Project Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Project Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 25 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 5,858 4,756 6,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.41% 8.54% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 8.95% 9.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,900 2,598 3,665
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,270 £34,956
25th Percentile £39,750 £44,506 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,200 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,493
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.78% +2.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Project Management in the UK excluding London

Project Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +7 1,496 £50,000 -9.09% 525
South East +2 1,414 £47,500 -13.64% 468
Midlands -2 1,147 £51,000 -7.27% 437
North West +9 848 £50,000 -9.09% 307
South West +8 773 £50,000 -9.09% 295
West Midlands -5 640 £53,750 -2.27% 274
Yorkshire +11 497 £50,000 -8.90% 160
East Midlands +1 467 £47,500 -13.64% 163
East of England +13 446 £50,000 -9.91% 252
Scotland -25 348 £50,000 -9.09% 142
Wales +5 165 £45,000 -18.18% 51
North East +1 151 £52,500 -4.55% 63
Northern Ireland +36 70 £43,750 -2.78% 22
Isle of Man -6 8 £37,500 -48.28% 2
Project Management
UK

Project Management
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
1 251 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 106 (1.81%) Confluence
3 92 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 90 (1.54%) CMS
5 57 (0.97%) Apache
6 44 (0.75%) IIS
7 40 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 30 (0.51%) WordPress
9 18 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 18 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.26%) SAS
11 9 (0.15%) Drupal
12 7 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.12%) MS Project Server
13 5 (0.085%) JBoss
13 5 (0.085%) Joomla!
13 5 (0.085%) Kentico
13 5 (0.085%) Kinematics
13 5 (0.085%) Office Communications Server
13 5 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 411 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 377 (6.44%) Microsoft Office
3 298 (5.09%) Microsoft Project
4 171 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 58 (0.99%) AutoCAD
7 40 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 31 (0.53%) Trello
9 17 (0.29%) Windchill
10 11 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 10 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.17%) Simulink
11 10 (0.17%) Sketch
12 8 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 7 (0.12%) InDesign
14 5 (0.085%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.085%) SOLIDWORKS
15 4 (0.068%) InVision
15 4 (0.068%) Solid Edge
15 4 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 40 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (0.65%) Primavera
3 26 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 24 (0.41%) Magento
5 22 (0.38%) Shopify
6 17 (0.29%) NEC Housing
6 17 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 17 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 13 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
8 10 (0.17%) Sage 200
8 10 (0.17%) SAP WM
9 8 (0.14%) BPCS
9 8 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 8 (0.14%) SAP MM
10 7 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.085%) Oracle Financials
11 5 (0.085%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 5 (0.085%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 653 (11.15%) Azure
2 416 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
3 375 (6.40%) AWS
4 266 (4.54%) Power Platform
5 220 (3.76%) SaaS
6 196 (3.35%) GCP
7 157 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (1.25%) Amazon S3
10 54 (0.92%) Entra ID
11 53 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
11 53 (0.90%) PowerApps
12 43 (0.73%) Power Automate
13 41 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (0.46%) Smartsheet
16 25 (0.43%) IaaS
17 24 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (0.41%) GitHub
17 24 (0.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 189 (3.23%) Firewall
2 128 (2.19%) DNS
3 118 (2.01%) WAN
4 95 (1.62%) VPN
5 87 (1.49%) Internet
6 82 (1.40%) Intranet
7 76 (1.30%) Network Security
8 75 (1.28%) TCP/IP
9 68 (1.16%) LAN
10 66 (1.13%) DHCP
11 61 (1.04%) SSL
12 56 (0.96%) SNMP
13 55 (0.94%) SAN
14 54 (0.92%) IPsec
15 51 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
16 49 (0.84%) SD-WAN
17 48 (0.82%) Wireless
18 46 (0.79%) BGP
19 39 (0.67%) 5G
20 26 (0.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (3.55%) Power BI
2 120 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 88 (1.50%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.23%) BigQuery
5 72 (1.23%) Looker
6 71 (1.21%) MySQL
7 67 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 64 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
9 52 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 50 (0.85%) Big Data
11 46 (0.79%) Tableau
12 45 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 25 (0.43%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
15 20 (0.34%) NoSQL
16 18 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
17 17 (0.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 296 (5.05%) JIRA
2 81 (1.38%) Git
3 43 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 23 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 22 (0.38%) GitLab
5 22 (0.38%) Postman
6 10 (0.17%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.15%) Subversion
8 8 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.12%) AdminStudio
9 7 (0.12%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.12%) InstallShield
9 7 (0.12%) JUnit
9 7 (0.12%) MSI
9 7 (0.12%) Selenium
10 5 (0.085%) gulp
11 3 (0.051%) TestRail
11 3 (0.051%) Zephyr
General
1 2,506 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 1,338 (22.84%) Finance
3 898 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 415 (7.08%) Marketing
5 388 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
6 381 (6.50%) Manufacturing
7 367 (6.26%) Retail
8 366 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 354 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 274 (4.68%) Public Sector
11 253 (4.32%) Legal
12 206 (3.52%) Telecoms
13 186 (3.18%) Law
14 156 (2.66%) Aerospace
15 135 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 114 (1.95%) Billing
17 105 (1.79%) Banking
18 102 (1.74%) Local Government
19 98 (1.67%) Electronics
20 85 (1.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,076 (35.44%) Project Manager
2 711 (12.14%) Senior
3 499 (8.52%) Lead
4 418 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 383 (6.54%) Senior Manager
6 363 (6.20%) Analyst
7 297 (5.07%) Senior Project Manager
8 265 (4.52%) Architect
9 234 (3.99%) IT Project Manager
10 226 (3.86%) Consultant
11 159 (2.71%) Developer
12 158 (2.70%) Digital Project Manager
13 148 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
14 143 (2.44%) Coordinator
15 123 (2.10%) Business Analyst
16 120 (2.05%) Presales Manager
17 112 (1.91%) Engineering Manager
18 106 (1.81%) Technical Manager
19 104 (1.78%) Data Manager
20 100 (1.71%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.17%) .NET
2 107 (1.83%) HTML
3 102 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
4 98 (1.67%) CSS
5 77 (1.31%) EDI
6 65 (1.11%) Spring Boot
7 50 (0.85%) YAML
8 49 (0.84%) React
9 46 (0.79%) XML
10 43 (0.73%) JSON
11 35 (0.60%) jQuery
11 35 (0.60%) Spring
12 34 (0.58%) RESTful
12 34 (0.58%) Web Services
13 31 (0.53%) Laravel
14 28 (0.48%) AngularJS
14 28 (0.48%) SOAP
15 25 (0.43%) HTML5
16 24 (0.41%) Vue
17 21 (0.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 502 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 393 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
3 243 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 195 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 181 (3.09%) Driving Licence
6 167 (2.85%) Onboarding
7 146 (2.49%) PMI
8 120 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 80 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 79 (1.35%) FMCG
10 79 (1.35%) NHS
11 76 (1.30%) PKI
12 75 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 66 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
14 63 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 62 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 49 (0.84%) IoT
17 47 (0.80%) Life Science
18 45 (0.77%) Social Media
19 44 (0.75%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 361 (6.16%) Windows
2 265 (4.52%) Linux
3 139 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.31%) Windows 10
5 49 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
6 43 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 42 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (0.65%) Android
9 37 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 27 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 26 (0.44%) Unix
12 16 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.27%) VMS
13 14 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.20%) Windows XP
15 10 (0.17%) Windows 7
15 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.14%) AIX
16 8 (0.14%) Solaris
16 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,749 (29.86%) Agile
2 1,367 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
3 1,254 (21.41%) Project Delivery
4 851 (14.53%) PRINCE2
5 679 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 665 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 635 (10.84%) Mentoring
8 574 (9.80%) Change Management
9 526 (8.98%) Decision-Making
10 507 (8.65%) Actionable Insight
11 498 (8.50%) Risk Management
12 434 (7.41%) Coaching
13 421 (7.19%) Customer Service
14 407 (6.95%) ITIL
15 393 (6.71%) SDLC
16 371 (6.33%) Scrum
17 370 (6.32%) Agile Project Management
18 366 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
19 357 (6.09%) DevOps
20 353 (6.03%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 324 (5.53%) SQL
2 222 (3.79%) Python
3 156 (2.66%) JavaScript
4 136 (2.32%) C#
5 112 (1.91%) PowerShell
6 101 (1.72%) Java
7 81 (1.38%) C
8 76 (1.30%) PHP
9 56 (0.96%) C++
10 41 (0.70%) VB
11 29 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 27 (0.46%) Bash
12 27 (0.46%) R
13 25 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 25 (0.43%) VBA
14 19 (0.32%) MATLAB
15 16 (0.27%) Perl
16 15 (0.26%) VB.NET
17 10 (0.17%) RPG
17 10 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,442 (24.62%) Degree
2 599 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 349 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 324 (5.53%) PMI Certification
5 276 (4.71%) PMP
6 139 (2.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 136 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 115 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 104 (1.78%) DBS Check
10 99 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 92 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 90 (1.54%) APMP
12 90 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
13 83 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 73 (1.25%) Azure Certification
15 66 (1.13%) HNC
16 58 (0.99%) DV Cleared
17 57 (0.97%) CCNA
18 55 (0.94%) HND
19 49 (0.84%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (7.85%) PMO
2 334 (5.70%) QA
3 137 (2.34%) GDPR
4 108 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 86 (1.47%) SLA
6 59 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 55 (0.94%) ISO 9001
8 45 (0.77%) Data Quality
9 42 (0.72%) NIST
10 36 (0.61%) Good Clinical Practice
11 32 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 28 (0.48%) NCSC
13 27 (0.46%) NEBOSH
14 16 (0.27%) GMP
14 16 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 15 (0.26%) GRC
16 14 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 13 (0.22%) GxP
18 12 (0.20%) COSHH
18 12 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 217 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 174 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.54%) Docker
5 38 (0.65%) Firmware
6 26 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 16 (0.27%) vSphere
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.10%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.085%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.068%) pfSense
14 1 (0.017%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.017%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.017%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 127 (2.17%) Ansible
2 89 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.16%) vCenter Server
4 58 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 47 (0.80%) SCCM
7 43 (0.73%) Terraform
8 27 (0.46%) ZABBIX
9 24 (0.41%) WSUS
10 22 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (0.38%) SCOM
11 15 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (0.22%) Puppet
13 12 (0.20%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.20%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.20%) VxRail
14 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.10%) Nessus
15 4 (0.068%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,087 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 217 (3.70%) Google
3 207 (3.53%) VMware
4 177 (3.02%) SAP
5 157 (2.68%) Oracle
6 128 (2.19%) Cisco
7 100 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 81 (1.38%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.04%) NetApp
10 59 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 57 (0.97%) NEC
12 56 (0.96%) IFS
13 54 (0.92%) Adobe
14 53 (0.90%) ServiceNow
15 49 (0.84%) SolidFire
16 46 (0.79%) Dell
17 44 (0.75%) Sage
17 44 (0.75%) Veeam
18 40 (0.68%) Sparx
19 35 (0.60%) Citrix