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 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 202 264
Rank change year-on-year -12 +62 +69
Contract jobs citing PMP 276 164 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.35% 1.22% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.70% 4.59% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 114 73
10th Percentile £406 £413 £415
25th Percentile £450 £500 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £619 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.08% +12.45% +3.29%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £748 £805 £775
England median daily rate £540 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -7.10% +5.68% -
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 £82.41 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +26.78% -10.34% +38.10%

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 5,877 3,570 4,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.66% 26.65% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,262 2,408 2,558
10th Percentile £369 £357 £350
25th Percentile £457 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £765
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 85 64
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.38 - £25.93
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.38% -32.13%
75th Percentile £78.75 £35.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £75.88
England median hourly rate £48.83 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +94.14% -52.10% -2.17%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +11 56 £544 -10.27% 28
West London -14 14 £680 +36.00% 3
East London - 1 - - 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 14 (5.07%) Confluence
2 9 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.81%) CMS
3 5 (1.81%) IIS
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 34 (12.32%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.45%) Changepoint
3 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.36%) Maximo
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.36%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 53 (19.20%) Azure
2 20 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (6.88%) AWS
3 19 (6.88%) SaaS
4 18 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.71%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.26%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.17%) GCP
8 6 (2.17%) Smartsheet
9 5 (1.81%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.45%) Asana
10 4 (1.45%) GitHub
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.09%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.62%) Firewall
2 8 (2.90%) Network Security
3 5 (1.81%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.81%) LAN
3 5 (1.81%) WAN
4 4 (1.45%) 4G
4 4 (1.45%) 5G
5 3 (1.09%) Internet
5 3 (1.09%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (1.09%) VoLTE
5 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.72%) BGP
6 2 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.72%) MPLS
6 2 (0.72%) NAS
6 2 (0.72%) SAN
6 2 (0.72%) SSL
6 2 (0.72%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.62%) Power BI
2 7 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.72%) Metadata
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.36%) Big Data
5 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (12.68%) JIRA
2 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 158 (57.25%) Finance
2 141 (51.09%) Social Skills
3 50 (18.12%) Banking
4 36 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (6.52%) Retail
8 14 (5.07%) Legal
8 14 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (4.71%) Manufacturing
9 13 (4.71%) Marketing
9 13 (4.71%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.90%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.17%) Front Office
13 6 (2.17%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.81%) Law
15 3 (1.09%) Electronics
15 3 (1.09%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (56.16%) Project Manager
2 34 (12.32%) Senior
3 33 (11.96%) IT Manager
4 28 (10.14%) Senior Manager
5 26 (9.42%) IT Project Manager
6 25 (9.06%) Technical Manager
7 24 (8.70%) Programme Manager
8 21 (7.61%) Lead
8 21 (7.61%) Senior Project Manager
9 20 (7.25%) Delivery Manager
10 18 (6.52%) Analyst
11 14 (5.07%) Business Analyst
11 14 (5.07%) Technical Project Manager
12 11 (3.99%) Bid Manager
12 11 (3.99%) Infrastructure Manager
13 10 (3.62%) Transformation Manager
14 9 (3.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 9 (3.26%) Transformation Project Manager
15 8 (2.90%) Data Manager
16 7 (2.54%) Programme Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.17%) REST
2 5 (1.81%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.45%) SOAP
3 4 (1.45%) Web Services
4 2 (0.72%) ADO
4 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.25%) Onboarding
1 20 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.43%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.43%) Operational Technology
3 12 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.26%) PMI
6 6 (2.17%) CMDB
6 6 (2.17%) IoT
7 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.81%) FMCG
7 5 (1.81%) Life Science
8 4 (1.45%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.09%) AS400
9 3 (1.09%) CCTV
9 3 (1.09%) Derivative
9 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.62%) Windows
2 2 (0.72%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (80.80%) PRINCE2
2 196 (71.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 170 (61.59%) Project Management
4 168 (60.87%) Agile
5 110 (39.86%) Project Delivery
6 76 (27.54%) Change Management
7 60 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (21.38%) Scrum
9 58 (21.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 57 (20.65%) Migration
11 56 (20.29%) Programme Management
12 53 (19.20%) Roadmaps
13 51 (18.48%) Budget Management
13 51 (18.48%) Decision-Making
13 51 (18.48%) Waterfall
14 47 (17.03%) Risk Management
15 43 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (14.13%) Cybersecurity
16 39 (14.13%) DevOps
17 36 (13.04%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.54%) SQL
2 4 (1.45%) Python
3 3 (1.09%) COBOL
3 3 (1.09%) RPG
4 1 (0.36%) Bash
4 1 (0.36%) C#
4 1 (0.36%) C++
4 1 (0.36%) Java
4 1 (0.36%) Perl
4 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 227 (82.25%) PMI Certification
2 75 (27.17%) Degree
3 32 (11.59%) Security Cleared
4 23 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.43%) CISSP
5 15 (5.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 12 (4.35%) CISM
6 12 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.26%) PgMP
8 8 (2.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.45%) APMP
13 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.09%) CAPM
13 3 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.87%) PMO
2 18 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.16%) Data Quality
4 14 (5.07%) GDPR
5 13 (4.71%) QA
6 12 (4.35%) NIST
7 9 (3.26%) P3O
8 8 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (2.54%) GRC
10 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.81%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.81%) SLA
12 4 (1.45%) SOC 2
13 3 (1.09%) GMP
13 3 (1.09%) ISO 20022
13 3 (1.09%) SEPA
13 3 (1.09%) TARGET2
14 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.72%) GxP
14 2 (0.72%) ITGC
System Software
1 16 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.36%) Grafana
2 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.97%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.80%) SAP
4 14 (5.07%) Planview
5 11 (3.99%) Oracle
6 5 (1.81%) Google
6 5 (1.81%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.81%) VMware
6 5 (1.81%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.45%) Cisco
7 4 (1.45%) IBM
7 4 (1.45%) UiPath
8 3 (1.09%) Ariba
8 3 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.09%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.09%) Murex
9 2 (0.72%) Databricks
9 2 (0.72%) JD Edwards
9 2 (0.72%) Juniper
10 1 (0.36%) Huawei