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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,913 8,305 11,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.14% 7.77% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 8.12% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,408 4,689 6,679
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,320 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,620
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.55% +2.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £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 83,908 102,297 145,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 95.66% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59,730 59,825 83,628
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +6 7,000 £52,500 -8.70% 2,756
UK excluding London +4 5,696 £50,000 -9.09% 1,977
Work from Home +15 2,996 £55,000 -4.35% 1,069
London +17 1,804 £65,000 -3.70% 883
North of England +18 1,475 £50,000 -9.09% 486
South East +1 1,348 £47,500 -13.64% 501
Midlands +4 1,113 £51,997 -5.46% 375
North West +23 813 £50,000 -9.09% 285
South West +9 745 £47,500 -9.52% 281
West Midlands +3 622 £54,000 -1.82% 239
Yorkshire +24 507 £51,749 -5.71% 161
East Midlands +4 453 £47,500 -13.64% 136
East of England +16 426 £50,000 -9.09% 201
Scotland -18 358 £50,000 -9.09% 130
Wales +5 167 £42,500 -18.27% 51
North East +12 155 £52,500 - 47
Northern Ireland +48 64 £42,500 -15.00% 24
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
1 358 (4.52%) SharePoint
2 140 (1.77%) Confluence
3 138 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 103 (1.30%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 49 (0.62%) IIS
7 47 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
9 39 (0.49%) WordPress
10 37 (0.47%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 17 (0.21%) 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 (0.076%) IBM Notes
18 6 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 512 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 507 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 354 (4.47%) Microsoft Project
4 226 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 83 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 51 (0.64%) Trello
8 44 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 14 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 14 (0.18%) SPSS
11 13 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 12 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
12 12 (0.15%) InDesign
13 10 (0.13%) Simulink
14 9 (0.11%) Sketch
15 6 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
16 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
17 4 (0.051%) InVision
Business Applications
1 74 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 58 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 44 (0.56%) Primavera
5 41 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 32 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
7 31 (0.39%) Shopify
8 28 (0.35%) Magento
9 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 19 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 18 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
12 15 (0.19%) SAP EWM
12 15 (0.19%) SAP SCM
13 14 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
13 14 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
13 14 (0.18%) SAP HR
13 14 (0.18%) SAP MM
14 13 (0.16%) NEC Housing
15 12 (0.15%) Elite 3E
15 12 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 970 (12.26%) Azure
2 564 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
3 556 (7.03%) AWS
4 429 (5.42%) Power Platform
5 360 (4.55%) SaaS
6 281 (3.55%) GCP
7 215 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 127 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
9 93 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
10 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 81 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 81 (1.02%) PowerApps
12 67 (0.85%) Power Automate
13 49 (0.62%) IaaS
13 49 (0.62%) PaaS
14 48 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
15 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
16 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
17 33 (0.42%) Smartsheet
18 32 (0.40%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 261 (3.30%) Firewall
2 184 (2.33%) WAN
3 147 (1.86%) DNS
4 140 (1.77%) VPN
5 111 (1.40%) Intranet
6 108 (1.36%) Internet
7 106 (1.34%) LAN
8 95 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
9 91 (1.15%) DHCP
10 89 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 77 (0.97%) Network Security
12 74 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 69 (0.87%) SSL
14 68 (0.86%) SAN
15 63 (0.80%) Wireless
16 61 (0.77%) IPsec
16 61 (0.77%) SNMP
17 55 (0.70%) 5G
18 52 (0.66%) BGP
19 47 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (4.13%) Power BI
2 189 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 175 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 127 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 106 (1.34%) MySQL
6 98 (1.24%) Tableau
7 86 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
8 83 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 79 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 74 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 72 (0.91%) Looker
12 71 (0.90%) Big Data
12 71 (0.90%) MongoDB
13 53 (0.67%) NoSQL
14 52 (0.66%) Oracle Database
15 49 (0.62%) Data Mining
16 47 (0.59%) Data Lake
17 44 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
18 39 (0.49%) Hadoop
19 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 416 (5.26%) JIRA
2 101 (1.28%) Git
3 85 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 29 (0.37%) Postman
6 24 (0.30%) GitLab
7 23 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 20 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 11 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.13%) Selenium
11 10 (0.13%) Subversion
12 8 (0.10%) JUnit
12 8 (0.10%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.088%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.063%) gulp
14 5 (0.063%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.051%) MSI
15 4 (0.051%) Zephyr
General
1 3,408 (43.07%) Social Skills
2 1,945 (24.58%) Finance
3 1,296 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 664 (8.39%) Marketing
5 495 (6.26%) Presentation Skills
6 476 (6.02%) Retail
7 455 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 445 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
9 424 (5.36%) Manufacturing
10 408 (5.16%) Public Sector
11 363 (4.59%) Legal
12 247 (3.12%) Telecoms
13 245 (3.10%) Law
14 186 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
15 138 (1.74%) Aerospace
16 131 (1.66%) Billing
17 125 (1.58%) Banking
18 115 (1.45%) Games
19 110 (1.39%) Local Government
20 104 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,663 (33.65%) Project Manager
2 1,010 (12.76%) Senior
3 657 (8.30%) Lead
4 596 (7.53%) IT Manager
5 545 (6.89%) Senior Manager
6 541 (6.84%) Analyst
7 407 (5.14%) Architect
8 405 (5.12%) Consultant
9 377 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
10 323 (4.08%) IT Project Manager
11 223 (2.82%) Developer
12 216 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
13 203 (2.57%) Digital Project Manager
14 183 (2.31%) Presales Manager
15 182 (2.30%) Business Analyst
16 164 (2.07%) Engineering Manager
17 160 (2.02%) Coordinator
18 157 (1.98%) Technical Manager
19 154 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
20 134 (1.69%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (2.58%) .NET
2 131 (1.66%) HTML
3 113 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 109 (1.38%) CSS
5 83 (1.05%) EDI
6 79 (1.00%) Spring Boot
7 78 (0.99%) React
8 67 (0.85%) JSON
9 61 (0.77%) XML
10 59 (0.75%) YAML
11 52 (0.66%) SOAP
12 51 (0.64%) RESTful
12 51 (0.64%) Web Services
13 46 (0.58%) AngularJS
13 46 (0.58%) Spring
14 43 (0.54%) Kafka
15 42 (0.53%) ASP.NET
15 42 (0.53%) REST
16 35 (0.44%) jQuery
16 35 (0.44%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 632 (7.99%) Management Information System
2 468 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
3 287 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 245 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 232 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 216 (2.73%) PMI
7 205 (2.59%) Driving Licence
8 168 (2.12%) Public Cloud
9 113 (1.43%) NHS
10 107 (1.35%) Social Media
11 99 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 95 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
12 95 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 94 (1.19%) PKI
14 79 (1.00%) FMCG
15 72 (0.91%) Mobile App
16 70 (0.88%) IoT
17 69 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
18 54 (0.68%) Algorithms
19 52 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 474 (5.99%) Windows
2 332 (4.20%) Linux
3 186 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 89 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 57 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
7 51 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 49 (0.62%) Android
9 46 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 44 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 40 (0.51%) Unix
12 32 (0.40%) Mac OS
13 21 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (0.23%) VMS
15 14 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
16 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
17 8 (0.10%) AIX
17 8 (0.10%) Solaris
18 7 (0.088%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,545 (32.16%) Agile
2 1,762 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
3 1,754 (22.17%) Project Delivery
4 1,134 (14.33%) PRINCE2
5 949 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
6 841 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 841 (10.63%) Mentoring
7 745 (9.41%) Change Management
8 718 (9.07%) Decision-Making
9 661 (8.35%) Actionable Insight
10 636 (8.04%) Risk Management
11 561 (7.09%) Coaching
12 546 (6.90%) Scrum
13 542 (6.85%) Customer Service
14 540 (6.82%) SDLC
15 539 (6.81%) ITIL
16 527 (6.66%) Collaborative Working
17 520 (6.57%) Agile Project Management
18 516 (6.52%) Roadmaps
19 487 (6.15%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 524 (6.62%) SQL
2 327 (4.13%) Python
3 208 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 177 (2.24%) C#
5 159 (2.01%) PowerShell
6 134 (1.69%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 75 (0.95%) C
9 59 (0.75%) T-SQL
10 58 (0.73%) C++
11 54 (0.68%) R
12 52 (0.66%) Bash
13 51 (0.64%) TypeScript
14 37 (0.47%) VB
15 28 (0.35%) Perl
16 27 (0.34%) VBA
17 23 (0.29%) MATLAB
18 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
19 15 (0.19%) Scala
19 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,013 (25.44%) Degree
2 717 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 474 (5.99%) PMI Certification
4 444 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 390 (4.93%) PMP
6 193 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 171 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 162 (2.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 134 (1.69%) DBS Check
10 129 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 117 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 113 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 110 (1.39%) APMP
14 106 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 92 (1.16%) Azure Certification
16 83 (1.05%) HNC
17 72 (0.91%) CCNA
18 70 (0.88%) HND
19 62 (0.78%) AWS Certification
19 62 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 584 (7.38%) PMO
2 476 (6.02%) QA
3 166 (2.10%) GDPR
4 146 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 86 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 86 (1.09%) SLA
6 85 (1.07%) Data Quality
7 75 (0.95%) ISO 9001
8 60 (0.76%) NIST
9 32 (0.40%) ITGC
9 32 (0.40%) NCSC
10 31 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 31 (0.39%) GRC
11 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
12 21 (0.27%) GMP
12 21 (0.27%) NIST 800
13 20 (0.25%) IFRS
13 20 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.23%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 297 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 218 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 132 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 121 (1.53%) Docker
5 64 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (0.48%) Firmware
7 31 (0.39%) 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 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.051%) pfSense
12 4 (0.051%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.038%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 3 (0.038%) NFS
13 3 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.013%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.013%) HDFS
14 1 (0.013%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 138 (1.74%) Ansible
2 116 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 78 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 68 (0.86%) Terraform
6 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 50 (0.63%) SCCM
8 40 (0.51%) WSUS
9 25 (0.32%) ZABBIX
10 24 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.25%) SCOM
12 17 (0.21%) Puppet
13 14 (0.18%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
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
15 9 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,489 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 331 (4.18%) Google
3 306 (3.87%) SAP
4 284 (3.59%) VMware
5 240 (3.03%) Oracle
6 167 (2.11%) Cisco
7 140 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 97 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 88 (1.11%) Dell
10 81 (1.02%) Adobe
11 75 (0.95%) IFS
12 74 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 73 (0.92%) Red Hat
14 69 (0.87%) NetApp
15 63 (0.80%) IBM
15 63 (0.80%) Sage
16 62 (0.78%) HP
17 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
18 50 (0.63%) NEC
19 49 (0.62%) Veeam