PMO Contracts in Cheshire

Project Management Office (PMO)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring PMO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMO over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 52 53
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -14
Contract jobs citing PMO 12 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.67% 1.19% 1.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.67% 5.22% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £378 £423 £261
25th Percentile £435 £438 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £463 £288
Median % change year-on-year +9.08% +61.03% -17.86%
75th Percentile £559 £481 £312
90th Percentile £580 £493 £333
North West median daily rate £505 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.54
Median hourly rate - - £32.77
75th Percentile - - £35.00
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £31.76 £65.92 £32.77
% change year-on-year -51.82% +101.16% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheshire

PMO falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 61 115 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.59% 22.82% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 62 51
10th Percentile £281 £304 £213
25th Percentile £358 £407 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £525
90th Percentile £662 £580 £640
North West median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £37.60 £16.79 -
25th Percentile £49.75 £17.72 £30.54
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.66 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.57% -23.83% -30.00%
75th Percentile £77.63 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £82.20 - £47.80
North West median hourly rate £30.38 £12.84 £38.55
% change year-on-year +136.60% -66.69% +114.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for PMO in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in Cheshire

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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 PMO within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford 0 6 £439 -1.12%
Macclesfield +16 2 £580 +16.00%
Northwich - 1 - -
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Publishing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Change Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Operational Change Manager
3 3 (25.00%) Programme Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 2 (16.67%) PMO Manager
4 2 (16.67%) PMO Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (16.67%) SAP Financial Specialist
5 1 (8.33%) Coordinator
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) PMO Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Life Science
2 1 (8.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (58.33%) Matrix Management
2 7 (58.33%) Matrix Organization
3 6 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 6 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Inventory Management
5 2 (16.67%) Logistics
5 2 (16.67%) Profit Centre Accounting
5 2 (16.67%) Record to Report
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (8.33%) PRINCE
6 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Anaplan
2 2 (16.67%) Ariba
2 2 (16.67%) Hyperion
2 2 (16.67%) SAP