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 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 40 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -20 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Project Manager 86 53 116
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.65% 4.56% 6.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.07% 4.98% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 33 82
10th Percentile £404 £320 £400
25th Percentile £461 £425 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £573
90th Percentile £638 £626 £600
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £23.75
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £31.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £35.90 £55.00
% change year-on-year +81.06% -34.73% -15.38%

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 1,696 1,064 1,715
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 91.57% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 644 1,103
10th Percentile £250 £220 £263
25th Percentile £384 £359 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -0.55%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £654 £679
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 42 28
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £14.79
25th Percentile £17.82 £18.53 £17.14
Median hourly rate £29.68 £23.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +27.16% +9.53% +0.28%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £24.51
90th Percentile - £42.50 £35.60
England median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.39% -20.00% +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 18 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 18 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 -17 42 £470 -12.56% 21
West Yorkshire -3 38 £538 +7.50% 20
North Yorkshire -5 6 £488 -17.02% 7
Project Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 41 (47.67%) Project Management
2 35 (40.70%) Project Delivery
3 27 (31.40%) Agile
4 25 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (19.77%) Microsoft Project
8 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
9 15 (17.44%) JIRA
9 15 (17.44%) PMP
10 14 (16.28%) Migration
10 14 (16.28%) PRINCE2
11 13 (15.12%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (12.79%) Budget Management
12 11 (12.79%) Change Management
12 11 (12.79%) DevOps
12 11 (12.79%) PMI Certification
13 10 (11.63%) Business Case
13 10 (11.63%) ERP
13 10 (11.63%) Waterfall
14 9 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
14 9 (10.47%) Confluence
14 9 (10.47%) Degree
15 8 (9.30%) OpenShift
15 8 (9.30%) Risk Management
15 8 (9.30%) Scrum
15 8 (9.30%) Time Management
16 7 (8.14%) Conflict Management
16 7 (8.14%) QA
16 7 (8.14%) 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 9 (10.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) SAP ERP
1 2 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.16%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.30%) OpenShift
2 6 (6.98%) Azure
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.65%) GCP
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (3.49%) AWS
4 3 (3.49%) SaaS
5 2 (2.33%) Asana
5 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.33%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.16%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.33%) GIS
2 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.16%) Looker
2 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (17.44%) JIRA
General
1 45 (52.33%) Finance
2 35 (40.70%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Banking
4 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Retail
5 5 (5.81%) Legal
6 4 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Billing
8 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.16%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Data Centre
1 7 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.49%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.33%) IoT
3 2 (2.33%) SCADA
3 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.16%) CCTV
4 1 (1.16%) CMDB
4 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.16%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.16%) IVR
4 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.16%) NHS
4 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) VMS
2 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (47.67%) Project Management
2 35 (40.70%) Project Delivery
3 27 (31.40%) Agile
4 25 (29.07%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (24.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (16.28%) Migration
7 14 (16.28%) PRINCE2
8 13 (15.12%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (12.79%) Budget Management
9 11 (12.79%) Change Management
9 11 (12.79%) DevOps
10 10 (11.63%) Business Case
10 10 (11.63%) ERP
10 10 (11.63%) Waterfall
11 9 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (9.30%) Risk Management
12 8 (9.30%) Scrum
12 8 (9.30%) Time Management
13 7 (8.14%) Conflict Management
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) PMP
2 11 (12.79%) PMI Certification
3 9 (10.47%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.16%) CIMA
6 1 (1.16%) CISA
6 1 (1.16%) CISM
6 1 (1.16%) CISSP
6 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.16%) COBIT
3 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) Ansible
2 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.81%) SAP
3 3 (3.49%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.33%) Genesys
4 2 (2.33%) Google
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.33%) Planview
4 2 (2.33%) Wrike
5 1 (1.16%) BMC
5 1 (1.16%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.16%) Cisco
5 1 (1.16%) Dell
5 1 (1.16%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.16%) F5
5 1 (1.16%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.16%) HP
5 1 (1.16%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow