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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 391 352
Rank change year-on-year -147 -39 +16
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 205 319 834
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.71% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.77% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 119 154 490
10th Percentile £40,800 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,625 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,625 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £104,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,663 £54,897 £46,293
% change year-on-year +10.50% +18.58% -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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
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 20 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 20 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 -144 197 £62,500 - 75
UK excluding London -140 127 £60,663 +10.50% 65
London -20 66 £65,625 -28.28% 24
Work from Home -28 59 £63,076 +17.49% 34
North of England -29 42 £60,163 +17.97% 6
South East -67 28 £59,250 -5.20% 20
Midlands -48 27 £60,288 +17.63% 11
North West -6 23 £55,000 +10.00% 3
West Midlands -20 23 £57,500 +15.00% 8
Yorkshire -35 17 £56,250 +2.66% 2
East of England -28 16 £75,000 +70.45% 11
South West -70 11 £47,500 +18.75% 7
East Midlands -53 3 £78,750 -17.11% 3
Wales -45 2 £51,450 - 1
North East - 2 £63,076 - 1
Scotland -6 1 - - 4

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 (2.93%) Confluence
2 5 (2.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.95%) Primavera
2 2 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.49%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.85%) Azure
2 10 (4.88%) Power Platform
3 8 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.95%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.46%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (1.46%) GCP
6 3 (1.46%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.98%) AWS
7 2 (0.98%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.98%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.98%) SaaS
7 2 (0.98%) Smartsheet
7 2 (0.98%) Zapier
8 1 (0.49%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.49%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.93%) Network Security
1 6 (2.93%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.95%) Wireless
3 3 (1.46%) Firewall
3 3 (1.46%) LAN
3 3 (1.46%) SMS
3 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.46%) VPN
3 3 (1.46%) WAN
4 2 (0.98%) BGP
4 2 (0.98%) DHCP
4 2 (0.98%) DNS
4 2 (0.98%) OSPF
4 2 (0.98%) VLAN
4 2 (0.98%) VoIP
4 2 (0.98%) Wireless Backhaul
5 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.44%) Power BI
2 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.98%) FileMaker
3 2 (0.98%) Metadata
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.98%) Power Query
3 2 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.32%) JIRA
2 5 (2.44%) Cypress.io
2 5 (2.44%) Postman
2 5 (2.44%) Selenium
3 3 (1.46%) Git
4 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.98%) JUnit
5 1 (0.49%) LabVIEW
General
1 78 (38.05%) Social Skills
2 59 (28.78%) Finance
3 46 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.22%) Banking
6 22 (10.73%) Retail
7 20 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (9.27%) Public Sector
9 16 (7.80%) Local Government
10 10 (4.88%) Marketing
11 9 (4.39%) Aerospace
12 8 (3.90%) Advertising
13 6 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (2.44%) Manufacturing
14 5 (2.44%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (1.95%) Legal
16 3 (1.46%) French Language
16 3 (1.46%) Italian Language
16 3 (1.46%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 48 (23.41%) Project Manager
2 43 (20.98%) Senior
3 24 (11.71%) Analyst
4 20 (9.76%) Business Analyst
4 20 (9.76%) Senior Manager
5 15 (7.32%) Senior Project Manager
6 14 (6.83%) Consultant
7 12 (5.85%) Digital Project Manager
7 12 (5.85%) Junior
7 12 (5.85%) Lead
7 12 (5.85%) Security Manager
7 12 (5.85%) Security Project Manager
7 12 (5.85%) Senior Digital Project Manager
8 11 (5.37%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (4.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.93%) Cabling Engineer
11 6 (2.93%) Developer
12 5 (2.44%) Technical Support
13 4 (1.95%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.93%) .NET
2 5 (2.44%) CSS
2 5 (2.44%) HTML
3 2 (0.98%) Middleware
3 2 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.98%) WireMock
3 2 (0.98%) YAML
4 1 (0.49%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.49%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.80%) Security Posture
2 11 (5.37%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.93%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.93%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.95%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.95%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.95%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.95%) Life Science
6 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.46%) FMCG
6 3 (1.46%) FPGA
7 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.98%) Blog
7 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.98%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.98%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.41%) Linux
2 4 (1.95%) Android
3 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.46%) CentOS
3 3 (1.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (29.76%) Project Management
2 51 (24.88%) Mentoring
3 49 (23.90%) Agile
4 45 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (21.95%) Project Delivery
5 38 (18.54%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (18.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (14.15%) Risk Management
8 22 (10.73%) Budget Management
8 22 (10.73%) Business Development
9 21 (10.24%) Coaching
9 21 (10.24%) Time Management
10 20 (9.76%) Strategic Thinking
11 18 (8.78%) AI
11 18 (8.78%) Resource Management
11 18 (8.78%) Target Operating Model
12 17 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (7.80%) CRM
13 16 (7.80%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 10 (4.88%) Python
1 10 (4.88%) SQL
2 7 (3.41%) JavaScript
3 5 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.95%) C
4 4 (1.95%) Java
5 3 (1.46%) Bash
6 2 (0.98%) C++
6 2 (0.98%) Scala
7 1 (0.49%) Bicep
7 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (25.37%) Degree
2 22 (10.73%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (10.24%) CISSP
4 20 (9.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 20 (9.76%) CCSP
4 20 (9.76%) Master's Degree
5 16 (7.80%) CISM
5 16 (7.80%) Security Cleared
6 15 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.88%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.44%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.95%) PhD
11 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.98%) CCNA
12 2 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.98%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (19.02%) QA
2 20 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (9.76%) NIST
3 12 (5.85%) PMO
4 9 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (2.93%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.44%) GDPR
7 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.46%) PERC
8 1 (0.49%) ARP4761
8 1 (0.49%) DO-160
8 1 (0.49%) DO-254
System Software
1 3 (1.46%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (1.46%) Firmware
2 2 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.98%) Grafana
1 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
1 2 (0.98%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.41%) NEC
3 6 (2.93%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.44%) Google
5 4 (1.95%) Oracle
5 4 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.46%) BMC
6 3 (1.46%) Cognizant
6 3 (1.46%) dotdigital
6 3 (1.46%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.98%) FactSet
7 2 (0.98%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.98%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.98%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.98%) SAP
8 1 (0.49%) Foundry
8 1 (0.49%) NETGEAR