Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 18 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Project Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Project Management over the 6 months to 18 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Project Management
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
18 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 31 71 38
Rank change year-on-year +40 -33 -1
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 2,269 439 517
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.84% 4.20% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 4.49% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 371 406
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.11% -3.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

Project Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,461 9,785 6,827
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.86% 93.71% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 21,348 8,664 5,929
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -

Project Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Project Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Project Management
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Project Management.

Project Management salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Project Management
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Project Management over the 6 months to 18 January 2022.

Project Management salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 18 January 2022, Project Management job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Project Management.

1 1,005 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 976 (43.01%) Agile Software Development
3 702 (30.94%) Finance
4 585 (25.78%) Project Delivery
5 559 (24.64%) Degree
6 479 (21.11%) Microsoft
7 444 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 442 (19.48%) PRINCE2
9 358 (15.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 349 (15.38%) Scrum
11 298 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
12 279 (12.30%) Waterfall
13 257 (11.33%) Azure
14 255 (11.24%) Change Management
15 249 (10.97%) ITIL
16 235 (10.36%) Mentoring
17 232 (10.22%) Data Management
18 229 (10.09%) Risk Management
19 224 (9.87%) SaaS
20 222 (9.78%) Presentation Skills
21 221 (9.74%) Oracle
22 220 (9.70%) Computer Science
23 215 (9.48%) ERP
24 203 (8.95%) SDLC
25 195 (8.59%) Migration
26 194 (8.55%) DevOps
27 185 (8.15%) Pharmaceutical
28 177 (7.80%) Microsoft Project
28 177 (7.80%) AWS
29 173 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel

Project Management
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 127 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 95 (4.19%) SAS
3 61 (2.69%) Documentum
4 29 (1.28%) Confluence
5 23 (1.01%) Oracle Workflow
6 20 (0.88%) CMS
6 20 (0.88%) IIS
7 18 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
9 15 (0.66%) Apache
10 13 (0.57%) WordPress
11 10 (0.44%) Appian
12 8 (0.35%) MS Exchange
12 8 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.31%) Apache Spark
14 6 (0.26%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
16 2 (0.088%) SharePoint 2013
16 2 (0.088%) WinCC
Applications
1 177 (7.80%) Microsoft Project
2 173 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 164 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
4 140 (6.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 46 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.71%) Windchill
7 10 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
9 6 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 5 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.13%) Sketch
12 2 (0.088%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.088%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.088%) InDesign
12 2 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
13 1 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 90 (3.97%) NetSuite
2 60 (2.64%) Oracle Clinical
3 39 (1.72%) TrackWise
4 34 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 28 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
6 23 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
6 23 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
7 18 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
8 12 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
8 12 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.53%) Workfront
9 10 (0.44%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 9 (0.40%) iTrent
11 8 (0.35%) Sage 200
12 7 (0.31%) SAP MDG
13 6 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
13 6 (0.26%) MFGPRO
13 6 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
14 5 (0.22%) SAP FI
14 5 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 257 (11.33%) Azure
2 224 (9.87%) SaaS
3 177 (7.80%) AWS
4 105 (4.63%) Veeva
5 97 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 54 (2.38%) GitHub
8 50 (2.20%) Power Platform
9 47 (2.07%) GCP
9 47 (2.07%) Serverless
10 44 (1.94%) PaaS
11 42 (1.85%) IaaS
12 22 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (0.97%) Smartsheet
13 20 (0.88%) Azure Active Directory
14 18 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
15 16 (0.71%) Slack
16 11 (0.48%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.44%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.04%) Firewall
2 56 (2.47%) DNS
3 47 (2.07%) WAN
4 43 (1.90%) DHCP
5 41 (1.81%) VPN
6 38 (1.67%) LAN
7 26 (1.15%) Network Security
8 24 (1.06%) HTTP
8 24 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 21 (0.93%) SSL
9 21 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.79%) VoIP
11 15 (0.66%) BGP
11 15 (0.66%) Broadband
11 15 (0.66%) IPv6
11 15 (0.66%) OSPF
11 15 (0.66%) SAN
11 15 (0.66%) VLAN
12 14 (0.62%) Internet
12 14 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 84 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 72 (3.17%) RDBMS
4 58 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (1.67%) Power BI
6 37 (1.63%) Spotfire
7 35 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (1.28%) DTS
9 21 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
10 19 (0.84%) MySQL
11 16 (0.71%) Metadata
11 16 (0.71%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.66%) Big Data
12 15 (0.66%) Tableau
13 14 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (0.53%) Redis
14 12 (0.53%) SAP HANA
15 10 (0.44%) Oracle Database
16 9 (0.40%) MongoDB
17 8 (0.35%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 160 (7.05%) JIRA
2 48 (2.12%) Git (software)
3 22 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 16 (0.71%) Axure RP
6 14 (0.62%) Maven
7 13 (0.57%) JIRA Agile
8 10 (0.44%) Gradle
8 10 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
8 10 (0.44%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.44%) webpack
9 9 (0.40%) NUnit
10 8 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.31%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.26%) Subversion
13 5 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.22%) GitLab
14 4 (0.18%) Babel
14 4 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,005 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 702 (30.94%) Finance
3 298 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (9.78%) Presentation Skills
5 185 (8.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 130 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 127 (5.60%) Marketing
8 94 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
9 92 (4.05%) Retail
10 75 (3.31%) Telecoms
11 63 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 59 (2.60%) Manufacturing
13 58 (2.56%) Legal
14 54 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (2.34%) Advertising
16 50 (2.20%) Billing
17 46 (2.03%) Banking
18 43 (1.90%) Law
18 43 (1.90%) Publishing
19 42 (1.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 701 (30.89%) Project Manager
2 241 (10.62%) IT Manager
3 223 (9.83%) Analyst
3 223 (9.83%) Consultant
4 187 (8.24%) IT Project Manager
5 158 (6.96%) Senior Manager
6 129 (5.69%) Developer
7 117 (5.16%) Senior Project Manager
8 92 (4.05%) Programmer
9 90 (3.97%) Architect
10 84 (3.70%) Data Manager
11 83 (3.66%) Business Analyst
12 80 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
13 76 (3.35%) Infrastructure Manager
14 71 (3.13%) Administrator
15 61 (2.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
16 60 (2.64%) Senior Programmer
17 55 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
18 54 (2.38%) Senior Consultant
19 52 (2.29%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (3.92%) HTML
2 88 (3.88%) .NET
3 86 (3.79%) CSS
4 73 (3.22%) AngularJS
5 67 (2.95%) RESTful
6 65 (2.86%) Node.js
7 52 (2.29%) React
8 50 (2.20%) HTML5
9 41 (1.81%) CSS3
10 39 (1.72%) REST
11 37 (1.63%) Web Services
12 32 (1.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 30 (1.32%) Spring
14 26 (1.15%) NumPy
14 26 (1.15%) Pandas
14 26 (1.15%) PyTorch
14 26 (1.15%) scikit-learn
14 26 (1.15%) TensorFlow
15 24 (1.06%) XML
16 23 (1.01%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 172 (7.58%) Management Information System
2 131 (5.77%) Life Science
3 128 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
4 109 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 75 (3.31%) User Experience
6 66 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 63 (2.78%) PMI
8 42 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (1.76%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.72%) Pharmacovigilance
11 35 (1.54%) Driving Licence
12 30 (1.32%) Biotechnology
13 28 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.06%) Cloud Native
14 24 (1.06%) iPad
15 22 (0.97%) NHS
16 20 (0.88%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
17 16 (0.71%) Cyberattack
17 16 (0.71%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 165 (7.27%) Windows
2 80 (3.53%) Linux
3 78 (3.44%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.50%) Unix
5 28 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (0.88%) Android
7 17 (0.75%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.57%) Debian
10 12 (0.53%) Solaris
11 11 (0.48%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
11 11 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.44%) AIX
13 9 (0.40%) CentOS
14 8 (0.35%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (43.01%) Agile Software Development
2 585 (25.78%) Project Delivery
3 444 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 442 (19.48%) PRINCE2
5 358 (15.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 349 (15.38%) Scrum
7 279 (12.30%) Waterfall
8 255 (11.24%) Change Management
9 249 (10.97%) ITIL
10 235 (10.36%) Mentoring
11 232 (10.22%) Data Management
12 229 (10.09%) Risk Management
13 220 (9.70%) Computer Science
14 215 (9.48%) ERP
15 203 (8.95%) SDLC
16 195 (8.59%) Migration
17 194 (8.55%) DevOps
18 168 (7.40%) Coaching
19 166 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
20 165 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 164 (7.23%) SQL
2 152 (6.70%) Python
3 133 (5.86%) C#
4 121 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 88 (3.88%) TypeScript
6 83 (3.66%) Java
7 52 (2.29%) R
8 48 (2.12%) C
9 38 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 31 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 27 (1.19%) PHP
12 26 (1.15%) MATLAB
13 25 (1.10%) VB
14 12 (0.53%) Smalltalk
15 11 (0.48%) C++
15 11 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.35%) Bash
16 8 (0.35%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.31%) Go
17 7 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 559 (24.64%) Degree
2 168 (7.40%) PMI Certification
3 150 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 149 (6.57%) PMP
5 114 (5.02%) Security Cleared
6 64 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 57 (2.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 54 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 48 (2.12%) SC Cleared
10 47 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (1.63%) APMP
12 36 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 31 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 30 (1.32%) CESG Certified Professional
15 29 (1.28%) AWS Certification
16 26 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
17 24 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
18 20 (0.88%) CISSP
19 15 (0.66%) MCSE
20 12 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (7.10%) PMO
2 149 (6.57%) QA
3 62 (2.73%) Good Clinical Practice
4 42 (1.85%) CDISC
5 32 (1.41%) NIST
6 31 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 29 (1.28%) SLA
8 28 (1.23%) IASME
9 26 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 25 (1.10%) GDPR
11 17 (0.75%) ISO 13485
12 16 (0.71%) Data Quality
13 12 (0.53%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.48%) P3O
15 8 (0.35%) COBIT
16 7 (0.31%) GxP
16 7 (0.31%) HL7
16 7 (0.31%) PMBOK
16 7 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 58 (2.56%) Docker
3 46 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.66%) Firmware
6 13 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.48%) KVM
7 11 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 9 (0.40%) vSphere
10 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.088%) ProxySG
11 2 (0.088%) vCloud
11 2 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.044%) NLBS
Systems Management
1 65 (2.86%) Ansible
2 45 (1.98%) Terraform
3 37 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 29 (1.28%) CASB
5 28 (1.23%) Opscode Chef
5 28 (1.23%) Puppet
6 17 (0.75%) Nagios
7 15 (0.66%) SCCM
7 15 (0.66%) WSUS
8 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (0.48%) Rancher
10 10 (0.44%) Backup Exec
11 9 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 9 (0.40%) NetBackup
11 9 (0.40%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.35%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.31%) Icinga
13 7 (0.31%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 479 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 221 (9.74%) Oracle
3 125 (5.51%) SAP
4 75 (3.31%) Salesforce.com
5 57 (2.51%) VMware
6 47 (2.07%) Google
7 46 (2.03%) OpenText
8 44 (1.94%) Adobe
9 38 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 36 (1.59%) JD Edwards
11 35 (1.54%) Cisco
12 33 (1.45%) Workday
13 31 (1.37%) Apple
14 24 (1.06%) Mercator
15 23 (1.01%) PTC
16 21 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 20 (0.88%) SolarWinds
18 19 (0.84%) Sage
19 17 (0.75%) IBM
20 15 (0.66%) Dell