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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 89 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 +35
Contract jobs citing PMP 33 29 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.63% 1.61% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.85% 6.21% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 8
10th Percentile £487 £488 £493
25th Percentile £563 £516 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £706 £643 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% -4.81% +11.11%
75th Percentile £750 £741 £728
90th Percentile £800 £811 £799
Central London median daily rate £650 £630 £638
% change year-on-year +3.17% -1.18% +13.84%

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 564 467 447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.81% 25.87% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 289 303
10th Percentile £376 £370 £363
25th Percentile £444 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £677
90th Percentile £738 £763 £786
Central London median daily rate £525 £526 £540
% change year-on-year -0.24% -2.55% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £21.50 £24.78 £19.19
25th Percentile £25.95 £28.94 £19.58
Median hourly rate £39.72 £72.25 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% +247.11% -59.58%
75th Percentile £61.79 £112.00 £47.58
90th Percentile £70.88 - £63.28
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £33.74
% change year-on-year -20.71% -3.66% -34.50%

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 10 March 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 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.03%) OCI
5 1 (3.03%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) LAN
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
1 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.03%) WAN
1 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
General
1 25 (75.76%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Banking
3 7 (21.21%) Financial Institution
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Front Office
6 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Automotive
7 1 (3.03%) General Ledger
7 1 (3.03%) Legal
7 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (75.76%) Project Manager
2 9 (27.27%) Migration Manager
2 9 (27.27%) Migration Project Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Project Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Finance Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Finance Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Programme Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Finance Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Manager
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Workday Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Workday Project Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Market Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Market Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Middleware
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Equities
2 1 (3.03%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) PRINCE2
2 28 (84.85%) Agile
3 26 (78.79%) Project Management
4 23 (69.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (54.55%) Project Delivery
6 13 (39.39%) Migration
7 11 (33.33%) Project Governance
8 10 (30.30%) Validation
9 9 (27.27%) Security Architecture
10 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
10 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (21.21%) Waterfall
11 6 (18.18%) Change Management
11 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (12.12%) Budgeting
12 4 (12.12%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
13 3 (9.09%) Matrix Organization
13 3 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) Korn
2 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (72.73%) PMI Certification
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) APMP
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) CFA
4 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (33.33%) GDPR
2 10 (30.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (30.30%) NIST
3 5 (15.15%) PMO
4 3 (9.09%) QA
4 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (6.06%) Basel III
6 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 1 (3.03%) GAAP
6 1 (3.03%) GRC
6 1 (3.03%) IFRS
6 1 (3.03%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) CyberArk
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.09%) Planview
3 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.09%) Workday
4 1 (3.03%) Adaptive Insights
4 1 (3.03%) Calypso
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Informatica
4 1 (3.03%) Murex
4 1 (3.03%) VMware