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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 195 152
Rank change year-on-year +40 -43 -17
Contract jobs citing PMO 774 392 587
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.44% 1.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.06% 8.64% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 267 377
10th Percentile £300 £267 £294
25th Percentile £380 £350 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -2.11% -8.65%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £704 £693 £654
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 22
10th Percentile £20.94 £18.50 £13.90
25th Percentile £24.72 £21.00 £23.43
Median hourly rate £55.25 £37.02 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.24% +32.21% -20.00%
75th Percentile £71.86 £46.30 £57.19
90th Percentile £83.75 - £63.36
UK median hourly rate £55.25 £27.63 £28.00
% change year-on-year +99.96% -1.32% -15.15%

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 7,694 4,535 4,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.19% 16.68% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,939 2,937 3,094
10th Percentile £349 £271 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 517 212 367
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.12 £11.07
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £13.51
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.14% +27.52% -41.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £53.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £85.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +29.07% +24.07% -38.66%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +35 335 £505 +1.51% 55
South East +13 137 £525 +16.67% 49
North of England -29 105 £404 +9.14% 18
Midlands -23 100 £400 -5.88% 24
West Midlands -31 77 £350 -17.65% 17
North West -6 60 £395 +9.72% 13
South West -25 42 £410 -31.67% 13
Yorkshire -41 40 £416 -0.16% 4
East of England -6 27 £510 -12.07% 11
East Midlands +4 23 £444 +47.92% 6
North East -40 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 74 (9.56%) SharePoint
2 47 (6.07%) Confluence
3 6 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.13%) CMS
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.13%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 175 (22.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (16.54%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (10.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.03%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (5.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.55%) Primavera
2 12 (1.55%) SAP CO
2 12 (1.55%) SAP FI
2 12 (1.55%) SAP FI/CO
3 7 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.90%) SAP EWM
4 6 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.52%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.39%) Changepoint
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 86 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 44 (5.68%) Azure
3 23 (2.97%) Smartsheet
4 22 (2.84%) AWS
5 21 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (1.16%) OCI
9 8 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (0.90%) Amazon S3
10 7 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (0.90%) SaaS
10 7 (0.90%) Serverless
10 7 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (0.78%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.78%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.65%) GCP
12 5 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Firewall
1 4 (0.52%) WAN
2 3 (0.39%) Network Security
2 3 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.26%) Broadband
3 2 (0.26%) LAN
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) MPLS
4 1 (0.13%) PABX
4 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.13%) Wireless
4 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (10.98%) Power BI
2 15 (1.94%) Tableau
3 8 (1.03%) Power Query
4 7 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.26%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.26%) QlikView
6 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.26%) 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
1 117 (15.12%) JIRA
2 2 (0.26%) Hudson
3 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Git
3 1 (0.13%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.13%) Postman
3 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 321 (41.47%) Finance
2 285 (36.82%) Social Skills
3 162 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (13.05%) Organisational Skills
5 81 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 54 (6.98%) Banking
7 35 (4.52%) Legal
8 29 (3.75%) Retail
9 24 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 23 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (2.45%) Local Government
12 11 (1.42%) Marketing
12 11 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.29%) Military
14 8 (1.03%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.90%) Aviation
15 7 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 171 (22.09%) Analyst
2 130 (16.80%) Project Manager
3 115 (14.86%) PMO Analyst
4 105 (13.57%) Lead
5 66 (8.53%) PMO Manager
6 62 (8.01%) Senior
7 46 (5.94%) PMO Lead
8 36 (4.65%) Project Officer
9 30 (3.88%) SAP Manager
10 26 (3.36%) Coordinator
10 26 (3.36%) Senior PMO
10 26 (3.36%) Support Officer
11 24 (3.10%) SAP Project Manager
11 24 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (2.84%) Transformation Manager
13 21 (2.71%) Programme Manager
13 21 (2.71%) Project Coordinator
13 21 (2.71%) Senior Manager
14 20 (2.58%) Project Support Officer
15 19 (2.45%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.78%) ADO
3 5 (0.65%) REST
4 4 (0.52%) Middleware
4 4 (0.52%) SOAP
5 1 (0.13%) HTML
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 51 (6.59%) Onboarding
2 20 (2.58%) Data Centre
2 20 (2.58%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.20%) Virtual Team
4 16 (2.07%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.42%) PMI
8 8 (1.03%) NHS
9 6 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.78%) FMCG
9 6 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.52%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.52%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.39%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.39%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.26%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.03%) 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
1 261 (33.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 210 (27.13%) Project Management
3 207 (26.74%) Agile
4 190 (24.55%) Project Delivery
5 172 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 168 (21.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 159 (20.54%) Decision-Making
8 113 (14.60%) PRINCE2
9 89 (11.50%) Business Intelligence
10 85 (10.98%) Change Management
11 83 (10.72%) Waterfall
12 82 (10.59%) Programme Governance
13 75 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
14 72 (9.30%) Programme Management
15 70 (9.04%) Migration
16 69 (8.91%) Programme Delivery
17 67 (8.66%) Risk Management
18 66 (8.53%) Portfolio Management
19 62 (8.01%) Change Control
20 59 (7.62%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 22 (2.84%) SQL
2 6 (0.78%) VBA
3 5 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (0.65%) Python
4 4 (0.52%) Korn
4 4 (0.52%) VB
5 3 (0.39%) 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
1 188 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 120 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 97 (12.53%) Degree
4 66 (8.53%) DV Cleared
5 61 (7.88%) PMP
6 54 (6.98%) PMI Certification
7 19 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.16%) APMG
9 8 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.90%) CISSP
11 6 (0.78%) CISA
11 6 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
13 4 (0.52%) APMP
13 4 (0.52%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.39%) MAPM
14 3 (0.39%) MBA
14 3 (0.39%) RIBA
14 3 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.75%) QA
3 20 (2.58%) GDPR
4 16 (2.07%) P3O
5 12 (1.55%) NIST
5 12 (1.55%) SLA
6 9 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.65%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.52%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.52%) GRC
8 4 (0.52%) MiFID
9 3 (0.39%) ITGC
9 3 (0.39%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.26%) COBIT
10 2 (0.26%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.26%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.13%) logstash
3 1 (0.13%) Nmap
Vendors
1 128 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.40%) SAP
3 31 (4.01%) ServiceNow
4 28 (3.62%) Oracle
5 19 (2.45%) Planview
6 16 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.29%) Workday
8 8 (1.03%) Dell
9 7 (0.90%) Adobe
10 6 (0.78%) Google
11 5 (0.65%) Databricks
12 4 (0.52%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco
13 3 (0.39%) Computacenter
13 3 (0.39%) IFS
14 2 (0.26%) BT
14 2 (0.26%) CheckPoint
15 1 (0.13%) Cadence
15 1 (0.13%) NEC
15 1 (0.13%) Remedy