PMO Contracts in the City of London

Project Management Office (PMO)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring PMO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMO over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 70 79
Rank change year-on-year -23 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing PMO 27 54 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.54% 2.49% 2.74%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.31% 14.44% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 34 84
10th Percentile £313 £330 £450
25th Percentile £383 £416 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £514 £644
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -20.23% +17.09%
75th Percentile £828 £638 £821
90th Percentile £863 £734 £950
Central London median daily rate £618 £514 £638
% change year-on-year +20.19% -19.47% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.61 -
Central London median hourly rate - £20.61 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 290 374 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.59% 17.21% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 271 337
10th Percentile £375 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £713 £674 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £557 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.27% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -43.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PMO in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
1 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
1 2 (7.41%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) SaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.70%) Looker
2 1 (3.70%) Power Query
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 19 (70.37%) Finance
2 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Back Office
5 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.41%) International Banking
6 2 (7.41%) Marketing
7 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.70%) Front Office
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (3.70%) Local Government
7 1 (3.70%) Military
7 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Project Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Programme Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) IT Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) PMO Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Change Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) ERP Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Head of PMO
5 1 (3.70%) Insight Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Market Risk Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) PMO Lead
5 1 (3.70%) PMO Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Risk Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) PMI
1 3 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 2 (7.41%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Derivative
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Project Management
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
4 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (18.52%) PRINCE2
6 4 (14.81%) Budget Management
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Data Management
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) Programme Management
6 4 (14.81%) Resource Allocation
7 3 (11.11%) Accounts Receivable
7 3 (11.11%) Budgeting
7 3 (11.11%) Customer Experience
7 3 (11.11%) Reference Data Management
7 3 (11.11%) Regulatory Change
7 3 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 7 (25.93%) PMI Certification
3 4 (14.81%) PMP
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Planview
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) Workday