Programme Manager
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
This employer issued few or no visas recently
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£58,200
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2131 (87% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £58,200, and iXceed Solutions is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2440 (Business and financial project management professionals). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2131 IT project managers Most likely code | £40,700 | £46,600 | £52,400 | £58,200 |
2440 Business and financial project management professionals Also possible | £39,500 | £45,200 | £50,800 | £56,500 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Role: Program Manager
Location: Belfast, UK (Hybrid 2 days onsite/week)
Job Type: Sub-con/FTC
Mandatory Skills : Agile (Value-Driven Delivery), Benefits Management, Project Planning, Resource Management, Stakeholder Management
- Please make a selection from the dropdown available for each of the role attributes
- Selections should reflect the typical features of the job during the year
- Selections should focus on the role rather than the individual
- Experience Please select the level of technical knowledge ie the broad technical area such as Finance
- HR Sales that the role requires
- Broad and comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within multiple
- disciplines or a fast changing discipline
- Business Commercial knowledge
- Please select the level of business knowledge ie knowledge of client as a business
- alongside knowledge of the market in which client operates and its competitors that the role
- requires
- The role requires a comprehensive understanding of how all value units products regions
- legal entities collectively integrate alongside a comprehensive knowledge of the industry in
- order to contribute to the commercial objectives of client
- Leadership Please select the relevant nature of the responsibility the role has for others
- Management responsibilities through subordinate managers performing diverse activities
- cross discipline eg Finance Technology Banking
- Problem Solving Please provide details of the complexity of issues faced in the role
- Covers a wide range of activities that require evaluative judgements based on the analysis of
- factual and qualitative information in complicated perhaps novel situations
- Innovation To what extent does the role contribute to and manage change eg suggest improvements
- to products processes
- Is proactive in developing ideas continuously searching for improvements in techniques
Communication
- Please outline the type of internal communication skills required
- The role requires the ability to guide persuade and influence others through the developed
- skills of communication and diplomacy
- Please outline the type of external communication skills required
- The job is likely to be involved in both internal and external negotiations which will have a major impact on the function and possibly the entire business unit
Attributes
- 12 years experience in programme portfolio or transformation delivery including a sustained track
- record of leading large complex and globally distributed change portfolios to agreed outcomes
- timelines budgets risk parameters and benefits
- Extensive experience directing largescale platform and data migration transformations including SAS
- environments Able to govern option analysis targetstate direction roadmap development
- environment readiness testing parallel running cutover backout planning and decommissioning
- across multiple programmes or workstreams
- Deep understanding of SAS migration dependencies including code remediation data lineage
- reconciliation control requirements operational readiness and postmigration assurance Able to
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Where this offer sits in the market
IT project managers (SOC 2131) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~34k in sample- Middle half £42,744–73,268
- Median £57,824
- Going rate £58,200
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £40,700–52,400
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. iXceed Solutions holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2131 going rate of £58,200. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.