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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 797 1,175 2,607
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.50% 8.89% 8.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.40% 9.38% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 522 678 2,001
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,195 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £59,125 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +7.50% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,938 £73,750 £69,914
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +10.48% -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 14,746 12,526 29,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.22% 94.76% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,299 8,909 23,673
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,436 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%

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 April 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 35 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.38%) CMS
3 18 (2.26%) Confluence
4 17 (2.13%) WordPress
5 4 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 66 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (5.02%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.50%) Trello
8 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 20 (2.51%) Oracle EBS
2 18 (2.26%) Oracle Assets
2 18 (2.26%) Oracle Payables
2 18 (2.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 16 (2.01%) Oracle Cash Management
4 15 (1.88%) Oracle EBS R12
5 9 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.75%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.75%) Shopify
8 5 (0.63%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.38%) ResourceLink
11 2 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
11 2 (0.25%) Magento
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
11 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
12 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 95 (11.92%) Azure
2 80 (10.04%) Power Platform
3 77 (9.66%) SaaS
4 54 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (4.27%) AWS
6 29 (3.64%) PowerApps
7 27 (3.39%) Power Automate
8 26 (3.26%) Asana
9 21 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 19 (2.38%) OneDrive
11 17 (2.13%) GCP
12 16 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (2.01%) Google Analytics
13 13 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.51%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 12 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (1.38%) Sprout Social
16 9 (1.13%) Smartsheet
17 7 (0.88%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.64%) Broadband
2 25 (3.14%) CHAP
3 16 (2.01%) Firewall
4 12 (1.51%) DNS
5 10 (1.25%) DHCP
6 9 (1.13%) WAN
7 8 (1.00%) Network Security
8 7 (0.88%) VPN
8 7 (0.88%) Wireless
9 6 (0.75%) LAN
10 5 (0.63%) Internet
10 5 (0.63%) Intranet
11 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.38%) IP Telephony
12 3 (0.38%) NGN
12 3 (0.38%) SCCP
12 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.25%) Extranet
13 2 (0.25%) MPLS
13 2 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.90%) Power BI
2 13 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.00%) Tableau
5 7 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 7 (0.88%) Power Query
6 5 (0.63%) DB2
6 5 (0.63%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.50%) DB2 UDB
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (0.50%) QlikView
8 1 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.13%) Big Data
8 1 (0.13%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.13%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.13%) Looker
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.13%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 58 (7.28%) JIRA
2 5 (0.63%) Git
2 5 (0.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.38%) Storybook
4 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.13%) GCC
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 386 (48.43%) Social Skills
2 280 (35.13%) Finance
3 150 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (15.06%) Marketing
5 82 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
6 80 (10.04%) Public Sector
7 79 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 78 (9.79%) Legal
9 70 (8.78%) Retail
10 56 (7.03%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (6.90%) Law
12 38 (4.77%) Banking
12 38 (4.77%) Games
13 33 (4.14%) Financial Institution
14 29 (3.64%) Manufacturing
15 22 (2.76%) General Ledger
16 18 (2.26%) Aviation
17 17 (2.13%) Advertising
18 15 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
19 13 (1.63%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 131 (16.44%) Project Manager
2 106 (13.30%) Senior
3 72 (9.03%) Analyst
4 68 (8.53%) IT Manager
5 59 (7.40%) Senior Manager
6 56 (7.03%) Lead
7 46 (5.77%) Architect
8 45 (5.65%) Business Analyst
9 40 (5.02%) IT Project Manager
10 38 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (4.39%) Senior Project Manager
12 33 (4.14%) IT Support
13 28 (3.51%) Marketing Manager
13 28 (3.51%) Systems Manager
14 27 (3.39%) Digital Project Manager
15 26 (3.26%) Applications Manager
15 26 (3.26%) Senior Digital Project Manager
16 25 (3.14%) Auditor
17 24 (3.01%) Internal Auditor
17 24 (3.01%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.76%) HTML
2 20 (2.51%) CSS
3 18 (2.26%) EDI
4 16 (2.01%) .NET
5 14 (1.76%) .NET Core
5 14 (1.76%) HTML5 Canvas
5 14 (1.76%) JSON
6 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (1.51%) SPFx
8 5 (0.63%) OAuth
8 5 (0.63%) OpenID
8 5 (0.63%) SAML
9 4 (0.50%) FIDO
9 4 (0.50%) React
9 4 (0.50%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.38%) Flutter
10 3 (0.38%) Jest
10 3 (0.38%) React Native
10 3 (0.38%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (0.38%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.41%) Management Information System
2 56 (7.03%) Onboarding
3 45 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (5.40%) Product Ownership
5 40 (5.02%) Virtual Team
6 31 (3.89%) Social Media
7 29 (3.64%) Mobile App
8 26 (3.26%) Driving Licence
9 25 (3.14%) Blog
10 17 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.76%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (1.76%) Low-Code
12 14 (1.76%) Video Editing
13 13 (1.63%) Blockchain
13 13 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
14 11 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.51%) Apple iOS
2 27 (3.39%) Windows
3 23 (2.89%) Android
4 9 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.75%) Linux
6 5 (0.63%) Unix
7 1 (0.13%) AIX
7 1 (0.13%) CentOS
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (33.00%) Agile
2 223 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
3 196 (24.59%) Project Delivery
4 156 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 142 (17.82%) AI
5 142 (17.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (17.44%) Decision-Making
7 134 (16.81%) Analytics
8 125 (15.68%) PRINCE2
9 97 (12.17%) Mentoring
9 97 (12.17%) Roadmaps
10 96 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 95 (11.92%) Cybersecurity
12 94 (11.79%) B2B
13 93 (11.67%) Risk Management
14 89 (11.17%) Coaching
15 80 (10.04%) Budget Management
16 75 (9.41%) ERP
17 66 (8.28%) Logistics
18 65 (8.16%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (5.77%) SQL
2 29 (3.64%) C#
3 27 (3.39%) Python
4 19 (2.38%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.01%) PowerShell
5 16 (2.01%) TypeScript
6 15 (1.88%) VBA
7 3 (0.38%) C++
7 3 (0.38%) Dart
8 2 (0.25%) Bash
8 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.25%) Java
8 2 (0.25%) R
8 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) C
9 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 152 (19.07%) Degree
2 69 (8.66%) PMP
3 52 (6.52%) DBS Check
4 47 (5.90%) PMI Certification
5 34 (4.27%) CISSP
6 30 (3.76%) SANS
7 29 (3.64%) Security Cleared
8 26 (3.26%) CISA
8 26 (3.26%) CISM
9 25 (3.14%) CGEIT
9 25 (3.14%) FFIEC
10 22 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.13%) MBA
13 8 (1.00%) CFA
13 8 (1.00%) HNC
13 8 (1.00%) SC Cleared
14 7 (0.88%) CITP
14 7 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.78%) GDPR
2 41 (5.14%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.89%) NIST
4 36 (4.52%) PMO
5 33 (4.14%) QA
6 28 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (3.26%) ISO 9001
8 25 (3.14%) COBIT
9 12 (1.51%) GRC
10 9 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.75%) GAAP
12 6 (0.75%) ISO 14001
12 6 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 6 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.38%) IFRS
13 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.00%) Docker
3 5 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.51%) Ansible
2 8 (1.00%) Grafana
2 8 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.00%) SCCM
3 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.63%) Terraform
5 2 (0.25%) Argo
5 2 (0.25%) Puppet
5 2 (0.25%) Salt
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.13%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 172 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 46 (5.77%) Adobe
4 38 (4.77%) Google
5 36 (4.52%) SAP
6 31 (3.89%) Oracle
7 20 (2.51%) Pardot
8 17 (2.13%) HubSpot
9 13 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.38%) Hootsuite
10 11 (1.38%) Instagram
10 11 (1.38%) Wrike
11 10 (1.25%) Apple
12 9 (1.13%) JD Edwards
12 9 (1.13%) Okta
13 8 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 7 (0.88%) Planon
14 7 (0.88%) Workday
15 6 (0.75%) Cisco
15 6 (0.75%) VMware