Senior Project Manager Contracts

Senior Project Manager
UK

The median Senior Project Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 354 374
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Project Manager 242 380 612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.67% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.71% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 315 473
10th Percentile £463 £435 £445
25th Percentile £513 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £753 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.45% - +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 2
10th Percentile - £27.06 £49.78
25th Percentile £33.65 £38.13 £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 £64.06 £65.01
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.00 £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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 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
England +10 217 £600 - 120
UK excluding London +6 117 £553 +0.45% 99
London +27 104 £600 -7.69% 37
Work from Home +51 99 £575 -4.17% 52
South East +20 46 £600 +11.11% 29
Midlands +21 19 £600 +9.59% 16
North of England +20 19 £593 -2.20% 18
West Midlands +24 17 £600 +9.34% 10
South West -7 16 £488 -18.75% 10
North West +20 13 £593 +4.24% 10
Scotland +33 8 £545 -0.91% 15
East of England -2 6 £500 - 10
Yorkshire +3 5 £600 -2.04% 7
East Midlands +12 2 £500 +25.00% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £435 - 1
North East +13 1 - - 2
Wales +13 1 £500 -9.09% 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring Senior Project Manager in the job title.

1 103 (42.56%) Project Management
2 87 (35.95%) Agile
3 74 (30.58%) Finance
4 69 (28.51%) Social Skills
5 60 (24.79%) Project Delivery
6 53 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 50 (20.66%) Security Cleared
8 39 (16.12%) PRINCE2
9 38 (15.70%) SC Cleared
10 35 (14.46%) Public Sector
11 33 (13.64%) Migration
12 24 (9.92%) Waterfall
13 23 (9.50%) SAP
14 21 (8.68%) Project Governance
14 21 (8.68%) Business Case
15 20 (8.26%) Decision-Making
15 20 (8.26%) Change Management
16 19 (7.85%) Risk Management
17 18 (7.44%) Problem-Solving
18 17 (7.02%) Scrum
19 16 (6.61%) JIRA
20 15 (6.20%) Azure
20 15 (6.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 15 (6.20%) Influencing Skills
20 15 (6.20%) Budget Management
21 14 (5.79%) Target Operating Model
21 14 (5.79%) PMP
22 13 (5.37%) CRM
22 13 (5.37%) ERP
22 13 (5.37%) Continuous Improvement

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 (2.07%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.83%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.41%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.41%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.41%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.20%) Azure
2 7 (2.89%) Power Platform
2 7 (2.89%) SaaS
3 5 (2.07%) AWS
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.83%) GCP
5 2 (0.83%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.41%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.41%) Matillion
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle CX
6 1 (0.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.41%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.41%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.83%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) SNA
2 2 (0.83%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.41%) Broadband
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.41%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.41%) LAN
3 1 (0.41%) NFC
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.89%) Power BI
2 6 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.41%) GIS
5 1 (0.41%) IDMS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.61%) JIRA
General
1 74 (30.58%) Finance
2 69 (28.51%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.20%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.72%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.31%) Banking
8 8 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.89%) Legal
9 7 (2.89%) Retail
10 6 (2.48%) Local Government
11 4 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.24%) Front Office
12 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.24%) Marketing
12 3 (1.24%) Military
12 3 (1.24%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.41%) Middleware
2 1 (0.41%) SAP PI
2 1 (0.41%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.72%) NHS
2 8 (3.31%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.48%) FMCG
5 5 (2.07%) PMI
6 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.83%) IVR
8 2 (0.83%) Replication
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.41%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.41%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.41%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.24%) Windows
2 2 (0.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (42.56%) Project Management
2 87 (35.95%) Agile
3 60 (24.79%) Project Delivery
4 53 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (16.12%) PRINCE2
6 33 (13.64%) Migration
7 24 (9.92%) Waterfall
8 21 (8.68%) Business Case
8 21 (8.68%) Project Governance
9 20 (8.26%) Change Management
9 20 (8.26%) Decision-Making
10 19 (7.85%) Risk Management
11 18 (7.44%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (7.02%) Scrum
13 15 (6.20%) Budget Management
14 14 (5.79%) Target Operating Model
15 13 (5.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (5.37%) CRM
15 13 (5.37%) ERP
15 13 (5.37%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.48%) SQL
2 3 (1.24%) Python
3 1 (0.41%) Apex Code
3 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.41%) Java
3 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 14 (5.79%) PMP
5 12 (4.96%) Degree
6 11 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.55%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.83%) CIPD
7 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CISM
8 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.72%) PMO
2 4 (1.65%) QA
2 4 (1.65%) SLA
3 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.41%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.41%) IFRS
3 1 (0.41%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.41%) Ansible
1 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.50%) SAP
2 12 (4.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.48%) Oracle
4 5 (2.07%) Progress
5 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.24%) BT
7 2 (0.83%) Ariba
7 2 (0.83%) Cadence
7 2 (0.83%) Cisco
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe
8 1 (0.41%) Databricks
8 1 (0.41%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.41%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.41%) NetCracker
8 1 (0.41%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.41%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.41%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.41%) Workday
8 1 (0.41%) Wrike
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