Project Manager Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Project Manager
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Project Manager daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 32 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 -12 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 18 35 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.00% 4.87% 7.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 5.30% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 62
10th Percentile £450 £456 £413
25th Percentile £491 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £588
90th Percentile £600 £725 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 586 660 1,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.50% 91.79% 97.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 425 739
10th Percentile £304 £350 £340
25th Percentile £400 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £625
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 31 13
10th Percentile £25.05 £18.13 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.46% +27.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £26.13 £43.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £48.75 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £19.00
% change year-on-year +106.78% +27.26% -9.52%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Project Manager in Leeds

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Leeds

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Leeds

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Leeds

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Project Management
3 6 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 6 (33.33%) Retail
4 5 (27.78%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) Change Management
5 4 (22.22%) Project Governance
5 4 (22.22%) Degree
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (16.67%) Project Planning
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (16.67%) Smartsheet
6 3 (16.67%) Supplier Management
7 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.11%) JIRA
7 2 (11.11%) Legal
7 2 (11.11%) Windows
7 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (11.11%) Business Case
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills

Project Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Smartsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Asana
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) OCI
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Retail
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Billing
6 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) EPoS
3 1 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
1 10 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (38.89%) Project Management
3 6 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Project Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Project Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) Supplier Management
5 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 2 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (11.11%) Coaching
6 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (5.56%) CIMA
3 1 (5.56%) CISA
3 1 (5.56%) CISM
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) COBIT
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
1 1 (5.56%) Dell
1 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
1 1 (5.56%) F5
1 1 (5.56%) HP
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle
1 1 (5.56%) Wrike