People Management Jobs

People Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited People Management over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 327 226
Rank change year-on-year +54 -101 +60
Permanent jobs citing People Management 540 875 1,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 0.89% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.04% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 376 553 718
10th Percentile £48,869 £39,439 £37,362
25th Percentile £59,938 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £74,034 £85,000 £89,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,315 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.55% -4.17% -

All Process and 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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing People Management.

Salary trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 16 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 26 April 2025. 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 +9 494 £69,315 +6.64% 813
UK excluding London +106 419 £69,315 +20.55% 351
North of England +30 182 £69,315 +20.55% 89
North West +33 160 £69,315 +6.64% 59
Work from Home +33 136 £69,018 +6.18% 333
South East +109 117 £65,000 +13.04% 106
London -18 112 £80,000 +6.67% 508
Midlands +56 62 £70,000 +16.67% 48
West Midlands +81 55 £71,250 +9.62% 33
Yorkshire +11 22 £81,250 +41.30% 28
Scotland +128 19 £72,500 +31.82% 29
East of England +46 18 £62,000 +12.73% 42
South West +78 15 £66,367 +10.61% 32
East Midlands +25 7 £67,500 +42.11% 15
Northern Ireland +40 5 - - 9
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

People Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.59%) IIS
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.11%) SAS
4 5 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.37%) CMS
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) Drupal
5 2 (0.37%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.19%) Mule
Applications
1 26 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.11%) Simulink
4 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (10.37%) Azure
2 50 (9.26%) AWS
3 33 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (5.37%) SaaS
5 19 (3.52%) Power Platform
6 8 (1.48%) Google Analytics
7 7 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.30%) Amazon S3
7 7 (1.30%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (0.74%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (0.74%) Collibra
9 3 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.56%) GCP
9 3 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.22%) Internet
2 11 (2.04%) LAN
2 11 (2.04%) WAN
3 9 (1.67%) Structured Cabling
4 8 (1.48%) Firewall
5 7 (1.30%) FTP
5 7 (1.30%) HTTP
5 7 (1.30%) Network Security
5 7 (1.30%) SMTP
5 7 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.30%) VPN
6 5 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.37%) Broadband
7 2 (0.37%) VoIP
8 1 (0.19%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (3.15%) Power BI
3 13 (2.41%) Tableau
4 10 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.74%) Ataccama
6 4 (0.74%) Metadata
6 4 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.37%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.30%) Git
1 7 (1.30%) JIRA
2 3 (0.56%) FitNesse
2 3 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (0.56%) Selenium
2 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
2 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.37%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.37%) webpack
4 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 275 (50.93%) Social Skills
2 148 (27.41%) Finance
3 61 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (9.81%) Retail
5 41 (7.59%) Marketing
6 35 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (6.11%) Banking
8 28 (5.19%) Legal
9 25 (4.63%) Telecoms
10 23 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 17 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.78%) Law
14 10 (1.85%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.67%) Electronics
16 8 (1.48%) Front Office
16 8 (1.48%) Games
16 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.30%) Public Sector
18 6 (1.11%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 113 (20.93%) Commissioning Manager
2 67 (12.41%) Lead
3 61 (11.30%) Senior
4 26 (4.81%) Engineering Manager
4 26 (4.81%) Project Manager
4 26 (4.81%) Risk Manager
5 23 (4.26%) Head of Analytics
5 23 (4.26%) Systems Engineer
6 22 (4.07%) Senior Manager
6 22 (4.07%) Technology Risk Manager
7 21 (3.89%) Head of IT
8 20 (3.70%) Data Manager
8 20 (3.70%) Infrastructure Manager
9 18 (3.33%) Head of AI
9 18 (3.33%) Service Manager
10 17 (3.15%) Software Manager
11 15 (2.78%) IT Manager
11 15 (2.78%) Team Leader
12 14 (2.59%) Development Manager
13 13 (2.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.56%) .NET
2 13 (2.41%) React
3 10 (1.85%) AngularJS
3 10 (1.85%) CSS
4 8 (1.48%) HTML
4 8 (1.48%) Web Services
5 7 (1.30%) LDAP
5 7 (1.30%) REST
5 7 (1.30%) Vue
6 5 (0.93%) PySpark
7 4 (0.74%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.74%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (0.74%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (0.74%) Laravel
7 4 (0.74%) RESTful
7 4 (0.74%) SwiftUI
7 4 (0.74%) XML
8 3 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.56%) HTML5
8 3 (0.56%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.59%) Management Information System
2 26 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.07%) Client/Server
4 21 (3.89%) Blockchain
4 21 (3.89%) Robotics
5 14 (2.59%) Private Cloud
6 12 (2.22%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.67%) Digital Media
8 9 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.48%) Derivative
10 7 (1.30%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.11%) Analogue Electronics
11 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.11%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.11%) Multi-touch
11 6 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.33%) Windows
2 7 (1.30%) Android
2 7 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (26.30%) Agile
2 114 (21.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 100 (18.52%) Analytics
4 96 (17.78%) Mentoring
5 83 (15.37%) Project Management
6 82 (15.19%) Project Delivery
7 80 (14.81%) Coaching
8 74 (13.70%) Risk Management
9 63 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 59 (10.93%) ITIL
10 59 (10.93%) Line Management
11 56 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (9.81%) Roadmaps
13 52 (9.63%) Performance Management
14 49 (9.07%) Decision-Making
15 45 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
15 45 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 44 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
17 42 (7.78%) Service Delivery
17 42 (7.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (3.89%) C#
1 21 (3.89%) JavaScript
2 18 (3.33%) Java
2 18 (3.33%) Python
3 16 (2.96%) MATLAB
3 16 (2.96%) SQL
4 7 (1.30%) Bash
4 7 (1.30%) C++
4 7 (1.30%) Perl
4 7 (1.30%) PowerShell
4 7 (1.30%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.11%) PHP
6 4 (0.74%) Swift
7 3 (0.56%) R
8 2 (0.37%) Go
8 2 (0.37%) Ruby
9 1 (0.19%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.19%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 206 (38.15%) Degree
2 136 (25.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 122 (22.59%) Master's Degree
4 114 (21.11%) MBA
5 32 (5.93%) Security Cleared
6 26 (4.81%) SC Cleared
7 24 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 17 (3.15%) PMP
9 14 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (2.22%) CISSP
11 11 (2.04%) CISM
11 11 (2.04%) CRISC
11 11 (2.04%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.11%) HND
13 6 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.74%) PhD
15 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.37%) CISA
15 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.74%) QA
1 31 (5.74%) SLA
2 21 (3.89%) ITGC
3 16 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.22%) GDPR
7 11 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (2.04%) NIST
8 7 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.11%) GRC
9 6 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.74%) COBIT
10 4 (0.74%) CRD IV
10 4 (0.74%) IFRS
10 4 (0.74%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.56%) PMO
12 2 (0.37%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.37%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 22 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (1.48%) SCCM
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.11%) QRadar
4 5 (0.93%) Terraform
5 3 (0.56%) Control-M
6 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.37%) Marathon
7 1 (0.19%) Autotask
7 1 (0.19%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.33%) Oracle
3 16 (2.96%) Google
4 11 (2.04%) Adobe
5 9 (1.67%) Cisco
6 7 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.30%) Splunk
7 6 (1.11%) Apple
7 6 (1.11%) Databricks
7 6 (1.11%) Mentor Graphics
7 6 (1.11%) SAP
7 6 (1.11%) Yahoo!
8 5 (0.93%) TikTok
9 4 (0.74%) Duck Creek
9 4 (0.74%) HP
10 3 (0.56%) MikroTik
10 3 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.37%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.37%) WooCommerce