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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 202 140
Rank change year-on-year +47 -62 -5
Contract jobs citing PMO 711 334 608
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.40% 1.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.18% 8.70% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 220 402
10th Percentile £301 £263 £289
25th Percentile £375 £343 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -2.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £581
90th Percentile £652 £689 £686
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 18
10th Percentile £20.15 £18.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.13 £23.01
Median hourly rate £62.50 £39.04 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.09% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £83.75 £46.30 £52.50
90th Percentile - £51.25 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £37.02 £35.00
% change year-on-year +68.83% +5.77% -

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 6,982 3,841 5,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.72% 16.12% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,531 2,484 3,280
10th Percentile £345 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -3.71% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £509
% change year-on-year - -1.67% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 153 359
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.40 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.27 £13.09
Median hourly rate £33.98 £34.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +50.00% -41.65%
75th Percentile £67.25 £67.50 £46.88
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.74 £69.10
UK median hourly rate £36.04 £32.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year +10.88% +54.34% -39.84%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +47 307 £500 +6.95% 52
South East +18 139 £510 +25.54% 36
North of England -23 102 £400 -7.25% 19
Midlands -20 89 £338 -32.50% 33
West Midlands -33 68 £322 -35.60% 23
North West -6 52 £372 -26.44% 7
Yorkshire -36 45 £444 +20.00% 9
South West -26 31 £410 -18.00% 8
East Midlands -10 22 £376 -20.79% 10
East of England -21 18 £510 -12.07% 8
North East -29 5 £450 +80.00% 3
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 78 (10.97%) SharePoint
2 46 (6.47%) Confluence
3 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.42%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.14%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 182 (25.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (18.00%) Microsoft Project
3 93 (13.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 73 (10.27%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (2.25%) MS Visio
6 8 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 40 (5.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.69%) Primavera
3 10 (1.41%) SAP CO
3 10 (1.41%) SAP FI
3 10 (1.41%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.84%) SAP EWM
5 5 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.42%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.28%) CA PPM
8 2 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 88 (12.38%) Power Platform
2 45 (6.33%) Azure
3 25 (3.52%) AWS
4 18 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (2.25%) Smartsheet
6 9 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (0.98%) Amazon S3
7 7 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (0.98%) Serverless
7 7 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (0.70%) SaaS
10 4 (0.56%) GCP
10 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (0.56%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.42%) OCI
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.69%) Firewall
2 8 (1.13%) Wireless
3 4 (0.56%) Network Security
3 4 (0.56%) WAN
4 3 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.28%) Broadband
5 2 (0.28%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) Intranet
6 1 (0.14%) MPLS
6 1 (0.14%) PABX
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.14%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (12.24%) Power BI
2 14 (1.97%) Tableau
3 10 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (1.13%) Power Query
5 7 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.56%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.28%) QlikView
7 2 (0.28%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.14%) Metadata
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 116 (16.32%) JIRA
2 8 (1.13%) Burp Suite
2 8 (1.13%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.28%) Hudson
4 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.14%) Git
4 1 (0.14%) LSMW
4 1 (0.14%) Postman
4 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
General
1 292 (41.07%) Finance
2 273 (38.40%) Social Skills
3 143 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.95%) Organisational Skills
5 68 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 53 (7.45%) Banking
7 32 (4.50%) Retail
8 30 (4.22%) Legal
9 23 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 15 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.83%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.55%) Marketing
16 9 (1.27%) Military
17 7 (0.98%) Local Government
18 6 (0.84%) Front Office
19 5 (0.70%) Billing
20 4 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 166 (23.35%) Analyst
2 126 (17.72%) Project Manager
3 116 (16.32%) PMO Analyst
4 92 (12.94%) Lead
5 62 (8.72%) PMO Manager
6 51 (7.17%) Senior
7 42 (5.91%) PMO Lead
8 31 (4.36%) SAP Manager
9 25 (3.52%) SAP Project Manager
10 24 (3.38%) Coordinator
11 22 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
12 21 (2.95%) Project Officer
12 21 (2.95%) Support Officer
13 20 (2.81%) Change Manager
14 19 (2.67%) IT Manager
14 19 (2.67%) Senior Manager
15 18 (2.53%) PMO Project Manager
15 18 (2.53%) Programme Manager
15 18 (2.53%) Senior PMO
16 17 (2.39%) PMO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.13%) ADO
3 3 (0.42%) REST
4 2 (0.28%) Middleware
4 2 (0.28%) SOAP
4 2 (0.28%) Web Services
5 1 (0.14%) JDO
5 1 (0.14%) JSON
5 1 (0.14%) JWT
5 1 (0.14%) Kafka
5 1 (0.14%) OAuth
5 1 (0.14%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.14%) XML
5 1 (0.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.05%) Onboarding
2 19 (2.67%) Data Centre
3 16 (2.25%) Virtual Team
4 14 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (1.97%) Management Information System
4 14 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.69%) PMI
6 11 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.84%) NHS
11 5 (0.70%) FMCG
11 5 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.56%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.56%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.42%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.42%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.42%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.28%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.55%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.14%) pSOS
2 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.14%) SUSE
2 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (31.65%) Project Management
2 218 (30.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 184 (25.88%) Agile
4 178 (25.04%) Project Delivery
5 138 (19.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 135 (18.99%) Decision-Making
7 132 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 116 (16.32%) PRINCE2
9 91 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
10 82 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
11 79 (11.11%) Waterfall
12 77 (10.83%) Risk Management
13 71 (9.99%) Change Management
14 65 (9.14%) Change Control
15 64 (9.00%) Programme Management
16 58 (8.16%) Portfolio Management
16 58 (8.16%) Programme Governance
17 55 (7.74%) Project Governance
18 50 (7.03%) Migration
18 50 (7.03%) Programme Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (3.38%) SQL
2 7 (0.98%) VBA
3 5 (0.70%) Python
4 4 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (0.56%) Korn
4 4 (0.56%) VB
5 3 (0.42%) Java
6 1 (0.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 152 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 106 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 101 (14.21%) Degree
4 62 (8.72%) PMP
5 57 (8.02%) PMI Certification
6 43 (6.05%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.27%) Postgraduate
9 8 (1.13%) APMP
9 8 (1.13%) CHECK Team Member
9 8 (1.13%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.13%) Cyber Scheme
10 7 (0.98%) APMG
10 7 (0.98%) CISSP
11 5 (0.70%) CISA
11 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.42%) MAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.77%) QA
2 32 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 24 (3.38%) GDPR
4 14 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.83%) SLA
6 12 (1.69%) P3O
6 12 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.27%) NIST
8 6 (0.84%) GRC
8 6 (0.84%) MiFID
9 5 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.42%) ITGC
10 3 (0.42%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.28%) COBIT
11 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (1.13%) Nmap
2 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.28%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 96 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 89 (12.52%) SAP
3 26 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 24 (3.38%) Oracle
5 16 (2.25%) Planview
6 9 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.13%) Dell
7 8 (1.13%) Workday
8 7 (0.98%) Cisco
9 5 (0.70%) Adobe
9 5 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.70%) Databricks
10 4 (0.56%) IFS
11 3 (0.42%) Ariba
11 3 (0.42%) BT
11 3 (0.42%) Computacenter
12 2 (0.28%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.28%) Concur
12 2 (0.28%) Remedy
13 1 (0.14%) Extreme Networks