Project Delivery Manager Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Projects Delivery Manager
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Projects Delivery Manager daily rate in Sheffield is £395, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Project Delivery Manager 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.097% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £387 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £395 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 964 528 345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.59% 91.03% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 349 187
10th Percentile £372 £284 £375
25th Percentile £425 £375 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% -11.63% -8.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £592
90th Percentile £675 £610 £643
South Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £470 £525
% change year-on-year +6.49% -10.48% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 5 6
10th Percentile - £15.55 £15.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.10 £20.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.95% -13.31% +7.69%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.50 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.51 £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.40 £18.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +77.95% -13.31% +5.00%

Project Delivery Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Project Delivery Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Project Delivery Manager job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Project Delivery Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Delivery Manager job vacancies in Sheffield

Project Delivery Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 21 September 2026, Project Delivery Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Project Delivery Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance

Project Delivery Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware