People Management Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

People Management
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring People Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs citing People Management 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.49% 0.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £476 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% - -
75th Percentile £506 £613 -
90th Percentile £514 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £300 £425
% change year-on-year +66.67% -29.41% -12.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

People 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 944 354 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 91.74% 95.42% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 231 228
10th Percentile £355 £220 £309
25th Percentile £413 £387 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.47% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile £15.27 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.29 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.21 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +3.35% +65.71%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.07 £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +57.33% +27.00%

People Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing People Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

People Management job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

People Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing People Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing People Management

People Management
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 People Management within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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 -41 5 £492 -18.00% 1
People Management
Yorkshire

People Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Billing
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Business Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) CCTV
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Case
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) WFM
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Operations Management
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft