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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 178 142
Rank change year-on-year +9 -36 -13
Contract jobs citing PMO 617 351 618
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.44% 1.64%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.47% 9.36% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 237 423
10th Percentile £288 £304 £305
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £586
90th Percentile £689 £651 £710
UK median daily rate £481 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +3.49% -2.11% -3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 18
10th Percentile £15.60 £27.32 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.75 £31.37 £23.01
Median hourly rate £33.12 £42.67 £31.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +34.82% -27.84%
75th Percentile £69.36 £47.54 £61.50
90th Percentile £88.20 £63.38 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £46.30 £31.65
% change year-on-year -28.47% +46.29% -19.73%

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 6,513 3,750 5,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 15.42% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,220 2,419 3,426
10th Percentile £341 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £629 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 162 335
10th Percentile £15.34 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.41
Median hourly rate £27.25 £32.25 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% +37.23% -44.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £28.80 £31.76 £22.01
% change year-on-year -9.34% +44.30% -44.98%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +27 254 £508 +12.78% 60
South East +31 155 £500 +10.99% 34
Midlands -41 79 £350 -27.16% 28
North of England -47 72 £438 -5.81% 33
West Midlands -38 64 £350 -30.00% 22
Yorkshire -43 39 £438 +0.11% 11
North West -31 30 £390 -22.77% 18
South West -34 24 £410 -18.00% 16
East of England -24 17 £493 -15.09% 8
East Midlands -27 16 £353 -14.79% 6
North East -16 3 £450 -3.23% 4
PMO
UK

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 82 (13.29%) SharePoint
2 40 (6.48%) Confluence
3 3 (0.49%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 192 (31.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 137 (22.20%) Microsoft Project
3 96 (15.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 93 (15.07%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (2.76%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (4.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.59%) Primavera
3 7 (1.13%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
4 5 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.32%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.32%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.16%) Actimize
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 95 (15.40%) Power Platform
2 47 (7.62%) Azure
3 27 (4.38%) AWS
4 17 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (1.46%) Smartsheet
7 8 (1.30%) OCI
8 7 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.13%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.13%) Serverless
8 7 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (0.81%) OpenShift
10 5 (0.81%) SaaS
11 4 (0.65%) GCP
11 4 (0.65%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.49%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.11%) Firewall
2 11 (1.78%) Wireless
3 6 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (0.81%) Network Security
5 4 (0.65%) LAN
5 4 (0.65%) WAN
6 1 (0.16%) Broadband
6 1 (0.16%) Internet
6 1 (0.16%) Intranet
6 1 (0.16%) PABX
6 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (14.91%) Power BI
2 14 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (2.11%) Tableau
4 11 (1.78%) Power Query
5 7 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.97%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.32%) Metadata
7 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.16%) QlikView
8 1 (0.16%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 117 (18.96%) JIRA
2 10 (1.62%) Burp Suite
2 10 (1.62%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.16%) Git
3 1 (0.16%) Hudson
3 1 (0.16%) LSMW
3 1 (0.16%) Postman
3 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
General
1 309 (50.08%) Finance
2 269 (43.60%) Social Skills
3 133 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (12.32%) Organisational Skills
5 65 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.81%) Banking
7 28 (4.54%) Retail
8 26 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (4.21%) Legal
9 24 (3.89%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.92%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.78%) Marketing
13 10 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.13%) Military
15 6 (0.97%) Electronics
15 6 (0.97%) Local Government
16 5 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 136 (22.04%) Analyst
2 117 (18.96%) Project Manager
3 100 (16.21%) PMO Analyst
4 83 (13.45%) Lead
5 49 (7.94%) PMO Lead
6 43 (6.97%) PMO Manager
7 39 (6.32%) Senior
8 27 (4.38%) Coordinator
9 22 (3.57%) IT Manager
9 22 (3.57%) Programme Manager
10 21 (3.40%) SAP Manager
11 20 (3.24%) Project Planner
12 18 (2.92%) Change Manager
12 18 (2.92%) IT Project Manager
12 18 (2.92%) SAP Project Manager
13 16 (2.59%) Consultant
14 15 (2.43%) Project Coordinator
14 15 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (2.43%) Senior Manager
15 14 (2.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.13%) ADO
3 3 (0.49%) REST
4 2 (0.32%) Middleware
4 2 (0.32%) SOAP
4 2 (0.32%) Web Services
5 1 (0.16%) FHIR
5 1 (0.16%) JDO
5 1 (0.16%) JSON
5 1 (0.16%) JWT
5 1 (0.16%) Kafka
5 1 (0.16%) OAuth
5 1 (0.16%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.16%) XML
5 1 (0.16%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 23 (3.73%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.24%) PMI
3 20 (3.24%) Virtual Team
4 15 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.78%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.46%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.13%) NHS
11 6 (0.97%) FMCG
12 5 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.81%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.49%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.49%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.32%) AI Agents
14 2 (0.32%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.11%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (35.49%) Project Management
2 183 (29.66%) Agile
3 170 (27.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 161 (26.09%) Project Delivery
5 116 (18.80%) Decision-Making
5 116 (18.80%) PRINCE2
6 114 (18.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 101 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 99 (16.05%) Business Intelligence
9 88 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (13.61%) Risk Management
11 74 (11.99%) Change Management
11 74 (11.99%) Waterfall
12 66 (10.70%) Project Governance
13 60 (9.72%) Portfolio Management
14 58 (9.40%) Change Control
15 53 (8.59%) Programme Management
16 50 (8.10%) ERP
17 43 (6.97%) Migration
17 43 (6.97%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (4.54%) SQL
2 9 (1.46%) VBA
3 8 (1.30%) Python
4 5 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.65%) VB
6 3 (0.49%) Java
6 3 (0.49%) Korn
7 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 116 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 97 (15.72%) Degree
3 78 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 67 (10.86%) PMI Certification
5 61 (9.89%) PMP
6 37 (6.00%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.94%) APMP
8 11 (1.78%) Postgraduate
9 10 (1.62%) CHECK Team Member
9 10 (1.62%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.62%) Cyber Scheme
10 9 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.97%) APMG
11 6 (0.97%) CISSP
11 6 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.81%) CISA
13 4 (0.65%) MAPM
13 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.65%) QA
2 23 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.73%) GDPR
3 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.43%) SLA
5 14 (2.27%) P3O
5 14 (2.27%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.62%) NIST
7 6 (0.97%) GRC
8 5 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.49%) MiFID
10 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.32%) COBIT
11 2 (0.32%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 4 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (1.62%) Nmap
2 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.32%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 110 (17.83%) Microsoft
2 65 (10.53%) SAP
3 35 (5.67%) Oracle
4 23 (3.73%) Planview
5 21 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.27%) Cisco
7 11 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.30%) Dell
9 6 (0.97%) Workday
10 5 (0.81%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.81%) Databricks
11 4 (0.65%) BT
11 4 (0.65%) IFS
12 3 (0.49%) Ariba
12 3 (0.49%) Arista
12 3 (0.49%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.49%) GoldenSource
13 2 (0.32%) Concur
13 2 (0.32%) Juniper
14 1 (0.16%) Extreme Networks