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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 403 390
Rank change year-on-year -169 -13 -50
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 241 308 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.70% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 123 170 261
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,753 £47,625 £39,876
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +25.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,313 £76,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,400 £105,000 £90,822
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £51,750 £48,250
% change year-on-year +8.21% +7.25% -8.10%

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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 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 11 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 -153 223 £56,000 -10.40% 282
UK excluding London -140 163 £56,000 +8.21% 194
Work from Home -54 65 £56,000 +9.80% 113
London -69 64 £58,000 -14.07% 107
South East -58 47 £56,000 -10.40% 72
North of England -48 32 £52,500 +5.00% 22
Midlands -52 32 £46,205 +15.51% 35
West Midlands -22 26 £51,852 +29.63% 19
East of England -35 26 £75,000 +56.25% 26
South West -75 20 £57,500 +43.75% 28
North West -38 19 £55,000 +10.00% 11
Yorkshire -39 12 £52,000 +9.47% 9
East Midlands -47 5 £39,000 +7.59% 15
Wales -66 4 £26,400 - 3
Scotland 0 1 £50,000 -20.00% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £75,000 - 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 13 (5.39%) Confluence
2 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 34 (14.11%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (10.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.66%) Trello
6 2 (0.83%) Navisworks
6 2 (0.83%) Revit
7 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (10.37%) Primavera
2 15 (6.22%) SAP EHS
3 8 (3.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.41%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.05%) Azure
2 16 (6.64%) Smartsheet
3 12 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.24%) GitHub
7 3 (1.24%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.24%) SaaS
8 2 (0.83%) AWS
8 2 (0.83%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.83%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.41%) Asana
9 1 (0.41%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.41%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.41%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.41%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.32%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (2.49%) Network Security
3 5 (2.07%) Firewall
3 5 (2.07%) Wireless
4 4 (1.66%) DHCP
4 4 (1.66%) DNS
4 4 (1.66%) VLAN
5 3 (1.24%) LAN
5 3 (1.24%) SMS
5 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.24%) VoIP
5 3 (1.24%) WAN
6 2 (0.83%) BGP
6 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.83%) IP Telephony
6 2 (0.83%) NAS
6 2 (0.83%) OSPF
6 2 (0.83%) SAN
6 2 (0.83%) SSL
6 2 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.32%) Power BI
2 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.24%) DTS
4 2 (0.83%) Metadata
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.83%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (9.54%) JIRA
2 8 (3.32%) LabVIEW
3 7 (2.90%) Git
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) JUnit
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 120 (49.79%) Social Skills
2 78 (32.37%) Finance
3 44 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (15.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (14.11%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (8.30%) Legal
7 18 (7.47%) Banking
8 17 (7.05%) Aerospace
9 14 (5.81%) Retail
10 13 (5.39%) Local Government
11 12 (4.98%) Electronics
11 12 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (4.56%) Manufacturing
13 9 (3.73%) Public Sector
13 9 (3.73%) Telecoms
14 8 (3.32%) Military
15 7 (2.90%) Marketing
16 6 (2.49%) Law
17 4 (1.66%) Advertising
17 4 (1.66%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 63 (26.14%) Project Manager
2 35 (14.52%) Senior
3 30 (12.45%) Lead
4 26 (10.79%) Analyst
5 19 (7.88%) Business Analyst
6 12 (4.98%) Senior Manager
7 11 (4.56%) Junior
7 11 (4.56%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.73%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.73%) IT Project Manager
8 9 (3.73%) Senior Project Manager
8 9 (3.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 7 (2.90%) Administrator
9 7 (2.90%) Consultant
9 7 (2.90%) Junior Project Administrator
9 7 (2.90%) Project Administrator
9 7 (2.90%) Project Support Administrator
10 6 (2.49%) Cabling Engineer
10 6 (2.49%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.07%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.07%) .NET
2 3 (1.24%) Middleware
3 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (0.83%) CSS
3 2 (0.83%) CSS3
3 2 (0.83%) HTML
3 2 (0.83%) HTML5
3 2 (0.83%) React
3 2 (0.83%) Terraform
3 2 (0.83%) Vue
3 2 (0.83%) YAML
4 1 (0.41%) EDI
4 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.41%) JSON
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.41%) WireMock
4 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.47%) PMI
2 11 (4.56%) Renewable Energy
2 11 (4.56%) Security Posture
3 9 (3.73%) Fibre Optics
4 7 (2.90%) FPGA
5 6 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.66%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.66%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.83%) CCTV
8 2 (0.83%) Clustering
8 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.83%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.83%) Verilog
8 2 (0.83%) VHDL
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.39%) Linux
2 4 (1.66%) CentOS
2 4 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.66%) Rocky
3 3 (1.24%) Windows
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (42.74%) Project Management
2 96 (39.83%) Agile
3 85 (35.27%) Project Delivery
4 73 (30.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 64 (26.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (16.18%) Decision-Making
8 37 (15.35%) Risk Management
9 35 (14.52%) Mentoring
9 35 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 30 (12.45%) PRINCE2
11 29 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
11 29 (12.03%) Waterfall
12 28 (11.62%) Resource Management
13 24 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (9.96%) ERP
13 24 (9.96%) Roadmaps
14 23 (9.54%) Budget Management
15 22 (9.13%) Strategic Planning
16 20 (8.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.54%) Python
2 11 (4.56%) C++
3 8 (3.32%) MATLAB
4 7 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.49%) SQL
6 5 (2.07%) C
6 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.66%) C#
7 4 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.24%) Java
8 3 (1.24%) Rust
9 1 (0.41%) Bash
9 1 (0.41%) Bicep
9 1 (0.41%) R
9 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 77 (31.95%) Degree
2 48 (19.92%) Security Cleared
3 35 (14.52%) PMI Certification
4 31 (12.86%) SC Cleared
5 20 (8.30%) Master's Degree
6 19 (7.88%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (7.05%) PMP
8 16 (6.64%) CISSP
9 15 (6.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 15 (6.22%) CCSP
9 15 (6.22%) DV Cleared
10 13 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (4.56%) CISM
12 9 (3.73%) PhD
13 8 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.66%) CCNA
14 4 (1.66%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 2 (0.83%) Chartered Engineer
16 2 (0.83%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.77%) QA
2 18 (7.47%) PMO
3 16 (6.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (6.22%) NIST
5 13 (5.39%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.90%) GDPR
7 4 (1.66%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.24%) PERC
9 1 (0.41%) ARP4761
9 1 (0.41%) DO-160
9 1 (0.41%) DO-254
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (2.07%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (2.07%) Firmware
2 4 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Docker
3 2 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.83%) Ansible
2 2 (0.83%) Grafana
2 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.83%) Thomson Reuters DACS
3 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (12.86%) SAP
2 29 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.90%) NEC
4 5 (2.07%) Google
4 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.66%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.66%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.24%) BMC
6 3 (1.24%) Cisco
6 3 (1.24%) Cognizant
6 3 (1.24%) dotdigital
6 3 (1.24%) Oracle
6 3 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) Altera
7 2 (0.83%) FactSet
7 2 (0.83%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.83%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.83%) Intel
7 2 (0.83%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.83%) Xilinx