PMO Contract Job Trends in London

Project Management Office (PMO)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PMO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 185 217
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 -68
Contract jobs citing PMO 362 185 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 1.38% 1.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.34% 7.99% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 128 108
10th Percentile £313 £300 £312
25th Percentile £425 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.27% -7.71%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £616
90th Percentile £725 £791 £725
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £26.82 - £21.17
25th Percentile £29.19 £47.75 £26.68
Median hourly rate £33.12 £49.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.09% +4.21% +8.30%
75th Percentile £45.94 £51.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £53.62 - £77.25
England median hourly rate £52.67 £23.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +124.11% -34.72% +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,874 2,316 2,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.15% 17.22% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 1,529 1,443
10th Percentile £350 £324 £335
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 51 42
10th Percentile £15.88 - £18.13
25th Percentile £21.33 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £34.00 £29.81
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +14.06% -14.83%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.98 £49.69
90th Percentile £55.78 £55.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.98 £31.82 £30.56
% change year-on-year +6.79% +4.12% -13.92%

PMO
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PMO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

PMO job vacancy trend in London

PMO
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMO

PMO
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMO in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMO in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMO

PMO
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PMO in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PMO in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PMO within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London -10 50 £525 -12.50% 36
West London -6 17 £368 - 4
South London -6 5 £463 +6.94% 1
East London +2 2 £585 +38.30% 4
PMO
England

PMO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 33 (9.12%) SharePoint
2 21 (5.80%) Confluence
3 10 (2.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 84 (23.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (14.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 40 (11.05%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (10.22%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.76%) Adobe Campaign
2 8 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.10%) CA PPM
4 4 (1.10%) Changepoint
4 4 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.28%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.28%) Primavera
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.77%) Power Platform
2 33 (9.12%) Azure
3 15 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.59%) AWS
5 12 (3.31%) Microsoft Copilot
6 11 (3.04%) SaaS
7 9 (2.49%) Smartsheet
8 7 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.93%) OCI
9 6 (1.66%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.10%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (0.83%) GCP
11 3 (0.83%) Google Sheets
11 3 (0.83%) PaaS
11 3 (0.83%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) Firewall
1 2 (0.55%) LAN
1 2 (0.55%) Network Security
1 2 (0.55%) TCAP
1 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
1 2 (0.55%) WAN
2 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.12%) Power BI
2 5 (1.38%) Power Query
2 5 (1.38%) Tableau
3 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.28%) Metadata
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.28%) QlikView
5 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (14.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.28%) Git
General
1 161 (44.48%) Social Skills
2 155 (42.82%) Finance
3 87 (24.03%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (13.54%) Public Sector
5 44 (12.15%) Banking
6 42 (11.60%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.97%) Legal
8 16 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (4.14%) Marketing
10 12 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (3.31%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (3.04%) Retail
12 9 (2.49%) Local Government
13 6 (1.66%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.38%) Publishing
15 4 (1.10%) Aviation
15 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (18.23%) Project Manager
2 58 (16.02%) Lead
3 56 (15.47%) Analyst
4 40 (11.05%) PMO Analyst
5 32 (8.84%) Senior
6 28 (7.73%) PMO Lead
7 27 (7.46%) PMO Manager
8 17 (4.70%) Senior PMO
9 16 (4.42%) Delivery Manager
10 13 (3.59%) Change Manager
10 13 (3.59%) Programme Manager
11 12 (3.31%) Consultant
11 12 (3.31%) Junior
12 11 (3.04%) IT Manager
12 11 (3.04%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.76%) Coordinator
13 10 (2.76%) Digital Project Manager
14 9 (2.49%) Support Officer
15 8 (2.21%) Architect
15 8 (2.21%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.10%) ADO
2 4 (1.10%) Middleware
3 3 (0.83%) REST
4 2 (0.55%) DAO
4 2 (0.55%) SOAP
5 1 (0.28%) HTML
5 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.42%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.31%) Data Centre
3 12 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.21%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.66%) PMI
5 6 (1.66%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.83%) FMCG
8 3 (0.83%) Life Science
8 3 (0.83%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.55%) PACS
9 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.28%) SUSE
2 1 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (44.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 130 (35.91%) Project Management
3 127 (35.08%) Agile
4 120 (33.15%) Project Delivery
5 85 (23.48%) Decision-Making
6 82 (22.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 80 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (17.40%) PRINCE2
9 56 (15.47%) Programme Management
10 54 (14.92%) Change Management
11 52 (14.36%) Waterfall
12 47 (12.98%) Migration
13 46 (12.71%) Programme Delivery
14 44 (12.15%) Programme Governance
15 39 (10.77%) Roadmaps
16 37 (10.22%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (10.22%) Project Governance
16 37 (10.22%) Technology Transformation
17 35 (9.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 6 (1.66%) SQL
2 5 (1.38%) Korn
3 4 (1.10%) VBA
4 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.55%) Python
6 1 (0.28%) COBOL
6 1 (0.28%) RPG
Qualifications
1 68 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 53 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.50%) Degree
4 36 (9.94%) PMP
5 31 (8.56%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.21%) APMG
8 7 (1.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.38%) CTC Cleared
9 5 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.83%) CAPM
12 2 (0.55%) CISSP
13 1 (0.28%) CISM
13 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 4
13 1 (0.28%) PgMP
13 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.25%) QA
2 17 (4.70%) P3O
3 15 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.10%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
6 4 (1.10%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) GRC
7 3 (0.83%) MiFID
7 3 (0.83%) SEPA
8 2 (0.55%) NCSC
8 2 (0.55%) TARGET2
9 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) GMP
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) ITGC
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.28%) Ansible
1 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
1 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.46%) ServiceNow
3 22 (6.08%) SAP
4 21 (5.80%) Oracle
5 14 (3.87%) Planview
6 10 (2.76%) Adobe
7 9 (2.49%) Workday
8 8 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.66%) Google
10 3 (0.83%) Computacenter
11 2 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.55%) JD Edwards
12 1 (0.28%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco
12 1 (0.28%) Genesys
12 1 (0.28%) IBM
12 1 (0.28%) Informatica
12 1 (0.28%) Misys
12 1 (0.28%) NEC
12 1 (0.28%) Red Hat