Senior Project Manager Jobs in Central London

Senior Project Manager
London > Central London

The median Senior Project Manager salary in Central London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 165 228
Rank change year-on-year +13 +63 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 8 23 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.32% 0.61% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.64% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 14
10th Percentile £64,000 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £68,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £98,125 £93,125
90th Percentile £81,000 £104,500 £95,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £74,250
% change year-on-year +3.57% -5.72% +6.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in Central London

Senior Project Manager
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Project Manager in Central London.

Salary trend for Senior Project Manager in Central London

Senior Project Manager
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Project Manager in Central London

Senior Project Manager
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Project Manager within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +17 8 £72,500 -19.44% 4
City of Westminster -9 2 - -
Senior Project Manager
London

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Project Manager 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 permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Project Management
2 6 (75.00%) Process Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) PRINCE2
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) PMP
3 5 (62.50%) PMI Certification
4 4 (50.00%) ERP
4 4 (50.00%) SaaS
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) PMI
4 4 (50.00%) JIRA
4 4 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
6 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (25.00%) Degree
6 2 (25.00%) MSF
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (25.00%) MBA
7 1 (12.50%) Migration
7 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (12.50%) Agile

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PMI
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Project Management
2 6 (75.00%) Process Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) PRINCE2
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) ERP
4 4 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (25.00%) MSF
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
6 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
7 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (12.50%) Migration
7 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
7 1 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) PMI Certification
1 5 (62.50%) PMP
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (25.00%) MBA
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Progress