Technical Project Manager Contracts in Scotland

Technical Project Manager
UK > Scotland

The median Technical Project Manager daily rate in Scotland is £534, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 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
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 114 167
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.34% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.25% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £513 £142 -
25th Percentile £519 £276 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £556 £543 £519
90th Percentile £576 £569 -
UK median daily rate £500 £531 £520
% change year-on-year -5.88% +2.16% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £34.21 £65.00
% change year-on-year +119.23% -47.37% +10.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,623 1,962 2,662
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 94.83% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,215 1,833
10th Percentile £240 £200 £230
25th Percentile £360 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £548
90th Percentile £600 £646 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 104 62
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.32 £12.14
25th Percentile £17.02 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.90 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% +3.10% -52.66%
75th Percentile £26.21 £50.63 £46.74
90th Percentile £63.50 £61.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.88% -5.88% +65.50%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Project Manager in Scotland

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Project Manager in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Technical Project Manager in Scotland

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Project Manager in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Project Manager in Scotland

Technical Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Glasgow -17 4 £532 +0.57% 5
Edinburgh +8 1 - -
Technical Project Manager
UK

Technical Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 15 July 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 Scotland region featuring Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) Pega
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (16.67%) Asana
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC

Technical Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Asana
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Pega
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft