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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 362 301
Rank change year-on-year +9 -61 -57
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Programme Management 274 373 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.60% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.75% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 169 178 289
10th Percentile £42,250 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £53,555 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% -6.86% +10.58%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +8.70%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,749 49,571 41,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.94% 79.21% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 20,063 29,078 24,980
10th Percentile £25,313 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,431 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Programme Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Programme Management

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 22 August 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -30 86 £67,500 +6.30% 111
South West +82 75 £50,000 -20.00% 37
North of England -15 37 £58,000 +16.00% 59
Midlands +39 27 £76,250 +51.07% 49
North West -29 27 £61,500 +11.82% 35
West Midlands +35 19 £47,500 -6.76% 34
East of England -8 18 £85,000 +58.72% 34
Wales +7 16 £48,122 -25.97% 8
Scotland +73 15 £60,000 +10.75% 14
Yorkshire +15 10 £52,276 +4.55% 22
East Midlands +9 8 £82,500 +83.33% 14
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 5 (1.82%) Confluence
1 5 (1.82%) IIS
2 2 (0.73%) ThingWorx
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (8.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.84%) Azure
2 15 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (3.65%) AWS
3 10 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (2.55%) SaaS
5 5 (1.82%) Collibra
5 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.46%) GCP
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.09%) Serverless
8 2 (0.73%) AWS IoT
8 2 (0.73%) OCI
8 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.49%) Network Security
2 19 (6.93%) WAN
3 18 (6.57%) VPN
4 14 (5.11%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (4.01%) Junos
5 11 (4.01%) LAN
6 10 (3.65%) SD-WAN
7 9 (3.28%) Wireless
8 7 (2.55%) 5G
8 7 (2.55%) IPsec
9 6 (2.19%) Ethernet
9 6 (2.19%) Firewall
10 5 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.82%) DHCP
10 5 (1.82%) DNS
10 5 (1.82%) VLAN
10 5 (1.82%) VoIP
11 3 (1.09%) MQTT
12 2 (0.73%) Modbus
12 2 (0.73%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.65%) Geospatial Data
1 10 (3.65%) GIS
2 6 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.82%) Tableau
4 2 (0.73%) Big Data
4 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.73%) MySQL
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (0.73%) Power BI
5 1 (0.36%) Metadata
5 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 34 (12.41%) JIRA
2 29 (10.58%) Git
3 25 (9.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) GitLab
4 2 (0.73%) Subversion
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) CMake
5 1 (0.36%) Gatling
5 1 (0.36%) JMeter
5 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.36%) WiX
5 1 (0.36%) Yeoman
General
1 159 (58.03%) Finance
2 111 (40.51%) Social Skills
3 95 (34.67%) Manufacturing
4 87 (31.75%) Electronics
5 85 (31.02%) Marketing
6 80 (29.20%) Public Sector
7 77 (28.10%) Telecoms
8 74 (27.01%) Analytical Skills
9 40 (14.60%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (4.74%) Law
13 10 (3.65%) Aerospace
13 10 (3.65%) Banking
14 9 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (3.28%) Legal
15 7 (2.55%) Automotive
16 6 (2.19%) Military
16 6 (2.19%) Retail
17 4 (1.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 66 (24.09%) Lead
2 44 (16.06%) Programme Manager
3 42 (15.33%) Senior
4 31 (11.31%) Project Manager
5 29 (10.58%) Consultant
6 26 (9.49%) Security Consultant
7 25 (9.12%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 18 (6.57%) Senior Manager
9 12 (4.38%) Technical Leader
10 11 (4.01%) Architect
11 9 (3.28%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.28%) Technical Manager
12 8 (2.92%) Development Specialist
13 7 (2.55%) Analyst
13 7 (2.55%) Network Architect
13 7 (2.55%) Product Manager
13 7 (2.55%) Project Leader
13 7 (2.55%) Software Project Leader
13 7 (2.55%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) Node.js
2 4 (1.46%) Spring
2 4 (1.46%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.73%) FastAPI
3 2 (0.73%) HTML
3 2 (0.73%) JSON
4 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.36%) boto
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) CSS3
4 1 (0.36%) HTML5
4 1 (0.36%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.36%) Pandas
4 1 (0.36%) Qt
4 1 (0.36%) React
4 1 (0.36%) RESTful
4 1 (0.36%) STL
4 1 (0.36%) Vue
4 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (8.39%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.47%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.74%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.92%) IoT
6 7 (2.55%) Self-Driving Car
7 6 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.19%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.19%) SCADA
8 5 (1.82%) Clustering
8 5 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.82%) FPGA
9 4 (1.46%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.47%) Windows
2 13 (4.74%) Linux
3 9 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.73%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.66%) Agile
2 81 (29.56%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (28.10%) Digital Marketing
4 70 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (25.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (25.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (21.90%) Project Management
7 54 (19.71%) Project Delivery
8 51 (18.61%) Mentoring
9 42 (15.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 41 (14.96%) Change Management
10 41 (14.96%) Process Improvement
11 40 (14.60%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (14.23%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (13.87%) PRINCE2
14 37 (13.50%) Coaching
14 37 (13.50%) Decision-Making
15 35 (12.77%) Risk Management
16 32 (11.68%) Strategic Thinking
17 31 (11.31%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.38%) Python
2 9 (3.28%) C++
3 8 (2.92%) Java
4 6 (2.19%) C
4 6 (2.19%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.46%) Bash
5 4 (1.46%) SQL
5 4 (1.46%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) PHP
7 1 (0.36%) R
7 1 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (36.86%) Degree
2 93 (33.94%) Security Cleared
3 28 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.85%) CISSP
5 25 (9.12%) CEH
5 25 (9.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 22 (8.03%) PMP
7 21 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (6.20%) DV Cleared
8 17 (6.20%) PMI Certification
9 12 (4.38%) CCNA
9 12 (4.38%) CCNP
9 12 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (4.01%) JNCIA
11 10 (3.65%) DBS Check
12 9 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (2.92%) Master's Degree
14 6 (2.19%) HND
15 5 (1.82%) MBA
15 5 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.31%) QA
2 29 (10.58%) PMO
3 28 (10.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (9.49%) NIST
5 25 (9.12%) PCI DSS
6 22 (8.03%) Def Stans
7 9 (3.28%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.82%) SLA
9 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.73%) GDPR
10 2 (0.73%) JTAG
10 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.28%) Firmware
3 8 (2.92%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.19%) Docker
5 5 (1.82%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.82%) Autotask
3 5 (1.82%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.09%) Ansible
4 3 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (32.12%) SAP
2 30 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.20%) Cisco
4 11 (4.01%) Juniper
4 11 (4.01%) VMware
5 9 (3.28%) Oracle
6 5 (1.82%) Apple
6 5 (1.82%) Datto
6 5 (1.82%) Informatica
6 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.82%) Sophos
6 5 (1.82%) Veeam
7 3 (1.09%) EMC
7 3 (1.09%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.09%) Workday
8 2 (0.73%) Fujitsu
8 2 (0.73%) Google
8 2 (0.73%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.73%) Twitter