Senior IT Project Manager Contracts in England

Senior IT Project Manager
UK > England

The median Senior IT Project Manager daily rate in England is £638, 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 472 531 621
Rank change year-on-year +59 +90 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Senior IT Project Manager 13 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.030% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.032% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 27
10th Percentile £523 £486 £423
25th Percentile £550 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.16% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £760 £575 £663
90th Percentile £788 £609 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +16.82% -2.73% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50

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%

Senior IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Project Manager in England

Senior IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior IT Project Manager in England

Senior IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior IT Project Manager in England

Senior IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior IT Project Manager in England

Senior IT 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 Senior IT 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 6 £600 +20.00% 1
South East +47 2 - - 1
North of England +20 2 £525 -11.45% 1
South West +45 1 - -
Midlands +20 1 £750 +42.86%
North West +17 1 £525 -11.45% 1
West Midlands +13 1 £750 +40.19%
East of England - 1 £638 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Senior IT Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior IT 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 Senior IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (23.08%) Budget Management
3 3 (23.08%) Housing Association
3 3 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
3 3 (23.08%) Housing Management
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Local Government
4 2 (15.38%) Northgate
4 2 (15.38%) Civica
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (15.38%) Aareon
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (7.69%) Post-Merger Integration

Senior IT 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Local Government
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Housing Association
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
1 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (23.08%) Budget Management
2 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Housing Management
2 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
2 3 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 1 (7.69%) Business Transformation
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
4 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (7.69%) Due Diligence
4 1 (7.69%) Post-Merger Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Aareon
1 2 (15.38%) Civica
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Northgate
2 1 (7.69%) SAP