Technical Project Manager Contract Job Trends in the Highlands

Technical Project Manager
Scotland > Highlands

The median Technical Project Manager daily rate in the Highlands is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Highlands 5.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 10.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £530 £499 £494
% change year-on-year +6.17% +1.01% -5.50%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Highlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Highlands. 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 the Highlands with a recognized job title 10 5 2
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 52.63% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £169 £199 £164
25th Percentile £198 £228 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £276 £223
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +24.04% -22.61%
75th Percentile £356 £307 £261
90th Percentile £408 £325 £283
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +17.65% -4.06% -6.24%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Highlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Project Manager in the Highlands

Technical Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the Highlands

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 Highlands region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Inverness - 1 £425 -
Technical Project Manager
Scotland

Technical Project Manager Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Highlands

For the 6 months to 1 September 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 Highlands region featuring Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Email Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Technical Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Highlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Email Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft