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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 294 254
Rank change year-on-year -26 -40 -78
Permanent jobs citing People Management 674 465 747
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.95% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.07% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 422 279 337
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £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 £102,250 £120,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £64,500 £62,848
% change year-on-year -17.83% +2.63% +0.16%

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 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

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 16 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 16 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 -38 589 £60,100 -16.53% 128
UK excluding London +1 475 £53,000 -17.83% 109
Work from Home +12 208 £72,500 -3.33% 65
London -79 161 £90,000 +7.46% 44
South East +2 137 £65,000 -7.14% 34
North of England -36 125 £52,500 -22.22% 31
North West -14 72 £45,000 -35.08% 21
Midlands -17 71 £45,000 -37.93% 16
South West -33 53 £57,500 +4.55% 14
West Midlands -29 38 £51,250 -29.31% 11
North East -38 34 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East Midlands -23 33 £45,000 -36.84% 5
East of England -35 33 £60,000 +14.29% 6
Scotland +23 26 £53,481 -28.21% 3
Wales -67 23 £35,000 -2.78% 4
Yorkshire -55 19 £51,250 -24.07% 7
Northern Ireland -76 7 £63,750 - 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 25 (3.71%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.04%) SAS
3 4 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.04%) Acrobat
5 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.30%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.30%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.30%) 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
Cloud Services
1 82 (12.17%) Azure
2 62 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (7.57%) SaaS
4 45 (6.68%) AWS
5 27 (4.01%) Power Platform
6 22 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.82%) Entra ID
8 17 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (2.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (1.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (1.78%) GCP
13 11 (1.63%) IaaS
14 9 (1.34%) GitHub
15 8 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.19%) OneDrive
16 7 (1.04%) Serverless
17 6 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.82%) Firewall
2 13 (1.93%) Network Security
3 10 (1.48%) DNS
4 9 (1.34%) VLAN
5 8 (1.19%) Cisco IPT
5 8 (1.19%) VPN
6 7 (1.04%) Internet
7 6 (0.89%) VoIP
8 5 (0.74%) DHCP
8 5 (0.74%) SSH
8 5 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.59%) HTTP
9 4 (0.59%) PBX
9 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.45%) DKIM
10 3 (0.45%) DMARC
10 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.30%) NAS
11 2 (0.30%) SAN
11 2 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.67%) Power BI
2 17 (2.52%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (1.78%) Tableau
5 8 (1.19%) Data Lake
5 8 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.59%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.45%) Metadata
7 3 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.45%) Redis
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.30%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.30%) Looker
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (4.45%) Git
2 24 (3.56%) JIRA
3 9 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.19%) Postman
5 6 (0.89%) GitLab
5 6 (0.89%) IntelliJ
6 5 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.74%) Selenium
7 4 (0.59%) Maven
7 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.45%) Gatling
8 3 (0.45%) JMeter
8 3 (0.45%) Newman
9 2 (0.30%) RSpec
9 2 (0.30%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.15%) Mocha
10 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.15%) TestNG
10 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 243 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 188 (27.89%) Finance
3 72 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.79%) Retail
5 54 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (7.86%) Legal
7 52 (7.72%) Marketing
8 40 (5.93%) Manufacturing
9 37 (5.49%) Aerospace
10 35 (5.19%) Law
11 33 (4.90%) Public Sector
12 30 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (3.26%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.97%) Banking
15 18 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (1.93%) Electronics
17 9 (1.34%) Billing
18 8 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (1.19%) Public Speaking
18 8 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (20.18%) Lead
2 108 (16.02%) Senior
3 43 (6.38%) Service Manager
4 41 (6.08%) Team Leader
5 39 (5.79%) Developer
6 38 (5.64%) Software Engineer
7 36 (5.34%) Senior Manager
8 33 (4.90%) Engineering Manager
9 31 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
10 30 (4.45%) IT Manager
11 26 (3.86%) Data Manager
12 24 (3.56%) Delivery Manager
12 24 (3.56%) Lead Developer
13 23 (3.41%) Data Centre Manager
13 23 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
14 21 (3.12%) Architect
14 21 (3.12%) Operations Manager
15 19 (2.82%) Support Manager
16 18 (2.67%) Development Manager
17 16 (2.37%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.64%) REST
2 28 (4.15%) .NET
3 18 (2.67%) React
4 15 (2.23%) Terraform
5 14 (2.08%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.08%) Blazor
6 12 (1.78%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.78%) gRPC
6 12 (1.78%) Kafka
6 12 (1.78%) Spring
7 10 (1.48%) EDI
7 10 (1.48%) HTML
7 10 (1.48%) Node.js
7 10 (1.48%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
8 7 (1.04%) NestJS
8 7 (1.04%) Playwright
8 7 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (0.89%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.35%) Onboarding
2 58 (8.61%) Management Information System
3 37 (5.49%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.86%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.37%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.37%) Life Science
7 14 (2.08%) IoT
8 12 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.48%) NHS
11 9 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.19%) Podcast
13 7 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
13 7 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.04%) Social Media
14 6 (0.89%) CCTV
14 6 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
14 6 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.34%) Windows
2 14 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 13 (1.93%) Linux
4 10 (1.48%) macOS
5 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.45%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (30.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 169 (25.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 156 (23.15%) Coaching
3 156 (23.15%) Mentoring
4 147 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (17.36%) Decision-Making
6 113 (16.77%) Technical Leadership
7 106 (15.73%) Service Delivery
8 101 (14.99%) Agile
9 99 (14.69%) Software Engineering
10 96 (14.24%) AI
11 86 (12.76%) Line Management
11 86 (12.76%) Roadmaps
12 72 (10.68%) Performance Management
13 69 (10.24%) Customer Experience
13 69 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
14 64 (9.50%) DevOps
14 64 (9.50%) Project Delivery
15 60 (8.90%) Customer Service
16 58 (8.61%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.27%) SQL
2 33 (4.90%) C#
2 33 (4.90%) Java
3 30 (4.45%) Python
4 25 (3.71%) TypeScript
5 22 (3.26%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.89%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.89%) Bicep
7 6 (0.89%) PHP
7 6 (0.89%) SOQL
8 5 (0.74%) C++
8 5 (0.74%) Go
9 4 (0.59%) Ruby
10 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) C
11 2 (0.30%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 105 (15.58%) Degree
2 45 (6.68%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 31 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.56%) ACCA
5 23 (3.41%) CIMA
6 22 (3.26%) Chartered Engineer
7 20 (2.97%) CISM
8 19 (2.82%) CISSP
9 17 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
9 17 (2.52%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.93%) DBS Check
11 12 (1.78%) HNC
12 11 (1.63%) CIPD
12 11 (1.63%) HND
12 11 (1.63%) MBA
13 9 (1.34%) CISMP
13 9 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.34%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (6.53%) QA
3 32 (4.75%) SLA
4 23 (3.41%) GDPR
5 17 (2.52%) ISO 9001
6 16 (2.37%) ISO 14000
7 13 (1.93%) GRC
8 10 (1.48%) NIST
9 9 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.19%) ISO 14001
11 6 (0.89%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.74%) COBIT
12 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.59%) IFRS
13 4 (0.59%) PMO
14 3 (0.45%) IEC 61508
14 3 (0.45%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.45%) PERC
System Software
1 22 (3.26%) Docker
2 17 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.93%) Firmware
4 10 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.45%) vSphere
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.30%) Snort
8 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.52%) Kubernetes
1 17 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.63%) Ansible
3 8 (1.19%) Grafana
4 7 (1.04%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.45%) Autotask
5 3 (0.45%) cPanel
5 3 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.45%) Plesk
6 2 (0.30%) Argo
6 2 (0.30%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.30%) Packer
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) SCCM
6 2 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 140 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.15%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.67%) Sage
3 18 (2.67%) VMware
4 17 (2.52%) Google
5 16 (2.37%) Cisco
6 15 (2.23%) Adobe
7 13 (1.93%) YouTube
8 9 (1.34%) Databricks
8 9 (1.34%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.19%) OneTrust
10 7 (1.04%) Meraki
11 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.89%) Workday
12 5 (0.74%) Juniper
12 5 (0.74%) Oracle
12 5 (0.74%) Siemens
13 4 (0.59%) Anaplan
13 4 (0.59%) Thales
13 4 (0.59%) Veeam