Program Manager jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-11-08, Skillenai has indexed 5,132 job postings with the title “Program Manager” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is program management, with demand share up 11.7% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-08
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Frequently asked questions about Program Manager jobs
+How many Program Manager jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 5,132 job postings with the title “Program Manager” over the 90 days ending 2026-11-08.
+What skills do Program Manager jobs require?
Across Program Manager postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-11-08, the skills mentioned most often are program management, project management, Risk Management, PMP, Agile.
+Which cities are hiring the most Program Manager?
As of 2026-11-08, Program Manager postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, Washington, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin.
+Is Program Manager a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 5,132 Program Manager postings over the 90 days ending 2026-11-08. The skill mentioned most often in Program Manager postings is program management, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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+What roles do people move into and out of Program Manager?
The career-flow chart shows roles before and after observed employer changes across all locations. Counts are moves, not distinct people or promotion probabilities. Same-role moves to another employer are included. The incoming and outgoing sides are separate groups of observations, not a matched three-stage journey.
Weekly indexed Program Manager postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths through Program Manager
Different-role employer moves. Each side is scaled independently.
Historical career profiles · all locations
11,238 employer moves kept the same role.
Roles before Program Manager
Roles after Program Manager
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
Same role means a change of employer while keeping the same role. Counts are moves, not distinct people, promotions, or your chances of making a particular move.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: Program Manager (different employer) | 11,238 |
| Before: Project Manager | 3,060 |
| Before: Operations Manager | 584 |
| Before: Program Coordinator | 543 |
| Before: Product Manager | 439 |
| Before: Software Engineer | 414 |
| Before: Director | 405 |
| Before: Consultant | 397 |
| After: Program Manager (different employer) | 11,238 |
| After: Project Manager | 1,375 |
| After: Product Manager | 479 |
| After: Technical Program Manager | 383 |
| After: Software Engineer | 275 |
| After: Business Analyst | 201 |
| After: Systems Engineer | 201 |
| After: Operations Manager | 180 |
Skills most often required for Program Manager
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| program management | 2,032 | 39.6% |
| project management | 1,435 | 28.0% |
| Risk Management | 1,196 | 23.3% |
| PMP | 675 | 13.2% |
| Agile | 546 | 10.6% |
| Change Management | 523 | 10.2% |
| JIRA | 456 | 8.9% |
| stakeholder management | 421 | 8.2% |
| Data analysis | 390 | 7.6% |
| Excel | 386 | 7.5% |
| budgeting | 344 | 6.7% |
| Budget management | 339 | 6.6% |
| Microsoft Office | 287 | 5.6% |
| process improvement | 268 | 5.2% |
| PowerPoint | 243 | 4.7% |
Top companies posting Program Manager jobs
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Globalpr | 94 |
| ProSidian Consulting | 90 |
| Northrop Grumman | 89 |
| Stripe | 81 |
| Anduril Industries | 68 |
| Opower | 58 |
| Odyssey Systems | 56 |
| City of New York | 53 |
| Amazon | 43 |
| HPE | 41 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring Program Manager
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 146 | 2.8% |
| Washington | 108 | 2.1% |
| San Francisco | 93 | 1.8% |
| Chicago | 59 | 1.1% |
| Austin | 51 | 1.0% |
| McGuire AFB | 45 | 0.9% |
| Boston | 44 | 0.9% |
| Los Angeles | 44 | 0.9% |
| Nashville | 44 | 0.9% |
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How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-08, matching postings whose canonical role is “Program Manager”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles). Adjusted posting share: 1.7% to 1.9%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,471 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 70% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-07-07 to 2026-10-05 and 2026-08-04 to 2026-11-02 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
- role
- Program Manager
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-11-08
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- 90