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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 287 265
Rank change year-on-year -34 -22 -87
Permanent jobs citing People Management 651 469 750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.94% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.06% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 411 280 336
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £64,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -18.60% +4.88% -3.15%

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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -37 569 £60,000 -16.67% 866
UK excluding London +2 455 £52,500 -18.60% 481
Work from Home +8 203 £72,113 -3.85% 336
London -80 160 £90,000 +9.09% 457
South East -5 127 £65,000 -9.72% 130
North of England -38 121 £52,500 -22.22% 114
North West -6 68 £45,000 -35.08% 76
Midlands -19 65 £45,000 -37.93% 71
South West -34 53 £55,000 - 43
East of England -16 35 £60,050 +14.38% 34
North East -26 35 £62,500 -3.85% 9
West Midlands -32 35 £51,250 -29.31% 44
East Midlands -17 30 £45,000 -36.84% 27
Wales -64 24 £35,000 -2.78% 19
Scotland +16 23 £53,481 -28.21% 54
Yorkshire -56 18 £50,000 -25.93% 30
Northern Ireland -73 7 £63,750 - 20

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 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.08%) SAS
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.61%) CMS
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 41 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.08%) Acrobat
5 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.46%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.31%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 83 (12.75%) Azure
2 59 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (7.53%) SaaS
4 44 (6.76%) AWS
5 24 (3.69%) Power Platform
6 23 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.76%) Entra ID
8 17 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (2.46%) Azure Key Vault
10 15 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (1.84%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (1.69%) IaaS
14 10 (1.54%) GCP
15 9 (1.38%) GitHub
15 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (1.08%) OneDrive
18 6 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 6 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.76%) Firewall
2 14 (2.15%) Network Security
3 10 (1.54%) DNS
4 9 (1.38%) VLAN
5 8 (1.23%) VPN
6 6 (0.92%) Internet
6 6 (0.92%) VoIP
7 5 (0.77%) DHCP
7 5 (0.77%) SSH
7 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.61%) HTTP
8 4 (0.61%) PBX
8 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.46%) DKIM
9 3 (0.46%) DMARC
9 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.31%) Intranet
10 2 (0.31%) SAN
10 2 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.30%) Power BI
3 13 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.54%) Tableau
5 7 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.46%) Metadata
7 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.31%) Big Data
8 2 (0.31%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.31%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 29 (4.45%) Git
2 22 (3.38%) JIRA
3 9 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.23%) Postman
5 6 (0.92%) GitLab
6 5 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.77%) Selenium
7 4 (0.61%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.61%) Maven
7 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.46%) Gatling
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) Newman
9 2 (0.31%) RSpec
9 2 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.15%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.15%) Mocha
10 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 234 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 185 (28.42%) Finance
3 69 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.37%) Retail
5 52 (7.99%) Legal
6 51 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (7.07%) Marketing
8 36 (5.53%) Law
8 36 (5.53%) Manufacturing
9 35 (5.38%) Aerospace
10 26 (3.99%) Public Sector
11 25 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.76%) Banking
13 17 (2.61%) Telecoms
14 15 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (2.00%) Electronics
16 9 (1.38%) Billing
17 8 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.23%) Publishing
18 6 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (20.74%) Lead
2 103 (15.82%) Senior
3 44 (6.76%) Team Leader
4 42 (6.45%) Service Manager
5 40 (6.14%) Developer
6 36 (5.53%) Software Engineer
7 34 (5.22%) Senior Manager
8 31 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
8 31 (4.76%) IT Manager
8 31 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
9 28 (4.30%) Data Manager
10 26 (3.99%) Lead Developer
11 25 (3.84%) Data Centre Manager
12 23 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
12 23 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
13 19 (2.92%) Operations Manager
13 19 (2.92%) Support Manager
14 18 (2.76%) Architect
14 18 (2.76%) Development Manager
15 15 (2.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.38%) REST
2 28 (4.30%) .NET
3 18 (2.76%) React
4 17 (2.61%) Terraform
5 14 (2.15%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.15%) Blazor
6 12 (1.84%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.84%) gRPC
7 11 (1.69%) Spring
8 10 (1.54%) EDI
8 10 (1.54%) HTML
8 10 (1.54%) Kafka
9 9 (1.38%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.23%) Node.js
11 7 (1.08%) Playwright
12 6 (0.92%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (0.77%) NestJS
13 5 (0.77%) RESTful
13 5 (0.77%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.37%) Onboarding
2 53 (8.14%) Management Information System
3 38 (5.84%) Driving Licence
4 28 (4.30%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.46%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.00%) IoT
7 13 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.69%) Life Science
10 10 (1.54%) NHS
11 9 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.23%) Podcast
13 7 (1.08%) Biopharmaceutical
13 7 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.92%) CCTV
14 6 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
14 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.77%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.38%) Windows
2 13 (2.00%) Linux
2 13 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.54%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.46%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (30.41%) Continuous Improvement
2 161 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 146 (22.43%) Coaching
4 143 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
5 141 (21.66%) Mentoring
6 115 (17.67%) Decision-Making
7 114 (17.51%) Technical Leadership
8 105 (16.13%) Service Delivery
9 104 (15.98%) Agile
10 98 (15.05%) Software Engineering
11 92 (14.13%) AI
12 84 (12.90%) Line Management
13 77 (11.83%) Roadmaps
14 69 (10.60%) Performance Management
15 67 (10.29%) Customer Experience
15 67 (10.29%) DevOps
16 63 (9.68%) Cybersecurity
17 58 (8.91%) Project Delivery
18 57 (8.76%) CI/CD
18 57 (8.76%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 48 (7.37%) SQL
2 31 (4.76%) C#
2 31 (4.76%) Java
3 30 (4.61%) Python
4 23 (3.53%) TypeScript
5 19 (2.92%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.92%) Bicep
8 5 (0.77%) C++
8 5 (0.77%) PHP
9 4 (0.61%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.61%) Go
9 4 (0.61%) Ruby
9 4 (0.61%) SOQL
10 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) C
11 2 (0.31%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 104 (15.98%) Degree
2 40 (6.14%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (4.15%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.69%) ACCA
6 23 (3.53%) CIMA
7 21 (3.23%) Chartered Engineer
8 16 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.30%) CISM
10 14 (2.15%) CISSP
10 14 (2.15%) DBS Check
11 13 (2.00%) CIPD
12 11 (1.69%) HNC
12 11 (1.69%) HND
12 11 (1.69%) MBA
13 9 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.23%) DV Cleared
15 7 (1.08%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (6.45%) QA
3 32 (4.92%) SLA
4 22 (3.38%) GDPR
5 17 (2.61%) ISO 14000
6 16 (2.46%) ISO 9001
7 12 (1.84%) GRC
8 10 (1.54%) NIST
9 9 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.23%) ISO 14001
11 5 (0.77%) COBIT
11 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.61%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.61%) IFRS
12 4 (0.61%) PMO
13 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.31%) DO-254
14 2 (0.31%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 20 (3.07%) Docker
2 16 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.00%) Firmware
4 10 (1.54%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.46%) vSphere
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.31%) Snort
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.69%) Ansible
4 8 (1.23%) Grafana
5 6 (0.92%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.46%) Autotask
6 3 (0.46%) cPanel
6 3 (0.46%) Plesk
7 2 (0.31%) Argo
7 2 (0.31%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
7 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.31%) SCCM
7 2 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 135 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.69%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.76%) VMware
4 16 (2.46%) Sage
5 15 (2.30%) Cisco
5 15 (2.30%) Google
6 14 (2.15%) Adobe
7 13 (2.00%) YouTube
8 7 (1.08%) Databricks
8 7 (1.08%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.92%) Meraki
9 6 (0.92%) Workday
10 5 (0.77%) Juniper
11 4 (0.61%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.61%) Oracle
11 4 (0.61%) Veeam
11 4 (0.61%) Xero
12 3 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.46%) Datto
12 3 (0.46%) OneTrust