Project Planning Contracts in Cheshire

Project Planning
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Project Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Planning 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 49 56 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 9 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% 0.40% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 0.47% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £375 - £340
25th Percentile £391 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 - £525
90th Percentile £537 - £540
North West median daily rate £500 £494 £488
% change year-on-year +1.27% +1.28% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £24.63 - -
25th Percentile £26.36 - -
Median hourly rate £29.23 - -
75th Percentile £33.62 - -
90th Percentile £36.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £37.00 £49.00 £68.19
% change year-on-year -24.49% -28.14% +71.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Project Planning 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 Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in Cheshire

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in Cheshire

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in Cheshire

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in Cheshire

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in Cheshire

Project Planning
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 Planning 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 - 5 £391 -
Crewe - 2 - - 1
Warrington - 1 £525 - 2
Project Planning
North West

Project Planning
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 (11.11%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Glacier
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (44.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Local Government
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (22.22%) ICT Manager
3 2 (22.22%) ICT Project Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Java Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Appian Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Business Change Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Change Project Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Project Change Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Freedom of Information
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Budget Control
2 5 (55.56%) SDLC
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Contingency Planning
3 4 (44.44%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Event-Driven
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 3 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
5 2 (22.22%) Critical Path Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Matrix Management
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft