Project Planning Job Trends

Project Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Project Planning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 389 335
Rank change year-on-year -2 -54 +99
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 303 478 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.62% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.76% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 166 256 337
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £39,719 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,911 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 43,561 62,745 58,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.66% 80.90% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 24,438 36,124 43,818
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +10 275 £62,500 +25.00% 286
UK excluding London -43 193 £52,500 +10.53% 235
Work from Home +31 84 £52,500 -2.78% 115
London +72 80 £67,500 +2.27% 89
South East -23 61 £62,500 +35.01% 66
North of England +14 39 £50,000 +11.11% 30
Midlands +28 35 £40,000 -23.81% 38
North West +16 35 £50,000 -3.24% 19
East of England -11 31 £48,000 +6.67% 34
South West +36 18 £40,000 -27.27% 53
East Midlands +23 18 £36,250 -32.87% 16
West Midlands +33 16 £46,250 -2.63% 21
Scotland +33 10 £62,500 -22.97% 9
Yorkshire +5 4 £47,500 +11.76% 8
Wales +12 2 - - 7

Project Planning
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 5 (1.65%) Confluence
1 5 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.32%) IIS
3 1 (0.33%) CMS
3 1 (0.33%) Drupal
3 1 (0.33%) Kentico
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (8.58%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.63%) MS Visio
4 10 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (2.97%) Trello
6 6 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.66%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.66%) Sketch
8 1 (0.33%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.33%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.33%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.33%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.33%) TeamGantt
8 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (4.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.32%) Primavera
3 3 (0.99%) Adaptiv
3 3 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.66%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.33%) Actimize
5 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 46 (15.18%) Azure
2 32 (10.56%) Power Platform
3 28 (9.24%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.94%) Microsoft Copilot
5 11 (3.63%) SaaS
6 10 (3.30%) AWS
7 9 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.32%) Google Ads
8 4 (1.32%) Matillion
8 4 (1.32%) OCI
8 4 (1.32%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.32%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.99%) GCP
10 2 (0.66%) Asana
10 2 (0.66%) Figma
11 1 (0.33%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.96%) Firewall
2 8 (2.64%) Wireless
3 7 (2.31%) DHCP
3 7 (2.31%) DNS
4 4 (1.32%) InfiniBand
4 4 (1.32%) LAN
4 4 (1.32%) Network Security
4 4 (1.32%) VPN
5 3 (0.99%) ADSL
5 3 (0.99%) VLAN
5 3 (0.99%) VoIP
6 1 (0.33%) BGP
6 1 (0.33%) GSM
6 1 (0.33%) MPLS
6 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.31%) Power BI
2 5 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.99%) GIS
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.33%) Big Data
5 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.33%) MySQL
5 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (7.26%) JIRA
2 3 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.66%) Postman
3 2 (0.66%) Selenium
4 1 (0.33%) GCC
4 1 (0.33%) gcov
4 1 (0.33%) GDB
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 109 (35.97%) Finance
2 90 (29.70%) Social Skills
3 61 (20.13%) Electronics
4 50 (16.50%) Manufacturing
5 44 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
7 35 (11.55%) Law
8 31 (10.23%) Legal
9 25 (8.25%) Billing
10 17 (5.61%) Marketing
11 15 (4.95%) Retail
12 14 (4.62%) Telecoms
13 13 (4.29%) Banking
14 11 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (2.97%) Local Government
16 6 (1.98%) Advertising
16 6 (1.98%) Automotive
16 6 (1.98%) Public Sector
17 5 (1.65%) Back Office
18 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (28.71%) Project Manager
2 53 (17.49%) Senior
3 39 (12.87%) Associate Engineer
3 39 (12.87%) Design Engineer
3 39 (12.87%) Electronics Design Engineer
3 39 (12.87%) Electronics Engineer
3 39 (12.87%) PCB Design Engineer
3 39 (12.87%) PCB Engineer
4 34 (11.22%) Analyst
5 23 (7.59%) Sales Manager
6 22 (7.26%) Lead
7 21 (6.93%) Business Analyst
7 21 (6.93%) Operations Manager
7 21 (6.93%) Operations Project Manager
7 21 (6.93%) Sales Operations Manager
8 20 (6.60%) Consultant
9 17 (5.61%) Senior Manager
10 16 (5.28%) Senior Consultant
11 15 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (4.29%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.98%) HTML
2 5 (1.65%) CSS
3 3 (0.99%) .NET
4 2 (0.66%) Material Design
4 2 (0.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (0.66%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.33%) D3.js
5 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.33%) HTML5
5 1 (0.33%) IDoc
5 1 (0.33%) OpenCV
5 1 (0.33%) Pandas
5 1 (0.33%) Plotly
5 1 (0.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.33%) React
5 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.33%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.33%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.30%) Onboarding
2 8 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (2.64%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.64%) Social Media
3 7 (2.31%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.31%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.31%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.98%) Market Risk
5 5 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.65%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.99%) Credit Risk
6 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.99%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.66%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (0.66%) Derivative
7 2 (0.66%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.66%) PMI
7 2 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.62%) Windows
2 10 (3.30%) Linux
3 4 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (38.61%) Project Management
2 114 (37.62%) Project Delivery
3 107 (35.31%) Agile
4 66 (21.78%) Change Management
5 63 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (13.53%) CRM
7 41 (13.53%) Risk Management
8 39 (12.87%) Schematic Capture
9 34 (11.22%) PRINCE2
10 33 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (10.23%) Business Case
11 31 (10.23%) Waterfall
12 30 (9.90%) Budget Management
12 30 (9.90%) Business Development
13 29 (9.57%) Decision-Making
13 29 (9.57%) ERP
14 27 (8.91%) Computer Science
14 27 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (8.91%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.63%) SQL
2 8 (2.64%) Python
3 4 (1.32%) Bash
3 4 (1.32%) JavaScript
3 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.99%) C#
4 3 (0.99%) C++
4 3 (0.99%) Perl
5 2 (0.66%) C
5 2 (0.66%) Java
6 1 (0.33%) Ada
6 1 (0.33%) Bicep
6 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.33%) PHP
6 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 129 (42.57%) Degree
2 45 (14.85%) HND
3 30 (9.90%) Security Cleared
4 27 (8.91%) PMI Certification
5 26 (8.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (8.25%) PMP
7 20 (6.60%) Master's Degree
7 20 (6.60%) SC Cleared
8 16 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.97%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.64%) DBS Check
11 8 (2.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 7 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.98%) CFA
14 5 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (1.65%) CCSP
14 5 (1.65%) CISM
14 5 (1.65%) CISSP
15 3 (0.99%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.56%) QA
2 11 (3.63%) PMO
3 10 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.98%) NIST
5 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) WCAG
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.33%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (1.32%) NFS
1 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.99%) GPFS
2 3 (0.99%) Lustre
3 2 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.33%) Grafana
2 1 (0.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 41 (13.53%) EMC
3 28 (9.24%) Oracle
4 9 (2.97%) SAP
5 8 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.31%) Murex
7 5 (1.65%) Cisco
7 5 (1.65%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.65%) Google
8 4 (1.32%) Aruba
8 4 (1.32%) Draytek
8 4 (1.32%) Meraki
8 4 (1.32%) Sophos
9 3 (0.99%) FIS
10 2 (0.66%) Adobe
10 2 (0.66%) Autodesk
10 2 (0.66%) Databricks
10 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.33%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.33%) LexisNexis