Senior Project Manager Contracts

Senior Project Manager
UK

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £593 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 356 376
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 251 371 613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.66% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.70% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 312 481
10th Percentile £465 £450 £450
25th Percentile £514 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +0.45% -1.79% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile - £33.19 £49.78
25th Percentile £33.65 £42.81 £52.02
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.50 £58.02
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -4.34% -18.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.01
90th Percentile £69.50 £64.38 £67.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.00 £45.75 £49.53
% change year-on-year +26.78% -7.63% -30.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Project Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Project Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Project Manager in the UK

Senior Project Manager
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +2 223 £600 - 119
UK excluding London +4 128 £553 +0.45% 97
London +18 102 £600 -7.69% 34
Work from Home +59 98 £550 -8.33% 41
South East +1 44 £600 +11.11% 22
North of England +17 24 £593 -3.20% 18
Midlands +23 20 £600 +11.63% 12
South West -5 19 £519 -13.54% 20
West Midlands +16 18 £600 +10.60% 5
North West +24 16 £593 -3.20% 10
Scotland +33 11 £550 +2.33% 13
East of England -1 7 £500 -9.09% 10
Yorkshire +8 6 £600 -2.04% 5
North East +13 2 £725 +81.25% 3
East Midlands +11 2 £500 +25.00% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £435 -
Wales +12 1 £500 -9.09% 4

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 104 (41.43%) Project Management
2 94 (37.45%) Agile
3 80 (31.87%) Finance
4 69 (27.49%) Social Skills
5 67 (26.69%) Project Delivery
6 53 (21.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 50 (19.92%) Security Cleared
8 39 (15.54%) PRINCE2
9 38 (15.14%) SC Cleared
10 36 (14.34%) Public Sector
11 34 (13.55%) Migration
12 25 (9.96%) Waterfall
13 23 (9.16%) SAP
14 21 (8.37%) Change Management
14 21 (8.37%) Decision-Making
15 20 (7.97%) Risk Management
16 18 (7.17%) Project Governance
16 18 (7.17%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (7.17%) Business Case
17 17 (6.77%) Scrum
18 16 (6.37%) JIRA
19 15 (5.98%) Azure
19 15 (5.98%) PMP
19 15 (5.98%) Budget Management
19 15 (5.98%) Target Operating Model
20 14 (5.58%) ERP
20 14 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
20 14 (5.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 14 (5.58%) Degree
21 13 (5.18%) Influencing Skills

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 5 (1.99%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.80%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.40%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.98%) Azure
2 7 (2.79%) Power Platform
2 7 (2.79%) SaaS
3 5 (1.99%) AWS
4 4 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.80%) GCP
5 2 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (0.80%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.40%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.40%) Matillion
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle CX
6 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.80%) Internet
2 2 (0.80%) SNA
2 2 (0.80%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.40%) Broadband
3 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.40%) LAN
3 1 (0.40%) NFC
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.79%) Power BI
2 6 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.80%) GIS
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.40%) IDMS
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.37%) JIRA
General
1 80 (31.87%) Finance
2 69 (27.49%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.18%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.59%) Banking
7 9 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.19%) Legal
9 7 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.79%) Retail
10 5 (1.99%) Local Government
11 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.20%) Marketing
12 3 (1.20%) Military
12 3 (1.20%) Social Housing
13 2 (0.80%) Dutch Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.40%) Middleware
2 1 (0.40%) SAP PI
2 1 (0.40%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.98%) NHS
2 8 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.99%) FMCG
3 5 (1.99%) Management Information System
3 5 (1.99%) Onboarding
3 5 (1.99%) PMI
4 3 (1.20%) CMDB
4 3 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.20%) Replication
5 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.80%) IVR
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.40%) Derivative
6 1 (0.40%) EMV
6 1 (0.40%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.40%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.40%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.40%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (41.43%) Project Management
2 94 (37.45%) Agile
3 67 (26.69%) Project Delivery
4 53 (21.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (15.54%) PRINCE2
6 34 (13.55%) Migration
7 25 (9.96%) Waterfall
8 21 (8.37%) Change Management
8 21 (8.37%) Decision-Making
9 20 (7.97%) Risk Management
10 18 (7.17%) Business Case
10 18 (7.17%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (7.17%) Project Governance
11 17 (6.77%) Scrum
12 15 (5.98%) Budget Management
12 15 (5.98%) Target Operating Model
13 14 (5.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (5.58%) ERP
14 12 (4.78%) Coaching
14 12 (4.78%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.39%) SQL
2 3 (1.20%) Python
3 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.40%) Java
3 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.98%) PMP
4 14 (5.58%) Degree
4 14 (5.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 12 (4.78%) PMI Certification
6 11 (4.38%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.59%) CIPD
8 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.19%) PMO
2 4 (1.59%) QA
2 4 (1.59%) SLA
3 2 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) IFRS
4 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) Ansible
1 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.16%) SAP
2 8 (3.19%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.39%) Oracle
4 5 (1.99%) Progress
5 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.20%) BT
7 2 (0.80%) Ariba
7 2 (0.80%) Cadence
7 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco
8 1 (0.40%) Databricks
8 1 (0.40%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.40%) NetCracker
8 1 (0.40%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.40%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.40%) webMethods
8 1 (0.40%) Workday
8 1 (0.40%) Wrike
146 Senior Project Manager jobs Nationwide