Project Planning Jobs

Project Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 272 457
Rank change year-on-year -96 +185 +20
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 638 1,049 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 1.31% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.37% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 351 396 641
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £73,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,822 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,070
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.67% +10.14%

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 73,906 76,482 168,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.31% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,540 50,089 85,628
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 July 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 July 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 -93 535 £50,000 -13.04% 110
UK excluding London -108 482 £47,500 -9.52% 107
Work from Home -118 210 £55,000 -4.35% 39
London +30 137 £61,000 -9.63% 16
South East -81 109 £46,293 -7.41% 33
Midlands -60 84 £55,000 -12.00% 25
North of England -59 81 £48,250 -8.10% 17
Scotland -34 71 £75,000 +25.00% 8
South West -2 67 £40,250 -26.82% 13
East of England -32 50 £45,000 -28.00% 9
West Midlands -57 43 £54,250 -23.86% 11
North West -47 42 £50,000 -4.76% 11
East Midlands -36 37 £54,000 +13.68% 14
Yorkshire +11 34 £42,500 -17.07% 4
Wales +7 13 £66,000 +22.79% 2
Northern Ireland +2 5 - - 3
North East -5 5 - - 2
Channel Islands - 2 £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 (8.46%) Apache
2 30 (4.70%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.41%) CMS
4 9 (1.41%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.78%) Office Communications Server
6 2 (0.31%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (6.11%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.88%) Sketch
6 11 (1.72%) AutoCAD
6 11 (1.72%) MS Visio
7 8 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.63%) Revit
9 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.16%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.16%) Blender
10 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.16%) Maya
10 1 (0.16%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.98%) Primavera
2 9 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.10%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.47%) Maximo
4 3 (0.47%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.16%) iTrent
6 1 (0.16%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.16%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (8.46%) Amazon S3
2 44 (6.90%) Azure
3 41 (6.43%) Figma
4 34 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (5.02%) AWS
6 29 (4.55%) SurveyMonkey
7 24 (3.76%) Power Platform
8 14 (2.19%) GCP
9 13 (2.04%) iTunes
10 11 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.10%) SaaS
13 5 (0.78%) Miro
14 4 (0.63%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.63%) GitHub
14 4 (0.63%) Serverless
15 3 (0.47%) Google Workspace
15 3 (0.47%) OneDrive
15 3 (0.47%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 81 (12.70%) Firewall
2 56 (8.78%) Internet
2 56 (8.78%) VPN
3 54 (8.46%) IPsec
3 54 (8.46%) SNMP
4 22 (3.45%) VoIP
5 21 (3.29%) Network Security
6 16 (2.51%) LAN
7 14 (2.19%) SSL
8 10 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.41%) WAN
10 3 (0.47%) WebEx
11 2 (0.31%) 5G
11 2 (0.31%) DNS
11 2 (0.31%) HTTP
11 2 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (8.78%) MongoDB
2 54 (8.46%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (2.66%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.04%) Power BI
5 10 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (1.25%) GIS
6 8 (1.25%) MySQL
6 8 (1.25%) Spatial Data
7 7 (1.10%) SAP HANA
8 6 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (0.94%) MS Access
8 6 (0.94%) Tableau
9 4 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.47%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.16%) Metadata
11 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.16%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 38 (5.96%) JIRA
2 6 (0.94%) Hudson
3 5 (0.78%) Git
4 2 (0.31%) GitLab
4 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 247 (38.71%) Finance
2 246 (38.56%) Social Skills
3 95 (14.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (11.91%) Marketing
6 64 (10.03%) Law
7 51 (7.99%) Retail
8 47 (7.37%) Public Sector
9 35 (5.49%) Legal
10 33 (5.17%) Manufacturing
11 30 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (4.55%) Social Science
13 25 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (3.61%) Telecoms
15 22 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (2.04%) Banking
18 9 (1.41%) Investment Banking
19 6 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
19 6 (0.94%) Games
