Technical Project Manager Jobs

Technical Project Manager
UK

The median Technical Project Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 660 631 893
Rank change year-on-year -29 +262 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Project Manager 121 88 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 72 75 150
10th Percentile £43,875 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +14.29%

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 67,646 50,582 118,718
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 95.42% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 34,094 36,952 74,339
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,881 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

Technical Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical Project Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Project Manager over the 6 months to 4 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Technical Project Manager in the UK

Technical 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 Technical Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 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 -21 106 £60,000 -6.25% 42
UK excluding London -39 80 £57,500 +4.55% 27
Work from Home +18 55 £60,000 -4.00% 25
London -5 37 £66,250 -5.36% 17
Midlands -18 35 £57,500 +4.55% 1
West Midlands -26 27 £57,500 +4.55% 1
North of England -34 16 £62,500 +13.64% 5
North West -42 9 £62,500 +13.64% 4
South East -56 8 £47,500 -20.83% 9
East Midlands - 8 £48,750 -
South West +8 7 £50,000 -33.33% 4
Scotland -9 6 £67,500 +20.00%
Wales +27 5 £54,000 -10.00% 2
Yorkshire +27 5 £75,000 +30.43% 1
North East - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 £75,000 - 1
East of England -65 1 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2024, Technical 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 Technical Project Manager in the job title.

1 61 (50.41%) Project Management
2 40 (33.06%) Finance
2 40 (33.06%) Project Delivery
3 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
4 31 (25.62%) Agile
5 25 (20.66%) Microsoft
6 24 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (19.01%) Migration
8 21 (17.36%) Azure
9 17 (14.05%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (12.40%) Risk Management
11 14 (11.57%) PRINCE2
12 13 (10.74%) Scrum
12 13 (10.74%) JIRA
12 13 (10.74%) Line Management
12 13 (10.74%) Waterfall
12 13 (10.74%) Business Case
13 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (9.92%) Project Governance
13 12 (9.92%) Degree
14 11 (9.09%) Local Government
14 11 (9.09%) Project Planning
14 11 (9.09%) SharePoint
15 10 (8.26%) CRM
15 10 (8.26%) Telecoms
15 10 (8.26%) Change Control
15 10 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (8.26%) 5G
15 10 (8.26%) Work Breakdown Structure
16 9 (7.44%) Analytics

Technical 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 11 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.44%) Confluence
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.83%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.36%) Azure
2 17 (14.05%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Copilot
4 7 (5.79%) AWS
4 7 (5.79%) SaaS
5 2 (1.65%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.83%) Figma
6 1 (0.83%) GCP
6 1 (0.83%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.26%) 5G
2 8 (6.61%) Network Security
3 3 (2.48%) LAN
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
4 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 13 (10.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.83%) GitLab
General
1 40 (33.06%) Finance
2 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.09%) Local Government
4 10 (8.26%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.13%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.31%) Law
6 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Games
7 3 (2.48%) Marketing
8 2 (1.65%) Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (0.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.61%) Renewable Energy
1 8 (6.61%) Solar Power
2 5 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.31%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.48%) Online Games
4 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.65%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) FMCG
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Life Science
6 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (50.41%) Project Management
2 40 (33.06%) Project Delivery
3 31 (25.62%) Agile
4 24 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (19.01%) Migration
6 15 (12.40%) Risk Management
7 14 (11.57%) PRINCE2
8 13 (10.74%) Business Case
8 13 (10.74%) Line Management
8 13 (10.74%) Scrum
8 13 (10.74%) Waterfall
9 12 (9.92%) Project Governance
10 11 (9.09%) Project Planning
11 10 (8.26%) Change Control
11 10 (8.26%) CRM
11 10 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (8.26%) Work Breakdown Structure
12 9 (7.44%) Analytics
13 8 (6.61%) Data Management
13 8 (6.61%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.61%) SQL
2 2 (1.65%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (9.92%) Degree
2 5 (4.13%) PMI Certification
2 5 (4.13%) PMP
3 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (2.48%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) APMP
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) HNC
5 1 (0.83%) HND
5 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) PMO
3 2 (1.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.31%) Atlassian
2 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.65%) Okta
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe
4 1 (0.83%) Cisco
4 1 (0.83%) Google
4 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.83%) NEC
4 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.83%) SAP