Project Management Contracts in South Yorkshire

Project Management
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 12 16 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing Project Management 42 46 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.26% 10.07% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.80% 11.25% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 16
10th Percentile £363 £404 £363
25th Percentile £400 £407 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £431 £515
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.26% +21.18%
75th Percentile £519 £547 £556
90th Percentile £564 £624 £606
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in South Yorkshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in South Yorkshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in South Yorkshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in South Yorkshire

Project 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 Project Management within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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 +15 39 £469 -8.49% 33
Project Management
Yorkshire

Project Management
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 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) AWS
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (4.76%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.76%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DHCP
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) LAN
1 1 (2.38%) Network Security
1 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.38%) SSL
1 1 (2.38%) WAN
1 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) MySQL
2 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
2 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) TestRail
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 24 (57.14%) Finance
2 15 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
4 10 (23.81%) Banking
5 6 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 7 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 4 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (9.52%) IT Manager
4 4 (9.52%) IT Project Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Risk Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) QA Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.38%) React Developer
7 1 (2.38%) SDLC Manager
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) React
2 2 (4.76%) .NET
2 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.76%) CSS
2 2 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) PMI
2 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (50.00%) Agile
3 15 (35.71%) Risk Management
4 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (16.67%) Change Management
6 7 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 5 (11.90%) Budget Management
7 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
7 5 (11.90%) Scrum
7 5 (11.90%) Time Management
8 4 (9.52%) Critical Thinking
8 4 (9.52%) DevOps
8 4 (9.52%) Fintech
8 4 (9.52%) Portfolio Management
8 4 (9.52%) Programme Management
8 4 (9.52%) Project Delivery
8 4 (9.52%) Waterfall
9 3 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (7.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.14%) Java
1 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 3 (7.14%) Python
1 3 (7.14%) SQL
2 2 (4.76%) PHP
2 2 (4.76%) Ruby
3 1 (2.38%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.38%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.38%) C
3 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) CBAP
5 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) PMO
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.38%) SCCM
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) Citrix
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Commvault
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.38%) Veeam