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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 269 257
Rank change year-on-year -52 -12 +26
Permanent jobs citing People Management 382 587 740
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.10% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.21% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 239 301 383
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,176 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,315 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +2.69% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,875 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,250 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.70%

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 49,261 48,421 52,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.81% 90.77% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 29,011 23,517 40,505
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -37 350 £70,000 +1.64% 374
UK excluding London -51 235 £62,500 -3.85% 377
Work from Home +82 168 £70,000 - 148
London -7 120 £80,500 -5.29% 44
North of England -14 77 £67,500 +10.46% 74
South East -15 60 £61,250 -5.77% 112
South West +8 42 £55,000 +5.36% 46
North West -20 41 £68,000 +23.64% 32
Yorkshire +3 34 £67,500 -22.86% 31
Midlands -1 27 £65,000 -18.75% 52
East of England -2 15 £52,500 -24.46% 61
East Midlands -3 15 £57,500 -17.86% 36
West Midlands +6 12 £65,000 -18.75% 14
Wales +2 8 £60,500 -36.32% 19
Scotland -13 6 £70,750 +4.81% 15
North East -1 2 £65,000 +1.96% 11
Northern Ireland -16 2 - - 9

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 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.79%) Apache
2 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.52%) CMS
3 2 (0.52%) Drupal
4 1 (0.26%) CICS
4 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.26%) TPMS
4 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (9.16%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.79%) Trello
5 2 (0.52%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.52%) InVision
5 2 (0.52%) Sketch
6 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.79%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.52%) Shopify
3 2 (0.52%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.52%) AWS
2 41 (10.73%) Azure
3 39 (10.21%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (8.64%) SaaS
5 18 (4.71%) GCP
5 18 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 11 (2.88%) GitHub
7 10 (2.62%) Figma
8 8 (2.09%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.09%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.83%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.57%) Slack
11 5 (1.31%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.05%) dbt
12 4 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.79%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.36%) Broadband
2 6 (1.57%) Firewall
3 4 (1.05%) BGP
3 4 (1.05%) LAN
3 4 (1.05%) MPLS
3 4 (1.05%) Network Security
3 4 (1.05%) WAN
3 4 (1.05%) Wireless
4 3 (0.79%) Internet
4 3 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.52%) DHCP
5 2 (0.52%) DNS
5 2 (0.52%) SAN
5 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.93%) Power BI
2 7 (1.83%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.31%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.05%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.79%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.52%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) DB2
7 1 (0.26%) Looker
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
7 1 (0.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.83%) JIRA
2 5 (1.31%) GitLab
2 5 (1.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.31%) Selenium
3 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.26%) Git
General
1 127 (33.25%) Social Skills
2 116 (30.37%) Finance
3 52 (13.61%) Legal
4 38 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (8.90%) Retail
6 27 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (6.54%) Law
9 24 (6.28%) Back Office
10 17 (4.45%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.66%) Marketing
11 14 (3.66%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.62%) Banking
13 10 (2.62%) Financial Institution
14 8 (2.09%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.57%) Local Government
17 4 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (19.63%) Lead
2 49 (12.83%) Senior
3 28 (7.33%) Engineering Manager
4 25 (6.54%) IT Manager
5 24 (6.28%) Desktop Engineer
5 24 (6.28%) Desktop Support
5 24 (6.28%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 24 (6.28%) Site Engineer
5 24 (6.28%) Support Engineer
6 21 (5.50%) Analyst
7 20 (5.24%) Senior Manager
8 19 (4.97%) Team Leader
9 17 (4.45%) Development Manager
10 15 (3.93%) Business Analyst
11 14 (3.66%) Data Manager
11 14 (3.66%) Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (3.40%) Service Manager
12 13 (3.40%) Support Manager
13 12 (3.14%) IT Infrastructure Manager
14 11 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.93%) React
2 14 (3.66%) .NET
3 8 (2.09%) Node.js
4 7 (1.83%) Spring
4 7 (1.83%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.31%) Micronaut
6 4 (1.05%) CSS
6 4 (1.05%) HTML
7 3 (0.79%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.79%) EDI
7 3 (0.79%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.79%) Pandas
8 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.52%) Kafka
8 2 (0.52%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (0.52%) Vue
9 1 (0.26%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.26%) HTML5
9 1 (0.26%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.12%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.24%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.14%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.09%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.09%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.83%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.31%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.31%) Social Media
12 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.79%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.79%) Derivative
13 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.90%) Windows
2 24 (6.28%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (22.51%) Continuous Improvement
2 76 (19.90%) Agile
3 66 (17.28%) Coaching
3 66 (17.28%) Mentoring
4 61 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (15.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (13.61%) Customer Service
6 52 (13.61%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (13.35%) Service Delivery
8 50 (13.09%) Project Management
9 49 (12.83%) Project Delivery
10 48 (12.57%) Analytics
11 46 (12.04%) Line Management
11 46 (12.04%) Roadmaps
12 41 (10.73%) Decision-Making
13 37 (9.69%) ITIL
14 35 (9.16%) Risk Management
15 34 (8.90%) Change Management
15 34 (8.90%) Customer Experience
15 34 (8.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.42%) Python
2 25 (6.54%) SQL
3 20 (5.24%) C#
4 16 (4.19%) Java
5 12 (3.14%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.05%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.26%) ABAP
10 1 (0.26%) Ada
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) PHP
10 1 (0.26%) R
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (12.04%) Degree
2 45 (11.78%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.52%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.28%) CTC Cleared
5 16 (4.19%) CISM
5 16 (4.19%) CISSP
6 12 (3.14%) CIPD
6 12 (3.14%) CRISC
7 10 (2.62%) CISA
8 9 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.09%) ACCA
9 8 (2.09%) CIMA
9 8 (2.09%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.95%) SLA
2 25 (6.54%) QA
3 17 (4.45%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (3.40%) GDPR
7 11 (2.88%) PMO
8 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.05%) GAAP
9 4 (1.05%) GRC
9 4 (1.05%) IFRS
10 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.26%) FINRA
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) NIST
10 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (3.14%) Docker
2 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.31%) Firmware
4 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) RACF
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (4.19%) Terraform
2 11 (2.88%) Grafana
2 11 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.36%) Ansible
3 9 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
5 1 (0.26%) QRadar
5 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.38%) Cisco
3 16 (4.19%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.66%) Google
5 11 (2.88%) Adobe
6 10 (2.62%) SAP
7 7 (1.83%) Oracle
7 7 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.83%) UiPath
7 7 (1.83%) VMware
8 6 (1.57%) Splunk
9 5 (1.31%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.31%) Databricks
10 4 (1.05%) F5
10 4 (1.05%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.05%) Informatica
10 4 (1.05%) Siemens
10 4 (1.05%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.52%) Foundry
11 2 (0.52%) YouTube