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 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 23 26
Rank change year-on-year -29 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 688 1,432 2,179
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.30% 9.08% 7.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 9.59% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 443 778 1,602
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,623
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,846 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,225 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.60%

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 13,823 14,932 25,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.43% 94.64% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 8,819 21,220
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 February 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 24 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.62%) CMS
3 11 (1.60%) WordPress
4 7 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.29%) Drupal
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 66 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.34%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (1.02%) Adobe XD
5 7 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.02%) Trello
6 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.15%) InDesign
7 1 (0.15%) Notion
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (2.18%) Oracle Assets
1 15 (2.18%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (2.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 14 (2.03%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (1.31%) Oracle Cash Management
4 8 (1.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.58%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.44%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.44%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.44%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.44%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 66 (9.59%) SaaS
2 65 (9.45%) Azure
3 52 (7.56%) Power Platform
4 50 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (3.78%) AWS
6 17 (2.47%) PowerApps
7 16 (2.33%) Entra ID
8 14 (2.03%) Google Analytics
9 13 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.60%) Miro
11 10 (1.45%) OCI
12 8 (1.16%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.02%) Figma
14 6 (0.87%) Asana
14 6 (0.87%) Canva
14 6 (0.87%) GCP
14 6 (0.87%) Intacct
14 6 (0.87%) Smartsheet
15 5 (0.73%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.62%) CHAP
2 15 (2.18%) VPN
3 10 (1.45%) Broadband
3 10 (1.45%) LAN
4 9 (1.31%) Firewall
4 9 (1.31%) WAN
5 8 (1.16%) SD-WAN
5 8 (1.16%) Wireless
6 7 (1.02%) DNS
7 6 (0.87%) BGP
7 6 (0.87%) MPLS
7 6 (0.87%) Unified Communications
8 5 (0.73%) DHCP
8 5 (0.73%) Internet
8 5 (0.73%) Network Security
8 5 (0.73%) VoIP
8 5 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (0.58%) IPsec
9 4 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.94%) Power BI
2 13 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.45%) Tableau
4 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.58%) Big Data
6 4 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.58%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.29%) Redis
7 2 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.15%) DB2
8 1 (0.15%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (3.49%) JIRA
2 7 (1.02%) GitLab
3 5 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.58%) Git
5 2 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
General
1 348 (50.58%) Social Skills
2 275 (39.97%) Finance
3 159 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (13.37%) Marketing
5 83 (12.06%) Public Sector
6 75 (10.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 75 (10.90%) Legal
7 74 (10.76%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (8.14%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (7.70%) Retail
10 39 (5.67%) Law
11 25 (3.63%) Banking
12 24 (3.49%) Financial Institution
13 23 (3.34%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.03%) Advertising
14 14 (2.03%) General Ledger
14 14 (2.03%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.74%) Games
16 11 (1.60%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 110 (15.99%) Project Manager
2 88 (12.79%) Analyst
3 84 (12.21%) Senior
4 54 (7.85%) IT Manager
5 52 (7.56%) Lead
6 49 (7.12%) Architect
6 49 (7.12%) Business Analyst
7 42 (6.10%) Senior Manager
8 40 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (5.09%) IT Project Manager
10 25 (3.63%) Consultant
11 22 (3.20%) Senior Project Manager
12 20 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (2.91%) Digital Project Manager
13 18 (2.62%) Auditor
13 18 (2.62%) Internal Auditor
13 18 (2.62%) IT Support
13 18 (2.62%) Security Auditor
13 18 (2.62%) Systems Manager
14 17 (2.47%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.03%) EDI
2 7 (1.02%) HTML
3 5 (0.73%) CSS
4 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.58%) FIDO
4 4 (0.58%) Flutter
4 4 (0.58%) Middleware
4 4 (0.58%) Node.js
4 4 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.44%) React
6 2 (0.29%) Laravel
6 2 (0.29%) Web Services
7 1 (0.15%) D3.js
7 1 (0.15%) Flask
7 1 (0.15%) Next.js
7 1 (0.15%) OpenID
7 1 (0.15%) PySpark
7 1 (0.15%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.45%) Management Information System
2 45 (6.54%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.51%) Virtual Team
4 30 (4.36%) Product Ownership
5 26 (3.78%) Blog
6 24 (3.49%) Social Media
7 21 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
8 14 (2.03%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.89%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.45%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.16%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.16%) GNSS
11 8 (1.16%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.16%) Satnav
12 6 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.91%) Windows
2 13 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.31%) Android
5 4 (0.58%) Unix
5 4 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (34.16%) Agile
2 180 (26.16%) Problem-Solving
3 162 (23.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 160 (23.26%) Project Delivery
5 144 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 126 (18.31%) AI
7 122 (17.73%) Analytics
8 100 (14.53%) Decision-Making
9 92 (13.37%) PRINCE2
10 88 (12.79%) Roadmaps
11 86 (12.50%) Change Management
12 84 (12.21%) Risk Management
13 80 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (11.48%) Coaching
15 71 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
16 61 (8.87%) B2B
17 60 (8.72%) Process Improvement
18 56 (8.14%) Budget Management
18 56 (8.14%) ERP
19 55 (7.99%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 32 (4.65%) SQL
2 17 (2.47%) Python
3 14 (2.03%) VBA
4 8 (1.16%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.02%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.87%) PHP
7 5 (0.73%) C
7 5 (0.73%) C#
8 4 (0.58%) Java
9 3 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (0.44%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.44%) Tcl
9 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.29%) Bash
10 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.29%) R
11 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.15%) C++
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 156 (22.67%) Degree
2 58 (8.43%) PMP
3 40 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 39 (5.67%) PMI Certification
5 27 (3.92%) DBS Check
6 26 (3.78%) SC Cleared
7 24 (3.49%) Master's Degree
8 22 (3.20%) CISSP
9 19 (2.76%) SANS
10 18 (2.62%) CGEIT
10 18 (2.62%) CISA
10 18 (2.62%) CISM
10 18 (2.62%) FFIEC
11 17 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.74%) CFA
12 12 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (1.45%) CCNP
15 9 (1.31%) ACCA
15 9 (1.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.54%) PMO
2 41 (5.96%) GDPR
3 32 (4.65%) QA
4 29 (4.22%) NIST
5 23 (3.34%) Accessibility
6 20 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (2.62%) COBIT
8 10 (1.45%) ISO 9001
9 9 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.73%) SLA
11 4 (0.58%) P3O
12 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.44%) GRC
12 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.44%) WCAG
13 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.29%) GAAP
13 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.15%) Section 508
System Software
1 29 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.87%) Docker
2 6 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.87%) Ansible
2 6 (0.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.73%) Terraform
4 3 (0.44%) SCCM
5 1 (0.15%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.15%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 145 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 38 (5.52%) SAP
4 34 (4.94%) Google
5 32 (4.65%) Oracle
6 23 (3.34%) Adobe
7 15 (2.18%) Cisco
8 12 (1.74%) Pardot
9 11 (1.60%) Workday
10 9 (1.31%) HubSpot
10 9 (1.31%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.02%) VMware
12 6 (0.87%) Concur
12 6 (0.87%) Sage
13 5 (0.73%) Apple
13 5 (0.73%) JD Edwards
13 5 (0.73%) Okta
13 5 (0.73%) Planon
14 4 (0.58%) HP
14 4 (0.58%) Juniper