Job Titles
1 232 (36.36%) Project Manager
2 87 (13.64%) Consultant
3 72 (11.29%) Lead
4 59 (9.25%) Analyst
5 54 (8.46%) IT Manager
5 54 (8.46%) NetApp Consultant
6 53 (8.31%) Senior
7 44 (6.90%) IT Project Manager
8 39 (6.11%) IT Engineer
9 31 (4.86%) IT Support
9 31 (4.86%) IT Support Engineer
9 31 (4.86%) Support Engineer
10 26 (4.08%) Senior Manager
11 22 (3.45%) Architect
12 21 (3.29%) Developer
12 21 (3.29%) IT Analyst
13 20 (3.13%) Operational Support Analyst
13 20 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
13 20 (3.13%) Operations Support Analyst
13 20 (3.13%) Operations Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.46%) RabbitMQ
1 54 (8.46%) YAML
2 18 (2.82%) .NET
3 13 (2.04%) HTML
4 12 (1.88%) CSS
5 8 (1.25%) EDI
5 8 (1.25%) React
6 7 (1.10%) Node.js
7 5 (0.78%) ADO
7 5 (0.78%) React Native
7 5 (0.78%) Symfony
7 5 (0.78%) Vue
8 4 (0.63%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.63%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.63%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (0.63%) Serverless Framework
9 3 (0.47%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (0.47%) Ionic Framework
9 3 (0.47%) REST
9 3 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.66%) Data Centre
1 68 (10.66%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (3.61%) Driving Licence
4 22 (3.45%) Fat Client
4 22 (3.45%) Thin Client
5 17 (2.66%) Market Risk
6 14 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
8 12 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.88%) PMI
9 11 (1.72%) FMCG
10 10 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.57%) Freedom of Information
10 10 (1.57%) NHS
11 9 (1.41%) Digital Signage
12 7 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 76 (11.91%) Windows
2 68 (10.66%) Linux
3 54 (8.46%) Data ONTAP
4 16 (2.51%) Android
5 11 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.31%) Unix
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (57.05%) Project Management
2 193 (30.25%) Project Delivery
3 172 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
4 154 (24.14%) Agile
5 116 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 102 (15.99%) PRINCE2
7 95 (14.89%) Budget Management
8 85 (13.32%) Actionable Insight
9 81 (12.70%) Change Management
9 81 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 76 (11.91%) Risk Management
11 62 (9.72%) Release Management
12 60 (9.40%) Roadmaps
13 58 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
14 56 (8.78%) User Experience
15 55 (8.62%) Storage Management
16 49 (7.68%) Requirements Gathering
17 46 (7.21%) ITIL
18 44 (6.90%) Business Strategy
18 44 (6.90%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 72 (11.29%) Python
2 43 (6.74%) SQL
3 29 (4.55%) R
4 18 (2.82%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.57%) C#
6 9 (1.41%) PHP
7 4 (0.63%) Java
8 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.31%) C++
9 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.16%) ABAP
10 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 169 (26.49%) Degree
2 36 (5.64%) Security Cleared
3 35 (5.49%) Master's Degree
4 29 (4.55%) PhD
5 25 (3.92%) PMI Certification
5 25 (3.92%) PMP
6 24 (3.76%) SC Cleared
7 23 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 14 (2.19%) DBS Check
10 12 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 8 (1.25%) APMG
13 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.63%) NVQ Level 3
14 4 (0.63%) RIBA
15 3 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.47%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (11.76%) QA
2 41 (6.43%) PMO
3 16 (2.51%) GDPR
4 14 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.04%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.57%) SLA
7 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) NIST
7 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.78%) SEPA
7 5 (0.78%) TARGET2
8 4 (0.63%) COBIT
9 3 (0.47%) NEBOSH
10 2 (0.31%) HAZOP
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.16%) P3O
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (9.40%) Docker
2 59 (9.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (5.80%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.78%) Ansible
3 54 (8.46%) Prometheus
3 54 (8.46%) vCenter Server
4 22 (3.45%) SCCM
5 5 (0.78%) Graphite
6 4 (0.63%) Terraform
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.16%) CASB
8 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 135 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.40%) VMware
3 54 (8.46%) NetApp
3 54 (8.46%) Palo Alto
3 54 (8.46%) Red Hat
3 54 (8.46%) SolidFire
4 29 (4.55%) Qualtrics
5 26 (4.08%) SAP
6 17 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.35%) Sage
8 12 (1.88%) Oracle
9 8 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.25%) Sun
10 7 (1.10%) Epicor
10 7 (1.10%) Mapbox
10 7 (1.10%) WatchGuard
11 6 (0.94%) Alteryx
11 6 (0.94%) Google
11 6 (0.94%) Jitterbit
11 6 (0.94%) Talend