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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 484 598
Rank change year-on-year +80 +114 +73
Permanent jobs citing PMP 303 462 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.47% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.19% 1.69% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 178 369 362
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,793 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £70,938
90th Percentile £90,516 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.85% +4.00%

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 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +67 277 £65,000 +18.18% 302
UK excluding London +88 188 £60,000 +14.29% 140
Work from Home +101 105 £65,000 +30.00% 175
London +86 97 £65,000 -11.86% 171
North of England +8 58 £55,000 +4.76% 38
South East +114 53 £50,000 -13.04% 51
North West +2 46 £55,000 -12.00% 28
East of England +70 31 £82,008 +26.17% 10
Midlands +26 19 £65,250 +37.37% 22
West Midlands +21 14 £65,250 +37.37% 9
Scotland +123 13 £80,000 +75.66% 5
South West +92 12 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire +47 11 £62,500 +35.14% 10
East Midlands +44 5 £68,750 +37.53% 11
Wales +37 1 £47,500 +5.56% 2
North East +29 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 - 6

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 21 (6.93%) Confluence
2 14 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.66%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (15.84%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (5.28%) Trello
3 13 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.66%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.98%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.99%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.33%) Finacle
5 1 (0.33%) iTrent
5 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.54%) SaaS
2 30 (9.90%) Azure
3 18 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.62%) AWS
4 14 (4.62%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.64%) GCP
6 8 (2.64%) Smartsheet
7 7 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.65%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.32%) Asana
9 4 (1.32%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.33%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.33%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) DHCP
1 3 (0.99%) DNS
1 3 (0.99%) WAN
1 3 (0.99%) Wireless
2 1 (0.33%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.65%) Data Lake
1 5 (1.65%) Hadoop
1 5 (1.65%) SAP HANA
2 4 (1.32%) Power BI
2 4 (1.32%) Tableau
3 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.33%) KDB
Development Applications
1 50 (16.50%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
General
1 202 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 127 (41.91%) Finance
3 112 (36.96%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.58%) Manufacturing
5 24 (7.92%) Banking
6 23 (7.59%) Law
7 17 (5.61%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.28%) Marketing
8 16 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (4.62%) Electronics
10 13 (4.29%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.96%) Legal
12 11 (3.63%) Retail
13 5 (1.65%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
16 2 (0.66%) Dutch Language
16 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (36.63%) Project Manager
2 47 (15.51%) Senior
3 45 (14.85%) IT Manager
4 43 (14.19%) Senior Manager
5 39 (12.87%) Senior Project Manager
6 23 (7.59%) Analyst
6 23 (7.59%) Lead
7 21 (6.93%) Programme Manager
7 21 (6.93%) Support Manager
8 19 (6.27%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (5.61%) Head of Delivery
9 17 (5.61%) Technical Manager
10 16 (5.28%) Head of IT
11 13 (4.29%) Applications Manager
12 12 (3.96%) Applications Support
12 12 (3.96%) Applications Support Manager
12 12 (3.96%) IT Project Manager
13 11 (3.63%) ERP Manager
13 11 (3.63%) Technical Delivery Manager
14 9 (2.97%) IT Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.98%) EDI
2 2 (0.66%) ADO
2 2 (0.66%) Middleware
3 1 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.33%) JDBC
3 1 (0.33%) LDAP
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.33%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.26%) Social Media
2 18 (5.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 17 (5.61%) PMI
4 15 (4.95%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.96%) Virtual Team
6 11 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.64%) Driving Licence
7 8 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.65%) Genomics
9 5 (1.65%) Life Science
10 3 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.99%) IoT
10 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.66%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 2 (0.66%) PKI
11 2 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.29%) Windows
2 8 (2.64%) Windows Vista
3 4 (1.32%) Linux
3 4 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (83.17%) Project Management
2 172 (56.77%) Agile
2 172 (56.77%) PRINCE2
3 156 (51.49%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (32.34%) ITIL
5 93 (30.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 83 (27.39%) Project Delivery
7 78 (25.74%) Waterfall
8 68 (22.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (21.78%) Programme Management
10 58 (19.14%) Computer Science
11 57 (18.81%) Cybersecurity
11 57 (18.81%) Process Improvement
12 40 (13.20%) Scrum
13 39 (12.87%) Data Management
13 39 (12.87%) Risk Management
13 39 (12.87%) Service Delivery
14 36 (11.88%) Change Management
15 33 (10.89%) Business Strategy
16 31 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.98%) Python
2 4 (1.32%) Bash
2 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
2 4 (1.32%) SQL
3 3 (0.99%) Java
3 3 (0.99%) VBA
4 2 (0.66%) C++
5 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 247 (81.52%) PMI Certification
2 144 (47.52%) Degree
3 41 (13.53%) Master's Degree
4 38 (12.54%) CISSP
5 35 (11.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (7.26%) DBS Check
7 18 (5.94%) CBAP
8 8 (2.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 8 (2.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 8 (2.64%) SAP Certification
9 7 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.31%) MBA
10 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.32%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.32%) Security Cleared
11 3 (0.99%) CCIE
11 3 (0.99%) CCNP
11 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.99%) CSPO
12 2 (0.66%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (16.83%) QA
2 22 (7.26%) GDPR
3 16 (5.28%) PMO
4 12 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (2.31%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.65%) GxP
6 5 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.65%) SLA
7 4 (1.32%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.99%) GRC
8 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.66%) NIST
10 1 (0.33%) Basel III
10 1 (0.33%) COBIT
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) MiFID
10 1 (0.33%) P3O
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.99%) Hyper-V
2 3 (0.99%) vSphere
3 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.33%) Ansible
1 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (22.77%) Microsoft
2 45 (14.85%) SAP
3 20 (6.60%) Workday
4 19 (6.27%) Concur
5 17 (5.61%) Atlassian
5 17 (5.61%) Salesforce
5 17 (5.61%) YouTube
6 8 (2.64%) Google
7 7 (2.31%) Oracle
7 7 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.65%) Databricks
8 5 (1.65%) PeopleSoft
8 5 (1.65%) Teradata
9 3 (0.99%) Cisco
9 3 (0.99%) Nimble Storage
9 3 (0.99%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.99%) Splunk
9 3 (0.99%) Veeam
9 3 (0.99%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.66%) Planview