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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 95 71
Rank change year-on-year +11 -24 +8
Contract jobs citing PMO 35 35 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.99% 1.67% 3.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.17% 10.20% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 77
10th Percentile £377 £305 £390
25th Percentile £461 £395 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -12.04% -10.00%
75th Percentile £738 £547 £675
90th Percentile £785 £708 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +26.32% -12.04% -10.00%

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 344 343 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.51% 16.35% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 201 344
10th Percentile £323 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £838 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £598
% change year-on-year -0.18% -7.78% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

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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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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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Moorgate - 1 £625 -
PMO
Central 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 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (2.86%) Asana
4 1 (2.86%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 22 (62.86%) Finance
2 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Back Office
4 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Front Office
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Project Manager
2 6 (17.14%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Programme Manager
4 4 (11.43%) IT Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) PMO Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (8.57%) PMO Lead
5 3 (8.57%) PMO Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Programme Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Transformation Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Finance Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Head of PMO
7 1 (2.86%) Junior PMO
7 1 (2.86%) PMO Project Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Re-Platforming Project Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) ActiveX
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.57%) PMI
2 3 (8.57%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.71%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.86%) Derivative
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Project Management
2 16 (45.71%) Agile
3 14 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (31.43%) Project Delivery
5 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (20.00%) PRINCE2
8 6 (17.14%) Programme Governance
8 6 (17.14%) Programme Management
8 6 (17.14%) Risk Management
9 5 (14.29%) Budgeting
9 5 (14.29%) Business Case
9 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
9 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (14.29%) Waterfall
10 4 (11.43%) Analytics
10 4 (11.43%) People Management
10 4 (11.43%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
1 7 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.43%) PMP
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) APMG
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
2 2 (5.71%) Workday
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Planview
3 1 (2.86%) Progress
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce