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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 262 250
Rank change year-on-year -41 -12 +37
Permanent jobs citing People Management 392 597 710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.12% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.23% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 245 300 359
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,900
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,315 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +9.17%

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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -31 359 £70,000 +0.99% 386
UK excluding London -40 243 £62,500 -3.85% 384
Work from Home +83 169 £72,500 +3.57% 151
London -14 121 £81,500 -4.12% 50
North of England -14 80 £66,250 +8.41% 72
South East -8 62 £62,500 -3.85% 117
North West -15 43 £68,000 +23.64% 32
South West +11 42 £55,000 +14.94% 49
Yorkshire +7 35 £67,500 -28.00% 29
Midlands +4 28 £61,500 -23.13% 53
East of England +4 17 £57,500 -17.27% 62
East Midlands -1 16 £57,500 -17.86% 34
West Midlands -3 12 £63,250 -20.94% 18
Wales +7 8 £60,500 -36.32% 20
Scotland -14 6 £70,750 +4.81% 14
North East +5 2 £65,000 +1.96% 11
Northern Ireland -19 2 - - 9

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 6 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.77%) Apache
3 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.51%) CMS
4 2 (0.51%) Drupal
5 1 (0.26%) CICS
5 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.26%) TPMS
5 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (9.18%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.77%) Trello
5 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.51%) InVision
5 2 (0.51%) Sketch
6 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.77%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 2 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.48%) AWS
2 42 (10.71%) Azure
3 39 (9.95%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (8.67%) SaaS
5 19 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.59%) GCP
7 11 (2.81%) GitHub
8 10 (2.55%) Figma
9 7 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.79%) Power Automate
9 7 (1.79%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.53%) Slack
10 6 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.02%) dbt
11 4 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.77%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.30%) Broadband
2 6 (1.53%) Firewall
3 4 (1.02%) BGP
3 4 (1.02%) LAN
3 4 (1.02%) MPLS
3 4 (1.02%) WAN
3 4 (1.02%) Wireless
4 3 (0.77%) Network Security
4 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.51%) DHCP
5 2 (0.51%) DNS
5 2 (0.51%) Internet
5 2 (0.51%) SAN
5 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.08%) Power BI
2 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
2 7 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.28%) BigQuery
3 5 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.77%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.51%) Tableau
7 1 (0.26%) DB2
7 1 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.26%) Looker
7 1 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (1.79%) JIRA
2 5 (1.28%) GitLab
2 5 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.28%) Selenium
3 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.26%) Git
General
1 132 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 116 (29.59%) Finance
3 51 (13.01%) Legal
4 41 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.18%) Retail
6 28 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (6.38%) Law
9 24 (6.12%) Back Office
10 18 (4.59%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.57%) Marketing
11 14 (3.57%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.81%) Banking
12 11 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.55%) Financial Institution
14 8 (2.04%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.79%) Local Government
16 6 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 77 (19.64%) Lead
2 50 (12.76%) Senior
3 30 (7.65%) Engineering Manager
4 25 (6.38%) IT Manager
5 24 (6.12%) Desktop Engineer
5 24 (6.12%) Desktop Support
5 24 (6.12%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 24 (6.12%) Site Engineer
5 24 (6.12%) Support Engineer
6 23 (5.87%) Analyst
7 21 (5.36%) Senior Manager
8 20 (5.10%) Team Leader
9 18 (4.59%) Development Manager
10 17 (4.34%) Business Analyst
11 14 (3.57%) Data Manager
11 14 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
12 13 (3.32%) Lead Business Analyst
12 13 (3.32%) Service Manager
13 12 (3.06%) IT Infrastructure Manager
13 12 (3.06%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.08%) .NET
2 15 (3.83%) React
3 8 (2.04%) Node.js
4 7 (1.79%) Spring
4 7 (1.79%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.28%) Micronaut
6 4 (1.02%) CSS
6 4 (1.02%) HTML
7 3 (0.77%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.77%) EDI
7 3 (0.77%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.77%) Pandas
8 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.51%) Kafka
8 2 (0.51%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (0.51%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.51%) Vue
9 1 (0.26%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (0.26%) PySpark
9 1 (0.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.65%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.32%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.04%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.79%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.28%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.28%) Social Media
12 4 (1.02%) NHS
12 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.77%) Derivative
13 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.67%) Windows
2 24 (6.12%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (22.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 79 (20.15%) Agile
3 69 (17.60%) Coaching
3 69 (17.60%) Mentoring
4 63 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (13.52%) Customer Service
6 53 (13.52%) Project Delivery
7 52 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (13.01%) Project Management
8 51 (13.01%) Service Delivery
9 50 (12.76%) Analytics
10 47 (11.99%) Roadmaps
11 45 (11.48%) Line Management
12 42 (10.71%) Decision-Making
13 38 (9.69%) ITIL
13 38 (9.69%) Risk Management
14 36 (9.18%) Change Management
14 36 (9.18%) Software Engineering
15 35 (8.93%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.95%) Python
2 28 (7.14%) SQL
3 21 (5.36%) C#
4 17 (4.34%) Java
5 12 (3.06%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.30%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.02%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.51%) Bash
9 2 (0.51%) R
10 1 (0.26%) ABAP
10 1 (0.26%) Ada
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) PHP
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (12.24%) Degree
2 45 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.12%) CTC Cleared
5 16 (4.08%) CISM
5 16 (4.08%) CISSP
6 13 (3.32%) CIPD
7 12 (3.06%) CRISC
8 10 (2.55%) CISA
9 9 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.04%) ACCA
10 8 (2.04%) CIMA
10 8 (2.04%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.95%) SLA
2 28 (7.14%) QA
3 17 (4.34%) Data Quality
4 16 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (3.06%) GDPR
7 11 (2.81%) PMO
8 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (1.02%) GAAP
9 4 (1.02%) GRC
9 4 (1.02%) IFRS
10 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.26%) FINRA
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) NIST
10 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (3.06%) Docker
2 7 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.28%) Firmware
4 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) RACF
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (4.08%) Terraform
2 11 (2.81%) Grafana
2 11 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.30%) Ansible
3 9 (2.30%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
5 1 (0.26%) QRadar
5 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.16%) Cisco
3 15 (3.83%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.32%) Google
5 11 (2.81%) Adobe
6 10 (2.55%) SAP
7 7 (1.79%) Oracle
7 7 (1.79%) VMware
8 6 (1.53%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.53%) Splunk
8 6 (1.53%) UiPath
9 5 (1.28%) Databricks
10 4 (1.02%) F5
10 4 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.02%) Informatica
10 4 (1.02%) Siemens
10 4 (1.02%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.51%) Foundry
11 2 (0.51%) Workday