Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,955 7,976 12,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.07% 7.71% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 8.06% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,413 4,616 6,717
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,709 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Project Management 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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Management.

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +7 7,038 £52,500 -11.76% 3,363
UK excluding London +3 5,769 £50,000 -9.09% 2,332
Work from Home +15 3,000 £55,000 -1.79% 1,388
London +17 1,786 £65,000 -3.70% 1,142
North of England +14 1,466 £50,000 -9.09% 553
South East +1 1,368 £47,500 -13.64% 604
Midlands +3 1,136 £52,500 -4.55% 462
North West +18 820 £50,000 -9.09% 336
South West +8 756 £47,500 -13.64% 304
West Midlands +1 633 £55,000 - 290
Yorkshire +20 489 £50,000 -8.90% 173
East Midlands +4 464 £47,500 -13.64% 172
East of England +13 443 £50,000 -9.09% 259
Scotland -21 367 £50,000 -9.09% 157
Wales +7 164 £42,500 -22.56% 63
North East +7 157 £52,500 -4.55% 52
Northern Ireland +45 68 £42,500 -10.53% 25
Isle of Man - 8 £37,500 -

Project Management
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
1 366 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 152 (1.91%) Confluence
3 133 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 107 (1.35%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 51 (0.64%) IIS
7 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 41 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 39 (0.49%) WordPress
10 36 (0.45%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 15 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 14 (0.18%) ArcGIS
15 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
16 9 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
17 7 (0.088%) Joomla!
17 7 (0.088%) MS Project Server
18 6 (0.075%) IBM Notes
18 6 (0.075%) WebSphere
Applications
1 542 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 506 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
3 352 (4.42%) Microsoft Project
4 248 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 84 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 49 (0.62%) Trello
8 44 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 15 (0.19%) SPSS
11 14 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 13 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
13 12 (0.15%) InDesign
14 10 (0.13%) Simulink
15 9 (0.11%) Sketch
16 6 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
17 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
17 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
18 4 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 76 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 45 (0.57%) Primavera
5 40 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 31 (0.39%) Shopify
7 29 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
8 28 (0.35%) Magento
9 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 18 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 17 (0.21%) NEC Housing
11 17 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
12 15 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
12 15 (0.19%) SAP EWM
12 15 (0.19%) SAP SCM
13 14 (0.18%) SAP HR
13 14 (0.18%) SAP MM
14 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
14 12 (0.15%) SAP FI
15 11 (0.14%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 952 (11.97%) Azure
2 566 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
3 552 (6.94%) AWS
4 425 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 361 (4.54%) SaaS
6 275 (3.46%) GCP
7 207 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
10 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 82 (1.03%) Entra ID
12 76 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 68 (0.85%) Power Automate
14 53 (0.67%) IaaS
14 53 (0.67%) PaaS
15 48 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (0.45%) Smartsheet
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (0.41%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 272 (3.42%) Firewall
2 184 (2.31%) WAN
3 156 (1.96%) DNS
4 137 (1.72%) VPN
5 111 (1.40%) Intranet
5 111 (1.40%) LAN
6 106 (1.33%) Internet
7 98 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
8 89 (1.12%) DHCP
9 87 (1.09%) Network Security
10 85 (1.07%) TCP/IP
11 71 (0.89%) SD-WAN
12 69 (0.87%) SSL
13 67 (0.84%) SAN
14 63 (0.79%) Wireless
15 61 (0.77%) IPsec
15 61 (0.77%) SNMP
16 53 (0.67%) 5G
16 53 (0.67%) BGP
17 47 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (4.14%) Power BI
2 173 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 170 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 104 (1.31%) MySQL
6 99 (1.24%) Tableau
7 83 (1.04%) BigQuery
8 82 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 79 (0.99%) RDBMS
10 74 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 72 (0.91%) Big Data
11 72 (0.91%) Looker
12 71 (0.89%) MongoDB
13 52 (0.65%) Oracle Database
14 47 (0.59%) NoSQL
15 44 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
16 43 (0.54%) Data Mining
17 42 (0.53%) Data Lake
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 412 (5.18%) JIRA
2 96 (1.21%) Git
3 82 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 29 (0.36%) Postman
6 24 (0.30%) GitLab
7 23 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 15 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.13%) Selenium
11 10 (0.13%) Subversion
12 9 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.10%) JUnit
14 7 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.063%) gulp
16 4 (0.050%) Maven
16 4 (0.050%) MSI
16 4 (0.050%) Zephyr
General
1 3,413 (42.90%) Social Skills
2 1,964 (24.69%) Finance
3 1,300 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 678 (8.52%) Marketing
5 510 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
6 502 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 480 (6.03%) Retail
8 448 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
9 433 (5.44%) Manufacturing
10 405 (5.09%) Public Sector
11 366 (4.60%) Legal
12 265 (3.33%) Law
13 235 (2.95%) Telecoms
14 198 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
15 158 (1.99%) Banking
16 155 (1.95%) Aerospace
17 140 (1.76%) Billing
18 118 (1.48%) Local Government
19 116 (1.46%) Games
20 109 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,668 (33.54%) Project Manager
2 999 (12.56%) Senior
3 664 (8.35%) Lead
4 578 (7.27%) IT Manager
5 554 (6.96%) Analyst
6 549 (6.90%) Senior Manager
7 397 (4.99%) Architect
8 395 (4.97%) Consultant
9 384 (4.83%) Senior Project Manager
10 315 (3.96%) IT Project Manager
11 217 (2.73%) Developer
12 216 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 205 (2.58%) Digital Project Manager
14 183 (2.30%) Presales Manager
15 181 (2.28%) Business Analyst
16 159 (2.00%) Coordinator
16 159 (2.00%) Technical Manager
17 157 (1.97%) Engineering Manager
18 143 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
19 137 (1.72%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (2.35%) .NET
2 132 (1.66%) HTML
3 113 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
4 111 (1.40%) CSS
5 87 (1.09%) EDI
6 81 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 78 (0.98%) React
8 60 (0.75%) JSON
8 60 (0.75%) YAML
9 57 (0.72%) XML
10 50 (0.63%) Spring
10 50 (0.63%) Web Services
11 48 (0.60%) RESTful
12 45 (0.57%) SOAP
13 40 (0.50%) AngularJS
14 39 (0.49%) Kafka
15 36 (0.45%) ASP.NET
16 35 (0.44%) Laravel
16 35 (0.44%) REST
17 34 (0.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 641 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 488 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
3 288 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 246 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 244 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 210 (2.64%) PMI
7 199 (2.50%) Driving Licence
8 170 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 111 (1.40%) NHS
9 111 (1.40%) Social Media
10 103 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 94 (1.18%) PKI
11 94 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
12 91 (1.14%) Virtual Team
13 85 (1.07%) FMCG
14 83 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 74 (0.93%) IoT
16 70 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
17 54 (0.68%) Algorithms
18 51 (0.64%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 471 (5.92%) Windows
2 331 (4.16%) Linux
3 176 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 58 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
7 52 (0.65%) Android
8 51 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 47 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 41 (0.52%) Apple iOS
11 36 (0.45%) Unix
12 33 (0.41%) Mac OS
13 20 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (0.23%) VMS
15 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
15 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.10%) AIX
17 8 (0.10%) Solaris
18 7 (0.088%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,539 (31.92%) Agile
2 1,802 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
3 1,731 (21.76%) Project Delivery
4 1,144 (14.38%) PRINCE2
5 942 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 845 (10.62%) Mentoring
7 839 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 758 (9.53%) Change Management
9 739 (9.29%) Decision-Making
10 661 (8.31%) Actionable Insight
11 655 (8.23%) Risk Management
12 579 (7.28%) Coaching
13 546 (6.86%) SDLC
14 544 (6.84%) Customer Service
15 538 (6.76%) ITIL
16 533 (6.70%) Scrum
17 530 (6.66%) Collaborative Working
18 523 (6.57%) Agile Project Management
19 517 (6.50%) Roadmaps
20 478 (6.01%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 508 (6.39%) SQL
2 317 (3.98%) Python
3 198 (2.49%) JavaScript
4 171 (2.15%) C#
5 161 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 142 (1.79%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 79 (0.99%) C
9 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 59 (0.74%) C++
11 52 (0.65%) R
12 49 (0.62%) Bash
13 46 (0.58%) TypeScript
14 39 (0.49%) VB
15 27 (0.34%) VBA
16 25 (0.31%) Perl
17 21 (0.26%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.23%) Scala
19 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
20 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,021 (25.41%) Degree
2 717 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 473 (5.95%) PMI Certification
4 430 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 390 (4.90%) PMP
6 193 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 174 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 164 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 139 (1.75%) DBS Check
10 138 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 119 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
12 117 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 116 (1.46%) APMP
14 100 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 93 (1.17%) Azure Certification
16 83 (1.04%) HNC
17 75 (0.94%) CCNA
18 72 (0.91%) DV Cleared
18 72 (0.91%) HND
19 62 (0.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 574 (7.22%) PMO
2 484 (6.08%) QA
3 165 (2.07%) GDPR
4 151 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 89 (1.12%) SLA
7 87 (1.09%) Data Quality
8 76 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 60 (0.75%) NIST
10 35 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.40%) NCSC
12 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
13 26 (0.33%) ITGC
14 25 (0.31%) GRC
15 21 (0.26%) GMP
15 21 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 21 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 20 (0.25%) PCI DSS
17 19 (0.24%) IFRS
18 15 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 294 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 218 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 124 (1.56%) Docker
5 63 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (0.49%) Firmware
7 36 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.24%) vSphere
9 15 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.063%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.050%) pfSense
12 4 (0.050%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.038%) NFS
13 3 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.013%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.013%) Lustre
14 1 (0.013%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.013%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 139 (1.75%) Ansible
2 120 (1.51%) Kubernetes
3 78 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 73 (0.92%) Terraform
4 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 49 (0.62%) SCCM
7 40 (0.50%) WSUS
8 27 (0.34%) ZABBIX
9 24 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 20 (0.25%) SCOM
11 18 (0.23%) Puppet
12 15 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
13 14 (0.18%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.15%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 12 (0.15%) VxRail
15 9 (0.11%) Nessus
15 9 (0.11%) PaperCut
16 8 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,490 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 323 (4.06%) Google
3 306 (3.85%) SAP
4 281 (3.53%) VMware
5 239 (3.00%) Oracle
6 180 (2.26%) Cisco
7 144 (1.81%) Salesforce
8 109 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 77 (0.97%) Adobe
10 75 (0.94%) IFS
11 74 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 73 (0.92%) Dell
12 73 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 68 (0.85%) NetApp
14 64 (0.80%) IBM
15 61 (0.77%) Sage
16 58 (0.73%) HP
17 54 (0.68%) NEC
17 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
18 49 (0.62%) Sparx