Project Planning Jobs

Project Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 373 279
Rank change year-on-year +61 -94 +180
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 556 714 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.69% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.84% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 164 425 408
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £39,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% +0.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,822 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% -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 53,906 85,087 81,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 82.48% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,389 58,040 52,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Planning.

Salary trend for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Planning over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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 +78 518 £62,500 +25.00% 360
UK excluding London +87 473 £55,000 +12.82% 235
Midlands +163 224 £50,000 -9.09% 34
West Midlands +144 141 £45,000 -18.18% 21
North of England +66 103 £50,000 -2.31% 50
North West +52 92 £50,000 -4.61% 36
Work from Home -15 89 £50,445 -8.28% 131
East Midlands +84 83 £95,000 +75.93% 13
South East +15 71 £65,000 +40.41% 63
London +15 60 £77,500 +27.05% 159
East of England +14 36 £44,500 -1.11% 26
Scotland +35 19 £56,250 -25.00% 17
South West +49 18 £40,000 -0.62% 34
Yorkshire +20 11 £51,250 +17.14% 11
Wales +21 4 £65,000 +75.68% 9
Channel Islands -4 1 - -

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (1.98%) IIS
2 4 (0.72%) Confluence
3 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Drupal
4 1 (0.18%) Kentico
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
1 32 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (3.06%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.62%) Trello
6 3 (0.54%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.18%) Revit
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) TeamGantt
Business Applications
1 11 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.54%) Adaptiv
2 3 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.54%) Primavera
2 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.35%) Azure
2 29 (5.22%) Power Platform
3 23 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
4 19 (3.42%) Microsoft Copilot
5 16 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (1.80%) SaaS
7 9 (1.62%) AWS
7 9 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.08%) Smartsheet
9 5 (0.90%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.54%) Asana
11 3 (0.54%) Figma
11 3 (0.54%) OCI
12 2 (0.36%) GCP
12 2 (0.36%) GitHub
12 2 (0.36%) Matillion
12 2 (0.36%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.18%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.16%) Firewall
2 9 (1.62%) DHCP
2 9 (1.62%) DNS
3 6 (1.08%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) VoIP
3 6 (1.08%) VPN
4 5 (0.90%) ADSL
4 5 (0.90%) VLAN
4 5 (0.90%) Wireless
5 4 (0.72%) InfiniBand
5 4 (0.72%) LAN
6 3 (0.54%) BGP
6 3 (0.54%) MPLS
6 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.54%) WAN
7 1 (0.18%) GSM
7 1 (0.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.80%) Power BI
1 10 (1.80%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 7 (1.26%) GIS
4 6 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.18%) Big Data
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (4.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.18%) GCC
3 1 (0.18%) gcov
3 1 (0.18%) GDB
3 1 (0.18%) GitLab
3 1 (0.18%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 117 (21.04%) Finance
2 101 (18.17%) Social Skills
3 72 (12.95%) Telecoms
4 67 (12.05%) Automotive
5 63 (11.33%) Electronics
6 51 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (9.17%) Manufacturing
7 46 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (5.76%) Law
9 31 (5.58%) Legal
10 26 (4.68%) Billing
11 19 (3.42%) Banking
12 17 (3.06%) Retail
13 14 (2.52%) Marketing
13 14 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.80%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.62%) Local Government
16 7 (1.26%) Advertising
17 5 (0.90%) Back Office
18 3 (0.54%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 168 (30.22%) Systems Engineer
2 157 (28.24%) Senior
3 151 (27.16%) Principal Engineer
3 151 (27.16%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 110 (19.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 92 (16.55%) Project Manager
6 39 (7.01%) Associate Engineer
6 39 (7.01%) Design Engineer
6 39 (7.01%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 39 (7.01%) Electronics Engineer
6 39 (7.01%) PCB Design Engineer
6 39 (7.01%) PCB Engineer
7 35 (6.29%) Lead
8 32 (5.76%) Analyst
9 21 (3.78%) Operations Manager
9 21 (3.78%) Operations Project Manager
9 21 (3.78%) Sales Manager
9 21 (3.78%) Sales Operations Manager
10 18 (3.24%) Principal Modelling Engineer
11 17 (3.06%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.06%) XML
2 13 (2.34%) HTML
3 7 (1.26%) CSS
4 4 (0.72%) .NET
5 3 (0.54%) JSON
6 2 (0.36%) ADO
6 2 (0.36%) HTML5
6 2 (0.36%) Middleware
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.36%) REST
7 1 (0.18%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.18%) CSS3
7 1 (0.18%) D3.js
7 1 (0.18%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.18%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.18%) Pandas
7 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.18%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.52%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (1.44%) Driving Licence
3 8 (1.44%) Onboarding
3 8 (1.44%) Social Media
4 6 (1.08%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.08%) Market Risk
4 6 (1.08%) PMI
5 5 (0.90%) Security Posture
5 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (0.72%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.54%) Credit Risk
7 3 (0.54%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.36%) SCADA
9 1 (0.18%) Life Science
9 1 (0.18%) Motion Graphics
9 1 (0.18%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.68%) Windows
2 12 (2.16%) Linux
2 12 (2.16%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.44%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.18%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (47.48%) Systems Engineering
2 129 (23.20%) Project Management
3 116 (20.86%) Change Management
4 112 (20.14%) Project Delivery
5 96 (17.27%) Agile
6 86 (15.47%) SysML
7 80 (14.39%) Validation
8 75 (13.49%) Verification and Validation
9 72 (12.95%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 60 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (10.61%) Acceptance Criteria
12 57 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (10.07%) Requirements Management
14 51 (9.17%) Risk Management
15 45 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (7.55%) PRINCE2
17 40 (7.19%) CRM
18 39 (7.01%) Budget Management
18 39 (7.01%) Schematic Capture
19 36 (6.47%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (2.88%) C
2 15 (2.70%) SQL
3 14 (2.52%) Ada
4 13 (2.34%) Python
5 8 (1.44%) Java
6 6 (1.08%) C++
6 6 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.72%) Bash
7 4 (0.72%) C#
7 4 (0.72%) VBA
8 3 (0.54%) Perl
9 1 (0.18%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.18%) PHP
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) R
9 1 (0.18%) SOQL
9 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 284 (51.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 195 (35.07%) Degree
3 95 (17.09%) HND
4 56 (10.07%) HNC
5 32 (5.76%) PMI Certification
6 26 (4.68%) PMP
7 22 (3.96%) Security Cleared
8 19 (3.42%) Master's Degree
9 15 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.70%) SC Cleared
10 14 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 9 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (1.44%) DBS Check
14 6 (1.08%) CFA
15 5 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.90%) CCSP
15 5 (0.90%) CISM
15 5 (0.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.94%) QA
2 13 (2.34%) PMO
3 12 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.90%) NIST
6 4 (0.72%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.18%) P3O
7 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.72%) NFS
3 3 (0.54%) GPFS
3 3 (0.54%) Lustre
4 1 (0.18%) Docker
4 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.54%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 69 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.37%) EMC
3 29 (5.22%) Oracle
4 9 (1.62%) SAP
5 7 (1.26%) Google
5 7 (1.26%) Murex
5 7 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.72%) Adobe
6 4 (0.72%) Blue Prism
6 4 (0.72%) Fortinet
6 4 (0.72%) UiPath
7 3 (0.54%) Autodesk
7 3 (0.54%) Cisco
7 3 (0.54%) Databricks
7 3 (0.54%) FIS
7 3 (0.54%) Juniper
8 1 (0.18%) IBM
8 1 (0.18%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.18%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.18%) Sage