Project Management Jobs

Project Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 6,683 6,338 14,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.39% 7.85% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 8.24% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,082 4,252 7,289
10th Percentile £33,510 £38,756 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £58,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project 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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +6 5,887 £53,210 -10.61% 1,440
UK excluding London +3 4,834 £50,000 -9.09% 1,288
Work from Home +17 2,407 £55,000 -3.51% 613
London +12 1,499 £65,000 -3.70% 365
South East +4 1,162 £47,500 -13.64% 338
North of England +6 1,147 £50,000 -9.09% 294
Midlands -3 981 £52,500 -4.55% 231
North West +9 691 £50,000 -9.09% 189
South West +11 623 £50,000 -9.09% 190
West Midlands -7 519 £55,000 - 148
East Midlands +9 429 £47,500 -13.64% 82
East of England +16 413 £50,000 -13.04% 140
Yorkshire +9 366 £50,000 -9.09% 85
Scotland -29 311 £50,000 -9.09% 68
Wales +7 124 £45,000 -18.18% 37
North East -7 90 £47,324 -13.96% 31
Northern Ireland +36 74 £48,750 +8.33% 56
Isle of Man -9 8 £37,500 -48.28%

Project 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
1 243 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 117 (1.75%) Confluence
3 100 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 79 (1.18%) CMS
5 72 (1.08%) Apache
6 46 (0.69%) WebLogic
7 34 (0.51%) WordPress
8 25 (0.37%) SAS
9 21 (0.31%) Apache Spark
10 20 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 20 (0.30%) IIS
11 17 (0.25%) Drupal
11 17 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 16 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 10 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.13%) Office Communications Server
15 7 (0.10%) Kinematics
15 7 (0.10%) MS Project Server
16 6 (0.090%) Kentico
17 5 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 454 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 418 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 298 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
4 193 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 60 (0.90%) AutoCAD
7 30 (0.45%) Trello
8 22 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.18%) SPSS
10 10 (0.15%) Photoshop
11 8 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 7 (0.10%) InDesign
12 7 (0.10%) Windchill
13 6 (0.090%) Sketch
13 6 (0.090%) SketchUp
14 5 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
14 5 (0.075%) Camtasia
14 5 (0.075%) Simulink
15 4 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
16 3 (0.045%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 50 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 50 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 48 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 44 (0.66%) Primavera
4 35 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 26 (0.39%) Magento
6 25 (0.37%) Shopify
7 22 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
8 19 (0.28%) NEC Housing
9 15 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 14 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
11 13 (0.19%) SAP WM
12 12 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
12 12 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
12 12 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
12 12 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
13 11 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
14 9 (0.13%) Sage 200
14 9 (0.13%) SAP PP
14 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 768 (11.49%) Azure
2 530 (7.93%) AWS
3 464 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 314 (4.70%) Power Platform
5 286 (4.28%) SaaS
6 257 (3.85%) GCP
7 163 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 80 (1.20%) Amazon S3
10 79 (1.18%) Entra ID
11 56 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
12 55 (0.82%) PaaS
13 53 (0.79%) IaaS
14 48 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
15 47 (0.70%) PowerApps
16 46 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
17 44 (0.66%) Power Automate
18 38 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
19 37 (0.55%) GitHub
20 31 (0.46%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 225 (3.37%) Firewall
2 153 (2.29%) WAN
3 131 (1.96%) DNS
4 124 (1.86%) VPN
5 101 (1.51%) LAN
6 99 (1.48%) Internet
7 92 (1.38%) Network Security
8 85 (1.27%) TCP/IP
9 68 (1.02%) DHCP
9 68 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
10 66 (0.99%) SSL
11 61 (0.91%) IPsec
12 59 (0.88%) SNMP
13 55 (0.82%) BGP
14 54 (0.81%) Wireless
15 53 (0.79%) SD-WAN
16 49 (0.73%) SAN
17 46 (0.69%) 5G
18 34 (0.51%) VLAN
19 33 (0.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (3.67%) Power BI
2 150 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
3 125 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 97 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 88 (1.32%) BigQuery
6 78 (1.17%) Big Data
7 77 (1.15%) Tableau
8 74 (1.11%) Looker
8 74 (1.11%) RDBMS
9 72 (1.08%) MySQL
10 71 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
11 62 (0.93%) MongoDB
12 61 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
13 52 (0.78%) Oracle Database
14 41 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
15 37 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 35 (0.52%) NoSQL
17 28 (0.42%) Data Mining
18 26 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
19 25 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 307 (4.59%) JIRA
2 86 (1.29%) Git
3 33 (0.49%) Visual Studio
4 32 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 27 (0.40%) Postman
6 15 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 15 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 13 (0.19%) AdminStudio
7 13 (0.19%) InstallShield
7 13 (0.19%) MSI
8 8 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.10%) GitLab
10 6 (0.090%) Subversion
10 6 (0.090%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.075%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.060%) TestRail
13 3 (0.045%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.045%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.045%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.045%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2,891 (43.26%) Social Skills
2 1,654 (24.75%) Finance
3 1,062 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 508 (7.60%) Marketing
5 475 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 431 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 405 (6.06%) Manufacturing
8 357 (5.34%) Public Sector
9 354 (5.30%) Retail
10 351 (5.25%) Legal
11 327 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
12 259 (3.88%) Law
13 214 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
14 163 (2.44%) Banking
15 159 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 137 (2.05%) Aerospace
17 126 (1.89%) Billing
18 111 (1.66%) Local Government
19 110 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
20 89 (1.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,254 (33.73%) Project Manager
2 850 (12.72%) Senior
3 526 (7.87%) Lead
4 462 (6.91%) IT Manager
5 458 (6.85%) Senior Manager
6 407 (6.09%) Analyst
7 358 (5.36%) Architect
8 299 (4.47%) Senior Project Manager
9 294 (4.40%) Consultant
10 246 (3.68%) IT Project Manager
11 178 (2.66%) Developer
12 157 (2.35%) Digital Project Manager
13 145 (2.17%) Delivery Manager
14 135 (2.02%) Technical Manager
15 131 (1.96%) Engineering Manager
16 127 (1.90%) Coordinator
17 122 (1.83%) Business Analyst
17 122 (1.83%) Data Manager
18 111 (1.66%) Presales Manager
19 109 (1.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (1.83%) HTML
2 113 (1.69%) .NET
3 110 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
4 104 (1.56%) CSS
5 80 (1.20%) EDI
5 80 (1.20%) Spring Boot
6 60 (0.90%) React
6 60 (0.90%) YAML
7 52 (0.78%) XML
8 50 (0.75%) JSON
9 46 (0.69%) Spring
10 33 (0.49%) Laravel
11 32 (0.48%) AngularJS
11 32 (0.48%) Web Services
12 30 (0.45%) RESTful
13 25 (0.37%) .NET Framework
13 25 (0.37%) HTML5
13 25 (0.37%) jQuery
14 23 (0.34%) Kafka
15 20 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 544 (8.14%) Management Information System
2 423 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
3 231 (3.46%) Product Ownership
4 223 (3.34%) Data Centre
5 218 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 203 (3.04%) Driving Licence
7 173 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 162 (2.42%) PMI
9 95 (1.42%) NHS
10 89 (1.33%) PKI
11 86 (1.29%) FMCG
12 82 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
13 77 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
14 74 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 70 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 62 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
17 60 (0.90%) IoT
18 56 (0.84%) Robotics
18 56 (0.84%) Social Media
19 54 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 392 (5.87%) Windows
2 266 (3.98%) Linux
3 137 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 76 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 57 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (0.82%) Data ONTAP
7 48 (0.72%) Android
8 45 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 41 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 36 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 30 (0.45%) Unix
12 16 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.24%) VMS
