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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 357 253
Rank change year-on-year +79 -104 +42
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 305 257 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.54% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.67% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 164 101 279
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,305 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% +11.46% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,721 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,700 £78,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £61,250 £63,575 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.66% +5.96% -5.51%

All Process and 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 29,605 38,361 29,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.07% 79.90% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16,597 18,972 22,107
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,723
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,070
UK median annual salary £53,725 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.46% - -

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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 East +59 104 £63,750 +0.33% 91
South West +90 78 £50,000 -20.00% 27
Midlands +56 48 £47,500 -18.18% 17
North of England -38 33 £67,500 -1.44% 49
West Midlands +66 29 £47,500 -25.52% 11
North West -40 27 £58,000 -15.31% 42
East Midlands +25 19 £50,269 +67.56% 6
East of England +20 16 £63,750 +14.86% 19
Scotland 0 14 £60,000 +10.75% 11
Wales +15 12 £48,122 -25.97% 7
Yorkshire +6 6 £82,500 +3.13% 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 9 (2.95%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.30%) Confluence
3 5 (1.64%) IIS
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.66%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.66%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.66%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 33 (10.82%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (6.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.62%) Primavera
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
2 20 (6.56%) Azure
3 14 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.28%) AWS
4 10 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.30%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.97%) GCP
7 4 (1.31%) SaaS
8 3 (0.98%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.66%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.66%) OCI
9 2 (0.66%) Serverless
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon Alexa
10 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.51%) Network Security
2 18 (5.90%) VPN
3 13 (4.26%) Junos
3 13 (4.26%) LAN
3 13 (4.26%) WAN
3 13 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.62%) Wireless
5 7 (2.30%) IPsec
6 6 (1.97%) Firewall
7 5 (1.64%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (1.64%) DHCP
7 5 (1.64%) DNS
7 5 (1.64%) VLAN
7 5 (1.64%) VoIP
8 3 (0.98%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.66%) Bluetooth
9 2 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (0.66%) Modbus
9 2 (0.66%) MPLS
9 2 (0.66%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.28%) Geospatial Data
1 10 (3.28%) GIS
2 7 (2.30%) Power BI
3 6 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.97%) Tableau
4 5 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.98%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) Metadata
7 1 (0.33%) QlikView
7 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 58 (19.02%) JIRA
2 25 (8.20%) Git
2 25 (8.20%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.89%) eCATT
4 12 (3.93%) NeoLoad
5 3 (0.98%) GitLab
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.33%) Gatling
7 1 (0.33%) JMeter
7 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 205 (67.21%) Finance
2 133 (43.61%) Manufacturing
3 127 (41.64%) Marketing
4 120 (39.34%) Social Skills
5 99 (32.46%) Public Sector
6 98 (32.13%) Electronics
6 98 (32.13%) Telecoms
7 79 (25.90%) Analytical Skills
8 36 (11.80%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (11.15%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (10.16%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (6.89%) Retail
12 13 (4.26%) Law
13 10 (3.28%) Aerospace
13 10 (3.28%) Banking
14 9 (2.95%) Legal
15 4 (1.31%) Automotive
15 4 (1.31%) Military
15 4 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (20.33%) Lead
2 47 (15.41%) Consultant
3 41 (13.44%) Security Consultant
4 31 (10.16%) Programme Manager
5 28 (9.18%) Analyst
6 27 (8.85%) Project Manager
7 26 (8.52%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 25 (8.20%) Senior
9 21 (6.89%) Test Analyst
10 16 (5.25%) Senior Manager
11 13 (4.26%) Architect
12 12 (3.93%) Performance Analyst
12 12 (3.93%) Performance Test Analyst
12 12 (3.93%) Testing Analyst
13 9 (2.95%) Automation Test Analyst
13 9 (2.95%) Technical Manager
14 8 (2.62%) Change Manager
14 8 (2.62%) Development Specialist
14 8 (2.62%) Support Engineer
15 7 (2.30%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.59%) SAP CAF
2 3 (0.98%) FastAPI
2 3 (0.98%) ModSecurity
2 3 (0.98%) Node.js
2 3 (0.98%) Spring
2 3 (0.98%) Spring Boot
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (0.66%) Pandas
3 2 (0.66%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.66%) scikit-learn
3 2 (0.66%) TensorFlow
3 2 (0.66%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.33%) JSON
4 1 (0.33%) NumPy
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.33%) PySpark
4 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 34 (11.15%) Management Information System
3 20 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (5.57%) FMCG
5 10 (3.28%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.97%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.97%) PDA
8 5 (1.64%) Clustering
9 4 (1.31%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.31%) EPoS
9 4 (1.31%) FPGA
9 4 (1.31%) IoT
9 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.98%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.59%) Linux
1 14 (4.59%) Windows
2 8 (2.62%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.64%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.33%) Business Intelligence
2 105 (34.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 97 (31.80%) Digital Marketing
4 74 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (21.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 66 (21.64%) Risk Management
7 63 (20.66%) Agile
8 59 (19.34%) Project Management
9 58 (19.02%) Decision-Making
10 57 (18.69%) Cybersecurity
11 54 (17.70%) ERP
12 53 (17.38%) Change Management
13 51 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (14.75%) Project Delivery
15 42 (13.77%) Mentoring
16 39 (12.79%) Roadmaps
17 38 (12.46%) Analytics
18 36 (11.80%) Coaching
19 35 (11.48%) Process Improvement
20 34 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.61%) Python
2 6 (1.97%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.31%) C
4 4 (1.31%) C++
4 4 (1.31%) SQL
5 3 (0.98%) Bash
5 3 (0.98%) Java
5 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.33%) C#
7 1 (0.33%) R
7 1 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (41.31%) Security Cleared
2 101 (33.11%) Degree
3 52 (17.05%) SC Cleared
4 45 (14.75%) CISSP
5 25 (8.20%) CEH
5 25 (8.20%) CompTIA Security+
6 20 (6.56%) DV Cleared
7 19 (6.23%) CISM
8 15 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (4.59%) CCNA
9 14 (4.59%) CCNP
9 14 (4.59%) DBS Check
9 14 (4.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 14 (4.59%) PMP
10 13 (4.26%) JNCIA
11 10 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (3.28%) PMI Certification
12 7 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.97%) HND
14 5 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (13.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 41 (13.44%) NIST
2 30 (9.84%) QA
3 25 (8.20%) PCI DSS
4 22 (7.21%) Def Stans
5 20 (6.56%) PMO
6 14 (4.59%) GRC
7 5 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.64%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.98%) SLA
9 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.66%) JTAG
9 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.33%) P3O
System Software
1 9 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.30%) Docker
2 7 (2.30%) Firmware
2 7 (2.30%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (6.89%) HP ALM
2 7 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.64%) Autotask
4 5 (1.64%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Ansible
6 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 148 (48.52%) SAP
2 40 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.21%) HP
4 21 (6.89%) Salesforce
5 19 (6.23%) Cisco
6 13 (4.26%) Juniper
7 11 (3.61%) Oracle
8 10 (3.28%) VMware
9 5 (1.64%) Apple
9 5 (1.64%) Datto
9 5 (1.64%) Sophos
9 5 (1.64%) Veeam
10 3 (0.98%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.98%) Workday
11 2 (0.66%) Fujitsu
11 2 (0.66%) Google
11 2 (0.66%) IFS
11 2 (0.66%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.66%) Twitter