The Datum Report

Occupation 3543 · Associate professional occupations

Project support officers

Half of full-time project support officers in the UK earn more than £35,751 a year, and half earn less.

Project support officers assist in the organisation, planning, monitoring and direction of a project and ensure it is adequately resourced and on schedule.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements, although entrants typically possess GCSEs/S grades, A levels/H grades, a BTEC/SQA award or equivalent qualifications. On-the-job training is usually provided, and professional qualifications are available.

What the work involves

• analyses project components, organises them into a logical sequence and establishes the minimum time required for the project
• creates and maintains a project timetable, helps ensure the project proceeds on schedule and manages relevant administrative elements of the project
• advises on project procedures and assists the project team in decision making
• liaises with and ensures effective communication between the project team, other departments, the project manager, the client and/or senior management
• monitors the progress of the project and provides updates to project team, clients and other stakeholders

Also called

Planning assistant · Project administrator · Project analyst · Project coordinator · Project officer · Service delivery coordinator

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for project support officers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 10 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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