9 (2.39%) Network Security
3 5 (1.33%) DNS
3 5 (1.33%) Firewall
3 5 (1.33%) VoIP
4 4 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.80%) DKIM
5 3 (0.80%) DMARC
5 3 (0.80%) PBX
5 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.80%) VLAN
6 2 (0.53%) Intranet
6 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.27%) FTP
7 1 (0.27%) HTTP
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) SMTP
7 1 (0.27%) VPN
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.12%) Power BI
2 11 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.13%) Tableau
4 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.80%) Looker
6 3 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.53%) Metadata
7 2 (0.53%) Redis
7 2 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (3.46%) JIRA
2 10 (2.66%) Git
3 5 (1.33%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 114 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 106 (28.19%) Finance
3 53 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.71%) Retail
5 23 (6.12%) Law
6 22 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.79%) Banking
8 18 (4.79%) Marketing
8 18 (4.79%) Public Sector
9 17 (4.52%) Aerospace
10 14 (3.72%) Legal
11 11 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.39%) Back Office
13 9 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 8 (2.13%) Advertising
15 7 (1.86%) Billing
15 7 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 84 (22.34%) Lead
2 61 (16.22%) Senior
3 31 (8.24%) Team Leader
4 24 (6.38%) Data Manager
5 22 (5.85%) Developer
5 22 (5.85%) Engineering Manager
5 22 (5.85%) Senior Manager
6 21 (5.59%) IT Manager
7 16 (4.26%) Support Manager
8 15 (3.99%) Lead Developer
9 14 (3.72%) Data Centre Manager
9 14 (3.72%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (3.46%) Architect
11 12 (3.19%) IT Support
12 11 (2.93%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (2.39%) Operations Manager
13 9 (2.39%) Principal Developer
13 9 (2.39%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (2.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 8 (2.13%) Account Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.72%) .NET
2 7 (1.86%) .NET Core
3 5 (1.33%) Spring
4 4 (1.06%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.06%) Blazor
4 4 (1.06%) gRPC
4 4 (1.06%) React
4 4 (1.06%) REST
5 3 (0.80%) CSS
5 3 (0.80%) HTML
5 3 (0.80%) Kafka
5 3 (0.80%) LangChain
5 3 (0.80%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.53%) J2EE
6 2 (0.53%) NestJS
6 2 (0.53%) Node.js
6 2 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.27%) ADO
7 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.91%) Onboarding
2 24 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 20 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.26%) Driving Licence
5 15 (3.99%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.99%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.72%) Mobile App
7 12 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (2.13%) NHS
11 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.33%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.80%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (0.53%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.79%) Windows
2 7 (1.86%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.60%) Linux
4 3 (0.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (27.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 85 (22.61%) Mentoring
3 80 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (21.01%) Line Management
5 75 (19.95%) Coaching
6 71 (18.88%) Agile
6 71 (18.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (17.29%) Software Engineering
7 65 (17.29%) Technical Leadership
8 52 (13.83%) Decision-Making
9 51 (13.56%) Service Delivery
10 49 (13.03%) AI
11 47 (12.50%) DevOps
11 47 (12.50%) Project Delivery
12 43 (11.44%) Customer Experience
13 38 (10.11%) Project Management
14 37 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
15 36 (9.57%) CI/CD
15 36 (9.57%) Roadmaps
16 32 (8.51%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 38 (10.11%) SQL
2 25 (6.65%) Python
3 17 (4.52%) Java
4 12 (3.19%) C#
5 11 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.80%) ABAP
8 2 (0.53%) Bash
8 2 (0.53%) C++
8 2 (0.53%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) Go
9 1 (0.27%) Perl
9 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (15.96%) Degree
2 26 (6.91%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (4.79%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.72%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.39%) ACCA
6 9 (2.39%) CIMA
7 8 (2.13%) CIPD
7 8 (2.13%) CISM
8 7 (1.86%) Chartered Engineer
8 7 (1.86%) CISSP
8 7 (1.86%) HNC
8 7 (1.86%) HND
8 7 (1.86%) ICAEW
8 7 (1.86%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.86%) PMP
9 5 (1.33%) CRISC
10 4 (1.06%) CISA
10 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (4.26%) ISO 9001
3 14 (3.72%) NIST
4 12 (3.19%) GDPR
5 10 (2.66%) ISO 14000
5 10 (2.66%) QA
6 8 (2.13%) COBIT
6 8 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.13%) SLA
7 7 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.60%) PMO
9 5 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.33%) ISO 14001
9 5 (1.33%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.06%) GRC
11 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.80%) ITGC
11 3 (0.80%) TickIT
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (1.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.53%) Firmware
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.66%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.13%) Terraform
3 4 (1.06%) Ansible
3 4 (1.06%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.80%) cPanel
4 3 (0.80%) Plesk
4 3 (0.80%) Puppet
5 2 (0.53%) Argo
5 2 (0.53%) Salt
5 2 (0.53%) SCCM
5 2 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 60 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.85%) Adobe
3 15 (3.99%) Google
4 10 (2.66%) Oracle
5 9 (2.39%) Cisco
5 9 (2.39%) VMware
6 5 (1.33%) Informatica
6 5 (1.33%) Juniper
6 5 (1.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.33%) SAP
6 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.06%) Databricks
7 4 (1.06%) Meraki
7 4 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.06%) Xero
8 3 (0.80%) Infor
8 3 (0.80%) NETGEAR
8 3 (0.80%) SonicWALL
8 3 (0.80%) Veeam
8 3 (0.80%) WatchGuard