PMO Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Project Management Office (PMO)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 43 56
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 +26
Contract jobs citing PMO 11 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.14% 1.93% 1.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.86% 11.34% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £281 £260 £200
25th Percentile £300 £340 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £414 £338
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +22.67% -32.50%
75th Percentile £401 £466 £558
90th Percentile £467 £520 £620
England median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% +5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 140 97 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.52% 16.99% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 51 54
10th Percentile £323 £225 £200
25th Percentile £359 £303 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £373 £378
Median % change year-on-year +14.09% -1.32% -5.63%
75th Percentile £491 £494 £513
90th Percentile £638 £569 £620
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £12.94 £16.69 £9.09
25th Percentile £14.52 £22.34 £13.72
Median hourly rate £21.16 £31.76 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year -33.39% +54.85% +21.11%
75th Percentile £25.20 £43.38 £34.13
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.35 £35.00
England median hourly rate £24.19 £31.76 £25.12
% change year-on-year -23.84% +26.46% -13.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

PMO job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMO

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PMO

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 February 2026. 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
Derbyshire -1 4 - - 1
Northamptonshire -23 4 £347 -16.30%
Nottinghamshire -9 2 - - 1
Leicestershire - 1 £313 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
1 7 (63.64%) PMO Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) PMO Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior PMO
2 2 (18.18%) Senior PMO Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) PMO Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Portfolio Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (54.55%) Project Management
3 5 (45.45%) Portfolio Management
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Dependency Management
5 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (18.18%) Backlog Management
6 2 (18.18%) Budgeting
6 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Epics
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Resource Allocation
7 1 (9.09%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Planview