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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 300 288
Rank change year-on-year -115 -12 -108
Permanent jobs citing People Management 397 486 863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.99% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.10% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 282 274 509
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £70,000 £61,110
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% +14.55% -12.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £119,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -8.73%

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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 24 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 24 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 -131 347 £62,500 -13.19% 282
UK excluding London -96 271 £55,000 -18.52% 173
Work from Home -26 143 £72,500 -6.45% 121
London -77 104 £95,000 +10.14% 151
North of England -58 67 £62,500 -7.41% 47
South East -56 61 £57,500 -26.98% 43
Midlands -35 60 £45,000 -34.55% 25
North West -24 39 £55,000 -21.04% 28
West Midlands -43 33 £52,500 -19.23% 14
East of England -7 27 £60,100 -3.06% 12
East Midlands -16 27 £42,500 -39.29% 11
North East - 24 £62,500 - 6
South West -57 21 £55,000 -4.35% 17
Scotland +23 19 £55,000 -20.00% 19
Wales -55 12 £47,500 +31.94% 7
Yorkshire -61 4 £65,000 -3.70% 14
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 7

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 18 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.76%) CMS
3 3 (0.76%) SAS
4 2 (0.50%) Drupal
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (6.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.01%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.50%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) InVision
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.26%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.50%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.50%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) Maximo
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.25%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 59 (14.86%) Azure
2 33 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (8.31%) SaaS
3 26 (6.55%) AWS
4 25 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (2.77%) IaaS
7 10 (2.52%) Figma
8 8 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.76%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (1.76%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.26%) GCP
11 4 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 4 (1.01%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.01%) GitHub
11 4 (1.01%) Slack
12 3 (0.76%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.52%) Broadband
2 8 (2.02%) Network Security
3 5 (1.26%) DNS
3 5 (1.26%) Firewall
3 5 (1.26%) VoIP
4 4 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.76%) DKIM
5 3 (0.76%) DMARC
5 3 (0.76%) PBX
5 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.76%) VLAN
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) Intranet
6 2 (0.50%) VPN
7 1 (0.25%) FTP
7 1 (0.25%) LAN
7 1 (0.25%) SMTP
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
7 1 (0.25%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.54%) Power BI
2 12 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.52%) Tableau
4 7 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.76%) Redis
7 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.50%) Looker
7 2 (0.50%) Metadata
7 2 (0.50%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.25%) Big Data
8 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.25%) GIS
8 1 (0.25%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (4.28%) JIRA
2 14 (3.53%) Git
3 3 (0.76%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.25%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) RSpec
General
1 137 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 110 (27.71%) Finance
3 55 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.56%) Retail
5 26 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (5.54%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.29%) Aerospace
8 19 (4.79%) Law
9 17 (4.28%) Banking
9 17 (4.28%) Marketing
10 14 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.27%) Legal
12 12 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 8 (2.02%) Advertising
14 8 (2.02%) Back Office
14 8 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.76%) Billing
15 7 (1.76%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (22.42%) Lead
2 62 (15.62%) Senior
3 32 (8.06%) Team Leader
4 30 (7.56%) Data Manager
5 27 (6.80%) Engineering Manager
6 26 (6.55%) Developer
7 24 (6.05%) Senior Manager
8 23 (5.79%) IT Manager
9 21 (5.29%) Data Centre Manager
10 18 (4.53%) Lead Developer
11 17 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.27%) Architect
12 13 (3.27%) Support Manager
13 12 (3.02%) IT Support
13 12 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
13 12 (3.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.77%) Infrastructure Manager
14 11 (2.77%) Service Manager
15 10 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.52%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.03%) .NET
2 9 (2.27%) REST
3 8 (2.02%) .NET Core
3 8 (2.02%) Blazor
4 7 (1.76%) ASP.NET
4 7 (1.76%) gRPC
5 6 (1.51%) React
6 5 (1.26%) Spring
7 3 (0.76%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.76%) Kafka
7 3 (0.76%) LangChain
7 3 (0.76%) Node.js
7 3 (0.76%) Semantic Kernel
7 3 (0.76%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.50%) CSS
8 2 (0.50%) HTML
8 2 (0.50%) Jakarta EE
8 2 (0.50%) NestJS
8 2 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.50%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.05%) Management Information System
2 27 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 26 (6.55%) Driving Licence
4 21 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.29%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.52%) NHS
9 9 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (2.02%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Licensing
12 5 (1.26%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.76%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
14 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.04%) Windows
2 7 (1.76%) Linux
2 7 (1.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (27.96%) Continuous Improvement
2 90 (22.67%) Mentoring
3 84 (21.16%) Coaching
4 82 (20.65%) Line Management
5 81 (20.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 80 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (19.40%) Technical Leadership
8 73 (18.39%) Agile
9 64 (16.12%) Software Engineering
10 61 (15.37%) Decision-Making
11 57 (14.36%) Service Delivery
12 55 (13.85%) AI
13 52 (13.10%) DevOps
14 49 (12.34%) Project Delivery
15 45 (11.34%) Project Management
16 42 (10.58%) Roadmaps
17 40 (10.08%) Cybersecurity
18 39 (9.82%) CI/CD
19 38 (9.57%) Customer Experience
20 36 (9.07%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.32%) SQL
2 22 (5.54%) Python
3 17 (4.28%) Java
4 14 (3.53%) C#
4 14 (3.53%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.50%) ABAP
6 2 (0.50%) C++
6 2 (0.50%) Ruby
6 2 (0.50%) VBA
7 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.25%) Bash
7 1 (0.25%) Bicep
7 1 (0.25%) Go
7 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 67 (16.88%) Degree
2 27 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (4.53%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.78%) DBS Check
6 12 (3.02%) ACCA
7 11 (2.77%) CIMA
8 10 (2.52%) Chartered Engineer
8 10 (2.52%) CISM
9 8 (2.02%) CISSP
9 8 (2.02%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.76%) HNC
10 7 (1.76%) HND
10 7 (1.76%) ICAEW
10 7 (1.76%) PMP
11 6 (1.51%) CRISC
12 5 (1.26%) CIPD
12 5 (1.26%) CISA
13 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.76%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (4.53%) ISO 9001
3 17 (4.28%) ISO 14000
4 15 (3.78%) NIST
4 15 (3.78%) QA
5 11 (2.77%) GDPR
6 10 (2.52%) SLA
7 8 (2.02%) COBIT
7 8 (2.02%) GRC
7 8 (2.02%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.76%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.51%) PMO
10 5 (1.26%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.26%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.76%) TickIT
12 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (2.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.26%) Firmware
3 5 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.27%) Terraform
3 6 (1.51%) Ansible
3 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.01%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.76%) Argo
5 3 (0.76%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.76%) cPanel
5 3 (0.76%) Plesk
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
6 2 (0.50%) Salt
6 2 (0.50%) SCCM
6 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.25%) Bugsnag
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Packer
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.78%) Adobe
3 12 (3.02%) Google
4 9 (2.27%) Cisco
4 9 (2.27%) VMware
5 8 (2.02%) Oracle
6 6 (1.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.51%) SAP
7 5 (1.26%) Juniper
7 5 (1.26%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.01%) Databricks
8 4 (1.01%) Foundry
8 4 (1.01%) Meraki
8 4 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.76%) Acronis
9 3 (0.76%) Infor
9 3 (0.76%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.76%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.76%) Veeam
9 3 (0.76%) WatchGuard