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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 30 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +9
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,053 1,200 2,184
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.85% 7.29% 7.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 7.82% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 635 666 1,587
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,168 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,191 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £71,750 £73,750 £69,914
90th Percentile £88,160 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -9.48%

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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 24 July 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 57 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.56%) Confluence
3 20 (1.90%) WordPress
4 17 (1.61%) CMS
5 5 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.19%) Moodle
6 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 141 (13.39%) Microsoft Project
2 115 (10.92%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (8.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 13 (1.23%) Trello
7 5 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.38%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.28%) Blender
9 3 (0.28%) Maya
10 1 (0.095%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.095%) Houdini
10 1 (0.095%) InDesign
10 1 (0.095%) NUKE
10 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 10 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
4 10 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
4 10 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.95%) Oracle EBS R12
5 9 (0.85%) Shopify
6 6 (0.57%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.47%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.095%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 115 (10.92%) Power Platform
2 114 (10.83%) Azure
3 71 (6.74%) SaaS
4 67 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (3.42%) Power Automate
6 33 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 26 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (2.37%) Asana
8 25 (2.37%) OneDrive
9 22 (2.09%) AWS
10 20 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (1.61%) Smartsheet
14 12 (1.14%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.14%) GCP
14 12 (1.14%) Google Analytics
15 10 (0.95%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.61%) Broadband
2 36 (3.42%) Firewall
3 15 (1.42%) LAN
4 12 (1.14%) WAN
5 11 (1.04%) CHAP
5 11 (1.04%) DNS
6 8 (0.76%) VPN
7 7 (0.66%) DHCP
7 7 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.57%) Wireless
9 5 (0.47%) Intranet
9 5 (0.47%) Network Security
10 4 (0.38%) NGN
10 4 (0.38%) WLAN
11 3 (0.28%) 2G
11 3 (0.28%) 4G
11 3 (0.28%) 5G
11 3 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (0.28%) TETRA
11 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (9.40%) Power BI
2 19 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.76%) Power Query
4 8 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (0.66%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.57%) Tableau
7 5 (0.47%) Db2
8 4 (0.38%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.38%) QlikView
9 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.19%) Big Data
10 2 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.095%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.095%) Looker
11 1 (0.095%) Metadata
11 1 (0.095%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 110 (10.45%) JIRA
2 8 (0.76%) Git
2 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.28%) Storybook
5 1 (0.095%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.095%) GCC
5 1 (0.095%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.095%) JUnit
5 1 (0.095%) Selenium
5 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.095%) TestNG
5 1 (0.095%) WebDriver
General
1 470 (44.63%) Social Skills
2 298 (28.30%) Finance
3 210 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (10.64%) Marketing
5 98 (9.31%) Organisational Skills
6 88 (8.36%) Retail
7 65 (6.17%) Public Sector
8 58 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
9 53 (5.03%) Law
10 52 (4.94%) Legal
11 42 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (3.51%) Games
13 34 (3.23%) Manufacturing
14 32 (3.04%) Banking
15 25 (2.37%) Advertising
16 24 (2.28%) Aviation
17 19 (1.80%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
19 17 (1.61%) Local Government
20 16 (1.52%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 242 (22.98%) Project Manager
2 171 (16.24%) Senior
3 110 (10.45%) IT Manager
4 109 (10.35%) Senior Manager
5 94 (8.93%) Senior Project Manager
6 80 (7.60%) Lead
7 74 (7.03%) Analyst
8 62 (5.89%) IT Project Manager
9 56 (5.32%) Consultant
10 40 (3.80%) IT Support
11 38 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
12 37 (3.51%) Architect
12 37 (3.51%) Developer
13 36 (3.42%) Business Analyst
14 35 (3.32%) Service Manager
15 33 (3.13%) Programme Manager
16 31 (2.94%) Support Technician
17 30 (2.85%) Applications Manager
17 30 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
18 28 (2.66%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.13%) HTML
2 29 (2.75%) CSS
3 27 (2.56%) .NET
4 23 (2.18%) Hugging Face
4 23 (2.18%) PyTorch
4 23 (2.18%) TensorFlow
5 22 (2.09%) JSON
6 21 (1.99%) .NET Core
6 21 (1.99%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (1.80%) SPFx
8 7 (0.66%) EDI
9 5 (0.47%) XML
10 4 (0.38%) OAuth
10 4 (0.38%) OpenID
10 4 (0.38%) SAML
10 4 (0.38%) Unreal Engine
11 3 (0.28%) Godot
11 3 (0.28%) React
11 3 (0.28%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.84%) Management Information System
2 70 (6.65%) Onboarding
3 66 (6.27%) Virtual Team
4 53 (5.03%) Driving Licence
5 47 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 32 (3.04%) Mobile App
8 29 (2.75%) Social Media
9 27 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (2.09%) Web Conferencing
11 20 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
12 16 (1.52%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.52%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.42%) Blog
14 14 (1.33%) Video Editing
15 11 (1.04%) PMI
16 10 (0.95%) Cyberattack
17 9 (0.85%) Life Science
17 9 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (3.99%) Windows
2 27 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 24 (2.28%) Android
4 12 (1.14%) Linux
5 6 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.28%) Unix
7 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.095%) AIX
9 1 (0.095%) CentOS
9 1 (0.095%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (33.62%) Agile
2 335 (31.81%) Project Delivery
3 307 (29.15%) Problem-Solving
4 263 (24.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 242 (22.98%) PRINCE2
6 200 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 153 (14.53%) Decision-Making
8 149 (14.15%) Roadmaps
9 134 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 133 (12.63%) Coaching
11 132 (12.54%) Logistics
12 128 (12.16%) Budget Management
13 124 (11.78%) Mentoring
14 123 (11.68%) AI
14 123 (11.68%) Analytics
15 122 (11.59%) Customer Experience
16 111 (10.54%) ERP
17 105 (9.97%) CRM
18 92 (8.74%) ITIL
19 90 (8.55%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.36%) SQL
2 54 (5.13%) Python
3 34 (3.23%) C#
4 32 (3.04%) JavaScript
5 25 (2.37%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.57%) VBA
8 5 (0.47%) C++
9 4 (0.38%) PHP
10 3 (0.28%) Dart
10 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.19%) Java
11 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.095%) C
12 1 (0.095%) Groovy
12 1 (0.095%) R
Qualifications
1 214 (20.32%) Degree
2 103 (9.78%) DBS Check
3 91 (8.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 88 (8.36%) PMP
5 83 (7.88%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.28%) Security Cleared
7 19 (1.80%) CISSP
8 15 (1.42%) CISA
8 15 (1.42%) CISM
8 15 (1.42%) SANS
9 13 (1.23%) ACCA
9 13 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.14%) CAPM
11 11 (1.04%) CGEIT
11 11 (1.04%) FFIEC
11 11 (1.04%) SC Cleared
12 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.85%) APMP
14 8 (0.76%) CIMA
14 8 (0.76%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (8.36%) PMO
2 63 (5.98%) Accessibility
3 53 (5.03%) QA
4 50 (4.75%) GDPR
5 35 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (3.04%) ISO 9001
7 29 (2.75%) NIST
8 18 (1.71%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (1.61%) ISO 14001
9 17 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 16 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (1.33%) GRC
12 11 (1.04%) COBIT
13 8 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.76%) GAAP
14 5 (0.47%) SLA
15 4 (0.38%) IFRS
15 4 (0.38%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.47%) Docker
3 5 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.095%) Firmware
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.095%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (1.90%) SCCM
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.76%) Grafana
4 6 (0.57%) Ansible
5 4 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (0.38%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
6 2 (0.19%) Puppet
6 2 (0.19%) Salt
7 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.095%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.095%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.095%) SCOM
7 1 (0.095%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 223 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.41%) SAP
3 55 (5.22%) Adobe
4 45 (4.27%) Oracle
5 37 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 33 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.47%) Google
8 19 (1.80%) Fortinet
9 18 (1.71%) SonicWALL
10 17 (1.61%) HubSpot
11 16 (1.52%) Pardot
12 10 (0.95%) Hootsuite
12 10 (0.95%) Instagram
12 10 (0.95%) Wrike
13 8 (0.76%) Citrix
14 7 (0.66%) Apple
14 7 (0.66%) JD Edwards
15 6 (0.57%) VMware
16 5 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 4 (0.38%) Freshdesk