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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 299 310
Rank change year-on-year -115 +11 -124
Permanent jobs citing People Management 372 455 934
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.01% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.10% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 262 240 606
10th Percentile £39,100 £43,887 £33,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £59,938 £46,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +18.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £89,063 £81,250
90th Percentile £111,125 £120,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,515 £69,018 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.03% -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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -124 329 £65,000 -9.72% 157
UK excluding London -109 236 £57,515 -16.67% 130
Work from Home +1 140 £70,750 -5.67% 69
London -56 118 £88,750 +2.90% 66
South East -71 56 £57,303 -20.96% 49
North of England -50 52 £65,000 -6.23% 31
Midlands -38 50 £51,250 -28.07% 20
North West -3 40 £75,000 +8.20% 22
East of England -4 30 £60,100 -3.06% 9
West Midlands -40 29 £62,500 -13.79% 11
East Midlands -18 21 £42,500 -38.18% 9
Scotland +17 16 £55,000 -8.33% 9
South West -55 16 £55,000 -17.13% 11
Wales -37 13 £47,500 -26.92% 2
North East - 8 £62,500 - 4
Yorkshire -65 4 £108,000 +54.29% 5
Northern Ireland -31 3 £63,750 - 2

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 17 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.34%) CMS
4 4 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.08%) Drupal
5 2 (0.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.08%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.81%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.81%) InVision
6 3 (0.81%) Sketch
7 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.34%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.54%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) Maximo
5 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.71%) Azure
2 30 (8.06%) Power Platform
3 29 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (7.26%) AWS
4 27 (7.26%) SaaS
5 26 (6.99%) Figma
6 10 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.88%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.61%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.61%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.61%) Slack
9 5 (1.34%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (1.34%) GCP
9 5 (1.34%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 4 (1.08%) GitHub
10 4 (1.08%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.08%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.81%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.45%) Broadband
2 8 (2.15%) Network Security
3 5 (1.34%) DNS
3 5 (1.34%) Firewall
3 5 (1.34%) VoIP
4 4 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.81%) DKIM
5 3 (0.81%) DMARC
5 3 (0.81%) PBX
5 3 (0.81%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.81%) VLAN
6 2 (0.54%) Intranet
7 1 (0.27%) FTP
7 1 (0.27%) HTTP
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) SMTP
7 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.99%) Power BI
2 8 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.15%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.88%) Tableau
4 5 (1.34%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (0.81%) Looker
6 3 (0.81%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.54%) Metadata
7 2 (0.54%) Redis
7 2 (0.54%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 12 (3.23%) JIRA
2 7 (1.88%) Git
3 5 (1.34%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.54%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 107 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 101 (27.15%) Finance
3 52 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.80%) Presentation Skills
5 27 (7.26%) Retail
6 23 (6.18%) Law
7 22 (5.91%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.38%) Banking
9 17 (4.57%) Aerospace
9 17 (4.57%) Marketing
10 14 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.76%) Legal
11 11 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.42%) Back Office
12 9 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (2.42%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.15%) Advertising
13 8 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.88%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.34%) Billing
Job Titles
1 83 (22.31%) Lead
2 65 (17.47%) Senior
3 29 (7.80%) Team Leader
4 24 (6.45%) Data Manager
5 22 (5.91%) Senior Manager
6 21 (5.65%) Developer
6 21 (5.65%) IT Manager
7 18 (4.84%) Support Manager
8 14 (3.76%) Engineering Manager
8 14 (3.76%) Lead Developer
8 14 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (3.49%) Architect
10 12 (3.23%) IT Support
11 11 (2.96%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (2.69%) Data Centre Manager
12 10 (2.69%) Designer
13 9 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Manager
13 9 (2.42%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.42%) Principal Developer
13 9 (2.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.49%) .NET
2 6 (1.61%) .NET Core
3 5 (1.34%) Spring
4 3 (0.81%) CSS
4 3 (0.81%) HTML
4 3 (0.81%) Kafka
4 3 (0.81%) LangChain
4 3 (0.81%) Semantic Kernel
4 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.54%) J2EE
5 2 (0.54%) NestJS
5 2 (0.54%) Node.js
5 2 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.27%) Blazor
6 1 (0.27%) gRPC
6 1 (0.27%) LDAP
6 1 (0.27%) REST
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.91%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.65%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.57%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.96%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.88%) NHS
11 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.34%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.81%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.57%) Windows
2 7 (1.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.61%) Linux
4 3 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (26.61%) Continuous Improvement
2 85 (22.85%) Mentoring
2 85 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (22.31%) Line Management
4 71 (19.09%) Agile
4 71 (19.09%) Coaching
5 65 (17.47%) Software Engineering
6 62 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 61 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (12.90%) Customer Experience
9 47 (12.63%) AI
9 47 (12.63%) Service Delivery
10 46 (12.37%) Decision-Making
11 44 (11.83%) DevOps
11 44 (11.83%) Project Delivery
12 39 (10.48%) Collaborative Culture
13 38 (10.22%) Roadmaps
14 37 (9.95%) Cybersecurity
15 36 (9.68%) CI/CD
16 34 (9.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.95%) SQL
2 28 (7.53%) Python
3 17 (4.57%) Java
4 11 (2.96%) C#
5 7 (1.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.81%) ABAP
8 2 (0.54%) Bash
8 2 (0.54%) C++
8 2 (0.54%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) Go
9 1 (0.27%) Perl
9 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (15.86%) Degree
2 27 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.11%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.76%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.42%) CISM
7 8 (2.15%) CIPD
7 8 (2.15%) CISSP
8 7 (1.88%) Chartered Engineer
8 7 (1.88%) HNC
8 7 (1.88%) HND
8 7 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.61%) ACCA
9 6 (1.61%) CIMA
9 6 (1.61%) CISA
9 6 (1.61%) PMP
10 5 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.34%) ICAEW
11 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.08%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (4.03%) ISO 9001
3 13 (3.49%) NIST
4 12 (3.23%) GDPR
5 8 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.15%) QA
5 8 (2.15%) SLA
6 7 (1.88%) COBIT
7 6 (1.61%) ISO 14000
8 5 (1.34%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (1.34%) ISO 26262
8 5 (1.34%) PMO
9 4 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.08%) ISO 14001
9 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.81%) GRC
10 3 (0.81%) ITGC
10 3 (0.81%) TickIT
11 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (1.34%) Hyper-V
1 5 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.08%) Docker
3 3 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.15%) Terraform
3 4 (1.08%) Ansible
3 4 (1.08%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.81%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.81%) cPanel
4 3 (0.81%) Plesk
4 3 (0.81%) Puppet
5 2 (0.54%) Argo
5 2 (0.54%) Salt
5 2 (0.54%) SCCM
5 2 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 61 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.80%) Adobe
3 18 (4.84%) Google
4 11 (2.96%) Oracle
5 8 (2.15%) Cisco
5 8 (2.15%) VMware
6 7 (1.88%) Informatica
7 6 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.34%) Foundry
8 5 (1.34%) Juniper
8 5 (1.34%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.34%) SAP
9 4 (1.08%) Databricks
9 4 (1.08%) Meraki
9 4 (1.08%) UiPath
9 4 (1.08%) Xero
10 3 (0.81%) Acronis
10 3 (0.81%) Datto
10 3 (0.81%) Hotjar
10 3 (0.81%) Salesforce