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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 400 308 302
Rank change year-on-year -92 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 172 195 571
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.71% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.78% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 87 112 320
10th Percentile £34,900 £33,307 £32,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,091 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +24.40% -10.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,125 £98,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -16.67%

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 46,842 24,905 57,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 71.92% 91.25% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,795 13,837 40,932
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +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 30 April 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 30 April 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 - 49 - - 2
South West -47 32 £57,500 -11.54% 19
North of England -87 29 £55,500 -13.15% 10
South East -52 26 £97,500 +52.94% 24
East of England -19 15 £75,000 -11.76% 3
North West -42 13 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Midlands -65 13 £55,000 -32.31% 20
Yorkshire -75 13 £56,000 +4.40% 4
West Midlands -36 8 £59,038 -36.18% 13
Scotland -21 7 £30,000 -50.00% 4
East Midlands -56 5 £49,350 +11.53% 6
North East -30 3 £63,076 - 1
Wales -32 1 £68,770 +34.37% 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 (1.16%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (5.81%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (5.81%) Azure
2 7 (4.07%) Asana
2 7 (4.07%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.49%) Amazon Alexa
4 4 (2.33%) AWS
5 2 (1.16%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (1.16%) GCP
6 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.58%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.58%) SaaS
6 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) DHCP
1 3 (1.74%) DNS
1 3 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.07%) Power BI
2 2 (1.16%) Data Mining
2 2 (1.16%) Metadata
2 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.16%) Tableau
3 1 (0.58%) Big Data
3 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (5.81%) JIRA
2 4 (2.33%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 107 (62.21%) Social Skills
2 79 (45.93%) Finance
3 48 (27.91%) Public Sector
4 46 (26.74%) Manufacturing
5 40 (23.26%) Electronics
6 37 (21.51%) Marketing
6 37 (21.51%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (21.51%) Telecoms
7 22 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (5.23%) Legal
10 6 (3.49%) Aerospace
10 6 (3.49%) Fire and Rescue
10 6 (3.49%) French Language
10 6 (3.49%) German Language
10 6 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.49%) Italian Language
10 6 (3.49%) Police
11 5 (2.91%) Law
11 5 (2.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (16.86%) Infrastructure Manager
2 28 (16.28%) Security Manager
3 23 (13.37%) Project Manager
4 22 (12.79%) Senior
5 20 (11.63%) Senior Manager
6 13 (7.56%) Portfolio Manager
7 12 (6.98%) Consultant
7 12 (6.98%) Lead
7 12 (6.98%) Security Consultant
8 11 (6.40%) Senior Portfolio Manager
9 9 (5.23%) Senior Project Manager
10 8 (4.65%) Programme Manager
11 7 (4.07%) Analyst
11 7 (4.07%) Coordinator
11 7 (4.07%) Head of IT
11 7 (4.07%) Project Coordinator
12 6 (3.49%) IT Engineer
12 6 (3.49%) IT Support
12 6 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (3.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.98%) SAP CAF
2 2 (1.16%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.16%) CSS
2 2 (1.16%) Flask
2 2 (1.16%) HTML
2 2 (1.16%) JSON
2 2 (1.16%) RESTful
3 1 (0.58%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.58%) JSON-LD
3 1 (0.58%) Pandas
3 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.88%) PMI
2 16 (9.30%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.07%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.49%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.33%) Robotics
7 4 (2.33%) Verilog
7 4 (2.33%) VHDL
8 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.16%) Semantic Web
9 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) Life Science
9 1 (0.58%) Linked Data
9 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (52.91%) Project Management
2 64 (37.21%) PRINCE2
3 58 (33.72%) Logistics
4 54 (31.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
6 42 (24.42%) Coaching
6 42 (24.42%) Project Delivery
7 37 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (20.93%) Performance Metrics
9 35 (20.35%) Digital Marketing
10 33 (19.19%) Mentoring
11 32 (18.60%) Agile
12 26 (15.12%) Decision-Making
13 24 (13.95%) Portfolio Management
13 24 (13.95%) Risk Management
14 21 (12.21%) Collaborative Culture
15 20 (11.63%) Change Management
15 20 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (11.05%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.98%) Python
2 6 (3.49%) SQL
3 4 (2.33%) C
3 4 (2.33%) Embedded C
4 3 (1.74%) Bash
5 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.58%) Bicep
6 1 (0.58%) C#
6 1 (0.58%) C++
6 1 (0.58%) SHACL
6 1 (0.58%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (20.93%) Degree
2 34 (19.77%) Security Cleared
3 29 (16.86%) PMI Certification
4 22 (12.79%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.56%) PMP
6 12 (6.98%) CISM
6 12 (6.98%) CISSP
6 12 (6.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 10 (5.81%) DV Cleared
8 7 (4.07%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (3.49%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.33%) MAPM
11 3 (1.74%) CAPM
11 3 (1.74%) HNC
11 3 (1.74%) HND
11 3 (1.74%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.16%) PCI QSA
13 1 (0.58%) APMP
13 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.44%) PMO
2 28 (16.28%) QA
3 15 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (6.98%) GRC
4 12 (6.98%) NIST
5 11 (6.40%) P3O
6 7 (4.07%) SLA
7 4 (2.33%) DO-254
8 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.74%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.16%) ISO 22301
9 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.74%) Ansible
2 2 (1.16%) Terraform
3 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (20.35%) SAP
2 15 (8.72%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.16%) Adobe
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle
3 2 (1.16%) Planon
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco
4 1 (0.58%) Dell
4 1 (0.58%) HP
4 1 (0.58%) Juniper
4 1 (0.58%) Okta
4 1 (0.58%) Palantir
4 1 (0.58%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.58%) Trend Micro
4 1 (0.58%) Veeam
4 1 (0.58%) VMware