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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 287 288
Rank change year-on-year -100 +1 -112
Permanent jobs citing People Management 492 486 755
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.97% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.09% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 336 285 391
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,176 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £83,838 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £119,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -11.54%

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 80,048 44,438 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.13% 88.74% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55,528 25,365 40,468
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,803
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.50% -6.94%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -108 429 £60,000 -16.67% 729
UK excluding London -62 350 £55,000 -18.52% 400
Work from Home -35 160 £72,500 -3.33% 310
London -94 119 £95,000 +11.76% 444
South East -37 91 £65,000 -16.13% 94
North of England -56 89 £62,500 -7.41% 86
Midlands -23 66 £45,000 -37.93% 50
North West -21 48 £55,000 -22.81% 51
South West -50 36 £55,000 - 58
West Midlands -26 34 £44,241 -38.98% 27
East Midlands -9 32 £45,000 -37.93% 23
North East - 32 £62,500 - 10
East of England -11 26 £60,100 +14.48% 38
Scotland +11 24 £53,481 -22.21% 43
Wales -64 14 £45,000 +25.00% 21
Yorkshire -65 9 £65,000 -3.70% 26
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 15

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 22 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (0.81%) CMS
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.81%) SAS
3 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.22%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.61%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.41%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.02%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.20%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.20%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.82%) Azure
2 48 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (8.94%) SaaS
4 31 (6.30%) AWS
5 22 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.86%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (2.24%) IaaS
11 9 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.63%) GCP
13 7 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.42%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
15 5 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 5 (1.02%) GitHub
15 5 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.02%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.83%) DNS
1 9 (1.83%) Firewall
2 8 (1.63%) Network Security
2 8 (1.63%) VLAN
3 7 (1.42%) VPN
4 6 (1.22%) VoIP
5 4 (0.81%) DHCP
5 4 (0.81%) HTTP
5 4 (0.81%) PBX
5 4 (0.81%) SSH
5 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.61%) Broadband
6 3 (0.61%) DKIM
6 3 (0.61%) DMARC
6 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.41%) Intranet
8 1 (0.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) Wireless
8 1 (0.20%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.86%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.05%) Power BI
3 13 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.03%) Tableau
5 4 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.81%) Redis
5 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.61%) Metadata
6 3 (0.61%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.41%) Big Data
7 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.41%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.20%) Flink
8 1 (0.20%) GIS
Development Applications
1 26 (5.28%) Git
2 21 (4.27%) JIRA
3 8 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.22%) Postman
5 4 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.61%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.61%) Gatling
6 3 (0.61%) GitLab
6 3 (0.61%) JMeter
6 3 (0.61%) Maven
6 3 (0.61%) Newman
6 3 (0.61%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.61%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.41%) RSpec
8 1 (0.20%) Mocha
General
1 181 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 141 (28.66%) Finance
3 57 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (8.74%) Legal
6 37 (7.52%) Retail
7 32 (6.50%) Law
8 29 (5.89%) Aerospace
9 25 (5.08%) Marketing
10 21 (4.27%) Public Sector
11 17 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 16 (3.25%) Banking
12 16 (3.25%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.44%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.63%) Billing
15 8 (1.63%) Electronics
16 5 (1.02%) Back Office
16 5 (1.02%) Cantonese Language
16 5 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 103 (20.93%) Lead
2 76 (15.45%) Senior
3 39 (7.93%) Team Leader
4 32 (6.50%) Engineering Manager
5 31 (6.30%) Developer
