Project Delivery Contracts in Cheshire

Project Delivery
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery 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 48 39 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -19
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 10 19 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.23% 3.77% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 4.47% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 23
10th Percentile £473 £455 £200
25th Percentile £488 £513 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £582 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +36.94% -3.41%
75th Percentile £569 - £463
90th Percentile £588 £585 £600
North West median daily rate £475 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.00 - -
Median hourly rate £37.00 - -
75th Percentile £38.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £73.75 £27.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +168.18% -57.69% +225.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Project Delivery 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%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in Cheshire

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in Cheshire

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Cheshire

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in Cheshire

Project Delivery
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 Project Delivery 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 -3 4 £500 +5.26% 27
Crewe - 4 - - 5
Chester - 1 £600 - 25
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Project Delivery
North West

Project Delivery
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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (10.00%) DMZ
2 1 (10.00%) DWDM
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) L2TP
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
2 1 (10.00%) Multicast
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Business Change Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Business Change Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Business Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Change Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Planner
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) CRM
4 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) VB
3 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CCIE
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) MCP
3 1 (10.00%) MCSA
3 1 (10.00%) MCSE
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Arista
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) VMware