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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 289 294
Rank change year-on-year -127 +5 -122
Permanent jobs citing People Management 388 491 902
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.00% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.11% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 283 273 542
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £72,000 £60,855
Median % change year-on-year -16.53% +18.31% -13.06%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,000 £119,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -9.45%

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 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -131 342 £62,500 -13.19% 203
UK excluding London -120 264 £55,000 -18.52% 124
Work from Home -20 140 £72,500 -5.54% 86
London -72 105 £95,000 +11.76% 104
North of England -49 65 £62,500 -9.83% 35
Midlands -32 61 £45,000 -35.71% 17
South East -65 57 £57,402 -25.93% 33
North West -25 39 £55,000 -20.65% 20
West Midlands -33 33 £52,500 -26.32% 8
East Midlands -9 28 £42,500 -38.18% 9
East of England -11 27 £60,100 -3.06% 9
North East - 21 £62,500 - 4
South West -58 20 £55,000 -10.20% 14
Scotland +21 18 £55,000 -20.00% 11
Wales -52 13 £47,500 +31.94% 4
Yorkshire -51 5 £77,500 +14.81% 12
Northern Ireland -58 3 £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 17 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.77%) CMS
3 3 (0.77%) SAS
4 2 (0.52%) Drupal
5 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.03%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) InVision
6 1 (0.26%) Sketch
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.06%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.29%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.26%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 56 (14.43%) Azure
2 32 (8.25%) SaaS
3 31 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (6.44%) AWS
5 24 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.58%) Figma
8 8 (2.06%) IaaS
9 7 (1.80%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.29%) GCP
11 5 (1.29%) Slack
12 4 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.58%) Broadband
2 8 (2.06%) Network Security
3 5 (1.29%) DNS
3 5 (1.29%) Firewall
3 5 (1.29%) VoIP
4 4 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.77%) DKIM
5 3 (0.77%) DMARC
5 3 (0.77%) PBX
5 3 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.77%) VLAN
6 2 (0.52%) Intranet
6 2 (0.52%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) FTP
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) SMTP
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.67%) Power BI
2 12 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.58%) Tableau
4 5 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.52%) Looker
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
6 2 (0.52%) Redis
6 2 (0.52%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.26%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.26%) Flink
7 1 (0.26%) GIS
7 1 (0.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (4.38%) JIRA
2 12 (3.09%) Git
3 3 (0.77%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
General
1 132 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 110 (28.35%) Finance
3 57 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.73%) Retail
5 21 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.15%) Aerospace
6 20 (5.15%) Law
7 19 (4.90%) Banking
8 18 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.64%) Marketing
9 14 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (3.35%) Legal
11 12 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 9 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.06%) Advertising
14 8 (2.06%) Back Office
15 7 (1.80%) Billing
15 7 (1.80%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (21.65%) Lead
2 60 (15.46%) Senior
3 31 (7.99%) Team Leader
4 27 (6.96%) Data Manager
5 26 (6.70%) Engineering Manager
6 24 (6.19%) Developer
7 23 (5.93%) IT Manager
7 23 (5.93%) Senior Manager
8 18 (4.64%) Data Centre Manager
9 17 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (4.12%) Lead Developer
11 14 (3.61%) Support Manager
12 13 (3.35%) Architect
13 12 (3.09%) IT Support
13 12 (3.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.84%) Infrastructure Manager
14 11 (2.84%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.58%) Development Manager
15 10 (2.58%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.87%) .NET
2 8 (2.06%) .NET Core
3 6 (1.55%) React
3 6 (1.55%) REST
4 5 (1.29%) ASP.NET
4 5 (1.29%) Blazor
4 5 (1.29%) gRPC
4 5 (1.29%) Spring
5 3 (0.77%) Kafka
5 3 (0.77%) LangChain
5 3 (0.77%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (0.77%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.52%) CSS
6 2 (0.52%) HTML
6 2 (0.52%) Jakarta EE
6 2 (0.52%) NestJS
6 2 (0.52%) Node.js
6 2 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.96%) Management Information System
1 27 (6.96%) Onboarding
2 23 (5.93%) Driving Licence
3 21 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 18 (4.64%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.38%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.58%) NHS
8 9 (2.32%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Licensing
10 5 (1.29%) Mobile Computing
11 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.77%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
12 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.15%) Windows
2 7 (1.80%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.55%) Linux
4 3 (0.77%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.77%) Unix
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (28.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 85 (21.91%) Mentoring
3 82 (21.13%) Coaching
4 80 (20.62%) Line Management
5 78 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (20.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (18.56%) Technical Leadership
7 71 (18.30%) Agile
8 64 (16.49%) Software Engineering
9 60 (15.46%) Decision-Making
10 56 (14.43%) Service Delivery
11 49 (12.63%) AI
11 49 (12.63%) DevOps
12 48 (12.37%) Project Delivery
13 42 (10.82%) Project Management
14 39 (10.05%) Cybersecurity
14 39 (10.05%) Roadmaps
15 38 (9.79%) CI/CD
15 38 (9.79%) Customer Experience
16 36 (9.28%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.79%) SQL
2 23 (5.93%) Python
3 17 (4.38%) Java
4 14 (3.61%) C#
5 13 (3.35%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.55%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.52%) ABAP
7 2 (0.52%) C++
7 2 (0.52%) VBA
8 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.26%) Bash
8 1 (0.26%) Bicep
8 1 (0.26%) Go
8 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.26%) Ruby
8 1 (0.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 65 (16.75%) Degree
2 25 (6.44%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.87%) DBS Check
6 12 (3.09%) ACCA
7 11 (2.84%) CIMA
8 10 (2.58%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (2.58%) CISM
9 8 (2.06%) CISSP
9 8 (2.06%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.80%) HNC
10 7 (1.80%) HND
10 7 (1.80%) ICAEW
10 7 (1.80%) PMP
11 6 (1.55%) CIPD
11 6 (1.55%) CRISC
12 5 (1.29%) CISA
13 4 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.77%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.64%) ISO 9001
3 15 (3.87%) NIST
4 14 (3.61%) ISO 14000
5 13 (3.35%) QA
6 10 (2.58%) GDPR
7 8 (2.06%) COBIT
7 8 (2.06%) GRC
7 8 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.06%) SLA
8 7 (1.80%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.55%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.55%) PMO
10 5 (1.29%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.29%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.77%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.77%) ITGC
11 3 (0.77%) TickIT
System Software
1 7 (1.80%) Docker
2 5 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (1.03%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.06%) Terraform
3 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.03%) Ansible
4 4 (1.03%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.77%) Argo
5 3 (0.77%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.77%) cPanel
5 3 (0.77%) Plesk
6 2 (0.52%) Puppet
6 2 (0.52%) Salt
6 2 (0.52%) SCCM
6 2 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.87%) Adobe
3 13 (3.35%) Google
4 9 (2.32%) Cisco
4 9 (2.32%) VMware
5 8 (2.06%) Oracle
6 6 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.55%) SAP
7 5 (1.29%) Juniper
7 5 (1.29%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.03%) Databricks
8 4 (1.03%) Meraki
8 4 (1.03%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.03%) Xero
9 3 (0.77%) Datto
9 3 (0.77%) Infor
9 3 (0.77%) Informatica
9 3 (0.77%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.77%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.77%) WatchGuard