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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 179 148
Rank change year-on-year -16 -31 -22
Contract jobs citing PMO 405 435 734
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 1.38% 1.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.01% 10.52% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 252 549
10th Percentile £273 £263 £313
25th Percentile £365 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £589 £570 £600
90th Percentile £668 £659 £743
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £485
% change year-on-year - -7.22% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 22
10th Percentile - £23.97 £25.33
25th Percentile £15.60 £27.67 £30.54
Median hourly rate £20.36 £29.11 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.05% -11.80% -11.65%
75th Percentile £25.00 £62.59 £41.90
90th Percentile £44.37 £64.08 £63.43
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £28.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.07% -15.15% -11.84%

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 5,057 4,136 5,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.81% 13.10% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,404 3,927
10th Percentile £303 £291 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £653
90th Percentile £716 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 188 240
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.81 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.11 £20.07
Median hourly rate £31.50 £34.47 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% -6.22% +53.13%
75th Percentile £62.55 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.30 £70.00 £80.31
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -23.61% +46.31%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +22 177 £500 +5.26% 70
Midlands -34 64 £425 -15.00% 29
West Midlands -21 55 £425 -19.05% 23
North of England -29 50 £375 -8.54% 42
South East -10 47 £450 +5.88% 67
South West -7 39 £562 +49.73% 8
Yorkshire -17 29 £420 -11.58% 16
East of England +6 20 £535 +3.13% 17
North West -34 17 £358 -8.44% 24
East Midlands -15 9 £350 -11.95% 5
North East -2 4 £250 -58.33% 3
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 61 (15.06%) SharePoint
2 18 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 104 (25.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (17.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (15.80%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (14.07%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (2.47%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.73%) Oracle Financials
3 6 (1.48%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.23%) Primavera
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.49%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.25%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.25%) Epicor iScala
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.35%) Power Platform
2 13 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (2.96%) Smartsheet
4 9 (2.22%) Azure
5 6 (1.48%) OCI
5 6 (1.48%) Power Automate
6 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (1.23%) SaaS
6 5 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (0.99%) AWS
7 4 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (0.74%) Slack
8 3 (0.74%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.49%) Asana
9 2 (0.49%) Lucidchart
9 2 (0.49%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.49%) LAN
1 2 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (0.49%) WAN
2 1 (0.25%) 802.11
2 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.25%) Firewall
2 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.36%) Power BI
2 6 (1.48%) Power Query
3 5 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (0.99%) Tableau
5 2 (0.49%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (16.54%) JIRA
2 1 (0.25%) Git
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 209 (51.60%) Finance
2 165 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 51 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.86%) Banking
5 39 (9.63%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (8.64%) Public Sector
7 28 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (4.20%) Legal
10 9 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.73%) Front Office
12 7 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.73%) Local Government
12 7 (1.73%) Marketing
13 6 (1.48%) Law
13 6 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 94 (23.21%) Analyst
2 77 (19.01%) PMO Analyst
3 62 (15.31%) Lead
4 53 (13.09%) Project Manager
5 51 (12.59%) PMO Lead
6 32 (7.90%) PMO Manager
7 27 (6.67%) Senior
8 15 (3.70%) Coordinator
8 15 (3.70%) Programme Manager
8 15 (3.70%) Senior PMO
9 13 (3.21%) IT Manager
10 11 (2.72%) IT Project Manager
10 11 (2.72%) PMO Officer
10 11 (2.72%) Project Analyst
11 10 (2.47%) Administrator
11 10 (2.47%) Support Officer
12 9 (2.22%) PMO Coordinator
13 8 (1.98%) Senior Manager
14 7 (1.73%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (1.73%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (0.74%) ADO
3 2 (0.49%) Middleware
3 2 (0.49%) React
4 1 (0.25%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.25%) ActiveX
4 1 (0.25%) OAuth
4 1 (0.25%) OpenID
4 1 (0.25%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 14 (3.46%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.46%) PMI
4 10 (2.47%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.23%) FMCG
9 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.74%) Derivative
11 2 (0.49%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.49%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.49%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.49%) IoT
11 2 (0.49%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.49%) NHS
11 2 (0.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.47%) Windows
2 1 (0.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (39.26%) Project Management
2 123 (30.37%) Agile
2 123 (30.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 85 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 78 (19.26%) Project Delivery
5 74 (18.27%) PRINCE2
6 64 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (15.56%) Project Governance
8 62 (15.31%) Programme Management
9 57 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (13.83%) Change Management
11 53 (13.09%) Waterfall
12 50 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (12.10%) Risk Management
14 45 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 38 (9.38%) Change Control
15 38 (9.38%) Portfolio Management
16 37 (9.14%) Business Case
17 30 (7.41%) ERP
18 27 (6.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.22%) VB
2 4 (0.99%) Python
2 4 (0.99%) SQL
3 2 (0.49%) C#
3 2 (0.49%) Java
3 2 (0.49%) Korn
4 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (10.86%) Degree
2 37 (9.14%) PMI Certification
2 37 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.15%) PMP
4 30 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.48%) CISM
6 6 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.99%) CISSP
8 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.49%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.49%) CRISC
9 2 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.49%) RIBA
9 2 (0.49%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.25%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.17%) QA
2 19 (4.69%) P3O
3 9 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.48%) NIST
5 5 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.99%) SLA
7 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.74%) GDPR
7 3 (0.74%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.25%) Basel III
9 1 (0.25%) COSO
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.25%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.25%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 91 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.12%) SAP
3 25 (6.17%) Oracle
4 20 (4.94%) Planview
5 16 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.48%) Cisco
8 4 (0.99%) PeopleSoft
9 3 (0.74%) GoldenSource
9 3 (0.74%) IFS
9 3 (0.74%) VMware
9 3 (0.74%) Workday
10 2 (0.49%) Apple
10 2 (0.49%) Ariba
10 2 (0.49%) Arista
10 2 (0.49%) Temenos
11 1 (0.25%) Adobe
11 1 (0.25%) Dell
11 1 (0.25%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.25%) Poppulo