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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,076 1,192 1,774
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.70% 7.21% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.70% 7.75% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 635 656 1,241
10th Percentile £30,600 £31,799 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 18,872 15,371 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,617 8,911 15,260
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 August 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 62 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.51%) Confluence
3 13 (1.21%) CMS
4 12 (1.12%) WordPress
5 3 (0.28%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.19%) Moodle
6 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 152 (14.13%) Microsoft Project
2 129 (11.99%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.30%) Trello
6 9 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.28%) Blender
8 3 (0.28%) Maya
8 3 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.093%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.093%) Houdini
10 1 (0.093%) InDesign
10 1 (0.093%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 33 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.93%) Shopify
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.74%) Primavera
5 6 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.46%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.093%) Misys Midas
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.093%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 114 (10.59%) Azure
2 111 (10.32%) Power Platform
3 65 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.67%) SaaS
5 35 (3.25%) Power Automate
6 34 (3.16%) PowerApps
7 30 (2.79%) AWS
8 28 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (2.23%) Asana
10 21 (1.95%) OneDrive
11 20 (1.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.58%) Microsoft Purview
14 17 (1.58%) Smartsheet
15 13 (1.21%) GCP
16 11 (1.02%) Entra ID
17 9 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
18 8 (0.74%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.53%) Firewall
2 24 (2.23%) Broadband
3 15 (1.39%) LAN
4 12 (1.12%) WAN
5 9 (0.84%) DNS
5 9 (0.84%) Intranet
6 8 (0.74%) CHAP
6 8 (0.74%) Network Security
6 8 (0.74%) VPN
7 6 (0.56%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.46%) DHCP
8 5 (0.46%) Wireless
9 4 (0.37%) NGN
9 4 (0.37%) WLAN
10 3 (0.28%) 2G
10 3 (0.28%) 3G
10 3 (0.28%) SSL
10 3 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.28%) TETRA
10 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (8.74%) Power BI
2 20 (1.86%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (0.74%) Power Query
6 7 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.56%) Tableau
8 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.28%) Big Data
8 3 (0.28%) Db2
8 3 (0.28%) DB2 UDB
8 3 (0.28%) Metadata
8 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.28%) QlikView
9 2 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.093%) Looker
10 1 (0.093%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 112 (10.41%) JIRA
2 11 (1.02%) Git
3 8 (0.74%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.28%) Mercurial
6 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.28%) Storybook
6 3 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.093%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.093%) GCC
7 1 (0.093%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.093%) JUnit
7 1 (0.093%) Selenium
7 1 (0.093%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.093%) TestNG
7 1 (0.093%) WebDriver
General
1 482 (44.80%) Social Skills
2 308 (28.62%) Finance
3 229 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (11.80%) Organisational Skills
5 103 (9.57%) Marketing
6 79 (7.34%) Influencing Skills
7 76 (7.06%) Public Sector
7 76 (7.06%) Retail
8 62 (5.76%) Legal
9 56 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (4.65%) Law
11 33 (3.07%) Banking
11 33 (3.07%) Manufacturing
12 27 (2.51%) Games
13 25 (2.32%) Aerospace
14 23 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (2.04%) Aviation
16 21 (1.95%) Advertising
17 18 (1.67%) Local Government
18 17 (1.58%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 263 (24.44%) Project Manager
2 164 (15.24%) Senior
3 116 (10.78%) IT Manager
4 112 (10.41%) Senior Manager
5 89 (8.27%) Senior Project Manager
6 79 (7.34%) Lead
7 67 (6.23%) Analyst
8 66 (6.13%) IT Project Manager
9 63 (5.86%) Consultant
10 39 (3.62%) Programme Manager
11 38 (3.53%) Service Manager
12 37 (3.44%) Architect
12 37 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
12 37 (3.44%) Developer
13 36 (3.35%) IT Support
14 34 (3.16%) Support Technician
15 31 (2.88%) Business Analyst
