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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,038 1,216 2,473
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.86% 7.35% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 7.88% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 629 671 1,829
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £34,479
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,189 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -3.84%
75th Percentile £71,750 £73,750 £69,914
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -9.48%

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 17,655 15,436 28,345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 93.33% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 12,911 9,153 21,561
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 13 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 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.02%) Confluence
2 21 (2.02%) WordPress
3 19 (1.83%) CMS
4 5 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.19%) Moodle
5 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.096%) Drupal
Applications
1 140 (13.49%) Microsoft Project
2 113 (10.89%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 12 (1.16%) Trello
7 5 (0.48%) Adobe Premiere
7 5 (0.48%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.29%) Blender
9 3 (0.29%) Maya
10 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.096%) FrameMaker
11 1 (0.096%) Houdini
11 1 (0.096%) InDesign
11 1 (0.096%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 29 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 12 (1.16%) Oracle Assets
3 12 (1.16%) Oracle Cash Management
3 12 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (1.16%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.87%) Shopify
5 7 (0.67%) Elite 3E
6 6 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.48%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.096%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 123 (11.85%) Power Platform
2 111 (10.69%) Azure
3 69 (6.65%) SaaS
4 65 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (4.43%) PowerApps
6 36 (3.47%) Power Automate
7 27 (2.60%) OneDrive
8 25 (2.41%) Asana
9 23 (2.22%) AWS
9 23 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 19 (1.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 19 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (1.64%) Smartsheet
13 16 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
14 14 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.35%) GCP
14 14 (1.35%) Google Analytics
15 13 (1.25%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.06%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.66%) Broadband
2 34 (3.28%) Firewall
3 14 (1.35%) LAN
4 13 (1.25%) CHAP
5 12 (1.16%) DNS
5 12 (1.16%) WAN
6 8 (0.77%) DHCP
6 8 (0.77%) VPN
7 7 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.67%) Wireless
8 6 (0.58%) Network Security
9 4 (0.39%) Intranet
9 4 (0.39%) NGN
10 3 (0.29%) 3G
10 3 (0.29%) 4G
10 3 (0.29%) 5G
10 3 (0.29%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.29%) SSL
10 3 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (9.06%) Power BI
2 19 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (1.83%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.77%) Power Query
4 8 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.48%) Db2
7 5 (0.48%) Tableau
8 4 (0.39%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (0.39%) QlikView
9 3 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.19%) Big Data
10 2 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.096%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.096%) Looker
11 1 (0.096%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.096%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 101 (9.73%) JIRA
2 9 (0.87%) Git
3 8 (0.77%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.29%) Storybook
6 1 (0.096%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.096%) GCC
6 1 (0.096%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.096%) JUnit
6 1 (0.096%) Selenium
6 1 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.096%) TestNG
6 1 (0.096%) WebDriver
General
1 470 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 300 (28.90%) Finance
3 191 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (10.69%) Marketing
5 96 (9.25%) Organisational Skills
6 80 (7.71%) Retail
7 75 (7.23%) Public Sector
8 57 (5.49%) Legal
9 56 (5.39%) Law
10 46 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (3.56%) Games
11 37 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (3.28%) Banking
13 33 (3.18%) Manufacturing
14 29 (2.79%) Advertising
15 26 (2.50%) Aviation
16 23 (2.22%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.83%) General Ledger
17 19 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (1.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 252 (24.28%) Project Manager
2 185 (17.82%) Senior
3 120 (11.56%) Senior Manager
4 106 (10.21%) IT Manager
5 105 (10.12%) Senior Project Manager
6 76 (7.32%) Analyst
7 73 (7.03%) Lead
8 62 (5.97%) IT Project Manager
9 57 (5.49%) Consultant
10 41 (3.95%) IT Support
11 38 (3.66%) Business Analyst
12 37 (3.56%) Architect
12 37 (3.56%) Developer
13 30 (2.89%) Applications Manager
13 30 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (2.79%) Digital Project Manager
14 29 (2.79%) Programme Manager
14 29 (2.79%) Support Technician
15 28 (2.70%) Marketing Manager
16 27 (2.60%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.18%) HTML
2 29 (2.79%) CSS
3 27 (2.60%) .NET
4 23 (2.22%) Hugging Face
4 23 (2.22%) PyTorch
4 23 (2.22%) TensorFlow
5 22 (2.12%) JSON
6 21 (2.02%) .NET Core
6 21 (2.02%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (1.83%) SPFx
8 10 (0.96%) EDI
9 5 (0.48%) OAuth
9 5 (0.48%) OpenID
9 5 (0.48%) SAML
9 5 (0.48%) XML
10 4 (0.39%) Unreal Engine
11 3 (0.29%) Express.js
11 3 (0.29%) React
11 3 (0.29%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 64 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 54 (5.20%) Driving Licence
4 47 (4.53%) Virtual Team
5 43 (4.14%) Product Ownership
6 38 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (2.99%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.89%) Social Media
9 24 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
12 20 (1.93%) Web Conferencing
13 18 (1.73%) Cloud Native
13 18 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
14 15 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (1.45%) Video Editing
15 14 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
15 14 (1.35%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.25%) Blog
16 13 (1.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.85%) Windows
2 28 (2.70%) Apple iOS
3 23 (2.22%) Android
4 12 (1.16%) Linux
5 7 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.29%) Unix
7 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.096%) AIX
8 1 (0.096%) CentOS
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.096%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.096%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.096%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.096%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (35.07%) Agile
2 332 (31.98%) Project Delivery
3 304 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
4 238 (22.93%) PRINCE2
5 229 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 169 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 148 (14.26%) Coaching
7 148 (14.26%) Decision-Making
8 141 (13.58%) Roadmaps
9 139 (13.39%) Budget Management
10 136 (13.10%) Mentoring
10 136 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 126 (12.14%) Logistics
12 121 (11.66%) AI
12 121 (11.66%) Analytics
13 110 (10.60%) ERP
14 109 (10.50%) CRM
15 106 (10.21%) Customer Experience
16 90 (8.67%) B2B
16 90 (8.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (8.29%) SQL
2 54 (5.20%) Python
3 34 (3.28%) C#
4 32 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 25 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 20 (1.93%) VBA
8 5 (0.48%) C++
9 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.096%) C
12 1 (0.096%) Groovy
12 1 (0.096%) Java
12 1 (0.096%) R
Qualifications
1 210 (20.23%) Degree
2 99 (9.54%) DBS Check
3 90 (8.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 82 (7.90%) PMP
5 78 (7.51%) PMI Certification
6 23 (2.22%) CISSP
7 21 (2.02%) Security Cleared
8 18 (1.73%) SANS
9 17 (1.64%) CISA
9 17 (1.64%) CISM
10 13 (1.25%) CGEIT
10 13 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.25%) FFIEC
10 13 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.16%) CAPM
12 9 (0.87%) ACCA
12 9 (0.87%) APMP
13 8 (0.77%) HNC
13 8 (0.77%) PgMP
13 8 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.00%) PMO
2 59 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 53 (5.11%) QA
4 52 (5.01%) GDPR
5 38 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (3.28%) NIST
7 32 (3.08%) ISO 9001
8 17 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (1.64%) ISO 14001
8 17 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 16 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 16 (1.54%) Data Quality
10 14 (1.35%) GRC
11 13 (1.25%) COBIT
12 9 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.77%) GAAP
14 4 (0.39%) IFRS
14 4 (0.39%) ISO 22301
14 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 4 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.67%) Docker
3 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 1 (0.096%) Firmware
5 1 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (1.64%) SCCM
2 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.77%) Ansible
3 8 (0.77%) Grafana
4 6 (0.58%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
6 2 (0.19%) Puppet
6 2 (0.19%) Salt
7 1 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.096%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.096%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.096%) SCOM
7 1 (0.096%) Terraform
7 1 (0.096%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 225 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.49%) Adobe
3 54 (5.20%) SAP
4 43 (4.14%) Oracle
5 41 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 33 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 32 (3.08%) Google
8 18 (1.73%) Pardot
9 17 (1.64%) Fortinet
9 17 (1.64%) HubSpot
10 16 (1.54%) SonicWALL
11 11 (1.06%) Hootsuite
11 11 (1.06%) Instagram
11 11 (1.06%) Wrike
12 9 (0.87%) Apple
12 9 (0.87%) JD Edwards
13 6 (0.58%) VMware
14 5 (0.48%) Citrix
14 5 (0.48%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.48%) Okta