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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 284 272
Rank change year-on-year -67 -12 -24
Permanent jobs citing People Management 383 483 884
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.10% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.17% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 237 274 551
10th Percentile £45,750 £49,140 £39,439
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,965 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,965 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +6.19% -1.54%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% +9.09%

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 56,331 41,289 73,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.69% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 33,961 22,320 55,807
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 9 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 9 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 -53 345 £70,000 +2.30% 124
UK excluding London -69 234 £62,500 -5.83% 119
Work from Home +46 168 £75,000 +11.11% 87
London -7 116 £90,000 +12.50% 31
North of England -38 67 £71,000 +5.19% 22
South East -57 57 £60,000 -7.69% 27
Midlands -31 40 £63,250 -12.76% 17
South West -12 37 £58,000 -12.61% 8
North West -30 36 £75,000 +16.37% 13
East Midlands -3 28 £42,500 -37.04% 6
Yorkshire -32 28 £70,000 -20.00% 5
East of England -13 17 £60,100 -3.06% 13
West Midlands -34 12 £70,000 -8.20% 11
Wales -1 11 £47,500 -50.00% 4
Scotland -23 7 £67,000 -0.74% 29
North East -17 3 £65,000 -3.70% 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 7 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.04%) CMS
2 4 (1.04%) Drupal
3 2 (0.52%) Apache
3 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.26%) CICS
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.26%) TPMS
4 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (10.18%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.78%) InVision
4 3 (0.78%) Sketch
4 3 (0.78%) Trello
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.31%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.78%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.52%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.52%) Shopify
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.75%) AWS
2 40 (10.44%) Azure
3 38 (9.92%) SaaS
4 37 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (7.05%) Figma
6 21 (5.48%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.44%) GCP
8 12 (3.13%) GitHub
9 11 (2.87%) Slack
10 9 (2.35%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.09%) Power Automate
11 8 (2.09%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.57%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.31%) Google Analytics
14 4 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
15 3 (0.78%) dbt
15 3 (0.78%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.01%) Broadband
2 7 (1.83%) Firewall
3 4 (1.04%) BGP
3 4 (1.04%) LAN
3 4 (1.04%) MPLS
3 4 (1.04%) WAN
3 4 (1.04%) Wireless
4 3 (0.78%) DNS
4 3 (0.78%) Internet
4 3 (0.78%) Network Security
4 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.52%) DHCP
5 2 (0.52%) SAN
5 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.70%) Power BI
2 10 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.83%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.31%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.78%) Looker
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.52%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
6 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.52%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.52%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.26%) DB2
7 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.35%) JIRA
2 5 (1.31%) GitLab
2 5 (1.31%) Selenium
3 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 138 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 112 (29.24%) Finance
3 42 (10.97%) Presentation Skills
4 32 (8.36%) Legal
5 28 (7.31%) Back Office
6 27 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (6.01%) Law
8 20 (5.22%) Marketing
9 19 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (4.96%) Retail
10 16 (4.18%) Banking
10 16 (4.18%) Public Sector
11 12 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.61%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.09%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.83%) Advertising
16 6 (1.57%) Social Housing
17 4 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 79 (20.63%) Lead
2 55 (14.36%) Senior
3 30 (7.83%) IT Manager
4 24 (6.27%) Desktop Engineer
4 24 (6.27%) Desktop Support
4 24 (6.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 24 (6.27%) Site Engineer
4 24 (6.27%) Support Engineer
5 20 (5.22%) Senior Manager
5 20 (5.22%) Support Manager
6 18 (4.70%) Team Leader
7 17 (4.44%) Engineering Manager
8 16 (4.18%) Developer
9 15 (3.92%) Infrastructure Manager
10 14 (3.66%) Data Manager
11 13 (3.39%) Development Manager
12 12 (3.13%) Head of Operations
12 12 (3.13%) IT Infrastructure Manager
13 11 (2.87%) Data Engineer
14 10 (2.61%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.70%) .NET
2 12 (3.13%) React
3 8 (2.09%) Node.js
4 6 (1.57%) Spring
4 6 (1.57%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.31%) Micronaut
6 4 (1.04%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.04%) CSS
6 4 (1.04%) HTML
7 3 (0.78%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.52%) EDI
8 2 (0.52%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.52%) J2EE
8 2 (0.52%) Kafka
8 2 (0.52%) Pandas
8 2 (0.52%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.26%) ADO
9 1 (0.26%) PySpark
9 1 (0.26%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.83%) Onboarding
2 28 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.01%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.74%) Mobile App
5 20 (5.22%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.09%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.31%) Mobile Computing
11 5 (1.31%) Social Media
11 5 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.04%) Cyberattack
12 4 (1.04%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.62%) Windows
2 24 (6.27%) Windows 10
3 9 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 80 (20.89%) Mentoring
3 76 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (19.32%) Coaching
5 62 (16.19%) Agile
6 59 (15.40%) Cybersecurity
6 59 (15.40%) Line Management
7 57 (14.88%) Analytics
8 56 (14.62%) Customer Experience
9 55 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 49 (12.79%) Customer Service
10 49 (12.79%) Software Engineering
11 46 (12.01%) Service Delivery
12 39 (10.18%) ITIL
13 38 (9.92%) Collaborative Culture
14 37 (9.66%) DevOps
15 36 (9.40%) AI
15 36 (9.40%) CI/CD
15 36 (9.40%) Project Delivery
16 34 (8.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.14%) Python
2 21 (5.48%) SQL
3 19 (4.96%) C#
4 14 (3.66%) Java
4 14 (3.66%) TypeScript
5 8 (2.09%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.78%) ABAP
8 2 (0.52%) Bash
9 1 (0.26%) Ada
9 1 (0.26%) Go
9 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.26%) Perl
9 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.97%) Degree
3 40 (10.44%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.27%) CTC Cleared
5 14 (3.66%) CISM
5 14 (3.66%) CISSP
6 12 (3.13%) CIPD
6 12 (3.13%) CISA
6 12 (3.13%) DBS Check
7 9 (2.35%) CRISC
8 7 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.57%) ACCA
9 6 (1.57%) CIMA
10 5 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.04%) OSCP
12 2 (0.52%) CIPFA
12 2 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 2 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.36%) SLA
2 23 (6.01%) QA
3 19 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (4.70%) Data Quality
5 16 (4.18%) GDPR
6 10 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.09%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.83%) NIST
9 5 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.31%) GRC
10 4 (1.04%) GAAP
10 4 (1.04%) IFRS
11 3 (0.78%) COBIT
11 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.26%) ITGC
13 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.35%) Docker
2 7 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.31%) Firmware
4 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (4.18%) Kubernetes
1 16 (4.18%) Terraform
2 10 (2.61%) Grafana
3 9 (2.35%) Ansible
3 9 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
5 1 (0.26%) QRadar
5 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.36%) Cisco
3 25 (6.53%) Adobe
4 18 (4.70%) Google
5 14 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.87%) Oracle
7 10 (2.61%) SAP
8 8 (2.09%) Informatica
8 8 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.83%) UiPath
9 7 (1.83%) VMware
10 6 (1.57%) Splunk
11 4 (1.04%) F5
11 4 (1.04%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.04%) Siemens
11 4 (1.04%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.78%) Databricks
12 3 (0.78%) Hotjar
13 2 (0.52%) Cvent
13 2 (0.52%) YouTube