16 30 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.60%) Service Delivery Manager
17 28 (2.60%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.88%) .NET
2 30 (2.79%) HTML
3 28 (2.60%) CSS
4 26 (2.42%) TensorFlow
5 23 (2.14%) Hugging Face
5 23 (2.14%) PyTorch
6 22 (2.04%) JSON
7 21 (1.95%) .NET Core
7 21 (1.95%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (1.77%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (1.77%) SPFx
9 4 (0.37%) Unreal Engine
10 3 (0.28%) Django
10 3 (0.28%) Express.js
10 3 (0.28%) Node.js
10 3 (0.28%) OAuth
10 3 (0.28%) OpenID
10 3 (0.28%) React
10 3 (0.28%) React Native
10 3 (0.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.13%) Onboarding
2 65 (6.04%) Virtual Team
3 58 (5.39%) Management Information System
4 55 (5.11%) Driving Licence
5 47 (4.37%) Product Ownership
6 40 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 32 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.79%) Cyber Defence
9 30 (2.79%) Social Media
10 25 (2.32%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.95%) Mobile App
12 20 (1.86%) Web Conferencing
13 18 (1.67%) Blog
14 15 (1.39%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.02%) Life Science
15 11 (1.02%) PMI
16 10 (0.93%) NHS
17 9 (0.84%) Cyberattack
17 9 (0.84%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.53%) Windows
2 11 (1.02%) Linux
3 10 (0.93%) Android
3 10 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Unix
6 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.093%) CentOS
7 1 (0.093%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (34.39%) Project Delivery
2 366 (34.01%) Agile
3 322 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
4 288 (26.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 260 (24.16%) PRINCE2
6 217 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 151 (14.03%) Decision-Making
8 141 (13.10%) Roadmaps
9 138 (12.83%) Logistics
10 132 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 131 (12.17%) Coaching
12 126 (11.71%) Budget Management
13 123 (11.43%) AI
14 115 (10.69%) Customer Experience
15 114 (10.59%) Analytics
16 106 (9.85%) ERP
17 104 (9.67%) CRM
18 103 (9.57%) Risk Management
19 102 (9.48%) Mentoring
20 101 (9.39%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.18%) SQL
2 61 (5.67%) Python
3 35 (3.25%) C#
3 35 (3.25%) JavaScript
4 25 (2.32%) TypeScript
5 20 (1.86%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.56%) C++
6 6 (0.56%) VBA
7 5 (0.46%) Java
8 4 (0.37%) PHP
9 3 (0.28%) Dart
9 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.19%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.093%) C
11 1 (0.093%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 223 (20.72%) Degree
2 109 (10.13%) DBS Check
3 99 (9.20%) PMP
4 94 (8.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 93 (8.64%) PMI Certification
6 54 (5.02%) Security Cleared
7 32 (2.97%) SC Cleared
8 25 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.39%) CISSP
11 14 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.12%) CAPM
12 12 (1.12%) CISA
12 12 (1.12%) CISM
13 11 (1.02%) ACCA
13 11 (1.02%) APMP
13 11 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 11 (1.02%) SANS
14 9 (0.84%) CIMA
15 8 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (9.39%) PMO
2 60 (5.58%) Accessibility
3 56 (5.20%) QA
4 47 (4.37%) GDPR
5 35 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.97%) ISO 9001
7 27 (2.51%) Data Quality
8 25 (2.32%) NIST
9 18 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 17 (1.58%) ISO 14001
10 17 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 14 (1.30%) GRC
12 8 (0.74%) COBIT
12 8 (0.74%) SLA
13 7 (0.65%) GAAP
14 5 (0.46%) ISO 22301
15 4 (0.37%) IFRS
15 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.65%) Docker
3 6 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) Firmware
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (2.04%) SCCM
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.74%) Ansible
3 8 (0.74%) Grafana
4 6 (0.56%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.19%) Argo
6 2 (0.19%) Puppet
6 2 (0.19%) Salt
7 1 (0.093%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.093%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.093%) SCOM
7 1 (0.093%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 246 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.32%) SAP
3 46 (4.28%) Adobe
4 42 (3.90%) Oracle
5 33 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.42%) Google
8 24 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 20 (1.86%) SonicWALL
10 16 (1.49%) HubSpot
11 11 (1.02%) Pardot
12 9 (0.84%) Apple
13 8 (0.74%) Cisco
14 7 (0.65%) Citrix
14 7 (0.65%) VMware
15 5 (0.46%) Hootsuite
15 5 (0.46%) IFS
15 5 (0.46%) Instagram
15 5 (0.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 5 (0.46%) Wrike