Senior Project Manager Contracts in England

Senior Project Manager
UK > England

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 342 332
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 116 218 352
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.59% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.64% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 155 297
10th Percentile £463 £464 £425
25th Percentile £513 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -1.19% +4.35%
75th Percentile £734 £647 £700
90th Percentile £820 £753 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £593 £600
% change year-on-year +1.20% -1.19% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 8
10th Percentile - - £27.06
25th Percentile - £33.65 £38.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £51.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.86% -8.11% -4.34%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £64.06
90th Percentile - £69.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £73.23 £51.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +43.58% -8.11% -4.34%

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 22,664 34,085 46,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.72% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,088 22,603 32,894
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 2,444 1,371
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.87 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.96
Median hourly rate £30.20 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% -16.67% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £37.34 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.92% -17.02% +88.21%

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in England

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in England

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in England

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in England

Senior 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 Project Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +8 76 £625 +4.17% 100
North of England +15 17 £525 -11.45% 29
North West +14 12 £525 -11.45% 22
West Midlands +11 7 £550 -8.33% 6
Midlands +10 7 £550 -8.33% 11
South East +7 7 £560 -4.68% 51
South West +28 4 £554 +10.80% 16
East of England +21 3 £638 +27.50% 15
Yorkshire +10 3 £550 -6.38% 6
North East -5 2 £485 - 1
Senior Project Manager
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Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 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 England region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 52 (44.83%) Finance
1 52 (44.83%) Project Management
2 36 (31.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 34 (29.31%) Agile
4 26 (22.41%) Project Delivery
5 24 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (16.38%) Migration
6 19 (16.38%) Risk Management
6 19 (16.38%) PRINCE2
7 15 (12.93%) Waterfall
8 13 (11.21%) Microsoft Project
8 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
9 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
9 12 (10.34%) Change Management
9 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
10 11 (9.48%) JIRA
10 11 (9.48%) Project Planning
10 11 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.62%) Banking
11 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
11 10 (8.62%) Azure
12 9 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.76%) Degree
12 9 (7.76%) Business Case
13 8 (6.90%) Matrix Organization
13 8 (6.90%) Scrum
13 8 (6.90%) Legal
14 7 (6.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (6.03%) PMP

Senior 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 3 (2.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.86%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (11.21%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) NEC Housing
1 2 (1.72%) OPENHousing
1 2 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.86%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.86%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.86%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.62%) Azure
2 6 (5.17%) AWS
3 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.72%) SaaS
5 1 (0.86%) Asana
5 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.86%) GCP
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (0.86%) Miro
5 1 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) Firewall
1 2 (1.72%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.86%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.59%) Power BI
3 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.86%) Metadata
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) JIRA
General
1 52 (44.83%) Finance
2 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.62%) Banking
5 8 (6.90%) Legal
6 7 (6.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (6.03%) Retail
7 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.59%) Local Government
8 3 (2.59%) Marketing
8 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.72%) Front Office
9 2 (1.72%) Law
9 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Automotive
10 1 (0.86%) Back Office
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Military
10 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.72%) LDAP
2 1 (0.86%) .NET
2 1 (0.86%) Flash
2 1 (0.86%) Middleware
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.31%) Housing Association
2 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.59%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.86%) EPoS
5 1 (0.86%) Equities
5 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.86%) FMCG
5 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.86%) PMI
5 1 (0.86%) Robotics
5 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.83%) Project Management
2 36 (31.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (29.31%) Agile
4 26 (22.41%) Project Delivery
5 24 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (16.38%) Migration
6 19 (16.38%) PRINCE2
6 19 (16.38%) Risk Management
7 15 (12.93%) Waterfall
8 12 (10.34%) Change Management
9 11 (9.48%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.48%) Project Planning
10 9 (7.76%) Business Case
10 9 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (6.90%) Matrix Organization
11 8 (6.90%) Scrum
12 7 (6.03%) Budget Management
12 7 (6.03%) DevOps
12 7 (6.03%) ERP
12 7 (6.03%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.72%) SQL
2 1 (0.86%) C#
2 1 (0.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.76%) Degree
4 7 (6.03%) PMP
5 5 (4.31%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.59%) APMP
6 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) ISEB
6 3 (2.59%) MRICS
6 3 (2.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (2.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (2.59%) RIBA
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) PMO
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) SLA
4 1 (0.86%) IFRS
4 1 (0.86%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.86%) MiFID
4 1 (0.86%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.86%) SCSM
Vendors
1 12 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.03%) SAP
3 5 (4.31%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.45%) Civica
4 4 (3.45%) Northgate
5 3 (2.59%) Adobe
6 2 (1.72%) Aareon
6 2 (1.72%) Ariba
6 2 (1.72%) Capita
6 2 (1.72%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.72%) NEC
6 2 (1.72%) Oracle
6 2 (1.72%) Planview
6 2 (1.72%) Workday
7 1 (0.86%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.86%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.86%) Databricks
7 1 (0.86%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.86%) Snow
236 Senior Project Manager jobs Nationwide