Project Manager
UK

The median Project Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 80 95 114
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 1,946 4,305 4,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.67% 3.50% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% 3.67% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 2,959 3,083
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £70,063 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 50,561 117,203 121,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.41% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 36,942 73,752 84,378
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,798 £32,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Project Manager in the UK

Project Manager
Top 17 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 7 December 2023. 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 +12 1,730 £60,000 - 1,018
UK excluding London +15 1,200 £55,000 - 755
Work from Home -10 786 £58,500 +1.74% 679
London +9 636 £70,000 - 316
North of England +28 321 £55,000 +4.76% 171
South East -8 246 £60,000 +4.35% 203
South West +32 213 £52,500 +5.00% 111
Midlands +14 187 £57,500 +4.55% 136
North West +24 164 £56,011 +1.84% 97
Yorkshire +38 139 £55,000 +10.00% 62
West Midlands +12 121 £57,500 +4.55% 99
East of England +42 87 £57,500 +4.55% 80
Scotland -13 79 £55,000 - 56
East Midlands +6 59 £55,000 +4.76% 35
Wales +14 52 £52,500 +0.96% 24
North East +7 18 £55,000 +22.22% 13
Northern Ireland +35 17 £57,500 +27.78% 6

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2023, 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 1,340 (68.86%) Project Management
2 804 (41.32%) Project Delivery
3 779 (40.03%) Agile
4 601 (30.88%) Finance
5 573 (29.45%) PRINCE2
6 569 (29.24%) Social Skills
7 511 (26.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 397 (20.40%) Degree
9 379 (19.48%) Waterfall
10 271 (13.93%) Security Cleared
11 268 (13.77%) SDLC
12 252 (12.95%) Scrum
13 237 (12.18%) Change Management
14 225 (11.56%) ERP
15 218 (11.20%) Microsoft
16 213 (10.95%) Migration
17 202 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
18 171 (8.79%) Risk Management
19 169 (8.68%) Computer Science
20 167 (8.58%) Budget Management
21 161 (8.27%) Public Sector
22 158 (8.12%) Business Case
23 154 (7.91%) SC Cleared
24 143 (7.35%) Virtual Team
25 141 (7.25%) PMO
26 140 (7.19%) Management Information System
27 139 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
28 137 (7.04%) Salesforce
28 137 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
29 135 (6.94%) Actionable Insight

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 39 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.59%) Confluence
3 14 (0.72%) CMS
4 3 (0.15%) Drupal
4 3 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.15%) MS Exchange
4 3 (0.15%) WordPress
5 2 (0.10%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.10%) Captiva
5 2 (0.10%) Documentum
5 2 (0.10%) IIS
5 2 (0.10%) MS Project Server
6 1 (0.051%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.051%) SAS
6 1 (0.051%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 122 (6.27%) Microsoft Project
2 105 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 40 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.36%) Trello
7 4 (0.21%) InDesign
7 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
2 11 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.46%) Primavera
4 9 (0.46%) Shopify
5 8 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.41%) SAP EWM
6 6 (0.31%) Infor M3
6 6 (0.31%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.15%) Maximo
8 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.10%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.10%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 110 (5.65%) Azure
2 70 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (2.06%) SaaS
4 33 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (1.64%) AWS
6 26 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (1.23%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.46%) Smartsheet
9 7 (0.36%) GCP
10 5 (0.26%) Google Analytics
11 4 (0.21%) GitHub
11 4 (0.21%) Intacct
11 4 (0.21%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.21%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.15%) Contentful
12 3 (0.15%) IaaS
12 3 (0.15%) PaaS
12 3 (0.15%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.10%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.28%) WAN
1 25 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (0.92%) LAN
3 16 (0.82%) Firewall
4 12 (0.62%) SD-WAN
5 11 (0.57%) Unified Communications
6 9 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
7 8 (0.41%) 5G
7 8 (0.41%) DHCP
7 8 (0.41%) DNS
8 7 (0.36%) MPLS
9 6 (0.31%) VoIP
10 5 (0.26%) Intranet
11 4 (0.21%) VLAN
11 4 (0.21%) VPN
11 4 (0.21%) Wireless
12 3 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.10%) DKIM
13 2 (0.10%) DMARC
13 2 (0.10%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (0.82%) Power BI
2 7 (0.36%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (0.15%) DB2
4 3 (0.15%) GIS
4 3 (0.15%) Metadata
5 2 (0.10%) Big Data
5 2 (0.10%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.10%) DTS
5 2 (0.10%) EDMS
5 2 (0.10%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.10%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.051%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.051%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.051%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.051%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.051%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.051%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.051%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (5.09%) JIRA
2 6 (0.31%) RequisitePro
3 5 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (0.15%) TestRail
5 1 (0.051%) Eclipse
General
1 601 (30.88%) Finance
2 569 (29.24%) Social Skills
3 161 (8.27%) Public Sector
4 132 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (6.32%) Manufacturing
6 117 (6.01%) Organisational Skills
7 116 (5.96%) Retail
8 91 (4.68%) Legal
9 83 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
10 68 (3.49%) Marketing
11 63 (3.24%) Telecoms
12 62 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
12 62 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (2.57%) Banking
14 40 (2.06%) Electronics
15 31 (1.59%) Law
16 28 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.03%) Back Office
19 16 (0.82%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (1.18%) .NET
2 17 (0.87%) RESTful
3 15 (0.77%) SOAP
4 8 (0.41%) CSS
5 6 (0.31%) EDI
6 4 (0.21%) ADO
6 4 (0.21%) HTML
7 1 (0.051%) Akka
7 1 (0.051%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.051%) Leaflet
7 1 (0.051%) Next.js
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.051%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.051%) Series 60
7 1 (0.051%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (0.051%) Velocity
Miscellaneous
1 143 (7.35%) Virtual Team
2 140 (7.19%) Management Information System
3 56 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 39 (2.00%) PMI
5 35 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 27 (1.39%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.03%) Driving Licence
7 20 (1.03%) NHS
8 19 (0.98%) Reinsurance
9 17 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 17 (0.87%) Product Ownership
10 16 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
11 15 (0.77%) FMCG
12 11 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.46%) Life Science
13 9 (0.46%) Robotics
14 6 (0.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.31%) Video Conferencing
15 5 (0.26%) Mainframe
15 5 (0.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (2.26%) Windows
2 14 (0.72%) Windows Server
3 13 (0.67%) Windows 10
4 12 (0.62%) Android
4 12 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.51%) Linux
6 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.10%) VMS
7 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.051%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,340 (68.86%) Project Management
2 804 (41.32%) Project Delivery
3 779 (40.03%) Agile
4 573 (29.45%) PRINCE2
5 511 (26.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 379 (19.48%) Waterfall
7 268 (13.77%) SDLC
8 252 (12.95%) Scrum
9 237 (12.18%) Change Management
10 225 (11.56%) ERP
11 213 (10.95%) Migration
12 202 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
13 171 (8.79%) Risk Management
14 169 (8.68%) Computer Science
15 167 (8.58%) Budget Management
16 158 (8.12%) Business Case
17 137 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 135 (6.94%) Actionable Insight
19 120 (6.17%) Agile Project Management
20 115 (5.91%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (1.39%) JavaScript
2 17 (0.87%) SQL
3 9 (0.46%) Java
4 8 (0.41%) C++
5 7 (0.36%) C#
5 7 (0.36%) Python
6 3 (0.15%) COBOL
7 2 (0.10%) C
8 1 (0.051%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.051%) PHP
8 1 (0.051%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.051%) VB
Qualifications
1 397 (20.40%) Degree
2 271 (13.93%) Security Cleared
3 154 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 139 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 119 (6.12%) DV Cleared
6 116 (5.96%) PMI Certification
7 114 (5.86%) PMP
8 71 (3.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 61 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 31 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 19 (0.98%) APMP
12 19 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.41%) MBA
14 7 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
15 6 (0.31%) HND
16 5 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
17 4 (0.21%) RIBA
18 3 (0.15%) ISEB
18 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.25%) PMO
2 91 (4.68%) QA
3 13 (0.67%) GRC
4 9 (0.46%) Good Clinical Practice
5 8 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 7 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.36%) SLA
7 5 (0.26%) GDPR
8 4 (0.21%) COBIT
9 3 (0.15%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.10%) P3O
11 1 (0.051%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.051%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.051%) HAZOP
11 1 (0.051%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.051%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.051%) PMBOK
11 1 (0.051%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.31%) Firmware
3 5 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (0.46%) SCOM
2 6 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (0.15%) WSUS
4 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.10%) Nessus
4 2 (0.10%) SCCM
4 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.051%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 218 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 137 (7.04%) Salesforce
3 118 (6.06%) NEC
4 105 (5.40%) SAP
5 41 (2.11%) Oracle
6 32 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 18 (0.92%) Google
8 14 (0.72%) Cisco
9 13 (0.67%) IBM
9 13 (0.67%) Sage
10 12 (0.62%) Civica
10 12 (0.62%) NetApp
10 12 (0.62%) Northgate
11 10 (0.51%) VMware
12 9 (0.46%) Adobe
12 9 (0.46%) Anaplan
12 9 (0.46%) Workday
13 7 (0.36%) HP
14 6 (0.31%) eFront
15 5 (0.26%) Planview