Lead Project Manager Contracts in England

Lead Project Manager
UK > England

The median Lead Project Manager daily rate in England is £575, 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 473 523 602
Rank change year-on-year +50 +79 +122
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Project Manager 12 19 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.051% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.055% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 27
10th Percentile £466 £495 £445
25th Percentile £510 £628 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £652 £741 £716
90th Percentile £819 £788 £820
UK median daily rate £575 £663 £608
% change year-on-year -13.21% +9.05% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 15
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £65.13
Median hourly rate - £26.73 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -59.19% -18.13%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £26.73 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -59.19% -0.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Project Manager in England

Lead Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Project Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Lead Project Manager in England

Lead Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Project Manager in England

Lead Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Project Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Project Manager in England

Lead Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Project Manager within the England 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
London +40 11 £575 -14.81% 1
Midlands +22 1 £502 -25.63%
West Midlands +14 1 £502 -25.63%
Lead Project Manager
UK

Lead Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Project Manager in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (50.00%) Project Management
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 4 (33.33%) PMO
4 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Business Case
5 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) RIBA
6 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
6 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (16.67%) Budgeting
6 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (16.67%) Change Control
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) MRICS
6 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Terraform
6 2 (16.67%) Internal Audit
6 2 (16.67%) Front Office
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel

Lead Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
2 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) Looker
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Front Office
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Derivative
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Project Management
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Business Case
4 3 (25.00%) Change Management
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Budgeting
5 2 (16.67%) Change Control
5 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (16.67%) Internal Audit
5 2 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Register
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) MRICS
1 2 (16.67%) RIBA
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft