Engagement Manager Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Engagement Manager
North West > Cheshire

The median Engagement Manager daily rate in Cheshire is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Engagement Manager 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.58% 0.24% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £538 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% - -
75th Percentile £661 £488 -
90th Percentile £828 - -
North West median daily rate £507 £475 -
% change year-on-year +6.63% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 625 370 489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 87.68% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 248 339
10th Percentile £313 £299 £265
25th Percentile £375 £356 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £664 £645 £613
North West median daily rate £460 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -3.16% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 28 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.87 £16.61
Median hourly rate £22.85 £35.20 £21.04
Median % change year-on-year -35.09% +67.34% -2.16%
75th Percentile £33.73 £86.00 £37.25
90th Percentile £62.50 - £43.75
North West median hourly rate £42.84 £31.64 £26.00
% change year-on-year +35.41% +21.69% -13.33%

Engagement Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Engagement Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Engagement Manager job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Engagement Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Engagement Manager job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Engagement Manager job vacancies in Cheshire

Engagement Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engagement Manager in Cheshire over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Engagement Manager in Cheshire

Engagement Manager
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Engagement Manager within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Warrington +1 2 £563 +18.42%
Knutsford - 2 £705 - 1
Engagement Manager
North West

Engagement Manager Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 17 March 2026, Engagement 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 Cheshire region featuring Engagement Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall

Engagement Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA