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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 188 154
Rank change year-on-year +38 -34 -21
Contract jobs citing PMO 801 418 526
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.51% 1.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.11% 8.85% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 294 332
10th Percentile £300 £268 £300
25th Percentile £380 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.42% -13.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £563
90th Percentile £724 £696 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 16
10th Percentile £20.94 £18.43 £26.68
25th Percentile £24.72 £19.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £52.83 £31.01 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year +70.37% -12.85% +1.66%
75th Percentile £67.89 £46.30 £62.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £46.80 £66.16
UK median hourly rate £52.83 £23.50 £35.58
% change year-on-year +124.82% -33.96% +4.65%

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 7,921 4,725 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 17.10% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,091 2,795
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 216 282
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.12 £10.96
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.22 £14.41
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.10% +11.80% -34.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.06 £62.19
90th Percentile £81.14 £85.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.77
% change year-on-year +46.25% +6.15% -34.64%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +36 355 £525 +5.00% 124
South East +22 146 £530 +28.48% 66
North of England -31 98 £408 +9.43% 30
Midlands -29 97 £398 -6.47% 32
West Midlands -42 73 £350 -20.00% 30
North West -9 58 £400 +11.73% 15
South West -30 55 £418 -24.09% 30
Yorkshire -46 36 £425 +1.19% 10
East of England -3 30 £510 -11.69% 14
East Midlands +7 24 £413 +20.61% 2
North East -43 4 £450 +80.00% 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 76 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 48 (5.99%) Confluence
3 8 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) CMS
Applications
1 193 (24.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (16.85%) Microsoft Project
3 94 (11.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.75%) Primavera
3 11 (1.37%) SAP CO
3 11 (1.37%) SAP FI
3 11 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 8 (1.00%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.87%) SAP EWM
6 6 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.50%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.37%) Changepoint
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 87 (10.86%) Power Platform
2 51 (6.37%) Azure
3 27 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (2.87%) Smartsheet
5 22 (2.75%) AWS
6 19 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.12%) OCI
9 9 (1.12%) SaaS
10 8 (1.00%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (0.87%) Amazon S3
11 7 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.87%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.87%) Serverless
11 7 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (0.62%) Miro
13 5 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.50%) Firewall
1 4 (0.50%) WAN
2 3 (0.37%) Network Security
2 3 (0.37%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.25%) LAN
3 2 (0.25%) TCAP
4 1 (0.12%) Broadband
4 1 (0.12%) Intranet
4 1 (0.12%) MPLS
4 1 (0.12%) PABX
4 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.12%) Wireless
4 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.49%) Power BI
2 15 (1.87%) Tableau
3 9 (1.12%) Power Query
4 7 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
5 5 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.25%) QlikView
7 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.12%) Metadata
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (15.86%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) Hudson
3 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.12%) Git
3 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.12%) Postman
3 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 340 (42.45%) Finance
2 311 (38.83%) Social Skills
3 180 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (13.98%) Organisational Skills
5 84 (10.49%) Public Sector
6 59 (7.37%) Banking
7 31 (3.87%) Legal
8 27 (3.37%) Retail
9 24 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.87%) Local Government
10 23 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.62%) Marketing
15 10 (1.25%) Military
16 7 (0.87%) Aviation
16 7 (0.87%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.75%) Billing
17 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 172 (21.47%) Analyst
2 125 (15.61%) Project Manager
3 115 (14.36%) Lead
3 115 (14.36%) PMO Analyst
4 67 (8.36%) Senior
5 64 (7.99%) PMO Manager
6 49 (6.12%) PMO Lead
7 39 (4.87%) Project Officer
8 29 (3.62%) Senior PMO
9 28 (3.50%) Support Officer
10 27 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
11 26 (3.25%) Coordinator
12 25 (3.12%) SAP Manager
13 22 (2.75%) Programme Manager
13 22 (2.75%) Project Coordinator
14 21 (2.62%) Project Support Officer
15 20 (2.50%) IT Manager
15 20 (2.50%) SAP Project Manager
16 19 (2.37%) Senior Manager
17 18 (2.25%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.75%) Middleware
2 6 (0.75%) REST
3 5 (0.62%) ADO
3 5 (0.62%) SOAP
4 1 (0.12%) HTML
4 1 (0.12%) JSON
4 1 (0.12%) JWT
4 1 (0.12%) OAuth
4 1 (0.12%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Web Services
4 1 (0.12%) XML
4 1 (0.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.24%) Onboarding
2 20 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.25%) Virtual Team
5 17 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 15 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.50%) PMI
9 9 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.75%) NHS
12 5 (0.62%) FMCG
13 3 (0.37%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.37%) Online Banking
13 3 (0.37%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.37%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.25%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.25%) Windows
2 1 (0.12%) Linux
2 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.12%) SUSE
2 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (35.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 218 (27.22%) Agile
3 216 (26.97%) Project Management
4 202 (25.22%) Project Delivery
5 185 (23.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 181 (22.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 161 (20.10%) Decision-Making
8 127 (15.86%) PRINCE2
9 91 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
10 86 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
10 86 (10.74%) Programme Governance
11 85 (10.61%) Change Management
12 81 (10.11%) Waterfall
13 73 (9.11%) Programme Management
14 72 (8.99%) Programme Delivery
15 71 (8.86%) Migration
16 67 (8.36%) Change Control
17 66 (8.24%) Risk Management
18 64 (7.99%) Portfolio Management
19 57 (7.12%) AI
Programming Languages
1 21 (2.62%) SQL
2 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (0.50%) Korn
3 4 (0.50%) Python
3 4 (0.50%) VBA
4 3 (0.37%) VB
5 2 (0.25%) Java
6 1 (0.12%) COBOL
6 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.12%) RPG
6 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 217 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 136 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.74%) Degree
4 79 (9.86%) DV Cleared
5 58 (7.24%) PMP
6 53 (6.62%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.12%) APMG
9 7 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.75%) CISSP
11 5 (0.62%) CISA
11 5 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.50%) APMP
13 3 (0.37%) MAPM
13 3 (0.37%) MBA
13 3 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.37%) RIBA
13 3 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.12%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.50%) QA
3 23 (2.87%) P3O
4 19 (2.37%) GDPR
5 14 (1.75%) SLA
6 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.37%) NIST
7 5 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.50%) MiFID
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.37%) GRC
9 3 (0.37%) ITGC
10 2 (0.25%) COBIT
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 31000
10 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.12%) Ansible
3 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.12%) Nmap
3 1 (0.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 154 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 90 (11.24%) SAP
3 37 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 27 (3.37%) Oracle
5 19 (2.37%) Planview
6 16 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.37%) Workday
8 9 (1.12%) Adobe
9 8 (1.00%) Google
10 6 (0.75%) Dell
11 4 (0.50%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.37%) Cisco
12 3 (0.37%) Computacenter
12 3 (0.37%) Databricks
12 3 (0.37%) IFS
13 2 (0.25%) CheckPoint
14 1 (0.12%) BT
14 1 (0.12%) IBM
14 1 (0.12%) NEC
14 1 (0.12%) Remedy