Programme Management Job Trends in the North West

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Programme Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 121 172
Rank change year-on-year -44 +51 +94
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 18 83 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.29% 1.63% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 1.79% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 20
10th Percentile £31,400 £55,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £59,501 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +17.39% -1.79%
75th Percentile £80,313 £80,100 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,822 £70,450
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £58,228
% change year-on-year -10.71% +20.22% -10.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,119 4,629 3,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.33% 90.64% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 2,256 2,801
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,114 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,389 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Programme Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Programme Management
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Programme Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Programme Management

Programme Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the North West over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Programme Management in the North West

Programme Management
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
Manchester -26 10 £55,000 -36.99% 6
Merseyside 0 3 £50,000 -
Cumbria +4 2 - -
Cheshire -15 2 £50,000 -
Lancashire +3 1 - - 5
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) IPsec
1 1 (5.56%) Junos
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
1 1 (5.56%) MPLS
1 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
1 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Tableau
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (5.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Gatling
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) JMeter
2 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Electronics
2 8 (44.44%) Manufacturing
2 8 (44.44%) Marketing
2 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 8 (44.44%) Telecoms
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Automotive
5 2 (11.11%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (11.11%) Police
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) IT Support
2 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Data Science Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) ERP Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
1 1 (5.56%) Spring
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (44.44%) Digital Marketing
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (27.78%) Project Management
4 5 (27.78%) Quality Management
4 5 (27.78%) Workshop Facilitation
5 4 (22.22%) Budget Management
5 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (16.67%) Business Case
6 3 (16.67%) Critical Success Factor
6 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 3 (16.67%) QMS
6 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (16.67%) Resource Management
6 3 (16.67%) Risk Register
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
7 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Degree
4 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (16.67%) HNC
4 3 (16.67%) HND
5 2 (11.11%) A+ Certification
5 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) CCNA
6 1 (5.56%) CCNP
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.56%) JNCIA
6 1 (5.56%) PMP
6 1 (5.56%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) Fujitsu
3 1 (5.56%) Juniper
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle