Project Planning Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Project Planning
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Project Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 36 54
Rank change year-on-year -61 +18 +3
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.42% 1.86% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.93% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £431 £512 -
25th Percentile £441 £520 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £534 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +18.67% -12.24%
75th Percentile £495 £605 -
90th Percentile - £647 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -16.52% +15.00% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Project Planning 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 900 259 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 93.65% 96.28% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 163 233
10th Percentile £350 £210 £304
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -6.32%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £14.55 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £15.22 £12.19
Median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.54 £22.14 £15.00
% change year-on-year +1.80% +47.60% +41.11%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Project Planning job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Project Planning
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Project Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Project Planning

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Project Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Project Planning

Project Planning
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 Planning within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 February 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 -61 4 £465 -21.45%
Project Planning
Yorkshire

Project Planning
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IAM Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow Management
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Service Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) PMP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) SAP