Senior Project Manager Contracts in London

Senior Project Manager
England > London

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in London is £625, 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 273 289 309
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 80 102 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.57% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.61% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 77 167
10th Percentile £463 £475 £495
25th Percentile £516 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £640
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.25% +2.40%
75th Percentile £776 £738 £725
90th Percentile £838 £780 £775
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £33.65 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £35.96 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.46% -6.02%
75th Percentile - £44.96 £63.75
90th Percentile - £56.98 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £51.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +56.86% -7.27% -5.20%

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 Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in London

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in London

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in London

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in London

Senior 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 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 0 14 £750 +3.45% 4
North London - 1 £650 -
Senior Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 36 (45.00%) Finance
2 33 (41.25%) Project Management
3 27 (33.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (31.25%) Agile
5 23 (28.75%) Project Delivery
6 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
7 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (16.25%) Risk Management
8 13 (16.25%) Migration
9 12 (15.00%) Waterfall
10 10 (12.50%) PRINCE2
11 9 (11.25%) JIRA
11 9 (11.25%) Azure
11 9 (11.25%) Business Case
12 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (10.00%) Banking
12 8 (10.00%) Scrum
13 7 (8.75%) Legal
13 7 (8.75%) DevOps
13 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
14 6 (7.50%) AWS
14 6 (7.50%) Matrix Organization
14 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
14 6 (7.50%) SAP
14 6 (7.50%) ERP
14 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
14 6 (7.50%) Project Planning
15 5 (6.25%) QA
15 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) NEC Housing
1 2 (2.50%) OPENHousing
1 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.25%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.25%) Azure
2 6 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.25%) Asana
5 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.25%) Miro
5 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
1 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.25%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.25%) Metadata
3 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) JIRA
General
1 36 (45.00%) Finance
2 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Banking
4 7 (8.75%) Legal
4 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.00%) Retail
7 3 (3.75%) Local Government
8 2 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Front Office
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Back Office
9 1 (1.25%) Billing
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) Flash
1 1 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Housing Association
2 3 (3.75%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Equities
4 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.25%) PMI
4 1 (1.25%) Robotics
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.25%) Project Management
2 27 (33.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (31.25%) Agile
4 23 (28.75%) Project Delivery
5 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (16.25%) Migration
6 13 (16.25%) Risk Management
7 12 (15.00%) Waterfall
8 10 (12.50%) PRINCE2
9 9 (11.25%) Business Case
10 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (10.00%) Scrum
11 7 (8.75%) DevOps
12 6 (7.50%) ERP
12 6 (7.50%) Matrix Organization
12 6 (7.50%) Project Planning
13 5 (6.25%) Change Management
13 5 (6.25%) Housing Management
13 5 (6.25%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.25%) Python
1 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) PMP
2 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.75%) MRICS
3 3 (3.75%) RIBA
4 2 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) IFRS
3 1 (1.25%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.25%) MiFID
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (7.50%) SAP
2 4 (5.00%) Civica
2 4 (5.00%) Northgate
2 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.50%) Aareon
3 2 (2.50%) Ariba
3 2 (2.50%) Capita
3 2 (2.50%) NEC
3 2 (2.50%) Planview
3 2 (2.50%) Workday
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe
4 1 (1.25%) Avaloq
4 1 (1.25%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.25%) Databricks
4 1 (1.25%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.25%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow