PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 490 571
Rank change year-on-year +38 +81 +100
Permanent jobs citing PMP 283 482 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.44% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.08% 1.68% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 175 375 318
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,023 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% - +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

PMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 26,221 28,735 31,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.85% 26.15% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,745 17,299 14,299
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,734 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,555 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -10.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +7.14%

PMP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PMP in the UK

PMP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PMP.

Salary trend for PMP in the UK

PMP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMP over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for PMP in the UK

PMP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMP within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +32 266 £70,000 +27.27% 530
UK excluding London +13 139 £70,000 +33.33% 342
London +119 129 £72,195 +3.14% 268
Work from Home +45 106 £77,500 +47.62% 218
South East +91 55 £78,750 +57.50% 170
North of England -35 31 £70,000 +33.33% 53
East of England +45 26 £85,000 +30.77% 31
North West -38 22 £75,000 +20.00% 28
South West +92 9 £58,750 +6.82% 16
Midlands +33 9 £72,500 +48.73% 42
Yorkshire +35 8 £63,750 +41.67% 22
Scotland +103 6 £65,000 +42.72% 7
West Midlands +19 6 £70,000 +41.13% 24
East Midlands +46 3 £75,000 +71.45% 16
Wales +40 2 £56,250 +25.00% 7
North East +31 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 - 20

PMP
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 10 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.06%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) IIS
3 2 (0.71%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 48 (16.96%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (7.42%) Trello
3 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (2.47%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Adaptiv
1 7 (2.47%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Primavera
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.35%) iTrent
3 1 (0.35%) Magento
3 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.78%) SaaS
2 24 (8.48%) Azure
3 14 (4.95%) AWS
4 12 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.89%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.12%) GCP
9 4 (1.41%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.06%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.71%) Asana
11 2 (0.71%) IaaS
11 2 (0.71%) Smartsheet
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.35%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.35%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) WAN
1 4 (1.41%) Wireless
2 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) FTP
3 1 (0.35%) LAN
3 1 (0.35%) NGFW
3 1 (0.35%) SAN
3 1 (0.35%) SSL
3 1 (0.35%) SWIFTNet
3 1 (0.35%) VoIP
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.77%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.41%) Hadoop
2 4 (1.41%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.06%) Power BI
3 3 (1.06%) Tableau
4 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.35%) Big Data
5 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.35%) KDB
5 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 46 (16.25%) JIRA
General
1 199 (70.32%) Social Skills
2 132 (46.64%) Finance
3 104 (36.75%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.60%) Marketing
5 29 (10.25%) Law
6 28 (9.89%) Manufacturing
7 26 (9.19%) Banking
7 26 (9.19%) Public Sector
8 25 (8.83%) Telecoms
9 18 (6.36%) Electronics
10 12 (4.24%) Retail
11 11 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.47%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.47%) Legal
13 6 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.06%) Aviation
14 3 (1.06%) Dutch Language
14 3 (1.06%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (27.21%) Project Manager
2 45 (15.90%) IT Manager
3 33 (11.66%) Lead
4 30 (10.60%) Analyst
5 29 (10.25%) Programme Manager
6 26 (9.19%) Support Manager
7 24 (8.48%) Head of IT
8 20 (7.07%) Senior
9 18 (6.36%) IT Operations Manager
9 18 (6.36%) IT Support
9 18 (6.36%) IT Support Manager
9 18 (6.36%) Operations Manager
9 18 (6.36%) Senior Manager
10 15 (5.30%) Head of Delivery
11 14 (4.95%) Senior Project Manager
12 12 (4.24%) ERP Manager
13 11 (3.89%) IT Project Manager
14 9 (3.18%) Business Analyst
14 9 (3.18%) Technical Manager
15 8 (2.83%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.77%) .NET
2 4 (1.41%) EDI
3 2 (0.71%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.71%) ADO
3 2 (0.71%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.71%) Middleware
3 2 (0.71%) MSMQ
4 1 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.42%) Social Media
2 19 (6.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (5.65%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.30%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.95%) PMI
6 11 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.89%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.18%) Market Risk
8 7 (2.47%) Credit Risk
8 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.12%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.77%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.41%) IoT
11 4 (1.41%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.41%) SCADA
11 4 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.06%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 2 (0.71%) N-Tier
13 2 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.83%) Windows
2 7 (2.47%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (83.39%) Project Management
2 173 (61.13%) PRINCE2
3 154 (54.42%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (53.00%) Agile
5 112 (39.58%) Project Delivery
6 87 (30.74%) ITIL
7 82 (28.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 79 (27.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (23.32%) Process Improvement
10 63 (22.26%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (19.43%) Programme Management
12 53 (18.73%) Computer Science
13 52 (18.37%) Strategic Planning
13 52 (18.37%) Waterfall
14 49 (17.31%) Risk Management
15 42 (14.84%) Change Management
16 41 (14.49%) Collaborative Working
16 41 (14.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 40 (14.13%) Scrum
18 39 (13.78%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.18%) SQL
2 7 (2.47%) Java
3 5 (1.77%) Python
4 2 (0.71%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.35%) PHP
5 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 256 (90.46%) PMI Certification
2 128 (45.23%) Degree
3 39 (13.78%) CISSP
4 33 (11.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (10.60%) Master's Degree
6 21 (7.42%) DBS Check
7 19 (6.71%) CBAP
8 15 (5.30%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (4.95%) CFA
10 8 (2.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 7 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.12%) CCIE
12 6 (2.12%) CCNP
13 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.77%) Security Cleared
14 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.41%) ISTQB
14 4 (1.41%) SAP Certification
15 3 (1.06%) MAPM
15 3 (1.06%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (18.02%) QA
2 24 (8.48%) GDPR
3 18 (6.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (6.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 17 (6.01%) PMO
5 5 (1.77%) GxP
5 5 (1.77%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.41%) GRC
6 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.71%) EMIR
8 2 (0.71%) MiFID
8 2 (0.71%) SLA
9 1 (0.35%) COBIT
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.35%) Varnish
1 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.35%) Ansible
1 1 (0.35%) CASB
Vendors
1 55 (19.43%) SAP
2 50 (17.67%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.07%) Workday
4 19 (6.71%) Concur
5 17 (6.01%) YouTube
6 13 (4.59%) Murex
7 11 (3.89%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.53%) Google
9 7 (2.47%) Cisco
9 7 (2.47%) FIS
9 7 (2.47%) Oracle
10 6 (2.12%) PeopleSoft
11 4 (1.41%) Databricks
11 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.41%) Teradata
12 2 (0.71%) Adobe
12 2 (0.71%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.71%) Planview
12 2 (0.71%) VMware
13 1 (0.35%) Fortinet