Senior Project Manager Contracts in the East of England

Senior Project Manager
England > East of England

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in the East of England is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 98 105
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 6 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.48% 0.31% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.36% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £578 £371 £381
25th Percentile £619 £429 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £575 £619
90th Percentile £840 - £678
England median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.50
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £44.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £72.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year - +49.48% -28.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,090 1,396 1,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.37% 87.25% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 607 1,068
10th Percentile £185 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £600
90th Percentile £668 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 466 266
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.37 £16.66
Median hourly rate £43.00 £47.03 £35.80
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +31.36% +80.72%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £77.25
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in the East of England

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the East of England

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in the East of England

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the East of England

Senior Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Hertfordshire +7 2 £694 +26.14%
Bedfordshire - 2 £850 - 1
Cambridgeshire +3 1 £750 +117.39% 6
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 3
Senior Project Manager
England

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 East of England region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (16.67%) PMP
3 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (16.67%) ACCA
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Enablement

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Enablement
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ACCA
1 1 (16.67%) CIMA
1 1 (16.67%) CIPFA
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle