Programme Management (Program Management)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Programme Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Programme Management over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 344 308
Rank change year-on-year +33 -36 -41
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 907 1,003 2,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.99% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.03% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 531 632 1,313
10th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £58,135
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +16.11% -6.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.92% +14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Programme Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Top 17 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 8 May 2024. 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 +4 747 £58,457 -13.40% 329
UK excluding London +15 610 £52,250 -12.92% 212
Work from Home +37 349 £60,000 - 151
London +81 233 £70,000 -12.50% 124
South East -7 195 £54,151 -16.69% 52
South West -28 103 £63,500 +16.30% 28
Midlands +31 100 £51,997 -5.46% 29
West Midlands +27 70 £47,500 -5.00% 21
North of England +19 68 £50,685 -24.91% 53
Scotland -20 57 £50,000 -16.67% 13
North West +11 46 £50,685 -26.94% 34
Northern Ireland - 38 £35,000 - 8
East of England -19 31 £53,555 -27.14% 29
East Midlands 0 30 £55,000 -8.73% 7
Wales +19 19 £52,738 +2.26% 7
North East +2 12 £39,000 -46.94% 4
Yorkshire +49 10 £51,997 -13.34% 15

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 50 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.99%) WordPress
3 8 (0.88%) Confluence
3 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.77%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.66%) Apache
5 6 (0.66%) nginx
6 5 (0.55%) CMS
6 5 (0.55%) SAS
7 4 (0.44%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 118 (13.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (9.59%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.66%) OrCAD
5 6 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.55%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.44%) Doxygen
7 4 (0.44%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.33%) SPSS
8 3 (0.33%) Stata
9 2 (0.22%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (6.50%) Primavera
2 7 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.22%) CA PPM
5 2 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (8.93%) Azure
2 48 (5.29%) AWS
3 36 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 27 (2.98%) dbt
6 18 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (1.98%) Smartsheet
7 16 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (1.43%) GitHub
8 13 (1.43%) SaaS
9 10 (1.10%) GCP
10 9 (0.99%) Google Drive
11 8 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.88%) OneDrive
12 7 (0.77%) PowerApps
13 6 (0.66%) ChatGPT
13 6 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (0.66%) PaaS
14 5 (0.55%) AWS IoT
14 5 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.54%) Network Security
2 20 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (1.98%) HTTP
3 18 (1.98%) Wireless
4 15 (1.65%) MQTT
5 11 (1.21%) DNS
5 11 (1.21%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.10%) Modbus
7 9 (0.99%) Ethernet
7 9 (0.99%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.88%) 3G
8 8 (0.88%) 4G
8 8 (0.88%) LAN
8 8 (0.88%) LTE
8 8 (0.88%) WAN
9 7 (0.77%) Bluetooth
10 6 (0.66%) GPRS
10 6 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
11 5 (0.55%) Firewall
11 5 (0.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.65%) Power BI
2 23 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.09%) Tableau
4 9 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
5 7 (0.77%) Redis
5 7 (0.77%) SQLite
6 6 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.66%) GIS
7 5 (0.55%) Data Mining
7 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.44%) MySQL
8 4 (0.44%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.33%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.22%) Big Data
10 2 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.22%) OLAP
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (3.64%) JIRA
2 30 (3.31%) Git
3 17 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 15 (1.65%) Subversion
5 11 (1.21%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.77%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.55%) Maven
8 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) GitLab
9 2 (0.22%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.22%) Selenium
9 2 (0.22%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.11%) Snyk
10 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 408 (44.98%) Social Skills
2 363 (40.02%) Finance
3 285 (31.42%) Public Sector
4 223 (24.59%) Marketing
5 205 (22.60%) Manufacturing
6 193 (21.28%) Telecoms
7 176 (19.40%) Electronics
8 138 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
9 61 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 48 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (5.18%) Legal
12 43 (4.74%) Retail
13 41 (4.52%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (4.52%) Law
14 37 (4.08%) Local Government
15 32 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (3.20%) Digital Economy
17 21 (2.32%) Banking
