Project Management Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Project Management
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +19
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 35 48 55
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 5.63% 8.19% 10.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 9.39% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 32 22 51
10th Percentile - £43,533 £22,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,500 £38,619
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% +27.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £45,000 £75,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% - +9.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Project Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 467 511 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 75.08% 87.20% 88.56%
Number of salaries quoted 341 203 394
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £35,940
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £48,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.34%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Project Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Project Management job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Project Management
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Project Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Management in South Yorkshire

Project Management
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Project Management within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -4 32 £40,000 -38.46% 55
Doncaster -7 3 - - 33
Project Management
Yorkshire

Project Management
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:

Applications
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) Data Mining
1 11 (31.43%) Tableau
2 7 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 32 (91.43%) Finance
2 18 (51.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (68.57%) Analyst
1 24 (68.57%) Trainee
1 24 (68.57%) Trainee Analyst
2 13 (37.14%) Business Analyst
2 13 (37.14%) Trainee Business Analyst
3 11 (31.43%) Data Analyst
3 11 (31.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
4 8 (22.86%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) IT Manager
6 1 (2.86%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Node.js
1 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
1 1 (2.86%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Business Analysis
2 14 (40.00%) Change Management
3 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (31.43%) Analytics
4 11 (31.43%) Data Analysis
4 11 (31.43%) Data Analytics
5 8 (22.86%) Project Delivery
6 7 (20.00%) Budget Management
6 7 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (20.00%) CRM
6 7 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 7 (20.00%) Logistics
6 7 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 7 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
6 7 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
7 3 (8.57%) Agile
8 1 (2.86%) Business Change Management
8 1 (2.86%) Risk Management
8 1 (2.86%) Software Engineering
8 1 (2.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 7 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft