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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 204 275
Rank change year-on-year -11 +71 +65
Contract jobs citing PMP 256 174 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.31% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% 5.01% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 116 65
10th Percentile £406 £395 £418
25th Percentile £440 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +10.23% +3.29%
75th Percentile £661 £716 £638
90th Percentile £750 £806 £735
England median daily rate £544 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -5.39% +9.52% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £58.44 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £59.75 £69.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -3.70% +28.57%

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 5,632 3,476 3,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.08% 26.21% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,050 2,343 2,659
10th Percentile £375 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £655 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 82 63
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.93
25th Percentile £25.24 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £51.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -8.36%

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 3 September 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 3 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 +1 50 £560 -6.47% 24
West London -6 15 £550 +7.32% 9
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 7 (2.73%) Confluence
1 7 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.95%) CMS
2 5 (1.95%) IIS
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 27 (10.55%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.39%) Trello
7 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.17%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.39%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.39%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.39%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.39%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (17.19%) Azure
2 24 (9.38%) SaaS
3 22 (8.59%) AWS
4 17 (6.64%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.47%) Entra ID
6 12 (4.69%) Smartsheet
7 10 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (3.91%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.95%) Asana
9 5 (1.95%) GCP
9 5 (1.95%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.95%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.56%) GitHub
11 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.78%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (0.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.91%) Firewall
2 8 (3.13%) Network Security
3 5 (1.95%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.95%) LAN
3 5 (1.95%) WAN
4 4 (1.56%) 4G
4 4 (1.56%) 5G
5 3 (1.17%) Internet
5 3 (1.17%) VoLTE
5 3 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.78%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.78%) MPLS
6 2 (0.78%) NAS
6 2 (0.78%) SAN
6 2 (0.78%) SSL
6 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.39%) DNS
7 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.95%) Power BI
2 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.39%) Big Data
3 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (8.98%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 139 (54.30%) Finance
2 122 (47.66%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.19%) Banking
4 27 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.98%) Marketing
6 18 (7.03%) Retail
7 16 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.69%) Legal
10 11 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (4.30%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.13%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.73%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.95%) Law
15 4 (1.56%) Front Office
15 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
16 3 (1.17%) Electronics
16 3 (1.17%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (57.81%) Project Manager
2 29 (11.33%) Senior
3 24 (9.38%) IT Manager
3 24 (9.38%) Programme Manager
3 24 (9.38%) Senior Manager
4 21 (8.20%) Technical Manager
5 19 (7.42%) IT Project Manager
5 19 (7.42%) Senior Project Manager
6 17 (6.64%) Delivery Manager
7 16 (6.25%) Lead
8 15 (5.86%) Technical Project Manager
9 14 (5.47%) Analyst
10 13 (5.08%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (5.08%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.69%) Business Analyst
12 11 (4.30%) Transformation Project Manager
13 10 (3.91%) Bid Manager
13 10 (3.91%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 8 (3.13%) Business Manager
15 7 (2.73%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) REST
2 4 (1.56%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.39%) ADO
3 1 (0.39%) Middleware
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.03%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.25%) PMI
3 14 (5.47%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.91%) Operational Technology
6 7 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.34%) Life Science
7 6 (2.34%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.95%) FMCG
8 5 (1.95%) IoT
9 4 (1.56%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.56%) CMDB
9 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.17%) CCTV
10 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.17%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
11 2 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.91%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (81.25%) PRINCE2
2 172 (67.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 167 (65.23%) Project Management
4 147 (57.42%) Agile
5 95 (37.11%) Project Delivery
6 72 (28.13%) Change Management
7 55 (21.48%) Migration
8 54 (21.09%) Programme Management
9 53 (20.70%) Decision-Making
10 48 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (18.75%) Roadmaps
11 44 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 43 (16.80%) Budget Management
13 42 (16.41%) Scrum
14 38 (14.84%) Waterfall
15 35 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (12.89%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (12.89%) Risk Management
17 32 (12.50%) ITIL
18 27 (10.55%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.78%) COBOL
1 2 (0.78%) Python
1 2 (0.78%) RPG
1 2 (0.78%) SQL
2 1 (0.39%) Bash
2 1 (0.39%) C#
2 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 206 (80.47%) PMI Certification
2 56 (21.88%) Degree
3 33 (12.89%) Security Cleared
4 25 (9.77%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.69%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 10 (3.91%) CISSP
8 8 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.73%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.73%) CISM
9 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.56%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.17%) APMP
12 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.78%) MBA
13 2 (0.78%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.89%) PMO
2 16 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.08%) GDPR
4 12 (4.69%) QA
5 11 (4.30%) NIST
6 10 (3.91%) P3O
7 9 (3.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.13%) Data Quality
9 7 (2.73%) GRC
10 6 (2.34%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.95%) GxP
11 5 (1.95%) HIPAA
12 3 (1.17%) GMP
12 3 (1.17%) SLA
13 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.78%) ITGC
13 2 (0.78%) SEPA
13 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.78%) TARGET2
System Software
1 17 (6.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.17%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.20%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.13%) Oracle
4 7 (2.73%) Planview
4 7 (2.73%) SAP
5 6 (2.34%) CyberArk
5 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.95%) VMware
6 5 (1.95%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.56%) Cisco
7 4 (1.56%) Google
8 3 (1.17%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.17%) Murex
9 2 (0.78%) IBM
9 2 (0.78%) NEC
9 2 (0.78%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.39%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.39%) Meraki
10 1 (0.39%) Splunk
10 1 (0.39%) Varonis