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 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 208 287
Rank change year-on-year -21 +79 +80
Contract jobs citing PMP 211 156 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 1.22% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.97% 4.73% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 106 72
10th Percentile £408 £381 £366
25th Percentile £440 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £661 £725 £638
90th Percentile £750 £788 £773
England median daily rate £550 £538 £544
% change year-on-year +2.33% -1.15% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £51.98 - £23.05
25th Percentile £52.69 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.25 £70.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +171.84% -
75th Percentile £57.69 - £27.06
90th Percentile £58.33 - £27.25
England median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +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 5,313 3,300 4,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.72% 25.91% 23.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,839 2,216 2,825
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £774
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 73 109
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.15 £15.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.11%
75th Percentile £75.87 £52.16 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.11 £68.15
England median hourly rate £53.00 £29.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year +81.07% -31.13% -22.73%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 45 £700 +10.24% 5
West London -21 5 £680 +37.72% 2
East London - 2 £495 - 1
South London -7 1 £500 +17.65% 1
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 9 (4.27%) Confluence
1 9 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.37%) IIS
3 3 (1.42%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.47%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (10.43%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.95%) Trello
6 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.47%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.95%) DELMIA
3 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.95%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.47%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.47%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.47%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.91%) Azure
2 23 (10.90%) AWS
3 20 (9.48%) SaaS
4 15 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (6.64%) Smartsheet
6 10 (4.74%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.42%) Asana
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.95%) GCP
10 2 (0.95%) Google Ads
10 2 (0.95%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.95%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.47%) ClickUp
11 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) LAN
1 6 (2.84%) WAN
2 5 (2.37%) HTTPS
2 5 (2.37%) Network Security
3 4 (1.90%) Firewall
4 3 (1.42%) 4G
4 3 (1.42%) 5G
4 3 (1.42%) VLAN
4 3 (1.42%) VoLTE
4 3 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.95%) Internet
6 1 (0.47%) DNS
6 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database
1 2 (0.95%) Power BI
2 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (10.90%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) GitLab
2 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 99 (46.92%) Finance
2 96 (45.50%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (12.80%) Banking
4 23 (10.90%) Marketing
5 20 (9.48%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Legal
7 14 (6.64%) Retail
8 10 (4.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.79%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.32%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.84%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.42%) Advertising
13 3 (1.42%) Electronics
13 3 (1.42%) Front Office
14 2 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 138 (65.40%) Project Manager
2 24 (11.37%) Senior
3 20 (9.48%) Senior Manager
4 19 (9.00%) Lead
4 19 (9.00%) Technical Manager
5 17 (8.06%) Senior Project Manager
5 17 (8.06%) Technical Project Manager
6 16 (7.58%) IT Manager
6 16 (7.58%) IT Project Manager
6 16 (7.58%) Programme Manager
7 14 (6.64%) Infrastructure Manager
8 13 (6.16%) Delivery Manager
8 13 (6.16%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 11 (5.21%) Migration Manager
9 11 (5.21%) Migration Project Manager
10 10 (4.74%) Transformation Manager
11 9 (4.27%) Transformation Project Manager
12 8 (3.79%) B2B Sales Manager
12 8 (3.79%) PMO Lead
12 8 (3.79%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.32%) REST
2 6 (2.84%) SailPoint
3 3 (1.42%) ADO
3 3 (1.42%) Middleware
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.95%) SOAP
5 1 (0.47%) EDI
5 1 (0.47%) XML
5 1 (0.47%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.00%) PMI
2 11 (5.21%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.84%) Operational Technology
4 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.84%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.37%) Life Science
6 4 (1.90%) CMDB
7 3 (1.42%) CCTV
7 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.42%) FMCG
7 3 (1.42%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) AS400
8 2 (0.95%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.95%) IoT
8 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.47%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (73.46%) PRINCE2
2 147 (69.67%) Project Management
3 133 (63.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 119 (56.40%) Agile
5 86 (40.76%) Project Delivery
6 56 (26.54%) Change Management
7 49 (23.22%) Migration
8 48 (22.75%) Decision-Making
9 43 (20.38%) Programme Management
10 33 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (14.69%) Waterfall
12 29 (13.74%) Matrix Organization
12 29 (13.74%) Scrum
13 28 (13.27%) DevOps
14 26 (12.32%) ITIL
14 26 (12.32%) Project Governance
14 26 (12.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (11.85%) Risk Management
15 25 (11.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.37%) SQL
2 2 (0.95%) COBOL
2 2 (0.95%) RPG
3 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 169 (80.09%) PMI Certification
2 45 (21.33%) Degree
3 21 (9.95%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.21%) CISSP
6 8 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (3.32%) APMP
7 7 (3.32%) CISM
8 6 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.90%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (1.42%) CAPM
10 3 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.95%) CRISC
11 2 (0.95%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (15.64%) PMO
2 24 (11.37%) GDPR
3 19 (9.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (7.58%) QA
5 15 (7.11%) NIST
6 9 (4.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (2.84%) GRC
8 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.37%) GxP
8 5 (2.37%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.37%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.90%) P3O
10 3 (1.42%) SLA
10 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.95%) GMP
12 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.47%) Basel III
12 1 (0.47%) IFRS
12 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 10 (4.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.47%) Control-M
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.53%) ServiceNow
3 13 (6.16%) SAP
4 11 (5.21%) CyberArk
5 10 (4.74%) Oracle
6 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.84%) Workday
7 5 (2.37%) Cisco
8 4 (1.90%) Okta
8 4 (1.90%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) IBM
9 2 (0.95%) Murex
9 2 (0.95%) NEC
9 2 (0.95%) Planview
9 2 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.95%) Splunk
9 2 (0.95%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.47%) Avaya
10 1 (0.47%) Genesys
10 1 (0.47%) Misys