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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 353 318
Rank change year-on-year -63 -35 -15
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 162 187 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.66% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.71% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 85 107 311
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,300 £32,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +14.04% -15.56%

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 47,358 26,244 57,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.87% 92.03% 82.95%
Number of salaries quoted 30,601 12,957 41,109
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £27,007
25th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -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 22 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 22 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 - 45 - - 8
North of England -50 30 £63,038 +14.61% 22
South East -51 28 £98,000 +50.77% 30
South West -67 22 £57,500 -9.80% 15
Midlands -55 20 £43,700 -47.03% 5
West Midlands -30 15 £42,500 -54.05% 3
Yorkshire -48 15 £63,038 +22.40% 10
North West -17 11 £50,000 -22.42% 11
East of England -17 11 £75,000 -16.67% 12
Scotland -12 5 £30,000 -40.00% 7
East Midlands -43 5 £49,350 -16.00% 2
North East -32 4 £94,038 - 1
Wales -40 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 2 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 9 (5.56%) Azure
3 5 (3.09%) AWS
4 3 (1.85%) Amazon Alexa
4 3 (1.85%) Smartsheet
5 2 (1.23%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.23%) Serverless
6 1 (0.62%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.85%) DHCP
1 3 (1.85%) DNS
1 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.23%) IPv4
2 2 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.62%) Firewall
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.41%) Power BI
2 7 (4.32%) Tableau
3 2 (1.23%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.62%) Big Data
4 1 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.85%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.85%) GitLab
3 3 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 95 (58.64%) Social Skills
2 67 (41.36%) Finance
3 35 (21.60%) Organisational Skills
4 34 (20.99%) Public Sector
5 29 (17.90%) Manufacturing
6 23 (14.20%) Electronics
7 20 (12.35%) Telecoms
8 19 (11.73%) Marketing
9 14 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (5.56%) Aerospace
12 8 (4.94%) Legal
13 6 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (2.47%) Fire and Rescue
14 4 (2.47%) Local Government
14 4 (2.47%) Police
14 4 (2.47%) Retail
14 4 (2.47%) Swedish Language
15 3 (1.85%) French Language
15 3 (1.85%) German Language
Job Titles
1 30 (18.52%) Infrastructure Manager
2 28 (17.28%) Security Manager
3 20 (12.35%) Senior
4 19 (11.73%) Project Manager
4 19 (11.73%) Senior Manager
5 15 (9.26%) Portfolio Manager
6 12 (7.41%) Senior Portfolio Manager
7 10 (6.17%) Programme Manager
8 7 (4.32%) Head of IT
8 7 (4.32%) Insight Manager
8 7 (4.32%) Lead
9 6 (3.70%) Analyst
9 6 (3.70%) Senior Project Manager
10 5 (3.09%) CIO
10 5 (3.09%) Consultant
10 5 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.09%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.09%) NHS Performance Manager
10 5 (3.09%) Performance Manager
10 5 (3.09%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.47%) SAP CAF
2 2 (1.23%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.23%) boto
2 2 (1.23%) CSS
2 2 (1.23%) Flask
2 2 (1.23%) HTML
2 2 (1.23%) RESTful
3 1 (0.62%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.62%) JSON
3 1 (0.62%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.26%) PMI
2 14 (8.64%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.94%) Driving Licence
6 7 (4.32%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.70%) NHS
7 6 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.47%) Robotics
9 4 (2.47%) Verilog
9 4 (2.47%) VHDL
10 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.62%) Genomics
11 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.62%) Life Science
11 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.09%) Linux
2 3 (1.85%) Windows
3 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (52.47%) Project Management
2 62 (38.27%) PRINCE2
3 51 (31.48%) Logistics
4 50 (30.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (24.69%) Coaching
5 40 (24.69%) Project Delivery
6 37 (22.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (21.60%) Decision-Making
9 33 (20.37%) Mentoring
9 33 (20.37%) Performance Metrics
10 28 (17.28%) Agile
11 23 (14.20%) Line Management
11 23 (14.20%) Risk Management
12 22 (13.58%) Roadmaps
13 21 (12.96%) Portfolio Management
14 17 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (10.49%) Digital Marketing
14 17 (10.49%) Service Delivery
14 17 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.79%) Python
2 8 (4.94%) SQL
3 4 (2.47%) Bash
3 4 (2.47%) C
3 4 (2.47%) Embedded C
3 4 (2.47%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.23%) Java
4 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.62%) SHACL
5 1 (0.62%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 34 (20.99%) Degree
2 25 (15.43%) PMI Certification
3 17 (10.49%) Security Cleared
4 11 (6.79%) PMP
5 9 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.09%) CAPM
7 4 (2.47%) A+ Certification
7 4 (2.47%) CISM
7 4 (2.47%) CISSP
7 4 (2.47%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.85%) HNC
8 3 (1.85%) HND
8 3 (1.85%) MAPM
8 3 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.23%) OSCP
9 2 (1.23%) PCI QSA
9 2 (1.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.52%) PMO
2 29 (17.90%) QA
3 11 (6.79%) P3O
4 7 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.70%) SLA
6 4 (2.47%) DO-254
6 4 (2.47%) GRC
6 4 (2.47%) NIST
7 3 (1.85%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.23%) ISO 22301
8 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (3.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.23%) Squid
3 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.23%) vSphere
4 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.09%) Ansible
2 3 (1.85%) Terraform
3 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.23%) Packer
3 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.49%) SAP
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle
4 3 (1.85%) Planview
4 3 (1.85%) VMware
5 2 (1.23%) Adobe
5 2 (1.23%) Planon
5 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.23%) Splunk
6 1 (0.62%) Cisco
6 1 (0.62%) Dell
6 1 (0.62%) HP
6 1 (0.62%) Infor
6 1 (0.62%) Juniper
6 1 (0.62%) Okta
6 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.62%) Trend Micro
6 1 (0.62%) Veeam