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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 189 171
Rank change year-on-year +33 -18 -30
Contract jobs citing PMO 801 419 493
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.52% 1.48%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.99% 8.84% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 296 300
10th Percentile £300 £264 £300
25th Percentile £380 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £575
90th Percentile £724 £681 £675
UK median daily rate £496 £439 £450
% change year-on-year +12.93% -2.50% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 15
10th Percentile £20.63 £18.50 £26.68
25th Percentile £24.19 £21.00 £28.00
Median hourly rate £52.67 £37.02 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.26% +5.77% +6.06%
75th Percentile £67.89 £46.30 £61.28
90th Percentile £83.75 £51.25 £63.14
UK median hourly rate £52.67 £24.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +117.18% -30.71% +6.06%

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 8,020 4,741 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.54% 17.18% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,083 3,103 2,683
10th Percentile £331 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £611 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.07% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 551 227 253
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +22.80% -27.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £85.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +20.00% +24.07% -30.91%

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 27 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 27 August 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 27 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 +37 356 £525 +5.00% 199
South East +22 148 £525 +31.25% 81
North of England -28 104 £407 +9.26% 63
Midlands -36 92 £400 -5.88% 36
West Midlands -45 67 £375 -11.76% 22
North West -7 58 £388 +7.64% 31
South West -29 49 £456 -16.23% 47
Yorkshire -41 43 £450 +7.91% 27
East of England -4 33 £500 -13.79% 18
East Midlands +1 25 £475 +35.71% 14
North East -44 3 £388 +55.00% 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 77 (9.61%) SharePoint
2 53 (6.62%) Confluence
3 9 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.12%) CMS
5 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 186 (23.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (15.23%) Microsoft Project
3 103 (12.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (3.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.75%) Primavera
3 10 (1.25%) SAP CO
3 10 (1.25%) SAP FI
3 10 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 9 (1.12%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.87%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.50%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.50%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.37%) Changepoint
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (9.86%) Power Platform
2 51 (6.37%) Azure
3 32 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (3.00%) Smartsheet
5 20 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (1.87%) AWS
6 15 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
7 13 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (1.50%) SaaS
9 9 (1.12%) OCI
10 8 (1.00%) Google Workspace
11 7 (0.87%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.62%) Miro
12 5 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (0.50%) PaaS
13 4 (0.50%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (0.37%) Google Sheets
14 3 (0.37%) Serverless
14 3 (0.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.87%) WAN
2 3 (0.37%) Firewall
2 3 (0.37%) LAN
2 3 (0.37%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.25%) Intranet
3 2 (0.25%) Network Security
3 2 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.25%) TCAP
3 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.12%) Broadband
4 1 (0.12%) MPLS
4 1 (0.12%) PABX
4 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (9.49%) Power BI
2 10 (1.25%) Power Query
2 10 (1.25%) Tableau
3 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.37%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.12%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.12%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.12%) Metadata
5 1 (0.12%) QlikView
5 1 (0.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 126 (15.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) Hudson
3 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.12%) Git
3 1 (0.12%) Postman
3 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
General
1 334 (41.70%) Finance
2 312 (38.95%) Social Skills
3 174 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (14.48%) Organisational Skills
5 78 (9.74%) Public Sector
6 59 (7.37%) Banking
7 30 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (3.62%) Legal
9 24 (3.00%) Local Government
9 24 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.87%) Retail
11 17 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.62%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.62%) Marketing
14 10 (1.25%) Military
15 8 (1.00%) Aviation
16 7 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.75%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (19.98%) Analyst
2 117 (14.61%) Project Manager
3 115 (14.36%) PMO Analyst
4 108 (13.48%) Lead
5 77 (9.61%) PMO Manager
6 64 (7.99%) Senior
7 47 (5.87%) PMO Lead
8 35 (4.37%) Project Officer
9 30 (3.75%) Senior PMO
10 29 (3.62%) Coordinator
11 27 (3.37%) Support Officer
12 26 (3.25%) Programme Manager
13 25 (3.12%) Consultant
13 25 (3.12%) Project Coordinator
14 23 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (2.62%) Senior Manager
16 20 (2.50%) PMO Specialist
16 20 (2.50%) Project Support Officer
16 20 (2.50%) SAP Manager
17 19 (2.37%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (0.87%) ADO
3 6 (0.75%) Middleware
4 5 (0.62%) REST
5 4 (0.50%) SOAP
6 3 (0.37%) DAO
7 1 (0.12%) HTML
7 1 (0.12%) JSON
7 1 (0.12%) JWT
7 1 (0.12%) OAuth
7 1 (0.12%) Terraform
7 1 (0.12%) XML
7 1 (0.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.74%) Onboarding
2 22 (2.75%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.00%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (1.62%) Data Centre
4 13 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.50%) PMI
5 12 (1.50%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (0.75%) FMCG
8 6 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.62%) NHS
10 3 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.37%) Online Banking
10 3 (0.37%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.25%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.25%) SCADA
11 2 (0.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.12%) 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
1 311 (38.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 219 (27.34%) Agile
3 214 (26.72%) Project Management
4 205 (25.59%) Project Delivery
5 203 (25.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 181 (22.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 154 (19.23%) Decision-Making
8 125 (15.61%) PRINCE2
9 100 (12.48%) Programme Governance
10 91 (11.36%) Waterfall
11 89 (11.11%) Change Management
12 86 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
14 82 (10.24%) Programme Management
15 77 (9.61%) Programme Delivery
16 73 (9.11%) Portfolio Management
17 70 (8.74%) Migration
18 67 (8.36%) Change Control
19 64 (7.99%) Project Governance
19 64 (7.99%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (1.62%) SQL
2 9 (1.12%) VBA
3 6 (0.75%) Korn
4 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (0.50%) Python
5 1 (0.12%) COBOL
5 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.12%) RPG
Qualifications
1 224 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 142 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.49%) Degree
4 80 (9.99%) DV Cleared
5 56 (6.99%) PMP
6 50 (6.24%) PMI Certification
7 23 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.12%) APMG
9 8 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.62%) CTC Cleared
11 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.37%) APMP
12 3 (0.37%) CISSP
12 3 (0.37%) MAPM
12 3 (0.37%) MBA
12 3 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.25%) CISA
13 2 (0.25%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.50%) QA
3 26 (3.25%) P3O
4 13 (1.62%) GDPR
5 11 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.25%) SLA
7 7 (0.87%) NIST
8 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.37%) GRC
9 3 (0.37%) MiFID
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) ITGC
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.12%) Ansible
2 1 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 160 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 87 (10.86%) SAP
3 42 (5.24%) ServiceNow
4 27 (3.37%) Oracle
5 20 (2.50%) Planview
6 17 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.25%) Adobe
7 10 (1.25%) Workday
8 8 (1.00%) Google
9 7 (0.87%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.37%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.37%) Dell
10 3 (0.37%) IFS
11 2 (0.25%) Ariba
11 2 (0.25%) Cisco
11 2 (0.25%) Databricks
12 1 (0.12%) Informatica
12 1 (0.12%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.12%) Remedy
12 1 (0.12%) Sage