17 21 (2.32%) Military
18 20 (2.21%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 177 (19.51%) Project Manager
2 163 (17.97%) Senior
3 118 (13.01%) Senior Manager
4 88 (9.70%) Programme Manager
5 75 (8.27%) Senior Project Manager
6 52 (5.73%) Project Controller
7 51 (5.62%) Analyst
7 51 (5.62%) IT Manager
8 44 (4.85%) Consultant
9 43 (4.74%) Software Engineer
10 37 (4.08%) Lead
11 34 (3.75%) Business Analyst
11 34 (3.75%) Developer
12 28 (3.09%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.76%) Electronics Engineer
14 23 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
14 23 (2.54%) Product Manager
15 21 (2.32%) Embedded Engineer
16 20 (2.21%) Security Consultant
17 19 (2.09%) Senior Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.86%) HTML
2 30 (3.31%) React
3 29 (3.20%) AngularJS
4 28 (3.09%) CSS
5 18 (1.98%) Flask
6 14 (1.54%) .NET
7 13 (1.43%) Django
7 13 (1.43%) Spring
8 9 (0.99%) .NET Framework
8 9 (0.99%) HTML5
8 9 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
9 8 (0.88%) Svelte
10 7 (0.77%) Qt
11 6 (0.66%) Dask
11 6 (0.66%) EDI
11 6 (0.66%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (0.66%) LDAP
11 6 (0.66%) Node.js
11 6 (0.66%) NumPy
11 6 (0.66%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
2 42 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 41 (4.52%) Social Media
4 27 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.43%) NHS
7 21 (2.32%) IoT
8 20 (2.21%) PMI
9 18 (1.98%) Cyber Defence
9 18 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
9 18 (1.98%) Security Operations Centre
10 14 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.32%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.32%) FPGA
12 11 (1.21%) Blog
12 11 (1.21%) Driving Licence
13 9 (0.99%) Arduino
13 9 (0.99%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.99%) VHDL
14 8 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.28%) Linux
2 50 (5.51%) Windows
3 4 (0.44%) VMS
4 3 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.22%) Android
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) AIX
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (37.38%) Project Management
2 274 (30.21%) Agile
3 205 (22.60%) Business Intelligence
4 176 (19.40%) Digital Marketing
4 176 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (18.30%) Change Management
6 159 (17.53%) Risk Management
7 136 (14.99%) Project Delivery
8 134 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 129 (14.22%) PRINCE2
10 112 (12.35%) Decision-Making
11 111 (12.24%) Business Case
12 102 (11.25%) Mentoring
13 95 (10.47%) Coaching
14 84 (9.26%) Analytics
15 75 (8.27%) Software Engineering
16 74 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 65 (7.17%) Roadmaps
17 65 (7.17%) Systems Engineering
18 64 (7.06%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 80 (8.82%) Python
2 56 (6.17%) JavaScript
2 56 (6.17%) SQL
3 51 (5.62%) C
4 39 (4.30%) C++
5 37 (4.08%) Java
6 36 (3.97%) C#
7 18 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.76%) Embedded C
9 15 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.43%) MATLAB
11 12 (1.32%) R
12 10 (1.10%) PHP
13 9 (0.99%) Bash
14 8 (0.88%) Embedded C++
14 8 (0.88%) Go
15 5 (0.55%) Assembly Language
16 4 (0.44%) Bicep
17 3 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 250 (27.56%) Degree
2 135 (14.88%) Security Cleared
3 80 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 56 (6.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 46 (5.07%) PMI Certification
6 39 (4.30%) DV Cleared
7 30 (3.31%) PMP
8 25 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 22 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.65%) HNC
11 12 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.10%) CCNP
14 9 (0.99%) CCNA
14 9 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.88%) CCSA
15 8 (0.88%) CISSP
15 8 (0.88%) PgMP
16 7 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.82%) PMO
2 59 (6.50%) QA
3 20 (2.21%) NIST
4 19 (2.09%) NIST 800
5 17 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.65%) ISO 9001
7 11 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.88%) ISO 9000
9 8 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.44%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.44%) JTAG
11 3 (0.33%) P3O
12 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.22%) GDPR
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.22%) MISRA
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (4.41%) Firmware
2 13 (1.43%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (1.21%) Docker
4 3 (0.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) NFS
4 3 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.87%) Terraform
2 9 (0.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.11%) Grafana
4 1 (0.11%) IBM BigFix
4 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.11%) SCCM
4 1 (0.11%) systemd
4 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 195 (21.50%) SAP
2 156 (17.20%) Microsoft
3 23 (2.54%) Google
4 13 (1.43%) Oracle
5 11 (1.21%) EMC
5 11 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.10%) Cisco
7 9 (0.99%) CheckPoint
7 9 (0.99%) Xero
8 7 (0.77%) NVIDIA
9 6 (0.66%) Meraki
9 6 (0.66%) VMware
10 5 (0.55%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.55%) Cognos
10 5 (0.55%) iManage
11 4 (0.44%) Adobe
12 3 (0.33%) Thales
12 3 (0.33%) Workday
12 3 (0.33%) Xilinx
13 2 (0.22%) Atlassian