Project Management Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Project Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Project Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 27 32
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Project Management 80 102 148
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.31% 7.11% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 8.04% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 70 52 120
10th Percentile £26,075 £35,505 £37,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,075 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.32% -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,563
90th Percentile £68,350 £80,000 £100,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% - +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,487 1,268 1,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.20% 88.36% 91.60%
Number of salaries quoted 872 629 1,426
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,875 £41,250 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%

Project Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Project Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Project Management
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Project Management

Project Management
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Management in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Project Management in West Yorkshire

Project Management
Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -14 71 £40,000 -29.20% 23
Bradford -18 5 £76,750 +47.60% 2
Huddersfield +5 1 £55,000 +5.77% 2
Wakefield -11 1 £95,000 +65.22% 5
Project Management
Yorkshire

Project Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 3 (3.75%) Apache
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.25%) Navisworks
3 1 (1.25%) ProjectWise
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.75%) SAP CO
2 3 (3.75%) SAP FI
2 3 (3.75%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (3.75%) SAP MM
2 3 (3.75%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
1 3 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (3.75%) AWS
1 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (3.75%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (3.75%) Azure
1 3 (3.75%) dbt
1 3 (3.75%) GitHub
1 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
1 3 (3.75%) SaaS
1 3 (3.75%) Serverless
2 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.25%) IaaS
3 1 (1.25%) PaaS
3 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) Tableau
2 12 (15.00%) Data Mining
3 5 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.75%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.75%) Data Vault
4 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.75%) Power BI
5 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 49 (61.25%) Finance
2 24 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.75%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Marketing
8 3 (3.75%) Legal
8 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Law
9 2 (2.50%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Games
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (37.50%) Analyst
2 26 (32.50%) Trainee
2 26 (32.50%) Trainee Analyst
3 17 (21.25%) Business Analyst
4 14 (17.50%) Trainee Business Analyst
5 13 (16.25%) Data Analyst
6 12 (15.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 9 (11.25%) Project Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Architect
8 5 (6.25%) Senior
9 4 (5.00%) IT Manager
9 4 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
10 3 (3.75%) Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) Principal Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) Principal SAP Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) Programme Manager
10 3 (3.75%) Project Officer
10 3 (3.75%) Project Support Officer
10 3 (3.75%) SAP Consultant
10 3 (3.75%) SAP PS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) Pandas
2 1 (1.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Blog
2 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.25%) PMI
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (41.25%) Business Analysis
2 30 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (31.25%) Agile
4 20 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 18 (22.50%) Change Management
6 16 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 15 (18.75%) Analytics
7 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (15.00%) AI
10 12 (15.00%) Data Analysis
10 12 (15.00%) Data Analytics
11 11 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (12.50%) PRINCE2
13 9 (11.25%) Coaching
13 9 (11.25%) Customer Engagement
14 8 (10.00%) Process Improvement
14 8 (10.00%) Time Management
14 8 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.50%) Python
2 17 (21.25%) SQL
3 2 (2.50%) COBOL
3 2 (2.50%) Perl
3 2 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (42.50%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) PMP
3 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (2.50%) CEH
5 2 (2.50%) CISA
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) OSCP
5 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) PMO
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
2 3 (3.75%) P3O
3 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) GRC
4 1 (1.25%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.25%) SAP
3 1 (1.25%) Anaplan
3 1 (1.25%) Autodesk
3 1 (1.25%) Genesys
3 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.25%) Verint