PMO Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Project Management Office (PMO)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 58
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing PMO 20 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.54% 2.48% 1.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.26% 17.98% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 9
10th Percentile £253 £427 £397
25th Percentile £313 £482 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £600 £577 £538
90th Percentile £610 £626 £550
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +11.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 86 89 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.91% 13.80% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 52 69
10th Percentile £303 £196 £260
25th Percentile £365 £289 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £411 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -13.42% -
75th Percentile £600 £555 £588
90th Percentile £625 £728 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.70 £11.44
25th Percentile £17.06 £17.60 £12.00
Median hourly rate £18.25 £22.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +62.96% +22.73%
75th Percentile £19.56 £40.75 £14.54
90th Percentile £20.28 £52.50 £38.82
West Midlands median hourly rate £13.20 £14.70 £16.36
% change year-on-year -10.20% -10.12% -18.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PMO job vacancy trend in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PMO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PMO

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) OCI
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 15 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (65.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Back Office
4 3 (15.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Local Government
4 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) PMO Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Change Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Finance Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) PMO Lead
3 2 (10.00%) PMO Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) Document Controller
4 1 (5.00%) Finance Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Support Coordinator
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Financial Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (25.00%) Coaching
2 5 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Budget Management
4 3 (15.00%) Business Case
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) ERP
4 3 (15.00%) Fintech
4 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Budgeting
5 2 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Planview
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) VMware