PRINCE2 Contracts in Cheshire

PRINCE 2
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring PRINCE2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PRINCE2 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 52 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -19
Contract jobs citing PRINCE2 6 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.34% 1.98% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 2.35% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 2
10th Percentile £372 £275 £520
25th Percentile £395 £305 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £391 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -34.92% +60.86%
75th Percentile £492 £508 £650
90th Percentile £519 £548 £680
North West median daily rate £525 £391 £488
% change year-on-year +34.44% -19.90% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £24.06 - -
25th Percentile £24.92 - -
Median hourly rate £26.36 - £22.41
75th Percentile £27.79 - -
90th Percentile £28.66 - -
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £44.74 £29.00
% change year-on-year -34.67% +54.28% -15.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

PRINCE2 falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

PRINCE2
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing PRINCE2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for PRINCE2 in Cheshire

PRINCE2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for PRINCE2 in Cheshire

PRINCE2
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PRINCE2 in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PRINCE2 in Cheshire

PRINCE2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PRINCE2 in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for PRINCE2 in Cheshire

PRINCE2
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 PRINCE2 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
Warrington -4 2 £525 +90.22% 9
Crewe - 2 - - 2
Knutsford -7 1 £356 -8.83%
PRINCE2
North West

PRINCE2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) ICT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) ICT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Change Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Change Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) PMO Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (16.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) Matrix Management
3 3 (50.00%) Contract Management
3 3 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
3 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Project Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
4 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (33.33%) Critical Path Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft