PMP Contracts in Central London

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 119 152
Rank change year-on-year +32 +33 +19
Contract jobs citing PMP 37 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.85% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.57% 3.23% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 15
10th Percentile £456 £391 £353
25th Percentile £475 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £598 £645
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -7.36% +17.27%
75th Percentile £738 £647 £700
90th Percentile £786 £739 £772
London median daily rate £550 £575 £556
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.37% +5.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

PMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 489 496 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.47% 20.32% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 315 450
10th Percentile £365 £366 £325
25th Percentile £456 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £568
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
75th Percentile £666 £644 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £525 £543 £575
% change year-on-year -3.36% -5.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £24.16 £20.22 £18.06
25th Percentile £27.39 £21.41 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £39.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £54.38 £71.75
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year +15.13% -46.84% +6.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing PMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for PMP in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMP in Central London.

Daily rate trend for PMP in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMP in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMP in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMP in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for PMP in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London +27 34 £635 +1.60% 6
Southwark - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 £375 - 1
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London

PMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (10.81%) Trello
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Asana
3 3 (8.11%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.70%) Looker
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) JIRA
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.22%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Legal
5 3 (8.11%) Retail
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Law
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) Front Office
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.81%) Programme Manager
2 4 (10.81%) Senior
2 4 (10.81%) Senior Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Business Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Data Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (8.11%) Lead
3 3 (8.11%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Implementation Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Implementation Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Pensions Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Project Implementation Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Programme Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
1 2 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.70%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.70%) Learning Management System
2 1 (2.70%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) PMI
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Project Management
2 21 (56.76%) Agile
3 18 (48.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (45.95%) PRINCE2
5 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (29.73%) Project Delivery
7 9 (24.32%) Scrum
7 9 (24.32%) Waterfall
8 7 (18.92%) Risk Management
9 6 (16.22%) Process Improvement
10 5 (13.51%) Analytics
10 5 (13.51%) Change Management
10 5 (13.51%) Data Management
10 5 (13.51%) ITIL
10 5 (13.51%) Regulatory Compliance
10 5 (13.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (10.81%) Business Transformation
11 4 (10.81%) ERP
11 4 (10.81%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (94.59%) PMI Certification
2 15 (40.54%) Degree
3 6 (16.22%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.41%) CAPM
4 2 (5.41%) CBAP
4 2 (5.41%) PgMP
4 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) MBA
5 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.81%) PMO
3 3 (8.11%) MiFID
4 2 (5.41%) EMIR
4 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) Databricks
2 2 (5.41%) Dell
2 2 (5.41%) HP
2 2 (5.41%) Pure Storage
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Workday