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 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 41 21
Rank change year-on-year -13 -20 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 90 47 111
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.76% 4.45% 6.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.18% 4.84% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 31 77
10th Percentile £385 £320 £332
25th Percentile £459 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £563
90th Percentile £631 £638 £600
England median daily rate £538 £525 £545
% change year-on-year +2.38% -3.67% +3.81%
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 £39.38
% change year-on-year +85.71% -11.11% -39.42%

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 1,739 972 1,660
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 92.05% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 582 1,055
10th Percentile £263 £220 £243
25th Percentile £384 £358 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £545 £564 £588
90th Percentile £638 £661 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 37 37
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.93 £12.59
25th Percentile £17.48 £17.08 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.68 £20.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +48.40% -3.40% -3.70%
75th Percentile £57.25 £38.75 £26.78
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +28.57%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 46 £472 +4.89% 20
West Yorkshire -2 37 £538 +7.50% 6
North Yorkshire -3 5 £488 -17.02% 4
Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 January 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 44 (48.89%) Project Management
2 32 (35.56%) Agile
3 30 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 28 (31.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (21.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (20.00%) Migration
6 18 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 16 (17.78%) ERP
8 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 15 (16.67%) PMP
9 14 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (14.44%) Waterfall
11 11 (12.22%) Confluence
11 11 (12.22%) JIRA
11 11 (12.22%) Risk Management
12 10 (11.11%) Business Case
12 10 (11.11%) DevOps
12 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
12 10 (11.11%) OpenShift
12 10 (11.11%) Scrum
13 9 (10.00%) Budget Management
13 9 (10.00%) Change Management
13 9 (10.00%) PMI Certification
13 9 (10.00%) QA
14 8 (8.89%) Azure
14 8 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
14 8 (8.89%) Middleware
14 8 (8.89%) Project Governance
14 8 (8.89%) Roadmaps

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 11 (12.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (2.22%) SAP ERP
2 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.11%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.11%) OpenShift
2 8 (8.89%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) SaaS
4 6 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (3.33%) AWS
6 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.22%) OCI
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.22%) GIS
2 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.11%) Looker
2 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) JIRA
2 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (58.89%) Finance
2 32 (35.56%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.33%) Banking
4 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.78%) Retail
6 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.44%) Legal
8 3 (3.33%) Law
9 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Billing
10 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) Middleware
2 2 (2.22%) Node.js
2 2 (2.22%) YAML
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.22%) IoT
4 2 (2.22%) SCADA
5 1 (1.11%) CCTV
5 1 (1.11%) CMDB
5 1 (1.11%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.11%) IVR
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) VMS
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.89%) Project Management
2 32 (35.56%) Agile
3 30 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 28 (31.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (21.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (20.00%) Migration
6 18 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 16 (17.78%) ERP
8 14 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (14.44%) Waterfall
10 11 (12.22%) Risk Management
11 10 (11.11%) Business Case
11 10 (11.11%) DevOps
11 10 (11.11%) Scrum
12 9 (10.00%) Budget Management
12 9 (10.00%) Change Management
13 8 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (8.89%) Project Governance
13 8 (8.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) PMP
2 9 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) CIMA
5 1 (1.11%) CISA
5 1 (1.11%) CISM
5 1 (1.11%) CISSP
5 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
2 2 (2.22%) PMO
3 1 (1.11%) COBIT
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Ansible
1 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) SAP
3 3 (3.33%) MuleSoft
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.22%) Genesys
4 2 (2.22%) Google
4 2 (2.22%) Planview
4 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.22%) Workday
5 1 (1.11%) BMC
5 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco
5 1 (1.11%) Dell
5 1 (1.11%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.11%) F5
5 1 (1.11%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.11%) HP
5 1 (1.11%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.11%) Salesforce