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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 301 317
Rank change year-on-year -103 +16 -110
Permanent jobs citing People Management 367 414 897
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.97% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.04% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 245 232 595
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,124 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,315 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +15.53% -14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,825 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%

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 68,898 39,816 83,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.23% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44,884 20,923 60,289
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,324 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.29% +2.65% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -101 329 £62,500 -9.83% 231
UK excluding London -89 237 £60,000 -11.11% 158
Work from Home +19 148 £70,750 -2.41% 116
London -44 111 £74,500 -8.31% 105
South East -75 53 £57,303 -11.84% 47
North of England -56 49 £75,000 +8.20% 44
Midlands -53 47 £57,500 -20.69% 25
North West -13 36 £90,000 +29.84% 31
South West -40 32 £57,500 -13.36% 13
East of England -11 30 £60,100 -3.06% 16
West Midlands -62 27 £62,500 -13.79% 18
East Midlands -17 20 £42,500 -38.18% 7
Wales -29 14 £47,500 -26.92% 6
Scotland +4 11 £55,000 -8.33% 8
North East - 8 £62,500 - 4
Yorkshire -67 5 £108,000 +44.00% 9
Northern Ireland -36 1 £63,750 - 5

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 10 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.09%) CMS
3 4 (1.09%) Drupal
4 2 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.82%) InVision
4 3 (0.82%) Sketch
5 2 (0.54%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Visualfiles
2 3 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.54%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.54%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.27%) Maximo
4 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 47 (12.81%) Azure
2 40 (10.90%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (7.90%) Power Platform
4 27 (7.36%) SaaS
5 26 (7.08%) Figma
6 25 (6.81%) AWS
7 9 (2.45%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.45%) PowerApps
8 8 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.91%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.63%) GCP
10 6 (1.63%) Slack
11 5 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.09%) GitHub
12 4 (1.09%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.09%) Google Sheets
12 4 (1.09%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.82%) Contentsquare
13 3 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.54%) Broadband
2 6 (1.63%) Network Security
3 4 (1.09%) DNS
3 4 (1.09%) Firewall
3 4 (1.09%) VoIP
4 3 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.54%) DKIM
5 2 (0.54%) DMARC
5 2 (0.54%) Intranet
5 2 (0.54%) PBX
5 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.54%) VLAN
6 1 (0.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.81%) Power BI
2 8 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.63%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.63%) Tableau
5 5 (1.36%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.36%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (0.82%) Looker
6 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.54%) Metadata
7 2 (0.54%) Redis
7 2 (0.54%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 11 (3.00%) JIRA
2 5 (1.36%) Claude Code
2 5 (1.36%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 119 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 89 (24.25%) Finance
3 42 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.90%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (7.08%) Law
6 25 (6.81%) Back Office
7 22 (5.99%) Retail
8 20 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 19 (5.18%) Banking
10 18 (4.90%) Legal
11 17 (4.63%) Marketing
12 14 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (3.00%) Aerospace
15 10 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (2.18%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.91%) Advertising
18 6 (1.63%) Manufacturing
19 5 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (1.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 81 (22.07%) Lead
2 58 (15.80%) Senior
3 30 (8.17%) Team Leader
4 24 (6.54%) Data Manager
5 21 (5.72%) IT Manager
6 20 (5.45%) Developer
6 20 (5.45%) Senior Manager
6 20 (5.45%) Support Manager
7 16 (4.36%) Desktop Engineer
7 16 (4.36%) Desktop Support
7 16 (4.36%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 16 (4.36%) Site Engineer
7 16 (4.36%) Support Engineer
8 13 (3.54%) Engineering Manager
8 13 (3.54%) Lead Developer
9 12 (3.27%) IT Support
9 12 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (2.72%) Data Centre Manager
10 10 (2.72%) Data Engineer
10 10 (2.72%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.27%) .NET
2 5 (1.36%) .NET Core
2 5 (1.36%) Spring
3 3 (0.82%) CSS
3 3 (0.82%) HTML
3 3 (0.82%) Kafka
3 3 (0.82%) LangChain
3 3 (0.82%) Semantic Kernel
3 3 (0.82%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.54%) EDI
4 2 (0.54%) J2EE
4 2 (0.54%) NestJS
4 2 (0.54%) Node.js
4 2 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.27%) MACH
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.27%) SPFx
5 1 (0.27%) XML
5 1 (0.27%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.27%) Onboarding
2 22 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.72%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.72%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.27%) Driving Licence
6 11 (3.00%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.45%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.91%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.63%) NHS
11 5 (1.36%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Licensing
13 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.82%) Culture of Ownership
13 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.45%) Windows
2 16 (4.36%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.63%) Linux
3 6 (1.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (30.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 81 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (21.53%) Mentoring
4 74 (20.16%) Line Management
5 69 (18.80%) Coaching
6 66 (17.98%) Agile
7 59 (16.08%) Software Engineering
8 58 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (15.26%) Customer Experience
10 54 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
11 48 (13.08%) AI
11 48 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
12 45 (12.26%) Analytics
13 43 (11.72%) Project Delivery
13 43 (11.72%) Service Delivery
14 41 (11.17%) DevOps
15 37 (10.08%) Collaborative Culture
15 37 (10.08%) Customer Service
15 37 (10.08%) ITIL
16 36 (9.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.81%) SQL
2 29 (7.90%) Python
3 17 (4.63%) Java
4 10 (2.72%) C#
5 7 (1.91%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.82%) ABAP
8 2 (0.54%) Bash
8 2 (0.54%) C++
8 2 (0.54%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) Go
9 1 (0.27%) Perl
9 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 66 (17.98%) Degree
2 41 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 16 (4.36%) CTC Cleared
5 15 (4.09%) DBS Check
6 9 (2.45%) CIPD
7 7 (1.91%) CISM
7 7 (1.91%) CISSP
7 7 (1.91%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.63%) CISA
8 6 (1.63%) PMP
9 5 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.09%) ACCA
10 4 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.09%) CIMA
10 4 (1.09%) HNC
10 4 (1.09%) HND
10 4 (1.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (7.08%) SLA
3 14 (3.81%) ISO 9001
4 11 (3.00%) GDPR
5 9 (2.45%) NIST
5 9 (2.45%) QA
6 8 (2.18%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.63%) ISO 14000
8 5 (1.36%) Automotive SPICE
8 5 (1.36%) ISO 26262
8 5 (1.36%) PMO
9 4 (1.09%) COBIT
9 4 (1.09%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.09%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.82%) GRC
10 3 (0.82%) ITGC
10 3 (0.82%) TickIT
11 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (1.09%) Hyper-V
1 4 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.82%) Docker
3 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.72%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.18%) Terraform
3 4 (1.09%) Ansible
3 4 (1.09%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.82%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.82%) Puppet
5 2 (0.54%) Argo
5 2 (0.54%) cPanel
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.54%) Plesk
5 2 (0.54%) Salt
5 2 (0.54%) SCCM
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.36%) Adobe
3 24 (6.54%) Cisco
4 18 (4.90%) Google
5 11 (3.00%) Oracle
6 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.91%) Informatica
7 7 (1.91%) UiPath
7 7 (1.91%) VMware
8 5 (1.36%) Foundry
8 5 (1.36%) SAP
9 4 (1.09%) Databricks
9 4 (1.09%) Meraki
9 4 (1.09%) Xero
10 3 (0.82%) Hotjar
10 3 (0.82%) IBM
10 3 (0.82%) Infor
10 3 (0.82%) Juniper
10 3 (0.82%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.82%) Salesforce