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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 32 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,051 1,206 2,355
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.89% 7.34% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 7.87% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 639 667 1,732
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,854 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £71,875 £73,750 £69,914
90th Percentile £88,630 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%

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 17,786 15,322 27,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 93.26% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,956 9,066 20,494
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £34,000
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 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -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 18 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 55 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.28%) Confluence
3 20 (1.90%) WordPress
4 19 (1.81%) CMS
5 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.19%) Moodle
6 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.095%) Drupal
Applications
1 142 (13.51%) Microsoft Project
2 113 (10.75%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 25 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 13 (1.24%) Trello
7 5 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.29%) Blender
9 3 (0.29%) Maya
9 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.095%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.095%) Houdini
10 1 (0.095%) InDesign
10 1 (0.095%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 30 (2.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
2 13 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
3 11 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
3 11 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (1.05%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (0.86%) Shopify
5 7 (0.67%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.48%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.29%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.095%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 121 (11.51%) Power Platform
2 113 (10.75%) Azure
3 71 (6.76%) SaaS
4 65 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (3.62%) PowerApps
6 36 (3.43%) Power Automate
7 26 (2.47%) Asana
7 26 (2.47%) OneDrive
8 24 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (2.09%) AWS
10 20 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (1.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.62%) Smartsheet
13 16 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.24%) Entra ID
14 13 (1.24%) GCP
14 13 (1.24%) Google Analytics
15 11 (1.05%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.62%) Broadband
2 33 (3.14%) Firewall
3 14 (1.33%) LAN
4 13 (1.24%) CHAP
5 12 (1.14%) DNS
5 12 (1.14%) WAN
6 8 (0.76%) DHCP
6 8 (0.76%) VPN
7 7 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.67%) Wireless
8 5 (0.48%) Network Security
9 4 (0.38%) Intranet
9 4 (0.38%) NGN
10 3 (0.29%) 2G
10 3 (0.29%) 3G
10 3 (0.29%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.29%) SSL
10 3 (0.29%) TETRA
10 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (9.51%) Power BI
2 19 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (1.81%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.76%) Power Query
4 8 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 6 (0.57%) Tableau
7 5 (0.48%) Db2
8 4 (0.38%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.38%) QlikView
9 3 (0.29%) 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%) MySQL
11 1 (0.095%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 107 (10.18%) JIRA
2 9 (0.86%) Git
3 8 (0.76%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.29%) Storybook
6 1 (0.095%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.095%) GCC
6 1 (0.095%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.095%) JUnit
6 1 (0.095%) Selenium
6 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.095%) TestNG
6 1 (0.095%) WebDriver
General
1 475 (45.20%) Social Skills
2 304 (28.92%) Finance
3 198 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (10.94%) Marketing
5 98 (9.32%) Organisational Skills
6 86 (8.18%) Retail
7 68 (6.47%) Public Sector
8 56 (5.33%) Law
8 56 (5.33%) Legal
9 48 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
10 44 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (3.52%) Games
12 34 (3.24%) Banking
13 33 (3.14%) Manufacturing
14 28 (2.66%) Advertising
15 24 (2.28%) Aviation
16 23 (2.19%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.71%) General Ledger
17 18 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (1.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 247 (23.50%) Project Manager
2 177 (16.84%) Senior
3 113 (10.75%) Senior Manager
4 107 (10.18%) IT Manager
5 98 (9.32%) Senior Project Manager
6 78 (7.42%) Lead
7 75 (7.14%) Analyst
8 60 (5.71%) IT Project Manager
9 56 (5.33%) Consultant
10 41 (3.90%) IT Support
11 37 (3.52%) Architect
11 37 (3.52%) Developer
12 36 (3.43%) Business Analyst
13 31 (2.95%) Programme Manager
14 30 (2.85%) Applications Manager
14 30 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (2.85%) Support Technician
15 29 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
16 28 (2.66%) Marketing Manager
17 27 (2.57%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.14%) HTML
2 29 (2.76%) CSS
3 27 (2.57%) .NET
4 23 (2.19%) Hugging Face
4 23 (2.19%) PyTorch
4 23 (2.19%) TensorFlow
5 22 (2.09%) JSON
6 21 (2.00%) .NET Core
6 21 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (1.81%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (1.81%) SPFx
8 8 (0.76%) EDI
9 5 (0.48%) OAuth
9 5 (0.48%) OpenID
9 5 (0.48%) SAML
9 5 (0.48%) XML
10 4 (0.38%) Unreal Engine
11 3 (0.29%) Express.js
11 3 (0.29%) React
11 3 (0.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 74 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 67 (6.37%) Onboarding
3 58 (5.52%) Virtual Team
4 55 (5.23%) Driving Licence
5 45 (4.28%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (2.95%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.85%) Social Media
9 25 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (2.00%) Web Conferencing
12 20 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
13 17 (1.62%) Cloud Native
14 15 (1.43%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.43%) Video Editing
15 13 (1.24%) Blog
16 11 (1.05%) Cyberattack
16 11 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.05%) PMI
17 9 (0.86%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.81%) Windows
2 27 (2.57%) Apple iOS
3 23 (2.19%) Android
4 12 (1.14%) Linux
5 6 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.29%) Unix
7 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.095%) AIX
8 1 (0.095%) CentOS
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.095%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.095%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.095%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (33.97%) Agile
2 337 (32.06%) Project Delivery
3 307 (29.21%) Problem-Solving
4 247 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 240 (22.84%) PRINCE2
6 186 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 153 (14.56%) Decision-Making
8 146 (13.89%) Roadmaps
9 141 (13.42%) Coaching
10 136 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 133 (12.65%) Budget Management
12 131 (12.46%) Logistics
13 130 (12.37%) Mentoring
14 127 (12.08%) Analytics
15 121 (11.51%) AI
16 114 (10.85%) Customer Experience
17 113 (10.75%) ERP
18 108 (10.28%) CRM
19 91 (8.66%) B2B
20 87 (8.28%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 87 (8.28%) SQL
2 54 (5.14%) Python
3 34 (3.24%) C#
4 32 (3.04%) JavaScript
5 25 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.14%) VBA
8 5 (0.48%) C++
9 4 (0.38%) PHP
10 3 (0.29%) Dart
10 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.095%) C
12 1 (0.095%) Groovy
12 1 (0.095%) Java
12 1 (0.095%) R
Qualifications
1 214 (20.36%) Degree
2 102 (9.71%) DBS Check
3 91 (8.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 86 (8.18%) PMP
5 81 (7.71%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.19%) Security Cleared
7 22 (2.09%) CISSP
8 18 (1.71%) SANS
9 17 (1.62%) CISA
9 17 (1.62%) CISM
10 13 (1.24%) CGEIT
10 13 (1.24%) FFIEC
10 13 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.14%) ACCA
11 12 (1.14%) CAPM
11 12 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.86%) APMP
13 8 (0.76%) PgMP
13 8 (0.76%) SC Cleared
14 7 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (8.09%) PMO
2 61 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 55 (5.23%) QA
4 51 (4.85%) GDPR
5 37 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (3.04%) ISO 9001
6 32 (3.04%) NIST
7 17 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 17 (1.62%) ISO 14001
7 17 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 16 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 16 (1.52%) Data Quality
9 14 (1.33%) GRC
10 13 (1.24%) COBIT
11 9 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.76%) GAAP
13 5 (0.48%) SLA
14 4 (0.38%) IFRS
14 4 (0.38%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.57%) Docker
3 5 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
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 18 (1.71%) SCCM
2 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.76%) Grafana
4 7 (0.67%) Ansible
5 5 (0.48%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.19%) Argo
7 2 (0.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.19%) Salt
8 1 (0.095%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.095%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.095%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.095%) SCOM
8 1 (0.095%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 223 (21.22%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.42%) Adobe
2 57 (5.42%) SAP
3 44 (4.19%) Oracle
4 37 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 33 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.85%) Google
7 18 (1.71%) HubSpot
8 17 (1.62%) Fortinet
8 17 (1.62%) Pardot
9 16 (1.52%) SonicWALL
10 11 (1.05%) Hootsuite
10 11 (1.05%) Instagram
10 11 (1.05%) Wrike
11 8 (0.76%) Apple
11 8 (0.76%) JD Edwards
12 7 (0.67%) Citrix
13 5 (0.48%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.48%) VMware