Programme Management Jobs

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 370 323 357
Rank change year-on-year -47 +34 -51
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 371 878 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.85% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.01% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 245 514 595
10th Percentile £46,250 £33,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,793 £41,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -17.04% +17.39%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,900 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.71% -12.50% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Top 15 Job Locations

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 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
England -65 319 £65,000 +8.33% 564
UK excluding London -57 217 £63,900 +21.71% 213
Work from Home -52 123 £65,000 +2.36% 314
London 0 106 £80,000 +10.34% 377
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 41 (11.05%) Confluence
2 8 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.54%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.54%) ThingWorx
4 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 20 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.08%) Primavera
3 1 (0.27%) Lorenzo
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.16%) Azure
2 32 (8.63%) AWS
3 22 (5.93%) GCP
4 19 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.23%) Serverless
6 9 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (2.43%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.62%) SaaS
8 5 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.35%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.35%) Collibra
8 5 (1.35%) IaaS
8 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (1.08%) PaaS
10 3 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.54%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.54%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.54%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.39%) WAN
2 15 (4.04%) SD-WAN
3 13 (3.50%) VPN
3 13 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.16%) 5G
4 8 (2.16%) Firewall
5 7 (1.89%) Network Security
6 5 (1.35%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.35%) LAN
7 4 (1.08%) Junos
7 4 (1.08%) Wireless
8 3 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.54%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.54%) LTE
9 2 (0.54%) Modbus
9 2 (0.54%) MQTT
9 2 (0.54%) RS-485
10 1 (0.27%) Mobile Broadband
10 1 (0.27%) RS-232
10 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.23%) Tableau
3 9 (2.43%) Power BI
3 9 (2.43%) RDBMS
3 9 (2.43%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.81%) Metadata
6 2 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.54%) Big Data
6 2 (0.54%) DB2
6 2 (0.54%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (0.54%) MySQL
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (8.89%) JIRA
2 6 (1.62%) Git
3 2 (0.54%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.54%) GitLab
3 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.54%) JUnit
3 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.54%) Subversion
3 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.27%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.27%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.27%) CMake
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.27%) WiX
4 1 (0.27%) Yeoman
General
1 198 (53.37%) Finance
2 163 (43.94%) Social Skills
3 130 (35.04%) Public Sector
4 124 (33.42%) Manufacturing
4 124 (33.42%) Marketing
5 122 (32.88%) Electronics
6 114 (30.73%) Telecoms
7 89 (23.99%) Analytical Skills
8 29 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (7.28%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (4.85%) Law
12 17 (4.58%) Banking
12 17 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (2.43%) Legal
14 8 (2.16%) Games
14 8 (2.16%) Retail
15 7 (1.89%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.89%) Tech for Good
16 6 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (21.02%) Senior
2 71 (19.14%) Programme Manager
3 44 (11.86%) Project Manager
4 41 (11.05%) Senior Manager
5 39 (10.51%) Lead
6 28 (7.55%) IT Manager
7 23 (6.20%) Delivery Manager
8 18 (4.85%) Developer
8 18 (4.85%) Product Manager
8 18 (4.85%) Senior Project Manager
9 16 (4.31%) IT Support
9 16 (4.31%) Support Manager
10 15 (4.04%) Capability Manager
10 15 (4.04%) IT Operations Manager
10 15 (4.04%) IT Support Manager
10 15 (4.04%) Operations Manager
11 13 (3.50%) Technical Manager
12 12 (3.23%) Architect
12 12 (3.23%) Technical Leader
13 11 (2.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.50%) FastAPI
2 12 (3.23%) REST
3 9 (2.43%) Flask
3 9 (2.43%) Node.js
4 6 (1.62%) Spring
4 6 (1.62%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.81%) HTML
5 3 (0.81%) Middleware
5 3 (0.81%) OAuth
5 3 (0.81%) React
5 3 (0.81%) Web Services
6 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.54%) CSS3
6 2 (0.54%) Django
6 2 (0.54%) HTML5
6 2 (0.54%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (0.54%) Java EE
6 2 (0.54%) RESTful
6 2 (0.54%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.93%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.39%) PMI
2 20 (5.39%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.04%) IoT
4 13 (3.50%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.16%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.62%) SCADA
8 5 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.35%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.08%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.08%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.81%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 3 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.16%) Windows
2 6 (1.62%) Linux
3 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.27%) Solaris
5 1 (0.27%) Unix
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (44.47%) Project Management
2 160 (43.13%) Agile
3 137 (36.93%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
5 120 (32.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 114 (30.73%) Digital Marketing
7 109 (29.38%) Project Delivery
8 73 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (19.41%) PRINCE2
10 71 (19.14%) Risk Management
11 50 (13.48%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (13.21%) Decision-Making
12 49 (13.21%) Roadmaps
13 48 (12.94%) Analytics
14 46 (12.40%) Service Delivery
15 43 (11.59%) Waterfall
16 42 (11.32%) ITIL
17 39 (10.51%) Business Strategy
18 38 (10.24%) Change Management
18 38 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (9.70%) Python
2 15 (4.04%) Java
3 13 (3.50%) SQL
4 8 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.16%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.89%) C++
6 6 (1.62%) C
7 4 (1.08%) C#
7 4 (1.08%) R
8 3 (0.81%) Bash
8 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.54%) PHP
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (25.61%) Degree
2 68 (18.33%) PMP
3 65 (17.52%) PMI Certification
4 58 (15.63%) Security Cleared
5 43 (11.59%) DV Cleared
6 23 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (5.93%) CISSP
7 22 (5.93%) SC Cleared
8 18 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (4.85%) Master's Degree
9 17 (4.58%) HND
10 9 (2.43%) MBA
11 8 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.89%) CCNP
12 7 (1.89%) MAPM
13 5 (1.35%) CCNA
14 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.08%) JNCIA
14 4 (1.08%) MRICS
15 3 (0.81%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.09%) QA
2 28 (7.55%) PMO
3 22 (5.93%) GDPR
4 20 (5.39%) Data Quality
5 17 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (2.43%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.62%) NIST
8 4 (1.08%) SLA
9 3 (0.81%) GxP
10 2 (0.54%) COBIT
10 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.27%) HL7
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.27%) JTAG
11 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (3.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (1.08%) Firmware
3 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (4.04%) Terraform
2 14 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.81%) Ansible
4 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (0.27%) SCCM
4 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (33.69%) SAP
2 33 (8.89%) Atlassian
3 29 (7.82%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.85%) Google
5 9 (2.43%) Oracle
6 7 (1.89%) Cisco
6 7 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.35%) Informatica
8 4 (1.08%) Juniper
8 4 (1.08%) VMware
9 3 (0.81%) Duck Creek
9 3 (0.81%) EMC
9 3 (0.81%) Palantir
9 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.54%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.54%) Freescale
10 2 (0.54%) HP
10 2 (0.54%) IBM
10 2 (0.54%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.54%) TippingPoint