PMP Contract Job Trends in London

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PMP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 209 285
Rank change year-on-year -8 +76 +76
Contract jobs citing PMP 231 168 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.24% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.20% 4.84% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 115 71
10th Percentile £415 £403 £413
25th Percentile £447 £459 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.27%
75th Percentile £659 £713 £641
90th Percentile £750 £778 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £51.70 - £22.97
25th Percentile £52.00 - £23.92
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +169.23% -
75th Percentile £58.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
England median hourly rate £83.00 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +10.67% +188.46% -58.40%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

PMP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,506 3,472 4,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.68% 25.60% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,973 2,360 2,819
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.28% -2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 81 92
10th Percentile £19.48 £18.82 £16.31
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.04 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -5.04% -50.95%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £68.68
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -38.37% -22.17%

PMP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PMP job vacancy trend in London

PMP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMP

PMP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PMP in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PMP in London

PMP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PMP

PMP
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 PMP within the London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 -1 47 £650 +16.07% 14
West London -10 7 £550 +11.39% 4
East London - 1 - - 3
PMP
England

PMP
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 8 (3.46%) Confluence
2 6 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.16%) IIS
4 3 (1.30%) CMS
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 24 (10.39%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.87%) Trello
7 1 (0.43%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.30%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.43%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.43%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.43%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.43%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.43%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.05%) Azure
2 21 (9.09%) AWS
3 20 (8.66%) SaaS
4 17 (7.36%) Entra ID
5 15 (6.49%) Smartsheet
6 14 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.60%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.16%) Asana
8 5 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.73%) GCP
10 3 (1.30%) GitHub
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.87%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.87%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.87%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.60%) Network Security
2 5 (2.16%) HTTPS
2 5 (2.16%) LAN
2 5 (2.16%) WAN
3 4 (1.73%) Firewall
4 3 (1.30%) 4G
4 3 (1.30%) 5G
4 3 (1.30%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.87%) Internet
5 2 (0.87%) VLAN
5 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.73%) Power BI
2 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (9.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) GitLab
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 110 (47.62%) Finance
2 100 (43.29%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.29%) Banking
4 27 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.96%) Marketing
6 22 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (8.23%) Retail
8 16 (6.93%) Legal
9 11 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (3.03%) Manufacturing
12 7 (3.03%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.60%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.60%) Investment Banking
14 5 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.30%) Advertising
15 3 (1.30%) Electronics
15 3 (1.30%) Front Office
15 3 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 150 (64.94%) Project Manager
2 29 (12.55%) Senior
3 25 (10.82%) Senior Manager
4 21 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
5 20 (8.66%) Technical Manager
6 19 (8.23%) Programme Manager
7 17 (7.36%) IT Manager
7 17 (7.36%) Technical Project Manager
8 16 (6.93%) IT Project Manager
9 14 (6.06%) Delivery Manager
9 14 (6.06%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (5.63%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 11 (4.76%) IAM Project Manager
11 11 (4.76%) Lead
12 10 (4.33%) Bid Manager
13 9 (3.90%) Analyst
13 9 (3.90%) Transformation Manager
14 8 (3.46%) B2B Sales Manager
14 8 (3.46%) Business Analyst
14 8 (3.46%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.90%) SailPoint
2 5 (2.16%) REST
3 2 (0.87%) ADO
3 2 (0.87%) Middleware
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.66%) PMI
2 13 (5.63%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.90%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.03%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.60%) FMCG
6 6 (2.60%) Life Science
7 5 (2.16%) IoT
8 4 (1.73%) CCTV
8 4 (1.73%) CMDB
8 4 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.30%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) AS400
10 2 (0.87%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (76.62%) PRINCE2
2 161 (69.70%) Project Management
3 145 (62.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 132 (57.14%) Agile
5 88 (38.10%) Project Delivery
6 64 (27.71%) Change Management
7 52 (22.51%) Decision-Making
8 51 (22.08%) Migration
9 45 (19.48%) Programme Management
10 42 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (16.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 35 (15.15%) Scrum
12 35 (15.15%) Waterfall
13 32 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (13.42%) Matrix Organization
15 29 (12.55%) Project Governance
16 28 (12.12%) ITIL
17 27 (11.69%) Roadmaps
18 26 (11.26%) DevOps
18 26 (11.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.87%) COBOL
1 2 (0.87%) RPG
2 1 (0.43%) Korn
2 1 (0.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 185 (80.09%) PMI Certification
2 48 (20.78%) Degree
3 25 (10.82%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.79%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.33%) CISSP
5 10 (4.33%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 6 (2.60%) CISM
7 6 (2.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.73%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (1.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.73%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.30%) APMP
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.30%) CAPM
10 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.30%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.58%) PMO
2 19 (8.23%) GDPR
3 16 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (6.06%) QA
5 12 (5.19%) NIST
6 9 (3.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (3.03%) GRC
7 7 (3.03%) P3O
8 6 (2.60%) Data Quality
9 5 (2.16%) GxP
9 5 (2.16%) HIPAA
9 5 (2.16%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.73%) SLA
11 3 (1.30%) GMP
11 3 (1.30%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.87%) ITGC
13 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.43%) MiFID
13 1 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (8.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.73%) RSA Archer
1 4 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.66%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.33%) CyberArk
4 9 (3.90%) Oracle
4 9 (3.90%) SAP
5 7 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.60%) Planview
7 5 (2.16%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.73%) Cisco
8 4 (1.73%) Google
8 4 (1.73%) Okta
8 4 (1.73%) VMware
9 2 (0.87%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (0.87%) IBM
9 2 (0.87%) Murex
9 2 (0.87%) NEC
9 2 (0.87%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.87%) Splunk
10 1 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.43%) Wrike