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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 383 340
Rank change year-on-year -155 -43 +31
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 207 321 834
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.72% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.77% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 117 156 492
10th Percentile £40,600 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,875 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% +22.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,625 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £103,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,663 £55,000 £46,293
% change year-on-year +10.30% +18.81% -11.82%

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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -147 198 £62,500 - 84
UK excluding London -153 128 £60,663 +10.30% 72
London -25 66 £65,625 -28.28% 26
Work from Home -29 59 £63,076 +17.49% 35
North of England -32 42 £60,163 +17.97% 7
Midlands -39 29 £63,076 +23.07% 13
South East -69 27 £56,000 -10.40% 23
West Midlands -14 24 £54,640 +9.28% 10
North West -7 23 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire -36 17 £56,250 +2.66% 2
East of England -36 16 £75,000 +70.45% 9
South West -64 11 £47,500 +18.75% 10
East Midlands -45 4 £78,750 -17.11% 3
Wales -46 2 £51,450 - 2
North East - 2 £63,076 - 1
Scotland -6 1 - - 5

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 (2.90%) Confluence
2 5 (2.42%) CMS
3 2 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Primavera
2 3 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.80%) Azure
2 10 (4.83%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.93%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.45%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (1.45%) GCP
6 3 (1.45%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.97%) AWS
7 2 (0.97%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.97%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.97%) SaaS
7 2 (0.97%) Smartsheet
7 2 (0.97%) Zapier
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.90%) Network Security
1 6 (2.90%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.93%) Wireless
3 3 (1.45%) Firewall
3 3 (1.45%) LAN
3 3 (1.45%) SMS
3 3 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.45%) VPN
3 3 (1.45%) WAN
4 2 (0.97%) BGP
4 2 (0.97%) DHCP
4 2 (0.97%) DNS
4 2 (0.97%) OSPF
4 2 (0.97%) VLAN
4 2 (0.97%) VoIP
4 2 (0.97%) Wireless Backhaul
5 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.42%) Power BI
2 3 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.97%) FileMaker
3 2 (0.97%) Metadata
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.97%) Power Query
3 2 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.25%) JIRA
2 5 (2.42%) Cypress.io
2 5 (2.42%) Postman
2 5 (2.42%) Selenium
3 3 (1.45%) Git
4 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.97%) JUnit
5 1 (0.48%) LabVIEW
General
1 77 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 59 (28.50%) Finance
3 46 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.11%) Banking
6 22 (10.63%) Retail
7 20 (9.66%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (8.70%) Public Sector
9 16 (7.73%) Local Government
10 10 (4.83%) Marketing
11 9 (4.35%) Aerospace
12 8 (3.86%) Advertising
13 6 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.93%) Legal
16 3 (1.45%) French Language
16 3 (1.45%) Front Office
16 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (22.71%) Project Manager
2 46 (22.22%) Senior
3 23 (11.11%) Analyst
4 20 (9.66%) Senior Manager
5 19 (9.18%) Business Analyst
6 15 (7.25%) Senior Project Manager
7 14 (6.76%) Consultant
7 14 (6.76%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (6.28%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 12 (5.80%) Digital Project Manager
9 12 (5.80%) Junior
9 12 (5.80%) Security Manager
9 12 (5.80%) Security Project Manager
9 12 (5.80%) Senior Digital Project Manager
10 11 (5.31%) Lead
11 7 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.90%) Cabling Engineer
12 6 (2.90%) Developer
13 5 (2.42%) Technical Support
14 4 (1.93%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.90%) .NET
2 5 (2.42%) CSS
2 5 (2.42%) HTML
3 2 (0.97%) Middleware
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.97%) WireMock
3 2 (0.97%) YAML
4 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.48%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.73%) Security Posture
2 11 (5.31%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.93%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.93%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.93%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.93%) Life Science
6 3 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.45%) FMCG
6 3 (1.45%) FPGA
7 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.97%) Blog
7 2 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.97%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.97%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.48%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.48%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.38%) Linux
2 4 (1.93%) Android
3 3 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.45%) CentOS
3 3 (1.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (28.99%) Project Management
2 51 (24.64%) Mentoring
3 48 (23.19%) Agile
4 45 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (21.26%) Project Delivery
6 38 (18.36%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (17.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 30 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (13.53%) Risk Management
10 22 (10.63%) Budget Management
10 22 (10.63%) Business Development
11 21 (10.14%) Coaching
11 21 (10.14%) Time Management
12 20 (9.66%) Strategic Thinking
13 18 (8.70%) AI
13 18 (8.70%) Resource Management
13 18 (8.70%) Systems Engineering
13 18 (8.70%) Target Operating Model
14 17 (8.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (7.73%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.83%) Python
1 10 (4.83%) SQL
2 7 (3.38%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.42%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.93%) C
4 4 (1.93%) Java
5 3 (1.45%) Bash
6 2 (0.97%) C++
6 2 (0.97%) Scala
7 1 (0.48%) Bicep
7 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (25.12%) Degree
2 22 (10.63%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (10.14%) CISSP
4 20 (9.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 20 (9.66%) CCSP
4 20 (9.66%) Master's Degree
5 18 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (7.73%) CISM
6 16 (7.73%) Security Cleared
7 10 (4.83%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.42%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.93%) PhD
11 3 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.45%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.97%) CCNA
12 2 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.36%) QA
2 20 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (9.66%) NIST
3 12 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 12 (5.80%) PMO
4 7 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.42%) GDPR
6 3 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.45%) PERC
7 1 (0.48%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.48%) DO-160
7 1 (0.48%) DO-254
System Software
1 3 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (1.45%) Firmware
2 2 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) Grafana
1 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
1 2 (0.97%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.38%) NEC
3 6 (2.90%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.42%) Google
5 4 (1.93%) Oracle
5 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.45%) BMC
6 3 (1.45%) Cognizant
6 3 (1.45%) dotdigital
6 3 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.97%) FactSet
7 2 (0.97%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.97%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.97%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.97%) SAP
8 1 (0.48%) Foundry
8 1 (0.48%) NETGEAR