Programme Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Programme Management (Program Management)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Programme Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Programme Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 330 332
Rank change year-on-year -61 +2 -84
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 225 546 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.72% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.90% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 140 294 338
10th Percentile £36,232 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £53,528 £60,713
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% -11.84% +15.64%
75th Percentile £82,813 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,125 £95,000 £82,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.04% -15.56% +16.11%

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 37,925 60,755 48,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.00% 80.65% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 19,546 40,612 28,089
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,125 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

Programme Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Programme Management in the UK excluding London

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 July 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 12 July 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 West +69 63 £52,500 -19.23% 31
South East -44 57 £60,000 +1.69% 65
North of England +16 39 £52,276 +3.14% 45
Midlands +19 30 £70,000 +37.40% 43
North West -10 24 £58,000 +14.43% 25
West Midlands +31 20 £70,000 +48.94% 28
Scotland +86 16 £50,000 -7.71% 24
Yorkshire +47 15 £52,276 +0.54% 16
East of England +26 14 £90,000 +65.05% 19
East Midlands +21 10 £70,000 +27.27% 15
Wales +11 6 £59,857 -7.91% 2
Programme Management
UK

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.22%) Confluence
2 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.33%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.89%) ThingWorx
4 2 (0.89%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.44%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.89%) Azure
2 18 (8.00%) AWS
3 14 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.00%) Serverless
5 7 (3.11%) GCP
6 6 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.22%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.22%) Collibra
7 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.22%) SaaS
8 4 (1.78%) IaaS
9 3 (1.33%) PaaS
9 3 (1.33%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.89%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.89%) OCI
11 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.78%) WAN
2 15 (6.67%) Network Security
2 15 (6.67%) VPN
2 15 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (6.22%) SD-WAN
4 10 (4.44%) LAN
5 9 (4.00%) Junos
6 8 (3.56%) 5G
7 6 (2.67%) Ethernet
7 6 (2.67%) Wireless
8 4 (1.78%) Firewall
9 3 (1.33%) Bluetooth
9 3 (1.33%) IPsec
9 3 (1.33%) Modbus
9 3 (1.33%) MQTT
10 2 (0.89%) LoRaWAN
10 2 (0.89%) LTE
10 2 (0.89%) MPLS
10 2 (0.89%) RS-485
11 1 (0.44%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.67%) Tableau
2 5 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.33%) Power BI
3 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.89%) Big Data
4 2 (0.89%) DB2
4 2 (0.89%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.89%) MySQL
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.44%) Flink
5 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.44%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (6.67%) JIRA
2 7 (3.11%) Git
3 2 (0.89%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.89%) JUnit
3 2 (0.89%) Subversion
4 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.44%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.44%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.44%) CMake
4 1 (0.44%) GitLab
4 1 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.44%) WiX
4 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 126 (56.00%) Finance
2 93 (41.33%) Social Skills
3 82 (36.44%) Manufacturing
4 78 (34.67%) Electronics
5 75 (33.33%) Marketing
6 71 (31.56%) Public Sector
7 67 (29.78%) Telecoms
8 57 (25.33%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (8.44%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (5.33%) Law
12 9 (4.00%) Banking
13 8 (3.56%) Aerospace
14 7 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (2.22%) Automotive
15 5 (2.22%) Military
16 4 (1.78%) Legal
16 4 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (19.56%) Programme Manager
2 36 (16.00%) Lead
3 34 (15.11%) Senior
4 21 (9.33%) Project Manager
5 15 (6.67%) Consultant
6 14 (6.22%) Senior Manager
7 13 (5.78%) Architect
7 13 (5.78%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 13 (5.78%) Security Consultant
7 13 (5.78%) Technical Leader
8 10 (4.44%) Technical Manager
9 9 (4.00%) Project Leader
9 9 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) Development Specialist
10 8 (3.56%) Senior Project Leader
10 8 (3.56%) Software Project Leader
10 8 (3.56%) Technical Project Leader
11 7 (3.11%) Infrastructure Manager
11 7 (3.11%) Network Architect
11 7 (3.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.67%) Node.js
2 4 (1.78%) Spring
2 4 (1.78%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.33%) OAuth
4 2 (0.89%) ADO
4 2 (0.89%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.89%) HTML
4 2 (0.89%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (0.89%) J2EE
4 2 (0.89%) Java EE
4 2 (0.89%) REST
4 2 (0.89%) SOAP
4 2 (0.89%) Web Services
4 2 (0.89%) XML
5 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.44%) CSS
5 1 (0.44%) Middleware
5 1 (0.44%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.44%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.44%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (5.78%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (5.33%) IoT
4 11 (4.89%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.56%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (3.56%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.11%) SCADA
7 6 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.67%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.78%) FPGA
8 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.78%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.44%) Windows
2 7 (3.11%) Linux
3 6 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.44%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (37.78%) Agile
2 71 (31.56%) Business Intelligence
3 68 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (29.78%) Digital Marketing
4 67 (29.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 61 (27.11%) Project Management
6 54 (24.00%) Project Delivery
7 37 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (15.11%) Mentoring
8 34 (15.11%) PRINCE2
9 32 (14.22%) Computer Science
10 29 (12.89%) Coaching
11 28 (12.44%) Analytics
12 27 (12.00%) Decision-Making
13 26 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
14 24 (10.67%) Risk Management
14 24 (10.67%) Roadmaps
15 22 (9.78%) Change Management
15 22 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 21 (9.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.78%) Python
2 11 (4.89%) Java
3 8 (3.56%) C++
4 6 (2.67%) C
5 4 (1.78%) Bash
5 4 (1.78%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.33%) SQL
7 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.44%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.44%) PHP
8 1 (0.44%) R
8 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (26.22%) Degree
2 52 (23.11%) Security Cleared
3 25 (11.11%) PMP
4 20 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (8.89%) PMI Certification
4 20 (8.89%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.56%) CISSP
6 16 (7.11%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.67%) CEH
8 13 (5.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 10 (4.44%) CCNA
9 10 (4.44%) CCNP
9 10 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (4.44%) Master's Degree
10 9 (4.00%) JNCIA
11 6 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.22%) HND
12 5 (2.22%) MBA
13 3 (1.33%) CISM
13 3 (1.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.33%) PMO
2 18 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (7.11%) NIST
4 15 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 11 (4.89%) Data Quality
6 7 (3.11%) QA
7 5 (2.22%) GDPR
8 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.78%) SLA
9 3 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.89%) COBIT
10 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.89%) JTAG
10 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.44%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.44%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (3.56%) Firmware
2 6 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (1.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.33%) Docker
6 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.78%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.78%) Terraform
2 3 (1.33%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.44%) Autotask
4 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 75 (33.33%) SAP
2 22 (9.78%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.89%) Cisco
4 9 (4.00%) Juniper
5 7 (3.11%) Oracle
6 6 (2.67%) VMware
7 5 (2.22%) Google
7 5 (2.22%) Informatica
8 3 (1.33%) EMC
8 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.89%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.89%) Curam
9 2 (0.89%) Freescale
9 2 (0.89%) Fujitsu
9 2 (0.89%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.89%) NVIDIA
9 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.89%) Twitter
9 2 (0.89%) Workday