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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 294 313
Rank change year-on-year -123 +19 -127
Permanent jobs citing People Management 375 456 942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.01% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.10% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 264 247 610
10th Percentile £39,300 £45,305 £33,975
25th Percentile £48,594 £59,875 £46,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +20.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £125,800 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,515 £69,018 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.03% -8.00%

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 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -114 332 £65,000 -9.72% 151
UK excluding London -114 236 £57,515 -16.67% 133
Work from Home +10 144 £72,500 -3.97% 69
London -40 121 £88,750 +1.43% 63
South East -72 56 £57,500 -20.69% 50
North of England -54 52 £65,000 -6.23% 29
Midlands -36 50 £51,250 -29.31% 19
North West -2 40 £75,000 +8.20% 19
East of England 0 30 £60,100 -3.06% 9
West Midlands -47 29 £62,500 -13.79% 10
East Midlands -18 21 £42,500 -38.18% 9
Scotland +9 16 £55,000 -8.33% 8
South West -59 16 £55,000 -17.13% 10
Wales -41 13 £47,500 -26.92% 2
North East - 8 £62,500 - 5
Yorkshire -62 4 £108,000 +57.09% 5
Northern Ireland -30 3 £63,750 - 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 17 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.33%) CMS
4 4 (1.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.07%) Drupal
5 2 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.07%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.80%) InVision
6 3 (0.80%) Sketch
7 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.53%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.33%) Visualfiles
3 3 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.53%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) Maximo
5 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.40%) Azure
2 30 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 29 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (7.47%) AWS
4 28 (7.47%) SaaS
5 26 (6.93%) Figma
6 11 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.87%) Snowflake
8 6 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.60%) GCP
8 6 (1.60%) Slack
9 5 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (1.33%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.33%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.33%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.07%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 4 (1.07%) GitHub
10 4 (1.07%) Google Sheets
10 4 (1.07%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.40%) Broadband
2 9 (2.40%) Network Security
3 5 (1.33%) DNS
3 5 (1.33%) Firewall
3 5 (1.33%) VoIP
4 4 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.80%) DKIM
5 3 (0.80%) DMARC
5 3 (0.80%) PBX
5 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.80%) VLAN
6 2 (0.53%) Intranet
7 1 (0.27%) FTP
7 1 (0.27%) HTTP
7 1 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.27%) LAN
7 1 (0.27%) SMTP
7 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.27%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.93%) Power BI
2 9 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.87%) Tableau
4 6 (1.60%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.07%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.07%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (0.80%) Looker
6 3 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.53%) Metadata
7 2 (0.53%) Redis
7 2 (0.53%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.27%) Flink
Development Applications
1 12 (3.20%) JIRA
2 8 (2.13%) Git
3 5 (1.33%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 109 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 103 (27.47%) Finance
3 54 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.73%) Presentation Skills
5 27 (7.20%) Retail
6 23 (6.13%) Law
7 22 (5.87%) Public Sector
8 20 (5.33%) Banking
9 18 (4.80%) Marketing
10 17 (4.53%) Aerospace
11 16 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (3.73%) Legal
13 11 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.40%) Back Office
14 9 (2.40%) Telecoms
15 8 (2.13%) Advertising
15 8 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.87%) Manufacturing
17 5 (1.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 84 (22.40%) Lead
2 66 (17.60%) Senior
3 29 (7.73%) Team Leader
4 25 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 23 (6.13%) Senior Manager
6 22 (5.87%) Developer
7 21 (5.60%) IT Manager
8 17 (4.53%) Support Manager
9 15 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
9 15 (4.00%) Lead Developer
10 14 (3.73%) Architect
10 14 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (3.20%) IT Support
12 11 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (2.67%) Data Centre Manager
13 10 (2.67%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.67%) Designer
14 9 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Manager
14 9 (2.40%) Principal Developer
14 9 (2.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.73%) .NET
2 7 (1.87%) .NET Core
3 5 (1.33%) Spring
4 3 (0.80%) CSS
4 3 (0.80%) HTML
4 3 (0.80%) Kafka
4 3 (0.80%) LangChain
4 3 (0.80%) Semantic Kernel
4 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.53%) Blazor
5 2 (0.53%) gRPC
5 2 (0.53%) J2EE
5 2 (0.53%) NestJS
5 2 (0.53%) Node.js
5 2 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.53%) REST
6 1 (0.27%) ADO
6 1 (0.27%) LDAP
6 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.87%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.60%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.53%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.93%) Driving Licence
6 11 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.87%) NHS
10 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Licensing
10 5 (1.33%) Mobile Computing
11 4 (1.07%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
12 3 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.53%) Windows
2 7 (1.87%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.60%) Linux
4 3 (0.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (26.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 88 (23.47%) Mentoring
3 85 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (22.40%) Line Management
5 72 (19.20%) Agile
5 72 (19.20%) Coaching
6 65 (17.33%) Software Engineering
7 63 (16.80%) Technical Leadership
8 62 (16.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 49 (13.07%) AI
10 48 (12.80%) Customer Experience
10 48 (12.80%) Decision-Making
11 47 (12.53%) Service Delivery
12 46 (12.27%) DevOps
13 44 (11.73%) Project Delivery
14 39 (10.40%) Collaborative Culture
14 39 (10.40%) Roadmaps
15 38 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
16 36 (9.60%) CI/CD
17 34 (9.07%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (10.13%) SQL
2 29 (7.73%) Python
3 17 (4.53%) Java
4 12 (3.20%) C#
5 7 (1.87%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.80%) ABAP
8 2 (0.53%) Bash
8 2 (0.53%) C++
8 2 (0.53%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) Go
9 1 (0.27%) Perl
9 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (16.00%) Degree
2 27 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 22 (5.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.07%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.73%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.67%) CISM
7 9 (2.40%) CISSP
8 8 (2.13%) CIPD
9 7 (1.87%) Chartered Engineer
9 7 (1.87%) HNC
9 7 (1.87%) HND
9 7 (1.87%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.60%) ACCA
10 6 (1.60%) CIMA
10 6 (1.60%) CISA
10 6 (1.60%) PMP
11 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.33%) CRISC
11 5 (1.33%) ICAEW
12 4 (1.07%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (4.00%) ISO 9001
3 14 (3.73%) NIST
4 13 (3.47%) GDPR
5 9 (2.40%) QA
6 8 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.13%) COBIT
6 8 (2.13%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.87%) SLA
8 6 (1.60%) ISO 14000
9 5 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.33%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.33%) PMO
9 5 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.07%) Data Quality
10 4 (1.07%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.80%) GRC
11 3 (0.80%) ITGC
11 3 (0.80%) TickIT
12 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 5 (1.33%) Docker
1 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
1 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.13%) Terraform
3 4 (1.07%) Ansible
3 4 (1.07%) Functional Safety
3 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.80%) Check_MK
4 3 (0.80%) cPanel
4 3 (0.80%) Plesk
4 3 (0.80%) Puppet
5 2 (0.53%) Argo
5 2 (0.53%) Salt
5 2 (0.53%) SCCM
5 2 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.27%) Grafana
6 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 62 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.00%) Adobe
3 18 (4.80%) Google
4 11 (2.93%) Oracle
5 8 (2.13%) Cisco
5 8 (2.13%) VMware
6 7 (1.87%) Informatica
7 5 (1.33%) Databricks
7 5 (1.33%) Foundry
7 5 (1.33%) Juniper
7 5 (1.33%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.33%) SAP
7 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.07%) Meraki
8 4 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.07%) Xero
9 3 (0.80%) Acronis
9 3 (0.80%) IBM
9 3 (0.80%) Infor
9 3 (0.80%) NETGEAR