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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 93 104
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +41
Contract jobs citing PMP 41 28 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.80% 1.57% 1.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.02% 6.35% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 13
10th Percentile £425 £422 £333
25th Percentile £484 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £599 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +14.05% -10.64%
75th Percentile £734 £713 £638
90th Percentile £750 £731 £678
Central London median daily rate £560 £599 £525
% change year-on-year -6.47% +14.05% -10.64%

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 584 441 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.63% 24.72% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 297 319
10th Percentile £413 £324 £395
25th Percentile £463 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.44%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £660
90th Percentile £734 £743 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +17.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £33.10 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £52.24 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% +33.33%

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 2 September 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 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) AWS
3 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) dbt
4 1 (2.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.44%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.44%) SaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Network Security
1 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) LAN
2 1 (2.44%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.44%) WAN
2 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) GitLab
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 18 (43.90%) Finance
3 11 (26.83%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Front Office
7 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.44%) International Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Law
7 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Project Manager
2 10 (24.39%) Bid Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Senior Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Transformation Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Transformation Project Manager
4 7 (17.07%) Programme Manager
5 6 (14.63%) Finance Manager
5 6 (14.63%) Finance Project Manager
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Project Manager
7 4 (9.76%) Bid Project Manager
7 4 (9.76%) Programme Director
8 3 (7.32%) Bid Director
8 3 (7.32%) Business Change Manager
8 3 (7.32%) Change Manager
8 3 (7.32%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (7.32%) Migration Manager
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Bid Manager
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Business Change Manager
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) ADO
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.44%) AS400
2 1 (2.44%) CCTV
2 1 (2.44%) Cybercrime
2 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (82.93%) PRINCE2
2 32 (78.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (73.17%) Project Management
4 29 (70.73%) Agile
5 15 (36.59%) Project Delivery
6 13 (31.71%) Decision-Making
7 7 (17.07%) Change Control
7 7 (17.07%) Change Management
7 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (14.63%) Migration
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Scrum
9 5 (12.20%) Business Case
9 5 (12.20%) Project Governance
9 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
10 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (9.76%) Waterfall
11 3 (7.32%) Risk Management
11 3 (7.32%) Security Architecture
11 3 (7.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.44%) Bash
1 1 (2.44%) COBOL
1 1 (2.44%) Python
1 1 (2.44%) RPG
1 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (90.24%) PMI Certification
2 7 (17.07%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) GDPR
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.32%) NIST
2 2 (4.88%) PMO
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) CyberArk
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) SAP
2 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) IBM
3 1 (2.44%) Juniper
3 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce