Project Management Office (PMO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PMO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PMO over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 136 138
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +68
Contract jobs citing PMO 709 1,115 1,736
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 1.92% 1.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.61% 14.35% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 806 1,232
10th Percentile £296 £269 £275
25th Percentile £374 £375 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +5.16% +18.75%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 58
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.38 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.34 £23.97 £26.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -26.97% +131.17%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £63.55 £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.68 £30.91 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.67% -4.91% +66.67%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,107 7,768 11,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 13.35% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,884 5,332 7,995
10th Percentile £285 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £740 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +0.99% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 235 315
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.38 £17.13
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +8.12% +54.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.19 £32.94 £22.55
% change year-on-year -44.78% +46.12% +7.36%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO.

Daily rate trend for PMO in the UK

PMO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the UK

PMO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in the UK

PMO
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PMO in the UK

PMO
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -5 613 £500 - 220
UK excluding London -3 391 £450 - 157
London -18 270 £502 -7.92% 61
Work from Home +23 233 £478 +1.33% 84
South West +47 97 £500 +11.11% 23
South East -10 96 £423 -6.11% 33
North of England -31 64 £500 +5.26% 47
Scotland +40 57 £375 -7.41% 5
Midlands +5 56 £488 +8.33% 35
West Midlands -3 39 £450 +5.88% 19
North West -15 30 £500 +11.11% 27
Yorkshire -7 22 £425 -20.93% 11
East of England -30 22 £450 -21.74% 16
East Midlands +22 15 £595 +19.00% 16
North East +20 15 £500 +33.33% 10
Wales +14 2 £775 +153.06% 2

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 43 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.37%) Confluence
3 7 (0.99%) CMS
4 5 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.14%) Drupal
6 1 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 137 (19.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 98 (13.82%) Microsoft Office
3 84 (11.85%) Microsoft Project
4 79 (11.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (4.94%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (3.10%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.99%) SAP Hybris
3 6 (0.85%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.42%) CA PPM
4 3 (0.42%) Primavera
5 2 (0.28%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.28%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.28%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.28%) Temenos Globus
6 1 (0.14%) Changepoint
6 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (4.65%) Power Platform
2 27 (3.81%) Azure
3 12 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (1.69%) Power Automate
4 10 (1.41%) PowerApps
5 8 (1.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 7 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (0.71%) SaaS
7 5 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (0.56%) Slack
9 3 (0.42%) Google Workspace
9 3 (0.42%) OCI
10 2 (0.28%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.28%) Asana
10 2 (0.28%) AWS
10 2 (0.28%) Canva
10 2 (0.28%) ClickUp
10 2 (0.28%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.28%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.28%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.99%) Intranet
2 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.28%) SAN
3 2 (0.28%) VoIP
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) LAN
4 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.51%) Power BI
2 5 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.28%) Big Data
4 2 (0.28%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.28%) Tableau
5 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 92 (12.98%) JIRA
2 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 318 (44.85%) Finance
2 232 (32.72%) Social Skills
3 86 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (10.30%) Banking
5 69 (9.73%) Public Sector
6 62 (8.74%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
8 36 (5.08%) Retail
9 32 (4.51%) Telecoms
10 29 (4.09%) Marketing
11 24 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.82%) Law
14 17 (2.40%) Mandarin Language
15 16 (2.26%) Investment Banking
15 16 (2.26%) Legal
16 14 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.83%) Billing
17 13 (1.83%) Electronics
17 13 (1.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 157 (22.14%) Analyst
2 112 (15.80%) PMO Analyst
3 103 (14.53%) Lead
4 96 (13.54%) Project Manager
5 69 (9.73%) Senior
6 65 (9.17%) PMO Manager
7 61 (8.60%) PMO Lead
8 39 (5.50%) Senior PMO
9 29 (4.09%) Project Leader
10 27 (3.81%) Support Officer
11 26 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
12 23 (3.24%) Coordinator
13 22 (3.10%) Project Officer
14 21 (2.96%) Consultant
14 21 (2.96%) Junior
14 21 (2.96%) Senior Manager
15 20 (2.82%) Programme Manager
16 19 (2.68%) Project Coordinator
16 19 (2.68%) Senior PMO Analyst
17 17 (2.40%) PMO Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.42%) ADO
1 3 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.28%) HTML
2 2 (0.28%) JSON
2 2 (0.28%) XML
3 1 (0.14%) EDI
3 1 (0.14%) Middleware
3 1 (0.14%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (2.54%) Management Information System
1 18 (2.54%) Onboarding
2 17 (2.40%) Product Ownership
3 12 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (1.55%) PMI
5 8 (1.13%) Virtual Team
6 6 (0.85%) Derivative
6 6 (0.85%) Fixed Income
6 6 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (0.71%) NHS
8 4 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.42%) FMCG
10 2 (0.28%) Equities
10 2 (0.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.28%) PACS
10 2 (0.28%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.28%) Smartcard
10 2 (0.28%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.28%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.71%) Windows
2 3 (0.42%) Android
3 2 (0.28%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (49.37%) Project Management
2 211 (29.76%) Agile
3 190 (26.80%) Project Delivery
4 160 (22.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 109 (15.37%) Change Management
6 98 (13.82%) PRINCE2
7 96 (13.54%) Risk Management
8 85 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (9.87%) Programme Management
10 69 (9.73%) Project Planning
11 55 (7.76%) Waterfall
12 52 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (7.33%) Decision-Making
13 50 (7.05%) Budget Management
14 47 (6.63%) Change Control
14 47 (6.63%) Project Governance
15 46 (6.49%) Workshop Facilitation
16 45 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (5.92%) Business Case
17 42 (5.92%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (1.27%) SQL
2 4 (0.56%) R
3 3 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (0.42%) Python
3 3 (0.42%) VBA
4 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 131 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.01%) Degree
3 70 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 62 (8.74%) DV Cleared
5 36 (5.08%) PMP
6 29 (4.09%) APMP
7 28 (3.95%) PMI Certification
8 13 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 8 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.85%) APMG
11 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.42%) CIMA
12 3 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.28%) ISEB
13 2 (0.28%) ISEB Practitioner
14 1 (0.14%) CAPM
14 1 (0.14%) CCA
14 1 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.26%) P3O
1 16 (2.26%) QA
2 7 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.42%) Def Stans
5 3 (0.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.28%) Basel III
6 2 (0.28%) COREP
6 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.28%) EMIR
6 2 (0.28%) FINREP
6 2 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.14%) GxP
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.14%) ITGC
7 1 (0.14%) MiFID
7 1 (0.14%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (1.27%) VMware NSX
3 6 (0.85%) vSphere
4 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (0.42%) MOM
2 2 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.14%) AppManager
3 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 142 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.33%) SAP
3 15 (2.12%) Oracle
4 12 (1.69%) VMware
5 11 (1.55%) Cisco
5 11 (1.55%) Planview
5 11 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.13%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.13%) Dell
8 5 (0.71%) Adobe
9 4 (0.56%) Cadence
9 4 (0.56%) Google
9 4 (0.56%) Snow
10 3 (0.42%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.42%) Citrix
10 3 (0.42%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.28%) Concur
11 2 (0.28%) Progress
11 2 (0.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud