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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 36 28
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,067 1,087 1,756
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.57% 6.61% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 7.11% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 630 641 1,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,796 £69,957
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.91% -9.02%

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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 September 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 64 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.53%) Confluence
3 13 (1.22%) CMS
4 12 (1.12%) WordPress
5 5 (0.47%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.19%) Moodle
6 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 155 (14.53%) Microsoft Project
2 132 (12.37%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.31%) Trello
6 7 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.28%) Blender
8 3 (0.28%) Maya
8 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.094%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.094%) Houdini
10 1 (0.094%) InDesign
10 1 (0.094%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 36 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.94%) Shopify
4 8 (0.75%) Primavera
5 6 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.28%) Misys Midas
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.094%) Elite 3E
9 1 (0.094%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 111 (10.40%) Power Platform
2 107 (10.03%) Azure
3 65 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.72%) SaaS
5 34 (3.19%) PowerApps
6 32 (3.00%) Power Automate
7 28 (2.62%) AWS
8 26 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (1.97%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (1.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (1.50%) Smartsheet
14 15 (1.41%) Asana
15 11 (1.03%) GCP
16 9 (0.84%) Entra ID
16 9 (0.84%) Miro
17 8 (0.75%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.84%) Firewall
2 16 (1.50%) LAN
3 14 (1.31%) Broadband
4 13 (1.22%) WAN
5 9 (0.84%) Network Security
6 8 (0.75%) DNS
6 8 (0.75%) Intranet
6 8 (0.75%) VPN
7 6 (0.56%) CHAP
7 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.47%) Wireless
9 4 (0.37%) DHCP
9 4 (0.37%) NGN
9 4 (0.37%) WLAN
10 3 (0.28%) 2G
10 3 (0.28%) 3G
10 3 (0.28%) 4G
10 3 (0.28%) SSL
10 3 (0.28%) TETRA
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (8.81%) Power BI
2 19 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.75%) Power Query
7 7 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (0.66%) Tableau
8 6 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.28%) Big Data
9 3 (0.28%) Metadata
9 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.19%) Db2
10 2 (0.19%) DB2 UDB
10 2 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.19%) QlikView
11 1 (0.094%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.094%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 114 (10.68%) JIRA
2 9 (0.84%) Git
3 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.37%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.28%) Mercurial
5 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.28%) Storybook
5 3 (0.28%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.094%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.094%) GCC
6 1 (0.094%) GitLab
6 1 (0.094%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.094%) JUnit
6 1 (0.094%) Selenium
6 1 (0.094%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.094%) TestNG
6 1 (0.094%) WebDriver
General
1 487 (45.64%) Social Skills
2 303 (28.40%) Finance
3 237 (22.21%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (12.56%) Organisational Skills
5 102 (9.56%) Marketing
6 84 (7.87%) Influencing Skills
7 78 (7.31%) Public Sector
8 74 (6.94%) Retail
9 56 (5.25%) Legal
10 55 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 44 (4.12%) Law
12 33 (3.09%) Banking
13 31 (2.91%) Manufacturing
14 24 (2.25%) Aerospace
15 23 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (2.06%) Aviation
17 19 (1.78%) Advertising
17 19 (1.78%) Local Government
18 18 (1.69%) Telecoms
19 17 (1.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 258 (24.18%) Project Manager
2 164 (15.37%) Senior
3 114 (10.68%) Senior Manager
4 111 (10.40%) IT Manager
5 90 (8.43%) Senior Project Manager
6 80 (7.50%) Lead
7 65 (6.09%) Analyst
8 63 (5.90%) IT Project Manager
9 62 (5.81%) Consultant
10 39 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
10 39 (3.66%) Programme Manager
11 38 (3.56%) Service Manager
12 37 (3.47%) Architect
13 36 (3.37%) Support Technician
14 35 (3.28%) Developer
15 33 (3.09%) IT Support
16 30 (2.81%) Business Analyst
16 30 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.62%) Service Delivery Manager
17 28 (2.62%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.81%) HTML
2 29 (2.72%) .NET
3 28 (2.62%) CSS
4 26 (2.44%) TensorFlow
5 23 (2.16%) Hugging Face
5 23 (2.16%) PyTorch
6 22 (2.06%) JSON
7 21 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (1.78%) .NET Core
8 19 (1.78%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (1.78%) SPFx
9 4 (0.37%) Unreal Engine
10 3 (0.28%) Django
10 3 (0.28%) Flutter
10 3 (0.28%) Godot
10 3 (0.28%) Node.js
10 3 (0.28%) React
10 3 (0.28%) React Native
10 3 (0.28%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.09%) Virtual Team
2 62 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 57 (5.34%) Driving Licence
4 53 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 50 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 41 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (2.81%) Cyber Defence
10 28 (2.62%) Social Media
11 27 (2.53%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.87%) Web Conferencing
13 19 (1.78%) Blog
14 13 (1.22%) Cloud Native
14 13 (1.22%) PMI
15 12 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 11 (1.03%) Life Science
16 11 (1.03%) NHS
17 9 (0.84%) IoT
18 7 (0.66%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.84%) Windows
2 9 (0.84%) Linux
3 5 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.28%) VMS
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.094%) Android
6 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) CentOS
6 1 (0.094%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (35.71%) Project Delivery
2 358 (33.55%) Agile
3 317 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
4 297 (27.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 257 (24.09%) PRINCE2
6 225 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 152 (14.25%) Decision-Making
8 139 (13.03%) Coaching
9 138 (12.93%) Logistics
10 135 (12.65%) Roadmaps
11 130 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 125 (11.72%) Budget Management
13 120 (11.25%) Customer Experience
14 118 (11.06%) AI
15 110 (10.31%) Analytics
16 107 (10.03%) CRM
17 104 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
17 104 (9.75%) ITIL
18 102 (9.56%) Risk Management
19 98 (9.18%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.25%) SQL
2 60 (5.62%) Python
3 35 (3.28%) JavaScript
4 33 (3.09%) C#
5 25 (2.34%) TypeScript
6 21 (1.97%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.56%) C++
7 6 (0.56%) VBA
8 5 (0.47%) Java
9 4 (0.37%) PHP
10 3 (0.28%) Dart
10 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.094%) C
12 1 (0.094%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 222 (20.81%) Degree
2 113 (10.59%) DBS Check
3 97 (9.09%) PMP
4 95 (8.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 93 (8.72%) PMI Certification
6 58 (5.44%) Security Cleared
7 36 (3.37%) SC Cleared
8 25 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.87%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.22%) CISSP
12 12 (1.12%) APMP
12 12 (1.12%) CAPM
12 12 (1.12%) CISA
12 12 (1.12%) CISM
13 11 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 10 (0.94%) ACCA
14 10 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.84%) CCNP
16 8 (0.75%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (9.93%) PMO
2 57 (5.34%) QA
3 49 (4.59%) Accessibility
4 44 (4.12%) GDPR
5 35 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 31 (2.91%) ISO 9001
7 30 (2.81%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.97%) NIST
9 18 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 17 (1.59%) ISO 14001
10 17 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 16 (1.50%) GRC
12 9 (0.84%) SLA
13 6 (0.56%) COBIT
13 6 (0.56%) GAAP
14 5 (0.47%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.37%) NCSC
15 4 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.47%) Docker
4 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.28%) vSphere
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (2.25%) SCCM
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.75%) Grafana
4 6 (0.56%) Ansible
5 4 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (0.37%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
6 2 (0.19%) Puppet
6 2 (0.19%) Salt
7 1 (0.094%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.094%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.094%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.094%) SCOM
7 1 (0.094%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 248 (23.24%) Microsoft
2 67 (6.28%) SAP
3 42 (3.94%) Adobe
4 38 (3.56%) Oracle
5 34 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 33 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 26 (2.44%) Fortinet
8 24 (2.25%) Google
9 22 (2.06%) SonicWALL
10 16 (1.50%) HubSpot
11 12 (1.12%) Apple
12 10 (0.94%) Cisco
12 10 (0.94%) Pardot
13 8 (0.75%) VMware
14 7 (0.66%) Citrix
15 6 (0.56%) YouTube
16 5 (0.47%) Nintex
16 5 (0.47%) Poppulo
16 5 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 5 (0.47%) Xero