People Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for People Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited People Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 216 298
Rank change year-on-year -99 +82 +46
Permanent jobs citing People Management 890 1,759 2,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 1.77% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.85% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 580 677 1,055
10th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

People 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for People Management in the UK

People Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing People Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for People Management in the UK

People Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing People Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 -98 822 £62,500 -10.71% 368
UK excluding London -76 540 £57,500 -4.17% 270
London -45 306 £72,500 -19.44% 139
Work from Home -95 284 £64,375 -11.21% 174
North of England +17 230 £57,500 -7.26% 78
North West -35 134 £65,000 +23.81% 43
South East -27 115 £57,500 -23.33% 70
Yorkshire +104 82 £57,500 -14.81% 27
Midlands -92 81 £60,000 +14.29% 51
South West -26 47 £57,500 +25.68% 19
West Midlands -84 41 £62,500 +16.28% 33
East Midlands -11 40 £47,500 -9.52% 18
East of England -16 38 £60,310 +14.88% 22
Scotland -83 25 £56,250 -8.91% 24
North East +5 18 £42,500 -22.73% 8
Wales +6 9 £40,000 -2.44% 11
Northern Ireland +27 3 £57,500 +109.09% 3

People 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 16 (1.80%) Confluence
2 12 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.79%) Apache Pig
4 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.56%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.45%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.22%) CMS
6 2 (0.22%) GlassFish
6 2 (0.22%) JCAPS
6 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 37 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.56%) Simulink
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.11%) SPSS
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.79%) thinkFolio
4 4 (0.45%) SAP SCM
4 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.34%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.34%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.34%) SAP GTS
5 3 (0.34%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.34%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.22%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.22%) Primavera
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 108 (12.13%) Azure
2 64 (7.19%) AWS
3 42 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 26 (2.92%) SaaS
6 23 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (2.36%) GCP
8 20 (2.25%) Serverless
9 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 18 (2.02%) PaaS
10 17 (1.91%) IaaS
11 14 (1.57%) Amazon S3
12 12 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
12 12 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (0.67%) GitHub
15 6 (0.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.48%) Firewall
2 19 (2.13%) LAN
3 18 (2.02%) WAN
3 18 (2.02%) Wireless
4 17 (1.91%) Network Security
5 11 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.24%) Wireshark
6 8 (0.90%) DNS
7 5 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.45%) VPN
9 3 (0.34%) VSAN
9 3 (0.34%) WebEx
10 2 (0.22%) DHCP
10 2 (0.22%) FTP
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) NGFW
10 2 (0.22%) RIP
11 1 (0.11%) DSL
11 1 (0.11%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (1.80%) Power BI
2 15 (1.69%) OLAP
3 13 (1.46%) Big Data
3 13 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (1.46%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.24%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.90%) Hadoop
5 8 (0.90%) Tableau
6 7 (0.79%) Apache Hive
7 5 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (0.56%) Metadata
7 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (0.45%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.45%) GIS
8 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (3.15%) JIRA
2 13 (1.46%) Git
3 9 (1.01%) JUnit
4 7 (0.79%) Checkstyle
4 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.79%) SonarQube
5 6 (0.67%) Selenium
5 6 (0.67%) Spinnaker
6 5 (0.56%) Android Studio
6 5 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.56%) Postman
6 5 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 5 (0.56%) TestRail
6 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.34%) GCC
7 3 (0.34%) Maven
8 2 (0.22%) Ant
8 2 (0.22%) Subversion
8 2 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 290 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 282 (31.69%) Finance
3 113 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (9.44%) Presentation Skills
6 78 (8.76%) Billing
7 76 (8.54%) Legal
7 76 (8.54%) Public Sector
8 58 (6.52%) Manufacturing
9 43 (4.83%) Local Government
10 42 (4.72%) Law
11 39 (4.38%) Retail
12 38 (4.27%) Marketing
13 37 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (2.81%) Telecoms
16 21 (2.36%) Banking
17 13 (1.46%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.46%) Front Office
18 12 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 127 (14.27%) Lead
2 86 (9.66%) Senior
3 65 (7.30%) Project Manager
4 57 (6.40%) Software Manager
5 55 (6.18%) Service Manager
6 53 (5.96%) Audit Manager
7 50 (5.62%) Development Manager
8 47 (5.28%) Team Leader
9 42 (4.72%) Senior Manager
10 40 (4.49%) Developer
11 37 (4.16%) Engineering Manager
12 35 (3.93%) Software Development Manager
13 34 (3.82%) Consultant
14 31 (3.48%) IT Manager
15 29 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
16 25 (2.81%) Operations Manager
17 24 (2.70%) Applications Manager
17 24 (2.70%) Audio Visual Technician
17 24 (2.70%) Service Delivery Manager
18 23 (2.58%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.98%) .NET
2 25 (2.81%) .NET Core
3 22 (2.47%) HTML
4 21 (2.36%) CSS
5 15 (1.69%) EDI
6 14 (1.57%) React
7 11 (1.24%) .NET Framework
8 10 (1.12%) Spring
8 10 (1.12%) Unity DI Container
9 9 (1.01%) J2EE
10 8 (0.90%) Node.js
10 8 (0.90%) Spring Boot
11 7 (0.79%) RESTful
12 6 (0.67%) Middleware
13 5 (0.56%) Kafka
13 5 (0.56%) OAuth
13 5 (0.56%) Playwright
13 5 (0.56%) SOAP
14 4 (0.45%) OpenID
14 4 (0.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.87%) Management Information System
2 46 (5.17%) Driving Licence
3 41 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.93%) NHS
5 31 (3.48%) Housing Association
6 27 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.47%) Reinsurance
8 19 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.24%) Credit Risk
11 11 (1.24%) Hedge funds
11 11 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (1.12%) Blog
12 10 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.12%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.01%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.01%) FMCG
14 7 (0.79%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.38%) Windows
2 22 (2.47%) Android
3 17 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.79%) Linux
6 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.11%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (25.17%) Agile
2 171 (19.21%) Coaching
2 171 (19.21%) Project Management
3 155 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
4 135 (15.17%) Mentoring
5 131 (14.72%) Performance Management
6 127 (14.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 125 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 119 (13.37%) Line Management
9 114 (12.81%) Service Management
10 99 (11.12%) Business Development
11 89 (10.00%) ITIL
12 85 (9.55%) DevOps
13 82 (9.21%) Project Delivery
14 76 (8.54%) Software Engineering
15 74 (8.31%) Service Delivery
16 72 (8.09%) Roadmaps
17 67 (7.53%) Scrum
18 65 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence
19 64 (7.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 78 (8.76%) SQL
2 58 (6.52%) C#
3 53 (5.96%) Python
4 37 (4.16%) Java
4 37 (4.16%) JavaScript
5 18 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 15 (1.69%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.24%) R
8 7 (0.79%) VB
9 6 (0.67%) C++
9 6 (0.67%) VB6
10 5 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.45%) Scala
12 3 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.34%) PHP
12 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.22%) Bash
13 2 (0.22%) Perl
13 2 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 194 (21.80%) Degree
2 73 (8.20%) ACCA
3 71 (7.98%) Security Cleared
4 48 (5.39%) SC Cleared
5 41 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.92%) CISSP
7 24 (2.70%) APMG
8 21 (2.36%) APMP
9 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (1.91%) HNC
10 17 (1.91%) PMI Certification
11 15 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 14 (1.57%) DBS Check
12 14 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.46%) CEH
13 13 (1.46%) PMP
14 12 (1.35%) SSCP
15 11 (1.24%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.31%) IFRS
2 73 (8.20%) GAAP
3 68 (7.64%) QA
4 29 (3.26%) GDPR
5 25 (2.81%) PMO
6 19 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.13%) SLA
7 18 (2.02%) NIST
8 13 (1.46%) Data Quality
8 13 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.79%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.67%) Def Stans
11 6 (0.67%) ITGC
12 5 (0.56%) NEBOSH
13 3 (0.34%) GMP
14 2 (0.22%) COBIT
14 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
15 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.11%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.12%) Firmware
5 7 (0.79%) Docker
5 7 (0.79%) HDFS
5 7 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.45%) vSphere
8 3 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 22 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (1.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.24%) Nmap
4 9 (1.01%) FortiGate
4 9 (1.01%) SCCM
5 7 (0.79%) NetBackup
5 7 (0.79%) SCOM
6 2 (0.22%) Ansible
6 2 (0.22%) Control-M
6 2 (0.22%) Terraform
7 1 (0.11%) Nessus
7 1 (0.11%) WMI
Vendors
1 180 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.43%) CA
3 26 (2.92%) SAP
4 25 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.57%) Google
6 13 (1.46%) Bloomberg
6 13 (1.46%) IFS
7 12 (1.35%) Splunk
8 11 (1.24%) Qualys
8 11 (1.24%) Rapid7
8 11 (1.24%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.24%) Thycotic
8 11 (1.24%) VMware
9 7 (0.79%) Charles River
9 7 (0.79%) Dell
9 7 (0.79%) McAfee
10 6 (0.67%) Cisco
11 5 (0.56%) EMC
11 5 (0.56%) HP
11 5 (0.56%) Oracle