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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 352 318
Rank change year-on-year -83 -34 -2
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 157 180 549
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.63% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.68% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 82 113 309
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,600 £32,700
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £94,625 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £103,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +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 47,926 26,284 58,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.04% 91.99% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 31,240 12,956 41,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%

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 29 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 29 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 - 45 - - 2
South East -46 30 £98,000 +26.45% 18
North of England -61 27 £63,076 +11.64% 18
Midlands -41 20 £43,700 -47.03% 4
South West -70 20 £60,500 -1.22% 6
West Midlands -35 15 £40,000 -56.76% 4
Yorkshire -54 15 £63,038 +22.40% 10
East of England -24 9 £75,000 -16.67% 9
North West -22 8 £63,076 -1.29% 7
East Midlands -40 5 £49,350 -16.00%
Scotland -9 4 £30,000 -40.00% 4
North East - 4 £94,038 - 1
Wales -38 2 £69,136 +15.50% 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 3 (1.91%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.64%) Power Platform
2 9 (5.73%) Azure
3 6 (3.82%) AWS
4 3 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (1.91%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (1.91%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.91%) Serverless
4 3 (1.91%) Smartsheet
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Alexa
6 1 (0.64%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.91%) DHCP
1 3 (1.91%) DNS
1 3 (1.91%) IPv4
1 3 (1.91%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) Power BI
2 8 (5.10%) Tableau
3 2 (1.27%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.64%) Big Data
4 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Git
2 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.55%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.55%) GitLab
3 4 (2.55%) JIRA
General
1 92 (58.60%) Social Skills
2 62 (39.49%) Finance
3 34 (21.66%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (19.11%) Public Sector
5 25 (15.92%) Manufacturing
6 20 (12.74%) Electronics
7 16 (10.19%) Telecoms
8 15 (9.55%) Marketing
9 12 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (6.37%) Aerospace
10 10 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (5.10%) Legal
12 6 (3.82%) Local Government
13 4 (2.55%) Retail
13 4 (2.55%) Swedish Language
14 3 (1.91%) Aviation
14 3 (1.91%) Fire and Rescue
14 3 (1.91%) Law
14 3 (1.91%) Police
Job Titles
1 30 (19.11%) Infrastructure Manager
2 28 (17.83%) Security Manager
3 21 (13.38%) Senior
4 20 (12.74%) Senior Manager
5 16 (10.19%) Portfolio Manager
6 15 (9.55%) Project Manager
7 13 (8.28%) Senior Portfolio Manager
8 10 (6.37%) Programme Manager
9 8 (5.10%) Insight Manager
10 7 (4.46%) Head of IT
10 7 (4.46%) Lead
11 6 (3.82%) NHS Performance Manager
11 6 (3.82%) Performance Manager
11 6 (3.82%) Report Manager
11 6 (3.82%) Senior Project Manager
12 5 (3.18%) Analyst
12 5 (3.18%) CIO
12 5 (3.18%) Consultant
12 5 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.18%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.91%) boto
2 2 (1.27%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.27%) CSS
2 2 (1.27%) Flask
2 2 (1.27%) HTML
2 2 (1.27%) RESTful
2 2 (1.27%) SAP CAF
3 1 (0.64%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.64%) JSON
3 1 (0.64%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.83%) Management Information System
2 14 (8.92%) PMI
3 10 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.46%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.46%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.46%) NHS
6 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.55%) Robotics
7 4 (2.55%) Verilog
7 4 (2.55%) VHDL
8 3 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Genomics
9 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.64%) Life Science
9 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.82%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Windows
3 3 (1.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (51.59%) Project Management
2 61 (38.85%) PRINCE2
3 50 (31.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 50 (31.85%) Logistics
4 39 (24.84%) Project Delivery
5 38 (24.20%) Coaching
5 38 (24.20%) Decision-Making
6 34 (21.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (20.38%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (20.38%) Mentoring
8 31 (19.75%) Performance Metrics
9 28 (17.83%) Agile
10 25 (15.92%) Line Management
11 24 (15.29%) Roadmaps
12 22 (14.01%) Risk Management
13 20 (12.74%) Portfolio Management
14 18 (11.46%) Data Analysis
15 17 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (10.83%) Service Delivery
16 15 (9.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.64%) Python
2 9 (5.73%) SQL
3 5 (3.18%) Bash
3 5 (3.18%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.55%) C
4 4 (2.55%) Embedded C
5 3 (1.91%) Java
6 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.64%) SHACL
7 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 30 (19.11%) Degree
2 24 (15.29%) PMI Certification
3 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.01%) PMP
5 7 (4.46%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.18%) CAPM
7 3 (1.91%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.91%) CCNA
7 3 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.91%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.91%) OSCP
7 3 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (1.91%) RHCE
7 3 (1.91%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.27%) CISM
8 2 (1.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (21.02%) PMO
2 31 (19.75%) QA
3 11 (7.01%) P3O
4 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.18%) SLA
5 4 (2.55%) DO-254
6 3 (1.91%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.27%) GRC
7 2 (1.27%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.27%) NIST
7 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (3.82%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) Squid
3 3 (1.91%) VMware NSX
3 3 (1.91%) vSphere
4 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (3.82%) Ansible
2 4 (2.55%) Terraform
3 3 (1.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.91%) Packer
3 3 (1.91%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.64%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.28%) SAP
3 6 (3.82%) Oracle
4 4 (2.55%) VMware
5 3 (1.91%) Planview
5 3 (1.91%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.91%) Splunk
6 2 (1.27%) Adobe
6 2 (1.27%) Infor
6 2 (1.27%) Planon
7 1 (0.64%) Cisco
7 1 (0.64%) Dell
7 1 (0.64%) HP
7 1 (0.64%) Juniper
7 1 (0.64%) Okta
7 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.64%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.64%) Veeam