Project Management Contracts in Leeds

Project Management
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Project Management 35 64 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.49% 8.10% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 9.40% 6.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 53
10th Percentile £263 £450 £390
25th Percentile £306 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% -0.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £519 £599 £588
90th Percentile £543 £631 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £45.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -39.89% +46.40% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 432 681 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.51% 86.20% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 418 823
10th Percentile £273 £300 £378
25th Percentile £375 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £631
90th Percentile £600 £643 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 15
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £16.13
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -45.33% -
75th Percentile £66.51 £12.53 £66.88
90th Percentile £85.74 £15.24 £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £21.25
% change year-on-year +76.70% -41.04% +13.64%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Project Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Leeds

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Leeds

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Leeds

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Management in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Leeds

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) AWS
1 4 (11.43%) Azure
1 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.86%) Asana
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (11.43%) Cypress.io
2 4 (11.43%) Postman
2 4 (11.43%) Selenium
2 4 (11.43%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Retail
4 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Games
5 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.43%) Compliance Executive
2 4 (11.43%) QA Tester
2 4 (11.43%) Tester
3 3 (8.57%) Asset Management Project Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Software Asset Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Software Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.86%) ERP Project Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Performance Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Project Officer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.86%) EPoS
1 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Agile
2 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 5 (14.29%) Change Management
4 5 (14.29%) DevOps
4 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 4 (11.43%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (11.43%) API Testing
5 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (11.43%) Manual Testing
5 4 (11.43%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (11.43%) OWASP
5 4 (11.43%) Proactive Management
5 4 (11.43%) Regulatory Change
5 4 (11.43%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (11.43%) Security Testing
5 4 (11.43%) Software Asset Management
5 4 (11.43%) Test Scripting
5 4 (11.43%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.71%) PMP
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) PMO
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle