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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 353 342
Rank change year-on-year -149 -11 +69
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 217 344 810
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.79% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.84% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 119 178 498
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,473 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,750 £74,375 £66,778
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £59,000 £46,148
% change year-on-year +3.39% +27.85% -16.10%

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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

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 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Top 16 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 12 May 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 -128 207 £61,805 +3.01% 110
UK excluding London -152 138 £61,000 +3.39% 74
London +8 64 £65,625 -22.79% 34
Work from Home -25 51 £63,076 +15.73% 33
North of England -47 47 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Midlands -52 35 £54,640 +9.28% 17
South East -71 31 £62,500 - 18
North West -18 27 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands -29 26 £54,640 +12.08% 9
Yorkshire -55 18 £50,000 -8.75% 2
East of England -34 12 £82,500 +50.00% 19
South West -55 11 £47,500 +1.06% 9
East Midlands -49 8 £72,500 -23.68% 8
North East -35 2 £63,076 - 1
Scotland -14 1 - - 1
Wales -26 1 £76,500 +104.00% 2

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 7 (3.23%) Confluence
2 5 (2.30%) CMS
3 2 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Primavera
2 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.46%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.46%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.46%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.46%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.53%) Azure
2 9 (4.15%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.84%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.38%) AWS
7 3 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.38%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (1.38%) GCP
7 3 (1.38%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.38%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.92%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.92%) SaaS
8 2 (0.92%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.92%) Zapier
9 1 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.76%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (2.30%) Network Security
3 4 (1.84%) Firewall
3 4 (1.84%) Wireless
4 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.92%) BGP
5 2 (0.92%) DHCP
5 2 (0.92%) DNS
5 2 (0.92%) OSPF
5 2 (0.92%) VLAN
5 2 (0.92%) Wireless Backhaul
6 1 (0.46%) LAN
6 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.46%) SMS
6 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.84%) Power BI
1 4 (1.84%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.38%) FileMaker
2 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.92%) EDMS
3 2 (0.92%) Metadata
3 2 (0.92%) Power Query
3 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) MySQL
4 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.83%) JIRA
2 5 (2.30%) Cypress.io
2 5 (2.30%) Postman
2 5 (2.30%) Selenium
3 2 (0.92%) Git
4 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 76 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 59 (27.19%) Finance
3 42 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (10.60%) Retail
5 21 (9.68%) Banking
6 16 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (6.91%) Local Government
7 15 (6.91%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.07%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.69%) Advertising
9 8 (3.69%) Marketing
10 7 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.76%) Legal
12 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.84%) Law
13 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.38%) French Language
14 3 (1.38%) Front Office
14 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (25.81%) Senior
2 50 (23.04%) Project Manager
3 24 (11.06%) Senior Manager
4 20 (9.22%) Analyst
5 19 (8.76%) Senior Project Manager
5 19 (8.76%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 18 (8.29%) Business Analyst
6 18 (8.29%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (6.91%) Consultant
8 12 (5.53%) Digital Project Manager
8 12 (5.53%) Junior
8 12 (5.53%) Security Manager
8 12 (5.53%) Security Project Manager
8 12 (5.53%) Senior Digital Project Manager
9 11 (5.07%) Lead
10 9 (4.15%) Developer
11 7 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.76%) Cabling Engineer
12 6 (2.76%) Support Engineer
13 5 (2.30%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.69%) CSS
1 8 (3.69%) HTML
2 7 (3.23%) .NET
3 3 (1.38%) Middleware
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.46%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.46%) Pyramid
5 1 (0.46%) SPFx
5 1 (0.46%) Web Services
5 1 (0.46%) WinForms
5 1 (0.46%) WireMock
5 1 (0.46%) WPF
5 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.91%) Security Posture
2 8 (3.69%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.84%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.84%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.84%) Life Science
7 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.38%) FMCG
8 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.92%) Blog
8 2 (0.92%) FPGA
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.92%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.92%) Social Media
9 1 (0.46%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.23%) Linux
1 7 (3.23%) Windows
2 4 (1.84%) Android
3 3 (1.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.38%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (28.57%) Project Management
2 49 (22.58%) Mentoring
2 49 (22.58%) Project Delivery
3 46 (21.20%) Agile
4 42 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
6 34 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (11.98%) Coaching
7 26 (11.98%) Risk Management
8 24 (11.06%) Systems Engineering
9 22 (10.14%) Budget Management
10 21 (9.68%) Business Development
11 19 (8.76%) Strategic Thinking
12 18 (8.29%) Change Management
12 18 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (7.83%) Resource Management
13 17 (7.83%) Target Operating Model
13 17 (7.83%) Time Management
14 16 (7.37%) AI
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.53%) SQL
2 9 (4.15%) JavaScript
2 9 (4.15%) Python
3 4 (1.84%) C
3 4 (1.84%) Java
3 4 (1.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.38%) Bash
5 2 (0.92%) C#
5 2 (0.92%) C++
6 1 (0.46%) Bicep
6 1 (0.46%) R
6 1 (0.46%) Scala
6 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (23.50%) Degree
2 28 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 20 (9.22%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (8.76%) CISSP
5 18 (8.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 18 (8.29%) CCSP
5 18 (8.29%) Master's Degree
6 15 (6.91%) CISM
6 15 (6.91%) Security Cleared
7 9 (4.15%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.30%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.30%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.84%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.84%) PMP
10 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.38%) PhD
10 3 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.92%) CCNA
11 2 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.59%) QA
2 18 (8.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (8.29%) NIST
3 16 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 12 (5.53%) PMO
5 4 (1.84%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.92%) GDPR
8 1 (0.46%) ARP4761
8 1 (0.46%) DO-160
8 1 (0.46%) DO-254
8 1 (0.46%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (0.92%) Firmware
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.92%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.46%) Grafana
2 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.23%) NEC
3 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.84%) Google
4 4 (1.84%) SAP
4 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.38%) BMC
5 3 (1.38%) Cognizant
5 3 (1.38%) Freshdesk
5 3 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.92%) FactSet
6 2 (0.92%) Guidewire
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle
6 2 (0.92%) Refinitiv
6 2 (0.92%) Workday
7 1 (0.46%) Concur
7 1 (0.46%) dotdigital
7 1 (0.46%) Meraki
7 1 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud