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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 287 291
Rank change year-on-year -91 +4 +33
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 187 211 571
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.81% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.89% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 91 112 324
10th Percentile £36,500 £33,307 £32,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,063 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -11.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,750 £96,400
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% -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 44,972 23,726 55,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.73% 91.23% 84.41%
Number of salaries quoted 27,377 13,696 40,514
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,505 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 - -
South West -43 41 £57,500 -8.00% 9
North of England -102 32 £55,000 -14.66% 14
South East -63 26 £95,000 +58.33% 33
East of England -14 18 £75,000 -11.76% 6
North West -45 16 £50,000 -33.38% 10
Midlands -71 13 £59,038 -27.34% 14
Yorkshire -73 13 £56,000 +1.82% 3
West Midlands -32 8 £63,076 -31.81% 11
Scotland -27 7 £30,000 -50.00% 7
East Midlands -56 5 £49,350 +11.53% 3
North East -27 3 £63,076 - 1
Wales -27 1 £68,770 +61.81%
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 4 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
3 2 (1.07%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.07%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.07%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Primavera
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.88%) Azure
2 9 (4.81%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.28%) Amazon Alexa
4 7 (3.74%) Asana
5 6 (3.21%) AWS
6 4 (2.14%) GCP
7 2 (1.07%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.07%) OCI
7 2 (1.07%) SaaS
8 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.53%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) DHCP
1 3 (1.60%) DNS
1 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.07%) VPN
3 1 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) Junos
3 1 (0.53%) LAN
3 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
3 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.81%) Power BI
2 3 (1.60%) Tableau
3 2 (1.07%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.07%) Metadata
3 2 (1.07%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle Discoverer
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.53%) Big Data
4 1 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.88%) JIRA
2 4 (2.14%) Git
3 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 113 (60.43%) Social Skills
2 94 (50.27%) Finance
3 59 (31.55%) Public Sector
4 57 (30.48%) Manufacturing
5 51 (27.27%) Electronics
6 49 (26.20%) Telecoms
7 48 (25.67%) Marketing
8 37 (19.79%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (5.35%) Legal
12 8 (4.28%) French Language
12 8 (4.28%) German Language
12 8 (4.28%) Italian Language
13 6 (3.21%) Aerospace
13 6 (3.21%) Fire and Rescue
13 6 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (3.21%) Law
13 6 (3.21%) Police
14 5 (2.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (15.51%) Infrastructure Manager
2 28 (14.97%) Security Manager
3 26 (13.90%) Project Manager
4 23 (12.30%) Senior
5 21 (11.23%) Senior Manager
6 14 (7.49%) Consultant
7 13 (6.95%) Lead
7 13 (6.95%) Security Consultant
8 12 (6.42%) Portfolio Manager
9 11 (5.88%) Senior Portfolio Manager
10 10 (5.35%) Senior Project Manager
11 8 (4.28%) Analyst
11 8 (4.28%) Programme Manager
12 7 (3.74%) Coordinator
12 7 (3.74%) Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Field Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Project Coordinator
13 6 (3.21%) IT Support
13 6 (3.21%) IT Support Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.95%) SAP CAF
2 2 (1.07%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.07%) CSS
2 2 (1.07%) Flask
2 2 (1.07%) HTML
2 2 (1.07%) JSON
2 2 (1.07%) ModSecurity
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle ADF
2 2 (1.07%) Pandas
2 2 (1.07%) RESTful
2 2 (1.07%) WebCenter
3 1 (0.53%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.53%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.53%) NumPy
3 1 (0.53%) PySpark
3 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.53%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) PMI
2 14 (7.49%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.28%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.14%) Robotics
8 4 (2.14%) Verilog
8 4 (2.14%) VHDL
9 2 (1.07%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.07%) EPoS
9 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.07%) PDA
9 2 (1.07%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Linux
2 3 (1.60%) Windows
3 2 (1.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.59%) Project Management
2 63 (33.69%) PRINCE2
3 59 (31.55%) Business Intelligence
4 57 (30.48%) Logistics
5 53 (28.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (24.60%) Digital Marketing
7 44 (23.53%) Project Delivery
8 43 (22.99%) Coaching
9 39 (20.86%) Performance Metrics
9 39 (20.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (20.32%) Agile
11 33 (17.65%) Mentoring
12 27 (14.44%) Decision-Making
13 25 (13.37%) Portfolio Management
13 25 (13.37%) Risk Management
14 22 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
15 21 (11.23%) Process Improvement
16 20 (10.70%) Cybersecurity
17 19 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (9.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.49%) Python
2 8 (4.28%) SQL
3 4 (2.14%) C
3 4 (2.14%) Embedded C
3 4 (2.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.60%) Bash
5 2 (1.07%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.53%) Bicep
6 1 (0.53%) C#
6 1 (0.53%) C++
6 1 (0.53%) SHACL
6 1 (0.53%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.32%) Degree
3 31 (16.58%) SC Cleared
4 28 (14.97%) PMI Certification
5 17 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 13 (6.95%) CISM
6 13 (6.95%) CISSP
6 13 (6.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 13 (6.95%) PMP
7 7 (3.74%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (3.21%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.14%) MAPM
10 3 (1.60%) CAPM
10 3 (1.60%) HNC
10 3 (1.60%) HND
10 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.07%) PCI QSA
12 1 (0.53%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.04%) PMO
2 29 (15.51%) QA
3 16 (8.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (6.95%) GRC
4 13 (6.95%) NIST
5 12 (6.42%) P3O
6 6 (3.21%) SLA
7 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 4 (2.14%) DO-254
8 3 (1.60%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.07%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 5 (2.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.60%) Ansible
2 2 (1.07%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.07%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (24.60%) SAP
2 17 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.14%) Oracle
4 2 (1.07%) Adobe
4 2 (1.07%) Cisco
4 2 (1.07%) IFS
4 2 (1.07%) Juniper
4 2 (1.07%) Planon
5 1 (0.53%) Dell
5 1 (0.53%) HP
5 1 (0.53%) Okta
5 1 (0.53%) Palantir
5 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.53%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.53%) Veeam
5 1 (0.53%) VMware