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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 334 343
Rank change year-on-year -52 +9 -46
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 250 230 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.68% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.77% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 91 148 253
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,950 £32,900
25th Percentile £41,585 £47,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £57,750 £54,151
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.65% -11.02%
75th Percentile £91,750 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £93,250 £101,000
UK median annual salary £73,925 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.73% +13.04% -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 51,233 29,845 53,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.48% 88.11% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 36,051 16,147 35,683
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,733 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,245 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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
Northern Ireland - 131 - - 5
South East -42 34 £90,000 +50.00% 39
North of England -41 26 £63,000 +20.52% 24
South West -116 17 £75,000 +50.00% 18
West Midlands -35 16 £40,000 -36.00% 12
Midlands -42 16 £40,000 -51.52% 19
Yorkshire -28 15 £63,000 +20.52% 14
East of England -10 12 £40,000 -55.56% 10
North West -15 9 £54,000 -6.90% 9
Wales -49 8 £72,500 +21.12% 4
Scotland +11 6 £62,231 +3.72% 7
North East - 2 £125,000 - 2
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 4 (1.60%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (0.80%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.40%) Azure
2 54 (21.60%) Entra ID
3 51 (20.40%) SaaS
4 15 (6.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.00%) AWS
6 4 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (1.60%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.60%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (1.60%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.60%) Serverless
7 3 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.20%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.80%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.60%) IPv4
1 4 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.60%) Power BI
2 13 (5.20%) Tableau
3 2 (0.80%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.40%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (4.00%) JIRA
2 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.60%) Git
2 4 (1.60%) GitLab
2 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
General
1 179 (71.60%) Social Skills
2 103 (41.20%) Legal
3 56 (22.40%) Law
4 44 (17.60%) Finance
5 26 (10.40%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (7.60%) Public Sector
8 16 (6.40%) Local Government
9 13 (5.20%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.40%) Aerospace
11 10 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (2.80%) Electronics
13 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.40%) Telecoms
14 5 (2.00%) Retail
15 4 (1.60%) Swedish Language
16 3 (1.20%) Back Office
16 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.20%) Marketing
16 3 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 113 (45.20%) Senior
1 113 (45.20%) Senior Manager
2 49 (19.60%) Testing Manager
3 23 (9.20%) Infrastructure Manager
4 21 (8.40%) Security Manager
5 19 (7.60%) Programme Manager
6 16 (6.40%) Lead
7 12 (4.80%) Consultant
8 11 (4.40%) Management Consultant
8 11 (4.40%) Programme Management Office Consultant
8 11 (4.40%) Programme Office Consultant
9 9 (3.60%) Portfolio Manager
9 9 (3.60%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.20%) Insight Manager
10 8 (3.20%) IT Manager
11 7 (2.80%) Analyst
11 7 (2.80%) Senior Portfolio Manager
12 6 (2.40%) NHS Performance Manager
12 6 (2.40%) Performance Manager
12 6 (2.40%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.60%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.60%) Virtual Team
2 27 (10.80%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.40%) NHS
4 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.80%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.40%) PMI
7 5 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Robotics
8 4 (1.60%) Verilog
8 4 (1.60%) VHDL
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.80%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.40%) Genomics
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.40%) Life Science
11 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.60%) Linux
1 4 (1.60%) Windows
1 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (57.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 119 (47.60%) Mentoring
3 116 (46.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 113 (45.20%) PRINCE2
5 107 (42.80%) Strategic Planning
6 105 (42.00%) Performance Management
7 82 (32.80%) Project Management
8 75 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
8 75 (30.00%) Project Delivery
9 69 (27.60%) AI
9 69 (27.60%) Cybersecurity
10 65 (26.00%) ITIL
11 62 (24.80%) Data Management
12 61 (24.40%) Budget Management
12 61 (24.40%) Information Security
13 56 (22.40%) DevOps
14 55 (22.00%) Privileged Access Management
15 54 (21.60%) Identity Access Management
15 54 (21.60%) Software Engineering
15 54 (21.60%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 57 (22.80%) Python
2 53 (21.20%) PowerShell
3 49 (19.60%) C#
3 49 (19.60%) JavaScript
3 49 (19.60%) TypeScript
4 12 (4.80%) SQL
5 4 (1.60%) Bash
5 4 (1.60%) C
5 4 (1.60%) Embedded C
5 4 (1.60%) Java
Qualifications
1 54 (21.60%) A+ Certification
1 54 (21.60%) CISM
1 54 (21.60%) CISSP
1 54 (21.60%) Network+ Certification
2 37 (14.80%) Degree
3 20 (8.00%) PMI Certification
4 14 (5.60%) PMP
5 7 (2.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (2.40%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.00%) CAPM
7 5 (2.00%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.60%) CCNA
8 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.60%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.60%) OSCP
8 4 (1.60%) RHCE
8 4 (1.60%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (30.00%) QA
2 37 (14.80%) PMO
3 4 (1.60%) DO-254
3 4 (1.60%) P3O
4 3 (1.20%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.20%) NEBOSH
5 2 (0.80%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.60%) Docker
2 4 (1.60%) Squid
2 4 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.60%) VMware NSX
2 4 (1.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (21.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.60%) Ansible
2 4 (1.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.60%) Packer
2 4 (1.60%) Terraform
2 4 (1.60%) ZABBIX
3 2 (0.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 74 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 54 (21.60%) CyberArk
3 7 (2.80%) Oracle
4 4 (1.60%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.60%) Splunk
4 4 (1.60%) VMware
5 3 (1.20%) NEC
5 3 (1.20%) Planview
6 2 (0.80%) Adobe
6 2 (0.80%) Infor
7 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.40%) Planon
7 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.40%) SAP
7 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow