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 8 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 88 116
Rank change year-on-year -11 +28 +46
Contract jobs citing PMP 27 31 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.43% 1.67% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.27% 6.42% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 9
10th Percentile £476 £461 £566
25th Percentile £538 £539 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £630 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -10.00% +22.27%
75th Percentile £756 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £801 £784
Central London median daily rate £588 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -6.00% -7.41% +17.90%

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 512 483 478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.19% 26.04% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 279 315
10th Percentile £373 £358 £335
25th Percentile £431 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £745 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £528
% change year-on-year - -0.47% -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £20.65 £24.78 £19.32
25th Percentile £25.77 £28.94 £19.90
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £46.66
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% +54.85% +13.11%
75th Percentile £52.16 £112.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £59.86 - £76.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.62 £72.25 £42.49
% change year-on-year -64.54% +70.06% +2.99%

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 8 February 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 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (3.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.70%) OCI
5 1 (3.70%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
1 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
2 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
6 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (7.41%) Front Office
7 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
7 2 (7.41%) Legal
8 1 (3.70%) General Ledger
8 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.70%) Marketing
8 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Project Manager
2 6 (22.22%) Migration Manager
2 6 (22.22%) Migration Project Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Manager
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Manager
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Workday Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Workday Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) HR Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Market Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Market Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Payments Project Manager
6 1 (3.70%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Programme Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.70%) SOX Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Middleware
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Equities
2 1 (3.70%) Industry 4.0
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) PRINCE2
2 23 (85.19%) Agile
3 21 (77.78%) Project Management
4 17 (62.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (44.44%) Project Delivery
6 10 (37.04%) Migration
7 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (25.93%) Change Management
8 7 (25.93%) Project Governance
8 7 (25.93%) Validation
9 6 (22.22%) Decision-Making
9 6 (22.22%) Security Architecture
9 6 (22.22%) Waterfall
10 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.81%) Programme Management
10 4 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
11 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
11 3 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Korn
2 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) PMI Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) APMP
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) APMG
4 1 (3.70%) CFA
4 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) GDPR
2 7 (25.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (25.93%) NIST
3 4 (14.81%) PMO
3 4 (14.81%) QA
4 3 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (7.41%) Basel III
6 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
6 1 (3.70%) GAAP
6 1 (3.70%) GRC
6 1 (3.70%) IFRS
6 1 (3.70%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) CyberArk
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Planview
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) Workday
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (3.70%) AVEVA
5 1 (3.70%) Calypso
5 1 (3.70%) Informatica
5 1 (3.70%) Murex
5 1 (3.70%) VMware