Senior Digital Project Manager Contracts

Senior Digital Project Manager
UK

The median Senior Digital Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 574 674
Rank change year-on-year +41 +100 +165
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Digital Project Manager 6 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.014% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.015% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £435 £536 £488
25th Percentile £450 £585 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £660
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -5.30% +17.33%
75th Percentile £820 £638 £719
90th Percentile - - £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £655
% change year-on-year - - +19.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.88
Median hourly rate - - £25.66
75th Percentile - - £26.44
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £25.66

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 27,656 40,547 52,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.93% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,731 25,981 36,472
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.60% -1.45% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,204 2,979 1,502
10th Percentile £13.80 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% -14.77% +76.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.57
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%

Senior Digital Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Digital Project Manager in the UK

Senior Digital Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Digital Project Manager in the UK

Senior Digital Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Digital Project Manager over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Digital Project Manager in the UK

Senior Digital Project Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Digital Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 23 June 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 +70 6 £725 +16.00% 22
London +53 4 £820 +31.20% 9
UK excluding London +39 2 £475 - 11
Work from Home +31 1 £450 -10.66% 12
North of England +15 1 £450 - 6
East of England - 1 £500 -
North East - 1 £450 - 5

Senior Digital Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 June 2025, Senior Digital 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 Digital Project Manager in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 3 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (33.33%) Source to Pay
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (16.67%) Content Management
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
4 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) CMS
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) SEO
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project

Senior Digital 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SAP HANA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
1 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Source to Pay
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Content Management
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) SEO
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) Workday