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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 188 143
Rank change year-on-year +25 -45 -10
Contract jobs citing PMO 614 350 627
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.43% 1.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.48% 9.32% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 236 433
10th Percentile £288 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £362 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £543 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £712
UK median daily rate £488 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +5.41% -2.63% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 18
10th Percentile £15.60 £27.32 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.89 £31.37 £23.01
Median hourly rate £30.31 £42.67 £31.65
Median % change year-on-year -28.97% +34.82% -37.94%
75th Percentile £67.96 £47.54 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.98 £63.38 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £30.31 £46.30 £31.65
% change year-on-year -34.54% +46.29% -27.84%

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 6,477 3,757 5,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.44% 15.37% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,195 2,402 3,455
10th Percentile £340 £263 £304
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 162 337
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.15 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.40 £22.14 £13.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% +34.38% -42.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.40 £67.70
UK median hourly rate £28.28 £31.76 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.97% +38.09% -39.47%

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 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 20 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 20 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 +29 253 £513 +13.89% 63
South East +34 157 £500 +10.99% 44
Midlands -38 77 £350 -26.47% 33
North of England -54 68 £438 -5.81% 40
West Midlands -40 63 £350 -30.00% 24
Yorkshire -42 39 £438 +0.11% 13
North West -32 27 £400 -20.79% 22
South West -32 26 £410 -16.96% 16
East of England -17 17 £493 -15.09% 16
East Midlands -32 15 £313 -24.40% 9
North East -14 2 £450 -3.23% 5
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 83 (13.52%) SharePoint
2 42 (6.84%) Confluence
3 3 (0.49%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 190 (30.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 136 (22.15%) Microsoft Project
3 96 (15.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (14.98%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (2.77%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.61%) Primavera
3 7 (1.14%) 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 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.33%) 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 (15.47%) Power Platform
2 46 (7.49%) Azure
3 26 (4.23%) AWS
4 16 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (1.47%) OCI
6 7 (1.14%) Smartsheet
7 6 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (0.98%) Amazon S3
7 6 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (0.98%) Serverless
7 6 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (0.81%) OpenShift
8 5 (0.81%) SaaS
9 4 (0.65%) GCP
9 4 (0.65%) WhatsApp
10 3 (0.49%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.12%) Firewall
2 11 (1.79%) Wireless
3 6 (0.98%) 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 (14.98%) Power BI
2 14 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (2.12%) Tableau
4 10 (1.63%) Power Query
5 6 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.81%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.33%) Metadata
7 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.33%) 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
1 120 (19.54%) JIRA
2 10 (1.63%) Burp Suite
2 10 (1.63%) 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
1 305 (49.67%) Finance
2 269 (43.81%) Social Skills
3 129 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (12.21%) Organisational Skills
5 66 (10.75%) Public Sector
6 39 (6.35%) Banking
7 28 (4.56%) Retail
8 25 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (4.07%) Legal
9 24 (3.91%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.79%) Marketing
14 10 (1.63%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.14%) Military
16 6 (0.98%) Electronics
16 6 (0.98%) Local Government
17 5 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 134 (21.82%) Analyst
2 115 (18.73%) Project Manager
3 100 (16.29%) PMO Analyst
4 88 (14.33%) Lead
5 53 (8.63%) PMO Lead
6 43 (7.00%) PMO Manager
7 38 (6.19%) Senior
8 27 (4.40%) Coordinator
9 23 (3.75%) Programme Manager
10 22 (3.58%) IT Manager
11 20 (3.26%) Project Planner
11 20 (3.26%) SAP Manager
12 18 (2.93%) IT Project Manager
12 18 (2.93%) SAP Project Manager
13 16 (2.61%) Change Manager
13 16 (2.61%) Consultant
14 15 (2.44%) Project Coordinator
15 14 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.28%) Senior Manager
16 13 (2.12%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.14%) ADO
3 3 (0.49%) REST
4 2 (0.33%) Middleware
4 2 (0.33%) SOAP
4 2 (0.33%) 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 (6.03%) Onboarding
2 23 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.26%) PMI
3 20 (3.26%) Virtual Team
4 14 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 11 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 10 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.47%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.14%) NHS
10 5 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.81%) FMCG
10 5 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.81%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.49%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.49%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 2 (0.33%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.33%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.12%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (35.99%) Project Management
2 179 (29.15%) Agile
3 168 (27.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 158 (25.73%) Project Delivery
5 121 (19.71%) PRINCE2
6 115 (18.73%) Decision-Making
7 111 (18.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 99 (16.12%) Business Intelligence
9 98 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 85 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
11 83 (13.52%) Risk Management
12 72 (11.73%) Waterfall
13 68 (11.07%) Change Management
14 65 (10.59%) Project Governance
15 60 (9.77%) Portfolio Management
16 58 (9.45%) Change Control
17 53 (8.63%) Programme Management
18 50 (8.14%) ERP
19 43 (7.00%) Time Management
20 42 (6.84%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 26 (4.23%) SQL
2 8 (1.30%) Python
2 8 (1.30%) VBA
3 5 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (0.65%) VB
5 3 (0.49%) Java
5 3 (0.49%) Korn
6 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 119 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 99 (16.12%) Degree
3 81 (13.19%) SC Cleared
4 69 (11.24%) PMI Certification
5 63 (10.26%) PMP
6 36 (5.86%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.95%) APMP
8 11 (1.79%) Postgraduate
9 10 (1.63%) CHECK Team Member
9 10 (1.63%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.63%) Cyber Scheme
10 9 (1.47%) CISSP
11 8 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.81%) APMG
14 4 (0.65%) CISA
14 4 (0.65%) CISM
14 4 (0.65%) MAPM
14 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.49%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.51%) QA
2 23 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.58%) GDPR
4 20 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.44%) SLA
6 14 (2.28%) P3O
6 14 (2.28%) PCI DSS
7 13 (2.12%) NIST
8 6 (0.98%) GRC
9 4 (0.65%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.49%) MiFID
10 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.33%) COBIT
11 2 (0.33%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 4 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (1.63%) Nmap
2 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.33%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 109 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 66 (10.75%) SAP
3 36 (5.86%) Oracle
4 22 (3.58%) Planview
5 19 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.28%) Cisco
7 12 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.14%) Dell
9 5 (0.81%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.81%) Databricks
9 5 (0.81%) Workday
10 4 (0.65%) IFS
11 3 (0.49%) Ariba
11 3 (0.49%) Arista
11 3 (0.49%) BT
11 3 (0.49%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.49%) GoldenSource
12 2 (0.33%) Concur
12 2 (0.33%) Juniper
13 1 (0.16%) Extreme Networks