PMO Contract Job Trends in England

Project Management Office (PMO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 180 160
Rank change year-on-year +24 -20 -25
Contract jobs citing PMO 796 424 490
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.74% 1.54% 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.98% 8.91% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 296 302
10th Percentile £300 £269 £300
25th Percentile £380 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £594 £580 £579
90th Percentile £715 £681 £686
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 15
10th Percentile £20.94 £18.50 £26.68
25th Percentile £24.72 £21.00 £28.00
Median hourly rate £52.83 £37.02 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.71% +5.77% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.89 £46.30 £61.28
90th Percentile £83.75 £51.25 £63.14
UK median hourly rate £52.83 £24.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +117.87% -30.71% +6.06%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,978 4,758 4,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.48% 17.24% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,097 3,106 2,717
10th Percentile £338 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 229 267
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.44 £18.50 £13.69
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £28.18 £25.77
% change year-on-year +28.00% +9.37% -26.39%

PMO
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PMO job vacancy trend in England

PMO
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PMO

PMO
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in England

PMO
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PMO

PMO
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PMO in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
London +33 359 £525 +5.00% 95
South East +18 139 £525 +23.53% 66
North of England -18 104 £408 +3.33% 30
Midlands -38 89 £400 -5.88% 22
West Midlands -48 67 £363 -17.14% 17
North West +4 59 £395 +9.72% 17
South West -22 53 £425 -22.73% 25
Yorkshire -34 42 £450 +7.14% 11
East of England -4 30 £500 -13.79% 8
East Midlands -4 22 £475 +35.71% 5
North East -42 3 £388 +55.00% 2
PMO
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PMO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 74 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 51 (6.41%) Confluence
3 9 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 184 (23.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 121 (15.20%) Microsoft Project
3 98 (12.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 63 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.88%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.88%) Primavera
3 10 (1.26%) SAP CO
3 10 (1.26%) SAP FI
3 10 (1.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 9 (1.13%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.88%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.50%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.38%) Changepoint
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.38%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (10.30%) Power Platform
2 51 (6.41%) Azure
3 27 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (2.89%) Smartsheet
5 19 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (1.88%) AWS
7 13 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (1.51%) SaaS
9 9 (1.13%) OCI
10 8 (1.01%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.88%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.63%) Miro
12 5 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (0.50%) PaaS
13 4 (0.50%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.38%) Google Sheets
14 3 (0.38%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.38%) Serverless
14 3 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.75%) WAN
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 3 (0.38%) LAN
2 3 (0.38%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.25%) Intranet
3 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.25%) TCAP
4 1 (0.13%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) MPLS
4 1 (0.13%) PABX
4 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (9.92%) Power BI
2 11 (1.38%) Power Query
3 9 (1.13%) Tableau
4 5 (0.63%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.13%) Metadata
8 1 (0.13%) QlikView
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 123 (15.45%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) Hudson
3 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.13%) Git
3 1 (0.13%) Postman
3 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 333 (41.83%) Finance
2 309 (38.82%) Social Skills
3 169 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (14.20%) Organisational Skills
5 79 (9.92%) Public Sector
6 60 (7.54%) Banking
7 29 (3.64%) Legal
8 27 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (3.14%) Local Government
9 25 (3.14%) Retail
10 22 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.76%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.63%) Marketing
14 10 (1.26%) Military
15 8 (1.01%) Aviation
16 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (19.97%) Analyst
2 125 (15.70%) Project Manager
3 112 (14.07%) PMO Analyst
4 109 (13.69%) Lead
5 77 (9.67%) PMO Manager
6 68 (8.54%) Senior
7 46 (5.78%) PMO Lead
8 35 (4.40%) Project Officer
9 30 (3.77%) Senior PMO
10 26 (3.27%) Coordinator
10 26 (3.27%) Support Officer
11 25 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (3.02%) Consultant
13 23 (2.89%) Programme Manager
13 23 (2.89%) Senior Manager
14 22 (2.76%) Project Coordinator
15 21 (2.64%) IT Manager
15 21 (2.64%) SAP Manager
16 19 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
16 19 (2.39%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.75%) ADO
2 6 (0.75%) Middleware
3 5 (0.63%) REST
4 4 (0.50%) SOAP
5 1 (0.13%) HTML
5 1 (0.13%) JSON
5 1 (0.13%) JWT
5 1 (0.13%) OAuth
5 1 (0.13%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.13%) XML
5 1 (0.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.53%) Onboarding
2 22 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.26%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.01%) Data Centre
4 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 12 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (1.51%) PMI
7 9 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (0.63%) FMCG
9 5 (0.63%) NHS
10 4 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.38%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.38%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.38%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.38%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.13%) SUSE
2 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (37.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 220 (27.64%) Agile
3 216 (27.14%) Project Management
4 202 (25.38%) Project Delivery
5 191 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 182 (22.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 155 (19.47%) Decision-Making
8 129 (16.21%) PRINCE2
9 93 (11.68%) Programme Governance
10 89 (11.18%) Waterfall
11 86 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
12 84 (10.55%) Change Management
13 80 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
14 77 (9.67%) Programme Management
15 73 (9.17%) Migration
15 73 (9.17%) Programme Delivery
16 69 (8.67%) Portfolio Management
17 66 (8.29%) Change Control
18 60 (7.54%) Risk Management
19 58 (7.29%) AI
Programming Languages
1 16 (2.01%) SQL
2 9 (1.13%) VBA
3 5 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (0.63%) Korn
4 4 (0.50%) Python
5 2 (0.25%) Java
6 1 (0.13%) COBOL
6 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.13%) RPG
6 1 (0.13%) Ruby
6 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 220 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 141 (17.71%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.68%) Degree
4 79 (9.92%) DV Cleared
5 58 (7.29%) PMP
6 52 (6.53%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.13%) APMG
9 7 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
11 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.50%) APMP
12 4 (0.50%) CISSP
13 3 (0.38%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.38%) MAPM
13 3 (0.38%) MBA
13 3 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.64%) QA
3 26 (3.27%) P3O
4 15 (1.88%) GDPR
5 12 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.26%) SLA
7 9 (1.13%) NIST
8 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) MiFID
9 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ITGC
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.13%) Ansible
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 161 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 88 (11.06%) SAP
3 41 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 28 (3.52%) Oracle
5 20 (2.51%) Planview
6 16 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.26%) Adobe
7 10 (1.26%) Workday
8 8 (1.01%) Google
9 7 (0.88%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.63%) Dell
11 3 (0.38%) Cisco
11 3 (0.38%) Computacenter
11 3 (0.38%) Databricks
11 3 (0.38%) IFS
12 2 (0.25%) Ariba
13 1 (0.13%) Avaya
13 1 (0.13%) Informatica
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.13%) Sage
219 PMO jobs in England