Program Manager jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-07-27, Skillenai has indexed 2,297 job postings with the title “Program Manager” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is program management, with demand up 17% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-07-27
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+How many Program Manager jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 2,297 job postings with the title “Program Manager” over the 90 days ending 2026-07-27, with demand up 17% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Program Manager jobs require?
Across Program Manager postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-07-27, the skills mentioned most often are program management, project management, Risk Management, stakeholder management, JIRA.
+Which cities are hiring the most Program Manager?
As of 2026-07-27, Program Manager postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, Washington, San Francisco, Toronto, Boston.
+Is Program Manager a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 2,297 Program Manager postings over the 90 days ending 2026-07-27, with demand up 17% vs the prior 4 weeks. 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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Weekly Program Manager postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Skills most often required for Program Manager
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| program management | 673 | 29.3% |
| project management | 387 | 16.8% |
| Risk Management | 328 | 14.3% |
| stakeholder management | 225 | 9.8% |
| JIRA | 148 | 6.4% |
| PMP | 140 | 6.1% |
| Agile | 134 | 5.8% |
| Data analysis | 133 | 5.8% |
| Change Management | 123 | 5.4% |
| Project planning | 98 | 4.3% |
| reporting | 97 | 4.2% |
| automation | 91 | 4.0% |
| dashboards | 87 | 3.8% |
| Excel | 86 | 3.7% |
| Budget management | 85 | 3.7% |
Top metros hiring Program Manager
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 74 | 3.2% |
| Washington | 44 | 1.9% |
| San Francisco | 43 | 1.9% |
| Toronto | 40 | 1.7% |
| Boston | 28 | 1.2% |
| Mountain View | 25 | 1.1% |
| Chicago | 20 | 0.9% |
| Singapore | 20 | 0.9% |
| Bengaluru | 19 | 0.8% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-07-27, matching postings whose canonical role is “Program Manager”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
- role
- Program Manager
- source
- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
- data_as_of
- 2026-07-27
- window_days
- 90
The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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