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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 324 246
Rank change year-on-year +70 -78 +51
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 301 271 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.70% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.80% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 167 94 234
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,208 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +11.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £89,450 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 33,768 33,949 26,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.05% 87.16% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 19,235 16,050 19,763
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,696 £41,220 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -2.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 +63 97 £67,500 +12.50% 31
South West +71 82 £52,500 -6.67% 14
Midlands +14 41 £42,500 -31.79% 12
North of England -55 31 £55,500 -13.82% 15
West Midlands +16 22 £35,000 -50.88% 8
North West -37 21 £55,000 -18.52% 3
East Midlands +6 19 £50,269 +57.09% 4
East of England +34 18 £62,500 -3.46% 7
Scotland +18 15 £60,000 +24.13% 8
Wales +10 10 £48,122 +20.31%
Yorkshire -24 8 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Northern Ireland -5 7 - - 2
North East +2 2 - - 4
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 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.66%) Confluence
2 5 (1.66%) IIS
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.66%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.66%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 28 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.99%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.33%) Primavera
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
2 19 (6.31%) Azure
3 11 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.33%) Amazon Alexa
5 7 (2.33%) Asana
5 7 (2.33%) AWS
5 7 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.99%) GCP
7 4 (1.33%) SaaS
8 3 (1.00%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.66%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.66%) OCI
10 1 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.63%) Network Security
2 15 (4.98%) VPN
3 9 (2.99%) Junos
3 9 (2.99%) LAN
3 9 (2.99%) WAN
3 9 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.66%) DHCP
4 8 (2.66%) DNS
4 8 (2.66%) Wireless
5 7 (2.33%) IPsec
6 6 (1.99%) Firewall
7 5 (1.66%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (1.66%) VLAN
7 5 (1.66%) VoIP
8 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.66%) MPLS
9 2 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.33%) 5G
10 1 (0.33%) Internet
10 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.65%) Geospatial Data
2 10 (3.32%) GIS
3 7 (2.33%) Power BI
4 5 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.33%) Tableau
6 3 (1.00%) Metadata
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Discoverer
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.33%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.33%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 60 (19.93%) JIRA
2 25 (8.31%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.97%) Git
4 21 (6.98%) eCATT
5 12 (3.99%) NeoLoad
6 4 (1.33%) GitLab
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.33%) Gatling
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 217 (72.09%) Finance
2 141 (46.84%) Marketing
3 140 (46.51%) Manufacturing
4 115 (38.21%) Public Sector
5 114 (37.87%) Telecoms
6 113 (37.54%) Electronics
7 111 (36.88%) Social Skills
8 82 (27.24%) Analytical Skills
9 41 (13.62%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (9.97%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (8.64%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (6.98%) Retail
13 17 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (4.98%) Legal
15 10 (3.32%) Law
16 9 (2.99%) Aerospace
16 9 (2.99%) French Language
17 7 (2.33%) Banking
17 7 (2.33%) German Language
17 7 (2.33%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 61 (20.27%) Lead
2 57 (18.94%) Consultant
3 51 (16.94%) Security Consultant
4 33 (10.96%) Project Manager
5 31 (10.30%) Senior
6 29 (9.63%) Analyst
7 26 (8.64%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 21 (6.98%) Test Analyst
9 20 (6.64%) Senior Manager
10 14 (4.65%) Programme Manager
10 14 (4.65%) Senior Project Manager
11 13 (4.32%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.99%) IT Engineer
12 12 (3.99%) Performance Analyst
12 12 (3.99%) Performance Test Analyst
12 12 (3.99%) Testing Analyst
13 11 (3.65%) Field Engineer
13 11 (3.65%) IT Support
13 11 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
14 9 (2.99%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.97%) SAP CAF
2 3 (1.00%) JSON
2 3 (1.00%) Pandas
3 2 (0.66%) FastAPI
3 2 (0.66%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.66%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.66%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.66%) WebCenter
3 2 (0.66%) XML
4 1 (0.33%) JSON-LD
4 1 (0.33%) Node.js
4 1 (0.33%) NumPy
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.33%) PySpark
4 1 (0.33%) Spring
4 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.28%) Analytical Mindset
2 41 (13.62%) Management Information System
3 24 (7.97%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.65%) FMCG
5 15 (4.98%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.99%) PDA
7 6 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.66%) Clustering
9 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.33%) EPoS
9 4 (1.33%) FPGA
9 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.00%) PMI
10 3 (1.00%) Semantic Web
11 2 (0.66%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.98%) Linux
2 12 (3.99%) Windows
3 6 (1.99%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.66%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (45.85%) Business Intelligence
2 113 (37.54%) Digital Marketing
3 112 (37.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (24.25%) Risk Management
5 68 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (20.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 60 (19.93%) Cybersecurity
8 59 (19.60%) Project Management
9 57 (18.94%) Change Management
10 55 (18.27%) ERP
11 52 (17.28%) Decision-Making
12 49 (16.28%) Agile
13 46 (15.28%) Process Improvement
14 42 (13.95%) Mentoring
15 37 (12.29%) Collaborative Culture
16 36 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (11.30%) Project Delivery
18 32 (10.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 31 (10.30%) Coaching
20 30 (9.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (3.99%) Python
2 8 (2.66%) SQL
3 7 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.00%) Bash
4 3 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.66%) C#
5 2 (0.66%) C++
5 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.33%) Bicep
6 1 (0.33%) C
6 1 (0.33%) Java
6 1 (0.33%) Rust
6 1 (0.33%) SHACL
6 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 140 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 106 (35.22%) Degree
3 60 (19.93%) SC Cleared
4 53 (17.61%) CISSP
5 28 (9.30%) CISM
6 26 (8.64%) DV Cleared
7 25 (8.31%) CEH
7 25 (8.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 24 (7.97%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 14 (4.65%) DBS Check
10 12 (3.99%) PMI Certification
11 10 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (3.32%) PMP
12 9 (2.99%) CCNA
12 9 (2.99%) CCNP
12 9 (2.99%) JNCIA
13 7 (2.33%) HND
13 7 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (1.99%) A+ Certification
14 6 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (16.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (16.61%) NIST
3 32 (10.63%) QA
4 25 (8.31%) PCI DSS
5 24 (7.97%) GRC
5 24 (7.97%) PMO
6 22 (7.31%) Def Stans
7 8 (2.66%) SLA
8 6 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.33%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.33%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.99%) Docker
2 8 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.33%) Firmware
6 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (6.98%) HP ALM
2 8 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.66%) Autotask
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.66%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.00%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.66%) Terraform
6 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 158 (52.49%) SAP
2 44 (14.62%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.31%) HP
4 20 (6.64%) Salesforce
5 15 (4.98%) Cisco
6 10 (3.32%) Juniper
7 9 (2.99%) Oracle
7 9 (2.99%) VMware
8 6 (1.99%) Veeam
9 5 (1.66%) Apple
9 5 (1.66%) Datto
9 5 (1.66%) Sophos
10 3 (1.00%) Workday
11 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.66%) Fujitsu
11 2 (0.66%) IFS
12 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.33%) Dell
12 1 (0.33%) Palantir