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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 294 261
Rank change year-on-year -28 -33 -86
Permanent jobs citing People Management 654 461 754
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.93% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.05% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 414 276 340
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £104,625 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £64,500 £62,028
% change year-on-year -18.60% +3.99% -2.32%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -35 572 £60,050 -16.60% 896
UK excluding London +3 458 £52,500 -18.60% 495
Work from Home -3 202 £72,500 -3.33% 347
London -55 160 £90,000 +10.43% 475
South East -5 130 £65,000 -12.16% 139
North of England -26 123 £52,500 -22.22% 120
North West -6 70 £45,000 -35.71% 81
Midlands -17 65 £45,000 -37.93% 71
South West -39 52 £55,000 - 41
West Midlands -34 35 £47,746 -34.14% 46
North East -37 35 £62,500 -3.85% 10
East of England -22 34 £60,000 +14.29% 33
East Midlands -23 30 £45,000 -36.84% 25
Wales -66 24 £35,000 -2.78% 17
Scotland +26 23 £53,481 -28.21% 57
Yorkshire -51 18 £50,000 -25.93% 30
Northern Ireland -73 7 £63,750 - 21

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 23 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.07%) SAS
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.61%) CMS
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 40 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Acrobat
5 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.07%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.31%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.31%) Visualfiles
5 1 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 81 (12.39%) Azure
2 60 (9.17%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (7.65%) SaaS
4 44 (6.73%) AWS
5 24 (3.67%) Power Platform
6 22 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 17 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (2.45%) Azure Key Vault
10 15 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (1.68%) IaaS
14 10 (1.53%) GCP
14 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.38%) GitHub
16 8 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (1.07%) OneDrive
18 6 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
18 6 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.75%) Firewall
2 14 (2.14%) Network Security
3 10 (1.53%) DNS
4 9 (1.38%) VLAN
5 8 (1.22%) VPN
6 7 (1.07%) Internet
7 6 (0.92%) VoIP
8 5 (0.76%) DHCP
8 5 (0.76%) SSH
8 5 (0.76%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.61%) Cisco IPT
9 4 (0.61%) HTTP
9 4 (0.61%) PBX
9 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.46%) DKIM
10 3 (0.46%) DMARC
10 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.31%) Intranet
11 2 (0.31%) SAN
11 2 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.29%) Power BI
3 13 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.53%) Tableau
5 7 (1.07%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.46%) Metadata
7 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.46%) Redis
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.31%) Big Data
8 2 (0.31%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 28 (4.28%) Git
2 22 (3.36%) JIRA
3 9 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.22%) Postman
5 6 (0.92%) GitLab
6 5 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.76%) Selenium
7 4 (0.61%) IntelliJ
7 4 (0.61%) Maven
7 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.46%) Gatling
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) Newman
9 2 (0.31%) RSpec
9 2 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.15%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.15%) Mocha
10 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 237 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 185 (28.29%) Finance
3 70 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (9.63%) Retail
5 52 (7.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (7.95%) Legal
6 46 (7.03%) Marketing
7 38 (5.81%) Manufacturing
8 36 (5.50%) Aerospace
8 36 (5.50%) Law
9 27 (4.13%) Public Sector
10 26 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.91%) Banking
12 18 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 15 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (1.99%) Electronics
15 9 (1.38%) Billing
16 8 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.22%) Publishing
17 6 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (20.18%) Lead
2 107 (16.36%) Senior
3 41 (6.27%) Service Manager
3 41 (6.27%) Team Leader
4 39 (5.96%) Developer
5 36 (5.50%) Senior Manager
5 36 (5.50%) Software Engineer
6 31 (4.74%) Engineering Manager
6 31 (4.74%) IT Manager
6 31 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
7 27 (4.13%) Data Manager
8 25 (3.82%) Lead Developer
9 24 (3.67%) Data Centre Manager
10 23 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
