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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 303 320
Rank change year-on-year -115 +17 -111
Permanent jobs citing People Management 365 414 903
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.97% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.04% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 244 232 597
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,124 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,315 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +15.53% -14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,825 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -99 327 £63,500 -8.39% 203
UK excluding London -92 236 £60,000 -11.11% 148
Work from Home +35 148 £70,750 -2.41% 88
London -28 110 £75,000 -6.25% 89
South East -89 53 £57,303 -11.84% 47
North of England -62 49 £75,000 +8.20% 39
Midlands -51 46 £57,500 -20.69% 25
North West -10 36 £90,000 +29.84% 27
East of England -3 31 £60,100 -3.06% 13
South West -40 31 £55,000 -17.13% 12
West Midlands -65 27 £62,500 -13.79% 18
East Midlands -25 19 £42,500 -38.18% 7
Wales -25 14 £47,500 -26.92% 5
Scotland +1 11 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North East - 8 £62,500 - 3
Yorkshire -71 5 £108,000 +44.00% 9
Northern Ireland -41 1 £63,750 - 4

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 10 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.10%) CMS
3 4 (1.10%) Drupal
4 2 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (7.67%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.82%) InVision
4 3 (0.82%) Sketch
5 2 (0.55%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.55%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.55%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.55%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 47 (12.88%) Azure
2 40 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 27 (7.40%) SaaS
5 26 (7.12%) Figma
6 25 (6.85%) AWS
7 8 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.19%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.19%) PowerApps
8 7 (1.92%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.64%) GCP
9 6 (1.64%) Slack
10 5 (1.37%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.10%) GitHub
11 4 (1.10%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.10%) Google Sheets
11 4 (1.10%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.82%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (0.82%) Contentsquare
12 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.58%) Broadband
2 6 (1.64%) Network Security
3 4 (1.10%) DNS
3 4 (1.10%) Firewall
3 4 (1.10%) VoIP
4 3 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.55%) DKIM
5 2 (0.55%) DMARC
5 2 (0.55%) Intranet
5 2 (0.55%) PBX
5 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.55%) VLAN
6 1 (0.27%) FTP
6 1 (0.27%) HTTP
6 1 (0.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) LAN
6 1 (0.27%) SMTP
6 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.27%) WAN
6 1 (0.27%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.85%) Power BI
2 8 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.64%) Tableau
5 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (0.82%) Looker
6 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.55%) Metadata
7 2 (0.55%) Redis
7 2 (0.55%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 11 (3.01%) JIRA
2 5 (1.37%) Claude Code
2 5 (1.37%) Git
3 2 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 119 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 89 (24.38%) Finance
3 42 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.95%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (7.12%) Law
6 25 (6.85%) Back Office
7 22 (6.03%) Retail
8 20 (5.48%) Public Sector
9 19 (5.21%) Banking
10 18 (4.93%) Legal
11 17 (4.66%) Marketing
12 14 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (3.01%) Aerospace
13 11 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (2.19%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.92%) Advertising
17 6 (1.64%) Manufacturing
18 5 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.37%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 82 (22.47%) Lead
2 58 (15.89%) Senior
3 30 (8.22%) Team Leader
4 24 (6.58%) Data Manager
5 20 (5.48%) Developer
5 20 (5.48%) Senior Manager
6 19 (5.21%) IT Manager
6 19 (5.21%) Support Manager
7 16 (4.38%) Desktop Engineer
7 16 (4.38%) Desktop Support
7 16 (4.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 16 (4.38%) Site Engineer
7 16 (4.38%) Support Engineer
8 13 (3.56%) Engineering Manager
8 13 (3.56%) Lead Developer
9 12 (3.29%) IT Support
9 12 (3.29%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (2.74%) Data Centre Manager
10 10 (2.74%) Data Engineer
10 10 (2.74%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.29%) .NET
2 5 (1.37%) .NET Core
2 5 (1.37%) Spring
3 3 (0.82%) CSS
3 3 (0.82%) HTML
3 3 (0.82%) Kafka
3 3 (0.82%) LangChain
3 3 (0.82%) Semantic Kernel
3 3 (0.82%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.55%) EDI
4 2 (0.55%) J2EE
4 2 (0.55%) NestJS
4 2 (0.55%) Node.js
4 2 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.27%) ADO
5 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.27%) MACH
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.27%) SPFx
5 1 (0.27%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.30%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.75%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.75%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.66%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.29%) Driving Licence
6 11 (3.01%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.64%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.64%) NHS
11 5 (1.37%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (1.10%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Licensing
13 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.82%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.82%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.49%) Windows
2 16 (4.38%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.64%) Linux
3 6 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (30.68%) Continuous Improvement
2 79 (21.64%) Mentoring
2 79 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (20.55%) Line Management
4 69 (18.90%) Coaching
5 66 (18.08%) Agile
6 59 (16.16%) Software Engineering
7 57 (15.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (15.34%) Customer Experience
9 55 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
10 49 (13.42%) Cybersecurity
11 48 (13.15%) AI
12 45 (12.33%) Analytics
13 43 (11.78%) Project Delivery
13 43 (11.78%) Service Delivery
14 41 (11.23%) DevOps
15 37 (10.14%) Collaborative Culture
15 37 (10.14%) Customer Service
15 37 (10.14%) ITIL
16 36 (9.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.86%) SQL
2 29 (7.95%) Python
3 17 (4.66%) Java
4 10 (2.74%) C#
5 7 (1.92%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.82%) ABAP
8 2 (0.55%) Bash
8 2 (0.55%) C++
8 2 (0.55%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) Go
9 1 (0.27%) Perl
9 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 66 (18.08%) Degree
2 42 (11.51%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.38%) CTC Cleared
5 15 (4.11%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.47%) CIPD
7 7 (1.92%) CISM
7 7 (1.92%) CISSP
7 7 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.64%) CISA
8 6 (1.64%) PMP
9 5 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.10%) ACCA
10 4 (1.10%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.10%) CIMA
10 4 (1.10%) HNC
10 4 (1.10%) HND
10 4 (1.10%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (6.85%) SLA
3 14 (3.84%) ISO 9001
4 11 (3.01%) GDPR
5 9 (2.47%) NIST
5 9 (2.47%) QA
6 8 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.19%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.64%) ISO 14000
8 5 (1.37%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (1.37%) ISO 26262
8 5 (1.37%) PMO
9 4 (1.10%) COBIT
9 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.10%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.82%) GRC
10 3 (0.82%) ITGC
10 3 (0.82%) TickIT
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
1 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.82%) Docker
3 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.19%) Terraform
3 4 (1.10%) Ansible
3 4 (1.10%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.82%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.82%) Puppet
5 2 (0.55%) Argo
5 2 (0.55%) cPanel
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.55%) Plesk
5 2 (0.55%) Salt
5 2 (0.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 55 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.40%) Adobe
3 24 (6.58%) Cisco
4 18 (4.93%) Google
5 11 (3.01%) Oracle
6 8 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.92%) Informatica
7 7 (1.92%) VMware
8 6 (1.64%) UiPath
9 5 (1.37%) Foundry
9 5 (1.37%) SAP
10 4 (1.10%) Databricks
10 4 (1.10%) Meraki
10 4 (1.10%) Xero
11 3 (0.82%) Hotjar
11 3 (0.82%) IBM
11 3 (0.82%) Infor
11 3 (0.82%) Juniper
11 3 (0.82%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.82%) Salesforce