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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 327 347
Rank change year-on-year -56 +20 -113
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 213 578 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.73% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.90% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 136 316 334
10th Percentile £41,875 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,900 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -10.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% +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 36,345 64,301 52,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 91.61% 80.94% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,689 43,599 28,417
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +49 56 £63,900 +26.07% 69
South East -53 50 £78,750 +36.96% 135
South West +67 45 £61,250 -3.54% 52
North West +17 43 £63,900 +26.07% 36
Midlands +15 29 £76,250 +45.94% 41
West Midlands +21 17 £92,500 +85.00% 31
Scotland +94 14 £50,000 -1.96% 19
Yorkshire +63 13 £51,500 -0.96% 26
East of England +20 13 £90,000 +68.05% 22
East Midlands +33 10 £70,000 +27.27% 7
Wales +22 6 £59,857 -7.91% 16
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 25 (11.74%) Confluence
2 3 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.94%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.94%) ThingWorx
3 2 (0.94%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (6.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.39%) AWS
2 19 (8.92%) Azure
3 12 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.23%) Serverless
5 7 (3.29%) GCP
6 6 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.35%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.35%) Collibra
7 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.35%) SaaS
8 4 (1.88%) IaaS
9 3 (1.41%) PaaS
9 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.94%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.94%) OCI
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.47%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.47%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.92%) WAN
2 13 (6.10%) SD-WAN
3 12 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (5.16%) VPN
5 8 (3.76%) 5G
6 6 (2.82%) Ethernet
6 6 (2.82%) LAN
7 5 (2.35%) Junos
8 4 (1.88%) Wireless
9 3 (1.41%) Bluetooth
9 3 (1.41%) Firewall
9 3 (1.41%) Modbus
9 3 (1.41%) MQTT
10 2 (0.94%) LoRaWAN
10 2 (0.94%) LTE
10 2 (0.94%) Network Security
10 2 (0.94%) RS-485
11 1 (0.47%) Mobile Broadband
11 1 (0.47%) Profibus
11 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.88%) Tableau
3 3 (1.41%) Power BI
4 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.94%) Big Data
4 2 (0.94%) DB2
4 2 (0.94%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.94%) MySQL
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Flink
5 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (13.15%) JIRA
2 7 (3.29%) Git
3 2 (0.94%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.94%) GitLab
3 2 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.94%) JUnit
3 2 (0.94%) Subversion
4 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.47%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.47%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.47%) CMake
4 1 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.47%) WiX
4 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 99 (46.48%) Finance
2 80 (37.56%) Social Skills
3 63 (29.58%) Manufacturing
4 59 (27.70%) Electronics
5 53 (24.88%) Public Sector
6 51 (23.94%) Marketing
7 49 (23.00%) Telecoms
8 40 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (10.33%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (7.51%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (5.16%) Banking
13 10 (4.69%) Law
14 9 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (2.35%) Tech for Good
16 4 (1.88%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.88%) Aviation
16 4 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.88%) Retail
17 3 (1.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (20.19%) Programme Manager
2 36 (16.90%) Lead
3 34 (15.96%) Senior
4 27 (12.68%) Project Manager
5 17 (7.98%) Delivery Manager
6 15 (7.04%) Capability Manager
6 15 (7.04%) Senior Manager
7 11 (5.16%) Technical Leader
8 10 (4.69%) Project Leader
9 9 (4.23%) Architect
9 9 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) Development Specialist
10 8 (3.76%) Infrastructure Manager
10 8 (3.76%) Senior Project Leader
10 8 (3.76%) Software Project Leader
10 8 (3.76%) Technical Manager
10 8 (3.76%) Technical Project Leader
11 7 (3.29%) Embedded Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
12 6 (2.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.82%) Node.js
2 4 (1.88%) Spring
2 4 (1.88%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.41%) OAuth
4 2 (0.94%) ADO
4 2 (0.94%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.94%) HTML
4 2 (0.94%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (0.94%) J2EE
4 2 (0.94%) Java EE
4 2 (0.94%) REST
4 2 (0.94%) SOAP
4 2 (0.94%) Web Services
4 2 (0.94%) XML
5 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.47%) CSS
5 1 (0.47%) Middleware
5 1 (0.47%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.47%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.47%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.92%) Management Information System
2 16 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.63%) IoT
4 11 (5.16%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.76%) SCADA
6 8 (3.76%) Self-Driving Car
7 6 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.82%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.35%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.88%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.88%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 3 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.41%) Social Media
11 2 (0.94%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.29%) Windows
2 5 (2.35%) Linux
3 3 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Android
4 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.47%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (38.97%) Agile
2 76 (35.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 69 (32.39%) Project Management
4 67 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (29.58%) Project Delivery
6 52 (24.41%) Business Intelligence
7 48 (22.54%) Digital Marketing
8 38 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (17.37%) Risk Management
10 33 (15.49%) Analytics
10 33 (15.49%) PRINCE2
11 31 (14.55%) Computer Science
12 30 (14.08%) Business Strategy
13 27 (12.68%) Decision-Making
14 26 (12.21%) Coaching
15 25 (11.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 23 (10.80%) Change Management
17 22 (10.33%) Waterfall
18 21 (9.86%) Project Governance
18 21 (9.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.57%) Python
2 11 (5.16%) Java
3 8 (3.76%) C++
4 6 (2.82%) C
5 4 (1.88%) Bash
5 4 (1.88%) SQL
5 4 (1.88%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.94%) R
8 1 (0.47%) C#
8 1 (0.47%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.47%) PHP
8 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (32.39%) Degree
2 29 (13.62%) PMP
3 28 (13.15%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (8.92%) PMI Certification
5 17 (7.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (7.98%) HND
6 15 (7.04%) DV Cleared
6 15 (7.04%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.69%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.82%) CCNA
8 6 (2.82%) CCNP
8 6 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.35%) JNCIA
9 5 (2.35%) MBA
10 4 (1.88%) CISSP
11 3 (1.41%) CISM
11 3 (1.41%) CSPO
12 2 (0.94%) CEH
12 2 (0.94%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.86%) PMO
2 11 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.35%) GDPR
5 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.88%) SLA
6 3 (1.41%) NIST
6 3 (1.41%) QA
7 2 (0.94%) COBIT
7 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.94%) JTAG
7 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (2.35%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (2.35%) Firmware
2 3 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.94%) Docker
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.35%) Terraform
2 4 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.41%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (25.82%) SAP
2 21 (9.86%) Atlassian
3 17 (7.98%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.29%) Cisco
5 6 (2.82%) Oracle
5 6 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.35%) Google
6 5 (2.35%) Informatica
6 5 (2.35%) Juniper
7 3 (1.41%) EMC
7 3 (1.41%) VMware
8 2 (0.94%) Curam
8 2 (0.94%) Freescale
8 2 (0.94%) Instagram
8 2 (0.94%) JD Edwards
8 2 (0.94%) NVIDIA
8 2 (0.94%) Twitter
9 1 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.47%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.47%) Xero