Information Technology Project Managers
Information TechnologyO*NET 15-1299.09United States
Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects. Lead and guide the work of technical staff.
- Median annual earnings
- $113,638
- Projected change
- +11.4%
- Typical education
- Bachelor's degree
- Employment
- 499.03K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
57.2% of the workforce
Growing to 555.79K by 2035
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The work
What information technology project managers do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.
- Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems.
- Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
- Submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
- Assess current or future customer needs and priorities by communicating directly with customers, conducting surveys, or other methods.
- Initiate, review, or approve modifications to project plans.
- Schedule and facilitate meetings related to information technology projects.
- Direct or coordinate activities of project personnel.
- Perform risk assessments to develop response strategies.
- Identify need for initial or supplemental project resources.
- Develop implementation plans that include analyses such as cost-benefit or return on investment (ROI).
- Develop or update project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing.
- Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Identify, review, or select vendors or consultants to meet project needs.
- Develop and manage annual budgets for information technology projects.
- Establish and execute a project communication plan.
- Develop and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects.
- Monitor the performance of project team members, providing and documenting performance feedback.
- Coordinate recruitment or selection of project personnel.
- Assign duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.
- Negotiate with project stakeholders or suppliers to obtain resources or materials.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $53,796
- 25th percentile
- $76,983
- 50th percentile
- $113,638
- 75th percentile
- $155,092
- 90th percentile
- $191,936
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $113,638 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+11.4%faster than average
2025499,030 jobs
2035 projected555,787 jobs
56,757 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Bachelor's degree
- 57.2%
- Associate degree
- 23.8%
- Certificate
- 9.5%
- Master's or Professional degree
- 9.5%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Management of Financial Resources
- Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Management of Material Resources
- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
In the market
Job titles and employers
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Top employers
- 01Accenture3,815 postings
- 02PricewaterhouseCoopers1,890 postings
- 03Robert Half1,138 postings
- 04Google1,135 postings
- 05KPMG1,112 postings
- 06Ernst & Young1,048 postings
- 07Insight Global1,028 postings
- 08GovCIO883 postings
- 09Genesis10843 postings
- 10Beacon Hill Staffing Group835 postings
- 11Amazon740 postings
- 12CVS Health714 postings
- 13TEKsystems646 postings
- 14Maximus563 postings
- 15Deloitte538 postings
- 16Centerwell Limited Partnership523 postings
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- 20Everforth Apex365 postings
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