Project Management Office (PMO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PMO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PMO over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 345 396
Rank change year-on-year -10 +51 +3
Permanent jobs citing PMO 791 943 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.97% 0.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.80% 5.23% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 559 734 1,103
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,914 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,300 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,100 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

PMO is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,629 18,029 28,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.28% 18.52% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,543 13,451
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,825
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.55% +0.68%

PMO
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in the UK

PMO
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PMO.

Salary trend for PMO in the UK

PMO
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PMO in the UK

PMO
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +3 708 £51,997 -9.29% 191
UK excluding London +56 618 £48,500 -3.00% 152
Work from Home -42 240 £52,500 -4.55% 75
North of England +79 156 £50,250 -6.94% 35
London -27 152 £65,000 - 53
South East +1 148 £45,000 -5.26% 36
Midlands +34 122 £49,990 -4.78% 31
South West -13 76 £43,000 -14.00% 24
North West +17 73 £50,000 -9.09% 20
West Midlands +1 66 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Scotland -35 57 £55,000 +2.33% 13
East Midlands +25 48 £42,500 -22.73% 17
East of England +8 44 £65,000 - 12
North East +24 43 £52,500 - 4
Yorkshire +76 40 £45,500 -14.55% 11
Wales -5 12 £53,499 +18.89% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £67,500 - 1

PMO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 41 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.29%) Confluence
3 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.88%) MS Project Server
5 2 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 115 (14.54%) Microsoft Project
2 112 (14.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (7.33%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (2.15%) Windchill
6 12 (1.52%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.15%) Teamcenter
1 17 (2.15%) Unit4 Business World
2 13 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (1.52%) Primavera
4 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.25%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 45 (5.69%) Azure
2 42 (5.31%) Power Platform
3 33 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (3.54%) SaaS
5 22 (2.78%) AWS
6 20 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.39%) Smartsheet
9 9 (1.14%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.14%) IaaS
10 8 (1.01%) Nutanix
10 8 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 8 (1.01%) PowerApps
10 8 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (0.88%) Asana
12 5 (0.63%) PaaS
13 4 (0.51%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.51%) GitHub
14 3 (0.38%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.53%) 5G
2 14 (1.77%) WAN
3 12 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.01%) DHCP
4 8 (1.01%) DNS
5 7 (0.88%) SAN
6 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.51%) Broadband
7 4 (0.51%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.51%) Internet
7 4 (0.51%) RS-232
8 3 (0.38%) WebEx
9 2 (0.25%) Extranet
9 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.25%) LAN
9 2 (0.25%) NetScaler
9 2 (0.25%) Network Security
9 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.67%) Power BI
2 19 (2.40%) Looker
2 19 (2.40%) NoSQL
2 19 (2.40%) Relational Database
3 17 (2.15%) DB2
4 3 (0.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.13%) Big Data
6 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.13%) Metadata
6 1 (0.13%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 67 (8.47%) JIRA
2 12 (1.52%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.51%) Git
3 4 (0.51%) Subversion
4 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.25%) JIRA Agile
4 2 (0.25%) Selenium
4 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 378 (47.79%) Social Skills
2 223 (28.19%) Finance
3 98 (12.39%) Presentation Skills
4 80 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.34%) Marketing
6 64 (8.09%) Law
7 63 (7.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (7.08%) Public Sector
9 53 (6.70%) Retail
10 49 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (5.56%) Legal
12 42 (5.31%) Manufacturing
13 23 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (2.15%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.90%) Banking
16 13 (1.64%) Electronics
17 10 (1.26%) Back Office
18 7 (0.88%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.88%) German Language
19 5 (0.63%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 230 (29.08%) Project Manager
2 110 (13.91%) Lead
3 98 (12.39%) Analyst
4 89 (11.25%) Senior
5 60 (7.59%) IT Manager
6 52 (6.57%) PMO Analyst
7 42 (5.31%) Coordinator
7 42 (5.31%) Senior Manager
8 39 (4.93%) IT Project Manager
9 35 (4.42%) Software Engineer
10 34 (4.30%) Senior Project Manager
11 30 (3.79%) PMO Manager
12 27 (3.41%) PMO Lead
12 27 (3.41%) Project Coordinator
13 25 (3.16%) Head of PMO
14 22 (2.78%) Consultant
15 19 (2.40%) Lead Software Engineer
15 19 (2.40%) UI Engineer
16 18 (2.28%) Business Analyst
17 17 (2.15%) Configuration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.67%) CSS
1 29 (3.67%) HTML
2 23 (2.91%) React
3 11 (1.39%) .NET
4 7 (0.88%) Flash
5 6 (0.76%) GraphQL
5 6 (0.76%) REST
6 4 (0.51%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (0.51%) HTML5
6 4 (0.51%) Next.js
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.51%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (0.51%) WCF
6 4 (0.51%) Web Services
6 4 (0.51%) WinForms
7 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.13%) ADO
8 1 (0.13%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.13%) SAML
8 1 (0.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 110 (13.91%) Management Information System
2 95 (12.01%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.03%) PMI
5 23 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 22 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.52%) GNSS
7 12 (1.52%) Robotics
8 11 (1.39%) Graphic Design
8 11 (1.39%) NHS
9 9 (1.14%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.01%) FMCG
11 6 (0.76%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.51%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.51%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.51%) IoT
12 4 (0.51%) Tandem
13 3 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.68%) Linux
2 32 (4.05%) Windows
3 25 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.15%) Unix
5 8 (1.01%) Debian
5 8 (1.01%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.38%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (69.91%) Project Management
2 254 (32.11%) Agile
3 248 (31.35%) Project Delivery
4 161 (20.35%) PRINCE2
5 148 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
6 134 (16.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 128 (16.18%) Coaching
8 126 (15.93%) Change Management
9 107 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 97 (12.26%) Mentoring
11 93 (11.76%) Decision-Making
12 91 (11.50%) Project Governance
13 86 (10.87%) Waterfall
14 82 (10.37%) Collaborative Working
15 79 (9.99%) Risk Management
16 74 (9.36%) Scrum
17 73 (9.23%) Customer Requirements
18 69 (8.72%) DevOps
18 69 (8.72%) Programme Management
19 64 (8.09%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (5.56%) SQL
2 26 (3.29%) JavaScript
3 25 (3.16%) Python
4 20 (2.53%) C++
5 19 (2.40%) Bash
6 13 (1.64%) C#
7 12 (1.52%) Perl
8 9 (1.14%) Java
9 7 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.63%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.25%) C
12 2 (0.25%) R
13 1 (0.13%) PHP
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 191 (24.15%) Degree
2 67 (8.47%) PMP
3 65 (8.22%) PMI Certification
4 50 (6.32%) Security Cleared
5 39 (4.93%) SC Cleared
6 36 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 19 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.28%) APMP
9 17 (2.15%) CISA
10 15 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 12 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.14%) ISEB
12 9 (1.14%) ISEB Practitioner
13 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.88%) MBA
13 7 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.76%) CAPM
14 6 (0.76%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (0.51%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.56%) QA
2 17 (2.15%) ITGC
3 16 (2.02%) ISO 9001
4 15 (1.90%) SLA
5 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.01%) P3O
7 7 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.51%) GDPR
8 4 (0.51%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.38%) JTAG
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) GxP
10 1 (0.13%) PMBOK
System Software
1 10 (1.26%) Active Directory
1 10 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.76%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (0.88%) vCenter Server
1 7 (0.88%) vRealize
2 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.25%) PowerCLI
3 2 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 132 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.07%) SAP
3 26 (3.29%) Oracle
4 20 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 17 (2.15%) Sage
6 12 (1.52%) Cadence
7 10 (1.26%) VMware
8 9 (1.14%) CheckPoint
9 8 (1.01%) Citrix
9 8 (1.01%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.88%) 3PAR
10 7 (0.88%) Brocade
11 6 (0.76%) Thales
12 5 (0.63%) Veeam
13 4 (0.51%) Cisco
13 4 (0.51%) Cognos
13 4 (0.51%) Planview
14 3 (0.38%) Adobe
14 3 (0.38%) HP
14 3 (0.38%) Northgate