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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 291 296
Rank change year-on-year -138 +5 -126
Permanent jobs citing People Management 407 483 778
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.97% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.09% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 291 273 435
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £33,227
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,500 £99,389
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £66,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.98% +15.22% -11.54%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -116 357 £61,500 -14.58% 445
UK excluding London -89 291 £55,000 -16.98% 248
Work from Home -26 142 £72,500 -6.45% 197
London -100 96 £95,000 +11.76% 243
North of England -47 76 £62,500 -7.41% 63
Midlands -30 67 £45,000 -35.71% 40
South East -62 63 £57,303 -26.06% 75
North West -16 45 £55,000 -22.81% 39
West Midlands -38 35 £52,500 -26.32% 19
East Midlands -4 32 £45,000 -35.71% 21
East of England -21 26 £60,100 -3.06% 21
North East - 25 £62,500 - 8
South West -55 24 £55,000 - 20
Scotland +15 19 £55,000 -20.00% 13
Wales -51 12 £47,500 +31.94% 10
Yorkshire -59 6 £65,000 -3.70% 17
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 11

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 20 (4.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.74%) SAS
4 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 22 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.98%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.74%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.49%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.97%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.23%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.49%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.49%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.49%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.49%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (15.23%) Azure
2 37 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (8.60%) SaaS
4 28 (6.88%) AWS
5 22 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.70%) IaaS
8 9 (2.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (2.21%) Entra ID
9 8 (1.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (1.97%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (1.72%) GCP
11 5 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 5 (1.23%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.98%) Azure AI
12 4 (0.98%) GitHub
13 3 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (0.74%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.97%) Network Security
2 6 (1.47%) VoIP
3 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 5 (1.23%) Firewall
4 4 (0.98%) PBX
4 4 (0.98%) VLAN
4 4 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.74%) Broadband
5 3 (0.74%) DKIM
5 3 (0.74%) DMARC
5 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.74%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.74%) VPN
6 2 (0.49%) HTTP
6 2 (0.49%) Intranet
7 1 (0.25%) FTP
7 1 (0.25%) SMTP
7 1 (0.25%) SSL
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.67%) Power BI
2 13 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.46%) Tableau
4 8 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.74%) Redis
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.49%) Big Data
6 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.49%) Metadata
6 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.49%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.25%) Looker
7 1 (0.25%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (4.18%) Git
1 17 (4.18%) JIRA
2 3 (0.74%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.49%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) RSpec
General
1 150 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 110 (27.03%) Finance
3 55 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.86%) Retail
5 30 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (5.65%) Aerospace
7 20 (4.91%) Law
7 20 (4.91%) Public Sector
8 16 (3.93%) Legal
8 16 (3.93%) Marketing
9 15 (3.69%) Banking
10 12 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.70%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.97%) Billing
12 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.72%) Advertising
14 6 (1.47%) Back Office
14 6 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 90 (22.11%) Lead
2 60 (14.74%) Senior
3 35 (8.60%) Team Leader
4 30 (7.37%) Data Manager
5 27 (6.63%) Developer
6 26 (6.39%) Engineering Manager
7 24 (5.90%) IT Manager
8 23 (5.65%) Senior Manager
9 22 (5.41%) Data Centre Manager
10 21 (5.16%) Lead Developer
11 18 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
11 18 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (3.69%) Development Manager
12 15 (3.69%) Software Engineer
13 14 (3.44%) Service Manager
14 13 (3.19%) Architect
14 13 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
14 13 (3.19%) Operations Manager
14 13 (3.19%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 12 (2.95%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.69%) .NET
2 12 (2.95%) REST
3 9 (2.21%) .NET Core
3 9 (2.21%) Blazor
4 8 (1.97%) ASP.NET
4 8 (1.97%) gRPC
5 7 (1.72%) React
6 5 (1.23%) Spring
7 4 (0.98%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.74%) Kafka
8 3 (0.74%) LangChain
8 3 (0.74%) Node.js
8 3 (0.74%) Semantic Kernel
8 3 (0.74%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.49%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.49%) Google JAX
9 2 (0.49%) JAX
9 2 (0.49%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.49%) NestJS
9 2 (0.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.86%) Driving Licence
1 32 (7.86%) Management Information System
2 27 (6.63%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 17 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.46%) NHS
9 9 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.23%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.98%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.41%) Windows
2 9 (2.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.72%) Linux
4 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.74%) Unix
5 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (27.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 91 (22.36%) Mentoring
3 89 (21.87%) Coaching
3 89 (21.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 86 (21.13%) Technical Leadership
5 78 (19.16%) Agile
5 78 (19.16%) Line Management
6 76 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (16.46%) Decision-Making
7 67 (16.46%) Software Engineering
8 61 (14.99%) Service Delivery
9 60 (14.74%) AI
10 55 (13.51%) DevOps
11 52 (12.78%) Project Delivery
12 48 (11.79%) Roadmaps
13 43 (10.57%) CI/CD
13 43 (10.57%) Project Management
14 42 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (9.58%) Commercial Awareness
16 38 (9.34%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.34%) SQL
2 19 (4.67%) Java
2 19 (4.67%) Python
3 17 (4.18%) C#
4 12 (2.95%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.74%) C++
7 2 (0.49%) ABAP
7 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.49%) Bicep
7 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.49%) Ruby
7 2 (0.49%) SOQL
7 2 (0.49%) VBA
8 1 (0.25%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) Go
8 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 71 (17.44%) Degree
2 27 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 27 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.69%) DBS Check
5 13 (3.19%) ACCA
6 12 (2.95%) CIMA
7 11 (2.70%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (2.46%) CISM
9 8 (1.97%) CISSP
9 8 (1.97%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.97%) PMP
10 7 (1.72%) HNC
10 7 (1.72%) HND
10 7 (1.72%) ICAEW
11 6 (1.47%) CIPD
11 6 (1.47%) CRISC
12 5 (1.23%) CISA
12 5 (1.23%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (4.91%) ISO 9001
3 19 (4.67%) QA
4 17 (4.18%) ISO 14000
4 17 (4.18%) SLA
5 14 (3.44%) NIST
6 13 (3.19%) GDPR
7 8 (1.97%) GRC
7 8 (1.97%) ISO 14001
8 7 (1.72%) COBIT
8 7 (1.72%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.47%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.47%) PMO
10 5 (1.23%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.23%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.74%) TickIT
System Software
1 11 (2.70%) Docker
2 10 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) Firmware
3 6 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.70%) Terraform
2 8 (1.97%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.72%) Ansible
3 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.98%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.74%) Argo
5 3 (0.74%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.74%) cPanel
5 3 (0.74%) Plesk
6 2 (0.49%) Puppet
6 2 (0.49%) Salt
6 2 (0.49%) SCCM
6 2 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.25%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Packer
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.44%) Google
3 10 (2.46%) VMware
4 8 (1.97%) Adobe
4 8 (1.97%) Cisco
4 8 (1.97%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.47%) Oracle
6 5 (1.23%) Juniper
6 5 (1.23%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.23%) SAP
7 4 (0.98%) Databricks
7 4 (0.98%) Foundry
7 4 (0.98%) Sage
7 4 (0.98%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.98%) Veeam
8 3 (0.74%) Acronis
8 3 (0.74%) Infor
8 3 (0.74%) NETGEAR
8 3 (0.74%) SonicWALL
8 3 (0.74%) WatchGuard