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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 29 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing Project Management 47 32 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 8.35% 7.69% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 8.67% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 27
10th Percentile £327 £453 £385
25th Percentile £363 £495 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.45% +24.29%
75th Percentile £507 £631 £575
90th Percentile £636 £646 £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £577 £550
% change year-on-year -22.01% +4.91% +21.55%

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 533 369 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.67% 88.70% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 195 246
10th Percentile £298 £383 £400
25th Percentile £375 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -14.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £697
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £514 £600
% change year-on-year -9.53% -14.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +9.09%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £20.69
90th Percentile - £22.00 £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

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 11 August 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 5 (10.64%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.51%) AWS
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.13%) Azure
4 1 (2.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub
4 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DHCP
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) LAN
1 1 (2.13%) Network Security
1 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
1 1 (2.13%) WAN
1 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) MySQL
2 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (53.19%) Finance
2 18 (38.30%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (31.91%) Banking
4 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Project Manager
2 8 (17.02%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 4 (8.51%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Risk Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.26%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Transformation Director
6 2 (4.26%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) React
2 2 (4.26%) .NET
2 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.26%) CSS
2 2 (4.26%) HTML
3 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) IVR
4 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Equities
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Agile
2 24 (51.06%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (34.04%) Risk Management
4 10 (21.28%) Decision-Making
5 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (17.02%) Waterfall
7 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.89%) Project Delivery
8 6 (12.77%) Data Protection
8 6 (12.77%) DevOps
9 5 (10.64%) Programme Management
9 5 (10.64%) Resource Management
9 5 (10.64%) SDLC
10 4 (8.51%) Budgeting
10 4 (8.51%) Data Management
10 4 (8.51%) ITIL
11 3 (6.38%) Budget Management
11 3 (6.38%) Change Management
11 3 (6.38%) CI/CD
11 3 (6.38%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
1 3 (6.38%) Python
2 2 (4.26%) Java
2 2 (4.26%) PHP
2 2 (4.26%) Ruby
3 1 (2.13%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.13%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.13%) C
3 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.26%) PMP
3 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) PMO
2 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) SCOM
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Citrix
3 2 (4.26%) Genesys
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Commvault
4 1 (2.13%) Dell
4 1 (2.13%) HP
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) Veeam