Project Delivery Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Project Delivery
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Project Delivery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 33 16
Rank change year-on-year -11 -17 +5
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 31 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.71% 3.61% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.23% 4.20% 9.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 24
10th Percentile £352 £335 £429
25th Percentile £416 £435 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £518 £492
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +5.18% +9.33%
75th Percentile £496 £558 £554
90th Percentile £603 £571 £580
North West median daily rate £475 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -9.52% +7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £29.20 - -
25th Percentile £33.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile £66.25 - -
90th Percentile £82.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £36.25 £61.70
% change year-on-year +74.90% -41.25% +206.51%

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 593 452 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.12% 85.77% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 280 195
10th Percentile £302 £323 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £634
North West median daily rate £454 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.01% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +59.09%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in Cheshire

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Project Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Project Delivery

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 September 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 -6 14 £432 -6.75% 3
Chester -3 4 £575 - 2
Crewe - 3 - - 1
Warrington -12 2 £456 +1.39% 16
Macclesfield -1 1 £475 -18.80%
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 6 (19.35%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Finacle
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) SaaS
2 2 (6.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.23%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.23%) Serverless
3 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) SSH
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.23%) GIS
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Publishing
6 3 (9.68%) Legal
7 2 (6.45%) Automotive
8 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Local Government
8 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.23%) Marketing
8 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (16.13%) Project Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Service Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Service Transition Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Transition Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Change Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Delivery Project Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Development Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Process Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (3.23%) Security Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Security Project Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Security Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
1 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.23%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (3.23%) CSS
1 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
1 1 (3.23%) HTML5
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
1 1 (3.23%) OAuth
1 1 (3.23%) React
1 1 (3.23%) REST
1 1 (3.23%) RESTful
1 1 (3.23%) Vue
1 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Tandem
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) FMCG
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Unix
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Project Management
2 13 (41.94%) Change Management
3 12 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (32.26%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
5 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) ITIL
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) Release Management
5 6 (19.35%) Service Management
6 5 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (16.13%) Customer Experience
7 4 (12.90%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (12.90%) Contract Management
7 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (12.90%) ITSM
7 4 (12.90%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) Programme Governance
7 4 (12.90%) Project Governance
7 4 (12.90%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) C#
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.45%) BC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) PMO
2 1 (3.23%) GRC
2 1 (3.23%) PMBOK
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) EXASOL
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Meraki
4 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.23%) Siemens