P3O Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) Guidance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring P3O skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs citing P3O 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.044% - 0.045%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.23% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

P3O 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 428 287 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.92% 16.19% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 186 278
10th Percentile £359 £375 £363
25th Percentile £445 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £662
90th Percentile £775 £800 £758
Central London median daily rate £538 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.87% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £20.01 - £17.18
25th Percentile £24.18 - £18.94
Median hourly rate £27.75 £22.00 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +26.14% +0.91% -63.36%
75th Percentile £41.31 - £36.44
90th Percentile £62.58 - £58.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +16.04% -5.46% -4.80%

P3O
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing P3O relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

P3O job vacancy trend in the City of London

P3O
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing P3O.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing P3O

P3O
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) QlikView
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) PMO Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft