Technical Project Manager Contracts in England

Technical Project Manager
UK > England

The median Technical Project Manager daily rate in England is £500, 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 400 419 445
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 85 123 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.33% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.36% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 86 157
10th Percentile £399 £328 £425
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £600
90th Percentile £685 £729 £700
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £34.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +119.23% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.11 £34.21 £65.00
% change year-on-year +116.64% -47.37% +17.91%

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%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Project Manager in England

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Project Manager in England

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Project Manager in England

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Project Manager in England

Technical 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 Technical 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 +10 44 £525 -4.55% 40
North of England +18 12 £500 - 19
South East +37 10 £372 -28.51% 29
North West +16 9 £633 +26.59% 9
Midlands +24 7 £445 -8.63% 27
East of England +29 6 £463 -7.50% 20
West Midlands +15 6 £441 -9.57% 15
South West +43 2 £494 -10.23% 12
Yorkshire +7 2 £450 +24.14% 8
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 11
Technical Project Manager
UK

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

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

1 48 (56.47%) Project Management
2 43 (50.59%) Agile
3 40 (47.06%) Social Skills
4 29 (34.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (28.24%) Finance
6 20 (23.53%) Scrum
7 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (21.18%) Project Delivery
9 16 (18.82%) JIRA
10 15 (17.65%) Migration
11 14 (16.47%) PRINCE2
12 12 (14.12%) Banking
13 11 (12.94%) Confluence
14 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (11.76%) DevOps
14 10 (11.76%) Change Management
15 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
16 8 (9.41%) ETL
16 8 (9.41%) Oracle
16 8 (9.41%) ITIL
16 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
16 8 (9.41%) Time Management
16 8 (9.41%) Project Planning
16 8 (9.41%) Azure
16 8 (9.41%) Waterfall
17 7 (8.24%) SaaS
17 7 (8.24%) AWS
17 7 (8.24%) Data Migration
17 7 (8.24%) Analytics
17 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills

Technical 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 11 (12.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.18%) Finacle
3 1 (1.18%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.41%) Azure
2 7 (8.24%) AWS
2 7 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (8.24%) SaaS
3 5 (5.88%) GCP
3 5 (5.88%) IaaS
3 5 (5.88%) PaaS
3 5 (5.88%) Serverless
4 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.35%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.18%) Asana
6 1 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.18%) GitHub
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.18%) OCI
6 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.18%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Firewall
2 5 (5.88%) VPN
3 2 (2.35%) Wireless
4 1 (1.18%) 2G
4 1 (1.18%) 5G
4 1 (1.18%) ATM
4 1 (1.18%) GSM
4 1 (1.18%) Internet
4 1 (1.18%) LAN
4 1 (1.18%) Network Security
4 1 (1.18%) Packet Switching
4 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.18%) WAN
4 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.18%) Metadata
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) Git
2 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.24%) Finance
3 12 (14.12%) Banking
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.06%) Marketing
6 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Front Office
8 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Retail
9 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.35%) Military
9 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.18%) French Language
10 1 (1.18%) Law
10 1 (1.18%) Legal
10 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.35%) Middleware
1 2 (2.35%) Yocto
2 1 (1.18%) ADO
2 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.18%) J2EE
2 1 (1.18%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Life Science
4 2 (2.35%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.35%) STB
5 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.18%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) FMCG
5 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.18%) PMI
5 1 (1.18%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (56.47%) Project Management
2 43 (50.59%) Agile
3 29 (34.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (23.53%) Scrum
5 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (21.18%) Project Delivery
7 15 (17.65%) Migration
8 14 (16.47%) PRINCE2
9 10 (11.76%) Change Management
9 10 (11.76%) DevOps
9 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (9.41%) ETL
10 8 (9.41%) ITIL
10 8 (9.41%) Project Planning
10 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
10 8 (9.41%) Time Management
10 8 (9.41%) Waterfall
11 7 (8.24%) Analytics
11 7 (8.24%) Business Case
11 7 (8.24%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.88%) Bicep
2 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
2 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
2 2 (2.35%) SQL
3 1 (1.18%) C
3 1 (1.18%) C++
3 1 (1.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) PMI Certification
1 7 (8.24%) PMP
2 6 (7.06%) Degree
3 5 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) APMP
5 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) PMBOK
1 2 (2.35%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.88%) Terraform
2 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Oracle
3 5 (5.88%) SAP
4 4 (4.71%) Google
5 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.35%) Avaloq
6 2 (2.35%) Infor
7 1 (1.18%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.18%) Tagetik
7 1 (1.18%) Temenos
7 1 (1.18%) Virgin Media