Senior IT Project Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Project Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 723 716
Rank change year-on-year +166 -7 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Project Manager 16 36 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.051% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.053% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 12 32 30
10th Percentile - £45,125 £51,075
25th Percentile - £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £61,688 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £70,875 £70,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.40% -10.71% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,390 67,294 53,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 94.80% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,871 47,619 30,421
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

Senior IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Project Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Project Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior IT Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Project Manager
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +74 13 £56,000 -15.47%
North West +8 8 £56,000 -15.47%
Yorkshire - 5 £80,000 -
South East +93 2 £63,317 -2.59% 1
Midlands +55 1 - -
West Midlands +50 1 - -
Senior IT Project Manager
UK

Senior IT Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 15 (93.75%) Project Management
1 15 (93.75%) Finance
2 14 (87.50%) PRINCE2
3 10 (62.50%) Management Information System
3 10 (62.50%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
4 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
5 6 (37.50%) Budget Management
5 6 (37.50%) PMI Certification
6 5 (31.25%) MBA
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (31.25%) Project Planning
6 5 (31.25%) Degree
6 5 (31.25%) PMI
6 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
7 4 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
7 4 (25.00%) Business Transformation
7 4 (25.00%) SAP
7 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (18.75%) Logistics
8 3 (18.75%) Commercial Awareness
9 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (12.50%) Line Management

Senior IT Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
General
1 15 (93.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (31.25%) PMI
3 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.25%) Housing Association
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Project Management
2 14 (87.50%) PRINCE2
3 10 (62.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Budget Management
5 5 (31.25%) Project Planning
6 4 (25.00%) Business Transformation
6 4 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 3 (18.75%) Commercial Awareness
7 3 (18.75%) Logistics
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (12.50%) DevOps
8 2 (12.50%) Line Management
8 2 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
8 2 (12.50%) Resource Management
8 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 2 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
9 1 (6.25%) Time Management
9 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) PMI Certification
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
2 5 (31.25%) MBA
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce