Senior Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £598, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 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
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 276 296
Rank change year-on-year -32 +20 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 56 103 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.62% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 59 109
10th Percentile £463 £500 £410
25th Percentile £507 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £652 £654 £638
90th Percentile £725 £719 £755
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £42.55
25th Percentile - - £44.13
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +64.95% -33.56%
75th Percentile - - £59.43
90th Percentile - - £64.94
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year - +34.02% -30.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,851 16,743 20,623
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.16% 92.20% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,448 10,226 13,959
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,246 1,700 1,133
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.00 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.31 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £44.02 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.87% +22.28% +69.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +61.60%

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 of England -26 16 £525 -4.55% 23
South East +8 15 £596 -0.67% 33
Midlands -13 10 £550 -8.33% 14
North West -10 9 £600 +9.09% 12
West Midlands -15 8 £550 -8.33% 11
East of England +8 7 £700 +27.27% 11
Yorkshire -8 5 £563 -16.67% 7
South West +11 3 £675 +18.42% 12
Scotland -16 3 £525 +4.48% 13
East Midlands +3 2 £601 -7.50% 3
North East -9 2 £456 -37.07% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £475 - 5
Senior Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 28 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (48.21%) Social Skills
3 26 (46.43%) Project Management
4 24 (42.86%) Agile
5 21 (37.50%) Finance
6 16 (28.57%) PRINCE2
7 14 (25.00%) Waterfall
8 13 (23.21%) Project Delivery
9 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
11 8 (14.29%) Migration
11 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
11 8 (14.29%) Change Management
12 7 (12.50%) Retail
12 7 (12.50%) Project Planning
12 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
13 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
13 6 (10.71%) Budget Management
13 6 (10.71%) PMP
13 6 (10.71%) PMI Certification
13 6 (10.71%) Oracle
13 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
14 5 (8.93%) Supplier Management
14 5 (8.93%) Degree
14 5 (8.93%) PMO
14 5 (8.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 5 (8.93%) Project Governance
14 5 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
15 4 (7.14%) Change Control
15 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.57%) AWS
1 2 (3.57%) Azure
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle CX
2 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Broadband
1 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 27 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (37.50%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Retail
4 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Legal
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Military
6 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Automotive
7 1 (1.79%) Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Billing
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) LDAP
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (3.57%) PMI
1 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.79%) EPoS
2 1 (1.79%) FMCG
2 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (1.79%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (46.43%) Project Management
3 24 (42.86%) Agile
4 16 (28.57%) PRINCE2
5 14 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 13 (23.21%) Project Delivery
7 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (14.29%) Change Management
8 8 (14.29%) Migration
8 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
9 7 (12.50%) Project Planning
10 6 (10.71%) Budget Management
11 5 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (8.93%) Project Governance
11 5 (8.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 5 (8.93%) Supplier Management
12 4 (7.14%) Change Control
12 4 (7.14%) Data Migration
12 4 (7.14%) ERP
12 4 (7.14%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.79%) C#
1 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) PMI Certification
3 6 (10.71%) PMP
4 5 (8.93%) Degree
5 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.36%) APMP
6 3 (5.36%) ISEB
6 3 (5.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.79%) ACCA
8 1 (1.79%) CIMA
8 1 (1.79%) CIPFA
8 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.79%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) PMO
2 1 (1.79%) GRC
2 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) SCSM
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe
3 1 (1.79%) Ariba
3 1 (1.79%) Cognos
3 1 (1.79%) Remedy
3 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.79%) Snow
3 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds