Senior Project Manager Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Project Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Project Manager salary in the West Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 215 228
Rank change year-on-year +37 +13 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 19 40 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 9 31 28
10th Percentile £51,438 - £52,375
25th Percentile £51,672 £52,500 £60,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,950
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.69% +19.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £75,500 £77,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.48% -6.31%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,752 7,442 5,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.50% 94.50% 90.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 5,513 3,230
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,387 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,525
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Senior Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Project Manager in the West Midlands

Senior Project Manager
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Project Manager in the West Midlands

Senior Project Manager
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Project Manager in the West Midlands

Senior Project Manager
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham +23 6 £70,000 +16.67% 9
Solihull - 4 £65,000 - 2
Warwickshire - 3 - -
Staffordshire +22 2 £52,344 +10.20% 6
Worcestershire - 2 - - 6
Wolverhampton - 1 £70,000 - 6
Senior Project Manager
England

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 12 (63.16%) Project Delivery
2 11 (57.89%) Project Management
2 11 (57.89%) Degree
3 10 (52.63%) Agile
3 10 (52.63%) Finance
4 8 (42.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (26.32%) HND
5 5 (26.32%) PRINCE2
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
7 3 (15.79%) Azure
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (15.79%) Banking
7 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
7 3 (15.79%) PMP
7 3 (15.79%) PMI Certification
7 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
7 3 (15.79%) PMO
8 2 (10.53%) Line Management
8 2 (10.53%) Adaptive Web Design
8 2 (10.53%) Police
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
8 2 (10.53%) Scrum
8 2 (10.53%) JIRA
8 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
8 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (5.26%) Business Transformation

Senior Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Police
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Project Delivery
2 11 (57.89%) Project Management
3 10 (52.63%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) PRINCE2
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
6 3 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (10.53%) Adaptive Web Design
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.53%) Line Management
7 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
7 2 (10.53%) Scrum
8 1 (5.26%) Budget Management
8 1 (5.26%) Business Transformation
8 1 (5.26%) Impact Assessments
8 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.26%) Strategic Thinking
8 1 (5.26%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) HND
3 3 (15.79%) PMI Certification
3 3 (15.79%) PMP
4 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft