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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 371 337
Rank change year-on-year -79 -34 +126
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 216 445 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.66% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.78% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 151 211 253
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £37,600
25th Percentile £45,625 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -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 45,724 57,096 47,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 85.02% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,947 29,808 36,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%

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 27 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 27 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 -66 198 £62,500 +13.64% 125
UK excluding London -79 127 £50,000 -7.41% 109
London +44 66 £67,500 -10.00% 43
Work from Home +63 58 £49,000 -9.26% 66
South East -33 41 £55,000 +3.29% 40
North of England +46 32 £50,000 +5.26% 22
North West +51 25 £51,000 -7.27% 7
Midlands -3 19 £45,000 -8.63% 19
East of England +24 15 £48,000 -25.86% 4
South West -23 13 £45,564 -17.16% 16
West Midlands +24 10 £60,000 +26.32% 9
East Midlands +14 8 £40,750 -24.54% 10
Yorkshire -1 7 £47,500 +11.76% 15
Scotland +5 6 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Wales 0 1 £65,000 -5.45% 3

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 (2.78%) Confluence
1 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) Drupal
3 1 (0.46%) Kentico
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.85%) AutoCAD
4 4 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.85%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.93%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.93%) Sketch
5 2 (0.93%) Trello
6 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.46%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.46%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.46%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.46%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.46%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.46%) TeamGantt
6 1 (0.46%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.39%) Primavera
2 3 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.93%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.93%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 2 (0.93%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.46%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.46%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.46%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.96%) Azure
2 19 (8.80%) Power Platform
3 17 (7.87%) SaaS
4 13 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.31%) Google Ads
8 4 (1.85%) AWS
8 4 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.39%) Asana
9 3 (1.39%) Matillion
9 3 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.93%) Boomi
10 2 (0.93%) Figma
10 2 (0.93%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.46%) GCP
11 1 (0.46%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.46%) MailChimp
11 1 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.09%) Firewall
2 8 (3.70%) Wireless
3 4 (1.85%) LAN
4 3 (1.39%) DHCP
4 3 (1.39%) DNS
4 3 (1.39%) InfiniBand
4 3 (1.39%) WebEx
5 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.24%) Power BI
2 3 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.93%) EDMS
3 2 (0.93%) GIS
3 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.46%) FileMaker
4 1 (0.46%) MySQL
4 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.46%) RavenDB
4 1 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (5.56%) JIRA
2 6 (2.78%) Selenium
3 4 (1.85%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.93%) Git
4 2 (0.93%) Postman
5 1 (0.46%) GitLab
5 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 80 (37.04%) Finance
3 27 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.72%) Legal
5 19 (8.80%) Law
6 10 (4.63%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.17%) Marketing
7 9 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.17%) Retail
8 8 (3.70%) Advertising
8 8 (3.70%) Billing
8 8 (3.70%) Electronics
8 8 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.24%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.31%) Automotive
10 5 (2.31%) Back Office
11 4 (1.85%) Banking
12 3 (1.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (28.24%) Project Manager
2 43 (19.91%) Senior
3 35 (16.20%) Analyst
4 27 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 21 (9.72%) Lead
6 13 (6.02%) Consultant
6 13 (6.02%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (5.09%) Senior Manager
8 10 (4.63%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (4.17%) Sales Manager
9 9 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
9 9 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 7 (3.24%) Commercial Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Commercial Project Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Developer
11 7 (3.24%) Operations Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Operations Project Manager
11 7 (3.24%) Sales Operations Manager
12 6 (2.78%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.70%) .NET
2 7 (3.24%) HTML
3 6 (2.78%) CSS
4 4 (1.85%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.85%) XML
5 2 (0.93%) Material Design
5 2 (0.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (0.93%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.46%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.46%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.46%) D3.js
6 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.46%) IDoc
6 1 (0.46%) Pandas
6 1 (0.46%) Plotly
6 1 (0.46%) Pyramid
6 1 (0.46%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.46%) React
6 1 (0.46%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.24%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (3.24%) Social Media
4 5 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.31%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.31%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.85%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.39%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.39%) Digital Signage
6 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.63%) Windows
2 7 (3.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (40.28%) Agile
2 77 (35.65%) Project Delivery
3 74 (34.26%) Project Management
4 52 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (16.67%) Change Management
6 34 (15.74%) PRINCE2
7 28 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (12.04%) ERP
9 24 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
10 23 (10.65%) CRM
11 22 (10.19%) Risk Management
12 21 (9.72%) Budget Management
12 21 (9.72%) Mentoring
13 20 (9.26%) Computer Science
14 19 (8.80%) Analytics
14 19 (8.80%) Business Case
14 19 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (7.87%) Process Improvement
16 16 (7.41%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.70%) C#
2 6 (2.78%) Python
2 6 (2.78%) SQL
3 5 (2.31%) C
3 5 (2.31%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.39%) Bash
4 3 (1.39%) C++
5 2 (0.93%) Java
5 2 (0.93%) Perl
6 1 (0.46%) Bicep
6 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.46%) PHP
6 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (30.09%) Degree
2 22 (10.19%) BPSS Clearance
2 22 (10.19%) PMI Certification
3 21 (9.72%) PMP
4 18 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 13 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.09%) Master's Degree
7 9 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.70%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.24%) ISTQB
10 5 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (1.85%) APMP
11 4 (1.85%) CAPM
11 4 (1.85%) CFA
11 4 (1.85%) ISEB
11 4 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.39%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.19%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 6 (2.78%) PMO
4 3 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.93%) WCAG
6 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.46%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.46%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.46%) IFRS
6 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.39%) NFS
3 2 (0.93%) GPFS
3 2 (0.93%) Lustre
4 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) Docker
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Grafana
1 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.56%) Oracle
3 10 (4.63%) SAP
4 7 (3.24%) Cisco
5 6 (2.78%) Google
5 6 (2.78%) NEC
6 5 (2.31%) Aruba
6 5 (2.31%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.31%) Meraki
7 4 (1.85%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.85%) Draytek
7 4 (1.85%) Murex
7 4 (1.85%) Pega
7 4 (1.85%) Sophos
7 4 (1.85%) Tagetik
7 4 (1.85%) WorldPay
8 3 (1.39%) Adobe
8 3 (1.39%) Workday
9 2 (0.93%) FIS
9 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow