Senior Planning Manager Contract Job Trends

Senior Planning Manager
UK

The median Senior Planning Manager daily rate in the UK is £572, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 681 550 563
Rank change year-on-year -131 +13 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Planning Manager 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.003% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £502 - -
25th Percentile £522 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% - -
75th Percentile £631 £625 -
90th Percentile £656 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £649 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 50,606 29,766 35,027
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 91.04% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,920 18,783 21,484
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £733 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,907 1,587 1,616
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.75 £14.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.30 £20.69
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.70 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.08 £43.97
% change year-on-year +69.49% -42.97% +0.50%

Senior Planning Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Planning Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Planning Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Planning Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Planning Manager job vacancies in the UK

Senior Planning Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Planning Manager over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Planning Manager in the UK

Senior Planning Manager
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Planning Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. 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 -110 2 £572 -4.63% 7
London -84 1 £496 -17.33% 3
North West - 1 £649 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £649 - 4
North of England - 1 £649 - 2

Senior Planning Manager Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 September 2026, Senior Planning 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 featuring Senior Planning Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) PMO
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (50.00%) Demand Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning

Senior Planning Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (50.00%) Demand Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft