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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 1,082 1,190 1,807
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.74% 7.18% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 7.73% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 632 657 1,275
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,300 £36,366
25th Percentile £40,600 £46,250 £43,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%
75th Percentile £71,313 £75,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.17%

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 18,830 15,402 21,672
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.54% 92.96% 87.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,568 8,927 15,410
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 15 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 (5.73%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.59%) Confluence
3 13 (1.20%) CMS
3 13 (1.20%) WordPress
4 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.18%) Moodle
4 2 (0.18%) MS Project Server
4 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 150 (13.86%) Microsoft Project
2 130 (12.01%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 31 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.29%) Trello
6 10 (0.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.46%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.37%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.28%) Blender
9 3 (0.28%) Maya
9 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.092%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.092%) Houdini
10 1 (0.092%) InDesign
10 1 (0.092%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 32 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.92%) Shopify
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.74%) Primavera
5 6 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.46%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.092%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 115 (10.63%) Azure
2 110 (10.17%) Power Platform
3 64 (5.91%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (5.82%) SaaS
5 35 (3.23%) Power Automate
6 34 (3.14%) PowerApps
7 30 (2.77%) AWS
8 27 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (2.22%) Asana
10 21 (1.94%) OneDrive
11 20 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (1.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
14 17 (1.57%) Smartsheet
15 13 (1.20%) GCP
16 11 (1.02%) Entra ID
17 10 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (0.83%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.42%) Firewall
2 29 (2.68%) Broadband
3 14 (1.29%) LAN
4 11 (1.02%) WAN
5 9 (0.83%) DNS
5 9 (0.83%) Intranet
6 8 (0.74%) CHAP
6 8 (0.74%) VPN
7 7 (0.65%) Network Security
8 6 (0.55%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.46%) DHCP
9 5 (0.46%) Wireless
10 4 (0.37%) NGN
10 4 (0.37%) WLAN
11 3 (0.28%) 2G
11 3 (0.28%) 3G
11 3 (0.28%) 4G
11 3 (0.28%) SSL
11 3 (0.28%) TETRA
11 3 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (8.60%) Power BI
2 20 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.74%) Power Query
7 7 (0.65%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.55%) Tableau
9 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.28%) Big Data
9 3 (0.28%) Db2
9 3 (0.28%) DB2 UDB
9 3 (0.28%) Metadata
9 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.28%) QlikView
10 2 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.092%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.092%) Looker
Development Applications
1 112 (10.35%) JIRA
2 11 (1.02%) Git
3 8 (0.74%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.092%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.092%) GCC
7 1 (0.092%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.092%) JUnit
7 1 (0.092%) Selenium
7 1 (0.092%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.092%) TestNG
7 1 (0.092%) WebDriver
General
1 482 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 309 (28.56%) Finance
3 231 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (11.74%) Organisational Skills
5 104 (9.61%) Marketing
6 78 (7.21%) Influencing Skills
6 78 (7.21%) Retail
7 74 (6.84%) Public Sector
8 61 (5.64%) Legal
9 56 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 50 (4.62%) Law
11 34 (3.14%) Manufacturing
12 33 (3.05%) Banking
13 32 (2.96%) Games
14 25 (2.31%) Aerospace
15 23 (2.13%) Aviation
15 23 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.94%) Advertising
17 17 (1.57%) Electronics
17 17 (1.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 259 (23.94%) Project Manager
2 164 (15.16%) Senior
3 115 (10.63%) IT Manager
4 112 (10.35%) Senior Manager
5 89 (8.23%) Senior Project Manager
6 79 (7.30%) Lead
7 67 (6.19%) Analyst
8 65 (6.01%) IT Project Manager
9 62 (5.73%) Consultant
10 39 (3.60%) Programme Manager
11 38 (3.51%) Service Manager
12 37 (3.42%) Architect
12 37 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
12 37 (3.42%) Developer
13 36 (3.33%) IT Support
14 33 (3.05%) Support Technician
15 31 (2.87%) Business Analyst
16 30 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.59%) Service Delivery Manager
17 28 (2.59%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.87%) .NET
2 30 (2.77%) HTML
3 28 (2.59%) CSS
4 26 (2.40%) TensorFlow
5 23 (2.13%) Hugging Face
5 23 (2.13%) PyTorch
6 22 (2.03%) JSON
7 21 (1.94%) .NET Core
7 21 (1.94%) HTML5 Canvas
8 19 (1.76%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (1.76%) SPFx
9 4 (0.37%) Unreal Engine
10 3 (0.28%) Express.js
10 3 (0.28%) Flutter
10 3 (0.28%) Godot
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%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.56%) Onboarding
2 65 (6.01%) Virtual Team
3 60 (5.55%) Management Information System
4 54 (4.99%) Driving Licence
5 47 (4.34%) Product Ownership
6 39 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
8 31 (2.87%) Social Media
9 30 (2.77%) Cyber Defence
9 30 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (2.40%) Mobile App
11 23 (2.13%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.85%) Web Conferencing
13 18 (1.66%) Blog
14 15 (1.39%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.02%) Life Science
15 11 (1.02%) PMI
16 10 (0.92%) NHS
16 10 (0.92%) Video Editing
17 9 (0.83%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.51%) Windows
2 15 (1.39%) Android
2 15 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 11 (1.02%) Linux
4 5 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.18%) Unix
6 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.092%) CentOS
7 1 (0.092%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (34.01%) Agile
2 364 (33.64%) Project Delivery
3 323 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
4 287 (26.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 259 (23.94%) PRINCE2
6 218 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 155 (14.33%) Decision-Making
8 145 (13.40%) Roadmaps
9 137 (12.66%) Logistics
10 135 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 130 (12.01%) Coaching
12 128 (11.83%) AI
13 124 (11.46%) Budget Management
14 116 (10.72%) Analytics
14 116 (10.72%) Customer Experience
15 106 (9.80%) Mentoring
16 105 (9.70%) ERP
17 104 (9.61%) CRM
18 102 (9.43%) Risk Management
19 99 (9.15%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 88 (8.13%) SQL
2 61 (5.64%) Python
3 35 (3.23%) C#
3 35 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 25 (2.31%) TypeScript
5 20 (1.85%) PowerShell
6 6 (0.55%) C++
6 6 (0.55%) VBA
7 5 (0.46%) Java
8 4 (0.37%) PHP
9 3 (0.28%) Dart
9 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.18%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.092%) C
11 1 (0.092%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 223 (20.61%) Degree
2 107 (9.89%) DBS Check
3 96 (8.87%) PMP
4 94 (8.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 91 (8.41%) PMI Certification
6 53 (4.90%) Security Cleared
7 32 (2.96%) SC Cleared
8 25 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.39%) CISSP
11 14 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (1.11%) ACCA
12 12 (1.11%) CAPM
12 12 (1.11%) CISA
12 12 (1.11%) CISM
13 11 (1.02%) APMP
13 11 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 11 (1.02%) SANS
14 9 (0.83%) CIMA
14 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.15%) PMO
2 65 (6.01%) Accessibility
3 58 (5.36%) QA
4 48 (4.44%) GDPR
5 35 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.96%) ISO 9001
7 27 (2.50%) Data Quality
8 25 (2.31%) NIST
9 18 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 17 (1.57%) ISO 14001
10 17 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 14 (1.29%) 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 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.65%) Docker
3 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
5 2 (0.18%) vSphere
6 1 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (1.94%) SCCM
2 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (0.74%) Ansible
3 8 (0.74%) Grafana
4 6 (0.55%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.18%) Argo
6 2 (0.18%) Puppet
6 2 (0.18%) Salt
7 1 (0.092%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.092%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.092%) SCOM
7 1 (0.092%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 244 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.28%) SAP
3 49 (4.53%) Adobe
4 42 (3.88%) Oracle
5 33 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.77%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.31%) Google
8 23 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 19 (1.76%) SonicWALL
10 17 (1.57%) HubSpot
11 11 (1.02%) Pardot
12 9 (0.83%) Apple
13 7 (0.65%) Cisco
13 7 (0.65%) Citrix
14 6 (0.55%) Hootsuite
14 6 (0.55%) Instagram
14 6 (0.55%) VMware
14 6 (0.55%) Wrike
15 5 (0.46%) IFS
15 5 (0.46%) Poppulo