Programme Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 372 315 335
Rank change year-on-year -57 +20 -95
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 217 590 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.79% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.96% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 146 309 331
10th Percentile £42,250 £32,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,900 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.71% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £103,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £56,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.07% -17.04% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +44 72 £58,000 +16.00% 50
North West +15 58 £63,900 +26.07% 28
South East -52 48 £77,500 +37.78% 47
South West +55 37 £61,250 -4.67% 39
Midlands -2 31 £82,500 +58.66% 41
West Midlands +5 16 £92,500 +90.72% 26
Yorkshire +61 14 £51,500 -0.96% 13
East of England +31 13 £90,000 +68.05% 13
Scotland +87 11 £50,000 - 18
East Midlands +23 11 £58,750 +6.82% 15
Wales +24 5 £59,857 +1.68% 4
Programme Management
UK

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 35 (16.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.92%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.92%) ThingWorx
3 2 (0.92%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
1 11 (5.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.46%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Primavera
2 1 (0.46%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.68%) Azure
2 19 (8.76%) AWS
3 15 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.15%) Serverless
5 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.76%) GCP
6 5 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (2.30%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.30%) Collibra
6 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.30%) SaaS
7 4 (1.84%) IaaS
8 3 (1.38%) PaaS
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.92%) OCI
9 2 (0.92%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.46%) AWS IoT
10 1 (0.46%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.22%) WAN
2 15 (6.91%) SD-WAN
3 13 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (4.61%) VPN
5 8 (3.69%) 5G
6 5 (2.30%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.30%) LAN
7 4 (1.84%) Junos
7 4 (1.84%) Wireless
8 3 (1.38%) Firewall
9 2 (0.92%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.92%) LTE
9 2 (0.92%) Modbus
9 2 (0.92%) MQTT
9 2 (0.92%) Network Security
9 2 (0.92%) RS-485
10 1 (0.46%) Broadband
10 1 (0.46%) Profibus
10 1 (0.46%) RS-232
10 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.84%) Tableau
3 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.92%) Big Data
4 2 (0.92%) DB2
4 2 (0.92%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (0.92%) MySQL
4 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (0.92%) Power BI
4 2 (0.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.46%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.46%) Flink
5 1 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (11.98%) JIRA
2 6 (2.76%) Git
3 2 (0.92%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.92%) GitLab
3 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.92%) JUnit
3 2 (0.92%) Subversion
4 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.46%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.46%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.46%) CMake
4 1 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.46%) WiX
4 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 93 (42.86%) Finance
2 75 (34.56%) Social Skills
3 58 (26.73%) Manufacturing
4 56 (25.81%) Electronics
5 53 (24.42%) Public Sector
6 48 (22.12%) Marketing
7 47 (21.66%) Telecoms
8 35 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (4.15%) Law
13 8 (3.69%) Banking
14 7 (3.23%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.84%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.38%) Aviation
16 3 (1.38%) Games
16 3 (1.38%) Legal
16 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (23.04%) Senior
2 46 (21.20%) Programme Manager
3 40 (18.43%) Project Manager
4 33 (15.21%) Lead
5 30 (13.82%) Senior Manager
6 17 (7.83%) Delivery Manager
6 17 (7.83%) Senior Project Manager
7 15 (6.91%) Capability Manager
8 10 (4.61%) Infrastructure Manager
8 10 (4.61%) Project Leader
8 10 (4.61%) Technical Leader
9 9 (4.15%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
9 9 (4.15%) Senior Programme Manager
10 8 (3.69%) Architect
10 8 (3.69%) Development Specialist
10 8 (3.69%) IT Manager
10 8 (3.69%) Senior Project Leader
10 8 (3.69%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.69%) Software Project Leader
10 8 (3.69%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.76%) Node.js
2 4 (1.84%) Spring
2 4 (1.84%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.38%) OAuth
4 2 (0.92%) ADO
4 2 (0.92%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.92%) HTML
4 2 (0.92%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (0.92%) J2EE
4 2 (0.92%) Java EE
4 2 (0.92%) Middleware
4 2 (0.92%) REST
4 2 (0.92%) SOAP
4 2 (0.92%) Web Services
4 2 (0.92%) XML
5 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.46%) CSS
5 1 (0.46%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.46%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.46%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.76%) Management Information System
2 15 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.07%) IoT
4 9 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.69%) Self-Driving Car
6 6 (2.76%) SCADA
7 5 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.30%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.30%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.92%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.23%) Windows
2 5 (2.30%) Linux
3 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.46%) Unix
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.55%) Agile
2 82 (37.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 81 (37.33%) Project Management
4 62 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (27.19%) Project Delivery
6 49 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (21.20%) Digital Marketing
8 37 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (15.67%) PRINCE2
9 34 (15.67%) Waterfall
10 33 (15.21%) Risk Management
11 29 (13.36%) Analytics
11 29 (13.36%) Business Strategy
11 29 (13.36%) Computer Science
12 27 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (11.52%) Quality Management
14 24 (11.06%) Coaching
15 23 (10.60%) Change Management
16 21 (9.68%) ITIL
16 21 (9.68%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.99%) Python
2 12 (5.53%) Java
3 7 (3.23%) C++
4 5 (2.30%) C
5 4 (1.84%) SQL
5 4 (1.84%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.38%) Bash
6 3 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.46%) C#
7 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.46%) PHP
7 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.46%) R
7 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (28.57%) Degree
2 40 (18.43%) PMP
3 23 (10.60%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (8.29%) PMI Certification
5 17 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.83%) HND
6 14 (6.45%) DV Cleared
7 12 (5.53%) SC Cleared
8 10 (4.61%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.30%) CCNA
9 5 (2.30%) CCNP
9 5 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.30%) MBA
10 4 (1.84%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.84%) MAPM
10 4 (1.84%) MRICS
11 3 (1.38%) CISSP
11 3 (1.38%) CSPO
12 2 (0.92%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.76%) PMO
2 10 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.30%) GDPR
3 5 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.84%) SLA
5 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.92%) COBIT
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.92%) NIST
6 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.92%) QA
6 2 (0.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) JTAG
7 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.84%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (1.84%) Firmware
2 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.92%) Docker
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.30%) Terraform
2 4 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (23.96%) SAP
2 33 (15.21%) Atlassian
3 16 (7.37%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.76%) Cisco
4 6 (2.76%) Oracle
4 6 (2.76%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.30%) Informatica
6 4 (1.84%) Google
6 4 (1.84%) Juniper
7 3 (1.38%) EMC
7 3 (1.38%) VMware
8 2 (0.92%) Curam
8 2 (0.92%) Freescale
8 2 (0.92%) IBM
8 2 (0.92%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.46%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.46%) Altera
9 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.46%) Twitter
9 1 (0.46%) Workday