IT Project Manager

Salary: £60,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require 5+ years of experience leading complex IT infrastructure, secure software development, or enterprise systems integration projects, ideally within the UK Defence, Aerospace, or Central Government sectors.
• We require proven experience managing multi-million-pound budgets, tracking supplier performance, and handling complex public-sector or defence-framework procurement.
• We require deep practical knowledge of structured delivery frameworks such as PRINCE2, Agile, or hybrid models aligned with MoD project control processes.
• We require expert-level mastery of project tracking systems such as MS Project and Jira.
• We can only consider Sole British Nationals; dual citizens and candidates requiring visa sponsorship are not eligible.
• We require candidates to hold, or be fully eligible to obtain and maintain, Developed Vetting (DV) with no restrictive foreign connections.

Responsibilities:

• We will have you establish and enforce strict project baselines and manage scope creep, ensuring all changes are assessed for technical, financial, and security impacts.
• We will have you direct project burn rates, vendor Statements of Work (SOWs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to protect margins and maximize ROI.
• We will have you maintain accurate, audit-ready project plans, RAID logs, dependency maps, and technical requirements.
• We will have you audit technical deliverables against MoD acceptance criteria and identify, isolate, and mitigate delivery risks.
• We will have you translate engineering timelines, risk profiles, and commercial metrics into clear, data-backed reports for senior defence stakeholders and executive leadership.

Technologies:

• Support
• JIRA
• Project Manager
• Security

More:

We are recruiting an IT Project Manager for a major UK Ministry of Defence contract based in Corsham (SN13). This is a highly disciplined delivery and assurance role focused on critical technology initiatives, strict governance, commercial control, and adherence to MoD frameworks and Defence Digital standards. We offer a competitive salary DOE, 25 days annual leave including up to 3 days for Christmas shut-down, the option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave, an annual wellbeing allowance, two pension schemes, private medical insurance with discounts for family members, life assurance up to 4x salary, a share save scheme, electric/hybrid car leasing, a cycle to work scheme, retail discounts, and career development support.

last updated 33 week of 2026