Senior Technical Project Manager Contracts

Senior Technical Project Manager
UK

The median Senior Technical Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 590 702
Rank change year-on-year +73 +112 +137
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Project Manager 3 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.018% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.020% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £613 £285 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £395 £475
Median % change year-on-year +58.23% -16.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £516 £669
90th Percentile - £545 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate - £521 £463
% change year-on-year - +12.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.23 - -

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 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Senior Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Project Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Project Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Project Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Project Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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
UK excluding London +59 2 - - 8
England +50 2 £625 +58.23% 9
South East +46 1 - - 1
Work from Home +45 1 £625 - 7
London +38 1 £625 +115.52% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Senior Technical Project Manager Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership

Senior Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap