Project Manager Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Project Manager
England > Yorkshire

The median Project Manager daily rate in Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 41 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 -23 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 85 49 117
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.48% 4.36% 6.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.90% 4.76% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 30 81
10th Percentile £403 £320 £350
25th Percentile £461 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £584 £556 £575
90th Percentile £639 £638 £600
England median daily rate £543 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.60
25th Percentile - - £21.13
Median hourly rate - - £24.50
75th Percentile - - £29.13
90th Percentile - - £30.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £35.00 £42.31
% change year-on-year +85.71% -17.27% -34.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,736 1,030 1,684
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 91.56% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 619 1,076
10th Percentile £252 £220 £259
25th Percentile £385 £359 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £566 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £678
England median daily rate £507 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -3.43% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 41 33
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.68 £22.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.91% +5.58% -0.88%
75th Percentile £63.50 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £47.80
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +38.46%

Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Project Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Project Manager job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire

Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Manager in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Manager in Yorkshire

Project Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Project Manager job vacancies in Yorkshire

Project Manager
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Manager within the 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
South Yorkshire -14 40 £470 -4.81% 37
West Yorkshire -11 38 £544 +8.75% 42
North Yorkshire -4 6 £594 +1.06% 15
Project Manager
England

Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Project Manager in the job title.

1 43 (50.59%) Project Management
2 33 (38.82%) Project Delivery
3 29 (34.12%) Agile
4 22 (25.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (22.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (18.82%) Migration
8 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 15 (17.65%) PMP
9 14 (16.47%) ERP
9 14 (16.47%) PRINCE2
10 13 (15.29%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Project
11 12 (14.12%) JIRA
12 11 (12.94%) Change Management
12 11 (12.94%) Waterfall
13 10 (11.76%) Budget Management
13 10 (11.76%) Confluence
13 10 (11.76%) DevOps
13 10 (11.76%) PMI Certification
13 10 (11.76%) Scrum
14 9 (10.59%) Business Case
14 9 (10.59%) Collaborative Working
14 9 (10.59%) OpenShift
15 8 (9.41%) QA
15 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
15 8 (9.41%) Roadmaps
16 7 (8.24%) Azure
16 7 (8.24%) Project Governance
17 6 (7.06%) Decision-Making

Project Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 10 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) SAP ERP
1 2 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.35%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.18%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.59%) OpenShift
2 7 (8.24%) Azure
3 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.88%) SaaS
5 4 (4.71%) GCP
5 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (3.53%) AWS
6 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.35%) OCI
8 1 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.53%) Firewall
2 2 (2.35%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) GIS
2 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.18%) Looker
2 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (14.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (56.47%) Finance
2 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.94%) Banking
4 7 (8.24%) Retail
5 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Legal
8 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Law
10 1 (1.18%) Billing
10 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) Middleware
2 1 (1.18%) Node.js
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.35%) IoT
4 2 (2.35%) SCADA
5 1 (1.18%) CCTV
5 1 (1.18%) CMDB
5 1 (1.18%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.18%) IVR
5 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.18%) NHS
5 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) VMS
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.59%) Project Management
2 33 (38.82%) Project Delivery
3 29 (34.12%) Agile
4 22 (25.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (22.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (18.82%) Migration
8 14 (16.47%) ERP
8 14 (16.47%) PRINCE2
9 13 (15.29%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (12.94%) Change Management
10 11 (12.94%) Waterfall
11 10 (11.76%) Budget Management
11 10 (11.76%) DevOps
11 10 (11.76%) Scrum
12 9 (10.59%) Business Case
12 9 (10.59%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
13 8 (9.41%) Roadmaps
14 7 (8.24%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) PMP
2 10 (11.76%) PMI Certification
3 6 (7.06%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) CIMA
5 1 (1.18%) CISA
5 1 (1.18%) CISM
5 1 (1.18%) CISSP
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.35%) PMO
3 1 (1.18%) COBIT
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.88%) SAP
3 3 (3.53%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.53%) Oracle
4 2 (2.35%) Genesys
4 2 (2.35%) Google
4 2 (2.35%) Planview
5 1 (1.18%) BMC
5 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco
5 1 (1.18%) Dell
5 1 (1.18%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.18%) F5
5 1 (1.18%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.18%) HP
5 1 (1.18%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow