Project Manager Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Project Manager
England > Yorkshire

The median Project Manager daily rate in Yorkshire is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 35 24
Rank change year-on-year -16 -11 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 103 46 114
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.94% 5.04% 6.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.42% 5.47% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 32 83
10th Percentile £385 £326 £376
25th Percentile £425 £423 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £592 £541 £550
90th Percentile £630 £599 £588
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £20.60
25th Percentile - £26.25 £21.13
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.24% -
75th Percentile - £28.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - - £30.40
England median hourly rate £66.19 £33.00 £35.96
% change year-on-year +100.56% -8.23% -44.68%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,902 841 1,716
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.11% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 520 1,073
10th Percentile £298 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £342 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -11.06%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 28 53
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.94 £11.12
25th Percentile £15.29 £17.08 £12.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +72.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £55.75 £35.30 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.74 £53.75
England median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% - -12.50%

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 21 February 2026.

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 21 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
South Yorkshire -15 53 £468 +4.00% 9
West Yorkshire -5 42 £530 +8.72% 13
North Yorkshire -8 6 £488 -18.75% 4
Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 2026, 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 50 (48.54%) Project Management
2 34 (33.01%) Project Delivery
3 33 (32.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (30.10%) Agile
5 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (21.36%) Migration
7 21 (20.39%) PRINCE2
8 20 (19.42%) ERP
8 20 (19.42%) PMP
8 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (15.53%) OpenShift
10 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
11 14 (13.59%) Business Case
12 13 (12.62%) Budget Management
12 13 (12.62%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (11.65%) JIRA
13 12 (11.65%) PMI Certification
13 12 (11.65%) QA
13 12 (11.65%) Roadmaps
13 12 (11.65%) Waterfall
14 11 (10.68%) Azure
14 11 (10.68%) Microsoft Project
14 11 (10.68%) Risk Management
15 10 (9.71%) Change Management
15 10 (9.71%) Confluence
15 10 (9.71%) Scrum
16 9 (8.74%) DevOps
16 9 (8.74%) SAP
17 8 (7.77%) CI/CD
17 8 (7.77%) Middleware

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 (9.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (10.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.88%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.94%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.97%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.97%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.53%) OpenShift
2 11 (10.68%) Azure
3 7 (6.80%) SaaS
4 6 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.85%) GCP
6 4 (3.88%) AWS
6 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.94%) OCI
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) Firewall
2 2 (1.94%) NAS
2 2 (1.94%) SAN
3 1 (0.97%) Network Security
3 1 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) GIS
2 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.97%) Looker
2 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (11.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (55.34%) Finance
2 34 (33.01%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.65%) Banking
3 12 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.80%) Retail
5 4 (3.88%) Legal
6 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Law
7 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.77%) Middleware
2 4 (3.88%) Node.js
2 4 (3.88%) YAML
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.91%) SCADA
5 2 (1.94%) IoT
6 1 (0.97%) CCTV
6 1 (0.97%) CMDB
6 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.97%) EPoS
6 1 (0.97%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) NHS
6 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.97%) PMI
6 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.54%) Project Management
2 34 (33.01%) Project Delivery
3 33 (32.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (30.10%) Agile
5 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (21.36%) Migration
7 21 (20.39%) PRINCE2
8 20 (19.42%) ERP
8 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (13.59%) Business Case
10 13 (12.62%) Budget Management
10 13 (12.62%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (11.65%) Roadmaps
11 12 (11.65%) Waterfall
12 11 (10.68%) Risk Management
13 10 (9.71%) Change Management
13 10 (9.71%) Scrum
14 9 (8.74%) DevOps
15 8 (7.77%) CI/CD
15 8 (7.77%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (19.42%) PMP
2 12 (11.65%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.80%) Degree
4 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.97%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.94%) PMO
3 1 (0.97%) COBIT
3 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.97%) GRC
3 1 (0.97%) MiFID
3 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.85%) Ansible
2 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) SAP
3 4 (3.88%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.91%) Oracle
4 3 (2.91%) Workday
5 2 (1.94%) Google
5 2 (1.94%) Planview
6 1 (0.97%) BMC
6 1 (0.97%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco
6 1 (0.97%) Dell
6 1 (0.97%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.97%) F5
6 1 (0.97%) Genesys
6 1 (0.97%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.97%) HP
6 1 (0.97%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.97%) Veritas