IT Project Manager Jobs in the South East

IT Project Manager
England > South East

The median IT Project Manager salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 319 310
Rank change year-on-year +28 -9 -39
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Project Manager 18 80 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.19% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.50% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15 71 68
10th Percentile - £32,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,300 £67,500 £66,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -8.70% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 8,378 15,861 12,917
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.95% 94.01% 90.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,568 11,350 8,150
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,032 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%

IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Project Manager in the South East

IT Project Manager
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Project Manager in the South East.

Salary trend for IT Project Manager in the South East

IT Project Manager
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Project Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IT Project Manager in the South East

IT Project Manager
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Project Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Thames Valley +43 10 £54,000 - 4
Oxfordshire +44 7 £50,000 -3.85% 3
Surrey +30 4 £60,000 +17.65% 3
Hampshire +56 3 £77,500 +63.16% 8
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £58,250 +7.87% 1
Kent +29 1 £49,134 -6.41% 3
IT Project Manager
England

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, IT 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 South East region featuring IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Project Management
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Logistics
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 3 (16.67%) QA
6 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
6 2 (11.11%) User Stories
6 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
6 2 (11.11%) Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Azure
6 2 (11.11%) AWS
6 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) IBM
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) PMP
6 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
6 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Management

IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Social Housing
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Housing Association
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Logistics
3 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 2 (11.11%) Business Case
5 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Fintech
5 2 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.11%) Storyboarding
5 2 (11.11%) User Stories
5 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 2 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (5.56%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (5.56%) Netcool
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Cramer
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds