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 9 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 384 327
Rank change year-on-year -33 -57 +94
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 281 462 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.64% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.77% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 156 228 321
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £83,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 44,296 59,619 53,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.01% 82.18% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24,598 32,082 40,930
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -27 254 £63,750 +18.06% 150
UK excluding London -74 174 £55,000 +10.00% 114
London +54 79 £68,750 -8.33% 56
Work from Home +14 76 £55,000 -4.35% 81
South East -34 57 £60,000 +27.66% 41
North of England +19 38 £50,000 +6.38% 24
North West -4 33 £50,500 -3.66% 17
Midlands +11 31 £41,500 -20.95% 22
East of England +8 29 £48,000 +6.67% 8
East Midlands +20 18 £40,000 -25.93% 4
West Midlands +12 12 £55,000 +10.00% 17
South West 0 11 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Scotland -9 9 £62,500 -16.67% 6
Yorkshire +18 5 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Wales +9 2 - - 2

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 5 (1.78%) Confluence
1 5 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.36%) CMS
2 1 (0.36%) Drupal
2 1 (0.36%) Kentico
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (6.76%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.20%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (2.14%) Trello
6 4 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.71%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.71%) Sketch
8 1 (0.36%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.36%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.36%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.36%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.36%) TeamGantt
8 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.42%) Primavera
3 3 (1.07%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.71%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.36%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.36%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.46%) Azure
2 29 (10.32%) Power Platform
3 23 (8.19%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (5.69%) Microsoft Copilot
5 15 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (4.63%) SaaS
7 9 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.14%) AWS
9 5 (1.78%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.42%) OCI
11 3 (1.07%) Matillion
11 3 (1.07%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.71%) Figma
12 2 (0.71%) GCP
12 2 (0.71%) Google Analytics
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon MSK
13 1 (0.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.36%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.56%) Firewall
2 8 (2.85%) Wireless
3 4 (1.42%) DHCP
3 4 (1.42%) DNS
3 4 (1.42%) InfiniBand
3 4 (1.42%) LAN
4 3 (1.07%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) GSM
5 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.49%) Power BI
2 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.71%) GIS
3 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.36%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.36%) RavenDB
4 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.05%) JIRA
2 3 (1.07%) Git
3 2 (0.71%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.71%) Postman
3 2 (0.71%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) GCC
4 1 (0.36%) gcov
4 1 (0.36%) GDB
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 103 (36.65%) Finance
2 86 (30.60%) Social Skills
3 60 (21.35%) Electronics
4 46 (16.37%) Manufacturing
5 43 (15.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
7 30 (10.68%) Legal
8 29 (10.32%) Law
9 23 (8.19%) Billing
10 14 (4.98%) Retail
11 12 (4.27%) Banking
11 12 (4.27%) Marketing
11 12 (4.27%) Telecoms
12 10 (3.56%) Local Government
13 8 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.49%) Advertising
14 7 (2.49%) Automotive
14 7 (2.49%) Public Sector
15 6 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 72 (25.62%) Project Manager
2 48 (17.08%) Senior
3 39 (13.88%) Associate Engineer
3 39 (13.88%) Design Engineer
3 39 (13.88%) Electronics Design Engineer
3 39 (13.88%) Electronics Engineer
3 39 (13.88%) PCB Design Engineer
3 39 (13.88%) PCB Engineer
4 33 (11.74%) Analyst
5 25 (8.90%) Business Analyst
6 24 (8.54%) Lead
7 23 (8.19%) Sales Manager
8 21 (7.47%) Operations Manager
8 21 (7.47%) Operations Project Manager
8 21 (7.47%) Sales Operations Manager
9 19 (6.76%) Consultant
10 16 (5.69%) Senior Consultant
11 15 (5.34%) Systems Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Senior Manager
13 12 (4.27%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.14%) HTML
2 5 (1.78%) CSS
3 4 (1.42%) .NET
4 2 (0.71%) Material Design
4 2 (0.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (0.71%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.36%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.36%) EDI
5 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.36%) IDoc
5 1 (0.36%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) Pandas
5 1 (0.36%) Plotly
5 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.36%) React
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.36%) XML
5 1 (0.36%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.56%) Onboarding
2 8 (2.85%) Social Media
3 7 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (2.49%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.14%) Market Risk
5 5 (1.78%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.78%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.07%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.71%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (0.71%) Derivative
7 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.36%) Motion Graphics
8 1 (0.36%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.20%) Windows
2 7 (2.49%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (36.65%) Project Management
2 98 (34.88%) Agile
3 93 (33.10%) Project Delivery
4 61 (21.71%) Change Management
5 57 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 41 (14.59%) CRM
8 39 (13.88%) Schematic Capture
9 36 (12.81%) Risk Management
10 31 (11.03%) ERP
11 29 (10.32%) PRINCE2
12 27 (9.61%) Budget Management
13 26 (9.25%) B2B
14 25 (8.90%) Business Development
14 25 (8.90%) Computer Science
14 25 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (8.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (8.54%) Business Case
15 24 (8.54%) Service Delivery
16 23 (8.19%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.49%) Python
2 6 (2.14%) SQL
3 4 (1.42%) Bash
3 4 (1.42%) C#
3 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.07%) C++
4 3 (1.07%) Perl
5 2 (0.71%) C
5 2 (0.71%) Java
6 1 (0.36%) Ada
6 1 (0.36%) Bicep
6 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.36%) PHP
6 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 114 (40.57%) Degree
2 45 (16.01%) HND
3 29 (10.32%) Security Cleared
4 24 (8.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (8.19%) PMI Certification
6 22 (7.83%) PMP
7 19 (6.76%) Master's Degree
7 19 (6.76%) SC Cleared
8 14 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.20%) DBS Check
11 7 (2.49%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.14%) CFA
12 6 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.78%) CCSP
13 5 (1.78%) CISM
13 5 (1.78%) CISSP
14 3 (1.07%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.32%) QA
2 11 (3.91%) PMO
3 9 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.14%) NIST
6 3 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.71%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
8 1 (0.36%) IFRS
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.36%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (1.42%) NFS
1 4 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.07%) GPFS
2 3 (1.07%) Lustre
3 2 (0.71%) Docker
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (0.36%) Grafana
1 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.59%) EMC
3 28 (9.96%) Oracle
4 10 (3.56%) SAP
5 7 (2.49%) Murex
6 6 (2.14%) Google
7 4 (1.42%) Aruba
7 4 (1.42%) Cisco
7 4 (1.42%) Draytek
7 4 (1.42%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.42%) Meraki
7 4 (1.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.42%) Sophos
8 3 (1.07%) FIS
9 2 (0.71%) Adobe
9 2 (0.71%) Anaplan
9 2 (0.71%) NEC
9 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.71%) Tagetik
9 2 (0.71%) WorldPay