Programme Management (Program Management)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Programme Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Programme Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 364 305
Rank change year-on-year +38 -59 -37
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 878 894 2,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.92% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.96% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 514 597 1,353
10th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Programme Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Programme Management.

Salary trend for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Programme Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Programme Management in the UK

Programme Management
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
England +17 735 £60,000 -11.11% 290
UK excluding London +26 590 £52,500 -12.50% 203
Work from Home +31 338 £63,500 +5.83% 103
London +87 234 £72,500 -6.45% 97
South East -9 196 £56,250 -19.64% 53
Midlands +13 98 £51,997 -15.29% 33
South West -24 96 £64,250 +17.24% 27
West Midlands +15 67 £48,500 -17.45% 21
North of England +9 66 £50,000 -25.93% 53
Scotland -36 46 £50,000 -11.87% 13
North West -1 45 £50,685 -26.94% 29
Northern Ireland - 35 £35,000 - 2
East of England -13 32 £53,555 -27.14% 18
East Midlands -12 31 £55,000 -17.77% 11
Wales +22 22 £58,869 +7.94% 6
North East +4 12 £39,000 -46.94% 6
Yorkshire +50 9 £51,997 -20.62% 18

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 49 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.03%) WordPress
3 8 (0.91%) Confluence
4 7 (0.80%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.68%) Apache
5 6 (0.68%) CMS
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 117 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.68%) OrCAD
5 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.57%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.46%) Doxygen
8 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) SPSS
8 3 (0.34%) Stata
9 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.23%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.23%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.11%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (6.72%) Primavera
2 5 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.46%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.11%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (8.77%) Azure
2 46 (5.24%) AWS
3 34 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (3.08%) dbt
4 27 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.05%) Smartsheet
6 17 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (1.48%) GitHub
8 13 (1.48%) SaaS
9 9 (1.03%) Google Drive
10 8 (0.91%) OneDrive
11 6 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.68%) GCP
11 6 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.57%) ChatGPT
12 5 (0.57%) Entra ID
12 5 (0.57%) PaaS
12 5 (0.57%) PowerApps
12 5 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.62%) Network Security
2 22 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (2.16%) Wireless
4 17 (1.94%) HTTP
5 14 (1.59%) MQTT
6 11 (1.25%) DNS
6 11 (1.25%) Modbus
7 10 (1.14%) LAN
7 10 (1.14%) WAN
8 9 (1.03%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.91%) LTE
9 8 (0.91%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.80%) 3G
10 7 (0.80%) Bluetooth
10 7 (0.80%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.80%) GPRS
11 6 (0.68%) 4G
11 6 (0.68%) Firewall
11 6 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.57%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (2.16%) Power BI
3 14 (1.59%) Tableau
4 9 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.80%) Redis
5 7 (0.80%) SQLite
6 6 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.68%) GIS
7 5 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.34%) Big Data
9 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.34%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.34%) MySQL
10 2 (0.23%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.11%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 34 (3.87%) JIRA
2 30 (3.42%) Git
3 17 (1.94%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.59%) Subversion
5 11 (1.25%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
8 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.46%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.11%) Appium
10 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.11%) Postman
10 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.11%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.11%) Snyk
10 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 398 (45.33%) Social Skills
2 347 (39.52%) Finance
3 258 (29.38%) Public Sector
4 206 (23.46%) Marketing
5 185 (21.07%) Manufacturing
6 182 (20.73%) Telecoms
7 162 (18.45%) Electronics
8 129 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
9 59 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 48 (5.47%) Legal
11 42 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (4.56%) Retail
13 38 (4.33%) Law
14 37 (4.21%) Local Government
15 32 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (3.30%) Digital Economy
17 22 (2.51%) Military
18 21 (2.39%) Banking
19 20 (2.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 179 (20.39%) Project Manager
2 154 (17.54%) Senior
3 117 (13.33%) Senior Manager
4 86 (9.79%) Programme Manager
5 76 (8.66%) Senior Project Manager
6 52 (5.92%) Project Controller
7 47 (5.35%) IT Manager
8 43 (4.90%) Consultant
9 40 (4.56%) Analyst
10 39 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 33 (3.76%) Developer
11 33 (3.76%) Lead
12 26 (2.96%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.85%) Electronics Engineer
14 24 (2.73%) Business Analyst
15 23 (2.62%) Product Manager
16 22 (2.51%) Security Consultant
17 20 (2.28%) IT Project Manager
18 19 (2.16%) Senior Programme Manager
19 18 (2.05%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.87%) HTML
2 30 (3.42%) AngularJS
2 30 (3.42%) React
3 28 (3.19%) CSS
4 17 (1.94%) Flask
5 14 (1.59%) Spring
6 13 (1.48%) .NET
6 13 (1.48%) Django
7 9 (1.03%) .NET Framework
8 8 (0.91%) HTML5
8 8 (0.91%) Svelte
9 7 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
9 7 (0.80%) Qt
10 6 (0.68%) Celery
10 6 (0.68%) Dask
10 6 (0.68%) EDI
10 6 (0.68%) Node.js
10 6 (0.68%) NumPy
10 6 (0.68%) WCF
10 6 (0.68%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (4.67%) Social Media
3 37 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.73%) NHS
7 21 (2.39%) IoT
8 18 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (2.05%) Security Operations Centre
9 17 (1.94%) PMI
10 16 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
11 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.48%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.37%) FPGA
14 11 (1.25%) Blog
15 10 (1.14%) Driving Licence
16 9 (1.03%) Arduino
16 9 (1.03%) VHDL
17 8 (0.91%) NB-IoT
17 8 (0.91%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.26%) Linux
2 48 (5.47%) Windows
3 4 (0.46%) VMS
4 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) AIX
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (37.93%) Project Management
2 267 (30.41%) Agile
3 183 (20.84%) Business Intelligence
4 169 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
5 162 (18.45%) Digital Marketing
6 161 (18.34%) Change Management
7 157 (17.88%) Risk Management
8 136 (15.49%) Project Delivery
9 129 (14.69%) PRINCE2
10 115 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 110 (12.53%) Decision-Making
12 100 (11.39%) Mentoring
13 97 (11.05%) Business Case
14 95 (10.82%) Coaching
15 79 (9.00%) Analytics
16 70 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (7.86%) Software Engineering
18 65 (7.40%) Systems Engineering
19 64 (7.29%) Roadmaps
20 61 (6.95%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (7.97%) Python
2 55 (6.26%) JavaScript
3 47 (5.35%) SQL
4 45 (5.13%) C
5 38 (4.33%) C++
6 36 (4.10%) Java
7 28 (3.19%) C#
8 17 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.82%) Embedded C
10 12 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.03%) Bash
12 8 (0.91%) Embedded C++
12 8 (0.91%) Go
12 8 (0.91%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.91%) PHP
13 7 (0.80%) R
14 5 (0.57%) Assembly Language
15 4 (0.46%) Bicep
16 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.23%) XAML
Qualifications
1 242 (27.56%) Degree
2 132 (15.03%) Security Cleared
3 77 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 56 (6.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 45 (5.13%) PMI Certification
6 40 (4.56%) DV Cleared
7 31 (3.53%) PMP
8 25 (2.85%) Master's Degree
9 20 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.71%) HNC
11 12 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.14%) CCNP
13 9 (1.03%) CCNA
13 9 (1.03%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.91%) CCSA
14 8 (0.91%) CISSP
14 8 (0.91%) PgMP
14 8 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.97%) PMO
2 50 (5.69%) QA
3 20 (2.28%) NIST
4 19 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.16%) NIST 800
5 15 (1.71%) ISO 9001
6 12 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.91%) ISO 9000
7 8 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 8 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.46%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.46%) JTAG
9 3 (0.34%) P3O
9 3 (0.34%) SLA
10 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.23%) GDPR
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (4.44%) Firmware
2 12 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (1.25%) Docker
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.23%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (1.82%) Terraform
2 8 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.11%) FTK
4 1 (0.11%) Grafana
4 1 (0.11%) IBM BigFix
4 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.11%) SCCM
4 1 (0.11%) systemd
4 1 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 175 (19.93%) SAP
2 153 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 20 (2.28%) Google
4 13 (1.48%) Oracle
5 11 (1.25%) EMC
5 11 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.14%) Cisco
7 9 (1.03%) CheckPoint
7 9 (1.03%) Xero
8 7 (0.80%) NVIDIA
9 6 (0.68%) Meraki
9 6 (0.68%) VMware
10 5 (0.57%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (0.57%) Cognos
10 5 (0.57%) iManage
11 4 (0.46%) Adobe
11 4 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.46%) NEC
12 3 (0.34%) Autodesk
12 3 (0.34%) Xilinx