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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 289 290
Rank change year-on-year -76 +1 -119
Permanent jobs citing People Management 544 480 741
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.97% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.09% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 361 273 358
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% -7.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £105,750
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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £76,250
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 9 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 9 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 -88 470 £60,050 -16.60% 746
UK excluding London -36 386 £55,000 -15.38% 411
Work from Home -27 174 £72,500 -5.54% 302
London -94 131 £90,000 +5.88% 442
South East -20 100 £65,000 +3.17% 94
North of England -48 98 £58,115 -13.90% 90
Midlands -32 66 £45,000 -37.93% 55
North West -15 53 £55,000 -20.65% 56
South West -46 42 £55,000 - 54
West Midlands -34 34 £44,241 -38.98% 32
North East - 33 £62,500 - 8
East Midlands -16 32 £45,000 -37.93% 23
East of England -28 28 £60,100 +14.48% 46
Scotland +23 25 £55,000 -29.03% 43
Wales -61 21 £35,000 -2.78% 17
Yorkshire -67 12 £50,000 -25.93% 27
Northern Ireland -74 6 £63,750 - 18

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 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.10%) SAS
3 4 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.74%) CMS
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 37 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.29%) Acrobat
4 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.29%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.92%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.37%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.37%) 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 (13.79%) Azure
2 55 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (8.82%) SaaS
4 35 (6.43%) AWS
5 24 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (4.04%) Power Platform
7 16 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 15 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (2.57%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (2.02%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.02%) IaaS
13 8 (1.47%) GCP
14 7 (1.29%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.10%) Anthropic Claude
16 5 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 5 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.92%) Google Workspace
16 5 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.84%) DNS
1 10 (1.84%) Firewall
2 9 (1.65%) VLAN
3 8 (1.47%) Network Security
3 8 (1.47%) VPN
4 6 (1.10%) VoIP
5 5 (0.92%) DHCP
5 5 (0.92%) SSH
6 4 (0.74%) HTTP
6 4 (0.74%) PBX
6 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.55%) Broadband
7 3 (0.55%) DKIM
7 3 (0.55%) DMARC
7 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.55%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.37%) Intranet
9 1 (0.18%) SSL
9 1 (0.18%) Wireless
9 1 (0.18%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.94%) Power BI
3 13 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.84%) Tableau
5 6 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.74%) Redis
7 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.55%) Metadata
8 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.37%) Big Data
9 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.37%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.18%) Flink
10 1 (0.18%) GIS
Development Applications
1 29 (5.33%) Git
2 23 (4.23%) JIRA
3 8 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.10%) Postman
5 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.55%) Gatling
6 3 (0.55%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.55%) JMeter
6 3 (0.55%) Maven
6 3 (0.55%) Newman
6 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.55%) Selenium
7 2 (0.37%) RSpec
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
General
1 195 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 155 (28.49%) Finance
3 67 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (9.38%) Legal
5 39 (7.17%) Retail
6 36 (6.62%) Law
7 31 (5.70%) Aerospace
8 29 (5.33%) Marketing
9 27 (4.96%) Manufacturing
10 25 (4.60%) Public Sector
11 19 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (3.13%) Banking
13 13 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.65%) Electronics
16 8 (1.47%) Billing
17 7 (1.29%) Back Office
18 6 (1.10%) Automotive
18 6 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (20.04%) Lead
2 88 (16.18%) Senior
3 39 (7.17%) Team Leader
4 35 (6.43%) Engineering Manager
5 33 (6.07%) Developer
6 31 (5.70%) Service Manager
7 30 (5.51%) Software Engineer
8 29 (5.33%) Data Manager
9 28 (5.15%) Senior Manager
10 27 (4.96%) IT Manager
10 27 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
11 25 (4.60%) Data Centre Manager
11 25 (4.60%) Lead Developer
12 21 (3.86%) Operations Manager
12 21 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
13 20 (3.68%) Development Manager
14 16 (2.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 15 (2.76%) Architect
15 15 (2.76%) Principal Software Engineer
16 14 (2.57%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.60%) .NET
2 24 (4.41%) REST
3 15 (2.76%) Terraform
4 14 (2.57%) ASP.NET
4 14 (2.57%) Blazor
4 14 (2.57%) React
5 13 (2.39%) .NET Core
6 12 (2.21%) gRPC
7 9 (1.65%) EDI
8 8 (1.47%) HTML
9 7 (1.29%) Spring
10 6 (1.10%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.92%) Kafka
11 5 (0.92%) Node.js
11 5 (0.92%) Playwright
11 5 (0.92%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.74%) RESTful
12 4 (0.74%) XML
13 3 (0.55%) CSS
13 3 (0.55%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.19%) Onboarding
2 42 (7.72%) Management Information System
3 35 (6.43%) Driving Licence
4 25 (4.60%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.84%) NHS
9 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.47%) IoT
11 7 (1.29%) Life Science
12 6 (1.10%) Biopharmaceutical
12 6 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.92%) CCTV
13 5 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Licensing
14 4 (0.74%) Blog
14 4 (0.74%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.74%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.15%) Windows
2 9 (1.65%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.47%) Linux
4 7 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.55%) Unix
6 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (30.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 123 (22.61%) Coaching
2 123 (22.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 119 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (20.77%) Mentoring
5 97 (17.83%) Technical Leadership
6 95 (17.46%) Software Engineering
7 94 (17.28%) Decision-Making
8 92 (16.91%) Agile
9 83 (15.26%) Service Delivery
10 80 (14.71%) AI
11 79 (14.52%) Line Management
12 65 (11.95%) DevOps
13 59 (10.85%) Roadmaps
14 54 (9.93%) Performance Management
15 53 (9.74%) Project Delivery
16 52 (9.56%) CI/CD
16 52 (9.56%) ITIL
17 51 (9.38%) Customer Experience
18 50 (9.19%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.82%) SQL
2 29 (5.33%) Java
3 28 (5.15%) C#
4 25 (4.60%) Python
5 16 (2.94%) TypeScript
6 15 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.74%) Bicep
7 4 (0.74%) C++
7 4 (0.74%) Go
7 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.55%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.55%) Ruby
8 3 (0.55%) SOQL
9 2 (0.37%) VBA
10 1 (0.18%) Bash
10 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 90 (16.54%) Degree
2 32 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 31 (5.70%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.04%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.86%) ACCA
6 20 (3.68%) CIMA
7 18 (3.31%) Chartered Engineer
8 16 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (2.57%) CIPD
10 13 (2.39%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.21%) DBS Check
12 11 (2.02%) HNC
12 11 (2.02%) HND
13 10 (1.84%) CISM
13 10 (1.84%) MBA
14 8 (1.47%) CISSP
15 7 (1.29%) DV Cleared
15 7 (1.29%) ICAEW
15 7 (1.29%) PMI Certification
15 7 (1.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (6.99%) QA
3 29 (5.33%) SLA
4 24 (4.41%) ISO 9001
5 22 (4.04%) GDPR
6 17 (3.13%) ISO 14000
7 10 (1.84%) GRC
8 9 (1.65%) NIST
9 8 (1.47%) ISO 14001
10 7 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.29%) PMO
11 6 (1.10%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.92%) Automotive SPICE
12 5 (0.92%) COBIT
12 5 (0.92%) ISO 26262
12 5 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.74%) IFRS
13 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.55%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.55%) TickIT
System Software
1 17 (3.13%) Docker
2 13 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.02%) Firmware
4 8 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.92%) 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 (2.39%) Ansible
2 12 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.92%) Grafana
5 4 (0.74%) Argo
5 4 (0.74%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.55%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.55%) cPanel
6 3 (0.55%) Plesk
7 2 (0.37%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.37%) Packer
7 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.37%) Puppet
7 2 (0.37%) Salt
7 2 (0.37%) SCCM
7 2 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 111 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.31%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.13%) Google
4 15 (2.76%) Sage
5 14 (2.57%) VMware
6 12 (2.21%) Adobe
7 8 (1.47%) Cisco
8 5 (0.92%) Juniper
8 5 (0.92%) Oracle
8 5 (0.92%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.92%) Xero
9 4 (0.74%) Anaplan
9 4 (0.74%) Databricks
9 4 (0.74%) Foundry
9 4 (0.74%) Meraki
9 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.74%) Veeam
9 4 (0.74%) YouTube
10 3 (0.55%) Acronis
10 3 (0.55%) WatchGuard