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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 303 259
Rank change year-on-year -24 -44 -86
Permanent jobs citing People Management 647 467 757
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.94% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.06% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 405 276 338
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £33,450
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 £118,750 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £64,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -18.60% +4.88% -3.59%

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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 5 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 5 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 -41 565 £60,000 -16.67% 1,000
UK excluding London +6 455 £52,500 -18.60% 736
Work from Home +7 203 £71,725 -4.37% 611
London -82 157 £88,750 +8.90% 444
South East -3 125 £65,000 -9.41% 178
North of England -26 121 £52,500 -22.22% 150
North West -18 68 £45,000 -35.08% 82
Midlands -28 66 £45,000 -37.93% 93
South West -37 53 £55,000 - 75
West Midlands -27 36 £51,250 -29.31% 53
East of England -18 35 £60,050 +14.38% 59
North East -28 35 £62,500 -3.85% 23
East Midlands -26 30 £45,000 -36.84% 40
Wales -53 25 £35,000 -2.78% 53
Scotland +18 23 £53,481 -28.21% 112
Yorkshire -63 18 £50,000 -25.93% 46
Northern Ireland -76 7 £63,750 - 20

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 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.08%) SAS
3 4 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 4 (0.62%) CMS
3 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 40 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.08%) Acrobat
5 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.08%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.46%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.31%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.31%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.15%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 81 (12.52%) Azure
2 57 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (7.88%) SaaS
4 43 (6.65%) AWS
5 24 (3.71%) Power Platform
6 23 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 16 (2.47%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (2.47%) Entra ID
9 15 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (1.70%) IaaS
13 10 (1.55%) GCP
14 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.24%) GitHub
16 7 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.08%) OneDrive
17 6 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.78%) Firewall
2 14 (2.16%) Network Security
3 10 (1.55%) DNS
4 9 (1.39%) VLAN
5 8 (1.24%) VPN
6 6 (0.93%) VoIP
7 5 (0.77%) DHCP
7 5 (0.77%) Internet
7 5 (0.77%) SSH
7 5 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.62%) HTTP
8 4 (0.62%) PBX
8 4 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
9 3 (0.46%) DKIM
9 3 (0.46%) DMARC
9 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.31%) NAS
10 2 (0.31%) SAN
10 2 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.47%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.32%) Power BI
3 13 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (1.55%) Tableau
5 7 (1.08%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.08%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.62%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.46%) Metadata
7 3 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.31%) Big Data
8 2 (0.31%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.31%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.31%) Redis
9 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
Development Applications
1 29 (4.48%) Git
2 21 (3.25%) JIRA
3 9 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.24%) Postman
5 5 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.77%) GitLab
5 5 (0.77%) Selenium
6 4 (0.62%) IntelliJ
6 4 (0.62%) Maven
6 4 (0.62%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.46%) Gatling
7 3 (0.46%) JMeter
7 3 (0.46%) Newman
8 2 (0.31%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.31%) RSpec
8 2 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.15%) Mocha
9 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
General
1 234 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 185 (28.59%) Finance
3 71 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.58%) Retail
5 52 (8.04%) Legal
6 51 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (6.96%) Marketing
8 37 (5.72%) Law
9 35 (5.41%) Aerospace
9 35 (5.41%) Manufacturing
10 26 (4.02%) Public Sector
11 25 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.78%) Banking
13 17 (2.63%) Telecoms
14 15 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (2.01%) Electronics
16 9 (1.39%) Billing
17 8 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.24%) Publishing
18 6 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (20.71%) Lead
2 100 (15.46%) Senior
3 44 (6.80%) Team Leader
4 42 (6.49%) Service Manager
5 40 (6.18%) Developer
6 35 (5.41%) Software Engineer
7 33 (5.10%) Senior Manager
8 31 (4.79%) Engineering Manager
8 31 (4.79%) IT Manager
8 31 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (4.48%) Data Manager
10 26 (4.02%) Data Centre Manager
10 26 (4.02%) Lead Developer
11 23 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
12 19 (2.94%) Operations Manager
12 19 (2.94%) Support Manager
13 18 (2.78%) Development Manager
14 17 (2.63%) Architect
15 15 (2.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.10%) REST
2 27 (4.17%) .NET
3 18 (2.78%) React
4 17 (2.63%) Terraform
5 14 (2.16%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.16%) Blazor
6 12 (1.85%) .NET Core
6 12 (1.85%) gRPC
7 10 (1.55%) EDI
7 10 (1.55%) HTML
7 10 (1.55%) Spring
8 9 (1.39%) Kafka
9 8 (1.24%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.08%) Node.js
10 7 (1.08%) Playwright
11 6 (0.93%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (0.77%) RESTful
13 4 (0.62%) NestJS
13 4 (0.62%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.27%) Onboarding
2 53 (8.19%) Management Information System
3 39 (6.03%) Driving Licence
4 29 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.32%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.85%) IoT
9 11 (1.70%) Life Science
10 10 (1.55%) NHS
11 9 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.24%) Podcast
13 7 (1.08%) Biopharmaceutical
13 7 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.93%) CCTV
14 6 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
14 6 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.93%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.77%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (5.10%) Windows
2 13 (2.01%) Linux
3 11 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.55%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.46%) Android
7 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (30.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 161 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 145 (22.41%) Coaching
4 142 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (21.17%) Mentoring
6 116 (17.93%) Decision-Making
7 113 (17.47%) Technical Leadership
8 106 (16.38%) Service Delivery
9 105 (16.23%) Agile
10 96 (14.84%) Software Engineering
11 89 (13.76%) AI
12 83 (12.83%) Line Management
13 77 (11.90%) Roadmaps
14 70 (10.82%) Performance Management
15 67 (10.36%) Customer Experience
16 66 (10.20%) DevOps
17 61 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
18 60 (9.27%) Project Delivery
19 57 (8.81%) Commercial Awareness
19 57 (8.81%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 48 (7.42%) SQL
2 31 (4.79%) Java
3 30 (4.64%) C#
3 30 (4.64%) Python
4 22 (3.40%) TypeScript
5 19 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.24%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.93%) Bicep
8 5 (0.77%) C++
9 4 (0.62%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.62%) Go
9 4 (0.62%) PHP
9 4 (0.62%) Ruby
9 4 (0.62%) SOQL
10 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) C
11 2 (0.31%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 100 (15.46%) Degree
2 41 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 31 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.71%) ACCA
6 23 (3.55%) CIMA
7 21 (3.25%) Chartered Engineer
8 16 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.16%) CIPD
9 14 (2.16%) DBS Check
10 13 (2.01%) CISM
11 12 (1.85%) CISSP
12 11 (1.70%) HNC
12 11 (1.70%) HND
12 11 (1.70%) MBA
13 9 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.24%) DV Cleared
15 7 (1.08%) ICAEW
16 6 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 41 (6.34%) QA
3 32 (4.95%) SLA
4 22 (3.40%) GDPR
5 17 (2.63%) ISO 14000
5 17 (2.63%) ISO 9001
6 12 (1.85%) GRC
7 10 (1.55%) NIST
8 9 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.24%) ISO 14001
10 5 (0.77%) COBIT
10 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 5 (0.77%) PMO
10 5 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.62%) IFRS
12 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.46%) TickIT
13 2 (0.31%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 19 (2.94%) Docker
2 14 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.01%) Firmware
4 10 (1.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.46%) vSphere
8 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.31%) Snort
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.16%) Kubernetes
1 14 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.70%) Ansible
3 7 (1.08%) Grafana
4 6 (0.93%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.46%) Autotask
5 3 (0.46%) cPanel
5 3 (0.46%) Plesk
6 2 (0.31%) Argo
6 2 (0.31%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.31%) Packer
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) SCCM
6 2 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 131 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.71%) Salesforce
3 18 (2.78%) VMware
4 16 (2.47%) Sage
5 15 (2.32%) Google
6 14 (2.16%) Adobe
7 13 (2.01%) Cisco
7 13 (2.01%) YouTube
8 7 (1.08%) Databricks
9 6 (0.93%) Workday
10 5 (0.77%) Juniper
10 5 (0.77%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.62%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.62%) Meraki
11 4 (0.62%) Oracle
11 4 (0.62%) Veeam
11 4 (0.62%) Xero
12 3 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.46%) Datto
12 3 (0.46%) OneTrust