Project Manager Jobs

Project Manager
UK

The median Project Manager salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 60 104
Rank change year-on-year -33 +44 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,746 3,984 3,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.12% 3.99% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.43% 4.22% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 938 2,906 2,357
10th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £48,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,837 94,491 90,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 94.69% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,317 67,546 57,366
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the UK

Project Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Manager in the UK

Project Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Manager over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Manager in the UK

Project Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 -48 1,495 £57,500 +9.52% 1,148
UK excluding London -15 1,413 £56,000 +12.00% 840
North of England -24 503 £55,000 +15.79% 188
North West -22 374 £55,500 +16.84% 116
Work from Home -127 342 £57,500 +12.75% 459
South East -31 260 £60,000 +14.29% 278
London -94 243 £67,500 +12.50% 444
Midlands -77 183 £55,000 +10.00% 123
South West +1 181 £56,373 +16.23% 88
Yorkshire -26 101 £55,000 +15.79% 63
West Midlands -66 100 £55,000 +10.00% 66
East of England -54 99 £55,000 +0.92% 102
Wales +10 77 £64,000 +57.82% 11
East Midlands -63 76 £55,000 +10.02% 53
Scotland +33 55 £55,000 +10.00% 55
Northern Ireland +48 54 £40,221 -15.32% 17
North East -21 28 £48,250 +1.58% 16
Channel Islands 0 1 - -

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Project Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 1,286 (73.65%) Project Management
2 713 (40.84%) Finance
3 604 (34.59%) Social Skills
4 555 (31.79%) Project Delivery
5 396 (22.68%) Risk Management
6 346 (19.82%) Degree
7 336 (19.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 298 (17.07%) Agile
9 287 (16.44%) PRINCE2
10 257 (14.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 246 (14.09%) Driving Licence
12 222 (12.71%) Microsoft
13 200 (11.45%) Scorecard
14 197 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
15 190 (10.88%) Manufacturing
16 189 (10.82%) Balanced Scorecard
17 158 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 156 (8.93%) Microsoft Project
19 154 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
19 154 (8.82%) Budget Management
20 148 (8.48%) Waterfall
21 140 (8.02%) Business Case
22 120 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
23 108 (6.19%) PMP
23 108 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
24 107 (6.13%) Project Planning
25 106 (6.07%) Change Management
26 104 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
27 95 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
28 90 (5.15%) PMI Certification

Project Manager Skill Set
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 50 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.32%) Confluence
3 13 (0.74%) CMS
4 9 (0.52%) Kentico
5 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.057%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 156 (8.93%) Microsoft Project
2 154 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
3 120 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 95 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.86%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.63%) Trello
7 8 (0.46%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.40%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.17%) Magento
5 3 (0.17%) Maximo
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.11%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.057%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.057%) Relativity
7 1 (0.057%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.057%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.057%) Shopify
7 1 (0.057%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.057%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (2.29%) Azure
2 28 (1.60%) SaaS
3 24 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
5 18 (1.03%) AWS
6 16 (0.92%) Power Platform
7 14 (0.80%) Smartsheet
8 12 (0.69%) Asana
9 10 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (0.57%) Google Workspace
10 9 (0.52%) Kontent
11 7 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.34%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.29%) GCP
14 4 (0.23%) BigCommerce
14 4 (0.23%) Zapier
15 3 (0.17%) ClickUp
15 3 (0.17%) Google Sheets
15 3 (0.17%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.17%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.29%) WAN
2 3 (0.17%) LAN
2 3 (0.17%) Wireless
3 2 (0.11%) Internet
3 2 (0.11%) MQTT
3 2 (0.11%) Network Security
3 2 (0.11%) VLAN
4 1 (0.057%) Broadband
4 1 (0.057%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.057%) Mobile Broadband
4 1 (0.057%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.057%) SWIFTNet
4 1 (0.057%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.057%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
2 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (0.69%) Power BI
4 11 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.40%) SAP HANA
5 7 (0.40%) Tableau
6 5 (0.29%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.17%) MS Access
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.11%) Big Data
8 2 (0.11%) GIS
9 1 (0.057%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.057%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.057%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.057%) EDRMS
9 1 (0.057%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.057%) MySQL
9 1 (0.057%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.057%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.057%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 71 (4.07%) JIRA
2 2 (0.11%) MSI
3 1 (0.057%) Yeoman
General
1 713 (40.84%) Finance
2 604 (34.59%) Social Skills
3 190 (10.88%) Manufacturing
4 158 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
7 86 (4.93%) Retail
8 83 (4.75%) Public Sector
9 56 (3.21%) Law
10 55 (3.15%) Legal
11 43 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
12 42 (2.41%) Marketing
13 35 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.89%) Local Government
15 29 (1.66%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.60%) Banking
16 28 (1.60%) Health Technology
17 24 (1.37%) Electronics
18 16 (0.92%) Billing
19 15 (0.86%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.34%) Middleware
2 3 (0.17%) EDI
2 3 (0.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.11%) .NET
4 1 (0.057%) HTML
4 1 (0.057%) Kafka
4 1 (0.057%) REST
4 1 (0.057%) Spring
4 1 (0.057%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.057%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 246 (14.09%) Driving Licence
2 53 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 41 (2.35%) FMCG
4 29 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (1.37%) PMI
6 23 (1.32%) Social Media
7 20 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.03%) Cyberattack
9 18 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
10 17 (0.97%) Data Centre
11 16 (0.92%) Life Science
12 12 (0.69%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (0.46%) NHS
17 6 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
17 6 (0.34%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.03%) Windows
2 10 (0.57%) Windows Vista
3 5 (0.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.057%) Linux
5 1 (0.057%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,286 (73.65%) Project Management
2 555 (31.79%) Project Delivery
3 396 (22.68%) Risk Management
4 336 (19.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 298 (17.07%) Agile
6 287 (16.44%) PRINCE2
7 200 (11.45%) Scorecard
8 197 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
9 189 (10.82%) Balanced Scorecard
10 154 (8.82%) Budget Management
11 148 (8.48%) Waterfall
12 140 (8.02%) Business Case
13 108 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 107 (6.13%) Project Planning
15 106 (6.07%) Change Management
16 83 (4.75%) Quality Management
17 82 (4.70%) Budgeting
18 78 (4.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 72 (4.12%) ERP
20 65 (3.72%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 21 (1.20%) SQL
2 3 (0.17%) Java
3 2 (0.11%) C++
3 2 (0.11%) Python
4 1 (0.057%) PHP
4 1 (0.057%) VBA
Qualifications
1 346 (19.82%) Degree
2 257 (14.72%) BPSS Clearance
3 108 (6.19%) PMP
4 90 (5.15%) PMI Certification
5 67 (3.84%) HNC
6 47 (2.69%) Security Cleared
7 37 (2.12%) HND
8 34 (1.95%) DBS Check
9 32 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 26 (1.49%) MRICS
11 24 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 20 (1.15%) APMP
14 16 (0.92%) MBA
14 16 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 14 (0.80%) MAPM
16 12 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (0.69%) SC Cleared
17 7 (0.40%) RIBA
18 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.24%) NEBOSH
2 68 (3.89%) QA
3 37 (2.12%) PMO
4 21 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.03%) PMBOK
6 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.23%) GDPR
10 2 (0.11%) EMIR
10 2 (0.11%) GRC
10 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.11%) MiFID
10 2 (0.11%) NIST
11 1 (0.057%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.057%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.057%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.057%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (0.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.057%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (0.057%) Netcool
Vendors
1 222 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 69 (3.95%) SAP
3 57 (3.26%) NEC
4 43 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 26 (1.49%) Oracle
6 18 (1.03%) Google
7 17 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 11 (0.63%) Capita
9 8 (0.46%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.40%) Cisco
10 7 (0.40%) Databricks
11 6 (0.34%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.29%) Adobe
12 5 (0.29%) Teradata
13 4 (0.23%) IBM
14 3 (0.17%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.17%) OpenText
15 2 (0.11%) HubSpot
15 2 (0.11%) Marketo
15 2 (0.11%) Progress