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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 351 303
Rank change year-on-year -66 -48 +5
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 166 195 567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.68% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.74% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 92 117 318
10th Percentile £32,900 £40,350 £32,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £64,743 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +23.32% -12.50%
75th Percentile £89,000 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.62% +18.18% -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 46,509 26,449 57,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.06% 92.02% 83.48%
Number of salaries quoted 29,799 13,959 41,086
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £27,117
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 12 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 12 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 - 42 - - 6
North of England -54 30 £58,250 +5.91% 20
South East -27 27 £100,000 +53.85% 31
South West -49 27 £57,500 -11.54% 20
Midlands -54 20 £46,205 -43.13% 9
West Midlands -33 15 £46,205 -50.05% 5
East of England -12 14 £75,000 -11.76% 11
Yorkshire -62 14 £60,000 +11.86% 9
North West -19 12 £50,000 -22.42% 11
Scotland -7 5 £30,000 -40.00% 4
East Midlands -39 5 £49,350 +3.89% 4
North East -33 4 £94,038 -
Wales -30 1 £68,770 +14.89% 2
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 1 (0.60%) Confluence
1 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.63%) Power Platform
2 10 (6.02%) Azure
3 5 (3.01%) Amazon Alexa
4 4 (2.41%) AWS
5 2 (1.20%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (1.20%) Serverless
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.60%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.60%) GCP
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) DHCP
1 3 (1.81%) DNS
1 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.60%) Firewall
2 1 (0.60%) IPv4
2 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.63%) Power BI
2 6 (3.61%) Tableau
3 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.20%) Metadata
3 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.60%) Big Data
4 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Git
2 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
3 2 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 102 (61.45%) Social Skills
2 72 (43.37%) Finance
3 44 (26.51%) Public Sector
4 41 (24.70%) Manufacturing
5 38 (22.89%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (20.48%) Electronics
7 32 (19.28%) Telecoms
8 31 (18.67%) Marketing
9 11 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (4.82%) Legal
11 7 (4.22%) Aerospace
12 6 (3.61%) Fire and Rescue
12 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (3.61%) Police
13 5 (3.01%) French Language
13 5 (3.01%) German Language
13 5 (3.01%) Italian Language
14 4 (2.41%) Retail
14 4 (2.41%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (18.07%) Infrastructure Manager
2 28 (16.87%) Security Manager
3 21 (12.65%) Senior
4 20 (12.05%) Project Manager
5 19 (11.45%) Senior Manager
6 14 (8.43%) Portfolio Manager
7 12 (7.23%) Senior Portfolio Manager
8 9 (5.42%) Consultant
8 9 (5.42%) Lead
8 9 (5.42%) Programme Manager
9 8 (4.82%) Head of IT
9 8 (4.82%) Security Consultant
10 7 (4.22%) Senior Project Manager
11 6 (3.61%) Analyst
11 6 (3.61%) Insight Manager
11 6 (3.61%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) IT Support
11 6 (3.61%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) CIO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.82%) SAP CAF
2 2 (1.20%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.20%) CSS
2 2 (1.20%) Flask
2 2 (1.20%) HTML
2 2 (1.20%) JSON
2 2 (1.20%) RESTful
3 1 (0.60%) boto
3 1 (0.60%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.60%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.60%) Pandas
3 1 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.04%) PMI
2 14 (8.43%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.22%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.01%) NHS
8 4 (2.41%) Robotics
8 4 (2.41%) Verilog
8 4 (2.41%) VHDL
9 2 (1.20%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Life Science
10 1 (0.60%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.41%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (49.40%) Project Management
2 57 (34.34%) PRINCE2
3 52 (31.33%) Logistics
4 47 (28.31%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (25.30%) Coaching
7 41 (24.70%) Project Delivery
8 35 (21.08%) Performance Metrics
9 34 (20.48%) Mentoring
9 34 (20.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (18.67%) Decision-Making
11 29 (17.47%) Digital Marketing
12 27 (16.27%) Agile
13 23 (13.86%) Portfolio Management
14 22 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (13.25%) Line Management
15 21 (12.65%) Risk Management
16 20 (12.05%) Collaborative Culture
16 20 (12.05%) Roadmaps
17 19 (11.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.83%) Python
2 10 (6.02%) SQL
3 4 (2.41%) Bash
3 4 (2.41%) C
3 4 (2.41%) Embedded C
4 3 (1.81%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.60%) Bicep
6 1 (0.60%) C#
6 1 (0.60%) C++
6 1 (0.60%) Java
6 1 (0.60%) SHACL
6 1 (0.60%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (18.67%) Degree
2 28 (16.87%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.65%) PMI Certification
4 16 (9.64%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.82%) CISM
5 8 (4.82%) CISSP
5 8 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 7 (4.22%) PMP
7 6 (3.61%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.81%) HNC
8 3 (1.81%) HND
8 3 (1.81%) MAPM
8 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.20%) CAPM
9 2 (1.20%) PCI QSA
10 1 (0.60%) APMP
10 1 (0.60%) OSCP
10 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.07%) PMO
2 27 (16.27%) QA
3 11 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.63%) P3O
4 8 (4.82%) GRC
4 8 (4.82%) NIST
5 7 (4.22%) SLA
6 4 (2.41%) DO-254
7 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.81%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.20%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 5 (3.01%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.60%) Squid
3 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.41%) Ansible
2 3 (1.81%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.60%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.60%) Packer
4 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (17.47%) SAP
2 10 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.81%) Oracle
4 2 (1.20%) Adobe
4 2 (1.20%) Planon
4 2 (1.20%) VMware
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco
5 1 (0.60%) Dell
5 1 (0.60%) HP
5 1 (0.60%) Juniper
5 1 (0.60%) Okta
5 1 (0.60%) Palantir
5 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.60%) Splunk
5 1 (0.60%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.60%) Veeam