Project Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Project Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +11
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 622 830 717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.81% 12.02% 9.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.61% 12.40% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 467 326 489
10th Percentile £32,800 £39,112 £34,912
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,700 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,864 6,695 6,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.94% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,522 3,324 4,824
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,319
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the West Midlands

Project Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +14 245 £55,000 -6.38% 88
Warwickshire -11 90 £50,000 -2.44% 40
Staffordshire 0 71 £51,250 -10.87% 31
Shropshire +9 38 £50,000 -13.04% 9
Wolverhampton +33 29 £53,500 -2.73% 4
Solihull +1 21 £47,500 -7.32% 7
Worcestershire -24 19 £45,000 -15.01% 12
Herefordshire +5 16 £35,000 -22.22% 2
Coventry +20 9 £45,000 -11.76% 20
Walsall +26 5 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Halesowen - 4 £35,000 -
Wednesbury -4 2 £83,250 +202.73% 2
Dudley - 2 £53,500 - 2
Brierley Hill - 1 - -
Project Management
England

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 37 (5.95%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.93%) Confluence
3 11 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.45%) WordPress
5 7 (1.13%) CMS
6 4 (0.64%) Office Communications Server
7 2 (0.32%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.32%) Captiva
7 2 (0.32%) Documentum
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Mendix
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (2.09%) AutoCAD
6 10 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (1.45%) MS Visio
8 7 (1.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.64%) InDesign
9 4 (0.64%) Simulink
10 2 (0.32%) 3ds Max
10 2 (0.32%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.64%) ProductWriter
4 3 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.48%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.48%) Sage 300 ERP
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.32%) SAP FSCM
5 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.32%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.16%) Epicor Vantage
6 1 (0.16%) Magento
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 62 (9.97%) Azure
2 50 (8.04%) Power Platform
3 45 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (3.86%) SaaS
6 21 (3.38%) AWS
7 20 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.89%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.25%) Smartsheet
10 13 (2.09%) PowerApps
11 9 (1.45%) Google Drive
11 9 (1.45%) IaaS
11 9 (1.45%) PaaS
12 8 (1.29%) GitHub
13 7 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.13%) Mavenlink
14 5 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.80%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.80%) GCP
14 5 (0.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.29%) Firewall
1 8 (1.29%) Intranet
1 8 (1.29%) WAN
2 5 (0.80%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.64%) DHCP
3 4 (0.64%) DNS
3 4 (0.64%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (0.64%) iSCSI
3 4 (0.64%) LAN
3 4 (0.64%) SNMP
4 3 (0.48%) Extranet
4 3 (0.48%) Internet
4 3 (0.48%) Network Security
4 3 (0.48%) WebEx
5 2 (0.32%) 4G
5 2 (0.32%) 5G
5 2 (0.32%) FlexRay
5 2 (0.32%) HTTP
5 2 (0.32%) SAN
5 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (7.07%) Power BI
2 15 (2.41%) MySQL
3 11 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 8 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.96%) Data Mining
6 6 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.80%) Metadata
8 4 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.64%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.48%) Tableau
10 2 (0.32%) EDMS
10 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (5.14%) JIRA
2 15 (2.41%) Git
3 7 (1.13%) SonarQube
4 5 (0.80%) Postman
4 5 (0.80%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.32%) Android Studio
5 2 (0.32%) Axure RP
5 2 (0.32%) gulp
5 2 (0.32%) LSMW
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 290 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 204 (32.80%) Finance
3 108 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.45%) Manufacturing
5 63 (10.13%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (7.23%) Marketing
7 44 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (6.91%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (6.11%) Retail
10 30 (4.82%) Legal
11 29 (4.66%) Automotive
12 25 (4.02%) Telecoms
13 23 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (3.54%) Public Sector
15 16 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (2.57%) Games
16 15 (2.41%) Environmental Health
17 12 (1.93%) Law
17 12 (1.93%) Local Government
18 9 (1.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 224 (36.01%) Project Manager
2 59 (9.49%) Senior
3 56 (9.00%) Lead
4 43 (6.91%) IT Manager
5 35 (5.63%) Consultant
6 33 (5.31%) Senior Manager
7 24 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
8 23 (3.70%) Coordinator
9 22 (3.54%) Developer
10 21 (3.38%) Infrastructure Manager
11 20 (3.22%) Analyst
11 20 (3.22%) IT Project Manager
11 20 (3.22%) Technical Manager
12 19 (3.05%) Senior Project Manager
13 18 (2.89%) Head of IT
14 16 (2.57%) Applications Manager
15 15 (2.41%) Technical Project Manager
16 14 (2.25%) Software Manager
17 13 (2.09%) Applications Project Manager
17 13 (2.09%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.25%) .NET
2 12 (1.93%) RESTful
3 11 (1.77%) HTML
4 10 (1.61%) CSS
4 10 (1.61%) SOAP
5 9 (1.45%) JSON
6 7 (1.13%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.13%) Azure Blueprints
7 6 (0.96%) Laravel
7 6 (0.96%) XML
8 5 (0.80%) Node.js
8 5 (0.80%) Web Services
9 4 (0.64%) Spring
9 4 (0.64%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.48%) Jest
11 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web Forms
11 2 (0.32%) HTML5
11 2 (0.32%) Next.js
11 2 (0.32%) React
11 2 (0.32%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 78 (12.54%) Management Information System
2 29 (4.66%) PMI
2 29 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.86%) Onboarding
3 24 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 17 (2.73%) NHS
5 16 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.41%) Driving Licence
7 13 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.45%) Photography
9 9 (1.45%) SCADA
10 7 (1.13%) CCTV
11 6 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
11 6 (0.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 6 (0.96%) IoT
11 6 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.14%) Windows
2 13 (2.09%) Windows 10
3 8 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.80%) Android
4 5 (0.80%) Linux
5 4 (0.64%) VMS
6 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.16%) CentOS
7 1 (0.16%) Debian
7 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Scientific Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.16%) Unix
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (26.53%) Agile
2 129 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
3 122 (19.61%) Project Delivery
4 108 (17.36%) PRINCE2
5 107 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 86 (13.83%) Risk Management
7 84 (13.50%) Mentoring
8 81 (13.02%) Change Management
9 80 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 64 (10.29%) Customer Service
11 59 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
12 52 (8.36%) Decision-Making
13 47 (7.56%) Coaching
14 46 (7.40%) Analytics
14 46 (7.40%) ERP
15 45 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (7.07%) Waterfall
17 43 (6.91%) DevOps
18 41 (6.59%) Roadmaps
18 41 (6.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (4.98%) SQL
2 28 (4.50%) JavaScript
3 13 (2.09%) PHP
4 7 (1.13%) C
5 6 (0.96%) MATLAB
6 5 (0.80%) C#
6 5 (0.80%) Java
7 4 (0.64%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.64%) Python
7 4 (0.64%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.48%) VB
9 1 (0.16%) ABAP
9 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.16%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.16%) R
9 1 (0.16%) Rust
9 1 (0.16%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.16%) SOQL
9 1 (0.16%) Tcl
9 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 172 (27.65%) Degree
2 60 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 53 (8.52%) PMI Certification
4 39 (6.27%) PMP
5 27 (4.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 24 (3.86%) SC Cleared
7 19 (3.05%) APMP
8 16 (2.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 11 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.61%) CAPM
10 10 (1.61%) HND
10 10 (1.61%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.29%) APMG
12 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.96%) MBA
14 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.80%) PgMP
15 4 (0.64%) CISSP
15 4 (0.64%) CRISC
15 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (7.88%) PMO
2 30 (4.82%) GDPR
3 26 (4.18%) QA
4 21 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.29%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.13%) NCSC
7 4 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.64%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.64%) SLA
8 3 (0.48%) GMP
8 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
9 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.32%) IFRS
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.32%) MISRA
9 2 (0.32%) NIST
9 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.32%) SOX 404
System Software
1 8 (1.29%) Active Directory
1 8 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.13%) Docker
3 6 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.64%) pfSense
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 11 (1.77%) Terraform
2 7 (1.13%) Ansible
2 7 (1.13%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.32%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 99 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.38%) IFS
3 20 (3.22%) SAP
4 16 (2.57%) Workday
5 15 (2.41%) Google
6 13 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.93%) Adobe
8 11 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.45%) CheckPoint
9 9 (1.45%) Xero
10 8 (1.29%) VMware
11 7 (1.13%) Siemens
12 6 (0.96%) Cisco
12 6 (0.96%) Dell
13 4 (0.64%) Citrix
13 4 (0.64%) EMC
13 4 (0.64%) Oracle
13 4 (0.64%) QNAP
13 4 (0.64%) Ubiquiti
13 4 (0.64%) Veeam