Project Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 7,931 7,778 12,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.05% 7.66% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.40% 8.01% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,394 4,505 6,673
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £47,025 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK

Project Management
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +7 7,023 £52,500 -10.64% 3,422
UK excluding London +4 5,758 £50,000 -9.09% 2,403
Work from Home +15 2,985 £55,000 -1.71% 1,398
London +18 1,777 £65,000 -3.70% 1,113
North of England +15 1,468 £50,000 -9.09% 565
South East +1 1,369 £47,500 -13.64% 591
Midlands +3 1,133 £52,375 -4.77% 503
North West +18 822 £50,000 -9.09% 346
South West +9 753 £48,500 -11.82% 320
West Midlands 0 628 £55,000 - 330
Yorkshire +20 490 £50,000 -8.90% 172
East Midlands +4 466 £47,500 -13.64% 173
East of England +14 441 £50,000 -9.09% 261
Scotland -20 362 £50,000 -9.09% 163
Wales +7 163 £42,500 -22.56% 63
North East +7 156 £52,500 -4.55% 54
Northern Ireland +52 68 £42,500 -10.53% 27
Isle of Man - 8 £37,500 -

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 365 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 151 (1.90%) Confluence
3 131 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 106 (1.34%) CMS
5 73 (0.92%) Apache
6 51 (0.64%) IIS
7 46 (0.58%) WebLogic
8 41 (0.52%) Apache Spark
9 39 (0.49%) WordPress
10 36 (0.45%) SAS
11 22 (0.28%) Drupal
12 18 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 14 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 14 (0.18%) ArcGIS
14 11 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
15 9 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
16 7 (0.088%) Joomla!
16 7 (0.088%) MS Project Server
17 6 (0.076%) IBM Notes
17 6 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 541 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 508 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 351 (4.43%) Microsoft Project
4 249 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 84 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.72%) AutoCAD
7 49 (0.62%) Trello
8 44 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
9 18 (0.23%) Windchill
10 15 (0.19%) SPSS
11 14 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 13 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 13 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
12 13 (0.16%) InDesign
13 10 (0.13%) Simulink
14 9 (0.11%) Sketch
15 7 (0.088%) Adobe Premiere
16 5 (0.063%) Adobe XD
16 5 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
17 4 (0.050%) InVision
Business Applications
1 74 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 59 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 49 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 45 (0.57%) Primavera
5 40 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 31 (0.39%) Shopify
7 28 (0.35%) Magento
7 28 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
8 22 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 17 (0.21%) NEC Housing
9 17 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 15 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 14 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 14 (0.18%) SAP HR
12 13 (0.16%) SAP EWM
12 13 (0.16%) SAP SCM
13 12 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
13 12 (0.15%) SAP MM
14 10 (0.13%) BPCS
14 10 (0.13%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 948 (11.95%) Azure
2 561 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
3 551 (6.95%) AWS
4 427 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 361 (4.55%) SaaS
6 275 (3.47%) GCP
7 206 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
10 84 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 83 (1.05%) Entra ID
12 76 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 68 (0.86%) Power Automate
14 53 (0.67%) IaaS
14 53 (0.67%) PaaS
15 48 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (0.45%) Smartsheet
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (0.42%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 265 (3.34%) Firewall
2 181 (2.28%) WAN
3 153 (1.93%) DNS
4 133 (1.68%) VPN
5 111 (1.40%) Intranet
6 109 (1.37%) LAN
7 106 (1.34%) Internet
8 94 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (1.11%) Network Security
10 85 (1.07%) DHCP
10 85 (1.07%) TCP/IP
11 70 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 68 (0.86%) SSL
13 67 (0.84%) SAN
14 62 (0.78%) Wireless
15 61 (0.77%) IPsec
15 61 (0.77%) SNMP
16 53 (0.67%) 5G
16 53 (0.67%) BGP
17 45 (0.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (4.16%) Power BI
2 173 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 171 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 103 (1.30%) MySQL
6 99 (1.25%) Tableau
7 83 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 82 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
9 79 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 74 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 73 (0.92%) Big Data
12 72 (0.91%) Looker
13 71 (0.90%) MongoDB
14 52 (0.66%) Oracle Database
15 47 (0.59%) NoSQL
16 43 (0.54%) Data Mining
16 43 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
17 42 (0.53%) Data Lake
18 34 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 407 (5.13%) JIRA
2 95 (1.20%) Git
3 80 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.38%) Visual Studio
5 29 (0.37%) Postman
6 24 (0.30%) GitLab
7 22 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 17 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 15 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (0.14%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 10 (0.13%) Selenium
11 10 (0.13%) Subversion
12 9 (0.11%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.10%) JUnit
14 7 (0.088%) Eclipse
15 5 (0.063%) gulp
16 4 (0.050%) LabVIEW
16 4 (0.050%) MSI
16 4 (0.050%) Zephyr
General
1 3,389 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 1,947 (24.55%) Finance
3 1,296 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 676 (8.52%) Marketing
5 513 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 503 (6.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 486 (6.13%) Retail
8 443 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
9 440 (5.55%) Manufacturing
10 399 (5.03%) Public Sector
11 369 (4.65%) Legal
12 266 (3.35%) Law
13 234 (2.95%) Telecoms
14 197 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
15 157 (1.98%) Banking
16 156 (1.97%) Aerospace
17 139 (1.75%) Billing
18 119 (1.50%) Local Government
19 115 (1.45%) Games
20 107 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,650 (33.41%) Project Manager
2 992 (12.51%) Senior
3 657 (8.28%) Lead
4 568 (7.16%) IT Manager
5 550 (6.93%) Analyst
6 546 (6.88%) Senior Manager
7 395 (4.98%) Architect
8 392 (4.94%) Consultant
9 382 (4.82%) Senior Project Manager
10 308 (3.88%) IT Project Manager
11 218 (2.75%) Developer
12 216 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 205 (2.58%) Digital Project Manager
14 183 (2.31%) Presales Manager
15 178 (2.24%) Business Analyst
16 159 (2.00%) Coordinator
17 158 (1.99%) Technical Manager
18 155 (1.95%) Engineering Manager
19 144 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
20 135 (1.70%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (2.35%) .NET
2 132 (1.66%) HTML
3 113 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
4 111 (1.40%) CSS
5 88 (1.11%) EDI
6 81 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 78 (0.98%) React
8 60 (0.76%) JSON
8 60 (0.76%) YAML
9 57 (0.72%) XML
10 51 (0.64%) Spring
11 49 (0.62%) Web Services
12 47 (0.59%) RESTful
13 44 (0.55%) SOAP
14 41 (0.52%) AngularJS
15 39 (0.49%) Kafka
16 36 (0.45%) ASP.NET
17 35 (0.44%) Laravel
17 35 (0.44%) REST
18 34 (0.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 642 (8.09%) Management Information System
2 486 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
3 288 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 243 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 242 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 210 (2.65%) PMI
7 201 (2.53%) Driving Licence
8 170 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 113 (1.42%) Social Media
10 112 (1.41%) NHS
11 103 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 94 (1.19%) PKI
12 94 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
13 90 (1.13%) Virtual Team
14 86 (1.08%) FMCG
15 83 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 75 (0.95%) IoT
17 69 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
18 55 (0.69%) Algorithms
19 50 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 464 (5.85%) Windows
2 329 (4.15%) Linux
3 172 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 58 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 54 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
7 52 (0.66%) Android
8 51 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 47 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 41 (0.52%) Apple iOS
11 35 (0.44%) Unix
12 32 (0.40%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.23%) VMS
13 18 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.15%) Ubuntu
14 12 (0.15%) Windows XP
15 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.10%) AIX
16 8 (0.10%) Solaris
17 7 (0.088%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,516 (31.72%) Agile
2 1,800 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
3 1,717 (21.65%) Project Delivery
4 1,138 (14.35%) PRINCE2
5 932 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 844 (10.64%) Mentoring
7 833 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 753 (9.49%) Change Management
9 739 (9.32%) Decision-Making
10 659 (8.31%) Actionable Insight
11 653 (8.23%) Risk Management
12 579 (7.30%) Coaching
13 546 (6.88%) SDLC
14 539 (6.80%) Customer Service
15 533 (6.72%) Collaborative Working
15 533 (6.72%) ITIL
16 529 (6.67%) Scrum
17 521 (6.57%) Agile Project Management
18 514 (6.48%) Roadmaps
19 473 (5.96%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 505 (6.37%) SQL
2 319 (4.02%) Python
3 198 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 171 (2.16%) C#
5 160 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 143 (1.80%) Java
7 100 (1.26%) PHP
8 80 (1.01%) C
9 61 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 60 (0.76%) C++
11 52 (0.66%) R
12 48 (0.61%) Bash
13 45 (0.57%) TypeScript
14 39 (0.49%) VB
15 27 (0.34%) VBA
16 25 (0.32%) Perl
17 21 (0.26%) MATLAB
18 18 (0.23%) Scala
19 17 (0.21%) PL/SQL
20 15 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,013 (25.38%) Degree
2 716 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 473 (5.96%) PMI Certification
4 426 (5.37%) SC Cleared
5 390 (4.92%) PMP
6 191 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 171 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 164 (2.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 140 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 139 (1.75%) DBS Check
11 120 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 119 (1.50%) APMP
13 118 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
14 101 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
15 93 (1.17%) Azure Certification
16 83 (1.05%) HNC
17 74 (0.93%) CCNA
18 73 (0.92%) DV Cleared
19 70 (0.88%) HND
20 61 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 575 (7.25%) PMO
2 481 (6.06%) QA
3 167 (2.11%) GDPR
4 153 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 91 (1.15%) SLA
6 90 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 86 (1.08%) Data Quality
8 76 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 60 (0.76%) NIST
10 37 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.40%) NCSC
12 30 (0.38%) NEBOSH
13 25 (0.32%) GRC
13 25 (0.32%) ITGC
14 21 (0.26%) GMP
14 21 (0.26%) NIST 800
14 21 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 20 (0.25%) PCI DSS
16 18 (0.23%) IFRS
17 15 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 290 (3.66%) Active Directory
2 216 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 122 (1.54%) Docker
5 60 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (0.50%) Firmware
7 36 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.24%) vSphere
9 15 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.063%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.050%) pfSense
12 4 (0.050%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.038%) NFS
13 3 (0.038%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.013%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.013%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.013%) RACF
14 1 (0.013%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 139 (1.75%) Ansible
2 120 (1.51%) Kubernetes
3 79 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 73 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 72 (0.91%) Terraform
6 54 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 48 (0.61%) SCCM
8 38 (0.48%) WSUS
9 27 (0.34%) ZABBIX
10 24 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (0.25%) SCOM
12 18 (0.23%) Puppet
13 15 (0.19%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (0.18%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.15%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.15%) Opsgenie
15 12 (0.15%) VxRail
16 9 (0.11%) Nessus
16 9 (0.11%) PaperCut
17 8 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,490 (18.79%) Microsoft
2 323 (4.07%) Google
3 304 (3.83%) SAP
4 278 (3.51%) VMware
5 237 (2.99%) Oracle
6 179 (2.26%) Cisco
7 144 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 109 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 77 (0.97%) Adobe
10 75 (0.95%) IFS
11 74 (0.93%) ServiceNow
12 73 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 72 (0.91%) Dell
14 68 (0.86%) NetApp
15 64 (0.81%) IBM
16 60 (0.76%) Sage
17 57 (0.72%) HP
18 56 (0.71%) NEC
19 54 (0.68%) SolidFire
20 49 (0.62%) Sparx