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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 330 361
Rank change year-on-year +91 +31 +94
Permanent jobs citing Project Planning 734 856 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.32% 0.86% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.01% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 215 492 383
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,734 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,967 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.93% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,778 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,822 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,967 £46,293 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.86% -15.83% -

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 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Planning in the UK

Project Planning
Top 17 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 16 May 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 +98 703 £61,967 +23.93% 463
UK excluding London +113 664 £61,967 +33.86% 397
Midlands +183 327 £50,000 -9.09% 76
West Midlands +153 208 £48,750 -11.36% 45
North of England +71 165 £61,967 +34.28% 72
North West +46 146 £61,967 +37.70% 33
East Midlands +94 119 £95,000 +94.87% 28
South East +12 103 £65,000 +32.65% 107
Work from Home -19 93 £55,000 +4.76% 139
London -12 48 £83,750 +39.58% 127
East of England +17 33 £55,000 +37.50% 49
South West +64 20 £47,000 +17.50% 52
Yorkshire +45 18 £54,793 -4.71% 26
Scotland +50 15 £55,000 -15.47% 32
Wales +14 3 £65,000 +60.29% 8
North East +41 1 - - 14
Channel Islands -2 1 - -

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 11 (1.50%) IIS
1 11 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.95%) CMS
2 7 (0.95%) Kentico
3 2 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.14%) Sitefinity
4 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 37 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
2 31 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.95%) Trello
7 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.14%) Actimize
3 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.14%) Primavera
3 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 40 (5.45%) Azure
2 38 (5.18%) Power Platform
3 23 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
5 12 (1.63%) AWS
6 11 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (0.82%) Kontent
7 6 (0.82%) SaaS
7 6 (0.82%) Smartsheet
8 5 (0.68%) Asana
8 5 (0.68%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.54%) GitHub
10 3 (0.41%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.41%) Figma
10 3 (0.41%) GCP
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.27%) Collibra
11 2 (0.27%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.50%) 5G
1 11 (1.50%) Bluetooth
1 11 (1.50%) LTE
1 11 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (0.95%) Firewall
2 7 (0.95%) VoIP
3 5 (0.68%) ADSL
3 5 (0.68%) DHCP
3 5 (0.68%) DNS
3 5 (0.68%) Network Security
3 5 (0.68%) VLAN
3 5 (0.68%) VPN
4 3 (0.41%) BGP
4 3 (0.41%) MPLS
4 3 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.41%) WAN
5 2 (0.27%) Intranet
6 1 (0.14%) GSM
6 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (1.36%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.36%) Power BI
4 7 (0.95%) GIS
5 6 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.54%) Tableau
7 3 (0.41%) Metadata
8 2 (0.27%) Ataccama
8 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.27%) Dremio
8 2 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.14%) Big Data
9 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (4.09%) JIRA
2 1 (0.14%) GCC
2 1 (0.14%) gcov
2 1 (0.14%) GDB
2 1 (0.14%) Git
2 1 (0.14%) GitLab
2 1 (0.14%) JDeveloper
2 1 (0.14%) LSMW
2 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 126 (17.17%) Social Skills
2 109 (14.85%) Finance
3 107 (14.58%) Telecoms
4 99 (13.49%) Automotive
5 68 (9.26%) Electronics
6 61 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (7.90%) Manufacturing
8 56 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (4.36%) Legal
10 31 (4.22%) Law
11 26 (3.54%) Banking
12 23 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.45%) Retail
14 17 (2.32%) Billing
15 16 (2.18%) Marketing
16 12 (1.63%) Public Sector
17 10 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (1.09%) Advertising
18 8 (1.09%) Local Government
19 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (33.11%) Principal Engineer
