Hybrid/Remote Project Management Job Trends

Project Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 22 29
Rank change year-on-year -31 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 668 1,496 1,590
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.42% 9.08% 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 9.71% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 443 811 1,154
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,501 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.69% - -3.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,199 15,404 19,804
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.42% 93.53% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,377 9,084 15,996
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,713 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Project Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Project Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Project Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Project Management over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Project Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.25%) CMS
3 7 (1.05%) Confluence
4 6 (0.90%) WordPress
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) Drupal
5 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.30%) TPMS
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 64 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (4.64%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.35%) Trello
7 7 (1.05%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.15%) InDesign
9 1 (0.15%) Notion
9 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (2.25%) Oracle Assets
1 15 (2.25%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (2.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 14 (2.10%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.35%) Oracle Cash Management
4 8 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.60%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.60%) SAP BPC
8 3 (0.45%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.45%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.45%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.45%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.45%) SAP PS
8 3 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (11.23%) Azure
2 54 (8.08%) SaaS
3 51 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 25 (3.74%) AWS
6 22 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 13 (1.95%) Power Automate
10 10 (1.50%) OCI
10 10 (1.50%) Smartsheet
11 8 (1.20%) Google Workspace
11 8 (1.20%) Miro
12 7 (1.05%) Figma
12 7 (1.05%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.90%) Intacct
14 5 (0.75%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.75%) Workato
15 4 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (0.60%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.69%) VPN
2 13 (1.95%) LAN
3 12 (1.80%) CHAP
3 12 (1.80%) WAN
4 11 (1.65%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.65%) Unified Communications
5 9 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.20%) VoIP
7 7 (1.05%) Firewall
8 6 (0.90%) BGP
8 6 (0.90%) DNS
8 6 (0.90%) MPLS
8 6 (0.90%) Wireless
9 4 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.60%) DHCP
9 4 (0.60%) Internet
9 4 (0.60%) Intranet
9 4 (0.60%) IPsec
9 4 (0.60%) Junos
9 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.49%) Power BI
2 15 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.50%) Tableau
4 6 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.60%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
7 3 (0.45%) Big Data
7 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.30%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.30%) Metadata
8 2 (0.30%) Redis
8 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.15%) Power Query
9 1 (0.15%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (3.59%) JIRA
2 7 (1.05%) GitLab
3 5 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.45%) Git
4 3 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
General
1 324 (48.50%) Social Skills
2 267 (39.97%) Finance
3 145 (21.71%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.68%) Marketing
5 74 (11.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (10.18%) Legal
6 68 (10.18%) Public Sector
7 63 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
8 55 (8.23%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (7.19%) Retail
10 34 (5.09%) Law
11 20 (2.99%) Local Government
11 20 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.99%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.54%) Banking
13 16 (2.40%) Financial Institution
14 14 (2.10%) General Ledger
15 13 (1.95%) Billing
16 12 (1.80%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (15.87%) Project Manager
2 76 (11.38%) Analyst
3 68 (10.18%) Senior
4 67 (10.03%) IT Manager
5 49 (7.34%) Architect
6 48 (7.19%) Lead
7 45 (6.74%) IT Project Manager
8 44 (6.59%) Business Analyst
9 39 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (4.94%) Senior Manager
11 28 (4.19%) Consultant
12 23 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (2.84%) Coordinator
14 17 (2.54%) Head of IT
15 16 (2.40%) IT Support
16 14 (2.10%) Development Manager
16 14 (2.10%) Systems Manager
17 13 (1.95%) Finance Manager
17 13 (1.95%) IT Analyst
17 13 (1.95%) Technical Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.20%) EDI
2 6 (0.90%) HTML
2 6 (0.90%) Web Services
3 5 (0.75%) CSS
4 4 (0.60%) .NET
4 4 (0.60%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.60%) FIDO
4 4 (0.60%) Flutter
4 4 (0.60%) Middleware
4 4 (0.60%) Node.js
4 4 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.60%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.45%) React
6 2 (0.30%) Laravel
7 1 (0.15%) D3.js
7 1 (0.15%) Flask
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.15%) Next.js
7 1 (0.15%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.53%) Management Information System
2 43 (6.44%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (4.79%) Virtual Team
4 26 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 23 (3.44%) Blog
7 14 (2.10%) Social Media
8 10 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.20%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.20%) GNSS
9 8 (1.20%) NHS
9 8 (1.20%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.20%) Satnav
10 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.90%) Blockchain
11 6 (0.90%) e-Learning
11 6 (0.90%) FMCG
11 6 (0.90%) Life Science
11 6 (0.90%) PMI
12 5 (0.75%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.25%) Windows
2 8 (1.20%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.60%) Unix
3 4 (0.60%) VMS
3 4 (0.60%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (33.98%) Agile
2 155 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
3 153 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 152 (22.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 147 (22.01%) Project Delivery
6 104 (15.57%) AI
7 100 (14.97%) Analytics
8 99 (14.82%) Change Management
8 99 (14.82%) PRINCE2
9 93 (13.92%) Risk Management
10 90 (13.47%) Decision-Making
11 84 (12.57%) Roadmaps
12 70 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
12 70 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 66 (9.88%) ERP
14 61 (9.13%) Coaching
15 60 (8.98%) Business Case
16 58 (8.68%) Strategic Thinking
17 55 (8.23%) Waterfall
18 52 (7.78%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 33 (4.94%) SQL
2 19 (2.84%) Python
3 11 (1.65%) JavaScript
4 8 (1.20%) C#
5 6 (0.90%) PHP
6 5 (0.75%) C
6 5 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.60%) Java
8 3 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (0.45%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.45%) Tcl
8 3 (0.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.30%) Bash
9 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.15%) R
10 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 176 (26.35%) Degree
2 64 (9.58%) PMP
3 46 (6.89%) PMI Certification
4 40 (5.99%) Security Cleared
5 29 (4.34%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 21 (3.14%) DBS Check
8 16 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.95%) CCNP
10 13 (1.95%) CISSP
11 12 (1.80%) CFA
11 12 (1.80%) CGEIT
11 12 (1.80%) CISA
11 12 (1.80%) CISM
11 12 (1.80%) FFIEC
11 12 (1.80%) SANS
12 10 (1.50%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.20%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.49%) PMO
2 34 (5.09%) QA
3 29 (4.34%) GDPR
4 21 (3.14%) NIST
5 17 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.80%) COBIT
8 11 (1.65%) ISO 9001
9 9 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.75%) SLA
11 4 (0.60%) P3O
12 3 (0.45%) GRC
12 3 (0.45%) WCAG
13 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.30%) GMP
13 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.15%) FATCA
14 1 (0.15%) Section 508
System Software
1 26 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.45%) Docker
3 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.45%) Ansible
2 3 (0.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.45%) Terraform
3 1 (0.15%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.15%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 144 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.99%) SAP
3 33 (4.94%) Oracle
4 32 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.29%) Google
6 18 (2.69%) Cisco
7 14 (2.10%) Adobe
8 12 (1.80%) Workday
9 7 (1.05%) Concur
9 7 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.90%) Sage
11 5 (0.75%) Civica
11 5 (0.75%) iManage
11 5 (0.75%) VMware
12 4 (0.60%) HP
12 4 (0.60%) Juniper
12 4 (0.60%) Meraki
12 4 (0.60%) Okta
12 4 (0.60%) Planon
13 3 (0.45%) Progress