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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 390 339
Rank change year-on-year -51 -51 +122
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 222 420 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.62% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.75% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 155 190 280
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,342
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £76,700 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £83,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -9.09%

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 45,000 56,139 49,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 83.40% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,163 29,129 38,015
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,112 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £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 £79,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 17 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 17 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 -47 202 £63,750 +18.06% 207
UK excluding London -71 128 £53,000 +0.95% 141
London +71 71 £67,500 -10.00% 88
Work from Home +64 66 £51,000 -5.56% 97
South East -38 43 £55,000 +10.00% 46
North of England +31 31 £50,500 +6.32% 27
North West +48 25 £51,000 -7.27% 15
Midlands +16 17 £55,000 +4.76% 40
East of England +17 16 £48,000 -11.11% 6
South West -26 12 £45,564 -17.16% 13
West Midlands +17 11 £65,000 +36.84% 25
Yorkshire +1 6 £47,500 +11.76% 8
Scotland -5 6 £62,500 +29.59% 5
East Midlands +4 5 £40,000 -25.93% 15
Wales +6 3 £65,000 -31.58% 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 (2.70%) Confluence
1 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.45%) CMS
3 1 (0.45%) Drupal
3 1 (0.45%) Kentico
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.95%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.80%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.90%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.90%) Sketch
5 2 (0.90%) Trello
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.45%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.45%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.45%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.45%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.45%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.45%) TeamGantt
6 1 (0.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.80%) Primavera
3 3 (1.35%) Adaptiv
3 3 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.90%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.45%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.45%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.61%) Azure
2 20 (9.01%) Power Platform
3 17 (7.66%) SaaS
4 14 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (2.25%) Google Ads
8 4 (1.80%) AWS
8 4 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.80%) OCI
9 3 (1.35%) Asana
9 3 (1.35%) Matillion
9 3 (1.35%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.90%) Boomi
10 2 (0.90%) Figma
10 2 (0.90%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.45%) GCP
11 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.45%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.95%) Firewall
2 8 (3.60%) Wireless
3 4 (1.80%) DHCP
3 4 (1.80%) DNS
3 4 (1.80%) InfiniBand
3 4 (1.80%) LAN
4 3 (1.35%) WebEx
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.15%) Power BI
2 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.90%) GIS
3 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.45%) MySQL
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.45%) RavenDB
4 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (5.86%) JIRA
2 6 (2.70%) Selenium
3 4 (1.80%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.90%) Git
4 2 (0.90%) Postman
5 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
General
1 95 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 90 (40.54%) Finance
3 28 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.81%) Legal
5 23 (10.36%) Law
6 10 (4.50%) Retail
6 10 (4.50%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.05%) Billing
7 9 (4.05%) Electronics
7 9 (4.05%) Marketing
7 9 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.60%) Advertising
8 8 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.15%) Banking
9 7 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.25%) Automotive
10 5 (2.25%) Back Office
10 5 (2.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (29.28%) Project Manager
2 38 (17.12%) Senior
3 36 (16.22%) Analyst
4 29 (13.06%) Business Analyst
5 24 (10.81%) Lead
6 14 (6.31%) Consultant
7 12 (5.41%) Senior Manager
8 11 (4.95%) Senior Consultant
8 11 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (4.50%) Sales Manager
10 9 (4.05%) Senior Project Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Architect
11 8 (3.60%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 8 (3.60%) Operations Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Operations Project Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Sales Operations Manager
12 7 (3.15%) Commercial Manager
12 7 (3.15%) Commercial Project Manager
13 6 (2.70%) Risk Analyst
13 6 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.60%) .NET
2 6 (2.70%) HTML
3 5 (2.25%) CSS
4 4 (1.80%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.80%) XML
5 2 (0.90%) Material Design
5 2 (0.90%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 2 (0.90%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.45%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.45%) D3.js
6 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.45%) IDoc
6 1 (0.45%) Pandas
6 1 (0.45%) Plotly
6 1 (0.45%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.45%) React
6 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.86%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.15%) Renewable Energy
3 7 (3.15%) Social Media
4 6 (2.70%) Market Risk
5 5 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.25%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.35%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.35%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.35%) Digital Signage
7 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.05%) Windows
2 7 (3.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (39.64%) Agile
2 82 (36.94%) Project Delivery
3 80 (36.04%) Project Management
4 55 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (18.47%) Change Management
7 36 (16.22%) PRINCE2
8 30 (13.51%) Risk Management
9 29 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (13.06%) ERP
10 26 (11.71%) Budget Management
11 24 (10.81%) CRM
12 23 (10.36%) Requirements Gathering
13 22 (9.91%) Analytics
13 22 (9.91%) Computer Science
13 22 (9.91%) Mentoring
14 19 (8.56%) Process Improvement
14 19 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (8.11%) Business Case
16 17 (7.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.60%) C#
2 6 (2.70%) Python
3 5 (2.25%) SQL
4 4 (1.80%) Bash
4 4 (1.80%) C
4 4 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.35%) C++
5 3 (1.35%) Perl
6 1 (0.45%) Bicep
6 1 (0.45%) Java
6 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.45%) PHP
6 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (30.18%) Degree
2 24 (10.81%) PMI Certification
3 23 (10.36%) PMP
4 21 (9.46%) Security Cleared
5 16 (7.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (6.31%) SC Cleared
7 12 (5.41%) Master's Degree
8 11 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.60%) DBS Check
10 7 (3.15%) ISTQB
11 6 (2.70%) CFA
11 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 5 (2.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (1.80%) APMP
13 4 (1.80%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.80%) CAPM
13 4 (1.80%) ISEB
13 4 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (1.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.36%) QA
2 9 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.70%) PMO
4 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.35%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
6 2 (0.90%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.45%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.45%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (1.80%) NFS
1 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.35%) GPFS
2 3 (1.35%) Lustre
3 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.45%) Grafana
1 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.21%) Oracle
3 9 (4.05%) SAP
4 7 (3.15%) Cisco
5 6 (2.70%) Google
5 6 (2.70%) Murex
5 6 (2.70%) NEC
6 5 (2.25%) Aruba
6 5 (2.25%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.25%) Meraki
7 4 (1.80%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.80%) Draytek
7 4 (1.80%) Pega
7 4 (1.80%) Sophos
7 4 (1.80%) Tagetik
7 4 (1.80%) WorldPay
8 3 (1.35%) Adobe
8 3 (1.35%) FIS
9 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.90%) Workday