PMP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 91 109
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +34
Contract jobs citing PMP 40 30 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 1.78% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.63% 7.48% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 12
10th Percentile £505 £456 £324
25th Percentile £555 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £635 £591
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +7.40% -8.33%
75th Percentile £750 £713 £641
90th Percentile £760 £772 £729
Central London median daily rate £688 £635 £560
% change year-on-year +8.27% +13.39% -10.40%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 603 401 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.73% 23.85% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 270 282
10th Percentile £413 £398 £382
25th Percentile £463 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £551 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% +2.51% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £677 £650
90th Percentile £738 £766 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.24% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £18.71 £34.16 -
25th Percentile £24.16 £44.32 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.75 £62.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +200.26% -42.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £81.88 £24.20
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £25.88
Central London median hourly rate £41.75 £29.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +43.63% +21.59% -33.78%

PMP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

PMP job vacancy trend in the City of London

PMP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

PMP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMP in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMP in the City of London

PMP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

PMP
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 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub
4 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.50%) OCI
4 1 (2.50%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (2.50%) LAN
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (57.50%) Finance
2 17 (42.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 7 (17.50%) Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Automotive
8 1 (2.50%) Front Office
8 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.50%) Law
8 1 (2.50%) Legal
8 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.50%) Marketing
8 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (75.00%) Project Manager
2 10 (25.00%) Migration Manager
2 10 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 9 (22.50%) Senior
3 9 (22.50%) Senior Manager
4 8 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
5 6 (15.00%) Bid Manager
5 6 (15.00%) Programme Manager
6 5 (12.50%) Finance Manager
6 5 (12.50%) Finance Project Manager
6 5 (12.50%) Senior Finance Project Manager
7 4 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (10.00%) Transformation Project Manager
8 3 (7.50%) Bid Project Manager
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Transformation Manager
9 2 (5.00%) Bid Director
9 2 (5.00%) Lead
9 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow Manager
9 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow Project Manager
9 2 (5.00%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) ADO
1 1 (2.50%) Middleware
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.50%) Equities
2 1 (2.50%) Market Risk
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) PRINCE2
2 34 (85.00%) Agile
3 32 (80.00%) Project Management
4 30 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (52.50%) Project Delivery
6 15 (37.50%) Migration
7 11 (27.50%) Project Governance
7 11 (27.50%) Validation
8 10 (25.00%) Security Architecture
9 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
10 6 (15.00%) Change Control
10 6 (15.00%) Change Management
10 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
11 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
11 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
12 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 4 (10.00%) Scrum
12 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (75.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.00%) APMP
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.50%) CFA
3 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) GDPR
2 11 (27.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (27.50%) NIST
3 4 (10.00%) PMO
4 3 (7.50%) QA
5 2 (5.00%) Basel III
5 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (2.50%) GAAP
6 1 (2.50%) IFRS
6 1 (2.50%) IFRS 9
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) RSA Archer
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Workday
5 1 (2.50%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) Informatica
5 1 (2.50%) Planview
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) VMware