PMO Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Project Management Office (PMO)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 63 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing PMO 9 8 15
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.16% 1.24% 1.82%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.96% 5.71% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £230 £258 £247
25th Percentile £247 £344 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £525 £306
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +71.43% -26.73%
75th Percentile £438 £563 £408
90th Percentile £468 - £438
Scotland median daily rate £381 £330 £306
% change year-on-year +15.53% +7.76% -26.73%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 151 140 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.53% 21.64% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 77 96
10th Percentile £238 £227 £170
25th Percentile £377 £413 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £428
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +8.19% -10.47%
75th Percentile £558 £525 £550
90th Percentile £649 £568 £613
Scotland median daily rate £437 £460 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.24% -9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile - £20.88 £16.26
25th Percentile - £24.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.43 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +132.21% -69.55%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.06 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.13 £18.81
Scotland median hourly rate £32.73 £18.94 £14.98
% change year-on-year +72.81% +26.42% -31.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

PMO job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PMO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PMO

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Edinburgh

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PMO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PMO

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) PMO Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Project Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Project Officer
2 2 (22.22%) Project Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Project Support Officer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Support Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Lead
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Change Management
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Business Case
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Programme Governance
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Dependency Management
3 2 (22.22%) Information Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Information Management
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (11.11%) BPMN
4 1 (11.11%) Document Management
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CBAP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow