Project Manager Jobs in Tampa, FL

Government data shows Tampa's broader management occupational group averaging $66.50 per hour in May 2025, with a 2025 annual pay profile of $79,200 at the 25th percentile, $117,690 at the median, and $169,970 at the 75th percentile for management occupations. Those are broad management figures, not a clean cut limited to product, program, or project managers. Separately, the more current but sample-based Callings.ai job database shows local posted ranges centering on about $110k to $152k, with a broader band of about $80k to $198k. As a state-level directional check, Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts the mean offered salary on new Florida openings in this occupation family at about $92,424 in September 2026 (n=3,808).

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Advertised pay

Across the 193 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $77,500 at the 25th percentile, $120,000 at the median and $156,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is a competitive but not closed market over the next 3-6 months. Tampa's metro unemployment rate was 4.7% in August 2026, and the local unemployed count was up 9.1898% year over year, so employers have a deeper candidate pool than a year ago. At the same time, local Professional and Business Services employment reached 288.8 thousand and was up 2.1216% year over year, which keeps a real base of program and project work in market. The bigger caution is statewide occupation demand: Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Florida Management, Product & Project employment down 1.2% year over year and active postings down 5.0% year over year.

Best positioned: Your best odds are as an experienced project or program operator who can show ownership of risk, stakeholder alignment, budgets, and scheduling, especially in consulting, infrastructure-adjacent delivery, or financial-services environments.

Main caution: Do not assume Tampa is a broad remote-first product market: only about 5% of sampled roles were remote, and only about 5% were entry level.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 445 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Deloitte: 10 open roles
2. USAA: 9 open roles
3. Citi Group: 6 open roles
4. Collins Aerospace: 6 open roles
5. Global Response Team: 6 open roles
6. J.P. Morgan SE: 6 open roles
7. Raymond James, Inc.: 6 open roles
8. Honeywell International Inc.: 5 open roles
9. WSP Global Inc.: 5 open roles
10. Dynamic Engineering Consultants, PC: 4 open roles

Where the openings are

• Tampa: 270
• St. Petersburg: 23
• Clearwater: 23
• Largo: 17
• Saint Petersburg: 12
• Dunedin: 7
• Wesley Chapel: 7
• New York: 7

Work arrangement

on-site 323 (73%), hybrid 103 (23%), remote 18 (4%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is not evenly spread across every sub-role here. In the local posting sample, construction accounts for about 45% and civil engineering about 20%, while IT services and consulting account for about 10% and financial services about 5%. That tells you Tampa is stronger right now for execution-heavy project leadership than for broad, pure-play software product management. The employer mix reinforces that split. Deloitte, Jacobs Engineering Group, Power Design Inc., ARCO / Murray Construction Company, Consor, Trilon Group, and GFT Technologies SE all appear among the more consistently active employers, and the market is fragmented rather than dominated by one company. For classic product and startup-oriented candidates, the better signal is narrower but real: Tampa-based STELLA Automotive AI raised $22.1 million for product development and commercial expansion, and Tampa Bay Wave's 2026 FinTech|X cohort brought 13 startups into the region.

• Consulting and client-delivery roles (moderate): This is one of the cleaner fits for the category. Deloitte and GFT Technologies SE show up among active employers, and IT services and consulting make up about 10% of sampled postings.
• Infrastructure-adjacent program and project delivery (high): This is where the local sample is heaviest, with construction at about 45% and civil engineering at about 20%, although some of that volume overlaps with more specialized categories outside this page's core scope.
• Finance, fintech, and tech-enabled services (moderate): Financial services make up about 5% of sampled postings, and local startup signals include STELLA Automotive AI's $22.1 million raise plus a 13-startup fintech accelerator cohort.

Where to focus: Focus first on consulting, tech-enabled delivery, and financial or infrastructure-adjacent teams where stakeholder, risk, budget, and scheduling ownership are explicit; treat pure remote product-manager searches as a narrower niche.

Roles worth searching next

• Management Analyst: It uses many of the same strengths this market rewards, especially stakeholder alignment, budgeting, and strategic planning, and the national outlook is solid at 10% projected growth with about 94,100 annual openings.
• Business Analyst: This is a practical bridge if your strength is requirements, stakeholder coordination, risk thinking, and turning messy workflows into clearer decisions.
• Implementation Consultant: It fits a market where consulting and IT-services employers remain active and where stakeholder management plus delivery discipline matter.
• Operations or Process Improvement Analyst: It lets you sell budget, risk, scheduling, and process discipline even if you have not held a formal program or product title before.

What postings ask for

• PMP (differentiator | immediate): PMP is the most commonly named certification in the local sample, appearing in about 15% of postings, so it helps clear formal PM screening in structured environments. Who: Mid-career project and program candidates, plus career switchers who already have real project ownership to document.
• Risk management (table_stakes | immediate): Risk management appears in about 25% of sampled postings, making it one of the clearest baseline filters for serious delivery roles. Who: Anyone targeting project, program, delivery, implementation, or PMO-adjacent work.
• Stakeholder management (table_stakes | immediate): Stakeholder management shows up in about 20% of local postings, which means employers want influence and coordination skills, not just scheduling ability. Who: Candidates coming from cross-functional roles, consulting, operations, customer implementations, or chief-of-staff style work.
• Budget management (differentiator | immediate): Budget management appears in about 20% of postings, with budgeting itself in about 15%, so money ownership is a real separator from purely administrative project support. Who: Mid-career applicants trying to move from coordinator work into manager-level delivery roles.
• Scheduling (table_stakes | immediate): Scheduling appears in about 15% of local postings, and Tampa's construction and engineering outlook also specifically calls out scheduling as valuable in the strongest local project pockets. Who: Project candidates targeting infrastructure, engineering-adjacent, implementation, or operations-heavy work.
• Strategic planning (premium | near-term): Strategic planning appears in about 15% of local postings and tends to map to higher-trust roles such as program leadership and chief-of-staff style work. Who: Senior applicants trying to separate themselves from task managers and show business-level judgment.

Questions about this market

What do Management, Product & Project roles pay in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL?

Government data shows Tampa's broader management occupational group averaging $66.50 per hour in May 2025, with a 2025 annual pay profile of $79,200 at the 25th percentile, $117,690 at the median, and $169,970 at the 75th percentile for management occupations. Those are broad management figures, not a clean cut limited to product, program, or project managers. Separately, the more current but sample-based Callings.ai job database shows local posted ranges centering on about $110k to $152k, with a broader band of about $80k to $198k. As a state-level directional check, Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts the mean offered salary on new Florida openings in this occupation family at about $92,424 in September 2026 (n=3,808). This is well-paid work relative to Tampa's overall mean wage of $31.96 per hour across all occupations, but the premium mostly goes to experienced managers who own budgets, risk, and stakeholder-heavy delivery.

Where is demand for Management, Product & Project roles in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL concentrated?

Opportunity is not evenly spread across every sub-role here. In the local posting sample, construction accounts for about 45% and civil engineering about 20%, while IT services and consulting account for about 10% and financial services about 5%. That tells you Tampa is stronger right now for execution-heavy project leadership than for broad, pure-play software product management. The employer mix reinforces that split. Deloitte, Jacobs Engineering Group, Power Design Inc., ARCO / Murray Construction Company, Consor, Trilon Group, and GFT Technologies SE all appear among the more consistently active employers, and the market is fragmented rather than dominated by one company. For classic product and startup-oriented candidates, the better signal is narrower but real: Tampa-based STELLA Automotive AI raised $22.1 million for product development and commercial expansion, and Tampa Bay Wave's 2026 FinTech|X cohort brought 13 startups into the region.

Which employers are hiring the most Management, Product & Project talent in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL?

Recent postings show the most activity from SUNSHINE ENTERPRISE USA LLC (10 postings), Deloitte (10 postings), Jacobs Engineering Group (5 postings), Power Design Inc. (5 postings), ARCO / Murray Construction Company (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Management, Product & Project roles in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 25% hybrid, with 70% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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