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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 399 375
Rank change year-on-year -180 -24 -56
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 223 315 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.71% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 124 169 301
10th Percentile £36,625 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,456 £46,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +25.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £68,250 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,650 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £50,445 £46,293
% change year-on-year +11.01% +8.97% -11.82%

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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 25 August 2026.

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 25 August 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 -156 207 £56,000 -10.40% 237
UK excluding London -150 148 £56,000 +11.01% 164
London -59 62 £52,500 -22.22% 93
Work from Home -73 62 £56,000 +11.01% 109
South East -55 45 £56,000 -10.40% 44
North of England -58 32 £52,000 +4.00% 28
East of England -32 25 £75,000 +66.67% 12
Midlands -50 22 £46,205 +15.51% 22
South West -69 19 £57,500 +43.75% 38
North West -32 18 £52,500 +5.00% 16
West Midlands -34 18 £46,205 +19.24% 11
Yorkshire -35 14 £52,000 +9.47% 8
Wales -64 4 £26,400 - 5
East Midlands -45 3 £50,000 +25.00% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 13 (5.83%) Confluence
2 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) CMS
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (9.87%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.79%) Trello
6 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (7.17%) Primavera
2 8 (3.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.24%) SAP EHS
3 5 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.45%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.62%) Azure
2 12 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (4.04%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.69%) Smartsheet
6 3 (1.35%) GitHub
6 3 (1.35%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.90%) AWS
7 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.90%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.45%) Asana
8 1 (0.45%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.45%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.45%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.45%) Datadog
8 1 (0.45%) GCP
8 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.45%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.59%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (2.69%) Network Security
3 5 (2.24%) Firewall
3 5 (2.24%) Wireless
4 4 (1.79%) DHCP
4 4 (1.79%) DNS
4 4 (1.79%) VLAN
5 3 (1.35%) SMS
5 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.35%) VoIP
6 2 (0.90%) BGP
6 2 (0.90%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.90%) IP Telephony
6 2 (0.90%) LAN
6 2 (0.90%) OSPF
6 2 (0.90%) SAN
6 2 (0.90%) SSL
6 2 (0.90%) VPN
6 2 (0.90%) WAN
6 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.59%) Power BI
2 5 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.35%) DTS
4 2 (0.90%) Metadata
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.90%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (9.87%) JIRA
2 8 (3.59%) LabVIEW
3 7 (3.14%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) JUnit
4 1 (0.45%) Postman
4 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 115 (51.57%) Social Skills
2 75 (33.63%) Finance
3 44 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (13.90%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (8.97%) Banking
7 16 (7.17%) Aerospace
7 16 (7.17%) Retail
8 15 (6.73%) Local Government
9 13 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (4.93%) Electronics
11 10 (4.48%) Legal
12 9 (4.04%) Manufacturing
12 9 (4.04%) Marketing
13 8 (3.59%) Military
13 8 (3.59%) Telecoms
14 7 (3.14%) Public Sector
15 6 (2.69%) Advertising
16 5 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (2.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 61 (27.35%) Project Manager
2 36 (16.14%) Senior
3 27 (12.11%) Analyst
4 21 (9.42%) Business Analyst
5 19 (8.52%) Lead
6 13 (5.83%) Senior Manager
7 11 (4.93%) Junior
8 9 (4.04%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.04%) IT Project Manager
8 9 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
8 9 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (3.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.14%) Administrator
10 7 (3.14%) Consultant
10 7 (3.14%) Junior Project Administrator
10 7 (3.14%) Project Administrator
10 7 (3.14%) Project Support Administrator
11 6 (2.69%) Cabling Engineer
11 6 (2.69%) Project Planner
11 6 (2.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.24%) .NET
2 3 (1.35%) Middleware
3 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (0.90%) CSS
3 2 (0.90%) CSS3
3 2 (0.90%) HTML
3 2 (0.90%) HTML5
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.90%) React
3 2 (0.90%) Terraform
3 2 (0.90%) Vue
3 2 (0.90%) YAML
4 1 (0.45%) EDI
4 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.45%) JSON
4 1 (0.45%) WireMock
4 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.83%) Renewable Energy
1 13 (5.83%) Security Posture
2 9 (4.04%) Fibre Optics
3 8 (3.59%) PMI
4 7 (3.14%) FPGA
5 6 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.90%) CCTV
7 2 (0.90%) Clustering
7 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.90%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.90%) Verilog
7 2 (0.90%) VHDL
8 1 (0.45%) FMCG
8 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.83%) Linux
2 4 (1.79%) CentOS
2 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (1.79%) Rocky
3 3 (1.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Android
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.36%) Project Management
2 84 (37.67%) Agile
3 75 (33.63%) Project Delivery
4 69 (30.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (26.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 47 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.49%) Mentoring
8 37 (16.59%) Risk Management
9 29 (13.00%) Decision-Making
10 27 (12.11%) Technical Leadership
10 27 (12.11%) Waterfall
11 26 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (11.66%) PRINCE2
12 25 (11.21%) Resource Management
12 25 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (10.76%) Roadmaps
14 23 (10.31%) Budget Management
15 20 (8.97%) Business Development
16 19 (8.52%) Time Management
16 19 (8.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.31%) Python
2 11 (4.93%) C++
3 8 (3.59%) MATLAB
4 7 (3.14%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.69%) SQL
6 5 (2.24%) C
6 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.79%) C#
7 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.35%) Java
8 3 (1.35%) Rust
9 1 (0.45%) Bash
9 1 (0.45%) Bicep
9 1 (0.45%) R
9 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (30.49%) Degree
2 35 (15.70%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.31%) Master's Degree
4 22 (9.87%) PMI Certification
5 20 (8.97%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (8.52%) SC Cleared
7 18 (8.07%) CISSP
8 17 (7.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 17 (7.62%) CCSP
9 15 (6.73%) DV Cleared
10 14 (6.28%) PMP
11 13 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (5.83%) CISM
12 10 (4.48%) PhD
13 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.35%) CCNA
14 3 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.94%) QA
2 18 (8.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (7.62%) NIST
3 17 (7.62%) PMO
4 13 (5.83%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.24%) GDPR
6 4 (1.79%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.35%) PERC
8 1 (0.45%) ARP4761
8 1 (0.45%) DO-160
8 1 (0.45%) DO-254
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 5 (2.24%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (2.24%) Firmware
2 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (0.90%) Grafana
1 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
1 2 (0.90%) Thomson Reuters DACS
2 1 (0.45%) Ansible
2 1 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 27 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.42%) SAP
3 7 (3.14%) NEC
4 5 (2.24%) Google
4 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle
5 4 (1.79%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.35%) BMC
6 3 (1.35%) Cognizant
6 3 (1.35%) dotdigital
6 3 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.90%) Altera
7 2 (0.90%) Apple
7 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.90%) FactSet
7 2 (0.90%) Freshdesk
7 2 (0.90%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.90%) Intel
7 2 (0.90%) Xilinx