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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 294 409
Rank change year-on-year -75 +115 -152
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 330 261 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.76% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.88% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 114 158 125
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,158 £46,745 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +8.62%
75th Percentile £88,483 £70,000 £68,484
90th Percentile £115,000 £89,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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 59,936 29,730 43,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.35% 86.65% 78.66%
Number of salaries quoted 42,260 16,120 23,401
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 - 129 - - 31
South East -72 60 £90,000 +44.00% 136
North of England -60 40 £77,000 +32.76% 98
Midlands -49 38 £43,102 -9.26% 60
West Midlands -42 28 £40,000 -15.79% 43
South West -111 25 £75,000 +50.00% 60
North West -29 17 £67,500 +16.38% 52
Scotland +15 16 £55,000 -8.33% 39
East of England -33 16 £48,105 -25.99% 38
Yorkshire -33 12 £77,000 +47.30% 33
North East - 11 £112,500 - 15
East Midlands -41 10 £70,000 +3.50% 17
Wales -75 7 £72,500 +50.66% 10
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 10 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.30%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
2 14 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.91%) Trello
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.91%) Primavera
2 3 (0.91%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.61%) Infor CloudSuite
3 2 (0.61%) Shopify
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.73%) Azure
2 60 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 57 (17.27%) SaaS
4 18 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 13 (3.94%) AWS
6 5 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.21%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.21%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (1.21%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.21%) Serverless
8 3 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.91%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.21%) IPv4
1 4 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (0.61%) RFID
3 1 (0.30%) 4G
3 1 (0.30%) 5G
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) Intelligent Network
3 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
3 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.15%) Power BI
2 15 (4.55%) Tableau
3 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.30%) GIS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (7.27%) JIRA
2 9 (2.73%) Git
3 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.21%) GitLab
3 4 (1.21%) Jenkins
General
1 208 (63.03%) Social Skills
2 130 (39.39%) Legal
3 93 (28.18%) Finance
4 71 (21.52%) Law
5 35 (10.61%) Influencing Skills
6 33 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (8.79%) Public Sector
8 26 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (6.97%) Aerospace
11 19 (5.76%) Local Government
12 13 (3.94%) Financial Institution
13 12 (3.64%) Aviation
13 12 (3.64%) Marketing
13 12 (3.64%) Military
13 12 (3.64%) Retail
14 10 (3.03%) Telecoms
15 9 (2.73%) Manufacturing
15 9 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (2.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 130 (39.39%) Senior
2 124 (37.58%) Senior Manager
3 55 (16.67%) Testing Manager
4 37 (11.21%) Lead
5 23 (6.97%) Programme Manager
6 18 (5.45%) Consultant
7 15 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
7 15 (4.55%) Security Manager
8 13 (3.94%) IT Manager
8 13 (3.94%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.33%) Management Consultant
9 11 (3.33%) Programme Management Office Consultant
9 11 (3.33%) Programme Office Consultant
10 10 (3.03%) Analyst
11 9 (2.73%) Technical Manager
12 8 (2.42%) Risk Manager
13 7 (2.12%) Head of IT
14 6 (1.82%) IT Programme Manager
14 6 (1.82%) Performance Manager
14 6 (1.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.21%) boto
1 4 (1.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 38 (11.52%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.03%) Driving Licence
5 10 (3.03%) NHS
6 9 (2.73%) PMI
7 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.12%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.52%) Robotics
10 4 (1.21%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.91%) IoT
11 3 (0.91%) Social Media
11 3 (0.91%) Verilog
11 3 (0.91%) VHDL
11 3 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
12 2 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.21%) Linux
1 4 (1.21%) Windows
1 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (55.15%) Continuous Improvement
2 143 (43.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 131 (39.70%) Mentoring
4 123 (37.27%) PRINCE2
5 120 (36.36%) Strategic Planning
6 119 (36.06%) Performance Management
7 88 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
8 87 (26.36%) AI
9 86 (26.06%) Project Management
10 84 (25.45%) ITIL
10 84 (25.45%) Project Delivery
11 80 (24.24%) Cybersecurity
11 80 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 73 (22.12%) Software Engineering
13 72 (21.82%) Decision-Making
14 70 (21.21%) Data Management
15 69 (20.91%) Budget Management
16 68 (20.61%) TOGAF
17 67 (20.30%) Information Security
18 64 (19.39%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 67 (20.30%) Python
2 59 (17.88%) PowerShell
3 55 (16.67%) C#
3 55 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 55 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 17 (5.15%) SQL
5 5 (1.52%) C++
6 4 (1.21%) Bash
6 4 (1.21%) Java
7 3 (0.91%) C
7 3 (0.91%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 72 (21.82%) Degree
2 62 (18.79%) CISM
2 62 (18.79%) CISSP
3 60 (18.18%) A+ Certification
3 60 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
4 26 (7.88%) PMI Certification
5 25 (7.58%) Security Cleared
6 19 (5.76%) SC Cleared
7 18 (5.45%) PMP
8 12 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 10 (3.03%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.82%) APMP
12 6 (1.82%) HNC
12 6 (1.82%) HND
13 4 (1.21%) CCNA
13 4 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (25.76%) QA
2 49 (14.85%) PMO
3 12 (3.64%) SLA
4 10 (3.03%) Def Stans
5 5 (1.52%) NEBOSH
6 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.91%) DO-254
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.91%) NIST
8 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.61%) GDPR
8 2 (0.61%) GRC
8 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (19.70%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.21%) Docker
2 4 (1.21%) Squid
2 4 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.21%) VMware NSX
2 4 (1.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.21%) Ansible
2 4 (1.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.21%) Packer
2 4 (1.21%) ZABBIX
3 2 (0.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 89 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 60 (18.18%) CyberArk
3 15 (4.55%) Oracle
4 14 (4.24%) SAP
5 8 (2.42%) Aderant
6 7 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.52%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.52%) NEC
8 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.21%) Splunk
8 4 (1.21%) VMware
9 3 (0.91%) Planview
9 3 (0.91%) Thales
9 3 (0.91%) UiPath
9 3 (0.91%) YouTube
10 2 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.61%) IFS
10 2 (0.61%) Infor
11 1 (0.30%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto