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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 331 351
Rank change year-on-year -128 +20 +79
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 191 443 522
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.84% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.92% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 123 209 339
10th Percentile £41,643 £36,846 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +12.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,375 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £85,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £44,804
% change year-on-year - +22.76% -18.54%

All Process & 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 50,778 48,019 60,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.25% 91.58% 88.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30,009 23,112 46,660
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Top 14 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 29 January 2026. 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 -115 180 £65,000 +10.17% 148
UK excluding London -153 112 £55,000 - 138
London +37 56 £67,500 -18.18% 30
Work from Home +4 39 £55,000 -15.38% 41
South East -73 39 £60,000 - 48
North of England -17 31 £50,000 -9.09% 27
Midlands -32 26 £50,000 -4.76% 26
North West +6 25 £50,000 -9.09% 13
West Midlands -6 17 £60,000 +17.65% 15
South West -40 10 £62,782 +9.19% 15
East Midlands -16 8 £41,500 -23.15% 11
Yorkshire -25 6 £47,500 -12.68% 10
East of England +5 5 £75,000 +15.84% 15
Wales +4 1 £65,000 +62.50% 6

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 7 (3.66%) Confluence
2 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.09%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.05%) Adobe XD
5 2 (1.05%) Sketch
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.52%) Civil 3D
6 1 (0.52%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.52%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.52%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.52%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.09%) Primavera
3 3 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.05%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 2 (1.05%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.47%) Azure
2 14 (7.33%) Power Platform
3 10 (5.24%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (5.24%) SaaS
4 6 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.62%) Google Ads
6 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.57%) Asana
7 3 (1.57%) AWS
7 3 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.57%) Matillion
7 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.57%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.05%) Boomi
8 2 (1.05%) Figma
9 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.52%) Google Drive
9 1 (0.52%) MailChimp
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle CX
9 1 (0.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) Firewall
2 3 (1.57%) WebEx
2 3 (1.57%) Wireless
3 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.62%) Power BI
2 4 (2.09%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.57%) FileMaker
4 2 (1.05%) EDMS
4 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) GIS
5 1 (0.52%) MySQL
5 1 (0.52%) RavenDB
5 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (6.81%) JIRA
2 9 (4.71%) Selenium
3 5 (2.62%) Cypress.io
3 5 (2.62%) Postman
4 4 (2.09%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.05%) Git
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) GitLab
6 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.52%) JUnit
General
1 77 (40.31%) Social Skills
2 59 (30.89%) Finance
3 21 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.85%) Legal
5 12 (6.28%) Law
6 11 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.71%) Retail
9 8 (4.19%) Advertising
10 7 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.66%) Marketing
11 5 (2.62%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.62%) French Language
11 5 (2.62%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.57%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.57%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 46 (24.08%) Project Manager
2 44 (23.04%) Senior
3 25 (13.09%) Analyst
4 19 (9.95%) Business Analyst
4 19 (9.95%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 19 (9.95%) Systems Engineer
5 13 (6.81%) Lead
6 11 (5.76%) Consultant
7 9 (4.71%) Senior Manager
7 9 (4.71%) Senior Project Manager
8 7 (3.66%) Developer
8 7 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.66%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (3.14%) Commercial Manager
9 6 (3.14%) Commercial Project Manager
9 6 (3.14%) Finance Business Analyst
9 6 (3.14%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (2.62%) IT Manager
10 5 (2.62%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (2.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.81%) .NET
2 10 (5.24%) CSS
2 10 (5.24%) HTML
3 4 (2.09%) Gherkin
3 4 (2.09%) XML
4 2 (1.05%) Material Design
4 2 (1.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 2 (1.05%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.52%) Kendo UI
5 1 (0.52%) Middleware
5 1 (0.52%) Pyramid
5 1 (0.52%) React
5 1 (0.52%) SPFx
5 1 (0.52%) WinForms
5 1 (0.52%) WireMock
5 1 (0.52%) WPF
5 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.76%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.19%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.14%) Social Media
4 5 (2.62%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.57%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.57%) Digital Signage
6 3 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.05%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.05%) Blog
7 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.24%) Windows
2 3 (1.57%) Android
2 3 (1.57%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.05%) Linux
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (38.74%) Agile
2 58 (30.37%) Project Delivery
3 48 (25.13%) Project Management
4 47 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (13.61%) Mentoring
7 25 (13.09%) Change Management
8 24 (12.57%) Coaching
9 22 (11.52%) Requirements Gathering
10 21 (10.99%) PRINCE2
11 20 (10.47%) Systems Engineering
12 18 (9.42%) Business Case
12 18 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (9.42%) Test Automation
13 17 (8.90%) Validation
14 16 (8.38%) ERP
15 15 (7.85%) Analytics
15 15 (7.85%) Time Management
16 14 (7.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.76%) JavaScript
2 9 (4.71%) C#
2 9 (4.71%) SQL
3 5 (2.62%) C
3 5 (2.62%) Python
4 3 (1.57%) Java
5 2 (1.05%) C++
5 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (26.18%) Degree
2 26 (13.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (8.38%) PMI Certification
4 15 (7.85%) PMP
5 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
6 10 (5.24%) DBS Check
7 9 (4.71%) ISTQB
8 7 (3.66%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.09%) APMP
9 4 (2.09%) CAPM
9 4 (2.09%) ISEB
9 4 (2.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (2.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.57%) HND
11 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.42%) QA
2 15 (7.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 6 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.62%) PMO
5 3 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.05%) GDPR
6 2 (1.05%) WCAG
7 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.52%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.52%) IFRS
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Grafana
1 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.71%) SAP
3 6 (3.14%) Cisco
3 6 (3.14%) NEC
4 5 (2.62%) Google
5 4 (2.09%) Anaplan
5 4 (2.09%) Aruba
5 4 (2.09%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.09%) Meraki
5 4 (2.09%) Oracle
5 4 (2.09%) Pega
5 4 (2.09%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.09%) Tagetik
5 4 (2.09%) WorldPay
6 3 (1.57%) Adobe
6 3 (1.57%) Draytek
6 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.57%) Sophos
6 3 (1.57%) Workday
7 2 (1.05%) webMethods