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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 39 47
Rank change year-on-year -49 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 2 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.25% 1.61% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.74% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £429 £543 £414
25th Percentile £435 £557 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £592 £444
Median % change year-on-year -21.45% +33.22% -13.33%
75th Percentile £490 £640 £481
90th Percentile £493 £661 £538
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -16.00% +38.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £20.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -

All Process and 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 745 288 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.90% 92.60% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 167 255
10th Percentile £316 £211 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £622
90th Percentile £623 £683 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £16.74
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £19.63
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £25.63
90th Percentile - £21.05 £36.88
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +0.28%

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 26 December 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 -49 2 £465 -21.45% 3
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IAM Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP