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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 239 197
Rank change year-on-year -44 -42 +80
Permanent jobs citing People Management 474 747 924
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.90% 1.11% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.33% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 292 349 422
10th Percentile £47,500 £34,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,000 £47,500 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,625 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,900 £62,750
% change year-on-year +1.72% +1.83% +4.58%

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 45,538 56,050 49,147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.49% 82.93% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 27,129 29,188 37,634
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,536 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,537 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 13 November 2025.

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 13 November 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 -23 432 £72,500 +9.23% 297
UK excluding London -27 280 £65,000 +1.72% 189
Work from Home +91 164 £75,000 -1.03% 151
London -29 163 £87,500 +21.11% 124
North of England +37 107 £67,500 +22.73% 54
South East +2 63 £74,500 +2.76% 57
North West +26 61 £63,500 +20.95% 30
Yorkshire +41 45 £67,500 +2.66% 18
Midlands +41 41 £71,250 -6.56% 28
South West -43 25 £55,000 +5.36% 16
East Midlands +25 22 £72,500 +3.57% 13
West Midlands +20 19 £65,000 -18.75% 15
East of England -3 19 £52,500 -38.24% 18
Wales +16 16 £36,000 -62.11% 4
Scotland -22 9 £74,500 +21.14% 12
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 2
North East +2 1 £65,000 -3.70% 6

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 9 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.63%) Apache
3 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) CICS
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.21%) TPMS
5 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.42%) Trello
5 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) NetSuite
1 4 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.63%) Primavera
2 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) Magento
3 2 (0.42%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.42%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.42%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 62 (13.08%) AWS
2 61 (12.87%) Azure
3 43 (9.07%) SaaS
4 24 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.22%) GCP
6 19 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (1.90%) GitHub
8 6 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.05%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.05%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.84%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.84%) dbt
11 3 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (0.63%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.63%) Serverless
11 3 (0.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.48%) Firewall
2 6 (1.27%) LAN
2 6 (1.27%) WAN
3 5 (1.05%) BGP
3 5 (1.05%) Wireless
4 4 (0.84%) MPLS
4 4 (0.84%) Network Security
5 3 (0.63%) DHCP
5 3 (0.63%) DNS
5 3 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.42%) Broadband
6 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.21%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.21%) FTP
7 1 (0.21%) HTTP
7 1 (0.21%) Internet
7 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.21%) SMTP
7 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.16%) Power BI
2 8 (1.69%) Tableau
3 6 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
4 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.05%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.84%) Looker
5 4 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (0.63%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.42%) Power Query
8 1 (0.21%) Big Data
8 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.21%) DB2
8 1 (0.21%) Redis
8 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (1.48%) JIRA
2 5 (1.05%) Selenium
3 4 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.63%) WaveMaker
5 2 (0.42%) Git
6 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (34.18%) Finance
2 151 (31.86%) Social Skills
3 63 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (12.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (11.18%) Retail
6 46 (9.70%) Legal
7 36 (7.59%) Law
7 36 (7.59%) Marketing
8 23 (4.85%) Manufacturing
8 23 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (4.64%) Banking
10 17 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.38%) Front Office
12 12 (2.53%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (2.11%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.90%) Advertising
15 9 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 101 (21.31%) Lead
2 74 (15.61%) Senior
3 52 (10.97%) Engineering Manager
4 45 (9.49%) Senior Manager
5 30 (6.33%) Analyst
6 26 (5.49%) Development Manager
7 25 (5.27%) Delivery Manager
7 25 (5.27%) Team Leader
8 24 (5.06%) IT Manager
9 22 (4.64%) Business Analyst
10 19 (4.01%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.01%) Software Engineering Manager
11 18 (3.80%) Project Manager
12 17 (3.59%) Service Manager
13 16 (3.38%) Software Manager
14 15 (3.16%) Lead Business Analyst
14 15 (3.16%) Service Delivery Manager
14 15 (3.16%) Support Team Leader
15 13 (2.74%) Developer
15 13 (2.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.49%) .NET
2 16 (3.38%) React
3 11 (2.32%) Spring Boot
4 10 (2.11%) Spring
5 7 (1.48%) Node.js
5 7 (1.48%) REST
6 5 (1.05%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.05%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.84%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.84%) Micronaut
8 3 (0.63%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.63%) EDI
8 3 (0.63%) Entity Framework
8 3 (0.63%) Pandas
9 2 (0.42%) CSS
9 2 (0.42%) HTML
9 2 (0.42%) JSON
9 2 (0.42%) MSMQ
9 2 (0.42%) RxJava
9 2 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.02%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.64%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.22%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.80%) NHS
6 17 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.16%) Algorithms
7 15 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.53%) Derivative
9 11 (2.32%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.27%) FMCG
14 5 (1.05%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.05%) e-Learning
14 5 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.84%) Equities
15 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.06%) Windows
2 11 (2.32%) Windows Server
3 10 (2.11%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.90%) Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.42%) Android
6 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (30.38%) Agile
2 101 (21.31%) Coaching
3 95 (20.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 93 (19.62%) Mentoring
5 81 (17.09%) Project Delivery
6 80 (16.88%) Project Management
7 77 (16.24%) Roadmaps
8 72 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 69 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (13.71%) Service Delivery
11 63 (13.29%) Line Management
12 58 (12.24%) Software Engineering
13 54 (11.39%) Decision-Making
14 47 (9.92%) CI/CD
14 47 (9.92%) Risk Management
15 43 (9.07%) Change Management
16 42 (8.86%) Business Strategy
17 41 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 40 (8.44%) Analytics
18 40 (8.44%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (11.18%) Python
2 42 (8.86%) SQL
3 33 (6.96%) C#
3 33 (6.96%) Java
4 14 (2.95%) R
4 14 (2.95%) TypeScript
5 9 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.42%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.21%) Ada
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) C++
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) X++
Qualifications
1 61 (12.87%) Degree
2 35 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 30 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.74%) CISM
4 13 (2.74%) CISSP
4 13 (2.74%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.53%) CIPD
5 12 (2.53%) CRISC
6 11 (2.32%) PMP
7 9 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.69%) CTC Cleared
9 7 (1.48%) ACCA
9 7 (1.48%) CIMA
9 7 (1.48%) CISA
9 7 (1.48%) Postgraduate
10 6 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.06%) QA
2 21 (4.43%) SLA
3 16 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.95%) PMO
6 13 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (2.11%) GDPR
8 6 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.05%) IFRS
9 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.84%) GAAP
11 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.63%) GRC
12 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.42%) NIST
13 1 (0.21%) FINRA
13 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (3.38%) Docker
2 15 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.05%) Firmware
4 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) RACF
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.74%) Terraform
3 11 (2.32%) Ansible
4 8 (1.69%) Grafana
5 6 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.63%) SCCM
6 3 (0.63%) SCOM
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 75 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.22%) Cisco
3 18 (3.80%) SAP
4 10 (2.11%) VMware
5 9 (1.90%) Google
6 8 (1.69%) Databricks
6 8 (1.69%) Oracle
6 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.27%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.27%) Splunk
8 5 (1.05%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.84%) F5
9 4 (0.84%) Siemens
9 4 (0.84%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.84%) TikTok
10 3 (0.63%) Adobe
10 3 (0.63%) Juniper
10 3 (0.63%) Pinterest
10 3 (0.63%) Workday