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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 198 177
Rank change year-on-year +33 -21 -42
Contract jobs citing PMO 792 408 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.47% 1.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.64% 8.51% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 287 265
10th Percentile £300 £269 £275
25th Percentile £380 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £610 £589 £579
90th Percentile £725 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 17
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.29 £26.68
25th Percentile £25.25 £18.50 £28.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £21.93 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +141.68% -39.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67.89 £28.01 £62.56
90th Percentile £83.75 £48.04 £63.95
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £20.36 £36.00
% change year-on-year +160.31% -43.44% +9.09%

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 8,217 4,794 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.80% 17.24% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,163 3,132 2,570
10th Percentile £329 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.17% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 592 226 213
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £12.24
25th Percentile £17.09 £17.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +2.78% -15.68%
75th Percentile £67.50 £61.69 £64.73
90th Percentile £76.00 £82.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -22.82%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +24 353 £525 +5.00% 294
South East +23 143 £535 +33.81% 137
North of England -7 105 £414 +12.20% 90
Midlands -29 83 £413 -2.94% 67
North West +2 64 £389 +8.59% 48
West Midlands -43 57 £395 -7.06% 44
South West -23 53 £456 -16.23% 61
Yorkshire -26 38 £450 +8.70% 34
East of England -9 36 £505 -11.01% 30
East Midlands +2 26 £475 +35.71% 23
North East -48 3 £388 +55.00% 8
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 80 (10.10%) SharePoint
2 51 (6.44%) Confluence
3 11 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
5 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 194 (24.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (15.03%) Microsoft Project
3 114 (14.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.52%) Primavera
3 10 (1.26%) Adobe Campaign
3 10 (1.26%) SAP CO
3 10 (1.26%) SAP FI
3 10 (1.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 7 (0.88%) SAP EWM
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.51%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.51%) Changepoint
6 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.38%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.13%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 84 (10.61%) Power Platform
2 50 (6.31%) Azure
3 32 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (3.16%) Smartsheet
5 16 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
6 12 (1.52%) AWS
6 12 (1.52%) SaaS
7 10 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.01%) Google Workspace
8 8 (1.01%) Power Automate
9 7 (0.88%) OCI
10 5 (0.63%) Miro
10 5 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (0.51%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.38%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.38%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.38%) iPaaS
12 3 (0.38%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.88%) WAN
2 3 (0.38%) LAN
2 3 (0.38%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.38%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.25%) Firewall
3 2 (0.25%) Intranet
3 2 (0.25%) TCAP
3 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) MPLS
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (9.85%) Power BI
2 11 (1.39%) Power Query
3 6 (0.76%) Tableau
4 3 (0.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.13%) QlikView
6 1 (0.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 126 (15.91%) JIRA
2 1 (0.13%) Hudson
2 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 321 (40.53%) Finance
2 314 (39.65%) Social Skills
3 171 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (15.91%) Organisational Skills
5 77 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 58 (7.32%) Banking
7 34 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (3.41%) Legal
8 27 (3.41%) Local Government
9 25 (3.16%) Retail
10 24 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.02%) Marketing
13 13 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.14%) Military
15 8 (1.01%) Aviation
16 7 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 6 (0.76%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (19.19%) Analyst
2 115 (14.52%) PMO Analyst
3 113 (14.27%) Project Manager
4 107 (13.51%) Lead
5 78 (9.85%) PMO Manager
6 67 (8.46%) Senior
7 47 (5.93%) PMO Lead
8 39 (4.92%) Coordinator
9 37 (4.67%) Project Officer
10 32 (4.04%) Project Coordinator
10 32 (4.04%) Senior PMO
11 30 (3.79%) Support Officer
12 26 (3.28%) Programme Manager
13 24 (3.03%) Consultant
14 23 (2.90%) Project Support Officer
14 23 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (2.65%) PMO Specialist
15 21 (2.65%) Senior Manager
16 18 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
16 18 (2.27%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.88%) ADO
1 7 (0.88%) Middleware
1 7 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.38%) DAO
2 3 (0.38%) REST
2 3 (0.38%) SOAP
3 1 (0.13%) HTML
3 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 28 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.02%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 14 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.52%) PMI
6 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.01%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (0.76%) FMCG
9 6 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.63%) NHS
11 3 (0.38%) Life Science
11 3 (0.38%) Online Banking
11 3 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.25%) SCADA
12 2 (0.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.01%) 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
2 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (41.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 222 (28.03%) Agile
3 221 (27.90%) Project Management
4 206 (26.01%) Project Delivery
5 200 (25.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 169 (21.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 158 (19.95%) Decision-Making
8 121 (15.28%) PRINCE2
9 104 (13.13%) Programme Governance
10 95 (11.99%) Waterfall
11 91 (11.49%) Programme Management
12 84 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
12 84 (10.61%) Change Management
12 84 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (10.48%) Project Governance
14 74 (9.34%) Portfolio Management
14 74 (9.34%) Programme Delivery
15 71 (8.96%) Migration
16 69 (8.71%) Change Control
17 62 (7.83%) AI
Programming Languages
1 11 (1.39%) SQL
2 9 (1.14%) VBA
3 7 (0.88%) Korn
4 4 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (0.51%) Python
5 1 (0.13%) COBOL
5 1 (0.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 219 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 135 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 81 (10.23%) Degree
4 80 (10.10%) DV Cleared
5 55 (6.94%) PMP
6 50 (6.31%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 9 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.63%) APMG
10 5 (0.63%) CTC Cleared
10 5 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.51%) CAPM
11 4 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (0.38%) APMP
12 3 (0.38%) CISSP
12 3 (0.38%) MAPM
12 3 (0.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.25%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 27 (3.41%) P3O
2 27 (3.41%) QA
3 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.39%) GDPR
5 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.63%) NIST
6 5 (0.63%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.38%) GRC
8 3 (0.38%) MiFID
8 3 (0.38%) SEPA
9 2 (0.25%) ITGC
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
9 2 (0.25%) TARGET2
10 1 (0.13%) GMP
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.13%) Ansible
2 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 181 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 88 (11.11%) SAP
3 45 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 28 (3.54%) Oracle
5 24 (3.03%) Planview
6 16 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.39%) Adobe
8 9 (1.14%) Workday
9 8 (1.01%) Google
10 4 (0.51%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.25%) Ariba
11 2 (0.25%) Computacenter
11 2 (0.25%) IBM
11 2 (0.25%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.13%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.13%) Cisco
12 1 (0.13%) Genesys
12 1 (0.13%) Informatica
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.13%) Sage