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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 298 267
Rank change year-on-year -36 -31 -99
Permanent jobs citing People Management 632 477 758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.96% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.08% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 400 282 340
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £33,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £102,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +4.88% -3.91%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -46 550 £60,050 -16.60% 901
UK excluding London -18 442 £55,000 -14.73% 512
Work from Home -2 203 £72,113 -3.85% 350
London -73 155 £88,750 +7.58% 486
South East -23 118 £65,000 +3.17% 141
North of England -52 117 £55,000 -18.52% 129
North West -18 66 £45,000 -35.08% 81
Midlands -26 65 £45,000 -37.93% 71
South West -39 53 £55,000 - 47
West Midlands -39 36 £51,250 -29.31% 40
East of England -13 34 £60,100 +14.48% 26
North East -33 34 £70,000 +7.69% 11
East Midlands -22 29 £45,000 -37.93% 31
Wales -58 26 £35,000 -2.78% 24
Scotland +29 22 £55,000 -26.17% 54
Yorkshire -57 17 £50,000 -25.93% 39
Northern Ireland -80 7 £63,750 - 21

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 23 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.11%) SAS
3 4 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.63%) CMS
3 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 39 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.11%) Acrobat
5 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.11%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.63%) Visualfiles
4 2 (0.32%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.32%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.32%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.16%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.16%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 81 (12.82%) Azure
2 58 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (8.39%) SaaS
4 44 (6.96%) AWS
5 25 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (3.80%) Power Platform
7 17 (2.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 16 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 14 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (1.74%) IaaS
13 10 (1.58%) GCP
14 8 (1.27%) GitHub
14 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.11%) OneDrive
16 6 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.69%) Firewall
2 13 (2.06%) Network Security
3 10 (1.58%) DNS
4 9 (1.42%) VLAN
5 8 (1.27%) VPN
6 6 (0.95%) VoIP
7 5 (0.79%) DHCP
7 5 (0.79%) SSH
7 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.63%) HTTP
8 4 (0.63%) Internet
8 4 (0.63%) PBX
8 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.47%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.47%) DKIM
9 3 (0.47%) DMARC
9 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.32%) NAS
10 2 (0.32%) SAN
10 2 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.53%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.37%) Power BI
3 13 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.58%) Tableau
5 7 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.63%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.47%) Metadata
7 3 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.32%) Big Data
8 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.32%) Redis
9 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.16%) GIS
Development Applications
1 30 (4.75%) Git
2 21 (3.32%) JIRA
3 9 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.27%) Postman
5 5 (0.79%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.79%) GitLab
5 5 (0.79%) Selenium
6 4 (0.63%) IntelliJ
6 4 (0.63%) Maven
6 4 (0.63%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.47%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.47%) Gatling
7 3 (0.47%) JMeter
7 3 (0.47%) Newman
8 2 (0.32%) RSpec
8 2 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.16%) Mocha
9 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 231 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 178 (28.16%) Finance
3 72 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.34%) Retail
5 52 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (8.07%) Legal
7 45 (7.12%) Marketing
8 38 (6.01%) Law
9 33 (5.22%) Manufacturing
10 32 (5.06%) Aerospace
11 26 (4.11%) Public Sector
12 25 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.85%) Banking
14 17 (2.69%) Telecoms
15 15 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (2.06%) Electronics
17 9 (1.42%) Billing
18 8 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (1.11%) Publishing
20 5 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 132 (20.89%) Lead
2 95 (15.03%) Senior
3 44 (6.96%) Team Leader
4 42 (6.65%) Service Manager
5 40 (6.33%) Developer
6 35 (5.54%) Software Engineer
7 32 (5.06%) Engineering Manager
8 31 (4.91%) Senior Manager
9 30 (4.75%) IT Manager
9 30 (4.75%) Principal Engineer
10 29 (4.59%) Data Manager
11 26 (4.11%) Data Centre Manager
11 26 (4.11%) Lead Developer
12 22 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
13 20 (3.16%) Operations Manager
13 20 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
14 19 (3.01%) Support Manager
15 18 (2.85%) Architect
15 18 (2.85%) Development Manager
16 15 (2.37%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.22%) REST
2 27 (4.27%) .NET
3 18 (2.85%) React
4 17 (2.69%) Terraform
5 14 (2.22%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.22%) Blazor
6 12 (1.90%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.90%) gRPC
7 10 (1.58%) EDI
7 10 (1.58%) HTML
7 10 (1.58%) Spring
8 9 (1.42%) Kafka
9 8 (1.27%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.11%) Node.js
10 7 (1.11%) Playwright
11 6 (0.95%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (0.79%) RESTful
13 4 (0.63%) NestJS
13 4 (0.63%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.34%) Onboarding
2 51 (8.07%) Management Information System
3 38 (6.01%) Driving Licence
4 29 (4.59%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.90%) IoT
9 11 (1.74%) Life Science
10 10 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.58%) NHS
11 8 (1.27%) Podcast
12 7 (1.11%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.79%) CCTV
14 5 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.79%) Media Streaming
14 5 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.54%) Windows
2 14 (2.22%) Linux
3 11 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.58%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.47%) Android
7 2 (0.32%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.16%) Unix
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (30.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 156 (24.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 142 (22.47%) Coaching
4 136 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (20.73%) Mentoring
6 117 (18.51%) Decision-Making
7 110 (17.41%) Technical Leadership
8 106 (16.77%) Agile
9 104 (16.46%) Service Delivery
10 97 (15.35%) Software Engineering
11 86 (13.61%) AI
12 85 (13.45%) Line Management
13 74 (11.71%) Roadmaps
14 68 (10.76%) DevOps
15 67 (10.60%) Performance Management
16 65 (10.28%) Customer Experience
17 59 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
17 59 (9.34%) Project Delivery
18 57 (9.02%) CI/CD
19 55 (8.70%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 49 (7.75%) SQL
2 32 (5.06%) Java
3 30 (4.75%) C#
4 29 (4.59%) Python
5 22 (3.48%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.01%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.27%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.95%) Bicep
9 4 (0.63%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.63%) C++
9 4 (0.63%) Go
9 4 (0.63%) PHP
9 4 (0.63%) Ruby
9 4 (0.63%) SOQL
10 3 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.32%) C
11 2 (0.32%) VBA
12 1 (0.16%) Bash
12 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 96 (15.19%) Degree
2 43 (6.80%) Security Cleared
3 30 (4.75%) SC Cleared
4 28 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.80%) ACCA
6 23 (3.64%) CIMA
7 17 (2.69%) Chartered Engineer
8 16 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (2.37%) Master's Degree
10 14 (2.22%) CIPD
10 14 (2.22%) DBS Check
11 13 (2.06%) CISM
12 12 (1.90%) CISSP
13 11 (1.74%) HNC
13 11 (1.74%) HND
13 11 (1.74%) MBA
14 9 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.27%) DV Cleared
16 7 (1.11%) ICAEW
17 6 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (6.49%) QA
3 31 (4.91%) SLA
4 22 (3.48%) GDPR
5 18 (2.85%) ISO 9001
6 17 (2.69%) ISO 14000
7 12 (1.90%) GRC
8 10 (1.58%) NIST
9 9 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.27%) ISO 14001
11 5 (0.79%) COBIT
11 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.79%) PMO
11 5 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.63%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.63%) IFRS
13 3 (0.47%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.47%) TickIT
14 2 (0.32%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 19 (3.01%) Docker
2 14 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.06%) Firmware
4 10 (1.58%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.47%) vSphere
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.32%) Snort
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (1.74%) Ansible
4 7 (1.11%) Grafana
5 5 (0.79%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.47%) cPanel
6 3 (0.47%) Plesk
7 2 (0.32%) Argo
7 2 (0.32%) Autotask
7 2 (0.32%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.32%) Packer
7 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.32%) SCCM
7 2 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.16%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 130 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 23 (3.64%) Salesforce
3 19 (3.01%) VMware
4 16 (2.53%) Sage
5 15 (2.37%) Google
6 14 (2.22%) Adobe
7 13 (2.06%) YouTube
8 12 (1.90%) Cisco
9 7 (1.11%) Databricks
10 5 (0.79%) Juniper
10 5 (0.79%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.79%) Workday
11 4 (0.63%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.63%) Meraki
11 4 (0.63%) Oracle
11 4 (0.63%) Veeam
11 4 (0.63%) Xero
12 3 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.47%) Datto
12 3 (0.47%) OneTrust