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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 378 342
Rank change year-on-year -32 -36 +126
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 270 418 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.61% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.74% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 150 194 287
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £39,411
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,274
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £79,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 44,012 56,127 49,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.78% 82.46% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,595 29,580 38,351
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,871
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,625 £54,383 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.26% +3.59% -

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 7 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 7 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 -9 250 £62,500 +15.74% 299
UK excluding London -53 172 £50,000 -4.76% 249
London +46 75 £67,500 -8.47% 127
Work from Home +35 70 £50,000 -9.09% 159
South East -24 63 £46,250 -7.50% 127
North of England +17 35 £50,000 +1.01% 42
North West +28 30 £50,000 -9.09% 28
Midlands +11 29 £55,000 +4.76% 36
East of England +39 28 £48,000 -11.11% 7
East Midlands +23 17 £40,000 -25.93% 12
West Midlands +9 11 £65,000 +30.00% 23
South West -10 11 £45,564 -17.16% 15
Scotland -10 6 £62,500 +50.77% 14
Yorkshire +13 5 £47,500 +11.76% 6
Wales +5 3 £65,000 -31.58% 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 (2.22%) Confluence
1 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.37%) CMS
3 1 (0.37%) Drupal
3 1 (0.37%) Kentico
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.37%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (3.33%) MS Visio
5 6 (2.22%) Trello
6 5 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.48%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.74%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.74%) Sketch
9 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.37%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.37%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.37%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.37%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.37%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.37%) TeamGantt
9 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.48%) Primavera
3 3 (1.11%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.74%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.37%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.37%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.00%) Azure
2 20 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 17 (6.30%) SaaS
4 14 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (1.85%) Google Ads
8 4 (1.48%) AWS
8 4 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.48%) OCI
9 3 (1.11%) Asana
9 3 (1.11%) Matillion
9 3 (1.11%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.74%) Boomi
10 2 (0.74%) Figma
10 2 (0.74%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.37%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.70%) Firewall
2 8 (2.96%) Wireless
3 4 (1.48%) DHCP
3 4 (1.48%) DNS
3 4 (1.48%) InfiniBand
3 4 (1.48%) LAN
4 3 (1.11%) WebEx
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.59%) Power BI
2 4 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.74%) GIS
3 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.37%) Big Data
4 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.37%) MySQL
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.37%) RavenDB
4 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.30%) JIRA
2 6 (2.22%) Selenium
3 4 (1.48%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.74%) Git
4 2 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 100 (37.04%) Finance
2 97 (35.93%) Social Skills
3 57 (21.11%) Electronics
4 47 (17.41%) Manufacturing
5 43 (15.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (10.74%) Legal
8 21 (7.78%) Law
9 18 (6.67%) Billing
10 15 (5.56%) Retail
11 12 (4.44%) Banking
12 10 (3.70%) Local Government
12 10 (3.70%) Marketing
12 10 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (3.70%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.96%) Public Sector
14 7 (2.59%) Advertising
15 5 (1.85%) Automotive
15 5 (1.85%) Back Office
16 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (26.67%) Project Manager
2 39 (14.44%) Associate Engineer
2 39 (14.44%) Design Engineer
2 39 (14.44%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 39 (14.44%) Electronics Engineer
2 39 (14.44%) PCB Design Engineer
2 39 (14.44%) PCB Engineer
3 37 (13.70%) Senior
4 36 (13.33%) Analyst
5 28 (10.37%) Business Analyst
6 25 (9.26%) Lead
7 19 (7.04%) Sales Manager
8 17 (6.30%) Operations Manager
8 17 (6.30%) Operations Project Manager
8 17 (6.30%) Sales Operations Manager
9 15 (5.56%) Consultant
10 12 (4.44%) Senior Consultant
10 12 (4.44%) Senior Manager
11 10 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.96%) .NET
2 6 (2.22%) HTML
3 5 (1.85%) CSS
4 4 (1.48%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.48%) XML
5 2 (0.74%) Material Design
5 2 (0.74%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (0.74%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.37%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.37%) D3.js
6 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.37%) IDoc
6 1 (0.37%) Pandas
6 1 (0.37%) Plotly
6 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.37%) React
6 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.81%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (3.33%) Social Media
3 7 (2.59%) Renewable Energy
4 6 (2.22%) Market Risk
4 6 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.85%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.11%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.11%) Digital Signage
7 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.74%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.74%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.70%) Windows
2 7 (2.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.44%) Agile
2 92 (34.07%) Project Management
3 80 (29.63%) Project Delivery
4 58 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (18.52%) Change Management
5 50 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (14.44%) Schematic Capture
7 36 (13.33%) Risk Management
8 34 (12.59%) CRM
8 34 (12.59%) PRINCE2
9 30 (11.11%) Budget Management
10 29 (10.74%) ERP
11 25 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (9.26%) Mentoring
12 23 (8.52%) Analytics
12 23 (8.52%) Computer Science
12 23 (8.52%) Requirements Gathering
12 23 (8.52%) Service Delivery
13 22 (8.15%) B2B
13 22 (8.15%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.96%) C#
2 6 (2.22%) Python
2 6 (2.22%) SQL
3 4 (1.48%) Bash
3 4 (1.48%) C
3 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.11%) C++
4 3 (1.11%) Perl
5 2 (0.74%) Java
6 1 (0.37%) Bicep
6 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.37%) PHP
6 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (41.85%) Degree
2 42 (15.56%) HND
3 27 (10.00%) PMI Certification
4 26 (9.63%) PMP
5 21 (7.78%) Security Cleared
6 16 (5.93%) Master's Degree
7 15 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (5.19%) SC Cleared
9 12 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.70%) DBS Check
11 7 (2.59%) ISTQB
12 6 (2.22%) CFA
12 6 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.85%) CCSP
13 5 (1.85%) CISM
13 5 (1.85%) CISSP
14 4 (1.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.11%) QA
2 9 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.22%) NIST
4 6 (2.22%) PMO
5 3 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.11%) GDPR
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.74%) WCAG
7 1 (0.37%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.37%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.37%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (1.48%) NFS
1 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.11%) GPFS
2 3 (1.11%) Lustre
3 1 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (0.37%) Grafana
1 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (15.19%) EMC
1 41 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.26%) Oracle
3 9 (3.33%) SAP
4 7 (2.59%) Cisco
5 6 (2.22%) Murex
6 5 (1.85%) Google
7 4 (1.48%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.48%) Aruba
7 4 (1.48%) Draytek
7 4 (1.48%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.48%) Meraki
7 4 (1.48%) Pega
7 4 (1.48%) Sophos
7 4 (1.48%) Tagetik
7 4 (1.48%) WorldPay
8 3 (1.11%) FIS
9 2 (0.74%) NEC
9 2 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.74%) Workday