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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,063 1,188 2,045
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.80% 7.21% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 7.75% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 638 661 1,477
10th Percentile £31,175 £33,250 £36,211
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,708 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,438 £75,000 £69,914
90th Percentile £87,830 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,508
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.27% -11.83%

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 18,379 15,333 23,410
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.97% 93.03% 88.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13,361 9,055 17,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 31 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 60 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.63%) Confluence
3 19 (1.79%) WordPress
4 16 (1.51%) CMS
5 4 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.19%) Moodle
6 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 142 (13.36%) Microsoft Project
2 120 (11.29%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (7.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 13 (1.22%) 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 (0.094%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.094%) Houdini
10 1 (0.094%) InDesign
10 1 (0.094%) NUKE
10 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
4 9 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.85%) Shopify
5 6 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.094%) Primavera
10 1 (0.094%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 115 (10.82%) Azure
2 113 (10.63%) Power Platform
3 69 (6.49%) SaaS
4 68 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (3.39%) Power Automate
6 33 (3.10%) PowerApps
7 25 (2.35%) AWS
7 25 (2.35%) OneDrive
8 24 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.16%) Asana
10 20 (1.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (1.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (1.60%) Smartsheet
14 12 (1.13%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.13%) GCP
15 11 (1.03%) Google Analytics
16 10 (0.94%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.48%) Firewall
2 31 (2.92%) Broadband
3 15 (1.41%) LAN
4 12 (1.13%) WAN
5 11 (1.03%) DNS
6 10 (0.94%) CHAP
7 8 (0.75%) VPN
8 7 (0.66%) DHCP
8 7 (0.66%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.56%) Intranet
9 6 (0.56%) Network Security
10 5 (0.47%) Wireless
11 4 (0.38%) NGN
11 4 (0.38%) WLAN
12 3 (0.28%) 2G
12 3 (0.28%) 3G
12 3 (0.28%) SSL
12 3 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
12 3 (0.28%) TETRA
12 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (9.13%) Power BI
2 20 (1.88%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.75%) Power Query
5 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.56%) Tableau
8 5 (0.47%) Db2
9 4 (0.38%) DB2 UDB
9 4 (0.38%) QlikView
10 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.19%) Big Data
11 2 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.19%) Metadata
11 2 (0.19%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.094%) Looker
12 1 (0.094%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 114 (10.72%) JIRA
2 10 (0.94%) Git
3 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.28%) Storybook
6 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.094%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.094%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.094%) GCC
7 1 (0.094%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.094%) JUnit
7 1 (0.094%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.094%) Selenium
7 1 (0.094%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.094%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.094%) TestNG
7 1 (0.094%) WebDriver
General
1 477 (44.87%) Social Skills
2 303 (28.50%) Finance
3 220 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (10.25%) Marketing
4 109 (10.25%) Organisational Skills
5 84 (7.90%) Retail
6 68 (6.40%) Public Sector
7 62 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (5.36%) Legal
9 54 (5.08%) Law
10 45 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 36 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 32 (3.01%) Banking
12 32 (3.01%) Games
13 24 (2.26%) Advertising
13 24 (2.26%) Aviation
14 21 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.69%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.60%) Local Government
17 16 (1.51%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 252 (23.71%) Project Manager
2 173 (16.27%) Senior
3 114 (10.72%) Senior Manager
4 112 (10.54%) IT Manager
5 97 (9.13%) Senior Project Manager
6 78 (7.34%) Lead
7 70 (6.59%) Analyst
8 63 (5.93%) IT Project Manager
9 58 (5.46%) Consultant
10 40 (3.76%) IT Support
11 37 (3.48%) Architect
11 37 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
11 37 (3.48%) Developer
12 36 (3.39%) Service Manager
13 34 (3.20%) Business Analyst
13 34 (3.20%) Programme Manager
14 32 (3.01%) Support Technician
15 30 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.73%) Applications Manager
17 28 (2.63%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.10%) HTML
2 29 (2.73%) .NET
2 29 (2.73%) CSS
3 24 (2.26%) TensorFlow
4 23 (2.16%) Hugging Face
4 23 (2.16%) PyTorch
5 22 (2.07%) JSON
6 21 (1.98%) .NET Core
6 21 (1.98%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (1.79%) 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%) Express.js
11 3 (0.28%) Node.js
11 3 (0.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 67 (6.30%) Management Information System
2 66 (6.21%) Virtual Team
3 65 (6.11%) Onboarding
4 53 (4.99%) Driving Licence
5 46 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (2.73%) Social Media
8 27 (2.54%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (2.26%) Cyber Defence
11 22 (2.07%) Web Conferencing
12 18 (1.69%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.60%) Blog
14 16 (1.51%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.03%) PMI
15 11 (1.03%) Video Editing
16 10 (0.94%) Cyberattack
17 9 (0.85%) Life Science
18 8 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.05%) Windows
2 20 (1.88%) Apple iOS
3 17 (1.60%) Android
4 12 (1.13%) Linux
5 6 (0.56%) 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 (0.094%) AIX
9 1 (0.094%) CentOS
9 1 (0.094%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.094%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (33.30%) Agile
2 344 (32.36%) Project Delivery
3 313 (29.44%) Problem-Solving
4 269 (25.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 247 (23.24%) PRINCE2
6 209 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 146 (13.73%) Decision-Making
8 144 (13.55%) Roadmaps
9 137 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 134 (12.61%) Coaching
10 134 (12.61%) Logistics
11 132 (12.42%) Budget Management
12 120 (11.29%) Customer Experience
13 119 (11.19%) Mentoring
14 118 (11.10%) AI
14 118 (11.10%) Analytics
15 111 (10.44%) ERP
16 106 (9.97%) CRM
17 96 (9.03%) ITIL
18 95 (8.94%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.28%) SQL
2 58 (5.46%) Python
3 35 (3.29%) C#
4 33 (3.10%) JavaScript
5 25 (2.35%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.56%) C++
7 6 (0.56%) VBA
8 4 (0.38%) PHP
9 3 (0.28%) Dart
9 3 (0.28%) Java
9 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.094%) C
11 1 (0.094%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 215 (20.23%) Degree
2 104 (9.78%) DBS Check
3 93 (8.75%) PMP
3 93 (8.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 88 (8.28%) PMI Certification
5 31 (2.92%) Security Cleared
6 18 (1.69%) CISSP
7 15 (1.41%) SC Cleared
8 14 (1.32%) CISA
8 14 (1.32%) CISM
8 14 (1.32%) SANS
9 13 (1.22%) ACCA
9 13 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.13%) CAPM
11 10 (0.94%) APMP
11 10 (0.94%) CGEIT
11 10 (0.94%) FFIEC
11 10 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.75%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (8.28%) PMO
2 59 (5.55%) Accessibility
3 52 (4.89%) QA
4 50 (4.70%) GDPR
5 36 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (3.01%) ISO 9001
7 28 (2.63%) NIST
8 19 (1.79%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (1.60%) ISO 14001
9 17 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 16 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (1.32%) GRC
12 10 (0.94%) COBIT
13 8 (0.75%) GAAP
14 6 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.56%) SLA
15 5 (0.47%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.38%) IFRS
16 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 15 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.56%) Docker
2 6 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.094%) Firmware
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (1.98%) SCCM
2 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.75%) Grafana
4 7 (0.66%) Ansible
5 5 (0.47%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) Salt
8 1 (0.094%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.094%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.094%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.094%) SCOM
8 1 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 228 (21.45%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.64%) SAP
3 52 (4.89%) Adobe
4 45 (4.23%) Oracle
5 37 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 33 (3.10%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.45%) Google
8 21 (1.98%) Fortinet
9 19 (1.79%) SonicWALL
10 18 (1.69%) HubSpot
11 15 (1.41%) Pardot
12 9 (0.85%) Apple
13 8 (0.75%) Citrix
14 7 (0.66%) Hootsuite
14 7 (0.66%) Instagram
14 7 (0.66%) JD Edwards
14 7 (0.66%) Wrike
15 6 (0.56%) VMware
16 5 (0.47%) Cisco
16 5 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud