PMO Contracts in England

Project Management Office (PMO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 136 129
Rank change year-on-year -46 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing PMO 361 632 1,037
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.48% 1.70% 2.06%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.34% 11.94% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 411 740
10th Percentile £300 £306 £275
25th Percentile £363 £397 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £800
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 20
10th Percentile £18.50 £13.50 £22.45
25th Percentile £29.38 £21.13 £29.69
Median hourly rate £39.04 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -21.35%
75th Percentile £46.30 £52.50 £65.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £65.33 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £39.02 £35.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year +11.49% +3.70% -24.16%

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 3,865 5,295 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 14.24% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,481 3,378 4,585
10th Percentile £270 £300 £276
25th Percentile £400 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £635 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 347 206
10th Percentile £17.78 £10.95 £13.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £13.09 £19.50
Median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.11 £67.38 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PMO in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PMO in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PMO in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
London -42 162 £463 -7.50% 145
South East +6 55 £451 +8.55% 83
North of England 0 50 £464 -7.25% 49
Midlands +17 49 £500 - 21
West Midlands +19 41 £500 +11.11% 14
South West -17 30 £500 - 13
Yorkshire +6 24 £438 - 25
North West +8 22 £505 +1.00% 22
East of England +16 8 £580 +28.89% 14
East Midlands +3 8 £414 -30.42% 5
North East -12 4 £250 -50.00% 3
PMO
UK

PMO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 40 (11.08%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.99%) Confluence
3 2 (0.55%) CMS
3 2 (0.55%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 60 (16.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (13.85%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (13.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 47 (13.02%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (3.88%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 10 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.55%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.28%) Endur
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.28%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (6.93%) Power Platform
2 23 (6.37%) Azure
3 8 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (1.94%) SaaS
4 7 (1.94%) Smartsheet
5 4 (1.11%) IaaS
5 4 (1.11%) Snowflake
6 3 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (0.83%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.83%) Google Workspace
6 3 (0.83%) PaaS
6 3 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.55%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.28%) Asana
8 1 (0.28%) AWS
8 1 (0.28%) Datadog
8 1 (0.28%) GCP
8 1 (0.28%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) Wireless
2 1 (0.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.28%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.93%) Power BI
2 6 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.39%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.83%) IDMS
6 2 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.28%) Looker
7 1 (0.28%) Power Query
7 1 (0.28%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (11.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
2 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 178 (49.31%) Finance
2 156 (43.21%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.19%) Banking
4 40 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.86%) Presentation Skills
6 30 (8.31%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.99%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.43%) Retail
9 11 (3.05%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.05%) Marketing
10 10 (2.77%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.77%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.49%) Law
12 8 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.94%) Local Government
14 6 (1.66%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.66%) Front Office
14 6 (1.66%) Legal
14 6 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (21.05%) Analyst
2 67 (18.56%) Project Manager
3 65 (18.01%) PMO Analyst
4 48 (13.30%) PMO Manager
5 47 (13.02%) Lead
6 29 (8.03%) PMO Lead
7 25 (6.93%) Senior
8 18 (4.99%) Programme Manager
9 13 (3.60%) Coordinator
9 13 (3.60%) Senior PMO
10 11 (3.05%) Business Manager
10 11 (3.05%) IT Manager
11 10 (2.77%) Administrator
11 10 (2.77%) Project Coordinator
12 9 (2.49%) IT Project Manager
12 9 (2.49%) Junior
12 9 (2.49%) PMO Project Manager
13 8 (2.22%) Infrastructure Manager
13 8 (2.22%) PMO Specialist
13 8 (2.22%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.66%) ADO
2 3 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.55%) LDAP
3 2 (0.55%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.09%) Onboarding
2 18 (4.99%) PMI
3 10 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.39%) NHS
6 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.11%) IoT
7 4 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.83%) Life Science
8 3 (0.83%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.55%) Equities
9 2 (0.55%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.55%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.55%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.28%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (42.11%) Project Management
2 117 (32.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (24.65%) Agile
4 57 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 55 (15.24%) PRINCE2
6 54 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (13.57%) Change Management
8 48 (13.30%) Programme Management
9 41 (11.36%) Project Governance
9 41 (11.36%) Risk Management
10 38 (10.53%) Change Control
11 37 (10.25%) Decision-Making
12 32 (8.86%) Budget Management
13 30 (8.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (7.76%) Resource Management
16 26 (7.20%) Waterfall
17 22 (6.09%) Portfolio Management
17 22 (6.09%) Project Planning
18 21 (5.82%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.11%) VB
2 2 (0.55%) SQL
3 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (13.02%) Degree
2 45 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 41 (11.36%) PMI Certification
4 33 (9.14%) SC Cleared
5 28 (7.76%) PMP
6 10 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.39%) APMP
9 4 (1.11%) FFIEC
10 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) ISEB
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.16%) QA
2 9 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.22%) GDPR
4 6 (1.66%) P3O
5 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.83%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.55%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) Basel III
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) ITGC
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) PMBOK
System Software
1 7 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.03%) SAP
3 11 (3.05%) Oracle
4 8 (2.22%) Planview
5 6 (1.66%) Google
5 6 (1.66%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.11%) Ariba
6 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.55%) Adobe
7 2 (0.55%) Anaplan
7 2 (0.55%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.55%) Workday
8 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.28%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.28%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.28%) Dell
8 1 (0.28%) NEC
8 1 (0.28%) Progress
8 1 (0.28%) Snow
8 1 (0.28%) VMware