Senior Project Manager
UK

The median Senior Project Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 558 546
Rank change year-on-year +114 -12 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 535 505 886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.48% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 352 343 525
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,965 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.82% +1.50% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Top 17 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 25 April 2024. 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 +128 463 £60,000 -7.69% 105
UK excluding London +76 396 £57,965 -4.82% 77
Work from Home +44 140 £58,500 -13.33% 51
London +91 124 £70,001 -6.67% 35
North of England +73 89 £55,500 -8.87% 15
Midlands +42 70 £62,500 - 10
South West +17 70 £55,000 -9.69% 9
South East 0 70 £62,500 -3.85% 23
Yorkshire +100 42 £57,500 - 5
East of England +26 38 £55,000 -9.69% 10
West Midlands +37 37 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North West +28 36 £55,500 -8.87% 10
Scotland -47 34 £56,115 -13.67% 8
East Midlands -2 29 £55,000 -9.69% 3
Wales +13 15 £39,000 -29.09% 3
North East +3 11 £55,000 -3.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 10 £67,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 383 (71.59%) Project Management
2 227 (42.43%) Social Skills
3 209 (39.07%) Agile
4 149 (27.85%) PRINCE2
5 129 (24.11%) Finance
6 119 (22.24%) Project Delivery
7 104 (19.44%) Degree
8 103 (19.25%) Decision-Making
9 96 (17.94%) Change Management
10 89 (16.64%) Security Cleared
11 87 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (14.21%) Risk Management
13 75 (14.02%) Programme Management
14 73 (13.64%) Business Case
15 72 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 62 (11.59%) SC Cleared
17 59 (11.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 56 (10.47%) Waterfall
19 54 (10.09%) Microsoft
20 53 (9.91%) Agile Project Management
20 53 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
21 50 (9.35%) Knowledge Management
21 50 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
22 48 (8.97%) Coaching
23 46 (8.60%) Actionable Insight
24 45 (8.41%) Mentoring
25 42 (7.85%) Scrum
26 40 (7.48%) PMI Certification
27 39 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
28 38 (7.10%) Project Governance

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.31%) CMS
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.12%) Umbraco
4 5 (0.93%) Confluence
5 4 (0.75%) WordPress
6 3 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Drupal
7 2 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.37%) Joomla!
Applications
1 50 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (2.24%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Shopify
2 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.37%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.19%) Primavera
3 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.23%) SaaS
2 19 (3.55%) Azure
3 11 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (1.68%) AWS
5 5 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (0.75%) Entra ID
6 4 (0.75%) GCP
6 4 (0.75%) PaaS
7 3 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.56%) OneDrive
7 3 (0.56%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.37%) ClickUp
8 2 (0.37%) Figma
9 1 (0.19%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.87%) LAN
2 8 (1.50%) WAN
3 7 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.75%) Firewall
4 4 (0.75%) Network Security
4 4 (0.75%) SAN
4 4 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.56%) 5G
5 3 (0.56%) VLAN
6 2 (0.37%) DHCP
6 2 (0.37%) DNS
6 2 (0.37%) MPLS
6 2 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.37%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.37%) VPN
6 2 (0.37%) Wireless
6 2 (0.37%) WLAN
7 1 (0.19%) Extranet
7 1 (0.19%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (3.36%) JIRA
2 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.37%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 227 (42.43%) Social Skills
2 129 (24.11%) Finance
3 39 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 38 (7.10%) Marketing
5 33 (6.17%) Manufacturing
6 31 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (5.42%) Retail
8 27 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (4.67%) Public Sector
10 23 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (3.74%) Legal
12 17 (3.18%) Banking
13 14 (2.62%) Law
14 12 (2.24%) Front Office
14 12 (2.24%) Games
14 12 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.24%) Investment Banking
14 12 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (1.68%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.37%) ADO
1 2 (0.37%) EDI
2 1 (0.19%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (4.30%) Driving Licence
3 22 (4.11%) PMI
4 13 (2.43%) Renewable Energy
5 12 (2.24%) Derivative
5 12 (2.24%) FMCG
6 9 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.50%) Credit Risk
7 8 (1.50%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.31%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.12%) Robotics
10 5 (0.93%) NHS
11 3 (0.56%) Life Science
11 3 (0.56%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.37%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.37%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.37%) Satnav
12 2 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.31%) Windows
2 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (71.59%) Project Management
2 209 (39.07%) Agile
3 149 (27.85%) PRINCE2
4 119 (22.24%) Project Delivery
5 103 (19.25%) Decision-Making
6 96 (17.94%) Change Management
7 87 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
8 76 (14.21%) Risk Management
9 75 (14.02%) Programme Management
10 73 (13.64%) Business Case
11 72 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (10.47%) Waterfall
13 53 (9.91%) Agile Project Management
14 50 (9.35%) Knowledge Management
15 48 (8.97%) Coaching
16 46 (8.60%) Actionable Insight
17 45 (8.41%) Mentoring
18 42 (7.85%) Scrum
19 38 (7.10%) Project Governance
20 35 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.19%) C
1 1 (0.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (19.44%) Degree
2 89 (16.64%) Security Cleared
3 62 (11.59%) SC Cleared
4 59 (11.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 40 (7.48%) PMI Certification
6 26 (4.86%) PMP
7 18 (3.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 9 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.12%) HNC
11 5 (0.93%) APMP
11 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.93%) HND
12 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.75%) MBA
13 3 (0.56%) MRICS
14 2 (0.37%) CAPM
14 2 (0.37%) MAPM
15 1 (0.19%) Chartered Engineer
15 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.54%) PMO
2 19 (3.55%) QA
3 11 (2.06%) GDPR
4 4 (0.75%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.56%) GRC
5 3 (0.56%) SLA
6 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.19%) P3O
7 1 (0.19%) PMBOK
System Software
1 7 (1.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (0.56%) Firmware
4 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.37%) SmoothWall
2 2 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (2.80%) SAP
3 7 (1.31%) CheckPoint
4 6 (1.12%) Cisco
5 4 (0.75%) Adobe
5 4 (0.75%) Oracle
5 4 (0.75%) Salesforce
5 4 (0.75%) VMware
6 3 (0.56%) Optimizely
6 3 (0.56%) Sitecore
6 3 (0.56%) Thales
7 2 (0.37%) Apple
7 2 (0.37%) Aruba
7 2 (0.37%) Google
7 2 (0.37%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (0.37%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.19%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.19%) Marketo
8 1 (0.19%) NEC
8 1 (0.19%) Sun