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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 32 23
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,056 1,191 2,043
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.79% 7.24% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 7.78% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 637 661 1,473
10th Percentile £30,900 £33,250 £36,035
25th Percentile £40,825 £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 £71,250 £73,750 £69,914
90th Percentile £87,940 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -11.80%

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 18,280 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,282 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
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 30 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 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.65%) Confluence
3 20 (1.89%) WordPress
4 16 (1.52%) 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 (0.095%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 142 (13.45%) Microsoft Project
2 117 (11.08%) Microsoft Office
3 83 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 24 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.33%) 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 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (1.04%) 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 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) Primavera
10 1 (0.095%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 114 (10.80%) Azure
2 113 (10.70%) Power Platform
3 70 (6.63%) SaaS
4 68 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (3.41%) Power Automate
6 33 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 25 (2.37%) AWS
7 25 (2.37%) OneDrive
8 24 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (2.08%) Asana
10 20 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (1.61%) Smartsheet
13 12 (1.14%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.14%) GCP
13 12 (1.14%) Google Analytics
14 10 (0.95%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.50%) Firewall
2 31 (2.94%) Broadband
3 15 (1.42%) LAN
4 12 (1.14%) WAN
5 11 (1.04%) DNS
6 10 (0.95%) CHAP
7 8 (0.76%) VPN
8 7 (0.66%) DHCP
8 7 (0.66%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.57%) Intranet
9 6 (0.57%) Network Security
9 6 (0.57%) Wireless
10 4 (0.38%) NGN
10 4 (0.38%) WLAN
11 3 (0.28%) 2G
11 3 (0.28%) 3G
11 3 (0.28%) SSL
11 3 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (0.28%) TETRA
11 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (9.19%) Power BI
2 20 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (0.76%) Power Query
5 8 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.57%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) Looker
12 1 (0.095%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 114 (10.80%) JIRA
2 10 (0.95%) Git
3 8 (0.76%) 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 (0.095%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.095%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.095%) GCC
7 1 (0.095%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.095%) JUnit
7 1 (0.095%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.095%) Selenium
7 1 (0.095%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.095%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.095%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.095%) TestNG
7 1 (0.095%) WebDriver
General
1 473 (44.79%) Social Skills
2 301 (28.50%) Finance
3 216 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (10.13%) Marketing
5 105 (9.94%) Organisational Skills
6 85 (8.05%) Retail
7 68 (6.44%) Public Sector
8 61 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (5.30%) Legal
10 54 (5.11%) Law
11 43 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (3.31%) Manufacturing
13 32 (3.03%) Banking
14 31 (2.94%) Games
15 24 (2.27%) Advertising
15 24 (2.27%) Aviation
16 21 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.70%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.61%) Local Government
19 16 (1.52%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 249 (23.58%) Project Manager
2 171 (16.19%) Senior
3 112 (10.61%) Senior Manager
4 111 (10.51%) IT Manager
5 96 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
6 78 (7.39%) Lead
7 70 (6.63%) Analyst
8 62 (5.87%) IT Project Manager
9 58 (5.49%) Consultant
10 40 (3.79%) IT Support
11 37 (3.50%) Architect
11 37 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
11 37 (3.50%) Developer
12 36 (3.41%) Service Manager
13 34 (3.22%) Business Analyst
13 34 (3.22%) Programme Manager
14 32 (3.03%) Support Technician
15 30 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.75%) Applications Manager
17 28 (2.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.13%) HTML
2 29 (2.75%) .NET
2 29 (2.75%) CSS
3 24 (2.27%) TensorFlow
4 23 (2.18%) Hugging Face
4 23 (2.18%) PyTorch
5 22 (2.08%) 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%) Express.js
11 3 (0.28%) Node.js
11 3 (0.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.44%) Management Information System
2 66 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 64 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 53 (5.02%) Driving Licence
5 46 (4.36%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 27 (2.56%) Mobile App
9 26 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.46%) Social Media
10 24 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
11 22 (2.08%) Web Conferencing
12 18 (1.70%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.52%) Blog
13 16 (1.52%) Cloud Native
14 11 (1.04%) PMI
14 11 (1.04%) Video Editing
15 10 (0.95%) Cyberattack
16 9 (0.85%) Life Science
17 8 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.07%) Windows
2 20 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 17 (1.61%) 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
1 351 (33.24%) Agile
2 343 (32.48%) Project Delivery
3 312 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
4 266 (25.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 246 (23.30%) PRINCE2
6 208 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 146 (13.83%) Decision-Making
8 143 (13.54%) Roadmaps
9 137 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 135 (12.78%) Logistics
11 134 (12.69%) Coaching
12 132 (12.50%) Budget Management
13 121 (11.46%) Customer Experience
14 119 (11.27%) Analytics
14 119 (11.27%) Mentoring
15 116 (10.98%) AI
16 110 (10.42%) ERP
17 105 (9.94%) CRM
18 95 (9.00%) ITIL
19 92 (8.71%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.33%) SQL
2 58 (5.49%) Python
3 35 (3.31%) C#
4 33 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 25 (2.37%) TypeScript
6 20 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.57%) C++
7 6 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) C
11 1 (0.095%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 215 (20.36%) Degree
2 105 (9.94%) DBS Check
3 93 (8.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 91 (8.62%) PMP
5 86 (8.14%) PMI Certification
6 31 (2.94%) Security Cleared
7 18 (1.70%) CISSP
8 15 (1.42%) SC Cleared
9 14 (1.33%) CISA
9 14 (1.33%) CISM
9 14 (1.33%) SANS
10 13 (1.23%) ACCA
10 13 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.14%) CAPM
12 10 (0.95%) APMP
12 10 (0.95%) CGEIT
12 10 (0.95%) FFIEC
12 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.76%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (8.33%) PMO
2 59 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 52 (4.92%) QA
4 50 (4.73%) GDPR
5 35 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (3.03%) ISO 9001
7 28 (2.65%) NIST
8 18 (1.70%) 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 10 (0.95%) COBIT
13 8 (0.76%) GAAP
14 6 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.57%) SLA
15 5 (0.47%) ISO 22301
16 4 (0.38%) IFRS
16 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.57%) Docker
2 6 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
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 21 (1.99%) SCCM
2 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.76%) 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 (0.095%) 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
1 225 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.59%) SAP
3 50 (4.73%) Adobe
4 44 (4.17%) Oracle
5 37 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.56%) Google
8 21 (1.99%) Fortinet
9 19 (1.80%) SonicWALL
10 17 (1.61%) HubSpot
11 15 (1.42%) Pardot
12 8 (0.76%) Citrix
13 7 (0.66%) Apple
13 7 (0.66%) Hootsuite
13 7 (0.66%) Instagram
13 7 (0.66%) JD Edwards
13 7 (0.66%) Wrike
14 6 (0.57%) VMware
15 5 (0.47%) Cisco
15 5 (0.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud