People Management Jobs

People Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited People Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 295 242
Rank change year-on-year +34 -53 +42
Permanent jobs citing People Management 571 910 1,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 0.98% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.13% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 414 550 750
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,439 £32,378
25th Percentile £60,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,315 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.55% -4.17% -

All Process and 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 47,277 80,571 105,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.52% 86.76% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 25,823 58,144 61,428
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,404 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing People Management.

Salary trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 2025. 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 +17 521 £69,315 +6.64% 743
UK excluding London +90 446 £69,315 +20.55% 330
North of England +48 206 £69,315 +20.55% 81
North West +57 183 £69,315 +6.64% 56
Work from Home +15 131 £69,018 +6.18% 350
London -46 117 £80,000 +6.67% 458
South East +81 106 £65,000 +8.33% 94
Midlands +51 62 £71,250 +18.75% 47
West Midlands +54 54 £76,250 +17.31% 31
East of England +52 23 £62,000 +12.73% 40
Yorkshire +20 23 £75,000 +30.43% 19
Scotland +113 22 £67,500 +17.39% 29
South West +65 21 £66,367 +10.61% 32
East Midlands +19 8 £68,750 +44.74% 14
Northern Ireland +40 7 - - 7
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

People Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (2.45%) IIS
2 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.70%) CMS
3 4 (0.70%) Drupal
3 4 (0.70%) SAS
4 2 (0.35%) Confluence
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Mule
5 1 (0.18%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 29 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.18%) Revit
6 1 (0.18%) Simulink
6 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Shopify
2 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.21%) Azure
2 51 (8.93%) AWS
3 38 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (5.08%) SaaS
5 28 (4.90%) Power Platform
6 10 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.58%) Google Analytics
8 7 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (0.88%) GCP
9 5 (0.88%) Serverless
10 4 (0.70%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.70%) Collibra
10 4 (0.70%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.28%) Internet
2 11 (1.93%) LAN
2 11 (1.93%) WAN
3 7 (1.23%) Firewall
4 6 (1.05%) FTP
4 6 (1.05%) HTTP
4 6 (1.05%) Network Security
4 6 (1.05%) SMTP
4 6 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.05%) VPN
5 5 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.53%) Broadband
8 2 (0.35%) VoIP
9 1 (0.18%) PSTN
9 1 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.55%) Power BI
2 21 (3.68%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.10%) Tableau
5 9 (1.58%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.70%) Ataccama
7 4 (0.70%) Metadata
7 4 (0.70%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.53%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.18%) Big Data
10 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.18%) HBase
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.58%) Git
2 7 (1.23%) JIRA
3 3 (0.53%) FitNesse
3 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (0.53%) Selenium
3 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.35%) webpack
5 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Postman
5 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 267 (46.76%) Social Skills
2 143 (25.04%) Finance
3 65 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (8.58%) Retail
5 38 (6.65%) Marketing
6 34 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (5.78%) Banking
8 31 (5.43%) Legal
9 25 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (4.20%) Telecoms
11 18 (3.15%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (2.63%) Law
14 12 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.75%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.58%) Games
16 9 (1.58%) Public Sector
17 5 (0.88%) Advertising
17 5 (0.88%) Brand Awareness
17 5 (0.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 120 (21.02%) Commissioning Manager
2 84 (14.71%) Lead
3 56 (9.81%) Senior
4 34 (5.95%) Service Manager
5 29 (5.08%) Project Manager
6 23 (4.03%) Head of Analytics
6 23 (4.03%) Infrastructure Manager
6 23 (4.03%) Risk Manager
6 23 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
7 22 (3.85%) Data Manager
8 21 (3.68%) Head of IT
8 21 (3.68%) Senior Manager
9 20 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
10 19 (3.33%) IT Manager
10 19 (3.33%) Team Leader
10 19 (3.33%) Technology Risk Manager
11 18 (3.15%) Head of AI
12 15 (2.63%) Integration Manager
12 15 (2.63%) Service Integration Manager
13 13 (2.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.60%) .NET
2 13 (2.28%) React
3 12 (2.10%) CSS
4 10 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 10 (1.75%) HTML
4 10 (1.75%) Web Services
5 9 (1.58%) Vue
6 8 (1.40%) REST
7 6 (1.05%) LDAP
8 5 (0.88%) HTML5
8 5 (0.88%) PySpark
9 4 (0.70%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.70%) jQuery
9 4 (0.70%) Kafka
9 4 (0.70%) Laravel
9 4 (0.70%) RESTful
9 4 (0.70%) XML
10 3 (0.53%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (0.53%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.68%) Management Information System
2 21 (3.68%) Client/Server
3 19 (3.33%) Blockchain
3 19 (3.33%) Robotics
4 18 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.45%) Private Cloud
6 13 (2.28%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.93%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.75%) Digital Media
8 10 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.05%) IoT
11 6 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (0.88%) Derivative
12 5 (0.88%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.88%) Multi-touch
13 4 (0.70%) CMDB
13 4 (0.70%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.45%) Windows
2 6 (1.05%) Android
2 6 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.35%) Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (23.82%) Agile
2 121 (21.19%) Performance Optimisation
3 101 (17.69%) Project Management
4 97 (16.99%) Analytics
5 94 (16.46%) Mentoring
6 81 (14.19%) Project Delivery
7 78 (13.66%) ITIL
8 72 (12.61%) Risk Management
9 67 (11.73%) Coaching
10 65 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (11.21%) Decision-Making
12 62 (10.86%) Performance Management
13 60 (10.51%) Line Management
13 60 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 55 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (9.11%) Roadmaps
16 51 (8.93%) Service Delivery
17 48 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence
17 48 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (8.23%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.20%) Python
2 22 (3.85%) C#
3 19 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 16 (2.80%) SQL
5 14 (2.45%) Java
6 12 (2.10%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.93%) MATLAB
8 8 (1.40%) C++
8 8 (1.40%) PHP
9 7 (1.23%) Bash
9 7 (1.23%) Perl
9 7 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.53%) Swift
11 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.35%) Go
11 2 (0.35%) Ruby
12 1 (0.18%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.18%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 231 (40.46%) Degree
2 132 (23.12%) Master's Degree
3 121 (21.19%) MBA
4 83 (14.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (5.60%) Security Cleared
6 27 (4.73%) SC Cleared
7 24 (4.20%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.45%) CISM
8 14 (2.45%) CISSP
8 14 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.93%) CRISC
10 10 (1.75%) PMP
11 6 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.88%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.70%) PhD
14 3 (0.53%) ACCA
14 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.35%) APMP
15 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.43%) QA
1 31 (5.43%) SLA
2 22 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.33%) ITGC
4 16 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.63%) GDPR
6 13 (2.28%) NIST
7 10 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.05%) IFRS
9 6 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.88%) GRC
11 4 (0.70%) COBIT
11 4 (0.70%) CRD IV
11 4 (0.70%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.53%) PMO
13 2 (0.35%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.35%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 21 (3.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.18%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (1.40%) SCCM
2 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.05%) QRadar
4 5 (0.88%) Terraform
5 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.53%) Control-M
7 2 (0.35%) Marathon
8 1 (0.18%) Autotask
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 95 (16.64%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.50%) Oracle
3 16 (2.80%) Google
4 8 (1.40%) Adobe
4 8 (1.40%) Cisco
5 7 (1.23%) Databricks
5 7 (1.23%) Duck Creek
6 6 (1.05%) Apple
6 6 (1.05%) SAP
6 6 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.05%) Splunk
6 6 (1.05%) VMware
7 5 (0.88%) Dell
7 5 (0.88%) HP
7 5 (0.88%) Yahoo!
8 3 (0.53%) MikroTik
8 3 (0.53%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.35%) TikTok
9 2 (0.35%) WooCommerce