Senior Project Manager Job Trends

Senior Project Manager
UK

The median Senior Project Manager salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 429 423
Rank change year-on-year -91 -6 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 132 357 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.53% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 92 137 288
10th Percentile £57,136 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £89,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 47,047 63,901 50,390
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 94.87% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,947 35,849 38,981
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,350 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.30% -4.76% -

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Project Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Project Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Project Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Project Manager job vacancies in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 November 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
England -93 109 £75,000 +20.00% 133
UK excluding London -96 77 £67,500 +8.00% 97
London +21 50 £91,250 +25.86% 48
Work from Home +22 37 £71,250 +14.00% 81
North of England -41 21 £65,000 +4.00% 28
Scotland -7 19 £65,000 - 5
South East 0 18 £82,500 +29.41% 27
Midlands +25 13 £68,750 +25.00% 15
West Midlands +31 11 £68,750 +10.00% 8
North West -2 11 £72,500 +16.00% 17
North East +11 5 £60,000 -5.88% 1
South West -6 5 £67,500 +8.00% 14
Yorkshire -18 5 £65,000 +18.18% 10
East Midlands +11 2 - - 7
East of England -13 1 - - 9

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 November 2025, Senior Project Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 86 (65.15%) Project Management
2 66 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 54 (40.91%) Agile
4 35 (26.52%) Budget Management
5 32 (24.24%) PRINCE2
5 32 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (19.70%) Microsoft
7 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (16.67%) Change Management
10 20 (15.15%) PMI Certification
11 19 (14.39%) PMO
11 19 (14.39%) Strategic Thinking
12 18 (13.64%) PMP
12 18 (13.64%) Programme Management
12 18 (13.64%) Risk Management
12 18 (13.64%) Waterfall
13 16 (12.12%) Budgeting and Forecasting
13 16 (12.12%) Coaching
14 15 (11.36%) Degree
15 14 (10.61%) Contingency Planning
15 14 (10.61%) ERP
16 13 (9.85%) Project Governance
17 12 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
17 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
17 12 (9.09%) Migration
17 12 (9.09%) Scrum
18 11 (8.33%) CRM
18 11 (8.33%) JIRA

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.30%) Confluence
2 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.06%) SAP CO
1 8 (6.06%) SAP FI
1 8 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO
1 8 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.52%) Maximo
3 2 (1.52%) Shopify
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.76%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.76%) Primavera
4 1 (0.76%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.58%) Azure
2 7 (5.30%) AWS
3 4 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.27%) Smartsheet
5 2 (1.52%) GCP
5 2 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.52%) OCI
5 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle CX
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) SaaS
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.06%) SAP BW
2 4 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 71 (53.79%) Finance
2 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.61%) Legal
5 13 (9.85%) Banking
6 12 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (7.58%) Retail
8 7 (5.30%) Marketing
8 7 (5.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.79%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (3.03%) Advertising
10 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.27%) Electronics
11 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.27%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.52%) Front Office
12 2 (1.52%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
1 4 (3.03%) Product Ownership
1 4 (3.03%) Reinsurance
2 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.52%) NHS
3 2 (1.52%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (1.52%) PMI
3 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.52%) Wiki
4 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.76%) IoT
4 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (65.15%) Project Management
2 66 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 54 (40.91%) Agile
4 35 (26.52%) Budget Management
5 32 (24.24%) PRINCE2
5 32 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (16.67%) Change Management
10 19 (14.39%) Strategic Thinking
11 18 (13.64%) Programme Management
11 18 (13.64%) Risk Management
11 18 (13.64%) Waterfall
12 16 (12.12%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 16 (12.12%) Coaching
13 14 (10.61%) Contingency Planning
13 14 (10.61%) ERP
14 13 (9.85%) Project Governance
15 12 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (15.15%) PMI Certification
2 18 (13.64%) PMP
3 15 (11.36%) Degree
4 8 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.52%) APMG
6 2 (1.52%) APMP
6 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.52%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.52%) MAPM
6 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) CAPM
7 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) MBA
7 1 (0.76%) PhD
7 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.39%) PMO
2 7 (5.30%) QA
3 4 (3.03%) MiFID
4 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.52%) EMIR
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 26 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.33%) SAP
3 6 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.03%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle
6 2 (1.52%) Adobe
6 2 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.52%) GoldenSource
6 2 (1.52%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.76%) Google
7 1 (0.76%) IBM
7 1 (0.76%) Marketo
7 1 (0.76%) Planon