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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 272 292
Rank change year-on-year -94 +20 -53
Permanent jobs citing People Management 372 452 877
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.11% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.19% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 230 272 547
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,140 £39,776
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £69,018 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +6.18% -3.70%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,075 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% +4.35%

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 60,207 38,067 76,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.10% 93.27% 86.65%
Number of salaries quoted 36,835 22,259 57,410
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 28 March 2026.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 16 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 28 March 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 -65 334 £73,500 +6.49% 131
UK excluding London -86 234 £62,500 -5.83% 106
Work from Home +17 167 £77,500 +12.29% 65
London -21 111 £90,000 +12.50% 43
North of England -58 60 £77,500 +11.81% 24
South East -82 54 £63,000 -3.08% 31
Midlands -50 40 £61,500 -15.17% 23
South West -24 38 £60,000 -9.59% 9
North West -27 36 £80,000 +23.08% 14
East Midlands -24 28 £42,500 -37.04% 7
East of England -30 22 £60,100 -3.06% 13
Yorkshire -59 21 £80,000 -8.57% 7
West Midlands -50 12 £75,000 -6.25% 16
Scotland -37 11 £63,500 -5.93% 3
Wales - 11 £47,500 - 5
North East -23 3 £66,250 - 5

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 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.08%) CMS
2 4 (1.08%) Drupal
3 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 37 (9.95%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.81%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.81%) InVision
4 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.81%) Sketch
5 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.54%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.48%) Azure
1 39 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (9.68%) AWS
3 32 (8.60%) SaaS
4 27 (7.26%) Figma
5 23 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.76%) GCP
7 9 (2.42%) Snowflake
8 8 (2.15%) GitHub
8 8 (2.15%) Slack
9 7 (1.88%) Power Automate
9 7 (1.88%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.08%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.08%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.08%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (1.08%) Vertex AI
11 3 (0.81%) Azure AI
11 3 (0.81%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.99%) Broadband
2 6 (1.61%) Firewall
3 3 (0.81%) BGP
3 3 (0.81%) DNS
3 3 (0.81%) Internet
3 3 (0.81%) LAN
3 3 (0.81%) MPLS
3 3 (0.81%) WAN
3 3 (0.81%) Wireless
4 2 (0.54%) DHCP
4 2 (0.54%) Network Security
4 2 (0.54%) SAN
4 2 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.65%) Power BI
2 8 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.34%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
4 5 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 3 (0.81%) Looker
5 3 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.54%) Metadata
6 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.54%) Redis
6 2 (0.54%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.27%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.27%) Flink
7 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.42%) JIRA
2 4 (1.08%) GitLab
2 4 (1.08%) Selenium
3 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) Git
General
1 129 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 101 (27.15%) Finance
3 38 (10.22%) Presentation Skills
4 32 (8.60%) Back Office
5 31 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (7.26%) Legal
7 21 (5.65%) Law
8 20 (5.38%) Marketing
9 18 (4.84%) Banking
10 17 (4.57%) Public Sector
11 16 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (4.30%) Retail
12 12 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.69%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.88%) Advertising
15 7 (1.88%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.88%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.34%) Social Housing
17 4 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (21.51%) Lead
2 60 (16.13%) Senior
3 30 (8.06%) IT Manager
4 24 (6.45%) Desktop Engineer
4 24 (6.45%) Desktop Support
4 24 (6.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 24 (6.45%) Site Engineer
4 24 (6.45%) Support Engineer
5 20 (5.38%) Support Manager
6 19 (5.11%) Engineering Manager
6 19 (5.11%) Senior Manager
7 18 (4.84%) Team Leader
8 16 (4.30%) Infrastructure Manager
9 15 (4.03%) Developer
10 14 (3.76%) Data Manager
11 12 (3.23%) Development Manager
11 12 (3.23%) Head of Operations
11 12 (3.23%) IT Infrastructure Manager
12 10 (2.69%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.69%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.57%) .NET
2 9 (2.42%) React
3 8 (2.15%) Node.js
4 5 (1.34%) .NET Core
4 5 (1.34%) Spring
4 5 (1.34%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.08%) CSS
5 4 (1.08%) HTML
5 4 (1.08%) Kafka
6 3 (0.81%) LangChain
6 3 (0.81%) Micronaut
6 3 (0.81%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (0.54%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.54%) EDI
7 2 (0.54%) J2EE
7 2 (0.54%) NestJS
7 2 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.27%) ADO
8 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.27%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.72%) Onboarding
2 24 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.91%) Mobile App
4 21 (5.65%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.84%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.88%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.34%) Mobile Computing
10 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.08%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.08%) Social Media
11 3 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.81%) IoT
11 3 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.41%) Windows
2 24 (6.45%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.15%) Linux
3 8 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (28.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 82 (22.04%) Mentoring
3 75 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (19.62%) Coaching
5 62 (16.67%) Agile
6 59 (15.86%) Customer Experience
7 58 (15.59%) Line Management
7 58 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 57 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
9 55 (14.78%) Software Engineering
10 51 (13.71%) Analytics
11 49 (13.17%) Customer Service
12 42 (11.29%) AI
12 42 (11.29%) ITIL
13 41 (11.02%) Project Delivery
14 37 (9.95%) Service Delivery
15 36 (9.68%) Collaborative Culture
15 36 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (9.14%) DevOps
17 32 (8.60%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.41%) Python
2 23 (6.18%) SQL
3 16 (4.30%) C#
3 16 (4.30%) Java
4 13 (3.49%) TypeScript
5 6 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.81%) ABAP
7 2 (0.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.27%) Ada
8 1 (0.27%) Go
8 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.27%) Perl
8 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (13.17%) Degree
2 39 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 36 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.45%) CTC Cleared
5 11 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.96%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.69%) CIPD
6 10 (2.69%) CISM
6 10 (2.69%) CISSP
7 8 (2.15%) CISA
8 6 (1.61%) ACCA
8 6 (1.61%) CIMA
9 5 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.34%) CRISC
10 4 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.08%) OSCP
10 4 (1.08%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.81%) PMP
12 2 (0.54%) CIPFA
12 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.60%) SLA
2 21 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (5.65%) QA
3 16 (4.30%) GDPR
4 12 (3.23%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.15%) NIST
5 8 (2.15%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.88%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.61%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.08%) GAAP
8 4 (1.08%) GRC
8 4 (1.08%) IFRS
9 3 (0.81%) Automotive SPICE
9 3 (0.81%) COBIT
9 3 (0.81%) ISO 26262
9 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.81%) PMO
10 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.54%) ITGC
System Software
1 6 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.34%) Docker
2 5 (1.34%) Firmware
3 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.42%) Terraform
3 7 (1.88%) Ansible
4 6 (1.61%) Grafana
4 6 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.81%) Puppet
6 2 (0.54%) Argo
6 2 (0.54%) Check_MK
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.54%) Salt
7 1 (0.27%) QRadar
7 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 44 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.33%) Cisco
3 25 (6.72%) Adobe
4 19 (5.11%) Google
5 14 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.23%) Oracle
7 10 (2.69%) SAP
8 9 (2.42%) VMware
9 8 (2.15%) Informatica
9 8 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.88%) UiPath
11 5 (1.34%) Foundry
12 4 (1.08%) Siemens
12 4 (1.08%) Splunk
13 3 (0.81%) Databricks
13 3 (0.81%) F5
13 3 (0.81%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.81%) Hotjar
13 3 (0.81%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.81%) Xero