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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 275 267
Rank change year-on-year -42 -8 -17
Permanent jobs citing People Management 408 542 834
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.11% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.20% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 244 278 506
10th Percentile £45,375 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £52,622 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,315 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +6.64% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,625 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,934 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.62% +11.56% +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 54,345 45,260 66,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.25% 92.54% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,629 22,226 51,183
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.33%

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 February 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 February 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 -30 371 £70,000 +1.64% 491
UK excluding London -68 247 £62,500 -6.62% 387
Work from Home +82 181 £75,000 +11.11% 244
London +9 128 £90,000 +12.50% 152
North of England -40 68 £70,000 +8.61% 77
South East -46 68 £61,250 -5.77% 113
South West -3 39 £53,500 -4.24% 45
Midlands -22 38 £61,500 -23.13% 58
North West -37 36 £75,000 +29.84% 38
Yorkshire -26 29 £70,000 -25.33% 26
East Midlands -2 24 £42,500 -37.04% 24
East of England -6 17 £60,100 -3.06% 66
West Midlands -21 14 £70,000 -12.50% 32
Wales -3 10 £47,500 -50.00% 14
Scotland -25 7 £67,000 -0.74% 16
North East -11 3 £65,000 -11.86% 13
Northern Ireland -33 2 - - 10

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 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.98%) CMS
2 4 (0.98%) Drupal
3 2 (0.49%) Apache
3 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) CICS
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) TPMS
4 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (9.56%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.74%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.74%) InVision
4 3 (0.74%) Sketch
4 3 (0.74%) Trello
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.23%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.74%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) Shopify
3 2 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 44 (10.78%) AWS
2 39 (9.56%) Azure
3 38 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (9.07%) SaaS
5 27 (6.62%) Figma
6 21 (5.15%) Power Platform
7 17 (4.17%) GCP
8 11 (2.70%) GitHub
9 10 (2.45%) Slack
10 9 (2.21%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.96%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.96%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.72%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.23%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.98%) Google Tag Manager
15 3 (0.74%) dbt
15 3 (0.74%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.64%) Broadband
2 7 (1.72%) Firewall
3 4 (0.98%) BGP
3 4 (0.98%) LAN
3 4 (0.98%) MPLS
3 4 (0.98%) WAN
3 4 (0.98%) Wireless
4 3 (0.74%) DNS
4 3 (0.74%) Internet
4 3 (0.74%) Network Security
4 3 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.49%) DHCP
5 2 (0.49%) SAN
5 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.41%) Power BI
2 10 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.23%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.74%) Looker
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.25%) DB2
7 1 (0.25%) Metadata
7 1 (0.25%) Power Query
7 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (2.45%) JIRA
2 5 (1.23%) GitLab
2 5 (1.23%) Selenium
3 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
General
1 136 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 133 (32.60%) Finance
3 48 (11.76%) Legal
4 42 (10.29%) Presentation Skills
5 41 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (7.84%) Retail
7 28 (6.86%) Back Office
8 25 (6.13%) Law
9 22 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (5.39%) Marketing
10 17 (4.17%) Banking
11 16 (3.92%) Public Sector
12 14 (3.43%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.70%) Financial Institution
14 10 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.96%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.23%) Advertising
18 5 (1.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 80 (19.61%) Lead
2 60 (14.71%) Senior
3 31 (7.60%) IT Manager
4 25 (6.13%) Engineering Manager
5 24 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
5 24 (5.88%) Desktop Support
5 24 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 24 (5.88%) Site Engineer
5 24 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 23 (5.64%) Senior Manager
7 20 (4.90%) Support Manager
8 18 (4.41%) Team Leader
9 14 (3.43%) Developer
9 14 (3.43%) Development Manager
9 14 (3.43%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (3.19%) Data Manager
11 12 (2.94%) Analyst
11 12 (2.94%) IT Infrastructure Manager
12 11 (2.70%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.45%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.17%) .NET
2 12 (2.94%) React
3 8 (1.96%) Node.js
4 6 (1.47%) Spring
4 6 (1.47%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.23%) Micronaut
6 4 (0.98%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.98%) CSS
6 4 (0.98%) HTML
7 3 (0.74%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.49%) EDI
8 2 (0.49%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.49%) J2EE
8 2 (0.49%) Kafka
8 2 (0.49%) Pandas
8 2 (0.49%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (0.25%) ADO
9 1 (0.25%) REST
9 1 (0.25%) SAP Fiori
9 1 (0.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 28 (6.86%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.39%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.39%) Mobile App
3 22 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.45%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.96%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.23%) Social Media
8 5 (1.23%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.98%) Cyberattack
9 4 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.09%) Windows
2 24 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 9 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (24.02%) Continuous Improvement
2 80 (19.61%) Mentoring
3 78 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (18.87%) Coaching
5 69 (16.91%) Agile
6 67 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (13.97%) Cybersecurity
8 55 (13.48%) Analytics
8 55 (13.48%) Customer Experience
8 55 (13.48%) Line Management
9 52 (12.75%) Service Delivery
10 50 (12.25%) Customer Service
10 50 (12.25%) Project Management
11 49 (12.01%) Software Engineering
12 41 (10.05%) Roadmaps
13 40 (9.80%) ITIL
14 39 (9.56%) AI
14 39 (9.56%) Collaborative Culture
15 38 (9.31%) Project Delivery
16 35 (8.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.07%) Python
2 23 (5.64%) SQL
3 19 (4.66%) C#
4 15 (3.68%) Java
5 14 (3.43%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 7 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.49%) ABAP
8 2 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.25%) Ada
9 1 (0.25%) Go
9 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.25%) Perl
9 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (10.78%) Degree
1 44 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
4 15 (3.68%) CISM
4 15 (3.68%) CISSP
5 12 (2.94%) CIPD
5 12 (2.94%) CISA
6 11 (2.70%) DBS Check
7 10 (2.45%) CRISC
8 7 (1.72%) ACCA
8 7 (1.72%) CIMA
9 6 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.98%) OSCP
12 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.33%) SLA
2 23 (5.64%) QA
3 17 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.43%) GDPR
5 11 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.45%) PMO
7 5 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.23%) GRC
7 5 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.98%) GAAP
8 4 (0.98%) IFRS
8 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.98%) NIST
9 3 (0.74%) COBIT
9 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.25%) ITGC
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.21%) Docker
2 7 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.23%) Firmware
4 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 16 (3.92%) Terraform
2 10 (2.45%) Grafana
3 9 (2.21%) Ansible
3 9 (2.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.25%) Puppet
5 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.84%) Cisco
3 25 (6.13%) Adobe
4 18 (4.41%) Google
5 15 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.94%) SAP
7 11 (2.70%) Oracle
8 8 (1.96%) Informatica
8 8 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.72%) UiPath
9 7 (1.72%) VMware
10 6 (1.47%) Splunk
11 4 (0.98%) F5
11 4 (0.98%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.98%) Siemens
11 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.74%) Databricks
12 3 (0.74%) Hotjar
13 2 (0.49%) Xero
13 2 (0.49%) YouTube