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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 279 271
Rank change year-on-year -79 -8 -28
Permanent jobs citing People Management 379 471 884
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.11% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.19% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 231 271 550
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,140 £39,439
25th Percentile £55,875 £56,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £68,429 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% +9.49% -7.41%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £84,688
90th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +10.61% +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 58,555 39,559 74,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.69% 93.50% 87.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,503 22,222 56,291
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,910 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 16 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 20 March 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 -62 338 £73,000 +5.77% 133
UK excluding London -81 236 £62,500 -5.83% 112
Work from Home +33 168 £77,500 +13.26% 67
London -28 111 £90,000 +12.50% 43
North of England -47 63 £75,000 +9.64% 27
South East -69 55 £57,500 -11.54% 32
Midlands -48 40 £61,500 -15.17% 20
South West -18 37 £60,000 -9.59% 10
North West -26 37 £75,000 +15.38% 16
East Midlands -29 29 £42,500 -37.04% 6
Yorkshire -42 23 £77,500 -11.43% 8
East of England -20 21 £60,100 -3.06% 13
Wales -12 11 £47,500 -46.48% 6
Scotland -30 11 £63,500 -5.93% 4
West Midlands -38 11 £72,500 -9.38% 14
North East -24 3 £66,250 - 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 8 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.06%) CMS
2 4 (1.06%) Drupal
3 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (10.03%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.79%) InVision
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.79%) Sketch
5 2 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.79%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.26%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 38 (10.03%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (9.76%) AWS
2 37 (9.76%) Azure
2 37 (9.76%) SaaS
3 27 (7.12%) Figma
4 22 (5.80%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.96%) GCP
6 10 (2.64%) GitHub
7 9 (2.37%) Slack
7 9 (2.37%) Snowflake
8 7 (1.85%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.85%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.32%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.06%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (1.06%) Vertex AI
11 3 (0.79%) Azure AI
11 3 (0.79%) Contentsquare
11 3 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.86%) Broadband
2 6 (1.58%) Firewall
3 3 (0.79%) BGP
3 3 (0.79%) DNS
3 3 (0.79%) Internet
3 3 (0.79%) LAN
3 3 (0.79%) MPLS
3 3 (0.79%) WAN
3 3 (0.79%) Wireless
4 2 (0.53%) DHCP
4 2 (0.53%) Network Security
4 2 (0.53%) SAN
4 2 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.26%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.28%) Power BI
2 9 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.58%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.32%) BigQuery
4 5 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.79%) Looker
6 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.53%) Metadata
7 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.53%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.26%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.26%) Redis
8 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.11%) JIRA
2 5 (1.32%) Selenium
3 4 (1.06%) GitLab
4 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.53%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
General
1 134 (35.36%) Social Skills
2 106 (27.97%) Finance
3 40 (10.55%) Presentation Skills
4 32 (8.44%) Legal
5 31 (8.18%) Back Office
6 29 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (5.54%) Law
8 19 (5.01%) Marketing
8 19 (5.01%) Retail
9 18 (4.75%) Banking
10 17 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (4.49%) Public Sector
11 12 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.85%) Advertising
13 7 (1.85%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.85%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.32%) Social Housing
15 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (21.64%) Lead
2 59 (15.57%) Senior
3 30 (7.92%) IT Manager
4 24 (6.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 24 (6.33%) Desktop Support
4 24 (6.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 24 (6.33%) Site Engineer
4 24 (6.33%) Support Engineer
5 20 (5.28%) Engineering Manager
5 20 (5.28%) Senior Manager
5 20 (5.28%) Support Manager
6 18 (4.75%) Team Leader
7 15 (3.96%) Developer
7 15 (3.96%) Infrastructure Manager
8 13 (3.43%) Data Manager
9 12 (3.17%) Development Manager
9 12 (3.17%) Head of Operations
9 12 (3.17%) IT Infrastructure Manager
10 10 (2.64%) Data Engineer
10 10 (2.64%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.01%) .NET
2 11 (2.90%) React
3 8 (2.11%) Node.js
4 5 (1.32%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.06%) CSS
5 4 (1.06%) HTML
5 4 (1.06%) Spring
5 4 (1.06%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.79%) LangChain
6 3 (0.79%) Micronaut
6 3 (0.79%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (0.53%) EDI
7 2 (0.53%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.53%) J2EE
7 2 (0.53%) Kafka
7 2 (0.53%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (0.26%) Pandas
8 1 (0.26%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.65%) Onboarding
2 26 (6.86%) Management Information System
3 24 (6.33%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.80%) Mobile App
5 19 (5.01%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.32%) Mobile Computing
9 5 (1.32%) Social Media
10 4 (1.06%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.79%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.79%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.71%) Windows
2 24 (6.33%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.85%) Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (27.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 82 (21.64%) Mentoring
3 77 (20.32%) Coaching
4 75 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (16.36%) Agile
6 59 (15.57%) Customer Experience
6 59 (15.57%) Cybersecurity
7 58 (15.30%) Line Management
8 56 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 53 (13.98%) Analytics
10 52 (13.72%) Software Engineering
11 49 (12.93%) Customer Service
12 43 (11.35%) ITIL
12 43 (11.35%) Service Delivery
13 42 (11.08%) AI
14 40 (10.55%) Project Delivery
15 36 (9.50%) Collaborative Culture
16 34 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (8.71%) CI/CD
17 33 (8.71%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.23%) Python
2 22 (5.80%) SQL
3 18 (4.75%) C#
4 15 (3.96%) Java
5 14 (3.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.58%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.79%) ABAP
8 2 (0.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.26%) Ada
9 1 (0.26%) Go
9 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.26%) Perl
9 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (12.40%) Degree
2 41 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 38 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.33%) CTC Cleared
5 12 (3.17%) CIPD
5 12 (3.17%) CISM
5 12 (3.17%) CISSP
5 12 (3.17%) DBS Check
6 11 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.64%) CISA
8 7 (1.85%) CRISC
9 6 (1.58%) ACCA
9 6 (1.58%) CIMA
10 5 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.06%) OSCP
11 4 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.79%) PMP
13 2 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
13 2 (0.53%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.44%) SLA
2 23 (6.07%) QA
3 21 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.49%) GDPR
5 14 (3.69%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.11%) NIST
8 7 (1.85%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.06%) GAAP
9 4 (1.06%) GRC
9 4 (1.06%) IFRS
9 4 (1.06%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.79%) COBIT
10 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.79%) PMO
11 2 (0.53%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.53%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.53%) ITGC
System Software
1 7 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.32%) Firmware
3 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.90%) Terraform
3 8 (2.11%) Ansible
4 6 (1.58%) Grafana
4 6 (1.58%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.53%) Puppet
6 1 (0.26%) Argo
6 1 (0.26%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.26%) QRadar
6 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 45 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.18%) Cisco
3 25 (6.60%) Adobe
4 21 (5.54%) Google
5 13 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.90%) Oracle
7 10 (2.64%) SAP
8 8 (2.11%) Informatica
8 8 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.11%) VMware
9 7 (1.85%) UiPath
10 5 (1.32%) Foundry
11 4 (1.06%) Siemens
11 4 (1.06%) Splunk
12 3 (0.79%) Databricks
12 3 (0.79%) F5
12 3 (0.79%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.79%) Hotjar
12 3 (0.79%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.79%) Xero