Project Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Project Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Planning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 360 460
Rank change year-on-year +28 +100 -5
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 844 963 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.92% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.96% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 481 397 678
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,734 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £66,778 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Top 18 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 27 April 2024. 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 +42 716 £50,000 -13.04% 259
UK excluding London -8 648 £45,000 -18.18% 195
Work from Home -60 251 £50,000 -9.09% 98
South East +24 200 £46,293 -7.41% 56
London +130 171 £61,000 -6.15% 75
North of England +27 130 £45,000 -18.18% 33
Midlands -46 86 £55,000 -24.14% 41
North West +20 83 £45,000 -25.00% 23
Scotland -25 75 £75,000 +50.00% 15
South West +3 65 £40,500 -26.36% 26
East of England -7 56 £37,500 -26.47% 23
West Midlands -44 51 £50,500 -30.34% 18
Yorkshire +53 42 £57,500 +4.55% 8
East Midlands -3 31 £48,750 -2.50% 23
Wales +20 27 £40,553 -1.69% 8
Northern Ireland +19 5 - - 2
North East 0 5 - - 2
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

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 54 (6.40%) Apache
2 30 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.83%) CMS
4 7 (0.83%) Confluence
5 5 (0.59%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 68 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (6.16%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.42%) Sketch
7 11 (1.30%) AutoCAD
7 11 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.36%) Revit
9 2 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 46 (5.45%) Primavera
2 11 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.36%) Sage X3
5 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.36%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.24%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.24%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.24%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.24%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (8.89%) Azure
2 55 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (6.40%) Amazon S3
4 44 (5.21%) Figma
5 36 (4.27%) Power Platform
6 33 (3.91%) AWS
7 32 (3.79%) SurveyMonkey
8 24 (2.84%) GCP
9 15 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (1.42%) iTunes
11 10 (1.18%) Entra ID
12 7 (0.83%) Mimecast
12 7 (0.83%) SaaS
13 6 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.71%) Collibra
14 5 (0.59%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.59%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.47%) Serverless
15 4 (0.47%) WhatsApp
16 3 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 91 (10.78%) Firewall
2 60 (7.11%) VPN
3 57 (6.75%) Internet
4 55 (6.52%) IPsec
5 54 (6.40%) SNMP
6 30 (3.55%) VoIP
7 15 (1.78%) Network Security
7 15 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.66%) LAN
9 12 (1.42%) SSL
10 9 (1.07%) WAN
11 7 (0.83%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.71%) Broadband
12 6 (0.71%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.47%) DNS
13 4 (0.47%) SAN
13 4 (0.47%) VLAN
14 3 (0.36%) WebEx
15 2 (0.24%) Wireless
16 1 (0.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
1 54 (6.40%) MongoDB
2 31 (3.67%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.37%) Power BI
4 13 (1.54%) MySQL
5 8 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (0.95%) GIS
5 8 (0.95%) MariaDB
5 8 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.83%) Spatial Data
7 6 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
7 6 (0.71%) MS Access
7 6 (0.71%) SAP HANA
7 6 (0.71%) Tableau
8 5 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.36%) Ataccama
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.12%) DTS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (4.15%) JIRA
2 5 (0.59%) Hudson
3 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.12%) Git
4 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 285 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 283 (33.53%) Finance
3 184 (21.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 131 (15.52%) Manufacturing
5 112 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (10.43%) Electronics
7 77 (9.12%) Marketing
8 73 (8.65%) Retail
9 61 (7.23%) Law
10 54 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (6.04%) Public Sector
12 43 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (4.27%) Legal
14 33 (3.91%) Telecoms
15 32 (3.79%) Social Science
16 25 (2.96%) Banking
17 23 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.90%) Police
19 14 (1.66%) Publishing
20 12 (1.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 226 (26.78%) Project Manager
2 97 (11.49%) Lead
3 96 (11.37%) Consultant
4 83 (9.83%) Electronics Engineer
5 78 (9.24%) Junior
6 71 (8.41%) Development Engineer
6 71 (8.41%) Graduate
6 71 (8.41%) Graduate Development Engineer
6 71 (8.41%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
6 71 (8.41%) Junior Electronics Engineer
7 67 (7.94%) Analyst
8 59 (6.99%) Senior
9 54 (6.40%) NetApp Consultant
10 43 (5.09%) IT Engineer
10 43 (5.09%) Project Planner
11 36 (4.27%) IT Support
12 35 (4.15%) IT Support Engineer
12 35 (4.15%) Support Engineer
13 34 (4.03%) Architect
14 31 (3.67%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
1 54 (6.40%) YAML
2 23 (2.73%) .NET
3 9 (1.07%) CSS
3 9 (1.07%) HTML
3 9 (1.07%) Web Services
4 8 (0.95%) EDI
5 7 (0.83%) Middleware
6 5 (0.59%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.47%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.47%) Lambda Expressions
7 4 (0.47%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (0.47%) React
7 4 (0.47%) Serverless Framework
7 4 (0.47%) Smart Contracts
7 4 (0.47%) Symfony
7 4 (0.47%) Visualforce
8 3 (0.36%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.24%) Node.js
9 2 (0.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 81 (9.60%) Management Information System
2 68 (8.06%) Data Centre
3 29 (3.44%) Driving Licence
3 29 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (2.61%) Fat Client
4 22 (2.61%) Thin Client
5 19 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
6 16 (1.90%) Market Risk
6 16 (1.90%) PMI
7 14 (1.66%) NHS
8 12 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.42%) FMCG
8 12 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
10 9 (1.07%) Analogue Electronics
11 8 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.83%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.37%) Windows
2 79 (9.36%) Linux
3 54 (6.40%) Data ONTAP
4 27 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.07%) Android
6 8 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (47.51%) Project Management
2 205 (24.29%) Project Delivery
3 201 (23.82%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (20.14%) Agile
5 118 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 117 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 106 (12.56%) PRINCE2
8 93 (11.02%) Budget Management
9 88 (10.43%) Actionable Insight
10 87 (10.31%) Change Management
11 83 (9.83%) Schematic Capture
12 77 (9.12%) Risk Management
13 75 (8.89%) Mentoring
14 70 (8.29%) Roadmaps
15 67 (7.94%) User Experience
16 64 (7.58%) Time Management
17 62 (7.35%) Infrastructure Management
17 62 (7.35%) Requirements Gathering
18 60 (7.11%) ERP
18 60 (7.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (7.70%) Python
2 41 (4.86%) SQL
3 32 (3.79%) R
4 24 (2.84%) C#
5 17 (2.01%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.95%) Apex Code
7 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
8 5 (0.59%) PHP
9 3 (0.36%) Java
9 3 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.24%) C
10 2 (0.24%) C++
10 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.12%) ABAP
11 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 265 (31.40%) Degree
2 58 (6.87%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.33%) Master's Degree
4 34 (4.03%) PMI Certification
5 32 (3.79%) PhD
6 31 (3.67%) PMP
7 20 (2.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 19 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.01%) SC Cleared
10 14 (1.66%) DBS Check
11 10 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 9 (1.07%) APMG
12 9 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (0.95%) HNC
13 8 (0.95%) NVQ Level 3
14 7 (0.83%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.47%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.83%) QA
2 32 (3.79%) SLA
3 29 (3.44%) PMO
4 18 (2.13%) GDPR
5 17 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.78%) Data Quality
7 12 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.42%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.83%) GRC
9 6 (0.71%) NCSC
9 6 (0.71%) NEBOSH
10 5 (0.59%) SEPA
10 5 (0.59%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.36%) HAZOP
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.36%) NIST
12 2 (0.24%) COBIT
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (9.83%) Embedded Firmware
1 83 (9.83%) Firmware
2 67 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (7.23%) Docker
4 39 (4.62%) Active Directory
5 8 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 55 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 54 (6.40%) Ansible
2 54 (6.40%) Prometheus
2 54 (6.40%) vCenter Server
3 22 (2.61%) SCCM
4 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.71%) CSIRT
6 5 (0.59%) Graphite
7 2 (0.24%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.24%) Terraform
8 1 (0.12%) CASB
Vendors
1 182 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.19%) EMC
3 68 (8.06%) VMware
4 55 (6.52%) Palo Alto
5 54 (6.40%) NetApp
5 54 (6.40%) Red Hat
5 54 (6.40%) SolidFire
6 32 (3.79%) Qualtrics
6 32 (3.79%) SAP
7 16 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.42%) Sage
10 10 (1.18%) Cisco
11 9 (1.07%) Oracle
12 8 (0.95%) Sophos
12 8 (0.95%) Sun
13 7 (0.83%) Mapbox
13 7 (0.83%) Meraki
14 6 (0.71%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.71%) Jitterbit