Programme Management Contracts in Chester

Programme Management (Program Management)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester requiring Programme Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Programme Management over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Programme Management 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 2.82% - 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.71%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £625 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +20.19% -9.57% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
Cheshire median hourly rate - - £33.00
% change year-on-year - - +0.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

Programme 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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 37 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 81.69% 77.08% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 55
10th Percentile £325 £420 £288
25th Percentile £442 £544 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £688 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +52.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £696 £738 £575
90th Percentile £805 - £658
Cheshire median daily rate £440 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.37% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 17
10th Percentile £22.67 - £20.89
25th Percentile £33.40 - £28.62
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +13.80% +41.21%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.20 - £37.02
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +40.22%

Programme Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Job postings citing Programme Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Job vacancy trend for Programme Management in Chester

Programme Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in Chester.

Daily rate trend for Programme Management in Chester

Programme Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Management in Chester.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Management in Chester

Programme Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Smartsheet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior PMO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) P3O
1 2 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Planview