Programme Management Job Trends in London

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Programme Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 258 311
Rank change year-on-year +25 +53 +9
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 151 187 131
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 1.18% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.25% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 93 67 78
10th Percentile £35,500 £52,572 £48,025
25th Percentile £58,250 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.28% -8.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,875 £88,063
90th Percentile £98,500 £122,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -10.71% +19.15% -9.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Programme Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,118 14,957 16,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.48% 94.35% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,728 8,393 13,166
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Programme Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Programme Management job vacancy trend in London

Programme Management
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Programme Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Programme Management in London

Programme Management
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +14 9 £77,500 -13.89% 28
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) MTS
2 2 (1.32%) SAS
2 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.31%) Maya
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.26%) GCP
2 12 (7.95%) Azure
3 11 (7.28%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.96%) AWS
4 9 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.97%) GitHub
5 6 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.31%) Amazon Alexa
6 5 (3.31%) OCI
7 4 (2.65%) Cloud Functions
7 4 (2.65%) Cloud Run
7 4 (2.65%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.32%) Serverless
9 2 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.32%) Workato
9 2 (1.32%) Zapier
10 1 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.99%) Firewall
1 3 (1.99%) VPN
2 2 (1.32%) Broadband
2 2 (1.32%) DHCP
2 2 (1.32%) DNS
2 2 (1.32%) LAN
2 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.32%) WAN
3 1 (0.66%) 5G
3 1 (0.66%) LTE
3 1 (0.66%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.96%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.64%) Power BI
3 6 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.97%) RDBMS
3 6 (3.97%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.31%) Tableau
5 4 (2.65%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.65%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.65%) QlikView
6 3 (1.99%) Big Data
7 2 (1.32%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.32%) Impala
7 2 (1.32%) KNIME
7 2 (1.32%) Metadata
7 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.32%) Power Query
7 2 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) JIRA
2 4 (2.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.66%) CMake
3 1 (0.66%) MSBuild
3 1 (0.66%) Postman
3 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 104 (68.87%) Finance
2 83 (54.97%) Public Sector
3 79 (52.32%) Marketing
4 72 (47.68%) Social Skills
5 70 (46.36%) Telecoms
6 66 (43.71%) Electronics
6 66 (43.71%) Manufacturing
7 39 (25.83%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (8.61%) Law
9 12 (7.95%) Local Government
10 10 (6.62%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (5.96%) Retail
12 8 (5.30%) Digital Economy
13 7 (4.64%) French Language
13 7 (4.64%) Italian Language
13 7 (4.64%) Legal
14 6 (3.97%) Banking
15 5 (3.31%) Financial Institution
15 5 (3.31%) Games
15 5 (3.31%) German Language
Job Titles
1 19 (12.58%) Programme Manager
2 18 (11.92%) Senior
3 17 (11.26%) Consultant
3 17 (11.26%) IT Manager
3 17 (11.26%) Software Engineer
4 12 (7.95%) Project Manager
4 12 (7.95%) Senior Manager
5 11 (7.28%) IT Operations Manager
5 11 (7.28%) Operations Manager
6 9 (5.96%) IT Support
6 9 (5.96%) IT Support Manager
6 9 (5.96%) Lead
6 9 (5.96%) Support Manager
7 8 (5.30%) Developer
7 8 (5.30%) Senior Project Manager
8 7 (4.64%) Junior
8 7 (4.64%) Junior Service Manager
9 6 (3.97%) Analyst
9 6 (3.97%) Backend Developer
9 6 (3.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.64%) FastAPI
1 7 (4.64%) Flask
2 6 (3.97%) REST
3 2 (1.32%) Kafka
3 2 (1.32%) NestJS
3 2 (1.32%) Node.js
3 2 (1.32%) PySpark
3 2 (1.32%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.32%) RESTful
3 2 (1.32%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.66%) Caffe
4 1 (0.66%) Dask
4 1 (0.66%) Django
4 1 (0.66%) NumPy
4 1 (0.66%) Pandas
4 1 (0.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.58%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.28%) Social Media
3 8 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.31%) NHS
4 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.31%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.99%) Blog
6 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.99%) IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.32%) Clustering
7 2 (1.32%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (1.32%) FMCG
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile Wallet
7 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.32%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.62%) Windows
2 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
2 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (49.01%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (43.71%) Digital Marketing
3 48 (31.79%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (25.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (23.18%) AI
6 29 (19.21%) Project Delivery
7 28 (18.54%) Decision-Making
8 27 (17.88%) Machine Learning
8 27 (17.88%) Project Management
9 26 (17.22%) Agile
10 22 (14.57%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (13.91%) Analytics
12 19 (12.58%) Software Engineering
13 18 (11.92%) Service Management
14 17 (11.26%) Business Development
15 16 (10.60%) Collaborative Working
15 16 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (10.60%) ITIL
16 15 (9.93%) CI/CD
16 15 (9.93%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 31 (20.53%) Python
2 19 (12.58%) SQL
3 12 (7.95%) TypeScript
4 9 (5.96%) C++
5 8 (5.30%) C#
6 6 (3.97%) Bash
7 5 (3.31%) R
8 2 (1.32%) C
8 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.66%) Bicep
9 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.66%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (21.19%) Degree
2 20 (13.25%) SC Cleared
2 20 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.92%) PMI Certification
4 16 (10.60%) DV Cleared
4 16 (10.60%) PMP
5 11 (7.28%) CISSP
6 8 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.31%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.32%) MBA
9 1 (0.66%) CAPM
9 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.54%) QA
2 14 (9.27%) GDPR
3 11 (7.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (7.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 10 (6.62%) PMO
5 4 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.99%) SLA
7 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.32%) NIST
7 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.66%) IFRS
8 1 (0.66%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.66%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.66%) SEPA
8 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (7.95%) Docker
2 6 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (7.95%) Kubernetes
1 12 (7.95%) Terraform
2 4 (2.65%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.66%) Ansible
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 73 (48.34%) SAP
2 27 (17.88%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.93%) Google
4 12 (7.95%) Oracle
4 12 (7.95%) Salesforce
5 8 (5.30%) Palantir
6 6 (3.97%) Cisco
7 3 (1.99%) Aderant
7 3 (1.99%) Intapp
8 2 (1.32%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.32%) Ariba
8 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.32%) Computacenter
8 2 (1.32%) Concur
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.66%) Databricks
9 1 (0.66%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.66%) OpenAI