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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 192 156
Rank change year-on-year +37 -36 -22
Contract jobs citing PMO 746 360 587
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.43% 1.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.09% 8.72% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 239 384
10th Percentile £300 £267 £286
25th Percentile £375 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -0.53% -8.65%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £715 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £456 £473
% change year-on-year +4.11% -3.44% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 22
10th Percentile £20.31 £18.43 £14.14
25th Percentile £23.66 £21.82 £25.42
Median hourly rate £59.75 £38.03 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.11% +35.82% -20.00%
75th Percentile £79.79 £46.30 £51.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £46.80 £62.42
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £31.76 £28.00
% change year-on-year +88.13% +13.43% -17.04%

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 7,391 4,128 5,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.02% 16.44% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,780 2,662 3,178
10th Percentile £349 £268 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 174 379
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.99
25th Percentile £19.33 £22.06 £13.09
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +35.42% -39.26%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £84.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £23.80
% change year-on-year +14.00% +32.94% -34.79%

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 25 June 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 25 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PMO in England

PMO
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 25 June 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 +31 313 £500 +1.01% 50
South East +15 145 £550 +22.22% 38
North of England -15 111 £408 +10.17% 21
Midlands -21 93 £350 -17.65% 15
West Midlands -30 72 £350 -25.13% 15
North West +4 62 £385 -23.76% 9
Yorkshire -34 44 £438 +18.38% 11
South West -44 35 £410 -26.98% 11
East of England -13 24 £510 -12.07% 10
East Midlands -4 21 £413 +37.50%
North East -37 5 £450 +80.00% 1
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 75 (10.05%) SharePoint
2 47 (6.30%) Confluence
3 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.27%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 176 (23.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (15.95%) Microsoft Project
3 85 (11.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 58 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 8 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (5.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.01%) Primavera
3 12 (1.61%) SAP CO
3 12 (1.61%) SAP FI
3 12 (1.61%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.80%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.54%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.40%) CA PPM
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.40%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 94 (12.60%) Power Platform
2 37 (4.96%) Azure
3 25 (3.35%) AWS
4 19 (2.55%) Smartsheet
5 16 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (0.94%) Amazon S3
7 7 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (0.94%) Serverless
7 7 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
10 4 (0.54%) GCP
10 4 (0.54%) SaaS
11 3 (0.40%) OCI
11 3 (0.40%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.07%) Firewall
2 5 (0.67%) Wireless
3 4 (0.54%) Network Security
3 4 (0.54%) WAN
4 3 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.27%) Broadband
5 2 (0.27%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) MPLS
6 1 (0.13%) PABX
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.47%) Power BI
2 14 (1.88%) Tableau
3 7 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.94%) Power Query
4 6 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.54%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.27%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.27%) QlikView
6 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Metadata
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (14.88%) JIRA
2 5 (0.67%) Burp Suite
2 5 (0.67%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.27%) Hudson
4 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.13%) Git
4 1 (0.13%) Postman
4 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 308 (41.29%) Finance
2 277 (37.13%) Social Skills
3 150 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (12.47%) Organisational Skills
5 79 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 55 (7.37%) Banking
7 36 (4.83%) Legal
8 31 (4.16%) Retail
9 23 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 23 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (2.28%) Local Government
13 14 (1.88%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.34%) Marketing
14 10 (1.34%) Military
15 6 (0.80%) Billing
16 5 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 172 (23.06%) Analyst
2 126 (16.89%) Project Manager
3 120 (16.09%) PMO Analyst
4 107 (14.34%) Lead
5 60 (8.04%) PMO Manager
6 50 (6.70%) Senior
7 47 (6.30%) PMO Lead
8 31 (4.16%) SAP Manager
9 30 (4.02%) Project Officer
10 25 (3.35%) SAP Project Manager
10 25 (3.35%) Support Officer
11 24 (3.22%) Coordinator
12 21 (2.82%) Change Manager
13 20 (2.68%) Programme Manager
13 20 (2.68%) Project Support Officer
13 20 (2.68%) Senior Manager
14 19 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (2.41%) Transformation Manager
16 17 (2.28%) IT Manager
16 17 (2.28%) PMO Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (0.67%) ADO
3 4 (0.54%) REST
4 3 (0.40%) Middleware
4 3 (0.40%) SOAP
5 1 (0.13%) JDO
5 1 (0.13%) JSON
5 1 (0.13%) JWT
5 1 (0.13%) Kafka
5 1 (0.13%) OAuth
5 1 (0.13%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Web Services
5 1 (0.13%) XML
5 1 (0.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.10%) Onboarding
2 20 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 18 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 12 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.34%) PMI
8 9 (1.21%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.94%) NHS
11 6 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.80%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.67%) FMCG
13 4 (0.54%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.40%) Online Banking
14 3 (0.40%) Operational Technology
14 3 (0.40%) Private Cloud
15 2 (0.27%) Life Science
15 2 (0.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.13%) pSOS
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
1 244 (32.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 216 (28.95%) Project Management
3 191 (25.60%) Agile
4 183 (24.53%) Project Delivery
5 160 (21.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 148 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 148 (19.84%) Decision-Making
7 106 (14.21%) PRINCE2
8 99 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
9 80 (10.72%) Change Management
10 78 (10.46%) Waterfall
11 74 (9.92%) Risk Management
12 73 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
13 69 (9.25%) Programme Governance
14 66 (8.85%) Programme Management
15 63 (8.45%) Portfolio Management
16 61 (8.18%) Change Control
16 61 (8.18%) Programme Delivery
17 60 (8.04%) Migration
18 52 (6.97%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.95%) SQL
2 8 (1.07%) VBA
3 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (0.67%) Python
4 4 (0.54%) Korn
4 4 (0.54%) VB
5 3 (0.40%) 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
Qualifications
1 173 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 96 (12.87%) Degree
4 59 (7.91%) PMP
5 53 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 53 (7.10%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.21%) APMG
8 7 (0.94%) CISSP
8 7 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.80%) APMP
9 6 (0.80%) Postgraduate
9 6 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (0.67%) CHECK Team Member
10 5 (0.67%) CISA
10 5 (0.67%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.67%) Cyber Scheme
11 4 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.29%) QA
3 22 (2.95%) GDPR
4 15 (2.01%) SLA
5 13 (1.74%) P3O
6 12 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.34%) NIST
8 9 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.80%) GRC
10 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.54%) MiFID
12 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.40%) ITGC
12 3 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.27%) COBIT
13 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.27%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (0.67%) Nmap
3 2 (0.27%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 108 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 91 (12.20%) SAP
3 28 (3.75%) ServiceNow
4 20 (2.68%) Oracle
5 14 (1.88%) Planview
6 9 (1.21%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.07%) Dell
7 8 (1.07%) Workday
8 6 (0.80%) Cisco
9 5 (0.67%) Adobe
9 5 (0.67%) Databricks
10 4 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.54%) IFS
11 3 (0.40%) Computacenter
11 3 (0.40%) Google
12 2 (0.27%) Ariba
12 2 (0.27%) BT
13 1 (0.13%) CheckPoint
13 1 (0.13%) Informatica
13 1 (0.13%) Red Hat