Aging Out
Project, program and portfolio managers around the world are skewing older. The upshot? A
Sources: Project Management Benchmark Report 2016, Arras People. Methodology: 2,032 global project professionals surveyed online in December 2015
and January 2016. “The Ticking Time Bomb in Project Management,” Arras People, 2015.
WELL-SEASONED
8% of project managers
are under 30.
23% are 35-42.
27% are over 50.
6% of program managers
are under 34.
39% are over 50.
29% of portfolio managers
are 35-42 years old.
66% are over 43.
34% of project management
office managers are 35-42
years old.
28% are over 50.
EMPTYING PIPELINE?
NOTICEABLY SKEWED
LOOKING FOR WORK
48% of
unemployed
project
professionals
in the U.K. are
over 50.
60% have
more than
10 years’
experience
Percent of U.K. project and program managers older than 50
Percent of U.K. project and program managers under 34
The only age range where
female practitioners
outnumber males in the U.K.
Men make up nearly 80%
of the practitioners in this
age range in the U.K.
Ratio of men to women among
all project and program
managers of any age
25-29
50-59
7: 3
20%
2008 2012 2015
30%
40%
26%
27%
32%
38%
19%
15%
