Senior Project Manager Contracts in Central London

Senior Project Manager
London > Central London

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in Central London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 115 145
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 14 18 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.74% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.77% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 21
10th Percentile £524 £361 £506
25th Percentile £550 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% +7.66%
75th Percentile £838 £781 £713
90th Percentile £848 £815 £775
London median daily rate £625 £600 £640
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.25% +2.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Senior Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in Central London

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Project Manager in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in Central London

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in Central London

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Project Manager in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in Central London

Senior Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Project Manager within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +2 11 £788 +8.62% 4
City of Westminster - 1 £550 -
Senior Project Manager
London

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) Project Management
2 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (57.14%) Finance
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) PRINCE2
5 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
6 4 (28.57%) Business Transformation
7 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) Banking
7 3 (21.43%) PMP
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 2 (14.29%) Business Case
8 2 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
8 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 2 (14.29%) Migration
8 2 (14.29%) Change Management
8 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
8 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (14.29%) SLA
8 2 (14.29%) Retail
8 2 (14.29%) Change Control
8 2 (14.29%) QA
9 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
9 1 (7.14%) Azure
9 1 (7.14%) AWS
9 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (7.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) PMI
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Project Management
2 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) PRINCE2
4 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Business Transformation
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
7 2 (14.29%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 2 (14.29%) Business Case
7 2 (14.29%) Change Control
7 2 (14.29%) Change Management
7 2 (14.29%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
8 1 (7.14%) Community of Practice
8 1 (7.14%) Cost Management
8 1 (7.14%) Post-Merger Integration
8 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) PMP
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) SAP
1 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow