ICT Project Manager

An ICT Project Manager oversees the planning, delivery, and closure of information and communication technology projects within Australian organisations. They manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and team resources while ensuring alignment with business objectives and compliance with relevant standards. They work across government, financial services, healthcare, and corporate sectors to deliver software systems, infrastructure upgrades, and digital transformation initiatives.

Develop detailed project charters and scope statements that define deliverables, constraints, and success criteria aligned with stakeholder requirements. Create and maintain project schedules using tools such as Microsoft Project or Jira, identifying critical path activities and resource dependencies. Establish and manage project budgets, track expenditure against approved allocations, and report cost variances to senior management. Recruit, assign, and supervise ICT development teams, contractors, and third-party vendors to ensure capability and performance standards. Conduct risk assessments specific to ICT delivery, including technology risks, vendor lock-in, cybersecurity exposure, and compliance gaps under frameworks such as NIST or Australian Privacy Principles. Facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions, including requirement validation workshops with business units, government agencies, or client organisations. Monitor project progress against KPIs including schedule adherence, budget burn rate, scope creep, and quality metrics; escalate issues to steering committees. Manage change control processes for scope, schedule, and budget modifications, assessing impact on project objectives and obtaining formal approval.

The standard entry pathway requires a bachelor degree or higher (ABS Skill Level 1). Specific qualification requirements vary by employer and state. Some employers may accept equivalent experience. Check yourcareer.gov.au for available courses and dewr.gov.au/skills-reform/free-tafe for subsidised training options.

The real trap: you're constantly firefighting scope creep and missed deadlines while vendors blame developers, developers blame requirements, and executives blame you. Burnout is common because you own the risk but rarely control the people delivering it.

Regional Australia has very few positions. Practically speaking, most jobs are in major metros. Remote work is possible but most employers want you on-site for stakeholder meetings and team management. Financial services and government are the biggest employers.

Published for ANZSCO unit group 1351, the wider group this job sits in, not for this job on its own.

This is the median for full-time employees who are not managers and are paid at the adult rate, before tax and salary sacrifice. It is a guide to what the work pays, not a wage rate.

Source: ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.

• Agile project managementcore
• Coordinate technological activitiescore
• Escalation Managementcore
• Goal Setting and Planningcore
• ICT project managementcore
• Implement ICT risk managementcore
• Manage budgetscore
• Manage staffcore
• Negotiationcore
• Problem Solvingcore
• Process Documentationcore
• Process Improvement Identificationcore
• Report Writingcore
• Risk Identificationcore
• SLA and KPI Adherencecore
• Stakeholder Communicationcore
• Team Collaborationcore
• Time Management and Prioritisationcore
• Verbal Communicationcore
• Written Communicationcore
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Apply change management
• Business processes
• Conflict Resolution
• Digital systems
• Lean project management
• Microsoft Office Suite Proficiency
• Microsoft Teams Collaboration
• Monitor technology trends
• Outsourcing strategy
• Perform procurement processes
• Power BI Reporting and Dashboards
• Provide cost benefit analysis reports
• Quality Assurance Monitoring
• Regulatory and Legislative Awareness
• Reporting and Analytics
• Research and Analysis
• Systems development life-cycle
• Workload Self-Management

• ABS OSCA 2024, occupation definition and task statements
• ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
• ABS, 2021 Census of Population and Housing based on usual place of residence (Custom Report). OSCA Experimental Estimates.

Role data is drawn from official Australian Government sources, and each figure names where it comes from. Where a role is not in the ABS classification, the page shows no government figures for it. Data may not reflect every local variation.

Where our numbers come from.

What ICT Project Manager workers move into, from ten years of tax records.

Last updated: 30 October 2026