PMO Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 95 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 -23 +8
Contract jobs citing PMO 35 25 58
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.87% 1.34% 2.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.79% 8.39% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 39
10th Percentile £369 £268 £413
25th Percentile £488 £313 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £655 £694 £625
90th Percentile £714 £860 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £413 £540
% change year-on-year +33.33% -23.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.92
Median hourly rate - - £20.61
75th Percentile - - £21.29
90th Percentile - - -
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 398 298 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.27% 15.94% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 163 292
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £420 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.18% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £25.05
25th Percentile £24.18 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.29 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - +138.73%
75th Percentile £31.00 - £60.64
90th Percentile £33.70 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £46.55
% change year-on-year -9.18% -38.24% +138.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

PMO job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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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 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PMO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PMO

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Moorgate - 1 £625 -
PMO
Central London

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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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (20.00%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.86%) SaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) LAN
1 3 (8.57%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (8.57%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) Broadband
2 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
General
1 26 (74.29%) Finance
2 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Banking
4 6 (17.14%) Legal
5 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
7 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
8 2 (5.71%) Front Office
8 2 (5.71%) Marketing
9 1 (2.86%) Law
9 1 (2.86%) Military
9 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Project Manager
2 9 (25.71%) Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) IT Manager
4 4 (11.43%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) PMO Lead
5 3 (8.57%) PMO Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Business Change Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Business Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Business Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Change Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) MiFID Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Network Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Network Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) PMO Coordinator
6 2 (5.71%) PMO Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Project Change Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.86%) FMCG
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) PMI
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Project Management
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
2 12 (34.29%) Project Delivery
2 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (28.57%) Change Management
4 9 (25.71%) Waterfall
5 7 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 5 (14.29%) Logistics
6 5 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (11.43%) Programme Governance
7 4 (11.43%) Scrum
7 4 (11.43%) Time Management
8 3 (8.57%) Portfolio Management
8 3 (8.57%) Programme Management
8 3 (8.57%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Korn
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.43%) PMP
3 1 (2.86%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.71%) MiFID
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Planview
3 3 (8.57%) Arista
3 3 (8.57%) Cisco
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Aderant
5 1 (2.86%) BT
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) Progress
5 1 (2.86%) Workday