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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 351 258
Rank change year-on-year +118 -93 +46
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 321 274 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.87% 0.58% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.70% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 174 105 251
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,305 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% +11.46% -
75th Percentile £72,163 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,750 £77,800 £75,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.33% +7.90% -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 30,455 38,940 28,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.48% 82.03% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,490 19,092 20,892
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,235 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +3.30% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,829 £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% - -

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 24 November 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 24 November 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 +68 106 £65,000 +8.33% 57
South West +85 90 £52,500 -8.70% 28
Midlands +68 43 £38,885 -33.02% 13
North of England -32 32 £62,750 -8.37% 25
West Midlands +58 24 £27,500 -56.04% 9
North West -8 24 £62,750 -8.37% 14
East Midlands +38 19 £50,269 +67.56% 3
East of England +44 17 £62,500 -3.46% 16
Scotland +22 15 £60,000 +10.75% 6
Wales +21 11 £48,122 -25.97% 1
Yorkshire +4 8 £69,000 +6.15% 8
Northern Ireland +1 7 - - 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 9 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.49%) Confluence
3 5 (1.56%) IIS
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.62%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.62%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.62%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 29 (9.03%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.67%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.56%) Primavera
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
2 21 (6.54%) Azure
3 13 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.12%) AWS
4 10 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.18%) Amazon Alexa
5 7 (2.18%) Asana
5 7 (2.18%) GCP
5 7 (2.18%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.25%) SaaS
7 3 (0.93%) Serverless
7 3 (0.93%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.62%) OCI
9 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.31%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.03%) Network Security
2 19 (5.92%) VPN
3 14 (4.36%) Junos
3 14 (4.36%) LAN
3 14 (4.36%) WAN
3 14 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.49%) Wireless
5 7 (2.18%) IPsec
6 5 (1.56%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (1.56%) DHCP
6 5 (1.56%) DNS
6 5 (1.56%) Firewall
6 5 (1.56%) VLAN
6 5 (1.56%) VoIP
7 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.62%) MPLS
7 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.31%) Internet
8 1 (0.31%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.12%) Geospatial Data
1 10 (3.12%) GIS
2 7 (2.18%) Power BI
3 5 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.56%) Tableau
4 3 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.62%) Metadata
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Discoverer
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.31%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.31%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 63 (19.63%) JIRA
2 25 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.17%) Git
4 21 (6.54%) eCATT
5 12 (3.74%) NeoLoad
6 3 (0.93%) GitLab
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.31%) Gatling
8 1 (0.31%) JMeter
8 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
General
1 221 (68.85%) Finance
2 142 (44.24%) Manufacturing
3 140 (43.61%) Marketing
4 122 (38.01%) Social Skills
5 113 (35.20%) Public Sector
6 112 (34.89%) Electronics
6 112 (34.89%) Telecoms
7 87 (27.10%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (12.15%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (9.35%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (8.10%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (6.85%) Retail
12 13 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (3.74%) Banking
13 12 (3.74%) Law
14 9 (2.80%) French Language
14 9 (2.80%) Legal
15 8 (2.49%) Aerospace
16 7 (2.18%) German Language
16 7 (2.18%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 66 (20.56%) Lead
2 56 (17.45%) Consultant
3 49 (15.26%) Security Consultant
4 30 (9.35%) Analyst
4 30 (9.35%) Project Manager
5 26 (8.10%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 26 (8.10%) Programme Manager
5 26 (8.10%) Senior
6 21 (6.54%) Test Analyst
7 16 (4.98%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.36%) Architect
9 12 (3.74%) Performance Analyst
9 12 (3.74%) Performance Test Analyst
9 12 (3.74%) Testing Analyst
10 10 (3.12%) Senior Project Manager
11 9 (2.80%) Automation Test Analyst
11 9 (2.80%) Support Engineer
11 9 (2.80%) Technical Manager
12 8 (2.49%) Field Engineer
12 8 (2.49%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.85%) SAP CAF
2 3 (0.93%) FastAPI
2 3 (0.93%) Node.js
2 3 (0.93%) Pandas
2 3 (0.93%) Spring
2 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.62%) JSON
3 2 (0.62%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.62%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.62%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.62%) WebCenter
3 2 (0.62%) XML
4 1 (0.31%) NumPy
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.31%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 42 (13.08%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.54%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.30%) FMCG
5 12 (3.74%) Driving Licence
6 9 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.87%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.87%) PDA
9 5 (1.56%) Clustering
10 4 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.25%) EPoS
10 4 (1.25%) FPGA
10 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.93%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.93%) SCADA
12 2 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.05%) Windows
2 12 (3.74%) Linux
3 7 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.56%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (42.37%) Business Intelligence
2 111 (34.58%) Digital Marketing
3 110 (34.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (23.05%) Risk Management
5 73 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (21.50%) Agile
7 67 (20.87%) Project Management
8 64 (19.94%) Cybersecurity
9 60 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 58 (18.07%) Decision-Making
11 55 (17.13%) ERP
12 53 (16.51%) Change Management
13 49 (15.26%) Process Improvement
14 48 (14.95%) Project Delivery
15 46 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (13.71%) Mentoring
17 38 (11.84%) Roadmaps
18 37 (11.53%) PRINCE2
19 36 (11.21%) Collaborative Culture
20 34 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (3.74%) Python
2 7 (2.18%) SQL
3 5 (1.56%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
5 3 (0.93%) C++
5 3 (0.93%) Java
6 2 (0.62%) Bash
6 2 (0.62%) C
6 2 (0.62%) C#
6 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.31%) Bicep
7 1 (0.31%) R
7 1 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 144 (44.86%) Security Cleared
2 110 (34.27%) Degree
3 65 (20.25%) SC Cleared
4 52 (16.20%) CISSP
5 28 (8.72%) DV Cleared
6 27 (8.41%) CISM
7 25 (7.79%) CEH
7 25 (7.79%) CompTIA Security+
8 22 (6.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 18 (5.61%) PMP
10 16 (4.98%) PMI Certification
11 15 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (4.36%) CCNA
12 14 (4.36%) CCNP
12 14 (4.36%) DBS Check
12 14 (4.36%) JNCIA
13 9 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 49 (15.26%) NIST
2 33 (10.28%) QA
3 25 (7.79%) PCI DSS
4 22 (6.85%) Def Stans
4 22 (6.85%) GRC
5 21 (6.54%) PMO
6 5 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.56%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.31%) JTAG
8 1 (0.31%) P3O
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.49%) Docker
1 8 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.18%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.87%) Firmware
4 5 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (6.54%) HP ALM
2 8 (2.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.56%) Autotask
3 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.56%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 159 (49.53%) SAP
2 43 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.54%) HP
3 21 (6.54%) Salesforce
4 19 (5.92%) Cisco
5 14 (4.36%) Juniper
6 11 (3.43%) Oracle
7 9 (2.80%) VMware
8 5 (1.56%) Apple
8 5 (1.56%) Datto
8 5 (1.56%) Sophos
8 5 (1.56%) Veeam
9 3 (0.93%) Workday
10 2 (0.62%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.62%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.62%) Fujitsu
10 2 (0.62%) IFS
10 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.31%) EMC
11 1 (0.31%) Google