Programme Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Programme Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 300 265
Rank change year-on-year +1 -35 +60
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 251 262 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.80% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.88% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 122 94 313
10th Percentile £32,900 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,784 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,305 £52,738
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +16.24% -9.85%
75th Percentile £69,693 £82,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £89,900 £96,750 £82,250
UK median annual salary £63,076 £71,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.16% +23.48% -14.81%

All Process & 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 36,473 29,681 43,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 76.97% 90.70% 86.83%
Number of salaries quoted 21,404 13,454 33,036
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,750 £78,479
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Programme Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Programme Management job vacancy trend 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 13 February 2026.

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 13 February 2026. 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
South East +26 63 £85,750 +42.92% 36
South West +27 54 £57,500 +21.05% 8
Midlands -3 41 £43,700 -30.14% 10
North of England -71 36 £56,500 -16.30% 11
Northern Ireland +10 32 - - 1
East Midlands 0 24 £50,269 +47.85% 3
North West -50 21 £55,000 -20.00% 5
East of England +26 17 £65,000 +0.40% 7
West Midlands +2 17 £35,000 -54.84% 7
Yorkshire -47 12 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Scotland -17 6 £28,000 -44.00% 3
North East -4 3 £63,076 -
Wales - 2 £58,446 - 3
Programme Management
UK

Programme Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.99%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.80%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (8.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.59%) Primavera
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (5.58%) Azure
3 12 (4.78%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.59%) AWS
5 8 (3.19%) Amazon Alexa
6 7 (2.79%) Asana
7 6 (2.39%) GCP
8 4 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.20%) SaaS
9 3 (1.20%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.80%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.80%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.80%) OCI
11 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.39%) VPN
2 5 (1.99%) Junos
2 5 (1.99%) LAN
2 5 (1.99%) WAN
2 5 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.59%) Network Security
4 3 (1.20%) DHCP
4 3 (1.20%) DNS
4 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) 5G
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
5 1 (0.40%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.78%) Power BI
2 4 (1.59%) Tableau
3 3 (1.20%) Metadata
3 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) Big Data
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.40%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 39 (15.54%) JIRA
2 21 (8.37%) eCATT
3 12 (4.78%) NeoLoad
4 7 (2.79%) Git
4 7 (2.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.20%) GitLab
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
General
1 166 (66.14%) Finance
2 119 (47.41%) Social Skills
3 103 (41.04%) Manufacturing
4 102 (40.64%) Marketing
5 91 (36.25%) Public Sector
6 78 (31.08%) Telecoms
7 77 (30.68%) Electronics
8 45 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (11.16%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (10.76%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (9.96%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (9.16%) Retail
13 13 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (4.38%) Legal
15 10 (3.98%) Law
16 8 (3.19%) French Language
16 8 (3.19%) German Language
16 8 (3.19%) Italian Language
17 6 (2.39%) Aerospace
17 6 (2.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (13.15%) Consultant
2 30 (11.95%) Lead
3 29 (11.55%) Analyst
4 28 (11.16%) Security Consultant
5 26 (10.36%) Senior
6 25 (9.96%) Project Manager
7 23 (9.16%) Senior Manager
8 21 (8.37%) Test Analyst
9 15 (5.98%) Portfolio Manager
10 13 (5.18%) Senior Portfolio Manager
11 12 (4.78%) Infrastructure Manager
11 12 (4.78%) Performance Analyst
11 12 (4.78%) Performance Test Analyst
11 12 (4.78%) Testing Analyst
12 11 (4.38%) Field Engineer
12 11 (4.38%) Security Manager
13 10 (3.98%) Senior Project Manager
14 9 (3.59%) Automation Test Analyst
14 9 (3.59%) Developer
15 7 (2.79%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.36%) SAP CAF
2 3 (1.20%) JSON
2 3 (1.20%) Pandas
3 2 (0.80%) Bootstrap
3 2 (0.80%) CSS
3 2 (0.80%) FastAPI
3 2 (0.80%) Flask
3 2 (0.80%) HTML
3 2 (0.80%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (0.80%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.80%) RESTful
3 2 (0.80%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.80%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.80%) WebCenter
3 2 (0.80%) XML
4 1 (0.40%) JSON-LD
4 1 (0.40%) Node.js
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.40%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.94%) Management Information System
2 24 (9.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (6.77%) FMCG
4 15 (5.98%) PMI
5 14 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (5.18%) Driving Licence
7 9 (3.59%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.79%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.39%) PDA
10 5 (1.99%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.59%) EPoS
12 3 (1.20%) Semantic Web
13 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
14 1 (0.40%) AI Agents
14 1 (0.40%) Genomics
14 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.20%) Unix
2 3 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (43.43%) Business Intelligence
2 93 (37.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 88 (35.06%) Project Management
4 77 (30.68%) Digital Marketing
5 63 (25.10%) Risk Management
6 56 (22.31%) ERP
7 53 (21.12%) Decision-Making
8 50 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (19.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 46 (18.33%) Coaching
10 46 (18.33%) PRINCE2
11 44 (17.53%) Project Delivery
12 42 (16.73%) Change Management
13 41 (16.33%) Agile
14 40 (15.94%) Logistics
14 40 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 38 (15.14%) Roadmaps
16 37 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
17 35 (13.94%) Collaborative Culture
17 35 (13.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.18%) Python
2 10 (3.98%) SQL
3 5 (1.99%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.20%) Bash
5 2 (0.80%) C#
5 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.40%) Bicep
6 1 (0.40%) C++
6 1 (0.40%) Java
6 1 (0.40%) SHACL
6 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 83 (33.07%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.30%) Degree
3 52 (20.72%) SC Cleared
4 30 (11.95%) CISM
4 30 (11.95%) CISSP
5 26 (10.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 25 (9.96%) DV Cleared
6 25 (9.96%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.78%) PMP
8 7 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.39%) A+ Certification
9 6 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.99%) CCNA
10 5 (1.99%) CCNP
10 5 (1.99%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.99%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.20%) HNC
11 3 (1.20%) HND
12 2 (0.80%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.75%) PMO
1 32 (12.75%) QA
2 30 (11.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (10.76%) NIST
4 26 (10.36%) GRC
5 12 (4.78%) P3O
6 7 (2.79%) SLA
7 5 (1.99%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.20%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.20%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.80%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (2.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (8.37%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.20%) Ansible
2 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.80%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 120 (47.81%) SAP
2 27 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.76%) HP
4 19 (7.57%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.39%) Cisco
5 6 (2.39%) Juniper
5 6 (2.39%) Oracle
6 2 (0.80%) Adobe
6 2 (0.80%) IFS
6 2 (0.80%) VMware
7 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.40%) Dell
7 1 (0.40%) Okta
7 1 (0.40%) Palantir
7 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.40%) Planon
7 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.40%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.40%) Veeam
7 1 (0.40%) Workday