Project Management Contracts in Cheshire

Project Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Project Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Management 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 25 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Project Management 34 52 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.57% 10.32% 11.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 12.24% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 39
10th Percentile £356 £332 £380
25th Percentile £356 £392 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.60% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £614 £550
90th Percentile £685 £638 £680
North West median daily rate £475 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 10
10th Percentile £25.21 £26.66 £28.55
25th Percentile £27.79 £33.96 £30.54
Median hourly rate £30.87 £42.50 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -27.38% +38.67% -8.06%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile - - £35.50
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £35.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.60% +2.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Project Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Management in Cheshire

Project Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Management in Cheshire

Project Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Management in Cheshire

Project Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Management in Cheshire

Project Management
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 Management 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
Crewe +8 15 - - 13
Knutsford -12 8 £358 -19.55% 3
Macclesfield +11 3 £700 -6.67% 2
Warrington -10 2 £469 +69.84% 40
Chester -16 1 £650 +4.00% 41
Project Management
North West

Project Management
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (20.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.94%) Figma
1 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) ATM
1 1 (2.94%) FlexRay
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (44.12%) Automotive
3 11 (32.35%) Manufacturing
4 10 (29.41%) Finance
5 9 (26.47%) Legal
6 8 (23.53%) Retail
7 6 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (14.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (5.88%) Banking
10 2 (5.88%) Local Government
11 1 (2.94%) Marketing
11 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 1 (2.94%) Publishing
11 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (5.88%) Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Data Migration Expert
3 2 (5.88%) ICT Manager
3 2 (5.88%) ICT Project Manager
3 2 (5.88%) Payments Project Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Change Project Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Designer
4 1 (2.94%) Development Manager
4 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (2.94%) IT Manager
4 1 (2.94%) PMO Lead
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) UI Designer
4 1 (2.94%) UI/UX Designer
4 1 (2.94%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) ADO
1 1 (2.94%) CSS
1 1 (2.94%) HTML
1 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (17.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 5 (14.71%) Augmented Reality
2 5 (14.71%) e-Learning
2 5 (14.71%) Podcast
2 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (14.71%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.94%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.94%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Agile
2 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (26.47%) Agile Project Management
3 9 (26.47%) Roadmaps
4 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 8 (23.53%) Product Roadmap
5 7 (20.59%) Analytics
5 7 (20.59%) Coaching
5 7 (20.59%) Lean Manufacturing
5 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
6 6 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.65%) ERP
6 6 (17.65%) Operations Management
6 6 (17.65%) PLM
6 6 (17.65%) Quality Management
6 6 (17.65%) Supplier Management
6 6 (17.65%) Supply Chain Management
6 6 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (17.65%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.94%) C++
1 1 (2.94%) Java
1 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.94%) Python
1 1 (2.94%) Ruby
1 1 (2.94%) SQL
1 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Degree
2 6 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 5 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (2.94%) PMO
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) SAP
2 6 (17.65%) Rockwell
2 6 (17.65%) Siemens
3 2 (5.88%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce