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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 488 614
Rank change year-on-year +60 +126 +50
Permanent jobs citing PMP 294 475 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.08% 1.70% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 183 376 316
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,058 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,522 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,313 £72,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% - +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 27,184 27,860 32,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.68% 26.87% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11,043 17,264 14,482
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,364 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,000 £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% +5.00%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PMP in the UK

PMP
Top 16 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 31 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 +44 275 £65,000 +18.18% 330
UK excluding London +33 158 £62,500 +19.05% 154
London +111 121 £68,750 -1.79% 201
Work from Home +26 107 £67,500 +28.57% 202
South East +76 52 £78,750 +50.00% 47
North of England -59 47 £54,793 +4.37% 41
North West -47 39 £54,793 -12.33% 23
East of England +54 26 £85,000 +30.77% 6
Midlands +25 14 £65,000 +33.35% 21
West Midlands +22 11 £62,250 +31.05% 7
Scotland +112 8 £65,000 +42.72% 4
South West +86 8 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Yorkshire +28 8 £63,750 +41.67% 14
East Midlands +37 3 £75,000 +50.03% 14
Wales +39 2 £56,250 +25.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 - 19

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 20 (6.80%) Confluence
2 12 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) IIS
3 2 (0.68%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 51 (17.35%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (6.80%) Trello
3 12 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.70%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.68%) Primavera
5 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.34%) iTrent
5 1 (0.34%) Magento
5 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.27%) SaaS
2 25 (8.50%) Azure
3 14 (4.76%) AWS
4 13 (4.42%) Entra ID
4 13 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.04%) GCP
7 5 (1.70%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.36%) Asana
8 4 (1.36%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.02%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.34%) IaaS
11 1 (0.34%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) WAN
1 4 (1.36%) Wireless
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) FTP
2 1 (0.34%) LAN
2 1 (0.34%) NGFW
2 1 (0.34%) SAN
2 1 (0.34%) SSL
2 1 (0.34%) SWIFTNet
2 1 (0.34%) VoIP
2 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.70%) Data Lake
2 4 (1.36%) Hadoop
2 4 (1.36%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.02%) Power BI
3 3 (1.02%) Tableau
4 2 (0.68%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.34%) Big Data
5 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.34%) KDB
5 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 196 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 120 (40.82%) Finance
3 104 (35.37%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 27 (9.18%) Law
6 25 (8.50%) Marketing
7 23 (7.82%) Banking
7 23 (7.82%) Public Sector
8 22 (7.48%) Telecoms
9 15 (5.10%) Electronics
10 14 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.74%) Retail
12 8 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.04%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.70%) Legal
15 3 (1.02%) Aviation
15 3 (1.02%) Dutch Language
15 3 (1.02%) Games
Job Titles
1 100 (34.01%) Project Manager
2 44 (14.97%) IT Manager
3 38 (12.93%) Senior
4 35 (11.90%) Senior Manager
5 31 (10.54%) Senior Project Manager
6 28 (9.52%) Lead
7 27 (9.18%) Analyst
8 26 (8.84%) Programme Manager
9 24 (8.16%) Support Manager
10 21 (7.14%) Head of IT
11 15 (5.10%) Head of Delivery
11 15 (5.10%) IT Operations Manager
11 15 (5.10%) IT Support
11 15 (5.10%) IT Support Manager
11 15 (5.10%) Operations Manager
12 11 (3.74%) ERP Manager
12 11 (3.74%) IT Project Manager
13 9 (3.06%) Applications Manager
13 9 (3.06%) Applications Support
13 9 (3.06%) Applications Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.36%) .NET
1 4 (1.36%) EDI
2 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
2 2 (0.68%) ADO
2 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.68%) Middleware
2 2 (0.68%) MSMQ
3 1 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.80%) Social Media
2 18 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (5.44%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.44%) PMI
4 15 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.40%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.38%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.04%) Market Risk
8 6 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.70%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.36%) IoT
11 3 (1.02%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 3 (1.02%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.02%) SCADA
12 2 (0.68%) Genomics
12 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.38%) Windows
2 6 (2.04%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (84.01%) Project Management
2 171 (58.16%) PRINCE2
3 167 (56.80%) Agile
4 153 (52.04%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (34.01%) Project Delivery
6 98 (33.33%) ITIL
6 98 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 73 (24.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (24.15%) Waterfall
9 68 (23.13%) Programme Management
10 64 (21.77%) Process Improvement
11 60 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
12 57 (19.39%) Computer Science
13 47 (15.99%) Strategic Planning
14 44 (14.97%) Scrum
15 41 (13.95%) Risk Management
16 36 (12.24%) Change Management
16 36 (12.24%) Data Management
16 36 (12.24%) Service Delivery
16 36 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.38%) Java
1 7 (2.38%) SQL
2 5 (1.70%) Python
3 2 (0.68%) C++
3 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.34%) PHP
4 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 248 (84.35%) PMI Certification
2 130 (44.22%) Degree
3 40 (13.61%) CISSP
4 37 (12.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (9.86%) Master's Degree
6 20 (6.80%) DBS Check
7 18 (6.12%) CBAP
8 13 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (3.40%) CFA
10 7 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 6 (2.04%) CCIE
11 6 (2.04%) CCNP
11 6 (2.04%) Security Cleared
12 5 (1.70%) SAP Certification
13 4 (1.36%) ISTQB
14 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 3 (1.02%) MAPM
14 3 (1.02%) MBA
14 3 (1.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (17.01%) QA
2 23 (7.82%) GDPR
3 17 (5.78%) PMO
4 15 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (2.38%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.70%) GxP
7 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.36%) GRC
8 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.68%) NIST
9 2 (0.68%) SLA
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) COBIT
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.34%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.34%) Varnish
1 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Ansible
1 1 (0.34%) CASB
Vendors
1 55 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 52 (17.69%) SAP
3 20 (6.80%) Workday
4 19 (6.46%) Concur
5 17 (5.78%) Atlassian
5 17 (5.78%) YouTube
6 13 (4.42%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.06%) Murex
8 8 (2.72%) Google
9 7 (2.38%) Cisco
10 6 (2.04%) Oracle
11 5 (1.70%) FIS
11 5 (1.70%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (1.36%) Databricks
12 4 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.36%) Teradata
13 3 (1.02%) Adobe
14 2 (0.68%) JD Edwards
14 2 (0.68%) Planview
14 2 (0.68%) VMware