Senior Project Manager Contracts in the North of England

Senior Project Manager
England > North of England

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in the North of England is £525, 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 149 165 183
Rank change year-on-year +16 +18 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 17 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 0.42% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.45% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 31
10th Percentile £463 £395 £425
25th Percentile £498 £529 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £543
Median % change year-on-year -11.45% +9.19% -1.27%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £628
90th Percentile £681 £690 £688
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.45
25th Percentile - - £34.13
Median hourly rate - - £42.00
75th Percentile - - £50.63
90th Percentile - - £54.75
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in the North of England

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the North of England

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in the North of England

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the North of England

Senior Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of 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
North West +17 12 £525 -11.45% 35
Yorkshire +4 3 £550 -6.38% 22
North East +1 2 £485 - 6
Senior Project Manager
England

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 6 (35.29%) Finance
1 6 (35.29%) Project Management
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 2 (11.76%) Adobe
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
5 2 (11.76%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Change Control
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.88%) Dependency Management
6 1 (5.88%) SCSM
6 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Project Management
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Engagement

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Automotive
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) EPoS
1 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Project Management
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Change Control
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
5 2 (11.76%) Release Management
5 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
5 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.88%) Agile Project Management
6 1 (5.88%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (5.88%) Dependency Management
6 1 (5.88%) ERP
6 1 (5.88%) Project Governance
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) SCSM
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds