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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 263 250
Rank change year-on-year -37 -13 +36
Permanent jobs citing People Management 396 609 710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.66% 1.12% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.24% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 243 302 355
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,066
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £54,375
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 £88,125
90th Percentile £104,750 £107,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +8.48%

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 48,581 48,989 48,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.32% 90.25% 90.41%
Number of salaries quoted 28,539 24,001 36,978
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 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 7 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 -19 360 £70,000 +2.30% 179
UK excluding London -33 245 £62,500 -3.85% 137
Work from Home +72 166 £72,500 +3.57% 68
London -15 121 £80,500 -5.29% 61
North of England -11 80 £66,250 +9.93% 34
South East -23 59 £63,000 -3.08% 49
North West -14 43 £68,000 +23.64% 17
South West +5 42 £55,000 +26.44% 11
Yorkshire +9 35 £67,500 -22.86% 11
Midlands +5 31 £61,500 -23.13% 21
East of England +1 18 £57,500 -17.27% 19
East Midlands +9 17 £43,750 -37.50% 11
West Midlands +2 14 £63,250 -20.94% 10
Wales +5 9 £36,000 -62.11% 4
Scotland -26 6 £70,750 +4.81% 5
North East 0 2 £65,000 +1.96% 6
Northern Ireland -12 2 - - 2

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 5 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.76%) Apache
3 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) CICS
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Drupal
4 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) TPMS
4 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.51%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.51%) InVision
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.51%) Sketch
4 2 (0.51%) Trello
5 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.76%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 2 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.11%) AWS
2 43 (10.86%) Azure
3 39 (9.85%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (8.33%) SaaS
5 17 (4.29%) GCP
6 16 (4.04%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.78%) GitHub
8 10 (2.53%) Figma
9 7 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.52%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.52%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.52%) Slack
11 5 (1.26%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.01%) dbt
12 4 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.01%) Google Analytics
13 3 (0.76%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.27%) Broadband
2 6 (1.52%) Firewall
3 4 (1.01%) BGP
3 4 (1.01%) LAN
3 4 (1.01%) MPLS
3 4 (1.01%) WAN
3 4 (1.01%) Wireless
4 3 (0.76%) Network Security
4 3 (0.76%) 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 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.28%) Power BI
2 6 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 6 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.01%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.76%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.51%) Tableau
7 1 (0.25%) DB2
7 1 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (1.52%) JIRA
2 5 (1.26%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.26%) Selenium
3 4 (1.01%) GitLab
4 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.25%) Git
General
1 135 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 117 (29.55%) Finance
3 50 (12.63%) Legal
4 44 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.85%) Retail
6 27 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.31%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (6.06%) Back Office
9 23 (5.81%) Law
10 19 (4.80%) Marketing
11 17 (4.29%) Manufacturing
12 14 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (3.54%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.78%) Banking
14 10 (2.53%) Financial Institution
15 9 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.77%) Local Government
17 5 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (1.01%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 79 (19.95%) Lead
2 51 (12.88%) Senior
3 30 (7.58%) Engineering Manager
4 25 (6.31%) IT Manager
5 24 (6.06%) Analyst
5 24 (6.06%) Desktop Engineer
5 24 (6.06%) Desktop Support
5 24 (6.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 24 (6.06%) Site Engineer
5 24 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 22 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 22 (5.56%) Team Leader
7 18 (4.55%) Business Analyst
7 18 (4.55%) Development Manager
8 15 (3.79%) Delivery Manager
9 14 (3.54%) Infrastructure Manager
9 14 (3.54%) Project Manager
9 14 (3.54%) Service Manager
10 13 (3.28%) Lead Business Analyst
11 12 (3.03%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.04%) .NET
2 15 (3.79%) React
3 8 (2.02%) Node.js
4 7 (1.77%) Spring
4 7 (1.77%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.26%) Micronaut
6 3 (0.76%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.76%) CSS
6 3 (0.76%) EDI
6 3 (0.76%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.76%) HTML
6 3 (0.76%) Pandas
6 3 (0.76%) REST
7 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.51%) JSON
7 2 (0.51%) Kafka
7 2 (0.51%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (0.51%) RxJava
7 2 (0.51%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 15 (3.79%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.26%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.26%) NHS
10 5 (1.26%) Social Media
11 4 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.01%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.76%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.59%) Windows
2 24 (6.06%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.26%) Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 82 (20.71%) Agile
3 72 (18.18%) Coaching
3 72 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 64 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (15.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 56 (14.14%) Project Delivery
7 55 (13.89%) Customer Service
7 55 (13.89%) Project Management
8 54 (13.64%) Service Delivery
9 52 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (12.63%) Analytics
11 48 (12.12%) Roadmaps
12 46 (11.62%) Line Management
13 43 (10.86%) Decision-Making
14 41 (10.35%) Risk Management
15 36 (9.09%) ITIL
16 35 (8.84%) Change Management
16 35 (8.84%) Patch Management
16 35 (8.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.34%) Python
2 25 (6.31%) SQL
3 21 (5.30%) C#
4 16 (4.04%) Java
5 12 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.01%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.76%) R
10 1 (0.25%) Ada
10 1 (0.25%) Bash
10 1 (0.25%) C
10 1 (0.25%) C++
10 1 (0.25%) PHP
10 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (12.88%) Degree
2 45 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.06%) CTC Cleared
5 16 (4.04%) CISM
5 16 (4.04%) CISSP
6 12 (3.03%) CRISC
7 11 (2.78%) CIPD
8 10 (2.53%) CISA
9 8 (2.02%) ACCA
9 8 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.02%) CIMA
9 8 (2.02%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.76%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.51%) CIPFA
11 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.85%) SLA
2 28 (7.07%) QA
3 17 (4.29%) Data Quality
4 15 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (2.78%) GDPR
6 11 (2.78%) PMO
7 6 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (1.01%) GAAP
8 4 (1.01%) GRC
8 4 (1.01%) IFRS
9 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.25%) FINRA
10 1 (0.25%) NIST
10 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (2.78%) Docker
2 7 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.26%) Firmware
4 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.25%) RACF
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (3.79%) Terraform
2 11 (2.78%) Grafana
3 10 (2.53%) Kubernetes
4 9 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.02%) Ansible
6 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) QRadar
7 1 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.08%) Cisco
3 14 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.28%) Google
5 11 (2.78%) Adobe
6 10 (2.53%) SAP
7 7 (1.77%) VMware
8 6 (1.52%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.52%) Oracle
8 6 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.52%) Splunk
9 5 (1.26%) Databricks
9 5 (1.26%) UiPath
10 4 (1.01%) F5
10 4 (1.01%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.01%) Siemens
10 4 (1.01%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.76%) Informatica
12 2 (0.51%) Criteo
12 2 (0.51%) Foundry