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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 263 291
Rank change year-on-year -105 +28 +36
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 194 242 576
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.94% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.03% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 99 110 328
10th Percentile £39,200 £33,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,871 £51,997
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% +24.76% -13.34%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,125 £88,850
UK median annual salary £65,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.43% +27.27% -18.52%

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 42,859 23,603 54,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.47% 91.34% 84.73%
Number of salaries quoted 26,210 13,643 39,783
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,900 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -8.41%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%

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 5 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 5 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
South West -23 45 £57,500 -6.12% 9
Northern Ireland +2 42 - -
North of England -116 35 £55,500 -14.62% 20
South East -42 31 £95,000 +58.33% 27
North West -76 19 £51,000 -34.62% 10
East of England -16 17 £75,000 -11.76% 7
Midlands -71 16 £59,038 -21.28% 12
Yorkshire -67 13 £56,000 +1.82% 7
West Midlands -29 11 £63,076 -30.88% 7
Scotland -34 7 £30,000 -50.00% 2
East Midlands -53 5 £49,350 +20.37% 5
North East -20 3 £63,076 - 3
Wales -28 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 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.55%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.03%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.03%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Primavera
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.22%) Azure
2 12 (6.19%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.64%) AWS
4 8 (4.12%) Amazon Alexa
5 7 (3.61%) Asana
6 6 (3.09%) GCP
7 3 (1.55%) SaaS
7 3 (1.55%) Smartsheet
8 2 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.03%) OCI
9 1 (0.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) DHCP
1 3 (1.55%) DNS
1 3 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.03%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.52%) Junos
3 1 (0.52%) LAN
3 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
3 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.19%) Power BI
2 3 (1.55%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.55%) Tableau
3 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.03%) Metadata
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Discoverer
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.52%) Big Data
4 1 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.19%) JIRA
2 4 (2.06%) Git
2 4 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.55%) GitLab
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
General
1 110 (56.70%) Social Skills
2 101 (52.06%) Finance
3 65 (33.51%) Public Sector
4 63 (32.47%) Manufacturing
5 56 (28.87%) Electronics
6 55 (28.35%) Telecoms
7 54 (27.84%) Marketing
8 31 (15.98%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (5.15%) Legal
12 9 (4.64%) Aerospace
12 9 (4.64%) Law
13 8 (4.12%) French Language
13 8 (4.12%) German Language
13 8 (4.12%) Italian Language
14 6 (3.09%) Fire and Rescue
14 6 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (3.09%) Police
15 5 (2.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (13.40%) Project Manager
1 26 (13.40%) Senior
2 24 (12.37%) Senior Manager
3 22 (11.34%) Infrastructure Manager
4 21 (10.82%) Security Manager
5 18 (9.28%) Consultant
6 16 (8.25%) Security Consultant
7 15 (7.73%) Portfolio Manager
8 14 (7.22%) Senior Portfolio Manager
9 13 (6.70%) Lead
10 10 (5.15%) Senior Project Manager
11 8 (4.12%) Analyst
11 8 (4.12%) Developer
11 8 (4.12%) Programme Manager
12 7 (3.61%) Coordinator
12 7 (3.61%) Field Engineer
12 7 (3.61%) Project Coordinator
13 6 (3.09%) Head of IT
13 6 (3.09%) IT Support
13 6 (3.09%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.25%) SAP CAF
2 2 (1.03%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.03%) CSS
2 2 (1.03%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.03%) Flask
2 2 (1.03%) HTML
2 2 (1.03%) JSON
2 2 (1.03%) ModSecurity
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle ADF
2 2 (1.03%) Pandas
2 2 (1.03%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.03%) RESTful
2 2 (1.03%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.03%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.03%) WebCenter
3 1 (0.52%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.52%) Node.js
3 1 (0.52%) PySpark
3 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.28%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.76%) PMI
3 12 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.12%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.09%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.06%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.55%) Robotics
9 3 (1.55%) Verilog
9 3 (1.55%) VHDL
10 2 (1.03%) EPoS
10 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.03%) PDA
10 2 (1.03%) Semantic Web
11 1 (0.52%) Genomics
11 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Linux
2 3 (1.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (45.36%) Project Management
2 69 (35.57%) Business Intelligence
3 58 (29.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 56 (28.87%) PRINCE2
5 52 (26.80%) Digital Marketing
6 51 (26.29%) Logistics
7 46 (23.71%) Coaching
8 44 (22.68%) Project Delivery
9 41 (21.13%) Agile
9 41 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (17.53%) Mentoring
11 32 (16.49%) Performance Metrics
12 28 (14.43%) Decision-Making
12 28 (14.43%) Risk Management
13 25 (12.89%) Collaborative Culture
13 25 (12.89%) Portfolio Management
14 24 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (10.82%) Change Management
16 21 (10.82%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.73%) Python
2 8 (4.12%) SQL
3 5 (2.58%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.55%) Bash
4 3 (1.55%) C
4 3 (1.55%) Embedded C
5 2 (1.03%) C#
5 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.03%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
6 1 (0.52%) C++
6 1 (0.52%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) SHACL
6 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 55 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.10%) Degree
3 34 (17.53%) SC Cleared
4 28 (14.43%) PMI Certification
5 20 (10.31%) DV Cleared
6 16 (8.25%) CISM
6 16 (8.25%) CISSP
6 16 (8.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 13 (6.70%) PMP
8 7 (3.61%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (3.09%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.06%) DBS Check
10 4 (2.06%) MAPM
10 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.55%) CAPM
11 3 (1.55%) HNC
11 3 (1.55%) HND
12 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.03%) PCI QSA
13 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.98%) PMO
2 29 (14.95%) QA
3 19 (9.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (8.25%) GRC
4 16 (8.25%) NIST
5 12 (6.19%) P3O
6 6 (3.09%) SLA
7 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.55%) DO-254
8 3 (1.55%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.03%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (3.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.55%) Ansible
1 3 (1.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.03%) Terraform
3 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (28.35%) SAP
2 23 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.58%) Oracle
4 2 (1.03%) Adobe
4 2 (1.03%) Cisco
4 2 (1.03%) IFS
4 2 (1.03%) Juniper
4 2 (1.03%) Planon
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.52%) Dell
5 1 (0.52%) HP
5 1 (0.52%) Okta
5 1 (0.52%) Palantir
5 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.52%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.52%) Veeam
5 1 (0.52%) VMware