People Management Jobs

People Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited People Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 318 214
Rank change year-on-year +11 -104 +82
Permanent jobs citing People Management 543 886 1,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.89% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.05% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 365 569 687
10th Percentile £48,798 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,779 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,315 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.55% -4.17% -

All Process and 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 51,711 84,738 96,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.57% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 26,444 59,708 57,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.09% +4.76%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing People Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing People Management.

Salary trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 2025. 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 -2 504 £69,315 +6.64% 675
UK excluding London +78 429 £69,315 +20.55% 451
North of England +17 190 £69,315 +17.98% 93
North West +8 170 £69,315 +6.64% 63
Work from Home -1 132 £70,000 +9.80% 303
South East +101 122 £65,000 +13.04% 146
London -34 109 £80,000 +10.34% 315
Midlands +45 64 £68,750 +14.58% 65
West Midlands +71 57 £72,500 +20.83% 37
Yorkshire +13 20 £87,500 +52.17% 23
East of England +25 16 £62,000 +12.73% 70
Scotland +109 15 £67,500 +20.00% 38
South West +72 14 £66,367 +10.61% 41
East Midlands 0 7 £67,500 +42.11% 22
Northern Ireland +45 4 - - 7
Wales +34 2 - - 11
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

People Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.21%) IIS
2 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.74%) SAS
4 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.18%) CICS
6 1 (0.18%) Mule
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.29%) Simulink
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.18%) InDesign
5 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.37%) Magento
1 2 (0.37%) ResourceLink
1 2 (0.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 55 (10.13%) Azure
2 48 (8.84%) AWS
3 30 (5.52%) SaaS
4 29 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (3.31%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (1.29%) Amazon S3
6 7 (1.29%) Google Analytics
6 7 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (1.10%) PaaS
8 5 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (0.74%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.74%) Collibra
9 4 (0.74%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.55%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.55%) GCP
10 3 (0.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Structured Cabling
2 10 (1.84%) Firewall
2 10 (1.84%) Internet
2 10 (1.84%) LAN
2 10 (1.84%) WAN
3 9 (1.66%) VPN
4 8 (1.47%) FTP
4 8 (1.47%) HTTP
4 8 (1.47%) SMTP
4 8 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.29%) Network Security
6 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.37%) VoIP
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (2.95%) Power BI
3 12 (2.21%) Tableau
4 10 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.74%) Ataccama
6 4 (0.74%) Metadata
6 4 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.18%) DB2
9 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (1.66%) JIRA
2 5 (0.92%) Git
3 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
4 3 (0.55%) FitNesse
4 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (0.55%) Selenium
4 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.55%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.37%) webpack
6 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.18%) Postman
6 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 277 (51.01%) Social Skills
2 160 (29.47%) Finance
3 50 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (9.21%) Retail
4 41 (7.55%) Legal
5 38 (7.00%) Marketing
6 35 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.71%) Banking
8 27 (4.97%) Law
9 23 (4.24%) Telecoms
10 21 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (3.50%) Manufacturing
12 18 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (2.03%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.84%) Front Office
15 9 (1.66%) Electronics
16 7 (1.29%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.10%) Advertising
17 6 (1.10%) Brand Awareness
17 6 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (22.28%) Commissioning Manager
2 61 (11.23%) Lead
3 57 (10.50%) Senior
4 24 (4.42%) Risk Manager
5 23 (4.24%) Engineering Manager
5 23 (4.24%) Head of Analytics
6 22 (4.05%) Data Manager
6 22 (4.05%) Project Manager
6 22 (4.05%) Systems Engineer
6 22 (4.05%) Technology Risk Manager
7 20 (3.68%) Service Manager
8 19 (3.50%) Head of IT
8 19 (3.50%) Senior Manager
9 18 (3.31%) Head of AI
10 16 (2.95%) Development Manager
10 16 (2.95%) Infrastructure Manager
11 14 (2.58%) Software Manager
11 14 (2.58%) Support Manager
12 13 (2.39%) Team Leader
13 12 (2.21%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.34%) .NET
2 11 (2.03%) React
3 10 (1.84%) AngularJS
4 9 (1.66%) CSS
5 7 (1.29%) HTML
5 7 (1.29%) LDAP
5 7 (1.29%) REST
6 6 (1.10%) Web Services
7 4 (0.74%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.74%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (0.74%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (0.74%) RESTful
7 4 (0.74%) SwiftUI
7 4 (0.74%) Vue
7 4 (0.74%) XML
8 3 (0.55%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (0.55%) LINQ
8 3 (0.55%) Playwright
8 3 (0.55%) PySpark
8 3 (0.55%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.89%) Management Information System
2 25 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.87%) Blockchain
3 21 (3.87%) Client/Server
3 21 (3.87%) Robotics
4 12 (2.21%) Driving Licence
4 12 (2.21%) Private Cloud
5 10 (1.84%) Derivative
6 9 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.47%) Digital Media
7 8 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (1.29%) Analogue Electronics
8 7 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.10%) Multi-touch
9 6 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.74%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.87%) Windows
2 5 (0.92%) Android
2 5 (0.92%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.37%) Linux
3 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (24.13%) Agile
2 122 (22.47%) Performance Optimisation
3 104 (19.15%) Analytics
4 101 (18.60%) Mentoring
5 93 (17.13%) Coaching
6 77 (14.18%) Project Management
7 75 (13.81%) Project Delivery
8 70 (12.89%) Risk Management
9 69 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 65 (11.97%) Performance Management
11 58 (10.68%) Line Management
12 57 (10.50%) Roadmaps
13 51 (9.39%) ITIL
14 46 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence
15 45 (8.29%) Decision-Making
16 41 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (7.55%) Information Security
17 40 (7.37%) Service Delivery
18 39 (7.18%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.42%) C#
2 20 (3.68%) Java
3 19 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 17 (3.13%) MATLAB
4 17 (3.13%) Python
5 13 (2.39%) SQL
6 9 (1.66%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.47%) Bash
8 7 (1.29%) C++
8 7 (1.29%) Perl
9 6 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.74%) Swift
11 3 (0.55%) PHP
11 3 (0.55%) R
12 1 (0.18%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.18%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.18%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 221 (40.70%) Degree
2 145 (26.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 140 (25.78%) Master's Degree
4 121 (22.28%) MBA
5 32 (5.89%) Security Cleared
6 25 (4.60%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 16 (2.95%) PMP
8 13 (2.39%) CISSP
9 12 (2.21%) CISM
9 12 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (2.03%) CRISC
11 10 (1.84%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.29%) HND
14 6 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.74%) PhD
16 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.55%) Azure Certification
17 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.08%) SLA
2 24 (4.42%) QA
3 21 (3.87%) ITGC
4 16 (2.95%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.21%) NIST
6 11 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.84%) GDPR
8 8 (1.47%) GRC
9 7 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.74%) COBIT
12 3 (0.55%) PMO
13 2 (0.37%) CRD IV
13 2 (0.37%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.37%) IFRS
13 2 (0.37%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.37%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 25 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) RACF
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (1.47%) SCCM
2 7 (1.29%) QRadar
3 6 (1.10%) Terraform
4 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.74%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.55%) Control-M
7 2 (0.37%) Marathon
8 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.18%) Ansible
8 1 (0.18%) Autotask
8 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.18%) Grafana
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (2.95%) Google
3 15 (2.76%) Oracle
4 12 (2.21%) Adobe
5 11 (2.03%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.66%) Cisco
6 9 (1.66%) Splunk
7 7 (1.29%) Databricks
7 7 (1.29%) Mentor Graphics
8 6 (1.10%) Apple
8 6 (1.10%) TikTok
8 6 (1.10%) Yahoo!
9 5 (0.92%) SAP
10 4 (0.74%) Duck Creek
10 4 (0.74%) HP
11 3 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.37%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.37%) Cognos
12 2 (0.37%) Sage
12 2 (0.37%) Salesforce