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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 341 337
Rank change year-on-year -62 -4 -28
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 221 220 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.74% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 99 139 303
10th Percentile £39,000 £35,854 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £46,875 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £58,000 £52,738
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +9.98% -12.81%
75th Percentile £86,965 £83,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,250 £94,550
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +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 49,875 29,577 59,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.70% 88.77% 80.32%
Number of salaries quoted 35,066 15,786 41,368
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,959 £32,951 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 - 95 - - 5
South East -60 33 £90,000 +50.00% 38
North of England -45 30 £63,076 +20.66% 17
Midlands -39 20 £40,000 -42.86% 16
South West -103 17 £75,000 +36.36% 17
West Midlands -27 16 £40,000 -42.86% 10
Yorkshire -33 16 £63,076 +20.66% 10
East of England -17 13 £48,105 -46.55% 10
North West -16 11 £63,076 +8.75% 5
Wales -47 8 £72,500 +21.12% 3
Scotland -2 5 £62,231 +24.46% 5
East Midlands -34 4 £43,700 -37.57% 6
North East - 3 £94,038 - 4
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 (1.81%) Confluence
2 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (0.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.38%) Azure
2 27 (12.22%) Entra ID
3 26 (11.76%) SaaS
4 16 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.26%) AWS
6 4 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (1.81%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (1.81%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.81%) Serverless
7 3 (1.36%) Smartsheet
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.81%) IPv4
1 4 (1.81%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.79%) Power BI
2 11 (4.98%) Tableau
3 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (4.52%) JIRA
2 4 (1.81%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.81%) Git
2 4 (1.81%) GitLab
2 4 (1.81%) Jenkins
General
1 149 (67.42%) Social Skills
2 58 (26.24%) Law
3 52 (23.53%) Legal
4 51 (23.08%) Finance
5 33 (14.93%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (11.31%) Public Sector
7 20 (9.05%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (7.24%) Local Government
9 13 (5.88%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.98%) Aerospace
11 10 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (3.17%) Electronics
14 6 (2.71%) Retail
14 6 (2.71%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.81%) Swedish Language
16 3 (1.36%) Aviation
16 3 (1.36%) Back Office
16 3 (1.36%) Military
17 2 (0.90%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 68 (30.77%) Senior
1 68 (30.77%) Senior Manager
2 30 (13.57%) Infrastructure Manager
3 28 (12.67%) Security Manager
4 25 (11.31%) Testing Manager
5 19 (8.60%) Programme Manager
6 15 (6.79%) Portfolio Manager
7 13 (5.88%) Lead
7 13 (5.88%) Project Manager
7 13 (5.88%) Senior Portfolio Manager
8 12 (5.43%) Consultant
9 11 (4.98%) Management Consultant
9 11 (4.98%) Programme Management Office Consultant
9 11 (4.98%) Programme Office Consultant
10 10 (4.52%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.62%) Analyst
11 8 (3.62%) Insight Manager
12 6 (2.71%) NHS Performance Manager
12 6 (2.71%) Performance Manager
12 6 (2.71%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.81%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.22%) Management Information System
2 26 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 14 (6.33%) PMI
4 10 (4.52%) NHS
5 8 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.17%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.81%) Robotics
9 4 (1.81%) Verilog
9 4 (1.81%) VHDL
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.45%) Genomics
11 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.45%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.81%) Linux
1 4 (1.81%) Windows
1 4 (1.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (46.15%) PRINCE2
2 99 (44.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 99 (44.80%) Project Management
3 81 (36.65%) Mentoring
4 67 (30.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 62 (28.05%) Project Delivery
6 57 (25.79%) Decision-Making
6 57 (25.79%) Strategic Planning
7 54 (24.43%) Performance Management
8 47 (21.27%) Collaborative Working
8 47 (21.27%) Logistics
9 42 (19.00%) Cybersecurity
10 40 (18.10%) AI
11 38 (17.19%) Data Management
11 38 (17.19%) ITIL
11 38 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (16.74%) Budget Management
13 34 (15.38%) Information Security
14 33 (14.93%) Coaching
15 32 (14.48%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.93%) Python
2 29 (13.12%) PowerShell
3 25 (11.31%) C#
3 25 (11.31%) JavaScript
3 25 (11.31%) TypeScript
4 11 (4.98%) SQL
5 4 (1.81%) Bash
5 4 (1.81%) C
5 4 (1.81%) Embedded C
5 4 (1.81%) Java
Qualifications
1 37 (16.74%) Degree
2 27 (12.22%) A+ Certification
2 27 (12.22%) CISM
2 27 (12.22%) CISSP
2 27 (12.22%) Network+ Certification
2 27 (12.22%) PMI Certification
3 14 (6.33%) PMP
4 7 (3.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 6 (2.71%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.26%) CAPM
6 5 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.81%) CCNA
7 4 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.81%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.81%) OSCP
7 4 (1.81%) RHCE
7 4 (1.81%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (29.41%) QA
2 45 (20.36%) PMO
3 11 (4.98%) P3O
4 4 (1.81%) DO-254
5 3 (1.36%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (1.36%) NEBOSH
6 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.90%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (14.03%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Squid
2 4 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.81%) VMware NSX
2 4 (1.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (12.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.81%) Ansible
2 4 (1.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.81%) Packer
2 4 (1.81%) Terraform
2 4 (1.81%) ZABBIX
3 2 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 48 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.22%) CyberArk
3 7 (3.17%) Oracle
4 4 (1.81%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.81%) Splunk
4 4 (1.81%) VMware
5 3 (1.36%) NEC
5 3 (1.36%) Planview
6 2 (0.90%) Adobe
6 2 (0.90%) Infor
6 2 (0.90%) Planon
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow