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 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 430 421
Rank change year-on-year +26 -9 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 84 125 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.36% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 90 155
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £432 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £598
90th Percentile £649 £701 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £531 £520
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.16% -3.70%
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 £75.00 £34.21 £65.00
% change year-on-year +119.23% -47.37% +8.56%

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 23,029 34,989 44,402
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 92.85% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,126 22,793 31,523
10th Percentile £293 £290 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 2,704 1,331
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -10.11% +80.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +30 41 £550 -4.35% 175
Midlands +9 11 £445 -22.54% 35
West Midlands +8 10 £441 -23.33% 22
South East +36 8 £372 -29.19% 109
East of England +19 7 £463 -7.50% 36
North of England +3 7 £496 -0.80% 53
North West +3 4 £496 -0.80% 20
South West +40 3 £500 - 25
Yorkshire +4 3 £488 -15.86% 30
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 13
Technical Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 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 42 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 40 (47.62%) Project Management
3 39 (46.43%) Agile
4 34 (40.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (30.95%) Finance
6 21 (25.00%) Scrum
7 18 (21.43%) Migration
8 15 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (17.86%) Project Delivery
9 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 13 (15.48%) JIRA
10 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (14.29%) Azure
11 12 (14.29%) AWS
11 12 (14.29%) DevOps
11 12 (14.29%) Time Management
12 11 (13.10%) Banking
13 9 (10.71%) Project Planning
13 9 (10.71%) PRINCE2
13 9 (10.71%) ETL
13 9 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (9.52%) SDLC
14 8 (9.52%) Analytics
14 8 (9.52%) Confluence
14 8 (9.52%) Firewall
14 8 (9.52%) Data Migration
15 7 (8.33%) Marketing
15 7 (8.33%) Change Management
15 7 (8.33%) Conflict Management

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 8 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.19%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) AWS
1 12 (14.29%) Azure
2 9 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.14%) SaaS
4 5 (5.95%) GCP
4 5 (5.95%) IaaS
4 5 (5.95%) PaaS
4 5 (5.95%) Serverless
5 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.19%) Asana
7 1 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.19%) Datadog
7 1 (1.19%) dbt
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.52%) Firewall
2 5 (5.95%) VPN
3 2 (2.38%) Wireless
4 1 (1.19%) 2G
4 1 (1.19%) 5G
4 1 (1.19%) ATM
4 1 (1.19%) GSM
4 1 (1.19%) Internet
4 1 (1.19%) Network Security
4 1 (1.19%) Packet Switching
4 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
2 2 (2.38%) Power BI
3 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.19%) Metadata
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Git
2 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.19%) MLflow
General
1 42 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.95%) Finance
3 11 (13.10%) Banking
4 7 (8.33%) Marketing
5 5 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.76%) Front Office
6 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Legal
7 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.38%) ADO
1 2 (2.38%) Yocto
2 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.19%) J2EE
2 1 (1.19%) Middleware
2 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Life Science
4 2 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.38%) STB
4 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) FMCG
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) PMI
5 1 (1.19%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (1.19%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.62%) Project Management
2 39 (46.43%) Agile
3 34 (40.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (25.00%) Scrum
5 18 (21.43%) Migration
6 15 (17.86%) Project Delivery
6 15 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (14.29%) DevOps
8 12 (14.29%) Time Management
9 9 (10.71%) ETL
9 9 (10.71%) PRINCE2
9 9 (10.71%) Project Planning
10 8 (9.52%) Analytics
10 8 (9.52%) Data Migration
10 8 (9.52%) SDLC
11 7 (8.33%) Change Management
11 7 (8.33%) Conflict Management
11 7 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
12 6 (7.14%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.95%) Bicep
2 3 (3.57%) SQL
3 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.19%) C
4 1 (1.19%) C++
4 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 4 (4.76%) PMP
2 4 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) Degree
3 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) PMBOK
1 2 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.19%) GDPR
2 1 (1.19%) GRC
2 1 (1.19%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.95%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.95%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
4 1 (1.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) SAP
3 4 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) Oracle
4 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Infor
6 1 (1.19%) AlgoSec
6 1 (1.19%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.19%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) Meraki
6 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.19%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.19%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.19%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.19%) VMware
6 1 (1.19%) Zscaler