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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 314 299
Rank change year-on-year -86 -15 +9
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 173 196 571
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.72% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.79% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 88 113 319
10th Percentile £35,300 £33,614 £32,750
25th Percentile £49,875 £49,371 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,000 £98,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +22.73% -16.67%

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 46,916 24,887 57,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.90% 91.35% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,853 13,847 40,960
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 - 49 - - 3
South West -53 31 £57,500 -11.54% 20
North of England -81 29 £55,500 -13.15% 16
South East -48 27 £95,000 +49.02% 27
East of England -18 15 £75,000 -11.76% 6
Midlands -68 14 £55,000 -32.31% 21
North West -36 13 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Yorkshire -71 13 £56,000 +4.40% 7
West Midlands -42 9 £55,000 -40.54% 13
Scotland -31 7 £30,000 -40.00% 8
East Midlands -54 5 £49,350 +11.53% 7
North East -34 3 £63,076 - 2
Wales -31 1 £68,770 +34.37% 1
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 2 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (5.78%) Azure
2 8 (4.62%) Power Platform
3 7 (4.05%) Asana
4 6 (3.47%) Amazon Alexa
5 4 (2.31%) AWS
6 2 (1.16%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.16%) GCP
7 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.58%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.58%) SaaS
7 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) DHCP
1 3 (1.73%) DNS
1 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.62%) Power BI
2 3 (1.73%) Tableau
3 2 (1.16%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.16%) Metadata
3 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.58%) Big Data
4 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.78%) JIRA
2 4 (2.31%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 107 (61.85%) Social Skills
2 79 (45.66%) Finance
3 47 (27.17%) Public Sector
4 46 (26.59%) Manufacturing
5 39 (22.54%) Electronics
6 37 (21.39%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (21.39%) Telecoms
7 36 (20.81%) Marketing
8 22 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (5.20%) Legal
11 6 (3.47%) Aerospace
11 6 (3.47%) Fire and Rescue
11 6 (3.47%) French Language
11 6 (3.47%) German Language
11 6 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.47%) Italian Language
11 6 (3.47%) Police
12 5 (2.89%) Law
12 5 (2.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (16.76%) Infrastructure Manager
2 28 (16.18%) Security Manager
3 23 (13.29%) Project Manager
3 23 (13.29%) Senior
4 21 (12.14%) Senior Manager
5 14 (8.09%) Portfolio Manager
6 12 (6.94%) Consultant
6 12 (6.94%) Lead
6 12 (6.94%) Security Consultant
6 12 (6.94%) Senior Portfolio Manager
7 9 (5.20%) Programme Manager
7 9 (5.20%) Senior Project Manager
8 7 (4.05%) Analyst
8 7 (4.05%) Coordinator
8 7 (4.05%) Head of IT
8 7 (4.05%) Project Coordinator
9 6 (3.47%) IT Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) IT Support
9 6 (3.47%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (3.47%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.94%) SAP CAF
2 2 (1.16%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.16%) CSS
2 2 (1.16%) Flask
2 2 (1.16%) HTML
2 2 (1.16%) JSON
2 2 (1.16%) RESTful
3 1 (0.58%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.58%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.58%) Pandas
3 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.83%) Management Information System
1 17 (9.83%) PMI
2 9 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.47%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.31%) Robotics
6 4 (2.31%) Verilog
6 4 (2.31%) VHDL
7 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.16%) NHS
7 2 (1.16%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.73%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (52.60%) Project Management
2 65 (37.57%) PRINCE2
3 58 (33.53%) Logistics
4 54 (31.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (24.86%) Coaching
6 43 (24.86%) Project Delivery
7 38 (21.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (20.81%) Performance Metrics
9 34 (19.65%) Digital Marketing
9 34 (19.65%) Mentoring
10 33 (19.08%) Agile
11 27 (15.61%) Decision-Making
12 25 (14.45%) Risk Management
13 24 (13.87%) Portfolio Management
14 22 (12.72%) Collaborative Culture
15 20 (11.56%) Change Management
15 20 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (11.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (10.98%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.94%) Python
2 7 (4.05%) SQL
3 4 (2.31%) C
3 4 (2.31%) Embedded C
4 3 (1.73%) Bash
5 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.58%) Bicep
6 1 (0.58%) C#
6 1 (0.58%) C++
6 1 (0.58%) SHACL
6 1 (0.58%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (21.97%) Degree
2 33 (19.08%) Security Cleared
3 30 (17.34%) PMI Certification
4 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.09%) PMP
6 12 (6.94%) CISM
6 12 (6.94%) CISSP
6 12 (6.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 9 (5.20%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (3.47%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.31%) MAPM
11 3 (1.73%) CAPM
11 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.73%) HNC
11 3 (1.73%) HND
11 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.16%) PCI QSA
13 1 (0.58%) APMG
13 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.34%) PMO
2 28 (16.18%) QA
3 15 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (6.94%) GRC
4 12 (6.94%) NIST
5 11 (6.36%) P3O
6 7 (4.05%) SLA
7 4 (2.31%) DO-254
8 3 (1.73%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.73%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.16%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (2.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.73%) Ansible
2 2 (1.16%) Terraform
3 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (19.65%) SAP
2 15 (8.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.16%) Adobe
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle
3 2 (1.16%) Planon
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco
4 1 (0.58%) Dell
4 1 (0.58%) HP
4 1 (0.58%) Juniper
4 1 (0.58%) Okta
4 1 (0.58%) Palantir
4 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.58%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.58%) Veeam
4 1 (0.58%) VMware