Senior IT Project Manager Jobs

Senior IT Project Manager
UK

The median Senior IT Project Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 885 1039
Rank change year-on-year +23 +154 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior IT Project Manager 45 62 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.066% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.072% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 39 54 117
10th Percentile £46,000 £51,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,969 £53,616
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £78,735 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior IT Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Project Manager in the UK

Senior IT Project Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior IT Project Manager in the UK

Senior IT Project Manager
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior IT Project Manager in the UK

Senior IT Project Manager
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +29 43 £60,000 -7.69% 4
UK excluding London -34 34 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Work from Home +29 18 £65,000 -7.14% 3
London +110 11 £82,500 +17.86% 1
West Midlands -12 11 £57,500 -17.86% 1
Midlands -16 11 £57,500 -17.86% 1
East of England +2 10 £55,000 -15.38%
South East +1 8 £65,000 +8.33% 1
North of England +28 2 £66,250 +26.19% 1
Wales +10 2 - -
North West - 2 £66,250 - 1
South West -28 1 £45,000 -14.29%

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior IT 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 IT Project Manager in the job title.

1 22 (48.89%) Project Management
2 21 (46.67%) Agile
3 19 (42.22%) Waterfall
4 16 (35.56%) PRINCE2
5 13 (28.89%) Project Delivery
6 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
6 11 (24.44%) PMI Certification
7 10 (22.22%) Finance
8 9 (20.00%) Degree
8 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
9 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (17.78%) Programme Management
9 8 (17.78%) Change Management
10 7 (15.56%) PRINCE
10 7 (15.56%) ITIL
10 7 (15.56%) Billing
10 7 (15.56%) Scrum
10 7 (15.56%) JIRA
10 7 (15.56%) Kanban
10 7 (15.56%) SDLC
11 6 (13.33%) Dependency Management
11 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
11 6 (13.33%) PMI
11 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
12 5 (11.11%) Service Delivery
12 5 (11.11%) PMP
12 5 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
12 5 (11.11%) Change Control

Senior IT 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) LAN
1 2 (4.44%) Wireless
1 2 (4.44%) WLAN
2 1 (2.22%) Extranet
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Billing
4 5 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) PMI
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Project Management
2 21 (46.67%) Agile
3 19 (42.22%) Waterfall
4 16 (35.56%) PRINCE2
5 13 (28.89%) Project Delivery
6 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.78%) Change Management
7 8 (17.78%) Programme Management
7 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
7 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.56%) ITIL
8 7 (15.56%) Kanban
8 7 (15.56%) PRINCE
8 7 (15.56%) Scrum
8 7 (15.56%) SDLC
9 6 (13.33%) Dependency Management
9 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
9 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
10 5 (11.11%) Change Control
10 5 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) PMI Certification
2 9 (20.00%) Degree
3 5 (11.11%) PMP
3 5 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) PMO
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 2 (4.44%) Aruba
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) VMware