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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 290 301
Rank change year-on-year -129 +11 -129
Permanent jobs citing People Management 433 486 774
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.98% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.10% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 305 276 431
10th Percentile £37,750 £42,500 £33,567
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £45,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 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 7 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 -121 378 £60,100 -16.53% 440
UK excluding London -79 310 £55,000 -15.38% 242
Work from Home -23 147 £72,500 -6.45% 179
London -86 100 £88,750 +4.41% 244
North of England -52 84 £62,500 -7.41% 58
South East -57 69 £60,402 -22.06% 73
Midlands -24 68 £45,000 -35.71% 38
North West -18 47 £55,000 -22.81% 33
West Midlands -37 36 £52,500 -26.32% 18
East Midlands -12 32 £45,000 -35.71% 20
North East - 29 £62,500 - 11
East of England -22 27 £60,100 -3.06% 20
South West -59 25 £55,000 - 22
Scotland +26 21 £55,000 -20.00% 17
Wales -60 12 £47,500 +31.94% 11
Yorkshire -48 8 £65,000 -3.70% 16
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 8

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 21 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.69%) SAS
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 24 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.92%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.69%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.85%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.15%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 2 (0.46%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.23%) Maximo
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.23%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.23%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (14.55%) Azure
2 40 (9.24%) SaaS
3 39 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (6.93%) AWS
5 22 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (2.54%) IaaS
8 10 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 7 (1.62%) GCP
11 6 (1.39%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.15%) GitHub
13 4 (0.92%) Azure AI
13 4 (0.92%) Slack
14 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.85%) Network Security
2 6 (1.39%) VoIP
3 5 (1.15%) DNS
3 5 (1.15%) Firewall
4 4 (0.92%) PBX
4 4 (0.92%) VLAN
4 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.69%) Broadband
5 3 (0.69%) DKIM
5 3 (0.69%) DMARC
5 3 (0.69%) HTTP
5 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.69%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.69%) VPN
6 2 (0.46%) Intranet
7 1 (0.23%) SMTP
7 1 (0.23%) SSL
7 1 (0.23%) WAN
7 1 (0.23%) Wireless
7 1 (0.23%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.39%) Power BI
2 14 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.31%) Tableau
4 9 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.92%) Redis
6 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.46%) Big Data
7 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.23%) Flink
Development Applications
1 18 (4.16%) Git
2 17 (3.93%) JIRA
3 3 (0.69%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.46%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.46%) Postman
4 2 (0.46%) RSpec
5 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 164 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 117 (27.02%) Finance
3 56 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (7.62%) Retail
6 23 (5.31%) Aerospace
7 22 (5.08%) Law
7 22 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 21 (4.85%) Legal
9 17 (3.93%) Marketing
10 15 (3.46%) Banking
11 14 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 11 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (2.08%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.85%) Billing
16 7 (1.62%) Advertising
16 7 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.62%) Electronics
17 6 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (22.17%) Lead
2 63 (14.55%) Senior
3 39 (9.01%) Team Leader
4 30 (6.93%) Developer
5 29 (6.70%) Data Manager
6 28 (6.47%) Engineering Manager
7 25 (5.77%) IT Manager
7 25 (5.77%) Senior Manager
8 23 (5.31%) Data Centre Manager
8 23 (5.31%) Lead Developer
9 18 (4.16%) Principal Engineer
9 18 (4.16%) Service Manager
9 18 (4.16%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (3.70%) Software Engineer
11 15 (3.46%) Development Manager
12 14 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
12 14 (3.23%) Operations Manager
13 13 (3.00%) IT Support
13 13 (3.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.93%) .NET
2 14 (3.23%) REST
3 11 (2.54%) Blazor
4 10 (2.31%) .NET Core
5 9 (2.08%) ASP.NET
5 9 (2.08%) gRPC
6 7 (1.62%) React
7 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.15%) Spring
8 4 (0.92%) Node.js
9 3 (0.69%) CSS
9 3 (0.69%) HTML
9 3 (0.69%) Kafka
9 3 (0.69%) LangChain
9 3 (0.69%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (0.69%) Semantic Kernel
9 3 (0.69%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.46%) Google JAX
10 2 (0.46%) JAX
10 2 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.31%) Management Information System
2 34 (7.85%) Driving Licence
3 31 (7.16%) Onboarding
4 23 (5.31%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.16%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.16%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.31%) NHS
9 9 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.15%) Mobile Computing
12 4 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.92%) Blog
12 4 (0.92%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (0.92%) Social Media
13 3 (0.69%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.08%) Windows
2 9 (2.08%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.85%) Linux
4 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 97 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (22.17%) Coaching
3 96 (22.17%) Mentoring
4 89 (20.55%) Technical Leadership
5 86 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (18.71%) Agile
7 77 (17.78%) Line Management
8 72 (16.63%) Decision-Making
9 71 (16.40%) Software Engineering
10 68 (15.70%) Service Delivery
11 65 (15.01%) AI
12 55 (12.70%) DevOps
12 55 (12.70%) Project Delivery
13 50 (11.55%) Roadmaps
14 46 (10.62%) Project Management
15 44 (10.16%) CI/CD
16 43 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
17 42 (9.70%) Commercial Awareness
18 40 (9.24%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 39 (9.01%) SQL
2 19 (4.39%) C#
3 18 (4.16%) Java
3 18 (4.16%) Python
4 12 (2.77%) TypeScript
5 8 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.69%) C++
6 3 (0.69%) Ruby
7 2 (0.46%) ABAP
7 2 (0.46%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.46%) Bicep
7 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.46%) SOQL
7 2 (0.46%) VBA
8 1 (0.23%) Bash
8 1 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 74 (17.09%) Degree
2 29 (6.70%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.46%) DBS Check
6 14 (3.23%) ACCA
7 13 (3.00%) CIMA
8 12 (2.77%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (2.31%) CISM
10 8 (1.85%) CIPD
10 8 (1.85%) CISSP
10 8 (1.85%) HNC
10 8 (1.85%) HND
10 8 (1.85%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.85%) PMP
11 7 (1.62%) ICAEW
12 6 (1.39%) CRISC
12 6 (1.39%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.15%) CISA
13 5 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (5.54%) QA
3 22 (5.08%) SLA
4 21 (4.85%) ISO 9001
5 17 (3.93%) ISO 14000
6 15 (3.46%) GDPR
7 14 (3.23%) NIST
8 8 (1.85%) GRC
8 8 (1.85%) ISO 14001
9 7 (1.62%) COBIT
9 7 (1.62%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.39%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.39%) PMO
11 5 (1.15%) Automotive SPICE
11 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.15%) ISO 26262
11 5 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.69%) TickIT
System Software
1 12 (2.77%) Docker
2 11 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.85%) Firmware
4 6 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (2.54%) Terraform
2 8 (1.85%) Ansible
2 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.62%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.92%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.69%) Argo
5 3 (0.69%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.69%) cPanel
5 3 (0.69%) Plesk
6 2 (0.46%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.46%) Packer
6 2 (0.46%) Puppet
6 2 (0.46%) Salt
6 2 (0.46%) SCCM
6 2 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 71 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.46%) Google
3 10 (2.31%) Salesforce
3 10 (2.31%) VMware
4 8 (1.85%) Adobe
4 8 (1.85%) Cisco
5 6 (1.39%) Oracle
5 6 (1.39%) Sage
6 5 (1.15%) Juniper
6 5 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.15%) SAP
7 4 (0.92%) Foundry
7 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.92%) Veeam
8 3 (0.69%) Acronis
8 3 (0.69%) Databricks
8 3 (0.69%) Datto
8 3 (0.69%) Meraki
8 3 (0.69%) WatchGuard
8 3 (0.69%) Workday