PMI Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Project Management Institute (PMI)
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PMI in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMI over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 53 51
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 -
Contract jobs citing PMI 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.73% 0.21% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 0.54% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +75.56% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £625 £603 -
% change year-on-year +3.65% - -

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

PMI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 231 186 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.92% 39.08% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 98 99
10th Percentile £223 £356 £415
25th Percentile £358 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +6.49%
75th Percentile £523 £552 £582
90th Percentile £638 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £519
% change year-on-year -8.16% -5.54% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile - £20.46 £14.42
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.25
Median hourly rate £16.25 £26.71 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -39.15% +50.71% +2.10%
75th Percentile £30.44 £33.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £78.50 £54.20
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +72.90%

PMI
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

PMI job vacancy trend in Cheshire

PMI
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PMI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing PMI

PMI
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMI in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMI in Cheshire

PMI
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 PMI within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Chester - 3 £625 -
Knutsford -24 2 £409 +14.89%
PMI
North West

PMI
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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Smartsheet
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Change Control
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (60.00%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (60.00%) Project Governance
3 3 (60.00%) Project Management
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
5 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma
5 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) PMI Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) PMP
3 1 (20.00%) CBAP
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) MBA
3 1 (20.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) P3O
1 3 (60.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Basel III
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Planview
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Okta
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow