Programme Management Jobs in the North West

Programme Management (Program Management)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Programme Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Programme Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 246 250
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 -94
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 58 45 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.74% 0.43% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.53% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 48 29 40
10th Percentile £48,875 £42,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £54,793 £45,000 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,900 £50,685 £69,375
Median % change year-on-year +26.07% -26.94% +34.87%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £73,988
90th Percentile £90,822 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +17.39%

All Process and 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 7,516 8,426 7,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 80.99% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 6,336 3,833
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the North West

Programme Management
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the North West.

Salary trend for Programme Management in the North West

Programme Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Programme Management in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
Lancashire -36 37 £63,900 +26.07% 18
Manchester +52 17 £65,000 +35.42% 13
Merseyside +30 2 £116,250 - 4
Cheshire +3 2 £58,000 -10.77% 2
Programme Management
England

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (55.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (3.45%) Serverless
3 1 (1.72%) Azure
3 1 (1.72%) GCP
3 1 (1.72%) Kong
3 1 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) VPN
2 2 (3.45%) Junos
2 2 (3.45%) LAN
2 2 (3.45%) WAN
2 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Tableau
2 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.72%) ClearQuest
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (27.59%) Finance
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Electronics
4 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.90%) Marketing
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Project Manager
2 18 (31.03%) Senior
2 18 (31.03%) Senior Manager
3 17 (29.31%) Senior Project Manager
4 15 (25.86%) Capability Manager
4 15 (25.86%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Development Specialist
5 4 (6.90%) IT Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Programme Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Change Manager
6 3 (5.17%) IT Programme Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Risk Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Network Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) FastAPI
1 2 (3.45%) Node.js
1 2 (3.45%) Spring
1 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.86%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.90%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (68.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 28 (48.28%) Agile
3 23 (39.66%) Project Management
4 19 (32.76%) Business Strategy
5 18 (31.03%) Project Delivery
5 18 (31.03%) Risk Management
6 17 (29.31%) Application Packaging
6 17 (29.31%) ITIL
6 17 (29.31%) PRINCE
6 17 (29.31%) Quality Management
6 17 (29.31%) Waterfall
7 16 (27.59%) Service Delivery
8 15 (25.86%) Budget Management
8 15 (25.86%) Cyber Assurance
8 15 (25.86%) Dependency Management
8 15 (25.86%) Information Management
8 15 (25.86%) Project Governance
9 8 (13.79%) Analytics
10 6 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.45%) Java
1 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
1 2 (3.45%) Python
1 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (29.31%) PMP
3 15 (25.86%) Degree
3 15 (25.86%) HND
4 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.90%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.45%) CCNA
7 2 (3.45%) CCNP
7 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.45%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (55.17%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.62%) SAP
3 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.45%) Juniper
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce