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 1 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 295 333
Rank change year-on-year +15 +38 -89
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 289 620 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.95% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.11% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 140 328 338
10th Percentile £36,902 £32,750 £35,525
25th Percentile £52,375 £41,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,900 £51,997 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.89% -12.98% +13.81%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £88,850 £81,975
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -18.52% +12.50%

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 32,436 55,998 61,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.46% 85.44% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,049 39,448 31,478
10th Percentile £29,200 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £66,350 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +5.45% -10.57% +2.50%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +157 142 £63,900 +26.07% 63
North West +103 115 £63,900 +26.07% 38
Midlands +6 50 £75,000 +42.86% 34
South East -24 44 £60,000 +10.80% 84
South West +18 29 £61,250 - 38
Yorkshire +79 25 £55,000 +5.78% 18
West Midlands -7 24 £91,250 +80.79% 25
East Midlands +36 16 £41,000 -25.45% 9
East of England +40 11 £85,000 +58.88% 32
Scotland +68 10 £60,000 +20.00% 17
North East +30 2 - - 7
Wales +30 2 £42,500 -19.41% 3
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 14
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 34 (11.76%) Confluence
2 8 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.69%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.35%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.35%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.38%) Azure
2 21 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (6.92%) AWS
4 7 (2.42%) Serverless
5 5 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (1.73%) Amazon S3
5 5 (1.73%) GCP
5 5 (1.73%) SaaS
6 4 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.38%) IaaS
7 3 (1.04%) PaaS
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (0.69%) OCI
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.35%) Dropbox
9 1 (0.35%) Kong
9 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.88%) WAN
2 16 (5.54%) SD-WAN
3 12 (4.15%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.42%) Wireless
5 6 (2.08%) 5G
5 6 (2.08%) VPN
6 5 (1.73%) LTE
6 5 (1.73%) Modbus
7 4 (1.38%) 3G
7 4 (1.38%) GPRS
8 3 (1.04%) Broadband
8 3 (1.04%) Ethernet
8 3 (1.04%) Firewall
8 3 (1.04%) Mobile Broadband
9 2 (0.69%) DHCP
9 2 (0.69%) DNS
9 2 (0.69%) Network Security
9 2 (0.69%) Profibus
10 1 (0.35%) HTTP
10 1 (0.35%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.69%) DB2
2 2 (0.69%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (0.69%) MySQL
2 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.35%) Flink
3 1 (0.35%) GIS
3 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.35%) Power BI
3 1 (0.35%) Spatial Data
3 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.35%) SQLite
3 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (10.38%) JIRA
2 6 (2.08%) Git
3 4 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.69%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.69%) GitLab
4 2 (0.69%) JUnit
4 2 (0.69%) Subversion
5 1 (0.35%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.35%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.35%) CMake
5 1 (0.35%) Gerrit
5 1 (0.35%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.35%) Maven
5 1 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.35%) WiX
5 1 (0.35%) Yeoman
General
1 112 (38.75%) Finance
1 112 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.45%) Public Sector
3 59 (20.42%) Legal
4 57 (19.72%) Electronics
5 50 (17.30%) Manufacturing
6 49 (16.96%) Telecoms
7 47 (16.26%) Marketing
8 32 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (5.19%) Banking
10 15 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (3.46%) Tech for Good
13 4 (1.38%) French Language
13 4 (1.38%) Police
14 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.04%) Games
14 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 98 (33.91%) Senior
2 70 (24.22%) Project Manager
3 49 (16.96%) Programme Manager
4 46 (15.92%) Auditor
4 46 (15.92%) IT Auditor
4 46 (15.92%) Senior Auditor
4 46 (15.92%) Senior IT Auditor
5 38 (13.15%) Senior Manager
6 29 (10.03%) Lead
7 24 (8.30%) Delivery Manager
7 24 (8.30%) Senior Project Manager
8 15 (5.19%) Capability Manager
9 12 (4.15%) IT Manager
9 12 (4.15%) Senior Programme Manager
10 11 (3.81%) Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (3.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (3.46%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
11 10 (3.46%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
11 10 (3.46%) Senior Infrastructure Programme Manager
11 10 (3.46%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.38%) Node.js
1 4 (1.38%) REST
2 3 (1.04%) HTML
2 3 (1.04%) Java EE
2 3 (1.04%) Middleware
2 3 (1.04%) OAuth
2 3 (1.04%) Web Services
3 2 (0.69%) ADO
3 2 (0.69%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.69%) CSS
3 2 (0.69%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (0.69%) J2EE
3 2 (0.69%) React
3 2 (0.69%) RESTful
3 2 (0.69%) SOAP
3 2 (0.69%) Spring
3 2 (0.69%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.69%) XML
4 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.81%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.46%) IoT
4 9 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.42%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.08%) SCADA
6 6 (2.08%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.38%) NB-IoT
8 3 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) Analogue Electronics
9 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.77%) Linux
2 7 (2.42%) Windows
3 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (43.25%) Project Management
2 98 (33.91%) Agile
3 83 (28.72%) Risk Management
4 70 (24.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 63 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (21.45%) Project Delivery
7 53 (18.34%) Information Security
8 52 (17.99%) Service Management
9 47 (16.26%) Budgeting
9 47 (16.26%) Business Intelligence
9 47 (16.26%) Data Privacy
10 46 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (15.92%) Internal Audit
10 46 (15.92%) IT Audit
10 46 (15.92%) ITSM
11 45 (15.57%) Digital Marketing
11 45 (15.57%) PRINCE2
12 33 (11.42%) Business Strategy
13 31 (10.73%) Budget Management
13 31 (10.73%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.84%) Java
2 13 (4.50%) Python
3 8 (2.77%) SQL
4 7 (2.42%) C
4 7 (2.42%) C++
5 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.69%) C#
6 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Bash
7 1 (0.35%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.35%) PHP
7 1 (0.35%) R
7 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 113 (39.10%) Degree
2 52 (17.99%) Master's Degree
3 48 (16.61%) CISM
4 46 (15.92%) CISA
5 41 (14.19%) PMP
6 18 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (5.54%) HND
7 16 (5.54%) Security Cleared
8 12 (4.15%) MAPM
8 12 (4.15%) MRICS
9 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.11%) PMI Certification
10 9 (3.11%) SC Cleared
11 3 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.69%) CEH
12 2 (0.69%) GIAC
12 2 (0.69%) ISSAP
12 2 (0.69%) PhD
12 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.92%) GRC
2 24 (8.30%) PMO
3 7 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.08%) QA
5 5 (1.73%) GDPR
6 4 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.38%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.04%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.69%) COBIT
8 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.69%) NIST
8 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.69%) SLA
8 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.35%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.69%) Firmware
2 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (0.69%) vSphere
3 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.38%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.38%) Terraform
2 2 (0.69%) Ansible
2 2 (0.69%) Nagios
2 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (16.26%) SAP
2 33 (11.42%) Atlassian
3 23 (7.96%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.46%) Siemens
5 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.38%) Google
6 4 (1.38%) Oracle
6 4 (1.38%) VMware
7 2 (0.69%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.69%) Curam
7 2 (0.69%) IBM
7 2 (0.69%) NEC
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco
8 1 (0.35%) Citrix
8 1 (0.35%) EMC
8 1 (0.35%) ESRI
8 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.35%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.35%) Remedy
8 1 (0.35%) Xero