Senior Project Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Project Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 409 424
Rank change year-on-year +112 +15 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 341 400 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.87% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.60% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 101 254 272
10th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £51,437 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -5.43% +1.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -6.31%

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 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Project Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South West +143 109 £51,000 -7.27% 19
Wales +79 65 - - 1
North of England +32 65 £55,000 -0.90% 37
North West +19 58 £54,793 -1.27% 28
Midlands +24 31 £60,000 -4.00% 17
South East +56 28 £65,000 +4.00% 62
East of England +28 25 £59,871 +8.86% 20
West Midlands +37 21 £62,500 +4.17% 10
Northern Ireland +44 10 - - 4
East Midlands +19 10 £55,000 - 6
Scotland +88 8 £53,086 -5.40% 16
Yorkshire +32 7 £80,000 +39.13% 7
Senior Project Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 288 (84.46%) Project Management
2 243 (71.26%) Finance
3 190 (55.72%) Social Skills
4 184 (53.96%) Risk Management
5 168 (49.27%) Driving Licence
6 157 (46.04%) Scorecard
6 157 (46.04%) Balanced Scorecard
7 64 (18.77%) Degree
8 50 (14.66%) Project Delivery
9 49 (14.37%) Agile
10 36 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (9.97%) Microsoft
12 33 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
12 33 (9.68%) Retail
13 32 (9.38%) Waterfall
14 31 (9.09%) Manufacturing
15 30 (8.80%) PMP
16 27 (7.92%) PRINCE2
17 26 (7.62%) Budget Management
18 24 (7.04%) Microsoft Project
18 24 (7.04%) HNC
19 22 (6.45%) Business Case
19 22 (6.45%) Public Sector
20 21 (6.16%) PRINCE
21 19 (5.57%) ITIL
21 19 (5.57%) NEC
22 18 (5.28%) Quality Management
22 18 (5.28%) Programme Management
23 17 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
23 17 (4.99%) PMI Certification

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.99%) Confluence
2 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 24 (7.04%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.29%) Maximo
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (2.05%) Azure
2 3 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.29%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (1.17%) JIRA
General
1 243 (71.26%) Finance
2 190 (55.72%) Social Skills
3 36 (10.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (9.68%) Retail
5 31 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 22 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.47%) Banking
9 4 (1.17%) Back Office
9 4 (1.17%) Front Office
10 3 (0.88%) Aviation
10 3 (0.88%) Police
11 2 (0.59%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.29%) Automotive
12 1 (0.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Legal
12 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.29%) .NET
1 1 (0.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 168 (49.27%) Driving Licence
2 7 (2.05%) PMI
3 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.17%) Social Media
5 3 (0.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.59%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.29%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.29%) IoT
7 1 (0.29%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.29%) Life Science
7 1 (0.29%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.29%) NHS
7 1 (0.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.17%) Windows
1 4 (1.17%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (84.46%) Project Management
2 184 (53.96%) Risk Management
3 157 (46.04%) Balanced Scorecard
3 157 (46.04%) Scorecard
4 50 (14.66%) Project Delivery
5 49 (14.37%) Agile
6 33 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (9.38%) Waterfall
8 27 (7.92%) PRINCE2
9 26 (7.62%) Budget Management
10 22 (6.45%) Business Case
11 21 (6.16%) PRINCE
12 19 (5.57%) ITIL
13 18 (5.28%) Programme Management
13 18 (5.28%) Quality Management
14 17 (4.99%) Application Packaging
14 17 (4.99%) Resource Allocation
15 15 (4.40%) Customer Requirements
16 14 (4.11%) Time Management
17 12 (3.52%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 64 (18.77%) Degree
2 30 (8.80%) PMP
3 24 (7.04%) HNC
4 17 (4.99%) PMI Certification
5 14 (4.11%) MRICS
6 12 (3.52%) HND
7 7 (2.05%) MAPM
8 5 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.88%) MBA
10 3 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.59%) Security Cleared
12 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.40%) NEBOSH
2 5 (1.47%) QA
3 3 (0.88%) PMO
4 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 34 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.57%) NEC
3 17 (4.99%) Atlassian
4 5 (1.47%) SAP
5 4 (1.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.88%) Oracle
7 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.29%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft