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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 57 58
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +20
Contract jobs citing PMO 6 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.74% 1.72% 1.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.59% 7.69% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £290 £234 £250
25th Percentile £369 £284 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £313
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +8.80% -18.83%
75th Percentile £463 £469 £438
90th Percentile £508 £563 £486
Scotland median daily rate £425 £345 £325
% change year-on-year +23.19% +6.15% -18.75%

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 167 143 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.47% 22.34% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 83 106
10th Percentile £240 £234 £179
25th Percentile £400 £400 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +1.12% -7.10%
75th Percentile £575 £503 £550
90th Percentile £650 £563 £613
Scotland median daily rate £440 £450 £434
% change year-on-year -2.22% +3.69% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 8
10th Percentile - £20.10 £17.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £22.43 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.35 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year +101.10% +46.10% -68.80%
75th Percentile £66.50 £50.44 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.68 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £18.94 £14.98
% change year-on-year +164.03% +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 18 July 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Project Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Project Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) PMO Lead
3 1 (16.67%) PMO Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Officer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Support Officer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Officer
3 1 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Business Case
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Information Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Information Management
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Dependency Management
4 1 (16.67%) Document Management
4 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CBAP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow