Portfolio Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Portfolio Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Portfolio Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 35 45
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Portfolio Management 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.61% 1.68% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.76% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £319 £509 -
25th Percentile £328 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year -31.53% -9.83% +21.05%
75th Percentile £453 £524 £600
90th Percentile £504 £528 £606
South Yorkshire median daily rate £355 £519 £575
% change year-on-year -31.53% -9.83% +21.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

Portfolio 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 772 227 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.72% 95.38% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 140 217
10th Percentile £355 £220 £360
25th Percentile £413 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £14.44 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £15.34 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -34.02% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%

Portfolio Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Portfolio Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Portfolio Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Portfolio Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Portfolio Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Portfolio Management

Portfolio Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Portfolio Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Portfolio Management in Sheffield

Portfolio Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Manager
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Report Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Reporting Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Transparency
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) FinOps
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) MiFID
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Planview