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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 316 280
Rank change year-on-year +48 -36 +50
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 282 262 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.62% 0.77% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.85% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 144 91 315
10th Percentile £37,513 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,305 £54,151
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +13.21% -1.19%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,050 £66,875
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,822 £82,000
UK median annual salary £63,076 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.89% +21.74% -11.54%

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 35,233 30,839 42,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.38% 90.26% 87.17%
Number of salaries quoted 20,460 13,590 32,702
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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
South East +39 82 £89,000 +48.33% 37
South West +40 55 £57,500 +21.05% 10
Midlands +4 42 £46,985 -24.86% 18
North of England -81 36 £60,000 -11.11% 22
Northern Ireland +9 28 - - 5
East Midlands +14 24 £50,269 +47.85% 5
North West -41 22 £55,000 -20.00% 6
East of England +32 18 £63,750 -1.53% 2
West Midlands +13 18 £42,500 -43.33% 13
Scotland 0 13 £60,000 +23.34% 1
Yorkshire -36 11 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Wales - 8 £48,122 - 1
North East -2 3 £63,076 - 3
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 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.77%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.71%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 20 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (7.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.42%) Primavera
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (5.67%) Azure
3 12 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.19%) AWS
5 8 (2.84%) Amazon Alexa
6 7 (2.48%) Asana
6 7 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.13%) GCP
7 6 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.06%) SaaS
8 3 (1.06%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.71%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.71%) OCI
10 1 (0.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.48%) VPN
2 5 (1.77%) Junos
2 5 (1.77%) LAN
2 5 (1.77%) WAN
2 5 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.42%) DHCP
3 4 (1.42%) DNS
3 4 (1.42%) Network Security
4 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.71%) Firewall
5 2 (0.71%) Wireless
6 1 (0.35%) 5G
6 1 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.35%) IPsec
6 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.35%) VLAN
6 1 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.26%) Power BI
2 8 (2.84%) Geospatial Data
3 7 (2.48%) GIS
4 4 (1.42%) Tableau
5 3 (1.06%) Metadata
5 3 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.71%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.35%) Big Data
7 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.35%) QlikView
7 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (18.44%) JIRA
2 21 (7.45%) eCATT
3 20 (7.09%) Git
3 20 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.26%) NeoLoad
5 3 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) Gatling
7 1 (0.35%) JMeter
7 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 180 (63.83%) Finance
2 130 (46.10%) Social Skills
3 107 (37.94%) Manufacturing
4 105 (37.23%) Marketing
5 94 (33.33%) Public Sector
6 81 (28.72%) Telecoms
7 80 (28.37%) Electronics
8 52 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (13.48%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (10.99%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (7.80%) Retail
13 18 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (5.67%) Legal
15 10 (3.55%) Law
16 8 (2.84%) French Language
16 8 (2.84%) German Language
16 8 (2.84%) Italian Language
17 7 (2.48%) Aerospace
18 6 (2.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (17.02%) Lead
2 37 (13.12%) Project Manager
3 33 (11.70%) Consultant
3 33 (11.70%) Senior
4 29 (10.28%) Analyst
4 29 (10.28%) Senior Manager
5 28 (9.93%) Security Consultant
6 21 (7.45%) Test Analyst
7 15 (5.32%) Portfolio Manager
7 15 (5.32%) Senior Project Manager
8 13 (4.61%) Senior Portfolio Manager
9 12 (4.26%) Performance Analyst
9 12 (4.26%) Performance Test Analyst
9 12 (4.26%) Testing Analyst
10 11 (3.90%) Field Engineer
11 9 (3.19%) Automation Test Analyst
11 9 (3.19%) Developer
11 9 (3.19%) Support Engineer
12 8 (2.84%) Infrastructure Manager
13 7 (2.48%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.22%) SAP CAF
2 3 (1.06%) JSON
2 3 (1.06%) Pandas
3 2 (0.71%) Bootstrap
3 2 (0.71%) CSS
3 2 (0.71%) FastAPI
3 2 (0.71%) Flask
3 2 (0.71%) HTML
3 2 (0.71%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (0.71%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.71%) RESTful
3 2 (0.71%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.71%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.71%) WebCenter
3 2 (0.71%) XML
4 1 (0.35%) Node.js
4 1 (0.35%) NumPy
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.54%) Management Information System
2 24 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (6.03%) FMCG
5 15 (5.32%) PMI
6 13 (4.61%) Driving Licence
7 9 (3.19%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.48%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.13%) PDA
10 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.42%) EPoS
12 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.06%) Semantic Web
13 2 (0.71%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.71%) Reference Data
14 1 (0.35%) Linked Data
14 1 (0.35%) Mobile App
14 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.84%) Linux
2 4 (1.42%) Unix
2 4 (1.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (42.20%) Continuous Improvement
2 112 (39.72%) Business Intelligence
3 89 (31.56%) Project Management
4 80 (28.37%) Digital Marketing
5 70 (24.82%) Risk Management
6 63 (22.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 61 (21.63%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (21.28%) Decision-Making
9 57 (20.21%) ERP
10 55 (19.50%) Change Management
11 52 (18.44%) Coaching
12 49 (17.38%) PRINCE2
13 48 (17.02%) Project Delivery
14 43 (15.25%) Agile
14 43 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 39 (13.83%) Process Improvement
16 38 (13.48%) Roadmaps
17 37 (13.12%) Cybersecurity
18 36 (12.77%) Logistics
18 36 (12.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.61%) Python
2 10 (3.55%) SQL
3 5 (1.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.06%) Bash
4 3 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.71%) C#
5 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.35%) Bicep
6 1 (0.35%) C++
6 1 (0.35%) Java
6 1 (0.35%) SHACL
6 1 (0.35%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 98 (34.75%) Security Cleared
2 93 (32.98%) Degree
3 54 (19.15%) SC Cleared
4 30 (10.64%) CISM
4 30 (10.64%) CISSP
5 26 (9.22%) DV Cleared
5 26 (9.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 25 (8.87%) PMI Certification
7 12 (4.26%) PMP
8 11 (3.90%) DBS Check
9 7 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (2.13%) A+ Certification
10 6 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.77%) CCNA
11 5 (1.77%) CCNP
11 5 (1.77%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.06%) HNC
12 3 (1.06%) HND
13 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (16.31%) QA
2 40 (14.18%) PMO
3 29 (10.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (9.57%) NIST
5 26 (9.22%) GRC
6 16 (5.67%) Def Stans
7 12 (4.26%) P3O
8 8 (2.84%) SLA
9 5 (1.77%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.71%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (2.48%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (7.45%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.71%) Terraform
5 1 (0.35%) Autotask
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (43.97%) SAP
2 34 (12.06%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.80%) HP
4 19 (6.74%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.48%) Cisco
5 7 (2.48%) Oracle
6 6 (2.13%) Juniper
7 4 (1.42%) VMware
8 2 (0.71%) Adobe
8 2 (0.71%) IFS
8 2 (0.71%) Veeam
8 2 (0.71%) Workday
9 1 (0.35%) Apple
9 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.35%) Dell
9 1 (0.35%) Palantir
9 1 (0.35%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.35%) Sophos
9 1 (0.35%) Trend Micro