Business and project management
Project manager jobs
Running change end to end: the plan, the budget, the risks and the people who have to deliver it.
£59,834 median full-time pay, UK, ONS 2025
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Published pay
What project manager jobs pay
Median full-time pay for business and financial project management professionals was £59,834 across the UK in 2025. Full-time work of every kind had a median of £39,039, so this occupation sits about 1.5 times that. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it describes the occupation nationally rather than any advert on this page.
That figure is the reason this role is on the board. Every role here has a published ONS median full-time salary at or above £50,000, and it is checked against the ONS table each time the site is built rather than asserted in the copy. A role that stopped clearing it would stop the build.
Pay varies more by region than most people expect. ONS publishes it for groups of related occupations rather than single job titles, so the table beside this covers business and financial project management professionals, including programme and portfolio managers, not project manager jobs alone.
Median full-time pay by region, 2025
| Region | Median full-time pay |
|---|---|
| London | £70,006 |
| South East | £59,806 |
| East of England | £60,373 |
| South West | £55,804 |
| West Midlands | £59,982 |
| East Midlands | £51,371 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | £52,448 |
| North West | £59,844 |
| Wales | £54,067 |
| Scotland | £60,838 |
What the local data covers
Adding up the published local figures across the 175 areas with data gives 201,910 people in work in this occupation group at the 2021 census. The middle area records 883. That is arithmetic over local releases, not a national statistic, and areas the publisher withholds are simply absent from it.
The largest are Surrey at 6,456, Hampshire at 5,993, Hertfordshire at 5,769, Essex at 5,555, Kent at 5,160. Coverage runs across 10 regions of England and Wales.
Census counts follow where people live, not where the jobs are, and they are not a count of vacancies. The business survey figures on each area page count employee jobs located in that area in 2024, which is a different population again. Neither is ever divided by the other.
Project manager: the full picture
Project, programme and portfolio
A project delivers a defined outcome and then stops. A programme coordinates several projects towards a benefit that none of them delivers alone. A portfolio decides which of them should exist at all. Pay and seniority rise across that order and so does the distance from the work.
Anyone moving up should expect the job to become less about planning and more about politics, funding and the uncomfortable business of stopping things.
Qualifications, and what they are worth
APM, PRINCE2 and PMP are the three most commonly named. They teach a vocabulary and a structure, they are frequently used to filter applications, and none of them substitutes for having delivered something.
Sector matters more than most people assume. Construction, technology, financial services and public sector projects each have their own governance, funding cycle and risk culture, and moving between them takes longer than moving between employers inside one.
Before you apply
- A delivery track record; APM, PRINCE2 or PMP is commonly asked for
- Right to work in the UK
Project manager jobs: common questions
Does project manager work pay more than £50,000 a year?
On the national figures, yes, and that is why the role is on this board at all. Median full-time pay for business and financial project management professionals was £59,834 across the UK in 2025, against £39,039 for full-time work of every kind. It is a median, so half of those jobs paid less, and it says nothing about what any individual advert pays.
What qualifications do I need to work as a project manager?
A delivery track record; APM, PRINCE2 or PMP is commonly asked for. Right to work in the UK.
Where does AboveMedian have local figures for project manager jobs?
In 175 county and unitary areas across England and Wales, from the 2021 census. Scotland ran a separate census in 2022 through National Records of Scotland which is not published in the same place, so Scottish areas have no local figure. Adverts themselves are UK wide.
Do you decide who gets sent to an employer?
No. You read the adverts, you choose one, and you apply to that employer yourself. Nothing on this site forwards a person to a job they did not apply to, and no employer is given a list of people.
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