PMO Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Project Management Office (PMO)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing PMO 4 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.79% 0.52% 6.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.15% 3.23% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £388 - £546
25th Percentile £500 £213 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £225 £600
Median % change year-on-year +172.22% -62.50% +54.84%
75th Percentile £713 £238 -
90th Percentile £825 - -
East of England median daily rate £555 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +19.57%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Bedfordshire

PMO falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 65 31 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 29.02% 16.23% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 9 21
10th Percentile £132 £102 £463
25th Percentile £481 £213 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £600
90th Percentile £670 £603 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +20.48% -17.00% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 2
10th Percentile £48.48 £36.19 £52.75
25th Percentile £80.00 £43.44 £53.13
Median hourly rate £88.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.04% +4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £92.35 £73.75 £57.25
East of England median hourly rate £31.49 £28.06 £44.50
% change year-on-year +12.22% -36.94% +148.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PMO in Bedfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PMO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PMO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Bedfordshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PMO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PMO

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Luton - 3 £575 -
PMO
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Aviation
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Head of PMO
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Enablement
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) SAP