Senior Applications Project Manager Contracts

Senior Applications Project Manager
UK

The median Senior Applications Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 591 676
Rank change year-on-year +42 +85 +194
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Applications Project Manager 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.010% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £534 £563 £565
25th Percentile £566 £581 £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £595
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +5.04% +13.33%
75th Percentile £716 £638 £609
90th Percentile £751 - £614
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £595
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +13.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 29,079 40,388 53,054
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.98% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,553 25,970 36,860
10th Percentile £288 £286 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,311 2,837 1,549
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £76.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.01% +94.88%

Senior Applications Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Applications Project Manager in the UK

Senior Applications Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Applications Project Manager in the UK

Senior Applications Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Applications Project Manager over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Applications Project Manager in the UK

Senior Applications Project Manager
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Applications Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +62 2 £638 +2.00%
London +34 2 £638 +15.91%
Work from Home +43 1 £750 +36.36%

Senior Applications Project Manager Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Senior Applications 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 featuring Senior Applications Project Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (50.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management

Senior Applications Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (50.00%) NetSuite
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall