Project Planning Job Trends

Project Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Project Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 402 381
Rank change year-on-year -155 -21 -38
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 251 300 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 119 167 256
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,753 £48,000 £39,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,250 £77,500 £66,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £53,750 £49,000
% change year-on-year +4.19% +9.69% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Project Planning 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 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Project Planning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Project Planning job vacancy trend in the UK

Project Planning
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Planning over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
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 Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. 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 -133 232 £56,000 -10.40% 486
UK excluding London -139 174 £56,000 +4.19% 339
Work from Home -44 64 £56,000 +6.67% 173
London -77 62 £54,250 -19.63% 178
South East -50 48 £56,000 -10.40% 118
Midlands -40 39 £46,205 +15.51% 46
North of England -70 35 £52,500 +5.00% 49
West Midlands -30 30 £51,852 +12.11% 24
East of England -33 27 £75,000 +56.25% 51
North West -28 21 £55,000 +10.00% 32
South West -85 19 £57,500 +43.75% 39
Yorkshire -37 13 £52,000 +9.47% 11
East Midlands -52 8 £39,000 +7.59% 21
Wales -67 4 £26,400 - 4
Scotland -5 1 £50,000 -20.00% 26
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 11
North East - 1 £75,000 - 6

Project Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.78%) Confluence
2 5 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 41 (16.33%) Microsoft Project
2 31 (12.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.59%) Trello
6 2 (0.80%) Navisworks
6 2 (0.80%) Revit
7 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.40%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 30 (11.95%) Primavera
2 20 (7.97%) SAP EHS
3 7 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.37%) Smartsheet
2 18 (7.17%) Azure
3 12 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.59%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.59%) Asana
8 3 (1.20%) AWS
8 3 (1.20%) GitHub
8 3 (1.20%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.20%) SaaS
9 2 (0.80%) GCP
9 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.80%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.40%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.40%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.40%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.79%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (2.39%) Network Security
3 5 (1.99%) Firewall
3 5 (1.99%) Wireless
4 4 (1.59%) DHCP
4 4 (1.59%) DNS
4 4 (1.59%) VLAN
5 3 (1.20%) LAN
5 3 (1.20%) SMS
5 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.20%) VoIP
5 3 (1.20%) WAN
6 2 (0.80%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.80%) IP Telephony
6 2 (0.80%) NAS
6 2 (0.80%) SAN
6 2 (0.80%) SSL
6 2 (0.80%) VPN
6 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.80%) Wireless Backhaul
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.19%) Power BI
2 5 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.20%) DTS
4 2 (0.80%) Metadata
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.80%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (9.96%) JIRA
2 8 (3.19%) LabVIEW
3 7 (2.79%) Git
4 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) JUnit
4 1 (0.40%) Postman
4 1 (0.40%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 123 (49.00%) Social Skills
2 79 (31.47%) Finance
3 43 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (15.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (14.74%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (10.36%) Legal
7 18 (7.17%) Banking
8 17 (6.77%) Aerospace
9 14 (5.58%) Retail
10 13 (5.18%) Local Government
11 12 (4.78%) Electronics
11 12 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (3.98%) Manufacturing
13 9 (3.59%) Public Sector
14 8 (3.19%) Military
14 8 (3.19%) Telecoms
15 7 (2.79%) Marketing
16 6 (2.39%) Law
17 4 (1.59%) Advertising
17 4 (1.59%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 65 (25.90%) Project Manager
2 37 (14.74%) Lead
3 35 (13.94%) Senior
4 24 (9.56%) Analyst
5 16 (6.37%) Business Analyst
6 12 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (4.38%) Junior
7 11 (4.38%) Senior Manager
8 10 (3.98%) IT Manager
8 10 (3.98%) IT Project Manager
9 9 (3.59%) Senior Project Manager
9 9 (3.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) Administrator
10 8 (3.19%) Project Administrator
11 7 (2.79%) Junior Project Administrator
11 7 (2.79%) Project Support Administrator
12 6 (2.39%) Data Manager
12 6 (2.39%) Software Engineer
13 5 (1.99%) Consultant
13 5 (1.99%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.99%) .NET
2 3 (1.20%) Middleware
3 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (0.80%) CSS
3 2 (0.80%) CSS3
3 2 (0.80%) HTML
3 2 (0.80%) HTML5
3 2 (0.80%) React
3 2 (0.80%) Terraform
3 2 (0.80%) Vue
3 2 (0.80%) YAML
4 1 (0.40%) EDI
4 1 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.40%) JSON
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.40%) WireMock
4 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.16%) PMI
2 11 (4.38%) Security Posture
3 10 (3.98%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (3.59%) Fibre Optics
5 7 (2.79%) FPGA
5 7 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.80%) CCTV
9 2 (0.80%) Clustering
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.80%) NHS
9 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.80%) Verilog
9 2 (0.80%) VHDL
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.18%) Linux
2 4 (1.59%) CentOS
2 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.59%) Rocky
2 4 (1.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (45.42%) Project Management
2 100 (39.84%) Agile
3 94 (37.45%) Project Delivery
4 77 (30.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 69 (27.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (18.33%) Decision-Making
8 41 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 37 (14.74%) Mentoring
10 36 (14.34%) Risk Management
11 31 (12.35%) PRINCE2
11 31 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (11.95%) ERP
12 30 (11.95%) Waterfall
13 28 (11.16%) Resource Management
14 27 (10.76%) Strategic Planning
15 25 (9.96%) Budget Management
16 24 (9.56%) Cybersecurity
17 23 (9.16%) Roadmaps
18 21 (8.37%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.16%) Python
2 11 (4.38%) C++
3 9 (3.59%) MATLAB
4 7 (2.79%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.39%) C
5 6 (2.39%) SQL
6 5 (1.99%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.59%) C#
7 4 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.59%) Rust
8 3 (1.20%) Java
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
9 1 (0.40%) R
9 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 84 (33.47%) Degree
2 55 (21.91%) Security Cleared
3 40 (15.94%) PMI Certification
4 36 (14.34%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.97%) Master's Degree
6 19 (7.57%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (6.77%) PMP
8 16 (6.37%) CISSP
9 15 (5.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 15 (5.98%) CCSP
9 15 (5.98%) DV Cleared
10 13 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (4.38%) CISM
12 9 (3.59%) PhD
13 8 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.59%) CCNA
14 4 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.80%) APMP
15 2 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 2 (0.80%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.54%) QA
2 19 (7.57%) PMO
3 16 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (5.98%) NIST
5 13 (5.18%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.79%) GDPR
7 4 (1.59%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.20%) PERC
9 1 (0.40%) ARP4761
9 1 (0.40%) DO-160
9 1 (0.40%) DO-254
9 1 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.40%) GxP
9 1 (0.40%) MISRA
System Software
1 6 (2.39%) Firmware
2 5 (1.99%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.80%) Docker
4 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.80%) Ansible
2 2 (0.80%) Grafana
2 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.80%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 1 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 36 (14.34%) SAP
2 32 (12.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.79%) NEC
4 5 (1.99%) Google
4 5 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.20%) BMC
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco
6 3 (1.20%) Cognizant
6 3 (1.20%) dotdigital
6 3 (1.20%) Oracle
6 3 (1.20%) Remedy
6 3 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.80%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.80%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.80%) Intel
7 2 (0.80%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.80%) VMware
7 2 (0.80%) Xilinx