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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 242 184
Rank change year-on-year -52 -58 +92
Permanent jobs citing People Management 457 743 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.09% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.32% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 280 343 435
10th Percentile £46,233 £33,800 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,176 £46,250 £57,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £66,788 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% -4.59% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,563 £89,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,750 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,900 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.72% +2.24% +4.17%

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 43,867 56,178 51,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.81% 82.55% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 25,533 29,803 39,225
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,441 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.89% +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 30 October 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 30 October 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 -47 419 £72,000 +8.48% 264
UK excluding London -51 264 £65,000 +1.72% 200
London -35 165 £87,500 +21.11% 113
Work from Home +52 149 £75,000 -1.03% 128
North of England -7 97 £67,500 +22.73% 39
South East +17 65 £74,000 +2.42% 91
North West -21 56 £71,250 +35.71% 30
Midlands +28 42 £72,500 - 18
Yorkshire +37 40 £67,500 +2.66% 7
West Midlands +24 21 £72,500 - 10
East Midlands +9 21 £71,250 +5.56% 8
East of England +2 20 £52,500 -38.24% 29
South West -50 18 £55,000 +5.36% 9
Wales +15 14 £36,000 -62.11% 5
Scotland -25 8 £74,500 +21.14% 10
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 6
North East +2 1 £65,000 -3.70% 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 9 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.44%) Apache
3 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.44%) CICS
3 2 (0.44%) IIS
3 2 (0.44%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.22%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.22%) TPMS
4 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.44%) Trello
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.22%) InDesign
6 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.66%) Primavera
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) Magento
3 2 (0.44%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.44%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.44%) Shopify
3 2 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 64 (14.00%) Azure
2 60 (13.13%) AWS
3 44 (9.63%) SaaS
4 24 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 17 (3.72%) GCP
6 10 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.53%) GitHub
8 6 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.88%) Google Analytics
9 4 (0.88%) PaaS
9 4 (0.88%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.66%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.66%) Slack
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.44%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.53%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (1.31%) Firewall
3 5 (1.09%) LAN
3 5 (1.09%) WAN
4 4 (0.88%) Network Security
5 3 (0.66%) BGP
5 3 (0.66%) VPN
5 3 (0.66%) Wireless
6 2 (0.44%) DHCP
6 2 (0.44%) DNS
6 2 (0.44%) FTP
6 2 (0.44%) HTTP
6 2 (0.44%) MPLS
6 2 (0.44%) SMTP
6 2 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.22%) OSPF
7 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.28%) Power BI
2 8 (1.75%) Tableau
3 6 (1.31%) Electronic Patient Records
4 5 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.88%) Looker
6 3 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.44%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.44%) DB2
7 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.44%) Power Query
8 1 (0.22%) Big Data
8 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.75%) JIRA
2 4 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.88%) Selenium
3 3 (0.66%) WaveMaker
4 2 (0.44%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.44%) Git
5 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
5 1 (0.22%) Postman
5 1 (0.22%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 160 (35.01%) Finance
2 140 (30.63%) Social Skills
3 64 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (13.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (11.60%) Retail
6 52 (11.38%) Legal
7 44 (9.63%) Law
8 38 (8.32%) Marketing
9 24 (5.25%) Banking
9 24 (5.25%) Manufacturing
10 21 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.94%) Front Office
12 17 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (2.63%) Public Sector
14 11 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.97%) Advertising
15 9 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.75%) Local Government
16 8 (1.75%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.31%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 90 (19.69%) Lead
2 68 (14.88%) Senior
3 51 (11.16%) Engineering Manager
4 45 (9.85%) Senior Manager
5 30 (6.56%) Analyst
6 25 (5.47%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (5.47%) Development Manager
7 23 (5.03%) Team Leader
8 22 (4.81%) Business Analyst
9 21 (4.60%) IT Manager
10 19 (4.16%) Service Manager
11 18 (3.94%) Software Engineering Manager
12 17 (3.72%) Project Manager
13 16 (3.50%) Software Engineer
14 15 (3.28%) Lead Business Analyst
14 15 (3.28%) Service Delivery Manager
14 15 (3.28%) Software Manager
14 15 (3.28%) Support Team Leader
15 14 (3.06%) Technical Manager
16 13 (2.84%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.69%) .NET
2 15 (3.28%) React
3 9 (1.97%) Spring Boot
4 8 (1.75%) Spring
5 7 (1.53%) REST
6 6 (1.31%) Node.js
7 5 (1.09%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.09%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.88%) Hibernate
9 3 (0.66%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.66%) CSS
9 3 (0.66%) EDI
9 3 (0.66%) Entity Framework
9 3 (0.66%) HTML
9 3 (0.66%) Micronaut
10 2 (0.44%) JSON
10 2 (0.44%) MSMQ
10 2 (0.44%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (0.44%) RxJava
10 2 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.53%) Product Ownership
2 26 (5.69%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.94%) NHS
5 17 (3.72%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.28%) Algorithms
6 15 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.06%) Derivative
8 11 (2.41%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.97%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.31%) FMCG
13 5 (1.09%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.88%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.88%) Equities
14 4 (0.88%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.72%) Windows
2 8 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 7 (1.53%) Linux
4 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.44%) Android
5 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (31.51%) Agile
2 105 (22.98%) Coaching
3 99 (21.66%) Mentoring
4 84 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 81 (17.72%) Project Management
6 80 (17.51%) Roadmaps
7 75 (16.41%) Project Delivery
7 75 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 66 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (14.00%) Service Delivery
10 63 (13.79%) Line Management
11 54 (11.82%) Decision-Making
11 54 (11.82%) Software Engineering
12 45 (9.85%) Risk Management
13 42 (9.19%) CI/CD
14 40 (8.75%) Business Strategy
14 40 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 38 (8.32%) Change Management
16 36 (7.88%) Analytics
16 36 (7.88%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (11.16%) Python
2 42 (9.19%) SQL
3 35 (7.66%) C#
4 33 (7.22%) Java
5 14 (3.06%) R
6 13 (2.84%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.53%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.09%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Ada
12 1 (0.22%) Bash
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) C++
12 1 (0.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 56 (12.25%) Degree
2 27 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.06%) CISM
4 14 (3.06%) CISSP
5 12 (2.63%) CIPD
5 12 (2.63%) CRISC
6 11 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.41%) DBS Check
6 11 (2.41%) PMP
7 9 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.97%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.53%) CISA
9 7 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.53%) Postgraduate
10 6 (1.31%) ACCA
10 6 (1.31%) CIMA
10 6 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (1.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.38%) QA
2 17 (3.72%) SLA
3 16 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.06%) PMO
5 13 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (2.63%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.53%) GDPR
8 6 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.09%) GRC
9 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (1.09%) NIST
10 4 (0.88%) IFRS
11 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.66%) GAAP
12 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.22%) FINRA
13 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.06%) Docker
3 3 (0.66%) Firmware
3 3 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.44%) RACF
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.41%) Terraform
3 9 (1.97%) Ansible
4 7 (1.53%) Grafana
5 4 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.66%) SCCM
6 3 (0.66%) SCOM
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.44%) WSUS
8 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 76 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.72%) SAP
3 11 (2.41%) Google
4 10 (2.19%) Cisco
4 10 (2.19%) Databricks
5 9 (1.97%) ServiceNow
6 8 (1.75%) Oracle
7 7 (1.53%) VMware
8 6 (1.31%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.31%) Splunk
9 5 (1.09%) TikTok
10 4 (0.88%) Juniper
10 4 (0.88%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.88%) Siemens
11 3 (0.66%) Adobe
11 3 (0.66%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.66%) Pinterest
11 3 (0.66%) Workday
12 2 (0.44%) Criteo
12 2 (0.44%) IBM