12 16 (0.24%) Windows 7
13 13 (0.19%) Ubuntu
14 9 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.10%) Solaris
15 7 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (0.090%) Windows Vista
17 5 (0.075%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,873 (28.03%) Agile
2 1,568 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
3 1,270 (19.00%) Project Delivery
4 959 (14.35%) PRINCE2
5 815 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 683 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 668 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 615 (9.20%) Decision-Making
9 612 (9.16%) Risk Management
10 603 (9.02%) Change Management
11 539 (8.07%) Actionable Insight
12 498 (7.45%) Coaching
13 462 (6.91%) ITIL
14 457 (6.84%) Roadmaps
15 443 (6.63%) Scrum
16 418 (6.25%) SDLC
17 402 (6.02%) ERP
18 397 (5.94%) Budget Management
19 396 (5.93%) DevOps
20 387 (5.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 426 (6.37%) SQL
2 291 (4.35%) Python
3 142 (2.12%) JavaScript
4 134 (2.01%) Java
5 127 (1.90%) C#
6 115 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 82 (1.23%) PHP
8 68 (1.02%) C++
9 58 (0.87%) C
10 49 (0.73%) VB
11 42 (0.63%) Scala
12 40 (0.60%) Bash
13 37 (0.55%) R
14 36 (0.54%) T-SQL
15 33 (0.49%) Kotlin
16 28 (0.42%) VBA
17 21 (0.31%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.27%) TypeScript
19 17 (0.25%) Perl
20 16 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,918 (28.70%) Degree
2 612 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 390 (5.84%) PMI Certification
4 351 (5.25%) SC Cleared
5 304 (4.55%) PMP
6 206 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 180 (2.69%) HNC
8 174 (2.60%) Master's Degree
9 138 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 136 (2.04%) DBS Check
11 117 (1.75%) APMP
12 112 (1.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 93 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
14 91 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
15 87 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 82 (1.23%) DV Cleared
17 78 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
18 73 (1.09%) ACCA
19 68 (1.02%) AWS Certification
20 58 (0.87%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (8.05%) QA
2 423 (6.33%) PMO
3 135 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 125 (1.87%) GDPR
5 107 (1.60%) NEBOSH
6 84 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 74 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 73 (1.09%) SLA
9 61 (0.91%) IFRS
10 55 (0.82%) ISO 9001
11 45 (0.67%) NIST
12 40 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 38 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
14 31 (0.46%) NCSC
15 22 (0.33%) GAAP
15 22 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 21 (0.31%) GMP
16 21 (0.31%) ITGC
17 19 (0.28%) GRC
18 17 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 243 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 191 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (1.63%) Docker
4 80 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 56 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (0.64%) Firmware
7 34 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (0.36%) vSphere
9 17 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.10%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
14 5 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.075%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.060%) Lustre
15 4 (0.060%) pfSense
15 4 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.045%) Ceph
16 3 (0.045%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 120 (1.80%) Ansible
2 114 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 112 (1.68%) Terraform
4 63 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 63 (0.94%) vCenter Server
5 54 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 41 (0.61%) SCCM
7 38 (0.57%) WSUS
8 24 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 20 (0.30%) Puppet
9 20 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (0.18%) SCOM
11 10 (0.15%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.10%) Nessus
14 6 (0.090%) Opsgenie
14 6 (0.090%) VxRail
15 5 (0.075%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1,260 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 275 (4.11%) Google
3 228 (3.41%) VMware
4 225 (3.37%) SAP
5 222 (3.32%) Oracle
6 163 (2.44%) NEC
7 160 (2.39%) Cisco
8 117 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 92 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 82 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 75 (1.12%) IFS
12 70 (1.05%) Red Hat
13 61 (0.91%) Adobe
13 61 (0.91%) NetApp
14 59 (0.88%) Sage
15 54 (0.81%) SolidFire
16 49 (0.73%) CA
17 48 (0.72%) Sparx
18 41 (0.61%) IBM
19 38 (0.57%) Citrix