Senior Project Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £562 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

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

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 273 258
Rank change year-on-year 0 -15 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 119 175 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.76% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.81% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 142 207
10th Percentile £463 £413 £437
25th Percentile £500 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £661 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £593 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -1.19% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £26.44 -
25th Percentile £50.50 £31.38 £48.28
Median hourly rate £58.00 £45.75 £49.53
Median % change year-on-year +26.78% -7.63% -30.22%
75th Percentile £68.75 £61.31 £50.78
90th Percentile £75.50 £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £55.50 £58.02
% change year-on-year -8.11% -4.34% -18.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,741 21,586 29,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.28% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,029 20,438
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,102 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.72 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -1 46 £600 +9.09% 29
Midlands +23 19 £600 +9.59% 15
North of England +21 19 £593 -2.20% 21
West Midlands +24 17 £600 +9.34% 9
South West 0 17 £500 -16.67% 13
North West +19 13 £593 +4.24% 12
Scotland +33 9 £550 - 15
East of England +5 6 £500 +2.56% 10
Yorkshire +3 5 £600 -2.04% 7
East Midlands +6 2 £500 +25.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £435 - 1
Wales +17 1 £500 -9.09% 2
North East +11 1 - - 3
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 22 May 2024, Senior Project Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 58 (48.74%) Project Management
2 46 (38.66%) Agile
3 45 (37.82%) Social Skills
4 37 (31.09%) Project Delivery
5 36 (30.25%) Finance
6 28 (23.53%) Security Cleared
7 25 (21.01%) Public Sector
8 24 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (15.97%) PRINCE2
10 18 (15.13%) SC Cleared
11 15 (12.61%) Migration
12 14 (11.76%) Waterfall
12 14 (11.76%) Project Governance
13 13 (10.92%) Business Case
14 12 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (10.08%) SAP
15 11 (9.24%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (8.40%) Decision-Making
16 10 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (8.40%) Target Operating Model
16 10 (8.40%) DV Cleared
17 9 (7.56%) Change Management
17 9 (7.56%) Risk Management
18 8 (6.72%) ERP
18 8 (6.72%) Conflict Resolution
18 8 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (6.72%) Contract Management
19 7 (5.88%) Stakeholder Identification
19 7 (5.88%) Change Control
19 7 (5.88%) Analytics

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 1 (0.84%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.84%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.84%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.88%) Azure
2 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.36%) SaaS
3 2 (1.68%) AWS
3 2 (1.68%) WhatsApp
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) Internet
1 1 (0.84%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.36%) Power BI
2 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.84%) GIS
3 1 (0.84%) IDMS
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) JIRA
General
1 45 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.25%) Finance
3 25 (21.01%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.24%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.36%) Banking
8 4 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.84%) Local Government
10 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.84%) Marketing
10 1 (0.84%) Military
10 1 (0.84%) Retail
10 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (0.84%) Middleware
2 1 (0.84%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.04%) NHS
2 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.36%) PMI
4 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.68%) Replication
5 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.84%) EMV
5 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.84%) FMCG
5 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.84%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Android
2 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.74%) Project Management
2 46 (38.66%) Agile
3 37 (31.09%) Project Delivery
4 24 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (15.97%) PRINCE2
6 15 (12.61%) Migration
7 14 (11.76%) Project Governance
7 14 (11.76%) Waterfall
8 13 (10.92%) Business Case
9 12 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (8.40%) Decision-Making
10 10 (8.40%) Target Operating Model
11 9 (7.56%) Change Management
11 9 (7.56%) Risk Management
12 8 (6.72%) Conflict Resolution
12 8 (6.72%) Contract Management
12 8 (6.72%) ERP
13 7 (5.88%) Change Control
13 7 (5.88%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.36%) SQL
2 3 (2.52%) Python
3 1 (0.84%) Java
3 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.40%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 6 (5.04%) PMP
6 4 (3.36%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.52%) Degree
8 2 (1.68%) CIPD
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) PMO
1 4 (3.36%) QA
2 1 (0.84%) GDPR
2 1 (0.84%) SLA
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) SAP
2 5 (4.20%) Oracle
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.84%) Fujitsu
4 1 (0.84%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (0.84%) Salesforce