PMO Contracts in Edinburgh

Project Management Office (PMO)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 63 71
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +5
Contract jobs citing PMO 10 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.52% 1.95% 2.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.67% 9.04% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 21
10th Percentile £234 £250 £263
25th Percentile £284 £281 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £313 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -16.67% +1.35%
75th Percentile £469 £438 £525
90th Percentile £563 £486 £538
Scotland median daily rate £363 £306 £400
% change year-on-year +18.37% -23.44% +16.82%

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 150 188 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.87% 21.53% 25.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 113 246
10th Percentile £227 £186 £213
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -6.05% +3.23%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £542
90th Percentile £563 £624 £593
Scotland median daily rate £460 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +5.02% -7.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £20.10 £17.42 -
25th Percentile £22.43 £18.27 £57.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -68.05% +217.46%
75th Percentile £50.44 £60.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.68 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £18.94 £14.98 £21.75
% change year-on-year +26.42% -31.13% -41.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing PMO as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for PMO in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PMO in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for PMO in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PMO in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for PMO in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Trello
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Automotive
4 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
1 4 (40.00%) PMO Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Support Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Manager
3 1 (10.00%) PMO Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Portfolio Office Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Support Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Portfolio Management
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Project Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Budgeting
5 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Cost Management
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (10.00%) Change Management
6 1 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (20.00%) P3O
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Hitachi
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce