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

 6 months to
13 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 189 160
Rank change year-on-year +32 -29 -26
Contract jobs citing PMO 790 416 506
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.50% 1.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.98% 8.77% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 293 314
10th Percentile £301 £268 £301
25th Percentile £380 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -7.45%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £493 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +9.44% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 15
10th Percentile £20.94 £18.43 £26.68
25th Percentile £24.72 £19.75 £28.00
Median hourly rate £52.83 £31.01 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.37% -11.40% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67.89 £46.30 £61.28
90th Percentile £83.75 £46.80 £63.14
UK median hourly rate £52.83 £23.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +124.82% -32.86% +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 7,914 4,743 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.37% 17.16% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,062 3,098 2,761
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% -1.87%
75th Percentile £608 £620 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 225 274
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.13 £10.99
25th Percentile £18.67 £18.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £38.72 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.38% +15.05% -30.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.54
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.55 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £27.91 £26.56
% change year-on-year +38.73% +5.08% -29.64%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +33 356 £525 +5.00% 127
South East +13 138 £525 +23.53% 62
North of England -25 97 £414 +11.14% 31
Midlands -29 94 £400 -5.88% 37
West Midlands -35 71 £350 -26.32% 33
North West -5 56 £400 +11.42% 18
South West -23 55 £425 -24.17% 33
Yorkshire -37 38 £450 +7.91% 10
East of England -5 30 £505 -12.93% 10
East Midlands -2 23 £444 +26.79% 4
North East -46 3 £388 +55.00% 3
PMO
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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 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 51 (6.46%) Confluence
3 9 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 177 (22.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (16.08%) Microsoft Project
3 92 (11.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (8.10%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.89%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (3.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.90%) Primavera
3 11 (1.39%) SAP CO
3 11 (1.39%) SAP FI
3 11 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
4 9 (1.14%) Adobe Campaign
5 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.89%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.51%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.38%) Changepoint
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.38%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 77 (9.75%) Power Platform
2 53 (6.71%) Azure
3 28 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (2.91%) Smartsheet
5 19 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (2.15%) AWS
7 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (1.39%) SaaS
10 8 (1.01%) Google Workspace
10 8 (1.01%) OCI
11 7 (0.89%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.63%) Miro
12 5 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.51%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.51%) PaaS
13 4 (0.51%) Serverless
13 4 (0.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.76%) WAN
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 3 (0.38%) LAN
2 3 (0.38%) Network Security
2 3 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.25%) Intranet
3 2 (0.25%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.25%) TCAP
4 1 (0.13%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) MPLS
4 1 (0.13%) PABX
4 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (9.37%) Power BI
2 11 (1.39%) Power Query
2 11 (1.39%) Tableau
3 5 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.25%) QlikView
5 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.13%) Metadata
6 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (16.08%) JIRA
2 2 (0.25%) Hudson
3 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.13%) Git
3 1 (0.13%) Postman
3 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 326 (41.27%) Finance
2 305 (38.61%) Social Skills
3 167 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (14.05%) Organisational Skills
5 78 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 58 (7.34%) Banking
7 30 (3.80%) Legal
8 27 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (3.29%) Retail
10 23 (2.91%) Local Government
11 22 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.15%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.65%) Marketing
15 10 (1.27%) Military
16 8 (1.01%) Aviation
17 7 (0.89%) Investment Banking
18 6 (0.76%) Publishing
19 5 (0.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 159 (20.13%) Analyst
2 127 (16.08%) Project Manager
3 110 (13.92%) Lead
3 110 (13.92%) PMO Analyst
4 70 (8.86%) Senior
5 68 (8.61%) PMO Manager
6 46 (5.82%) PMO Lead
7 38 (4.81%) Project Officer
8 32 (4.05%) Senior PMO
9 28 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
9 28 (3.54%) Support Officer
10 26 (3.29%) Coordinator
11 24 (3.04%) SAP Manager
12 23 (2.91%) Programme Manager
13 22 (2.78%) Project Coordinator
14 21 (2.66%) IT Manager
14 21 (2.66%) Project Support Officer
14 21 (2.66%) Senior Manager
15 20 (2.53%) Consultant
16 19 (2.41%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.76%) Middleware
3 5 (0.63%) ADO
3 5 (0.63%) REST
4 4 (0.51%) SOAP
5 1 (0.13%) HTML
5 1 (0.13%) JSON
5 1 (0.13%) JWT
5 1 (0.13%) OAuth
5 1 (0.13%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.13%) XML
5 1 (0.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.08%) Onboarding
2 20 (2.53%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.28%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 17 (2.15%) Virtual Team
5 15 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.52%) PMI
8 8 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.63%) FMCG
10 5 (0.63%) NHS
11 3 (0.38%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.38%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.38%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.38%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.14%) Windows
2 1 (0.13%) Linux
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
1 288 (36.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 218 (27.59%) Agile
3 212 (26.84%) Project Management
4 202 (25.57%) Project Delivery
5 185 (23.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 184 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 157 (19.87%) Decision-Making
8 128 (16.20%) PRINCE2
9 89 (11.27%) Programme Governance
10 84 (10.63%) Change Management
11 82 (10.38%) Waterfall
12 79 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
12 79 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
13 74 (9.37%) Programme Management
14 72 (9.11%) Programme Delivery
15 71 (8.99%) Migration
16 65 (8.23%) Change Control
16 65 (8.23%) Portfolio Management
17 62 (7.85%) Risk Management
18 59 (7.47%) AI
Programming Languages
1 17 (2.15%) SQL
2 6 (0.76%) VBA
3 5 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (0.63%) Korn
4 4 (0.51%) Python
5 2 (0.25%) 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
6 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 212 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 133 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 88 (11.14%) Degree
4 79 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 59 (7.47%) PMP
6 53 (6.71%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.14%) APMG
9 7 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
11 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.51%) APMP
12 4 (0.51%) CISSP
13 3 (0.38%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.38%) MAPM
13 3 (0.38%) MBA
13 3 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.54%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.29%) QA
3 24 (3.04%) P3O
4 15 (1.90%) GDPR
5 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.14%) NIST
6 9 (1.14%) SLA
7 5 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.51%) MiFID
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.38%) ITGC
9 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) GRC
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (0.25%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.13%) Ansible
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 155 (19.62%) Microsoft
2 90 (11.39%) SAP
3 40 (5.06%) ServiceNow
4 27 (3.42%) Oracle
5 20 (2.53%) Planview
6 16 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.39%) Workday
8 10 (1.27%) Adobe
9 8 (1.01%) Google
10 7 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.63%) Dell
12 3 (0.38%) Cisco
12 3 (0.38%) Computacenter
12 3 (0.38%) Databricks
12 3 (0.38%) IFS
13 1 (0.13%) Avaya
13 1 (0.13%) Concur
13 1 (0.13%) IBM
13 1 (0.13%) Okta
13 1 (0.13%) VMware
275 PMO jobs in England