Project Manager: market
A Project Manager runs a project from plan to delivery: timelines, budget, resources, risks and communication between the team, the customer and stakeholders. We currently track 1 723 open positions for this role, 1 612 of them fresh. Valued skills are methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, waterfall and hybrids), risk and change management, planning tools (Jira, MS Project), certifications (PMP, PRINCE2) and grasp of the technical side. By co-occurrence in requirements, project management, Azure, MS Project and AWS appear most often. 39% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Project Manager market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Project Manager market currently has 1,723 open roles, 1,612 of them freshly observed. Median salary $5,853/mo.
39% of Project Manager postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 126 of 1723 jobs; remote share from 1456 with a stated format; 1612 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Project Manager postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 191
New sources connected: 11 May +5 · 18 May +5 · 25 May +3 · 1 Jun +7 · 8 Jun +3 · 15 Jun +8 · 22 Jun +11 · 29 Jun +48 · 6 Jul +19 · 13 Jul +16 · 20 Jul +14 · 27 Jul +7 · 3 Aug +5 · 10 Aug +7 · 17 Aug +5 · 24 Aug +3 · 7 Sept +2 · 14 Sept +1 · 21 Sept +3 · 28 Sept +5 · 5 Oct +5 · 12 Oct +5
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Project Manager salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Project Manager postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Project Manager postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Project Manager postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Project Manager
| Open demand | 1,723 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Project Manager
One in ten earns under $2,962, one in ten over $12,416. Half the market falls between $4,157 and $9,205. Sample: 126.
The range histogram for Project Manager uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Project Manager
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 383 |
| US | 332 |
| IN | 85 |
| DE | 59 |
| HK | 57 |
| GB | 56 |
| SG | 48 |
| TH | 40 |
| CA | 40 |
| UA | 30 |
The top country for Project Manager demand is Poland (383 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Project Manager requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are project management, Azure, MS Project and AWS.
Demand by grade: Project Manager
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 603 |
| lead | 144 |
| middle | 127 |
| principal | 26 |
| junior | 25 |
Senior-and-above is about 84% of 925 Project Manager postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Project Manager
Demand is spread across 1,039 employers. The largest accounts for 2.4%, the top ten for 11.6%; the remaining 88.4% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.4% |
| top-3 | 5.2% |
| top-10 | 11.6% |
| long tail | 88.4% |
Project Manager openings come from 1 039 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 2.4% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 76 sources; the largest accounts for 20.8% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Project Manager postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Project Manager
- Project Manager IT · PL
- Senior IT Project Manager · PL
- Software Project Manager · TH
- Senior Project Manager - SYGMA- US · US · $12,054
- (1527) Technical Project Manager · CR
- Technical Project Manager · MX
- Project Manager IT
- Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager (Network & Telecommunications) · US
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-25
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Project Manager role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Project Manager do?
A Project Manager runs a project from plan to delivery: timelines, budget, resources, risks and communication between the team, the customer and stakeholders.
Which skills do Project Manager postings require?
Valued skills are methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, waterfall and hybrids), risk and change management, planning tools (Jira, MS Project), certifications (PMP, PRINCE2) and grasp of the technical side. In the current slice, project management, Azure, MS Project and AWS appear in requirements most often.
Do Project Managers need PMP or PRINCE2?
In enterprise and government projects they often appear in requirements; in product IT teams delivered projects and agile experience matter more.
How remote-friendly are Project Manager jobs?
39% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 1 723 open positions.
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