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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 359 301
Rank change year-on-year +41 -58 -32
Permanent jobs citing Programme Management 883 913 2,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.93% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.97% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 518 612 1,331
10th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -8.00%
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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 +24 732 £60,000 -11.11% 293
UK excluding London +39 594 £52,500 -12.50% 207
Work from Home +33 343 £63,000 +5.00% 103
London +100 234 £71,217 -5.04% 97
South East +3 195 £55,000 -21.43% 58
Midlands +13 95 £51,997 -13.72% 37
South West -22 95 £64,250 +17.24% 26
North of England +16 66 £50,000 -25.93% 49
West Midlands +20 65 £48,500 -17.45% 22
Scotland -24 54 £50,000 -14.34% 14
North West +2 45 £50,685 -26.94% 27
Northern Ireland - 36 £35,000 - 4
East of England -4 32 £53,555 -27.14% 14
East Midlands +5 30 £55,000 -8.73% 14
Wales +25 22 £58,869 +7.94% 9
North East 0 12 £39,000 -46.94% 3
Yorkshire +51 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 51 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.02%) WordPress
3 8 (0.91%) Confluence
4 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.79%) MS Project Server
5 6 (0.68%) Apache
5 6 (0.68%) CMS
5 6 (0.68%) nginx
6 4 (0.45%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 118 (13.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (9.63%) Microsoft Project
3 54 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.68%) OrCAD
5 6 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.57%) InfoPath
7 4 (0.45%) Doxygen
8 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) SPSS
8 3 (0.34%) Stata
9 2 (0.23%) Fusion 360
9 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Simulink
10 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (6.68%) Primavera
2 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.45%) CA PPM
5 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.11%) Cognos Controller
7 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.11%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (9.06%) Azure
2 48 (5.44%) AWS
3 34 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 27 (3.06%) dbt
6 18 (2.04%) Smartsheet
7 17 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (1.47%) GitHub
9 13 (1.47%) SaaS
10 9 (1.02%) GCP
10 9 (1.02%) Google Drive
11 8 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.91%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.68%) ChatGPT
12 6 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.68%) PaaS
13 5 (0.57%) Entra ID
13 5 (0.57%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.60%) Network Security
2 21 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (2.04%) HTTP
4 17 (1.93%) Wireless
5 14 (1.59%) MQTT
6 12 (1.36%) DNS
7 9 (1.02%) LAN
7 9 (1.02%) Modbus
7 9 (1.02%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.02%) WAN
8 7 (0.79%) Bluetooth
8 7 (0.79%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.68%) 4G
9 6 (0.68%) Firewall
9 6 (0.68%) LTE
10 5 (0.57%) 3G
10 5 (0.57%) FTP
10 5 (0.57%) LoRaWAN
10 5 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (2.38%) Power BI
3 15 (1.70%) Tableau
4 9 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
4 9 (1.02%) MongoDB
5 7 (0.79%) Redis
5 7 (0.79%) SQLite
6 6 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
6 6 (0.68%) GIS
7 5 (0.57%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (0.34%) Big Data
9 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.34%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.23%) MySQL
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.11%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.11%) OLAP
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (3.74%) JIRA
2 30 (3.40%) Git
3 17 (1.93%) Visual Studio
4 14 (1.59%) Subversion
5 11 (1.25%) Eclipse
6 7 (0.79%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.57%) Maven
8 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.45%) GitLab
9 3 (0.34%) Selenium
10 2 (0.23%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.23%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.11%) Appium
11 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.11%) Postman
11 1 (0.11%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.11%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (0.11%) Snyk
11 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 407 (46.09%) Social Skills
2 351 (39.75%) Finance
3 268 (30.35%) Public Sector
4 210 (23.78%) Marketing
5 190 (21.52%) Manufacturing
6 185 (20.95%) Telecoms
7 166 (18.80%) Electronics
8 130 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
9 60 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (5.55%) Presentation Skills
11 47 (5.32%) Legal
12 41 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (4.64%) Retail
13 39 (4.42%) Law
14 36 (4.08%) Local Government
15 32 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (3.28%) Digital Economy
17 22 (2.49%) Military
18 21 (2.38%) Banking
19 20 (2.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 174 (19.71%) Project Manager
2 153 (17.33%) Senior
3 116 (13.14%) Senior Manager
4 89 (10.08%) Programme Manager
5 75 (8.49%) Senior Project Manager
6 52 (5.89%) Project Controller
7 49 (5.55%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.44%) Analyst
9 41 (4.64%) Consultant
10 39 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 35 (3.96%) Lead
12 33 (3.74%) Developer
13 32 (3.62%) Business Analyst
14 25 (2.83%) Support Engineer
15 24 (2.72%) Electronics Engineer
16 23 (2.60%) Product Manager
17 21 (2.38%) IT Project Manager
17 21 (2.38%) Security Consultant
18 19 (2.15%) Senior Programme Manager
19 18 (2.04%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.85%) HTML
2 29 (3.28%) AngularJS
2 29 (3.28%) React
3 28 (3.17%) CSS
4 17 (1.93%) Flask
5 14 (1.59%) .NET
6 13 (1.47%) Django
6 13 (1.47%) Spring
7 9 (1.02%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.02%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (0.91%) HTML5
8 8 (0.91%) Svelte
9 7 (0.79%) Qt
10 6 (0.68%) Celery
10 6 (0.68%) EDI
10 6 (0.68%) GeoJSON
10 6 (0.68%) LDAP
10 6 (0.68%) Node.js
10 6 (0.68%) NumPy
10 6 (0.68%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.91%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (4.64%) Social Media
3 36 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 24 (2.72%) NHS
7 19 (2.15%) IoT
8 18 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
8 18 (2.04%) PMI
8 18 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
9 16 (1.81%) Embedded Systems
10 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.36%) FPGA
13 11 (1.25%) Blog
14 10 (1.13%) Driving Licence
15 9 (1.02%) Arduino
15 9 (1.02%) VHDL
16 8 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 8 (0.91%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.23%) Linux
2 50 (5.66%) Windows
3 4 (0.45%) 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
1 327 (37.03%) Project Management
2 266 (30.12%) Agile
3 188 (21.29%) Business Intelligence
4 170 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (18.80%) Digital Marketing
6 160 (18.12%) Change Management
7 155 (17.55%) Risk Management
8 134 (15.18%) Project Delivery
9 127 (14.38%) PRINCE2
10 119 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 110 (12.46%) Decision-Making
12 106 (12.00%) Business Case
13 97 (10.99%) Mentoring
14 95 (10.76%) Coaching
15 81 (9.17%) Analytics
16 70 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (7.81%) Software Engineering
18 65 (7.36%) Roadmaps
18 65 (7.36%) Systems Engineering
19 61 (6.91%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (8.15%) Python
2 56 (6.34%) JavaScript
3 51 (5.78%) SQL
4 45 (5.10%) C
5 38 (4.30%) C++
6 37 (4.19%) Java
7 32 (3.62%) C#
8 17 (1.93%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.81%) Embedded C
10 15 (1.70%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.02%) Bash
11 9 (1.02%) MATLAB
12 8 (0.91%) Embedded C++
12 8 (0.91%) Go
12 8 (0.91%) PHP
12 8 (0.91%) R
13 5 (0.57%) Assembly Language
14 4 (0.45%) Bicep
15 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.23%) XAML
Qualifications
1 243 (27.52%) Degree
2 129 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 77 (8.72%) SC Cleared
4 56 (6.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 45 (5.10%) PMI Certification
6 39 (4.42%) DV Cleared
7 30 (3.40%) PMP
8 25 (2.83%) Master's Degree
9 23 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.70%) HNC
11 12 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.13%) CCNP
13 9 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.02%) CCNA
13 9 (1.02%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.91%) CCSA
14 8 (0.91%) CISSP
14 8 (0.91%) PgMP
15 7 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.81%) PMO
2 50 (5.66%) QA
3 20 (2.27%) NIST
4 19 (2.15%) NIST 800
5 18 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.70%) ISO 9001
7 12 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.91%) ISO 9000
8 8 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.45%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.45%) JTAG
10 3 (0.34%) P3O
11 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.23%) GDPR
11 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (4.30%) Firmware
2 12 (1.36%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (1.25%) Docker
4 3 (0.34%) NFS
4 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.93%) Terraform
2 9 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.45%) 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
1 181 (20.50%) SAP
2 157 (17.78%) Microsoft
3 21 (2.38%) Google
4 13 (1.47%) Oracle
5 11 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.13%) Cisco
6 10 (1.13%) EMC
7 9 (1.02%) CheckPoint
7 9 (1.02%) Xero
8 7 (0.79%) 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 (0.45%) Adobe
11 4 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.34%) Thales
12 3 (0.34%) Workday
12 3 (0.34%) Xilinx