Work Breakdown Structure Jobs

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Work Breakdown Structure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Work Breakdown Structure over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 683 844 786
Rank change year-on-year +161 -58 +321
Permanent jobs citing Work Breakdown Structure 28 66 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.065% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.077% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 25 49 17
10th Percentile - £37,500 £49,750
25th Percentile - £43,400 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -32.14% +22.81%
75th Percentile - £55,000 £84,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £64,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £48,142 £81,500
% change year-on-year +35.02% -40.93% +58.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Work Breakdown Structure 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Work Breakdown Structure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Work Breakdown Structure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Work Breakdown Structure in the UK

Work Breakdown Structure
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Work Breakdown Structure.

Salary trend for Work Breakdown Structure in the UK

Work Breakdown Structure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Work Breakdown Structure over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Work Breakdown Structure in the UK

Work Breakdown Structure
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Work Breakdown Structure within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +119 25 £65,000 +36.84% 25
UK excluding London +161 24 £65,000 +35.02% 23
South East +76 13 £65,000 +44.44% 4
West Midlands +72 9 £65,000 - 3
Midlands +59 9 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Work from Home +107 3 £110,000 +109.52% 12
London +114 2 £90,000 +89.47% 11
Wales +48 2 £65,000 -

Work Breakdown Structure
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP CO
1 2 (7.14%) SAP FI
1 2 (7.14%) SAP PS
1 2 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.57%) Big Data
1 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Lead
1 14 (50.00%) Software Team Leader
1 14 (50.00%) Team Leader
1 14 (50.00%) Test Leader
1 14 (50.00%) Test Team Leader
2 9 (32.14%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Salesforce Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Business Change Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Quality Manager
4 2 (7.14%) SAP CO Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) SAP PS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Computer Science
2 14 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 14 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 14 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 14 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 14 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 12 (42.86%) Project Management
4 8 (28.57%) Business Case
4 8 (28.57%) Change Control
5 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) CMMI
7 2 (7.14%) Code Quality
7 2 (7.14%) Innovative Thinking
7 2 (7.14%) Product Breakdown Structure
7 2 (7.14%) QMS
7 2 (7.14%) Quality Management
7 2 (7.14%) Test Scripting
7 2 (7.14%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Degree
2 15 (53.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (50.00%) Chartered Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
5 2 (7.14%) CCA
5 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) AQAP
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 9001
2 2 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) Concur
3 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft