Project Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 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 58 102 83
Rank change year-on-year +44 -19 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Manager 3,043 1,940 2,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.29% 3.22% 3.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.52% 3.61% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,209 1,298 1,748
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £39,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,300 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £71,875
UK median annual salary £51,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Project Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +76 826 £47,500 -9.52% 181
Midlands +65 649 £50,000 -13.04% 140
South East -4 584 £52,500 -8.70% 218
North West +75 446 £47,500 -17.39% 108
South West +35 411 £48,500 -7.62% 94
West Midlands +52 341 £50,000 -9.09% 86
East of England +40 281 £54,000 -1.82% 86
East Midlands +66 277 £50,000 -16.67% 52
Yorkshire +82 270 £47,500 -7.77% 64
Scotland -21 156 £50,000 -6.98% 63
Wales +54 111 £40,553 -26.27% 22
North East +48 110 £47,500 -9.52% 15
Northern Ireland +49 29 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Project Manager
UK

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 2,078 (68.29%) Project Management
2 1,078 (35.43%) Social Skills
3 992 (32.60%) Agile
4 886 (29.12%) Project Delivery
5 734 (24.12%) Finance
6 699 (22.97%) PRINCE2
7 578 (18.99%) Degree
8 439 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 380 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
10 321 (10.55%) Risk Management
11 300 (9.86%) Change Management
12 289 (9.50%) Waterfall
13 272 (8.94%) Microsoft
14 253 (8.31%) SDLC
15 251 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
16 249 (8.18%) Security Cleared
17 238 (7.82%) Decision-Making
18 237 (7.79%) Agile Project Management
19 219 (7.20%) Business Case
20 205 (6.74%) Microsoft Project
21 201 (6.61%) PMO
21 201 (6.61%) Budget Management
22 200 (6.57%) Manufacturing
23 197 (6.47%) PMI Certification
24 195 (6.41%) Actionable Insight
25 193 (6.34%) Presales
25 193 (6.34%) Software Delivery
25 193 (6.34%) PMP
26 186 (6.11%) Mentoring
27 183 (6.01%) Organisational Skills

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 45 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.41%) CMS
3 16 (0.53%) Confluence
4 10 (0.33%) ArcGIS
4 10 (0.33%) SAS
5 7 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.23%) MS Project Server
6 5 (0.16%) Kentico
6 5 (0.16%) Office Communications Server
6 5 (0.16%) WordPress
7 4 (0.13%) Drupal
8 3 (0.099%) ColdFusion
9 2 (0.066%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.066%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.066%) Captiva
9 2 (0.066%) Documentum
10 1 (0.033%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.033%) Umbraco
Applications
1 205 (6.74%) Microsoft Project
2 179 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 157 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (1.18%) MS Visio
6 34 (1.12%) AutoCAD
7 23 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
8 15 (0.49%) Trello
9 4 (0.13%) InDesign
10 2 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.066%) CATIA
10 2 (0.066%) Gliffy
10 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.33%) Shopify
3 9 (0.30%) Primavera
3 9 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.20%) Magento
5 4 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.099%) Maximo
6 3 (0.099%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.066%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.033%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.033%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.033%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.033%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 115 (3.78%) Azure
2 76 (2.50%) SaaS
3 63 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (0.99%) AWS
5 30 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (0.72%) Power Platform
7 19 (0.62%) Smartsheet
8 8 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 8 (0.26%) Slack
9 7 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (0.23%) Mavenlink
9 7 (0.23%) Power Automate
9 7 (0.23%) PowerApps
10 6 (0.20%) Basecamp
10 6 (0.20%) Google Sheets
11 5 (0.16%) Asana
11 5 (0.16%) Intacct
11 5 (0.16%) Kontent
12 4 (0.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
2 31 (1.02%) Wireless
3 23 (0.76%) Internet
4 21 (0.69%) Intranet
5 20 (0.66%) LAN
6 16 (0.53%) WAN
7 15 (0.49%) Firewall
8 13 (0.43%) Extranet
9 10 (0.33%) LTE
9 10 (0.33%) TETRA
10 7 (0.23%) Network Security
11 6 (0.20%) VoIP
12 5 (0.16%) Broadband
12 5 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.099%) 4G
13 3 (0.099%) 5G
13 3 (0.099%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.099%) WebEx
14 2 (0.066%) DNS
14 2 (0.066%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
2 17 (0.56%) Power BI
3 15 (0.49%) Tableau
4 10 (0.33%) Big Data
5 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.13%) Metadata
6 4 (0.13%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.099%) GIS
8 2 (0.066%) EDMS
8 2 (0.066%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.033%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.033%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.033%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.033%) Impala
9 1 (0.033%) MySQL
9 1 (0.033%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.033%) Power Query
9 1 (0.033%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 119 (3.91%) JIRA
2 6 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.066%) JIRA Agile
3 2 (0.066%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.033%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,078 (35.43%) Social Skills
2 734 (24.12%) Finance
3 251 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (6.57%) Manufacturing
5 183 (6.01%) Organisational Skills
6 181 (5.95%) Retail
7 180 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 165 (5.42%) Public Sector
9 146 (4.80%) Marketing
10 126 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
11 106 (3.48%) Telecoms
12 97 (3.19%) Legal
13 96 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
14 77 (2.53%) Law
15 66 (2.17%) Games
16 49 (1.61%) Aerospace
17 44 (1.45%) Banking
18 41 (1.35%) Local Government
19 40 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
20 31 (1.02%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (1.25%) EDI
2 28 (0.92%) .NET
3 18 (0.59%) RESTful
3 18 (0.59%) SOAP
4 10 (0.33%) CSS
4 10 (0.33%) HTML
5 7 (0.23%) Flash
6 6 (0.20%) JSON
7 3 (0.099%) ADO
7 3 (0.099%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.066%) REST
8 2 (0.066%) Web Services
9 1 (0.033%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.033%) Kafka
9 1 (0.033%) Leaflet
9 1 (0.033%) Middleware
9 1 (0.033%) Node.js
9 1 (0.033%) React
9 1 (0.033%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.033%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 179 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 129 (4.24%) Driving Licence
3 70 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
4 64 (2.10%) FMCG
5 63 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 62 (2.04%) PMI
7 59 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 49 (1.61%) NHS
9 38 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 27 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 18 (0.59%) Digital Signage
12 17 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.46%) Derivative
14 14 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
15 12 (0.39%) Credit Risk
15 12 (0.39%) Robotics
16 11 (0.36%) CCTV
16 11 (0.36%) Client/Server
16 11 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (0.76%) Windows
2 17 (0.56%) Android
3 12 (0.39%) Linux
4 10 (0.33%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,078 (68.29%) Project Management
2 992 (32.60%) Agile
3 886 (29.12%) Project Delivery
4 699 (22.97%) PRINCE2
5 439 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 380 (12.49%) Problem-Solving
7 321 (10.55%) Risk Management
8 300 (9.86%) Change Management
9 289 (9.50%) Waterfall
10 253 (8.31%) SDLC
11 238 (7.82%) Decision-Making
12 237 (7.79%) Agile Project Management
13 219 (7.20%) Business Case
14 201 (6.61%) Budget Management
15 195 (6.41%) Actionable Insight
16 193 (6.34%) Presales
16 193 (6.34%) Software Delivery
17 186 (6.11%) Mentoring
18 178 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 164 (5.39%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (0.85%) JavaScript
2 8 (0.26%) Java
2 8 (0.26%) Python
3 6 (0.20%) SQL
4 5 (0.16%) C#
5 1 (0.033%) Ada
5 1 (0.033%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.033%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.033%) Scala
Qualifications
1 578 (18.99%) Degree
2 249 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 197 (6.47%) PMI Certification
4 193 (6.34%) PMP
5 165 (5.42%) SC Cleared
6 134 (4.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 116 (3.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 69 (2.27%) HNC
9 34 (1.12%) HND
10 30 (0.99%) DBS Check
10 30 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 22 (0.72%) APMP
12 15 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.43%) CAPM
14 11 (0.36%) RIBA
15 10 (0.33%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.33%) NVQ Level 3
16 6 (0.20%) ACCA
16 6 (0.20%) CIMA
16 6 (0.20%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (6.61%) PMO
2 69 (2.27%) QA
3 39 (1.28%) GDPR
4 35 (1.15%) NEBOSH
5 33 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 18 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.46%) SLA
8 13 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
9 9 (0.30%) COSHH
10 8 (0.26%) GMP
10 8 (0.26%) GxP
11 6 (0.20%) GLP
12 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.13%) IEC 62304
13 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
14 3 (0.099%) ISO 14001
14 3 (0.099%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.066%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.066%) PMBOK
System Software
1 6 (0.20%) Firmware
2 4 (0.13%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.099%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.033%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (0.43%) SCOM
2 2 (0.066%) SmoothWall
3 1 (0.033%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.033%) SCCM
3 1 (0.033%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 272 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 56 (1.84%) SAP
3 45 (1.48%) Salesforce
4 32 (1.05%) Google
5 31 (1.02%) Oracle
6 28 (0.92%) IFS
7 24 (0.79%) Adobe
8 21 (0.69%) Progress
9 19 (0.62%) NEC
10 17 (0.56%) BT
11 16 (0.53%) Workday
12 14 (0.46%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.39%) Northgate
13 12 (0.39%) Sage
14 11 (0.36%) Cisco
14 11 (0.36%) Civica
15 10 (0.33%) Autodesk
15 10 (0.33%) VMware
16 6 (0.20%) Anaplan
16 6 (0.20%) Facebook