Project Manager Jobs in London

Project Manager
England > London

The median Project Manager salary in London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 114 163
Rank change year-on-year +24 +49 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 767 1,092 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.25% 3.17% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% 3.33% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 547 871 1,246
10th Percentile £40,058 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,236 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,670 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Project Manager in London.

Salary trend for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Manager in London

Project Manager
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +45 118 £75,000 +7.14% 22
South London +10 22 £39,000 -35.86% 4
West London -17 15 £57,000 -8.80% 16
North London -2 8 £70,000 +19.66% 6
East London -10 6 £61,000 +10.91% 17
Project Manager
England

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Project Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 464 (60.50%) Project Management
2 274 (35.72%) Agile
3 256 (33.38%) Social Skills
4 199 (25.95%) Project Delivery
5 194 (25.29%) Finance
6 143 (18.64%) Degree
7 127 (16.56%) PRINCE2
7 127 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 108 (14.08%) Microsoft
9 96 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (12.26%) Budget Management
11 68 (8.87%) Waterfall
12 66 (8.60%) QA
13 65 (8.47%) Project Planning
13 65 (8.47%) Risk Management
14 62 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
15 58 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 58 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
16 55 (7.17%) PMI Certification
16 55 (7.17%) Retail
17 53 (6.91%) Change Management
18 52 (6.78%) Marketing
19 50 (6.52%) Scrum
19 50 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
20 49 (6.39%) PMP
21 46 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 40 (5.22%) Banking
23 39 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
23 39 (5.08%) Process Improvement
23 39 (5.08%) Decision-Making

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 37 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 24 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.09%) CMS
4 14 (1.83%) Confluence
5 6 (0.78%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.52%) Drupal
6 4 (0.52%) Office Communications Server
6 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.39%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) Joomla!
8 2 (0.26%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Documentum
9 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 62 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.52%) Trello
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.78%) Shopify
4 5 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.65%) Primavera
5 3 (0.39%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.26%) BPCS
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Magento
6 2 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.13%) Relativity
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
1 30 (3.91%) SaaS
2 28 (3.65%) Azure
3 19 (2.48%) Power Platform
4 13 (1.69%) AWS
5 11 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (0.78%) GCP
8 5 (0.65%) Google Analytics
8 5 (0.65%) PaaS
9 4 (0.52%) Basecamp
9 4 (0.52%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.52%) Slack
10 3 (0.39%) ClickUp
11 2 (0.26%) Contentful
11 2 (0.26%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.26%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.26%) Smartsheet
11 2 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
2 25 (3.26%) WAN
3 24 (3.13%) LAN
4 20 (2.61%) Firewall
5 19 (2.48%) DHCP
5 19 (2.48%) DNS
5 19 (2.48%) VPN
6 18 (2.35%) VLAN
7 17 (2.22%) MPLS
7 17 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
8 10 (1.30%) 5G
9 5 (0.65%) Network Security
10 4 (0.52%) SAN
10 4 (0.52%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
12 1 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.91%) Power BI
2 5 (0.65%) Tableau
3 2 (0.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.13%) Metadata
4 1 (0.13%) MySQL
4 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (3.91%) JIRA
2 3 (0.39%) Eclipse
General
1 256 (33.38%) Social Skills
2 194 (25.29%) Finance
3 58 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (7.17%) Retail
5 52 (6.78%) Marketing
6 46 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (5.22%) Banking
8 38 (4.95%) Legal
9 35 (4.56%) Law
10 32 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 32 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (4.04%) Public Sector
12 30 (3.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 29 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (2.09%) French Language
16 15 (1.96%) Spanish Language
17 14 (1.83%) German Language
18 13 (1.69%) Advertising
18 13 (1.69%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.04%) .NET
2 3 (0.39%) ADO
3 2 (0.26%) Express.js
3 2 (0.26%) MERN Stack
3 2 (0.26%) Node.js
3 2 (0.26%) React
4 1 (0.13%) ATL
4 1 (0.13%) EDI
4 1 (0.13%) JSON
4 1 (0.13%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.13%) REST
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.13%) SOAP
4 1 (0.13%) Swagger
4 1 (0.13%) WSDL
4 1 (0.13%) XML
4 1 (0.13%) XSD
4 1 (0.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.95%) Onboarding
2 33 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 32 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (2.74%) PMI
5 17 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 16 (2.09%) Driving Licence
6 16 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.83%) Robotics
8 12 (1.56%) NHS
9 11 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (1.30%) Social Media
11 8 (1.04%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.65%) Animation
13 4 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
13 4 (0.52%) EPoS
13 4 (0.52%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.52%) Life Science
13 4 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
14 3 (0.39%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.83%) Windows
2 8 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.13%) Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (60.50%) Project Management
2 274 (35.72%) Agile
3 199 (25.95%) Project Delivery
4 127 (16.56%) PRINCE2
4 127 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 96 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
6 94 (12.26%) Budget Management
7 68 (8.87%) Waterfall
8 65 (8.47%) Project Planning
8 65 (8.47%) Risk Management
9 58 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (6.91%) Change Management
11 50 (6.52%) Scrum
12 39 (5.08%) Decision-Making
12 39 (5.08%) Process Improvement
13 38 (4.95%) Time Management
14 36 (4.69%) CRM
15 35 (4.56%) Project Governance
16 27 (3.52%) Migration
17 26 (3.39%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 9 (1.17%) SQL
2 8 (1.04%) C#
3 4 (0.52%) PHP
4 2 (0.26%) Python
5 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 143 (18.64%) Degree
2 55 (7.17%) PMI Certification
3 49 (6.39%) PMP
4 30 (3.91%) Security Cleared
5 19 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.35%) APMP
7 17 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 14 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 13 (1.69%) SC Cleared
10 12 (1.56%) HNC
11 11 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.30%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.30%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.17%) NVQ Level 3
14 7 (0.91%) MRICS
15 6 (0.78%) ACCA
15 6 (0.78%) HND
16 5 (0.65%) CIMA
16 5 (0.65%) MBA
17 4 (0.52%) MAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.60%) QA
2 29 (3.78%) PMO
3 6 (0.78%) GDPR
4 5 (0.65%) GAMP
4 5 (0.65%) GMP
5 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.39%) GRC
6 3 (0.39%) P3O
7 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.26%) NEBOSH
7 2 (0.26%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 17 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (2.22%) WSUS
2 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 108 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.65%) Cisco
2 28 (3.65%) SAP
3 20 (2.61%) VMware
4 17 (2.22%) Ruckus Wireless
5 15 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.17%) Google
7 7 (0.91%) Apple
8 5 (0.65%) Adobe
9 4 (0.52%) Cadence
9 4 (0.52%) NEC
9 4 (0.52%) Optimizely
9 4 (0.52%) Progress
9 4 (0.52%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.52%) Vectorworks
10 3 (0.39%) Marketo
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle
11 2 (0.26%) Epicor
11 2 (0.26%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.26%) Sage