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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 298 286
Rank change year-on-year -130 -12 -106
Permanent jobs citing People Management 394 488 879
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.99% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.11% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 282 273 518
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £33,925
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £70,000 £60,855
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% +15.03% -13.06%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £84,688
90th Percentile £110,875 £119,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -8.73%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -137 347 £62,500 -13.19% 262
UK excluding London -99 270 £55,000 -18.52% 169
Work from Home -24 142 £72,500 -6.45% 115
London -81 104 £95,000 +10.14% 141
North of England -54 67 £62,500 -7.41% 45
South East -60 61 £57,500 -26.98% 40
Midlands -32 60 £45,000 -34.55% 24
North West -21 39 £55,000 -21.04% 25
West Midlands -42 33 £52,500 -19.23% 13
East of England -1 27 £60,100 -3.06% 11
East Midlands -17 27 £42,500 -39.29% 11
North East - 24 £62,500 - 7
South West -55 21 £55,000 -10.20% 19
Scotland +27 18 £55,000 -20.00% 20
Wales -51 12 £47,500 +31.94% 6
Yorkshire -59 4 £65,000 -3.70% 14
Northern Ireland -65 4 £63,750 - 7

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 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.76%) CMS
3 3 (0.76%) SAS
4 2 (0.51%) Drupal
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.02%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.51%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.03%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.27%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.51%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.51%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.51%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 60 (15.23%) Azure
2 32 (8.12%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (8.12%) SaaS
3 25 (6.35%) AWS
4 24 (6.09%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.79%) IaaS
7 10 (2.54%) Figma
8 8 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.78%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (1.78%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.27%) GCP
11 4 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 4 (1.02%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.02%) Slack
12 3 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.54%) Broadband
2 8 (2.03%) Network Security
3 5 (1.27%) DNS
3 5 (1.27%) Firewall
3 5 (1.27%) VoIP
4 4 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.76%) DKIM
5 3 (0.76%) DMARC
5 3 (0.76%) PBX
5 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.76%) VLAN
6 2 (0.51%) HTTP
6 2 (0.51%) Intranet
6 2 (0.51%) VPN
7 1 (0.25%) FTP
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) SMTP
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.58%) Power BI
2 14 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.54%) Tableau
4 7 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.51%) Looker
7 2 (0.51%) Metadata
7 2 (0.51%) Redis
7 2 (0.51%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.25%) Big Data
8 1 (0.25%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.25%) Flink
8 1 (0.25%) GIS
8 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (4.31%) JIRA
2 14 (3.55%) Git
3 3 (0.76%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 136 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 110 (27.92%) Finance
3 56 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.61%) Retail
5 23 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (5.58%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.33%) Aerospace
8 19 (4.82%) Banking
9 18 (4.57%) Law
10 17 (4.31%) Marketing
11 14 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (3.30%) Legal
13 12 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.54%) Telecoms
15 8 (2.03%) Advertising
15 8 (2.03%) Back Office
15 8 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.78%) Billing
16 7 (1.78%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (22.08%) Lead
2 61 (15.48%) Senior
3 31 (7.87%) Team Leader
4 30 (7.61%) Data Manager
5 26 (6.60%) Developer
5 26 (6.60%) Engineering Manager
6 24 (6.09%) Senior Manager
7 23 (5.84%) IT Manager
8 21 (5.33%) Data Centre Manager
9 18 (4.57%) Lead Developer
10 17 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.30%) Architect
11 13 (3.30%) Support Manager
12 12 (3.05%) IT Support
12 12 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (3.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 11 (2.79%) Infrastructure Manager
13 11 (2.79%) Service Manager
14 10 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
14 10 (2.54%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.31%) .NET
2 10 (2.54%) .NET Core
3 9 (2.28%) REST
4 7 (1.78%) ASP.NET
4 7 (1.78%) Blazor
4 7 (1.78%) gRPC
5 6 (1.52%) React
6 5 (1.27%) Spring
7 3 (0.76%) Kafka
7 3 (0.76%) LangChain
7 3 (0.76%) Semantic Kernel
7 3 (0.76%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.51%) CSS
8 2 (0.51%) HTML
8 2 (0.51%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (0.51%) NestJS
8 2 (0.51%) Node.js
8 2 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.11%) Management Information System
2 27 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 26 (6.60%) Driving Licence
4 21 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.57%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.54%) NHS
8 9 (2.28%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (2.03%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.27%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.08%) Windows
2 7 (1.78%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.52%) Linux
4 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 88 (22.34%) Mentoring
3 83 (21.07%) Coaching
4 81 (20.56%) Line Management
5 80 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (19.04%) Technical Leadership
7 74 (18.78%) Agile
8 64 (16.24%) Software Engineering
9 61 (15.48%) Decision-Making
10 57 (14.47%) Service Delivery
11 52 (13.20%) AI
11 52 (13.20%) DevOps
12 49 (12.44%) Project Delivery
13 45 (11.42%) Project Management
14 41 (10.41%) Roadmaps
15 39 (9.90%) CI/CD
15 39 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
16 38 (9.64%) Customer Experience
17 36 (9.14%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.90%) SQL
2 24 (6.09%) Python
3 17 (4.31%) Java
4 16 (4.06%) C#
5 13 (3.30%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.51%) ABAP
7 2 (0.51%) C++
7 2 (0.51%) VBA
8 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) Bicep
8 1 (0.25%) Go
8 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.25%) Ruby
8 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 66 (16.75%) Degree
2 27 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (4.57%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.81%) DBS Check
6 12 (3.05%) ACCA
7 11 (2.79%) CIMA
8 10 (2.54%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (2.54%) CISM
9 8 (2.03%) CISSP
9 8 (2.03%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.78%) HNC
10 7 (1.78%) HND
10 7 (1.78%) ICAEW
10 7 (1.78%) PMP
11 6 (1.52%) CRISC
12 5 (1.27%) CIPD
12 5 (1.27%) CISA
13 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.57%) ISO 9001
3 17 (4.31%) ISO 14000
4 15 (3.81%) NIST
4 15 (3.81%) QA
5 11 (2.79%) GDPR
6 10 (2.54%) SLA
7 8 (2.03%) COBIT
7 8 (2.03%) GRC
7 8 (2.03%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.78%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.52%) PMO
10 5 (1.27%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.27%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.76%) ITGC
11 3 (0.76%) TickIT
System Software
1 9 (2.28%) Docker
2 6 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.27%) Firmware
3 5 (1.27%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.79%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.28%) Terraform
3 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.27%) Ansible
5 4 (1.02%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.76%) Argo
6 3 (0.76%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.76%) cPanel
6 3 (0.76%) Plesk
7 2 (0.51%) Puppet
7 2 (0.51%) Salt
7 2 (0.51%) SCCM
7 2 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.25%) Grafana
8 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.81%) Adobe
3 12 (3.05%) Google
4 9 (2.28%) Cisco
4 9 (2.28%) VMware
5 8 (2.03%) Oracle
6 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.52%) SAP
7 5 (1.27%) Juniper
7 5 (1.27%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.02%) Databricks
8 4 (1.02%) Foundry
8 4 (1.02%) Meraki
8 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.76%) Acronis
9 3 (0.76%) Infor
9 3 (0.76%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.76%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.76%) Veeam
9 3 (0.76%) WatchGuard