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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 300 292
Rank change year-on-year -102 -8 -125
Permanent jobs citing People Management 464 483 764
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.97% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.09% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 321 278 414
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £33,622
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,176 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.82% -12.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £118,250 £100,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £66,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.98% +15.22% -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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £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 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 20 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 20 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 -114 405 £60,100 -16.53% 325
UK excluding London -75 331 £55,000 -16.98% 255
Work from Home -23 155 £72,500 -3.97% 125
London -98 109 £88,750 +2.90% 138
North of England -38 88 £62,500 -7.41% 54
South East -46 81 £64,250 -17.10% 88
Midlands -13 68 £45,000 -37.93% 34
North West -24 48 £55,000 -21.43% 29
East Midlands -7 34 £45,000 -37.93% 15
West Midlands -34 34 £47,746 -34.14% 19
North East - 32 £62,500 - 14
South West -59 31 £55,000 - 27
East of England -19 24 £60,100 -3.06% 16
Scotland +11 23 £55,000 -20.00% 25
Wales -62 12 £46,250 +28.47% 15
Yorkshire -57 8 £65,000 -3.70% 14
Northern Ireland - 4 £63,750 - 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 22 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (0.86%) CMS
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.65%) SAS
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.86%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.43%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.51%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.08%) Visualfiles
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.22%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.22%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.87%) Azure
2 46 (9.91%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (9.27%) SaaS
4 31 (6.68%) AWS
5 21 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (4.31%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (2.37%) IaaS
11 9 (1.94%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.72%) GCP
13 7 (1.51%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 5 (1.08%) Google Workspace
15 4 (0.86%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
16 3 (0.65%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.72%) Network Security
2 7 (1.51%) DNS
2 7 (1.51%) Firewall
3 6 (1.29%) VLAN
3 6 (1.29%) VoIP
4 5 (1.08%) VPN
5 4 (0.86%) HTTP
5 4 (0.86%) PBX
5 4 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.65%) Broadband
6 3 (0.65%) DKIM
6 3 (0.65%) DMARC
6 3 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.65%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.43%) DHCP
7 2 (0.43%) Intranet
7 2 (0.43%) SSH
8 1 (0.22%) FTP
8 1 (0.22%) SMTP
8 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.45%) Power BI
3 13 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.16%) Tableau
5 4 (0.86%) Metadata
5 4 (0.86%) Redis
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.43%) Big Data
7 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 24 (5.17%) Git
2 19 (4.09%) JIRA
3 4 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.65%) Claude Code
4 3 (0.65%) Postman
5 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.43%) Maven
5 2 (0.43%) RSpec
6 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.22%) Mocha
General
1 177 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 129 (27.80%) Finance
3 52 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (7.76%) Retail
6 35 (7.54%) Legal
7 29 (6.25%) Law
8 26 (5.60%) Aerospace
9 25 (5.39%) Marketing
10 21 (4.53%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.80%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.59%) Banking
14 11 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.37%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.72%) Billing
15 8 (1.72%) Electronics
16 6 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.08%) Advertising
17 5 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 101 (21.77%) Lead
2 70 (15.09%) Senior
3 38 (8.19%) Team Leader
4 32 (6.90%) Developer
5 30 (6.47%) Engineering Manager
6 29 (6.25%) Data Manager
7 26 (5.60%) Lead Developer
8 25 (5.39%) Senior Manager
9 24 (5.17%) Data Centre Manager
10 22 (4.74%) IT Manager
11 21 (4.53%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
13 19 (4.09%) Development Manager
13 19 (4.09%) Service Manager
14 16 (3.45%) Operations Manager
15 15 (3.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 14 (3.02%) Delivery Manager
17 13 (2.80%) Architect
18 12 (2.59%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.74%) .NET
2 20 (4.31%) REST
3 14 (3.02%) Blazor
4 13 (2.80%) .NET Core
4 13 (2.80%) ASP.NET
4 13 (2.80%) Terraform
5 12 (2.59%) gRPC
6 9 (1.94%) React
7 7 (1.51%) HTML
8 5 (1.08%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.08%) Node.js
8 5 (1.08%) Spring
9 4 (0.86%) EDI
10 3 (0.65%) CSS
10 3 (0.65%) Kafka
10 3 (0.65%) LangChain
10 3 (0.65%) Ruby on Rails
10 3 (0.65%) Semantic Kernel
10 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.41%) Onboarding
2 36 (7.76%) Driving Licence
2 36 (7.76%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.16%) NHS
8 9 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.08%) Biopharmaceutical
11 5 (1.08%) IoT
11 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Licensing
12 4 (0.86%) Blog
12 4 (0.86%) CCTV
12 4 (0.86%) Life Science
12 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.74%) Windows
2 9 (1.94%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.72%) Linux
4 3 (0.65%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.65%) Unix
5 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 107 (23.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 103 (22.20%) Mentoring
4 99 (21.34%) Coaching
5 95 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (20.47%) Technical Leadership
6 84 (18.10%) Agile
7 80 (17.24%) Software Engineering
8 78 (16.81%) Decision-Making
9 75 (16.16%) Line Management
10 72 (15.52%) Service Delivery
11 66 (14.22%) AI
12 57 (12.28%) DevOps
13 54 (11.64%) Project Delivery
13 54 (11.64%) Roadmaps
14 48 (10.34%) Project Management
15 46 (9.91%) Commercial Awareness
15 46 (9.91%) Performance Management
16 43 (9.27%) CI/CD
17 42 (9.05%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.27%) SQL
2 24 (5.17%) C#
3 22 (4.74%) Java
4 21 (4.53%) Python
5 14 (3.02%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.37%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.86%) C++
8 3 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.65%) Ruby
9 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.43%) Bicep
9 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.43%) SOQL
9 2 (0.43%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) ABAP
10 1 (0.22%) Bash
10 1 (0.22%) Go
10 1 (0.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 79 (17.03%) Degree
2 30 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 29 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 20 (4.31%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.45%) Chartered Engineer
6 15 (3.23%) ACCA
7 14 (3.02%) CIMA
8 13 (2.80%) DBS Check
9 10 (2.16%) CIPD
9 10 (2.16%) HNC
9 10 (2.16%) HND
9 10 (2.16%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.72%) MBA
11 7 (1.51%) CISM
11 7 (1.51%) ICAEW
11 7 (1.51%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.51%) PMP
12 6 (1.29%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.08%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (7.11%) QA
3 27 (5.82%) SLA
4 22 (4.74%) ISO 9001
5 20 (4.31%) GDPR
6 17 (3.66%) ISO 14000
7 11 (2.37%) NIST
8 8 (1.72%) GRC
8 8 (1.72%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.29%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.29%) PMO
10 5 (1.08%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (1.08%) COBIT
10 5 (1.08%) ISO 26262
10 5 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.86%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.65%) IFRS
12 3 (0.65%) TickIT
System Software
1 17 (3.66%) Docker
2 13 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.16%) Firmware
4 7 (1.51%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (2.59%) Ansible
2 11 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.16%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.86%) Argo
4 4 (0.86%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.86%) Grafana
5 3 (0.65%) Check_MK
5 3 (0.65%) cPanel
5 3 (0.65%) Plesk
6 2 (0.43%) Bugsnag
6 2 (0.43%) Packer
6 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.43%) Puppet
6 2 (0.43%) Salt
6 2 (0.43%) SCCM
6 2 (0.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 85 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.45%) Google
3 12 (2.59%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.16%) VMware
5 9 (1.94%) Adobe
5 9 (1.94%) Sage
6 8 (1.72%) Cisco
7 5 (1.08%) Juniper
7 5 (1.08%) Oracle
7 5 (1.08%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.86%) Foundry
8 4 (0.86%) Meraki
8 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.86%) Veeam
9 3 (0.65%) Acronis
9 3 (0.65%) Infor
9 3 (0.65%) NETGEAR
9 3 (0.65%) SAP
9 3 (0.65%) SonicWALL
9 3 (0.65%) WatchGuard