Senior IT Project Manager Contracts in London

Senior IT Project Manager
England > London

The median Senior IT Project Manager daily rate in London is £600, 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 347 387 482
Rank change year-on-year +40 +95 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior IT Project Manager 6 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.022% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.024% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £538 - £463
25th Percentile £550 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.57% +6.25%
75th Percentile £733 £625 £678
90th Percentile £799 £700 £701
England median daily rate £638 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +19.16% -2.73% -
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Project Manager in London

Senior IT Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior IT Project Manager in London

Senior IT Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior IT Project Manager in London

Senior IT Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior IT Project Manager in London

Senior IT Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London - 1 £550 -
Senior IT Project Manager
England

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

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 London region featuring Senior IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Housing Management
2 3 (50.00%) Housing Association
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Northgate
3 2 (33.33%) Civica
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Aareon
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Back Office
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) SAP
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) ERP

Senior IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (16.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Housing Association
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Housing Management
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Aareon
1 2 (33.33%) Civica
1 2 (33.33%) Northgate
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP