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Construction Project Managers and Related Professionals

Construction project managers and related professionals manage and oversee major construction and civil engineering projects and major building contracts for quality of work, safety, timeliness and completion within budget, forecast travel patterns and develop strategies for managing the impact of traffic-related demand.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£26,291
£39,325
£69,706

New workers start around £26,291. Normal pay is £39,325 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £69,706.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 72,937 vacancies for this type of job

3.66%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Writes reports for funding bids and planning authorities and acts as expert witness.

  • Examines accident ‘blackspots’ to improve road safety.

  • Assesses schemes to manage traffic such as congestion charging and parking controls.

  • Forecasts the impact on traffic and transport of new developments (e.g. shopping centre).

  • Records, monitors and reports progress.

  • Identifies defects in work and proposes corrections.

  • Regularly inspects and monitors progress and quality of work, ensures legal requirements are met.

  • Hires and may supervise site staff, establishes temporary site offices, takes delivery of materials.

  • Plans work schedules for construction projects based on prior discussion with architects, Chartered architectural technologists, surveyors etc..

  • Assembles information for invoicing at the end of projects.

  • Briefs project team, contractors and suppliers.

  • Draws up budgets and timescales for new construction projects based on clients’ requirements.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Project Management

  • Construction

  • Design Management

  • Procurement

  • Subcontracting

  • Building Information Modeling

  • Engineering Design Process

  • AutoCAD

  • Mechanical Electrical And Plumbing (MEP) Systems

  • Value Engineering

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Management

  • Communication

  • Planning

  • Coordinating

  • Leadership

  • Innovation

  • Problem Solving

  • Detail Oriented

  • Operations

  • Sales

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Construction Management

Newham College of Further Education

HND · 4 Years · Part-time · London · 20/01/2026

Tariff points: 64/64

Construction Project Management

University of Huddersfield

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Huddersfield · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/112

Construction Project Management

Oxford Brookes University

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time with year in industry · Oxford · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Construction Management

University of Bedfordshire

FdSc · 2 Years · Full-time · Luton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 48/56

Construction Management

Birmingham City University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Construction Project Management

University of Brighton

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Brighton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/120

Construction Project Management

Sheffield Hallam University

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Sheffield · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Construction Management

Nottingham Trent University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 96/104

Construction Management

University College Birmingham

BSc · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 02/02/2026

Tariff points: 96/104

Construction Management

University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

HNC · 1 Year · Full-time · Perth · 09/2025

Tariff points: 21/24

Construction Project Management

University of Plymouth

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Plymouth · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 96/112

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