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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 406 247
Rank change year-on-year +106 -159 +15
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 266 241 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 0.44% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.56% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 162 121 291
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,933 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,736
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.75% +8.07%
75th Percentile £72,163 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -

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 29,785 43,415 32,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.72% 78.53% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 16,122 23,546 23,598
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 17 September 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 17 September 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
South East +45 87 £62,500 -1.69% 107
South West +85 68 £50,000 -20.00% 37
Midlands +63 39 £47,500 +5.56% 35
North of England +35 29 £58,000 -2.36% 37
West Midlands +54 23 £47,500 -23.53% 19
North West +14 22 £58,000 -10.62% 22
East Midlands +38 16 £67,635 +125.45% 15
East of England +4 15 £65,000 +17.12% 19
Scotland +67 14 £60,000 +10.75% 16
Wales +20 14 £48,122 -25.97% 5
Yorkshire +20 7 £52,276 +4.55% 7
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 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.88%) IIS
3 4 (1.50%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.38%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 23 (8.65%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (4.89%) Azure
3 10 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (1.88%) AWS
4 5 (1.88%) Collibra
4 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (1.50%) SaaS
6 2 (0.75%) AWS IoT
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (0.75%) GCP
6 2 (0.75%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.75%) Serverless
7 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (10.90%) Network Security
2 17 (6.39%) VPN
3 16 (6.02%) WAN
4 12 (4.51%) Junos
4 12 (4.51%) LAN
4 12 (4.51%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.63%) IPsec
5 7 (2.63%) Wireless
6 6 (2.26%) Firewall
6 6 (2.26%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.88%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (1.88%) DHCP
7 5 (1.88%) DNS
7 5 (1.88%) Ethernet
7 5 (1.88%) VLAN
7 5 (1.88%) VoIP
8 4 (1.50%) 5G
9 2 (0.75%) Modbus
9 2 (0.75%) MQTT
9 2 (0.75%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.76%) Geospatial Data
1 10 (3.76%) GIS
2 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.88%) Tableau
4 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.75%) Big Data
5 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.75%) Power BI
6 1 (0.38%) Metadata
6 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (12.41%) JIRA
2 25 (9.40%) Git
3 23 (8.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.38%) CMake
4 1 (0.38%) Gatling
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) JMeter
4 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.38%) Subversion
4 1 (0.38%) WiX
4 1 (0.38%) Yeoman
General
1 166 (62.41%) Finance
2 111 (41.73%) Social Skills
3 98 (36.84%) Manufacturing
4 89 (33.46%) Marketing
5 86 (32.33%) Electronics
6 84 (31.58%) Public Sector
7 81 (30.45%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (30.45%) Telecoms
8 37 (13.91%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (6.77%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (6.77%) Retail
11 13 (4.89%) Law
12 10 (3.76%) Banking
12 10 (3.76%) Legal
13 9 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.26%) Aerospace
14 6 (2.26%) Military
15 4 (1.50%) Automotive
15 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 72 (27.07%) Lead
2 36 (13.53%) Consultant
3 35 (13.16%) Programme Manager
4 33 (12.41%) Senior
5 32 (12.03%) Security Consultant
6 28 (10.53%) Project Manager
7 26 (9.77%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 14 (5.26%) Senior Manager
9 12 (4.51%) Architect
10 9 (3.38%) Technical Leader
10 9 (3.38%) Technical Manager
11 8 (3.01%) Development Specialist
11 8 (3.01%) Support Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) IT Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) Network Architect
12 7 (2.63%) Product Manager
13 6 (2.26%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 6 (2.26%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
13 6 (2.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.88%) SAP CAF
2 2 (0.75%) FastAPI
2 2 (0.75%) Node.js
2 2 (0.75%) Spring
2 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.38%) HTML
3 1 (0.38%) JSON
3 1 (0.38%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.38%) Pandas
3 1 (0.38%) Qt
3 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 26 (9.77%) Management Information System
3 20 (7.52%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (5.26%) FMCG
5 12 (4.51%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.38%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.88%) Clustering
7 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.88%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.88%) FPGA
7 5 (1.88%) IoT
7 5 (1.88%) SCADA
8 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.50%) PDA
8 4 (1.50%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.13%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.13%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.75%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.89%) Linux
1 13 (4.89%) Windows
2 8 (3.01%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.88%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (36.47%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (30.45%) Digital Marketing
3 78 (29.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (27.82%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (25.56%) Agile
6 56 (21.05%) Project Management
7 54 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (19.17%) Project Delivery
9 49 (18.42%) Decision-Making
10 48 (18.05%) Change Management
11 47 (17.67%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (17.67%) Mentoring
12 41 (15.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (15.04%) Analytics
13 40 (15.04%) Process Improvement
14 38 (14.29%) Coaching
14 38 (14.29%) Risk Management
15 36 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (12.03%) PRINCE2
16 32 (12.03%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.38%) Python
2 7 (2.63%) C++
3 6 (2.26%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.88%) C
5 4 (1.50%) Bash
6 3 (1.13%) Java
7 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.75%) SQL
7 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.38%) PHP
8 1 (0.38%) R
8 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 107 (40.23%) Degree
2 99 (37.22%) Security Cleared
3 36 (13.53%) CISSP
4 34 (12.78%) SC Cleared
5 25 (9.40%) CEH
5 25 (9.40%) CompTIA Security+
6 19 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (6.77%) PMP
8 14 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (5.26%) PMI Certification
9 13 (4.89%) CCNA
9 13 (4.89%) CCNP
10 12 (4.51%) DV Cleared
10 12 (4.51%) JNCIA
11 10 (3.76%) CISM
11 10 (3.76%) DBS Check
12 8 (3.01%) Master's Degree
13 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.26%) HND
14 5 (1.88%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (12.03%) NIST
3 30 (11.28%) QA
4 25 (9.40%) PCI DSS
5 22 (8.27%) Def Stans
6 21 (7.89%) PMO
7 9 (3.38%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.88%) GRC
8 5 (1.88%) SLA
9 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.75%) GDPR
10 2 (0.75%) JTAG
10 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 9 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.63%) Firmware
2 7 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.26%) Docker
4 5 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.13%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.88%) Autotask
2 5 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.88%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.38%) Ansible
3 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 105 (39.47%) SAP
2 32 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.77%) Cisco
4 17 (6.39%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.51%) Juniper
6 10 (3.76%) VMware
7 7 (2.63%) Oracle
8 5 (1.88%) Apple
8 5 (1.88%) Datto
8 5 (1.88%) Informatica
8 5 (1.88%) Sophos
8 5 (1.88%) Veeam
9 4 (1.50%) Workday
10 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.75%) EMC
11 2 (0.75%) Fujitsu
11 2 (0.75%) Google
11 2 (0.75%) Instagram
11 2 (0.75%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.75%) NVIDIA