Lead Project Manager Contracts in South Yorkshire

Lead Project Manager
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Lead Project Manager daily rate in South Yorkshire is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Project Manager 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.73% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 371 411 478
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 88.58% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 255 328
10th Percentile £217 £241 £225
25th Percentile £375 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £551 £570 £666
90th Percentile £625 £617 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.26 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -33.85% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £23.75 £33.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £15.37 £21.00
% change year-on-year +38.24% -26.83% +15.07%

Lead Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Project Manager in South Yorkshire

Lead Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Project Manager in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Lead Project Manager in South Yorkshire

Lead Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Project Manager within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield - 2 £413 -
Barnsley - 1 - -
Lead Project Manager
Yorkshire

Lead Project Manager Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Lead 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Lead Project Manager in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Project Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis

Lead Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (100.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Project Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft