PMO Contracts in the East of England

Project Management Office (PMO)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring PMO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PMO over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 88 68
Rank change year-on-year +13 -20 +22
Contract jobs citing PMO 15 11 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.18% 0.69% 2.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.21% 7.97% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 32
10th Percentile £497 £249 £259
25th Percentile £550 £303 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% -2.96% +3.05%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £647
90th Percentile £770 £643 £816
England median daily rate £450 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% +2.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 208 138 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.42% 8.62% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 66 148
10th Percentile £206 £254 £254
25th Percentile £331 £308 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -14.74% +10.72%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £596
90th Percentile £638 £555 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 23 19
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.14 £14.93 £13.29
Median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year +31.83% +26.98% +8.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £56.88 £52.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £71.50
England median hourly rate £31.64 £27.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year +15.05% -25.17% +54.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for PMO in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +20 7 £725 - 4
Bedfordshire -1 5 £580 +157.78% 1
Essex +1 2 £464 -24.29% 1
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
1 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (13.33%) PMO Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Financial Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) IT Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Life Science
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) PRINCE2
1 7 (46.67%) Project Management
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Change Control
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Logistics
5 2 (13.33%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (13.33%) Project Governance
5 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) PMP
3 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
3 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) P3O
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Anaplan
2 2 (13.33%) Ariba
2 2 (13.33%) Hyperion
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Planview
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow