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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 24 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +12
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 5,846 4,862 6,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.56% 8.71% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.27% 9.13% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,888 2,608 3,644
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £34,990
25th Percentile £39,750 £44,903 £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 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%

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 63,035 53,281 70,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.55% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 42,876 28,319 41,331
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% +9.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 5 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 5 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 +6 1,487 £50,000 -9.09% 521
South East +2 1,407 £47,500 -13.64% 464
Midlands -1 1,148 £51,000 -7.27% 444
North West +9 839 £50,000 -9.09% 305
South West +7 769 £50,000 -9.09% 294
West Midlands -3 639 £54,000 -1.82% 278
Yorkshire +11 495 £50,000 -9.09% 154
East Midlands 0 469 £47,500 -15.56% 164
East of England +13 446 £50,000 -9.91% 221
Scotland -26 354 £50,000 -9.09% 144
Wales +3 165 £43,750 -20.28% 51
North East +4 153 £52,500 -4.55% 67
Northern Ireland +39 71 £43,750 -2.78% 21
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
1 255 (4.36%) SharePoint
2 110 (1.88%) Confluence
3 92 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 90 (1.54%) CMS
5 57 (0.98%) Apache
6 44 (0.75%) IIS
7 40 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 30 (0.51%) WordPress
9 18 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 16 (0.27%) ArcGIS
11 15 (0.26%) SAS
12 9 (0.15%) Drupal
13 7 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.12%) MS Project Server
14 5 (0.086%) JBoss
14 5 (0.086%) Joomla!
14 5 (0.086%) Kentico
14 5 (0.086%) Kinematics
14 5 (0.086%) Office Communications Server
14 5 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 411 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 372 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
3 296 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
4 171 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 57 (0.98%) 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 (0.086%) Adobe XD
14 5 (0.086%) 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
3 37 (0.63%) Primavera
4 26 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 24 (0.41%) Magento
6 22 (0.38%) Shopify
7 17 (0.29%) NEC Housing
7 17 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 17 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 13 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
9 10 (0.17%) SAP WM
10 9 (0.15%) Sage 200
11 8 (0.14%) BPCS
11 8 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
11 8 (0.14%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 7 (0.12%) SAP ERP
13 5 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
13 5 (0.086%) Sage X3
13 5 (0.086%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 653 (11.17%) Azure
2 416 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
3 374 (6.40%) AWS
4 265 (4.53%) Power Platform
5 220 (3.76%) SaaS
6 195 (3.34%) GCP
7 157 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (1.25%) Amazon S3
10 54 (0.92%) Entra ID
11 53 (0.91%) PowerApps
12 52 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
13 43 (0.74%) Power Automate
14 41 (0.70%) Amazon SQS
15 40 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (0.46%) Smartsheet
17 24 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (0.41%) GitHub
17 24 (0.41%) IaaS
18 23 (0.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 186 (3.18%) Firewall
2 126 (2.16%) DNS
3 114 (1.95%) WAN
4 94 (1.61%) VPN
5 91 (1.56%) Intranet
6 87 (1.49%) Internet
7 74 (1.27%) Network Security
7 74 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 64 (1.09%) DHCP
8 64 (1.09%) LAN
9 61 (1.04%) SSL
10 56 (0.96%) SNMP
11 54 (0.92%) IPsec
11 54 (0.92%) SAN
12 51 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
13 49 (0.84%) SD-WAN
14 47 (0.80%) Wireless
15 46 (0.79%) BGP
16 39 (0.67%) 5G
17 26 (0.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (3.56%) Power BI
2 120 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 87 (1.49%) SQL Server
5 72 (1.23%) BigQuery
5 72 (1.23%) Looker
6 71 (1.21%) MySQL
7 67 (1.15%) RDBMS
8 64 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
9 52 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 50 (0.86%) 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
1 298 (5.10%) JIRA
2 79 (1.35%) Git
3 44 (0.75%) 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 (0.086%) gulp
11 3 (0.051%) TestRail
11 3 (0.051%) Zephyr
General
1 2,503 (42.82%) Social Skills
2 1,336 (22.85%) Finance
3 896 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (7.15%) Marketing
5 389 (6.65%) Presentation Skills
6 377 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 375 (6.41%) Retail
8 365 (6.24%) Organisational Skills
9 358 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 273 (4.67%) Public Sector
11 250 (4.28%) Legal
12 206 (3.52%) Telecoms
13 187 (3.20%) Law
14 153 (2.62%) Aerospace
15 132 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
16 114 (1.95%) Billing
17 105 (1.80%) Banking
18 101 (1.73%) Local Government
19 97 (1.66%) Electronics
20 85 (1.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,076 (35.51%) Project Manager
2 708 (12.11%) Senior
3 497 (8.50%) Lead
4 415 (7.10%) IT Manager
5 382 (6.53%) Senior Manager
6 367 (6.28%) Analyst
7 297 (5.08%) Senior Project Manager
8 265 (4.53%) Architect
9 234 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
10 218 (3.73%) Consultant
11 157 (2.69%) Digital Project Manager
12 156 (2.67%) Developer
13 150 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
14 143 (2.45%) Coordinator
15 130 (2.22%) Presales Manager
16 125 (2.14%) Business Analyst
17 113 (1.93%) Engineering Manager
18 107 (1.83%) Technical Manager
19 104 (1.78%) Data Manager
20 101 (1.73%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (2.17%) .NET
2 106 (1.81%) HTML
3 102 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
4 97 (1.66%) CSS
5 76 (1.30%) EDI
6 65 (1.11%) Spring Boot
7 50 (0.86%) YAML
8 48 (0.82%) React
9 46 (0.79%) XML
10 43 (0.74%) JSON
11 35 (0.60%) jQuery
11 35 (0.60%) Spring
12 34 (0.58%) Web Services
13 32 (0.55%) RESTful
14 31 (0.53%) Laravel
15 28 (0.48%) AngularJS
15 28 (0.48%) SOAP
16 25 (0.43%) HTML5
17 24 (0.41%) Vue
18 21 (0.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 501 (8.57%) Management Information System
2 391 (6.69%) Self-Motivation
3 242 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 195 (3.34%) Data Centre
5 180 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 166 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 146 (2.50%) 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 62 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 62 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 49 (0.84%) IoT
16 47 (0.80%) Life Science
17 45 (0.77%) Social Media
18 43 (0.74%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 361 (6.18%) Windows
2 265 (4.53%) Linux
3 139 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 49 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
6 43 (0.74%) 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 (0.21%) 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 1,768 (30.24%) Agile
2 1,365 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
3 1,260 (21.55%) Project Delivery
4 846 (14.47%) PRINCE2
5 670 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 664 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 634 (10.85%) Mentoring
8 576 (9.85%) Change Management
9 524 (8.96%) Decision-Making
10 516 (8.83%) Actionable Insight
11 494 (8.45%) Risk Management
12 434 (7.42%) Coaching
13 429 (7.34%) Customer Service
14 407 (6.96%) ITIL
15 402 (6.88%) SDLC
16 387 (6.62%) Agile Project Management
17 371 (6.35%) Collaborative Working
18 369 (6.31%) Scrum
19 358 (6.12%) DevOps
20 352 (6.02%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 324 (5.54%) SQL
2 220 (3.76%) Python
3 155 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 136 (2.33%) C#
5 113 (1.93%) PowerShell
6 101 (1.73%) Java
7 81 (1.39%) 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%) R
13 26 (0.44%) Bash
14 25 (0.43%) TypeScript
14 25 (0.43%) VBA
15 19 (0.33%) MATLAB
16 16 (0.27%) Perl
17 15 (0.26%) VB.NET
18 10 (0.17%) RPG
18 10 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,436 (24.56%) Degree
2 593 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 346 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 323 (5.53%) PMI Certification
5 275 (4.70%) PMP
6 139 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 135 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 103 (1.76%) DBS Check
10 97 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 89 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 88 (1.51%) APMP
13 82 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 72 (1.23%) Azure Certification
15 66 (1.13%) HNC
16 56 (0.96%) CCNA
16 56 (0.96%) DV Cleared
17 55 (0.94%) HND
18 49 (0.84%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 459 (7.85%) PMO
2 333 (5.70%) QA
3 135 (2.31%) GDPR
4 108 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 85 (1.45%) SLA
6 59 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 56 (0.96%) ISO 9001
8 44 (0.75%) Data Quality
9 42 (0.72%) NIST
10 36 (0.62%) Good Clinical Practice
11 30 (0.51%) 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 (0.21%) COSHH
18 12 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 216 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 174 (2.98%) 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 15 (0.26%) vSphere
9 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.10%) Terminal Services
12 5 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
12 5 (0.086%) 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%) NFS
14 1 (0.017%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 128 (2.19%) Ansible
2 89 (1.52%) Kubernetes
3 68 (1.16%) vCenter Server
4 58 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 48 (0.82%) SCCM
7 43 (0.74%) 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 14 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (0.22%) Puppet
13 12 (0.21%) NetBackup
13 12 (0.21%) Opsgenie
13 12 (0.21%) VxRail
14 6 (0.10%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.10%) Nessus
15 4 (0.068%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1,094 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 216 (3.69%) Google
3 207 (3.54%) VMware
4 175 (2.99%) SAP
5 158 (2.70%) Oracle
6 128 (2.19%) Cisco
7 97 (1.66%) Salesforce
8 81 (1.39%) Palo Alto
9 61 (1.04%) NetApp
10 59 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 56 (0.96%) IFS
12 55 (0.94%) NEC
13 54 (0.92%) Adobe
14 53 (0.91%) ServiceNow
15 49 (0.84%) SolidFire
16 45 (0.77%) Dell
17 43 (0.74%) Sage
17 43 (0.74%) Veeam
18 40 (0.68%) Sparx
19 35 (0.60%) Fortinet