Senior Project Manager Contract Job Trends in Reading

Senior Project Manager
Berkshire > Reading

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in Reading is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 11 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.07% - 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% - 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 11
10th Percentile £522 - £563
25th Percentile £591 - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.14%
75th Percentile £725 - £639
90th Percentile £825 - £675
Berkshire median daily rate £613 - £608
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 958 562 1,070
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 93.20% 92.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 349 618
10th Percentile £310 £313 £213
25th Percentile £444 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £547
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.83% -0.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £624
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £502 £513
% change year-on-year -0.40% -2.05% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 5 49
10th Percentile £30.99 £53.50 £32.03
25th Percentile £80.50 - £52.90
Median hourly rate £83.79 £70.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% +13.64% -5.95%
75th Percentile £88.00 - £76.99
90th Percentile £104.45 £74.31 £87.47
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £63.37 £58.30
% change year-on-year +30.97% +8.70% +0.83%

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Senior Project Manager job vacancy trend in Reading

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Project Manager job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Project Manager job vacancies in Reading

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in Reading over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in Reading

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 18 May 2026, Senior Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Change Management
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (36.36%) PMO
4 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
5 3 (27.27%) ADO
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) GDPR
5 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (27.27%) NIST
5 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
5 3 (27.27%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (27.27%) SOC 2
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Budget Management
6 2 (18.18%) Confluence
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
6 2 (18.18%) PMP
6 2 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Management

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Appian
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) iPaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Rubrik
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
1 1 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Change Management
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
5 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
5 3 (27.27%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Budget Management
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Re-Platforming
6 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
1 2 (18.18%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) PMO
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) SOC 2
3 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle