Programme Management Jobs

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 381 304
Rank change year-on-year +44 -77 -25
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 866 810 2,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.87% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.91% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 515 594 1,384
10th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £76,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +14.29% -

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +30 743 £60,000 -11.11% 298
UK excluding London +13 575 £53,500 -10.83% 205
Work from Home +40 322 £62,500 +4.17% 127
London +83 239 £72,500 -4.92% 101
South East +9 198 £57,500 -17.86% 52
Midlands -10 98 £51,997 -9.78% 42
South West -38 97 £63,500 +15.45% 31
North of England +6 67 £50,685 -23.78% 48
West Midlands -1 67 £48,500 -9.77% 28
North West -5 46 £50,685 -25.60% 24
East of England +3 32 £53,555 -27.14% 18
Northern Ireland - 32 £35,000 - 4
East Midlands -20 31 £55,000 -17.77% 14
Scotland -57 28 £51,000 -12.62% 12
Wales +31 24 £65,000 +19.19% 5
North East -9 12 £39,000 -46.94% 5
Yorkshire +36 9 £51,997 -20.62% 19

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 48 (5.54%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.04%) WordPress
3 8 (0.92%) Confluence
4 7 (0.81%) CMS
4 7 (0.81%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.69%) Apache
5 6 (0.69%) nginx
6 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 115 (13.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (9.82%) Microsoft Project
3 52 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.69%) OrCAD
5 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.58%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.46%) Doxygen
8 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.35%) SPSS
8 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.12%) Simulink
10 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (6.81%) Primavera
2 5 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.46%) CA PPM
3 4 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.12%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.12%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 71 (8.20%) Azure
2 43 (4.97%) AWS
3 33 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (3.12%) dbt
4 27 (3.12%) Power Platform
5 18 (2.08%) Smartsheet
6 15 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (1.39%) GitHub
9 11 (1.27%) SaaS
10 9 (1.04%) Google Drive
11 8 (0.92%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.58%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.58%) PaaS
13 5 (0.58%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.58%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.46%) AWS IoT
14 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.66%) Network Security
2 22 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
3 20 (2.31%) Wireless
4 16 (1.85%) HTTP
5 13 (1.50%) MQTT
6 12 (1.39%) Modbus
7 11 (1.27%) DNS
8 10 (1.15%) LAN
8 10 (1.15%) WAN
9 9 (1.04%) LTE
9 9 (1.04%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.92%) 3G
10 8 (0.92%) GPRS
10 8 (0.92%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.81%) Bluetooth
11 7 (0.81%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.69%) 4G
12 6 (0.69%) Firewall
12 6 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (0.58%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (2.19%) Power BI
3 14 (1.62%) Tableau
4 9 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (1.04%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.81%) Redis
5 7 (0.81%) SQLite
6 6 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.69%) GIS
7 5 (0.58%) MySQL
7 5 (0.58%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.35%) Big Data
8 3 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.35%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (4.04%) JIRA
2 30 (3.46%) Git
3 17 (1.96%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.62%) Subversion
5 11 (1.27%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.81%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.58%) Maven
8 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.46%) GitLab
9 2 (0.23%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.12%) Appium
10 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.12%) JMeter
10 1 (0.12%) Postman
10 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.12%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 382 (44.11%) Social Skills
2 346 (39.95%) Finance
3 248 (28.64%) Public Sector
4 210 (24.25%) Marketing
5 184 (21.25%) Manufacturing
5 184 (21.25%) Telecoms
6 164 (18.94%) Electronics
7 128 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
8 55 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 50 (5.77%) Legal
10 44 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (4.27%) Local Government
11 37 (4.27%) Retail
12 36 (4.16%) Law
13 32 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
14 29 (3.35%) Digital Economy
15 26 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (2.66%) Military
17 22 (2.54%) Banking
18 20 (2.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 182 (21.02%) Project Manager
2 156 (18.01%) Senior
3 119 (13.74%) Senior Manager
4 83 (9.58%) Programme Manager
5 76 (8.78%) Senior Project Manager
6 52 (6.00%) Project Controller
7 46 (5.31%) IT Manager
8 43 (4.97%) Consultant
9 35 (4.04%) Software Engineer
10 33 (3.81%) Developer
11 31 (3.58%) Lead
12 26 (3.00%) Product Manager
13 25 (2.89%) Electronics Engineer
13 25 (2.89%) Support Engineer
14 24 (2.77%) Analyst
15 23 (2.66%) Security Consultant
16 20 (2.31%) IT Project Manager
17 19 (2.19%) Head of Delivery
17 19 (2.19%) Senior Programme Manager
18 18 (2.08%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.70%) HTML
2 29 (3.35%) AngularJS
2 29 (3.35%) React
3 26 (3.00%) CSS
4 16 (1.85%) Flask
5 14 (1.62%) Spring
6 13 (1.50%) .NET
7 12 (1.39%) Django
8 9 (1.04%) .NET Framework
9 8 (0.92%) HTML5
9 8 (0.92%) Svelte
10 7 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
10 7 (0.81%) Qt
11 6 (0.69%) Celery
11 6 (0.69%) Dask
11 6 (0.69%) GeoJSON
11 6 (0.69%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (0.69%) Node.js
11 6 (0.69%) NumPy
11 6 (0.69%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.16%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (4.73%) Social Media
3 40 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.89%) NHS
6 24 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.42%) IoT
8 18 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 16 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
9 16 (1.85%) PMI
10 14 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.39%) FPGA
13 11 (1.27%) Blog
14 10 (1.15%) Driving Licence
15 9 (1.04%) Arduino
15 9 (1.04%) NB-IoT
15 9 (1.04%) VHDL
16 8 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.47%) Linux
2 47 (5.43%) Windows
3 4 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (0.46%) VMS
4 3 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.23%) AIX
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (38.22%) Project Management
2 264 (30.48%) Agile
3 185 (21.36%) Business Intelligence
4 168 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (18.94%) Digital Marketing
6 161 (18.59%) Change Management
7 159 (18.36%) Risk Management
8 137 (15.82%) Project Delivery
9 127 (14.67%) PRINCE2
10 109 (12.59%) Decision-Making
11 101 (11.66%) Mentoring
12 98 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 95 (10.97%) Coaching
14 84 (9.70%) Business Case
15 77 (8.89%) Analytics
16 71 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (7.85%) Software Engineering
18 66 (7.62%) Roadmaps
18 66 (7.62%) Systems Engineering
19 61 (7.04%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (7.97%) Python
2 55 (6.35%) JavaScript
3 46 (5.31%) C
3 46 (5.31%) SQL
4 38 (4.39%) C++
5 33 (3.81%) Java
6 27 (3.12%) C#
7 16 (1.85%) Embedded C
8 15 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.15%) Bash
11 9 (1.04%) PHP
12 8 (0.92%) Embedded C++
12 8 (0.92%) Go
12 8 (0.92%) MATLAB
13 7 (0.81%) R
14 5 (0.58%) Assembly Language
15 4 (0.46%) Bicep
16 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 241 (27.83%) Degree
2 135 (15.59%) Security Cleared
3 79 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 56 (6.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 44 (5.08%) PMI Certification
6 39 (4.50%) DV Cleared
7 30 (3.46%) PMP
8 24 (2.77%) Master's Degree
9 19 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.73%) HNC
11 12 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.15%) CCNP
13 9 (1.04%) CCNA
13 9 (1.04%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.92%) CCSA
14 8 (0.92%) CISSP
14 8 (0.92%) PgMP
14 8 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.97%) PMO
2 48 (5.54%) QA
3 20 (2.31%) NIST
4 19 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.19%) NIST 800
5 15 (1.73%) ISO 9001
6 10 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.92%) ISO 9000
7 8 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.58%) JTAG
9 4 (0.46%) IEC 61131
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 3 (0.35%) P3O
10 3 (0.35%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.23%) GDPR
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (4.50%) Firmware
2 13 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (1.27%) Docker
4 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.23%) NFS
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (1.39%) Terraform
2 3 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (0.12%) FTK
4 1 (0.12%) Grafana
4 1 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
4 1 (0.12%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.12%) SCCM
4 1 (0.12%) systemd
4 1 (0.12%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 173 (19.98%) SAP
2 150 (17.32%) Microsoft
3 18 (2.08%) Google
4 13 (1.50%) Oracle
5 11 (1.27%) EMC
6 10 (1.15%) Cisco
6 10 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.04%) CheckPoint
7 9 (1.04%) Xero
8 6 (0.69%) Meraki
8 6 (0.69%) NVIDIA
9 5 (0.58%) Automation Anywhere
9 5 (0.58%) Cognos
9 5 (0.58%) iManage
9 5 (0.58%) VMware
10 4 (0.46%) Adobe
10 4 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.35%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.35%) Thales
11 3 (0.35%) Workday