1 243 (33.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 161 (21.93%) Systems Engineer
3 160 (21.80%) Senior
4 110 (14.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 107 (14.58%) Project Manager
6 81 (11.04%) Principal Modelling Engineer
7 55 (7.49%) Engineering Manager
8 44 (5.99%) Lead
9 39 (5.31%) Associate Engineer
9 39 (5.31%) Design Engineer
9 39 (5.31%) Electronics Design Engineer
9 39 (5.31%) Electronics Engineer
9 39 (5.31%) PCB Design Engineer
9 39 (5.31%) PCB Engineer
10 21 (2.86%) Analyst
10 21 (2.86%) Developer
10 21 (2.86%) Senior Manager
11 20 (2.72%) Technical Manager
12 17 (2.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.59%) XML
2 13 (1.77%) .NET
3 9 (1.23%) AngularJS
3 9 (1.23%) HTML
4 4 (0.54%) CSS
4 4 (0.54%) JSON
5 2 (0.27%) ADO
5 2 (0.27%) REST
6 1 (0.14%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.14%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.14%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (0.14%) Django
6 1 (0.14%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.14%) HTML5
6 1 (0.14%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.14%) jQuery
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.14%) React
6 1 (0.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (1.91%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (1.50%) IoT
3 11 (1.50%) NB-IoT
4 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
4 10 (1.36%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (0.95%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.82%) PMI
7 6 (0.82%) Social Media
7 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
8 5 (0.68%) Cloud Native
8 5 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.41%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.27%) SCADA
10 2 (0.27%) Tandem
11 1 (0.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.04%) Windows
2 25 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.45%) Linux
4 6 (0.82%) Windows Vista
5 2 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.14%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (55.59%) Systems Engineering
2 195 (26.57%) Validation
3 190 (25.89%) Verification and Validation
4 149 (20.30%) SysML
5 148 (20.16%) Project Management
6 135 (18.39%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 118 (16.08%) Project Delivery
8 108 (14.71%) Change Management
9 101 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 97 (13.22%) Agile
11 79 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (8.04%) Acceptance Criteria
13 56 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (7.36%) Requirements Management
15 47 (6.40%) Risk Management
16 46 (6.27%) PRINCE2
17 39 (5.31%) CRM
17 39 (5.31%) Schematic Capture
18 37 (5.04%) Waterfall
19 30 (4.09%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (3.81%) SQL
2 23 (3.13%) Python
3 19 (2.59%) PowerShell
4 16 (2.18%) C
5 14 (1.91%) Ada
6 13 (1.77%) C#
7 11 (1.50%) Bash
8 9 (1.23%) Java
9 6 (0.82%) C++
10 4 (0.54%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.54%) VBA
11 2 (0.27%) R
12 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.14%) SAPscript
12 1 (0.14%) SOQL
12 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 417 (56.81%) BPSS Clearance
2 285 (38.83%) Degree
3 95 (12.94%) HND
4 68 (9.26%) Master's Degree
5 56 (7.63%) HNC
6 55 (7.49%) Chartered Engineer
7 29 (3.95%) PMP
8 24 (3.27%) PMI Certification
8 24 (3.27%) Security Cleared
9 15 (2.04%) SC Cleared
10 11 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.95%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 6 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.82%) SAP Certification
14 4 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.04%) QA
2 15 (2.04%) PMO
3 10 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.14%) P3O
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (1.50%) vSphere
3 10 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.27%) Docker
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (1.50%) Ansible
1 11 (1.50%) Puppet
1 11 (1.50%) Terraform
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 82 (11.17%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.31%) EMC
3 19 (2.59%) Oracle
4 13 (1.77%) SAP
4 13 (1.77%) VMware
5 7 (0.95%) Google
5 7 (0.95%) Salesforce
6 4 (0.54%) Adobe
6 4 (0.54%) Blue Prism
6 4 (0.54%) Fortinet
6 4 (0.54%) UiPath
7 3 (0.41%) Autodesk
7 3 (0.41%) Cisco
7 3 (0.41%) Databricks
7 3 (0.41%) Juniper
8 1 (0.14%) Ariba
8 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.14%) NYFIX
8 1 (0.14%) QNX
8 1 (0.14%) Sage