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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 340 388
Rank change year-on-year -118 +48 +46
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 192 445 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.82% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.91% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 128 214 255
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,550 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,188 £46,250 £39,280
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,675 £89,825 £83,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -18.18%

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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Top 14 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 4 January 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 -92 179 £65,000 +13.04% 135
UK excluding London -134 106 £55,000 - 107
London +58 63 £66,250 -22.06% 39
Work from Home +26 42 £55,000 - 42
South East -74 40 £55,000 -6.78% 35
Midlands -18 25 £45,000 -11.76% 28
North of England -11 24 £50,000 -9.09% 29
North West +8 19 £50,000 -9.09% 19
West Midlands -7 15 £60,000 +26.32% 21
East Midlands -2 9 £40,750 -24.54% 7
South West -42 9 £62,782 +4.64% 9
East of England +7 7 £75,000 +15.84% 8
Yorkshire -16 5 £47,500 -4.04% 6
Wales +1 1 £65,000 -5.45%

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 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.08%) AutoCAD
3 4 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.04%) Sketch
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.52%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.52%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.52%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.52%) Navisworks
5 1 (0.52%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.56%) Primavera
2 3 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.04%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 2 (1.04%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.98%) Azure
2 15 (7.81%) Power Platform
3 13 (6.77%) SaaS
4 11 (5.73%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.60%) Google Ads
8 3 (1.56%) Asana
8 3 (1.56%) AWS
8 3 (1.56%) Matillion
8 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.56%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.04%) Boomi
9 2 (1.04%) Figma
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.52%) OCI
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.13%) Firewall
2 4 (2.08%) Wireless
3 3 (1.56%) WebEx
4 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.60%) Power BI
2 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.04%) EDMS
3 2 (1.04%) MySQL
3 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.52%) FileMaker
4 1 (0.52%) GIS
4 1 (0.52%) RavenDB
4 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (6.77%) JIRA
2 10 (5.21%) Selenium
3 6 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 6 (3.13%) Postman
4 4 (2.08%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.04%) Git
6 1 (0.52%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.38%) Finance
3 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Legal
5 12 (6.25%) Law
6 10 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.69%) Marketing
7 9 (4.69%) Retail
8 8 (4.17%) Advertising
9 7 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 6 (3.13%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.08%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.56%) Billing
12 3 (1.56%) Electronics
12 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.04%) Back Office
13 2 (1.04%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 51 (26.56%) Project Manager
2 38 (19.79%) Senior
3 26 (13.54%) Analyst
4 20 (10.42%) Business Analyst
5 15 (7.81%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 15 (7.81%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (7.29%) Lead
7 12 (6.25%) Consultant
8 9 (4.69%) Senior Manager
8 9 (4.69%) Senior Project Manager
9 7 (3.65%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (3.13%) Commercial Manager
10 6 (3.13%) Commercial Project Manager
10 6 (3.13%) Developer
10 6 (3.13%) Finance Business Analyst
10 6 (3.13%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (2.60%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.08%) IT Project Manager
12 4 (2.08%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.69%) .NET
2 6 (3.13%) CSS
2 6 (3.13%) HTML
3 4 (2.08%) Gherkin
3 4 (2.08%) XML
4 2 (1.04%) Material Design
4 2 (1.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (1.04%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.52%) HTML5
5 1 (0.52%) Kendo UI
5 1 (0.52%) Middleware
5 1 (0.52%) Pyramid
5 1 (0.52%) React
5 1 (0.52%) SPFx
5 1 (0.52%) WinForms
5 1 (0.52%) WPF
5 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.17%) Management Information System
1 8 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.13%) Social Media
3 5 (2.60%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.56%) Cyberattack
5 3 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.56%) Digital Signage
5 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.04%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.04%) Blog
6 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.21%) Windows
2 3 (1.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.58%) Agile
2 61 (31.77%) Project Delivery
3 54 (28.13%) Project Management
4 50 (26.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (15.63%) Change Management
7 26 (13.54%) PRINCE2
8 25 (13.02%) Requirements Gathering
9 24 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (11.98%) Business Case
10 23 (11.98%) Coaching
11 20 (10.42%) ERP
11 20 (10.42%) Mentoring
12 17 (8.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (8.33%) Risk Management
13 16 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
14 15 (7.81%) Test Automation
14 15 (7.81%) Time Management
14 15 (7.81%) Validation
15 14 (7.29%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.69%) C#
2 6 (3.13%) JavaScript
2 6 (3.13%) SQL
3 5 (2.60%) C
4 2 (1.04%) C++
4 2 (1.04%) Java
4 2 (1.04%) Python
4 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.52%) Bash
5 1 (0.52%) Bicep
5 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.52%) PHP
5 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (26.04%) Degree
2 22 (11.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 18 (9.38%) PMI Certification
4 17 (8.85%) PMP
5 12 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 11 (5.73%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.65%) DBS Check
7 7 (3.65%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.08%) APMP
9 4 (2.08%) CAPM
9 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.08%) ISEB
9 4 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (1.56%) HND
10 3 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.52%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.46%) QA
2 11 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 5 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.56%) PMO
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.52%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Grafana
1 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.21%) SAP
3 7 (3.65%) Cisco
4 6 (3.13%) NEC
4 6 (3.13%) Oracle
5 5 (2.60%) Aruba
5 5 (2.60%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.60%) Google
5 5 (2.60%) Meraki
6 4 (2.08%) Anaplan
6 4 (2.08%) Draytek
6 4 (2.08%) Pega
6 4 (2.08%) Sophos
6 4 (2.08%) Tagetik
6 4 (2.08%) WorldPay
7 3 (1.56%) Adobe
7 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.56%) Workday
8 2 (1.04%) webMethods