Technical Project Manager Contracts

Technical Project Manager
UK

The median Technical Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £517, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 457 476
Rank change year-on-year +35 +19 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 97 143 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 95 172
10th Percentile £400 £323 £413
25th Percentile £442 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £605
90th Percentile £675 £722 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £68.43 - -
25th Percentile £69.11 - -
Median hourly rate £74.11 £34.21 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.64% -47.37% +17.91%
75th Percentile £78.23 - -
90th Percentile £78.37 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.11 £34.21 £65.00
% change year-on-year +116.64% -47.37% -7.14%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Project Manager over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +23 85 £500 -4.76% 65
UK excluding London +43 46 £475 -5.00% 33
London +5 44 £525 -4.55% 31
Work from Home +20 25 £475 -5.00% 34
North of England +27 12 £500 - 3
South East +33 10 £372 -28.51% 7
North West +10 9 £633 +26.59% 2
Midlands +27 7 £445 -6.23% 11
Scotland +8 7 £532 +1.29% 1
East of England +32 6 £463 -7.50% 8
West Midlands +18 6 £441 -7.19% 7
South West +42 2 £494 -10.23% 3
Yorkshire +14 2 £450 +24.14% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 -
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, 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 Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 53 (54.64%) Project Management
2 51 (52.58%) Agile
3 46 (47.42%) Social Skills
4 34 (35.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (30.93%) Finance
6 24 (24.74%) Scrum
6 24 (24.74%) Project Delivery
7 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (19.59%) JIRA
9 18 (18.56%) Migration
10 16 (16.49%) Banking
11 15 (15.46%) PRINCE2
12 13 (13.40%) Change Management
12 13 (13.40%) Waterfall
12 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (12.37%) DevOps
13 12 (12.37%) Risk Management
14 11 (11.34%) Confluence
15 10 (10.31%) Azure
15 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
16 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
16 9 (9.28%) Roadmaps
17 8 (8.25%) AWS
17 8 (8.25%) Analytics
17 8 (8.25%) ETL
17 8 (8.25%) ITIL
17 8 (8.25%) PMP
17 8 (8.25%) PMI Certification
17 8 (8.25%) Oracle
17 8 (8.25%) Time Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (11.34%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.03%) Finacle
3 1 (1.03%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.31%) Azure
2 8 (8.25%) AWS
3 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.22%) SaaS
4 5 (5.15%) GCP
4 5 (5.15%) IaaS
4 5 (5.15%) PaaS
4 5 (5.15%) Serverless
5 4 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.06%) Asana
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.03%) GitHub
7 1 (1.03%) OCI
7 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.03%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) VPN
3 2 (2.06%) Wireless
4 1 (1.03%) 2G
4 1 (1.03%) 5G
4 1 (1.03%) ATM
4 1 (1.03%) GSM
4 1 (1.03%) Internet
4 1 (1.03%) LAN
4 1 (1.03%) Network Security
4 1 (1.03%) Packet Switching
4 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.03%) WAN
4 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.03%) Metadata
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (47.42%) Social Skills
2 30 (30.93%) Finance
3 16 (16.49%) Banking
4 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Marketing
6 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.12%) Front Office
8 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.09%) Retail
9 2 (2.06%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.06%) Military
9 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.03%) French Language
10 1 (1.03%) Law
10 1 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.06%) Middleware
1 2 (2.06%) Yocto
2 1 (1.03%) ADO
2 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.03%) J2EE
2 1 (1.03%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
1 5 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.09%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.06%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Life Science
4 2 (2.06%) PMI
4 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.06%) STB
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.03%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) FMCG
5 1 (1.03%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Unix
2 2 (2.06%) Windows
2 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) Project Management
2 51 (52.58%) Agile
3 34 (35.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (24.74%) Project Delivery
4 24 (24.74%) Scrum
5 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (18.56%) Migration
7 15 (15.46%) PRINCE2
8 13 (13.40%) Change Management
8 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (13.40%) Waterfall
9 12 (12.37%) DevOps
9 12 (12.37%) Risk Management
10 9 (9.28%) Roadmaps
11 8 (8.25%) Analytics
11 8 (8.25%) ETL
11 8 (8.25%) ITIL
11 8 (8.25%) Project Planning
11 8 (8.25%) Time Management
12 7 (7.22%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.15%) Bicep
2 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
2 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
2 2 (2.06%) SQL
3 1 (1.03%) C
3 1 (1.03%) C++
3 1 (1.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (8.25%) PMI Certification
1 8 (8.25%) PMP
2 7 (7.22%) Degree
3 5 (5.15%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) APMP
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) PMBOK
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.15%) Terraform
2 4 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.25%) Oracle
3 6 (6.19%) SAP
4 4 (4.12%) Google
4 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.09%) Pega
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.06%) Avaloq
6 2 (2.06%) Infor
7 1 (1.03%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.03%) Ariba
7 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.03%) Tagetik
7 1 (1.03%) Temenos
7 1 (1.03%) Virgin Media
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