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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 388 332
Rank change year-on-year -54 -56 +121
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 226 417 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.61% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.74% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 153 189 278
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,989
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,961
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £80,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +3.96% -8.18%

All Process and 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 45,732 56,416 49,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 83.00% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,268 29,481 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Top 15 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 14 November 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 -42 206 £63,750 +18.06% 205
UK excluding London -72 128 £53,000 +0.95% 147
London +57 75 £67,500 -10.00% 84
Work from Home +49 66 £51,000 -5.56% 104
South East -39 43 £55,000 +10.00% 52
North of England +29 29 £50,500 +6.32% 25
North West +44 24 £56,750 +3.18% 14
East of England +21 19 £48,000 -11.11% 6
Midlands +8 16 £55,000 +4.76% 40
South West -13 12 £45,564 -17.16% 14
West Midlands +5 11 £65,000 +36.84% 25
Scotland -8 6 £62,500 +29.59% 6
Yorkshire +2 5 £47,500 +11.76% 7
East Midlands +5 4 £40,000 -25.93% 15
Wales +3 3 £65,000 -31.58% 4

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 6 (2.65%) Confluence
1 6 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.44%) CMS
3 1 (0.44%) Drupal
3 1 (0.44%) Kentico
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.21%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.77%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.88%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.88%) Sketch
5 2 (0.88%) Trello
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.44%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.44%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.44%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.44%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.44%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.44%) TeamGantt
6 1 (0.44%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.77%) Primavera
3 3 (1.33%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.88%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.44%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.44%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.39%) Azure
2 20 (8.85%) Power Platform
3 17 (7.52%) SaaS
4 14 (6.19%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.21%) Google Ads
8 4 (1.77%) AWS
8 4 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.77%) OCI
9 3 (1.33%) Asana
9 3 (1.33%) Matillion
9 3 (1.33%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.88%) Boomi
10 2 (0.88%) Figma
10 2 (0.88%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.44%) Google Drive
11 1 (0.44%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.87%) Firewall
2 8 (3.54%) Wireless
3 4 (1.77%) DHCP
3 4 (1.77%) DNS
3 4 (1.77%) InfiniBand
3 4 (1.77%) LAN
4 3 (1.33%) WebEx
5 1 (0.44%) Network Security
5 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.10%) Power BI
2 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.88%) GIS
3 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.44%) MySQL
4 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.44%) RavenDB
4 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.75%) JIRA
2 6 (2.65%) Selenium
3 4 (1.77%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.88%) Git
4 2 (0.88%) Postman
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 97 (42.92%) Finance
1 97 (42.92%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (11.95%) Legal
4 22 (9.73%) Law
5 14 (6.19%) Retail
6 12 (5.31%) Billing
6 12 (5.31%) Electronics
7 11 (4.87%) Banking
8 10 (4.42%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.98%) Local Government
9 9 (3.98%) Marketing
9 9 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.54%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.10%) Advertising
11 7 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.10%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.21%) Automotive
12 5 (2.21%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 67 (29.65%) Project Manager
2 38 (16.81%) Senior
3 36 (15.93%) Analyst
4 29 (12.83%) Business Analyst
5 24 (10.62%) Lead
6 15 (6.64%) Consultant
7 13 (5.75%) Sales Manager
8 12 (5.31%) Senior Consultant
8 12 (5.31%) Senior Manager
9 11 (4.87%) Operations Manager
9 11 (4.87%) Operations Project Manager
9 11 (4.87%) Sales Operations Manager
10 10 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Senior Project Manager
12 8 (3.54%) Architect
12 8 (3.54%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 6 (2.65%) Commercial Project Manager
13 6 (2.65%) Finance Business Analyst
13 6 (2.65%) Financial Analyst
13 6 (2.65%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.54%) .NET
2 6 (2.65%) HTML
3 5 (2.21%) CSS
4 4 (1.77%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.77%) XML
5 2 (0.88%) Material Design
5 2 (0.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (0.88%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.44%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.44%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.44%) D3.js
6 1 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.44%) IDoc
6 1 (0.44%) Pandas
6 1 (0.44%) Plotly
6 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.44%) React
6 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.44%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.75%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.65%) Market Risk
4 6 (2.65%) Social Media
5 5 (2.21%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.21%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.21%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.33%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.33%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.33%) Digital Signage
7 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.54%) Windows
2 7 (3.10%) Linux
3 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (39.82%) Agile
2 86 (38.05%) Project Management
3 81 (35.84%) Project Delivery
4 55 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (22.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (18.58%) Change Management
7 35 (15.49%) PRINCE2
8 33 (14.60%) Risk Management
9 29 (12.83%) ERP
10 28 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (11.95%) CRM
12 26 (11.50%) Mentoring
13 25 (11.06%) Budget Management
14 23 (10.18%) Requirements Gathering
15 22 (9.73%) Analytics
15 22 (9.73%) Computer Science
16 20 (8.85%) Time Management
17 18 (7.96%) Business Development
17 18 (7.96%) Process Improvement
17 18 (7.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.54%) C#
2 6 (2.65%) Python
3 5 (2.21%) SQL
4 4 (1.77%) Bash
4 4 (1.77%) C
4 4 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.33%) C++
5 3 (1.33%) Perl
6 1 (0.44%) Bicep
6 1 (0.44%) Java
6 1 (0.44%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.44%) PHP
6 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 71 (31.42%) Degree
2 23 (10.18%) PMI Certification
3 22 (9.73%) PMP
4 21 (9.29%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.08%) Master's Degree
6 15 (6.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (6.19%) SC Cleared
8 11 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.10%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.10%) ISTQB
10 6 (2.65%) CFA
10 6 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 5 (2.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.21%) CCSP
11 5 (2.21%) CISM
11 5 (2.21%) CISSP
11 5 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (1.77%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.50%) QA
2 9 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.65%) NIST
4 6 (2.65%) PMO
5 3 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.33%) GDPR
5 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.88%) WCAG
7 1 (0.44%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.44%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.44%) IFRS
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.44%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (1.77%) NFS
1 4 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.33%) GPFS
2 3 (1.33%) Lustre
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Docker
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.44%) Grafana
1 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.41%) Oracle
3 9 (3.98%) SAP
4 7 (3.10%) Cisco
5 6 (2.65%) Google
5 6 (2.65%) Murex
5 6 (2.65%) NEC
6 5 (2.21%) Aruba
6 5 (2.21%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.21%) Meraki
7 4 (1.77%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.77%) Draytek
7 4 (1.77%) Pega
7 4 (1.77%) Sophos
7 4 (1.77%) Tagetik
7 4 (1.77%) WorldPay
8 3 (1.33%) Adobe
8 3 (1.33%) FIS
9 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.88%) Workday