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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 295 286
Rank change year-on-year -86 -9 -111
Permanent jobs citing People Management 515 469 745
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.96% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 1.08% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 349 275 376
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -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 80,539 43,404 64,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.47% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,017 24,525 38,712
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.04%

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 September 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 September 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 -73 446 £60,050 -16.60% 801
UK excluding London -51 369 £55,000 -15.38% 447
Work from Home -28 165 £72,500 -3.97% 328
London -94 122 £90,000 +5.88% 483
South East -34 95 £65,000 +2.36% 106
North of England -50 95 £62,500 -7.41% 83
Midlands -21 66 £45,000 -37.93% 64
North West -20 52 £55,000 -20.65% 54
South West -51 39 £55,000 - 61
West Midlands -28 34 £44,241 -38.98% 35
North East - 33 £62,500 - 8
East Midlands -17 32 £45,000 -37.93% 29
East of England -19 27 £60,050 +14.38% 47
Scotland +21 25 £55,000 -20.00% 49
Wales -66 17 £45,000 +25.00% 20
Yorkshire -65 10 £57,500 -14.81% 21
Northern Ireland - 5 £63,750 - 24

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 22 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (0.78%) CMS
2 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.78%) SAS
3 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 36 (6.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.36%) Acrobat
4 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.97%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.39%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.19%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.17%) Azure
2 49 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (8.93%) SaaS
4 34 (6.60%) AWS
5 24 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 16 (3.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 15 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (2.14%) IaaS
12 10 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.94%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.55%) GCP
14 7 (1.36%) OneDrive
15 6 (1.17%) Anthropic Claude
16 5 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 5 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.97%) Google Workspace
16 5 (0.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.75%) DNS
1 9 (1.75%) Firewall
2 8 (1.55%) Network Security
2 8 (1.55%) VLAN
3 7 (1.36%) VPN
4 6 (1.17%) VoIP
5 4 (0.78%) DHCP
5 4 (0.78%) HTTP
5 4 (0.78%) PBX
5 4 (0.78%) SSH
5 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.58%) Broadband
6 3 (0.58%) DKIM
6 3 (0.58%) DMARC
6 3 (0.58%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.58%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.39%) Intranet
8 1 (0.19%) FTP
8 1 (0.19%) LAN
8 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.11%) Power BI
3 13 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.94%) Tableau
5 6 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.78%) Redis
6 4 (0.78%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.58%) Metadata
7 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.39%) Big Data
8 2 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.39%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.19%) Flink
9 1 (0.19%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (5.44%) Git
2 21 (4.08%) JIRA
3 8 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.17%) Postman
5 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.58%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.58%) Gatling
6 3 (0.58%) GitLab
6 3 (0.58%) JMeter
6 3 (0.58%) Maven
6 3 (0.58%) Newman
6 3 (0.58%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.58%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.39%) RSpec
8 1 (0.19%) Mocha
General
1 191 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 149 (28.93%) Finance
3 63 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (9.51%) Legal
5 37 (7.18%) Retail
6 34 (6.60%) Law
7 30 (5.83%) Aerospace
8 27 (5.24%) Marketing
9 23 (4.47%) Public Sector
10 21 (4.08%) Manufacturing
11 18 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (3.11%) Banking
13 13 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.33%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.75%) Electronics
16 8 (1.55%) Billing
17 6 (1.17%) Back Office
18 5 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
18 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 106 (20.58%) Lead
2 81 (15.73%) Senior
3 39 (7.57%) Team Leader
4 35 (6.80%) Engineering Manager
5 32 (6.21%) Developer
6 29 (5.63%) Data Manager
7 28 (5.44%) Software Engineer
8 27 (5.24%) IT Manager
8 27 (5.24%) Senior Manager
9 26 (5.05%) Service Manager
10 25 (4.85%) Data Centre Manager
10 25 (4.85%) Lead Developer
10 25 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
11 21 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
12 20 (3.88%) Development Manager
13 19 (3.69%) Operations Manager
14 16 (3.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
15 14 (2.72%) Principal Software Engineer
16 13 (2.52%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.85%) .NET
2 23 (4.47%) REST
3 14 (2.72%) ASP.NET
3 14 (2.72%) Blazor
3 14 (2.72%) React
3 14 (2.72%) Terraform
4 13 (2.52%) .NET Core
5 12 (2.33%) gRPC
6 8 (1.55%) EDI
7 7 (1.36%) HTML
7 7 (1.36%) Spring
8 5 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.97%) Kafka
8 5 (0.97%) Node.js
8 5 (0.97%) Playwright
8 5 (0.97%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.78%) RESTful
9 4 (0.78%) XML
10 3 (0.58%) CSS
10 3 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.51%) Onboarding
2 41 (7.96%) Management Information System
3 35 (6.80%) Driving Licence
4 25 (4.85%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.11%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.94%) NHS
9 8 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.36%) IoT
10 7 (1.36%) Life Science
11 6 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.97%) Biopharmaceutical
12 5 (0.97%) CCTV
12 5 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Licensing
13 4 (0.78%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.78%) Blog
13 4 (0.78%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.66%) Windows
2 9 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.55%) Linux
4 3 (0.58%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.58%) Unix
5 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (28.93%) Continuous Improvement
2 117 (22.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 115 (22.33%) Coaching
4 112 (21.75%) Mentoring
5 111 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (18.64%) Technical Leadership
7 92 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 90 (17.48%) Agile
9 87 (16.89%) Decision-Making
10 80 (15.53%) Service Delivery
11 78 (15.15%) AI
12 77 (14.95%) Line Management
13 64 (12.43%) DevOps
14 56 (10.87%) Roadmaps
15 53 (10.29%) Project Delivery
16 51 (9.90%) Performance Management
17 50 (9.71%) CI/CD
18 49 (9.51%) Commercial Awareness
18 49 (9.51%) ITIL
18 49 (9.51%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (8.93%) SQL
2 28 (5.44%) Java
3 27 (5.24%) C#
4 23 (4.47%) Python
5 16 (3.11%) TypeScript
6 14 (2.72%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.78%) C++
7 4 (0.78%) Go
8 3 (0.58%) Bicep
8 3 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.58%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.58%) Ruby
9 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.39%) SOQL
9 2 (0.39%) VBA
10 1 (0.19%) Bash
10 1 (0.19%) Swift
Qualifications
1 88 (17.09%) Degree
2 31 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (5.83%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.88%) ACCA
6 19 (3.69%) CIMA
7 18 (3.50%) Chartered Engineer
8 15 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (2.52%) CIPD
10 12 (2.33%) DBS Check
11 11 (2.14%) HNC
11 11 (2.14%) HND
11 11 (2.14%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.75%) CISM
12 9 (1.75%) MBA
13 7 (1.36%) CISSP
13 7 (1.36%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.36%) ICAEW
13 7 (1.36%) PMI Certification
13 7 (1.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (8.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (7.38%) QA
3 29 (5.63%) SLA
4 24 (4.66%) ISO 9001
5 22 (4.27%) GDPR
6 17 (3.30%) ISO 14000
7 9 (1.75%) GRC
7 9 (1.75%) NIST
8 8 (1.55%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.17%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.17%) PMO
10 5 (0.97%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (0.97%) COBIT
10 5 (0.97%) ISO 26262
10 5 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.78%) IFRS
11 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.58%) TickIT
System Software
1 17 (3.30%) Docker
2 13 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.14%) Firmware
4 8 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.52%) Ansible
2 12 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.97%) Grafana
5 4 (0.78%) Argo
5 4 (0.78%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.58%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.58%) cPanel
6 3 (0.58%) Plesk
7 2 (0.39%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.39%) Packer
7 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
7 2 (0.39%) Salt
7 2 (0.39%) SCCM
7 2 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 101 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.30%) Google
3 16 (3.11%) Salesforce
4 13 (2.52%) Sage
5 12 (2.33%) Adobe
6 10 (1.94%) VMware
7 8 (1.55%) Cisco
8 5 (0.97%) Juniper
8 5 (0.97%) Oracle
8 5 (0.97%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.97%) Xero
9 4 (0.78%) Anaplan
9 4 (0.78%) Foundry
9 4 (0.78%) Meraki
9 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.78%) Veeam
9 4 (0.78%) YouTube
10 3 (0.58%) Acronis
10 3 (0.58%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.58%) WatchGuard