Project Planning Contracts in the North West

Project Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 108 129
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing Project Planning 20 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 0.58% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.69% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 15
10th Percentile £333 £246 £320
25th Percentile £417 £288 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -8.42% -
75th Percentile £545 £552 £500
90th Percentile £570 £569 £748
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £30.50 - -
25th Percentile £36.49 - -
Median hourly rate £50.99 - -
75th Percentile £57.75 - -
90th Percentile £59.10 - -
England median hourly rate £50.99 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +69.95% -38.78% +93.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,934 2,021 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.42% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,236 1,852
10th Percentile £278 £301 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 184 169
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.15
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Project Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Project Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Project Planning in the North West

Project Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Project Planning in the North West

Project Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Planning in the North West

Project Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Planning in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Project Planning in the North West

Project Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Planning in the North West

Project Planning
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Manchester +5 7 £500 +11.11% 10
Lancashire +2 5 £570 -5.00% 10
Cheshire - 5 £487 - 3
Merseyside +5 3 £363 +7.01% 1
Project Planning
England

Project Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (5.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (10.00%) Primavera
2 2 (10.00%) SAP PS
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (5.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (15.00%) Serverless
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Appium
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) HP UFT
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Automotive
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Project Planner
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Java Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Java Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Implementation Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Software Implementation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
1 3 (15.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Project Management
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
5 4 (20.00%) CRM
5 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (15.00%) Budget Control
6 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (15.00%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (5.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Remedy
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds