Project Management Contracts in Sheffield

Project Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Project Management 39 26 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.23% 6.86% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 7.41% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 15
10th Percentile £362 £407 £363
25th Percentile £400 £444 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% -3.30% +41.33%
75th Percentile £505 £615 £563
90th Percentile £581 £645 £613
South Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £431 £515
% change year-on-year +8.75% -16.26% +21.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Sheffield

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Sheffield

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Sheffield

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Sheffield

Project Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (5.13%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DHCP
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) LAN
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.56%) SSL
1 1 (2.56%) WAN
1 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
2 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) TestRail
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (56.41%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Banking
4 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Project Manager
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 4 (10.26%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (10.26%) IT Manager
4 4 (10.26%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Risk Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) QA Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Compliance Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) React
2 2 (5.13%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.13%) CSS
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
3 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (7.69%) PMI
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) Risk Management
4 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.38%) Change Management
5 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (15.38%) PRINCE2
6 5 (12.82%) Budget Management
7 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.26%) DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Programme Management
7 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.26%) Waterfall
8 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
8 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
8 3 (7.69%) Fintech
8 3 (7.69%) Portfolio Management
8 3 (7.69%) Resource Management
8 3 (7.69%) Scrum
8 3 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 3 (7.69%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) Java
2 2 (5.13%) PHP
2 2 (5.13%) Ruby
2 2 (5.13%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.56%) C
3 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) PMO
2 2 (5.13%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.56%) SCCM
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Citrix
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Commvault
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.56%) Veeam