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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 187 166
Rank change year-on-year +31 -21 -29
Contract jobs citing PMO 798 411 493
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 1.50% 1.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.88% 8.79% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 292 294
10th Percentile £302 £263 £300
25th Percentile £384 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £449 £450
% change year-on-year +11.48% -0.33% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 16
10th Percentile £20.63 £18.29 £26.68
25th Percentile £24.19 £18.50 £28.00
Median hourly rate £52.67 £24.25 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year +117.18% -31.85% +7.83%
75th Percentile £67.89 £40.58 £62.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £58.00 £64.08
UK median hourly rate £52.67 £21.25 £35.58
% change year-on-year +147.84% -40.28% +7.83%

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 8,075 4,677 4,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.70% 17.09% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,114 3,060 2,648
10th Percentile £338 £292 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £621 £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 555 220 237
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £11.29
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.92 £13.85
Median hourly rate £36.07 £31.64 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +15.05% -21.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.06 £63.43
90th Percentile £77.80 £83.28 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.41 £30.00 £25.60
% change year-on-year +18.03% +17.19% -25.80%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +38 362 £528 +5.50% 223
South East +20 150 £525 +31.25% 89
North of England -8 104 £400 +8.11% 66
Midlands -36 85 £413 -2.94% 37
North West +1 60 £388 +8.24% 43
West Midlands -50 59 £395 -7.06% 22
South West -31 47 £456 -16.23% 39
Yorkshire -33 41 £450 +8.70% 17
East of England -2 32 £500 -13.04% 20
East Midlands -2 26 £475 +35.71% 15
North East -45 3 £388 +55.00% 6
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 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 53 (6.64%) Confluence
3 10 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
5 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 185 (23.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 118 (14.79%) Microsoft Project
3 108 (13.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.50%) Primavera
3 10 (1.25%) Adobe Campaign
3 10 (1.25%) SAP CO
3 10 (1.25%) SAP FI
3 10 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 8 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.88%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.50%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.50%) SAP MDG
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
Cloud Services
1 78 (9.77%) Power Platform
2 50 (6.27%) Azure
3 32 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (3.13%) Smartsheet
5 23 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (1.88%) AWS
7 14 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (1.50%) SaaS
9 8 (1.00%) Google Workspace
9 8 (1.00%) OCI
10 7 (0.88%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.63%) Miro
11 5 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (0.50%) PaaS
12 4 (0.50%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.38%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.38%) iPaaS
13 3 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.88%) WAN
2 3 (0.38%) Firewall
2 3 (0.38%) LAN
2 3 (0.38%) 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%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) MPLS
4 1 (0.13%) PABX
4 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (9.40%) Power BI
2 10 (1.25%) Power Query
2 10 (1.25%) Tableau
3 3 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.38%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.13%) Metadata
5 1 (0.13%) QlikView
5 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 123 (15.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.13%) Git
2 1 (0.13%) Hudson
2 1 (0.13%) Postman
2 1 (0.13%) Selenium
2 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 329 (41.23%) Finance
2 308 (38.60%) Social Skills
3 172 (21.55%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (14.66%) Organisational Skills
5 78 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 61 (7.64%) Banking
7 30 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
8 28 (3.51%) Legal
9 25 (3.13%) Local Government
9 25 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.88%) Retail
11 18 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.75%) Marketing
13 12 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.25%) Military
15 8 (1.00%) Aviation
16 7 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.88%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (19.55%) Analyst
2 116 (14.54%) Project Manager
3 113 (14.16%) PMO Analyst
4 105 (13.16%) Lead
5 77 (9.65%) PMO Manager
6 63 (7.89%) Senior
7 45 (5.64%) PMO Lead
8 35 (4.39%) Project Officer
9 32 (4.01%) Coordinator
10 30 (3.76%) Senior PMO
11 28 (3.51%) Programme Manager
11 28 (3.51%) Support Officer
12 27 (3.38%) Project Coordinator
13 23 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.76%) Consultant
15 21 (2.63%) PMO Specialist
15 21 (2.63%) Project Support Officer
16 20 (2.51%) Senior Manager
17 19 (2.38%) Change Manager
17 19 (2.38%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.00%) ADO
1 8 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.75%) Middleware
3 5 (0.63%) REST
4 4 (0.50%) SOAP
5 3 (0.38%) DAO
6 1 (0.13%) HTML
6 1 (0.13%) JSON
6 1 (0.13%) JWT
6 1 (0.13%) OAuth
6 1 (0.13%) Terraform
6 1 (0.13%) XML
6 1 (0.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.39%) Onboarding
2 26 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.01%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (1.63%) Data Centre
4 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (1.50%) PMI
5 12 (1.50%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (0.75%) FMCG
7 6 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.50%) NHS
9 3 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.38%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.38%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.25%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.00%) 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
1 316 (39.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 226 (28.32%) Agile
3 224 (28.07%) Project Management
4 205 (25.69%) Project Delivery
5 200 (25.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 179 (22.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 155 (19.42%) Decision-Making
8 126 (15.79%) PRINCE2
9 99 (12.41%) Programme Governance
10 95 (11.90%) Waterfall
11 91 (11.40%) Change Management
12 86 (10.78%) Programme Management
13 85 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
14 82 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
15 78 (9.77%) Programme Delivery
16 73 (9.15%) Portfolio Management
16 73 (9.15%) Project Governance
17 72 (9.02%) Migration
18 69 (8.65%) Change Control
19 64 (8.02%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (1.63%) SQL
2 9 (1.13%) VBA
3 6 (0.75%) Korn
4 4 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (0.50%) Python
5 1 (0.13%) COBOL
5 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 223 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 142 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.15%) DV Cleared
4 80 (10.03%) Degree
5 55 (6.89%) PMP
6 50 (6.27%) PMI Certification
7 22 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 9 (1.13%) APMG
10 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.38%) APMP
13 3 (0.38%) CISSP
13 3 (0.38%) MAPM
13 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.25%) CAPM
14 2 (0.25%) NVQ Level 3
14 2 (0.25%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.51%) QA
3 26 (3.26%) P3O
4 13 (1.63%) GDPR
5 11 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.88%) NIST
7 5 (0.63%) SLA
8 4 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) MiFID
9 3 (0.38%) SEPA
10 2 (0.25%) ITGC
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
Systems Management
1 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.13%) Ansible
2 1 (0.13%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 165 (20.68%) Microsoft
2 84 (10.53%) SAP
3 44 (5.51%) ServiceNow
4 26 (3.26%) Oracle
5 22 (2.76%) Planview
6 19 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.25%) Adobe
7 10 (1.25%) Workday
8 8 (1.00%) Google
9 4 (0.50%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.38%) Computacenter
10 3 (0.38%) IFS
11 2 (0.25%) Ariba
11 2 (0.25%) Cisco
12 1 (0.13%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.13%) Genesys
12 1 (0.13%) Informatica
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.13%) Remedy
12 1 (0.13%) Sage