Project Manager Jobs in Raleigh, NC

Government wage data says the broader Raleigh-Cary management occupation family paid $132,650 at the median in 2025, with a $92,400 25th percentile and a $179,290 75th percentile. Recent local posting samples for this narrower category center on about $102k to $153k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $75k to $192k.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 265 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $92,500 at the 25th percentile, $130,000 at the median and $162,950 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Raleigh-Cary is a balanced but competitive market for management, product, and project work right now. Metro unemployment was 3.1% in August 2026, and professional and business services employment reached 156.7 thousand, up 2.9566% year-over-year. At the same time, statewide occupation-specific signals show management, product, and project employment down 0.7% year-over-year while active postings were up 1.9%, which points to selective hiring and replacement demand rather than a broad hiring surge. Local posting mix also skews experienced and local, with about 45% mid-level, about 40% senior, about 60% on-site, and about 30% hybrid.

Best positioned: The best odds right now go to mid-career candidates who can prove Agile/Scrum and Jira fluency plus risk, budget, and stakeholder management in enterprise delivery settings.

Main caution: Do not read the raw project-manager volume as pure tech product demand: about 40% of the broad sample sat in construction and about 15% in civil engineering, which can overstate the market for software-first candidates.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 671 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Lenovo Inc.: 22 open roles
2. Cisco Systems, Inc: 13 open roles
3. Siemens: 11 open roles
4. Duke PA: 10 open roles
5. Hitachi Energy Ltd.: 10 open roles
6. Eaton Corporation: 8 open roles
7. IQVIA Inc: 8 open roles
8. Lenovo Campus: 8 open roles
9. Thermo Fisher: 8 open roles
10. AbbVie: 7 open roles

Where the openings are

• Raleigh: 293
• Durham: 108
• Morrisville: 73
• Cary: 70
• Apex: 13
• Wendell: 9
• Charlotte: 8
• Durham County: 7

Work arrangement

on-site 413 (63%), hybrid 176 (27%), remote 68 (10%)

Where the demand is

The first thing to know is that the headline market is broader than pure tech product management. Local sample data shows more than 600 relevant postings across more than 350 companies, but about 40% of the sample sits in construction and about 15% in civil engineering, while IT services and consulting, software development, and automation machinery manufacturing each account for about 10%. If you want software product or technical program work, mentally discount a large part of the raw project-manager volume. Within the more relevant slice, opportunity is spread across a fragmented employer base rather than a single dominant buyer. Named active employers include Siemens AG, Lenovo Inc., Jacobs Engineering Group, and Lenovo Campus, and the seniority mix is weighted toward about 45% mid-level and about 40% senior roles. That makes Raleigh-Cary strongest for people who can step into roadmap, delivery, or PMO ownership quickly.

• Large-employer program and project delivery (high): Roles around firms such as Siemens AG and Lenovo Inc. appear regularly in the sample, and the mix favors experienced candidates more than trainees.
• Software, IT services, and automation product-adjacent work (moderate): The in-scope product and TPM-style pocket is smaller but real inside IT services and consulting, software development, and automation machinery manufacturing, which each made up about 10% of the sample.
• First-time PM or PM-without-domain roles (limited): Entry access is thin because only about 5% of the sample was entry-level, so first-time PM applicants need adjacent proof rather than direct-title expectations.

Where to focus: Prioritize mid-level enterprise delivery and technical-program openings where you can show shipped work, and treat pure entry product roles as opportunistic rather than the core plan.

Roles worth searching next

• Business Analyst: It uses requirements gathering, stakeholder alignment, and process mapping that transfer directly into project or product work.
• Implementation Consultant: Implementation work proves customer-facing delivery, scope control, and systems rollout experience.
• Operations Analyst / Process Improvement Specialist: This path builds measurable improvement stories around process, risk, and coordination that later support program-management moves.
• Systems Analyst: Systems analysts sit close to delivery teams and can convert technical and business translation work into later TPM or product stories.

What postings ask for

• Agile/Scrum (table_stakes | immediate): Agile and Scrum frameworks remain primary in-demand competencies for local project and product roles. Who: Anyone targeting project, program, TPM, scrum, or product work.
• Jira (table_stakes | immediate): Jira is widely cited as an essential tracking tool for technical project managers and scrum-oriented roles in local listings. Who: Candidates moving into technical delivery, software product, or agile team coordination.
• PMP (differentiator | near-term): PMP is the certification most often required in local postings, though it still appears in a minority of ads rather than as a universal gate. Who: Project and program candidates with enough experience hours to use it as a credibility boost.
• Risk management (differentiator | immediate): Risk management appears among the most requested hard skills in local postings, which signals employers want execution control, not just coordination. Who: Mid-career candidates and switchers coming from operations, QA, compliance, or delivery backgrounds.
• Budget management (differentiator | immediate): Budget management shows up repeatedly in local demand signals, which is one of the clearest separators between assistant-level and owner-level work. Who: Program and project candidates aiming for higher-paying enterprise roles.
• Stakeholder management (premium | immediate): Stakeholder management is one of the most requested skills in local postings, which fits a market weighted toward cross-functional, mid-to-senior roles. Who: Candidates who already work across product, engineering, operations, finance, or executive teams.

Questions about this market

What do Management, Product & Project roles pay in Raleigh-Cary, NC?

Government wage data says the broader Raleigh-Cary management occupation family paid $132,650 at the median in 2025, with a $92,400 25th percentile and a $179,290 75th percentile. Recent local posting samples for this narrower category center on about $102k to $153k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $75k to $192k. This is a good-paying market, but much of the upside sits in experienced roles. Local posting mix is only about 5% entry-level, while about 45% is mid-level and about 40% senior, so the market pays for ownership more than potential.

Where is demand for Management, Product & Project roles in Raleigh-Cary, NC concentrated?

The first thing to know is that the headline market is broader than pure tech product management. Local sample data shows more than 600 relevant postings across more than 350 companies, but about 40% of the sample sits in construction and about 15% in civil engineering, while IT services and consulting, software development, and automation machinery manufacturing each account for about 10%. If you want software product or technical program work, mentally discount a large part of the raw project-manager volume. Within the more relevant slice, opportunity is spread across a fragmented employer base rather than a single dominant buyer. Named active employers include Siemens AG, Lenovo Inc., Jacobs Engineering Group, and Lenovo Campus, and the seniority mix is weighted toward about 45% mid-level and about 40% senior roles. That makes Raleigh-Cary strongest for people who can step into roadmap, delivery, or PMO ownership quickly.

Which employers are hiring the most Management, Product & Project talent in Raleigh-Cary, NC?

Recent postings show the most activity from Siemens AG (20 postings), Lenovo Inc. (15 postings), Jacobs Engineering Group (15 postings), Lenovo Campus (10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Management, Product & Project roles in Raleigh-Cary, NC be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 30% hybrid, with 60% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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