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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 295 292
Rank change year-on-year -123 -3 -119
Permanent jobs citing People Management 381 483 951
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.01% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.11% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 274 269 595
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £33,640
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £72,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,875 £120,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -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 71,870 43,651 85,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.67% 90.86% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49,673 24,244 60,243
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 7 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 7 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 -124 337 £62,500 -13.19% 289
UK excluding London -111 251 £55,000 -18.52% 207
Work from Home -23 142 £72,500 -6.45% 198
London -57 113 £90,000 +2.86% 130
North of England -72 60 £62,500 -9.83% 49
Midlands -31 56 £43,750 -39.66% 38
South East -76 56 £57,500 -20.69% 50
North West -19 42 £55,000 -20.65% 24
West Midlands -41 31 £60,000 -17.24% 21
East of England -7 28 £60,100 -3.06% 19
East Midlands -13 25 £42,500 -39.29% 17
Scotland +13 18 £55,000 -20.00% 18
South West -64 17 £55,000 -17.13% 17
North East - 15 £62,500 - 9
Wales -45 13 £47,500 +33.80% 8
Northern Ireland -49 3 £63,750 - 9
Yorkshire -56 3 £76,250 +12.96% 17

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 16 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.05%) CMS
3 3 (0.79%) Drupal
3 3 (0.79%) SAS
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.05%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.26%) InVision
7 1 (0.26%) Sketch
7 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.10%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.31%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.52%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.52%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.52%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.26%) Maximo
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.17%) Azure
2 30 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (7.87%) SaaS
3 27 (7.09%) AWS
4 26 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 17 (4.46%) Figma
6 13 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.57%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.57%) Slack
8 5 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (1.31%) GCP
8 5 (1.31%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 4 (1.05%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.05%) Google Sheets
9 4 (1.05%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.46%) Broadband
2 9 (2.36%) Network Security
3 5 (1.31%) DNS
3 5 (1.31%) Firewall
3 5 (1.31%) VoIP
4 4 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.79%) DKIM
5 3 (0.79%) DMARC
5 3 (0.79%) PBX
5 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.79%) VLAN
6 2 (0.52%) Intranet
6 2 (0.52%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) FTP
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) SMTP
7 1 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.30%) Power BI
2 11 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.36%) Tableau
4 7 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.79%) Looker
6 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.52%) Metadata
7 2 (0.52%) Redis
7 2 (0.52%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (3.41%) JIRA
2 10 (2.62%) Git
3 4 (1.05%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 105 (27.56%) Finance
3 54 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.61%) Retail
5 23 (6.04%) Law
6 22 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (4.72%) Banking
8 18 (4.72%) Marketing
8 18 (4.72%) Public Sector
9 17 (4.46%) Aerospace
10 15 (3.94%) Legal
11 12 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.36%) Back Office
12 9 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.36%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.10%) Advertising
14 7 (1.84%) Billing
14 7 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (22.57%) Lead
2 60 (15.75%) Senior
3 32 (8.40%) Team Leader
4 24 (6.30%) Data Manager
4 24 (6.30%) Engineering Manager
5 22 (5.77%) Developer
5 22 (5.77%) Senior Manager
6 21 (5.51%) IT Manager
7 16 (4.20%) Support Manager
8 15 (3.94%) Lead Developer
9 14 (3.67%) Data Centre Manager
9 14 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
10 13 (3.41%) Architect
11 12 (3.15%) IT Support
12 11 (2.89%) Infrastructure Manager
13 10 (2.62%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (2.36%) Operations Manager
14 9 (2.36%) Principal Developer
14 9 (2.36%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 8 (2.10%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.67%) .NET
2 7 (1.84%) .NET Core
3 5 (1.31%) React
3 5 (1.31%) Spring
4 4 (1.05%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.05%) Blazor
4 4 (1.05%) gRPC
4 4 (1.05%) REST
5 3 (0.79%) CSS
5 3 (0.79%) HTML
5 3 (0.79%) Kafka
5 3 (0.79%) LangChain
5 3 (0.79%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (0.79%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.52%) J2EE
6 2 (0.52%) NestJS
6 2 (0.52%) Node.js
6 2 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.26%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.26%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.09%) Onboarding
2 26 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 20 (5.25%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.46%) Driving Licence
5 16 (4.20%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.94%) Data Centre
7 14 (3.67%) Mobile App
8 12 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.36%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (2.36%) NHS
11 8 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Licensing
12 5 (1.31%) Mobile Computing
13 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.79%) Culture of Ownership
14 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
15 2 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.99%) Windows
2 7 (1.84%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.57%) Linux
4 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.79%) Unix
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (27.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 85 (22.31%) Mentoring
3 83 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (21.00%) Line Management
5 76 (19.95%) Coaching
6 71 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 70 (18.37%) Agile
8 66 (17.32%) Software Engineering
8 66 (17.32%) Technical Leadership
9 54 (14.17%) Decision-Making
10 52 (13.65%) Service Delivery
11 49 (12.86%) AI
12 48 (12.60%) DevOps
13 47 (12.34%) Project Delivery
14 44 (11.55%) Customer Experience
15 38 (9.97%) Project Management
16 37 (9.71%) CI/CD
16 37 (9.71%) Roadmaps
17 36 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
18 34 (8.92%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (10.24%) SQL
2 25 (6.56%) Python
3 16 (4.20%) Java
4 12 (3.15%) C#
4 12 (3.15%) TypeScript
5 5 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.79%) ABAP
7 2 (0.52%) Bash
7 2 (0.52%) C++
7 2 (0.52%) VBA
8 1 (0.26%) Bicep
8 1 (0.26%) Go
8 1 (0.26%) Perl
8 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 61 (16.01%) Degree
2 25 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.46%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.94%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.36%) ACCA
6 9 (2.36%) CIMA
7 8 (2.10%) CIPD
7 8 (2.10%) CISM
7 8 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.84%) Chartered Engineer
8 7 (1.84%) CISSP
8 7 (1.84%) HNC
8 7 (1.84%) HND
8 7 (1.84%) ICAEW
8 7 (1.84%) PMP
9 5 (1.31%) CRISC
10 4 (1.05%) CISA
10 4 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (4.20%) ISO 9001
3 14 (3.67%) NIST
4 12 (3.15%) GDPR
4 12 (3.15%) QA
5 10 (2.62%) ISO 14000
6 8 (2.10%) COBIT
6 8 (2.10%) PCI DSS
6 8 (2.10%) SLA
7 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.57%) PMO
9 5 (1.31%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.31%) ISO 14001
9 5 (1.31%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.05%) GRC
11 3 (0.79%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.79%) ITGC
11 3 (0.79%) TickIT
12 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (1.84%) Docker
2 5 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.31%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.52%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.36%) Terraform
3 4 (1.05%) Ansible
3 4 (1.05%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.79%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.79%) cPanel
4 3 (0.79%) Plesk
4 3 (0.79%) Puppet
5 2 (0.52%) Argo
5 2 (0.52%) Salt
5 2 (0.52%) SCCM
5 2 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.26%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 62 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.77%) Adobe
3 15 (3.94%) Google
4 10 (2.62%) Oracle
5 9 (2.36%) Cisco
5 9 (2.36%) VMware
6 6 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.31%) Informatica
7 5 (1.31%) Juniper
7 5 (1.31%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.31%) SAP
8 4 (1.05%) Databricks
8 4 (1.05%) Meraki
8 4 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.05%) Xero
9 3 (0.79%) Datto
9 3 (0.79%) Hotjar
9 3 (0.79%) Infor
9 3 (0.79%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.79%) WatchGuard