6 28 (5.69%) Data Manager
7 26 (5.28%) Lead Developer
7 26 (5.28%) Software Engineer
8 25 (5.08%) Data Centre Manager
8 25 (5.08%) Senior Manager
9 24 (4.88%) IT Manager
10 23 (4.67%) Principal Engineer
10 23 (4.67%) Service Manager
11 21 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
12 20 (4.07%) Development Manager
13 18 (3.66%) Operations Manager
14 16 (3.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.85%) Architect
15 14 (2.85%) Delivery Manager
15 14 (2.85%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.88%) .NET
2 23 (4.67%) REST
3 14 (2.85%) ASP.NET
3 14 (2.85%) Blazor
4 13 (2.64%) .NET Core
4 13 (2.64%) Terraform
5 12 (2.44%) gRPC
6 10 (2.03%) React
7 7 (1.42%) HTML
8 6 (1.22%) EDI
9 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.02%) Node.js
9 5 (1.02%) Playwright
9 5 (1.02%) Spring
10 4 (0.81%) XML
11 3 (0.61%) CSS
11 3 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (0.61%) Kafka
11 3 (0.61%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.15%) Onboarding
2 39 (7.93%) Management Information System
3 35 (7.11%) Driving Licence
4 25 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.03%) NHS
9 9 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.42%) IoT
12 6 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.02%) Biopharmaceutical
13 5 (1.02%) CCTV
13 5 (1.02%) Life Science
13 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Licensing
14 4 (0.81%) Blog
14 4 (0.81%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.47%) Windows
2 9 (1.83%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.63%) Linux
4 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.61%) Unix
5 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (27.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 110 (22.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (21.75%) Mentoring
4 106 (21.54%) Coaching
5 103 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (19.31%) Technical Leadership
7 87 (17.68%) Software Engineering
8 86 (17.48%) Agile
9 81 (16.46%) Decision-Making
10 77 (15.65%) Line Management
11 76 (15.45%) Service Delivery
12 75 (15.24%) AI
13 60 (12.20%) DevOps
14 54 (10.98%) Roadmaps
15 52 (10.57%) Project Delivery
16 50 (10.16%) Performance Management
17 49 (9.96%) Project Management
18 48 (9.76%) Commercial Awareness
19 47 (9.55%) CI/CD
20 46 (9.35%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.35%) SQL
2 26 (5.28%) C#
2 26 (5.28%) Java
3 24 (4.88%) Python
4 14 (2.85%) TypeScript
5 12 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.81%) C++
6 4 (0.81%) Go
7 3 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.61%) Ruby
8 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.41%) Bicep
8 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.41%) SOQL
8 2 (0.41%) VBA
9 1 (0.20%) Bash
9 1 (0.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 86 (17.48%) Degree
2 32 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (5.89%) Security Cleared
4 20 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.66%) ACCA
5 18 (3.66%) Chartered Engineer
6 17 (3.46%) CIMA
7 13 (2.64%) CIPD
7 13 (2.64%) DBS Check
7 13 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (2.24%) HNC
8 11 (2.24%) HND
8 11 (2.24%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.83%) MBA
10 7 (1.42%) CISM
10 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.42%) ICAEW
10 7 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.42%) PMP
11 5 (1.02%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (7.72%) QA
3 29 (5.89%) SLA
4 24 (4.88%) ISO 9001
5 21 (4.27%) GDPR
6 17 (3.46%) ISO 14000
7 9 (1.83%) NIST
8 8 (1.63%) GRC
8 8 (1.63%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.22%) PMO
10 5 (1.02%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.02%) COBIT
10 5 (1.02%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.81%) IFRS
11 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.61%) TickIT
System Software
1 17 (3.46%) Docker
2 13 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.03%) Firmware
4 7 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.64%) Ansible
2 11 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.03%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.02%) Grafana
5 4 (0.81%) Argo
5 4 (0.81%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.61%) Check_MK
6 3 (0.61%) cPanel
6 3 (0.61%) Plesk
7 2 (0.41%) Bugsnag
7 2 (0.41%) Packer
7 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.41%) Puppet
7 2 (0.41%) Salt
7 2 (0.41%) SCCM
7 2 (0.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 94 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.25%) Google
3 15 (3.05%) Salesforce
4 12 (2.44%) Sage
5 11 (2.24%) Adobe
6 10 (2.03%) VMware
7 8 (1.63%) Cisco
8 5 (1.02%) Juniper
8 5 (1.02%) Oracle
8 5 (1.02%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.81%) Anaplan
9 4 (0.81%) Foundry
9 4 (0.81%) Meraki
9 4 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.81%) Veeam
9 4 (0.81%) Xero
10 3 (0.61%) Acronis
10 3 (0.61%) Infor
10 3 (0.61%) SonicWALL
10 3 (0.61%) WatchGuard