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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 322 308
Rank change year-on-year -91 -14 +1
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 164 195 570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.70% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.77% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 89 113 319
10th Percentile £35,700 £37,600 £32,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,000 £98,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,957 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.81% +21.74% -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 47,360 25,446 57,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.78% 91.42% 83.84%
Number of salaries quoted 29,266 13,925 40,909
10th Percentile £29,250 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -10.57%

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 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 5 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 - - 7
South West -47 30 £57,500 -11.54% 22
North of England -81 29 £55,500 -6.64% 19
South East -54 28 £97,500 +52.94% 31
East of England -9 15 £75,000 -11.76% 9
Midlands -64 14 £55,000 -33.33% 23
North West -30 13 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Yorkshire -73 13 £56,000 +4.40% 9
West Midlands -36 9 £55,000 -40.54% 15
Scotland -22 5 £30,000 -40.00% 5
East Midlands -51 5 £49,350 +11.53% 7
North East -29 3 £63,076 - 1
Wales -33 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 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (6.10%) Azure
2 8 (4.88%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.66%) Amazon Alexa
4 3 (1.83%) AWS
5 2 (1.22%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.61%) GCP
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.61%) SaaS
6 1 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) DHCP
1 3 (1.83%) DNS
1 3 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.88%) Power BI
2 3 (1.83%) Tableau
3 2 (1.22%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.22%) Metadata
3 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.61%) Big Data
4 1 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Git
2 2 (1.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.61%) GitLab
3 1 (0.61%) JIRA
General
1 106 (64.63%) Social Skills
2 76 (46.34%) Finance
3 47 (28.66%) Public Sector
4 46 (28.05%) Manufacturing
5 39 (23.78%) Electronics
6 37 (22.56%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (22.56%) Telecoms
7 36 (21.95%) Marketing
8 11 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.88%) Legal
10 6 (3.66%) Aerospace
10 6 (3.66%) Fire and Rescue
10 6 (3.66%) French Language
10 6 (3.66%) German Language
10 6 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.66%) Italian Language
10 6 (3.66%) Police
11 4 (2.44%) Retail
11 4 (2.44%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (17.68%) Infrastructure Manager
2 28 (17.07%) Security Manager
3 23 (14.02%) Project Manager
3 23 (14.02%) Senior
4 21 (12.80%) Senior Manager
5 14 (8.54%) Portfolio Manager
6 12 (7.32%) Consultant
6 12 (7.32%) Security Consultant
6 12 (7.32%) Senior Portfolio Manager
7 10 (6.10%) Lead
8 9 (5.49%) Programme Manager
8 9 (5.49%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (4.88%) Head of IT
10 7 (4.27%) Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) IT Support
11 6 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.05%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.32%) SAP CAF
2 2 (1.22%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.22%) CSS
2 2 (1.22%) Flask
2 2 (1.22%) HTML
2 2 (1.22%) JSON
2 2 (1.22%) RESTful
3 1 (0.61%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.61%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.61%) Pandas
3 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.76%) PMI
2 11 (6.71%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.27%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.44%) Robotics
6 4 (2.44%) Verilog
6 4 (2.44%) VHDL
7 2 (1.22%) NHS
7 2 (1.22%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Life Science
8 1 (0.61%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.61%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (50.61%) Project Management
2 58 (35.37%) PRINCE2
3 52 (31.71%) Logistics
4 49 (29.88%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (26.22%) Coaching
7 42 (25.61%) Project Delivery
8 36 (21.95%) Performance Metrics
9 35 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (20.73%) Digital Marketing
10 34 (20.73%) Mentoring
11 30 (18.29%) Agile
12 24 (14.63%) Decision-Making
12 24 (14.63%) Portfolio Management
13 23 (14.02%) Risk Management
14 22 (13.41%) Collaborative Culture
15 21 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
16 20 (12.20%) Change Management
16 20 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 19 (11.59%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.32%) Python
2 7 (4.27%) SQL
3 4 (2.44%) C
3 4 (2.44%) Embedded C
4 3 (1.83%) Bash
5 2 (1.22%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.61%) Bicep
6 1 (0.61%) C#
6 1 (0.61%) C++
6 1 (0.61%) SHACL
6 1 (0.61%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.68%) Degree
3 22 (13.41%) PMI Certification
4 21 (12.80%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.32%) CISM
5 12 (7.32%) CISSP
5 12 (7.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 9 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.27%) PMP
8 6 (3.66%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.44%) MAPM
10 3 (1.83%) CAPM
10 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.83%) HNC
10 3 (1.83%) HND
10 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.22%) PCI QSA
12 1 (0.61%) APMG
12 1 (0.61%) APMP
12 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.29%) PMO
2 28 (17.07%) QA
3 15 (9.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (7.32%) GRC
4 12 (7.32%) NIST
5 11 (6.71%) P3O
6 7 (4.27%) SLA
7 4 (2.44%) DO-254
8 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.83%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.22%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.83%) Ansible
2 2 (1.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (20.73%) SAP
2 9 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.22%) Adobe
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle
3 2 (1.22%) Planon
4 1 (0.61%) Cisco
4 1 (0.61%) Dell
4 1 (0.61%) HP
4 1 (0.61%) Juniper
4 1 (0.61%) Okta
4 1 (0.61%) Palantir
4 1 (0.61%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.61%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.61%) Veeam
4 1 (0.61%) VMware