10 23 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
11 19 (2.91%) Development Manager
11 19 (2.91%) Operations Manager
11 19 (2.91%) Support Manager
12 18 (2.75%) Architect
13 15 (2.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.50%) REST
2 28 (4.28%) .NET
3 18 (2.75%) React
4 16 (2.45%) Terraform
5 14 (2.14%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.14%) Blazor
6 12 (1.83%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.83%) gRPC
7 11 (1.68%) Kafka
7 11 (1.68%) Spring
8 10 (1.53%) EDI
8 10 (1.53%) HTML
8 10 (1.53%) Node.js
9 9 (1.38%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.07%) NestJS
10 7 (1.07%) Playwright
10 7 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.92%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.92%) Symfony
12 5 (0.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.33%) Onboarding
2 54 (8.26%) Management Information System
3 37 (5.66%) Driving Licence
4 27 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.14%) IoT
8 12 (1.83%) Life Science
8 12 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.53%) NHS
11 9 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.22%) Podcast
13 7 (1.07%) Biopharmaceutical
14 6 (0.92%) CCTV
14 6 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
14 6 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.92%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.76%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.35%) Windows
2 13 (1.99%) Linux
2 13 (1.99%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.53%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.46%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (30.28%) Continuous Improvement
2 163 (24.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 147 (22.48%) Coaching
4 145 (22.17%) Mentoring
4 145 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (17.28%) Decision-Making
6 112 (17.13%) Technical Leadership
7 103 (15.75%) Service Delivery
8 102 (15.60%) Agile
9 98 (14.98%) Software Engineering
10 91 (13.91%) AI
11 84 (12.84%) Line Management
12 77 (11.77%) Roadmaps
13 69 (10.55%) Performance Management
14 67 (10.24%) Customer Experience
15 65 (9.94%) DevOps
16 63 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
17 59 (9.02%) Customer Service
17 59 (9.02%) Project Delivery
18 58 (8.87%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 48 (7.34%) SQL
2 31 (4.74%) C#
2 31 (4.74%) Java
3 30 (4.59%) Python
4 25 (3.82%) TypeScript
5 19 (2.91%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.92%) Bicep
7 6 (0.92%) PHP
8 5 (0.76%) C++
9 4 (0.61%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.61%) Go
9 4 (0.61%) Ruby
9 4 (0.61%) SOQL
10 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) C
11 2 (0.31%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 104 (15.90%) Degree
2 40 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.67%) ACCA
6 23 (3.52%) CIMA
7 21 (3.21%) Chartered Engineer
8 17 (2.60%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (2.45%) CISM
9 16 (2.45%) Master's Degree
10 15 (2.29%) CISSP
11 13 (1.99%) DBS Check
12 12 (1.83%) CIPD
12 12 (1.83%) HNC
13 11 (1.68%) HND
13 11 (1.68%) MBA
14 9 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.22%) DV Cleared
16 7 (1.07%) ICAEW
17 6 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 42 (6.42%) QA
3 32 (4.89%) SLA
4 22 (3.36%) GDPR
5 17 (2.60%) ISO 14000
6 16 (2.45%) ISO 9001
7 13 (1.99%) GRC
8 10 (1.53%) NIST
9 9 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.22%) ISO 14001
11 5 (0.76%) COBIT
11 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.61%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.61%) IFRS
12 4 (0.61%) PMO
13 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.31%) DO-254
14 2 (0.31%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 20 (3.06%) Docker
2 16 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.99%) Firmware
4 10 (1.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.46%) vSphere
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.31%) Snort
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.68%) Ansible
4 8 (1.22%) Grafana
5 6 (0.92%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.46%) Autotask
6 3 (0.46%) cPanel
6 3 (0.46%) Plesk
7 2 (0.31%) Argo
7 2 (0.31%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
7 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.31%) SCCM
7 2 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 136 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.82%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.75%) VMware
4 16 (2.45%) Sage
5 15 (2.29%) Cisco
6 14 (2.14%) Adobe
6 14 (2.14%) Google
7 13 (1.99%) YouTube
8 7 (1.07%) Databricks
8 7 (1.07%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.92%) Meraki
9 6 (0.92%) Workday
10 5 (0.76%) Juniper
10 5 (0.76%) Oracle
11 4 (0.61%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.61%) OneTrust
11 4 (0.61%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.61%) Siemens
11 4 (0.61%) Thales
11 4 (0.61%) Veeam