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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 195 266
Rank change year-on-year -6 +71 +71
Contract jobs citing PMP 280 175 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.37% 1.30% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.86% 4.89% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 120 70
10th Percentile £406 £399 £424
25th Percentile £442 £472 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £738 £791 £753
England median daily rate £542 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.74% +4.55% +3.29%
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 £72.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -10.34% +31.82%

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 5,760 3,581 3,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.29% 26.57% 24.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,159 2,406 2,565
10th Percentile £371 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £650
90th Percentile £732 £738 £766
England median daily rate £530 £525 £535
% change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 80 59
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.08
25th Percentile £26.25 - £24.17
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -28.14% -26.32%
75th Percentile £85.00 £35.94 £56.75
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £72.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% +0.24%

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 24 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 24 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 0 55 £544 -14.67% 32
West London -10 15 £680 +34.32% 7
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 13 (4.64%) Confluence
2 9 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.50%) CMS
4 5 (1.79%) IIS
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 29 (10.36%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.36%) Trello
7 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.43%) Changepoint
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.36%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.36%) Maximo
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
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
4 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 47 (16.79%) Azure
2 25 (8.93%) SaaS
3 21 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.43%) AWS
5 15 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.57%) Smartsheet
8 9 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (3.21%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.14%) GCP
10 5 (1.79%) Asana
10 5 (1.79%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.43%) GitHub
12 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.71%) AWS KMS
13 2 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (0.71%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) Firewall
2 8 (2.86%) Network Security
3 5 (1.79%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.79%) LAN
3 5 (1.79%) WAN
4 4 (1.43%) 4G
4 4 (1.43%) 5G
5 3 (1.07%) Internet
5 3 (1.07%) VoLTE
5 3 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.71%) BGP
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.71%) MPLS
6 2 (0.71%) NAS
6 2 (0.71%) SAN
6 2 (0.71%) SSL
6 2 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.71%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.57%) Power BI
2 7 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.71%) Metadata
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (55.36%) Finance
2 135 (48.21%) Social Skills
3 51 (18.21%) Banking
4 34 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
6 23 (8.21%) Marketing
7 18 (6.43%) Retail
8 17 (6.07%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (5.71%) Legal
10 14 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (4.29%) Manufacturing
11 12 (4.29%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.93%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.86%) Investment Banking
14 7 (2.50%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.79%) Front Office
15 5 (1.79%) Law
15 5 (1.79%) Public Sector
16 4 (1.43%) International Banking
17 3 (1.07%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 152 (54.29%) Project Manager
2 31 (11.07%) Senior
3 29 (10.36%) IT Manager
4 26 (9.29%) Programme Manager
5 25 (8.93%) Senior Manager
6 24 (8.57%) Technical Manager
7 23 (8.21%) IT Project Manager
7 23 (8.21%) Lead
8 19 (6.79%) Senior Project Manager
9 18 (6.43%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (5.36%) Analyst
11 14 (5.00%) Technical Project Manager
12 13 (4.64%) Business Analyst
13 12 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
14 11 (3.93%) Transformation Manager
15 10 (3.57%) Bid Manager
15 10 (3.57%) Transformation Project Manager
16 9 (3.21%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 8 (2.86%) Business Manager
17 8 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.14%) REST
2 4 (1.43%) SailPoint
2 4 (1.43%) SOAP
2 4 (1.43%) Web Services
3 2 (0.71%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) ADO
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.79%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.71%) PMI
4 14 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.64%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.21%) Virtual Team
8 8 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.14%) CMDB
9 6 (2.14%) IoT
9 6 (2.14%) Life Science
10 5 (1.79%) FMCG
11 4 (1.43%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.07%) AS400
12 3 (1.07%) CCTV
12 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (0.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (78.93%) PRINCE2
2 192 (68.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 176 (62.86%) Project Management
4 161 (57.50%) Agile
5 99 (35.36%) Project Delivery
6 81 (28.93%) Change Management
7 58 (20.71%) Programme Management
8 57 (20.36%) Migration
8 57 (20.36%) Roadmaps
8 57 (20.36%) Scrum
9 56 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 50 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 49 (17.50%) Budget Management
12 44 (15.71%) Waterfall
13 38 (13.57%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (13.57%) Risk Management
14 37 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (12.14%) Change Control
15 34 (12.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (2.50%) SQL
2 3 (1.07%) COBOL
2 3 (1.07%) Python
2 3 (1.07%) RPG
3 1 (0.36%) Bash
3 1 (0.36%) C#
3 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 227 (81.07%) PMI Certification
2 71 (25.36%) Degree
3 35 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 26 (9.29%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.64%) CISSP
5 13 (4.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 12 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.57%) CISM
8 8 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.43%) CAPM
11 4 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (1.07%) APMP
12 3 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.14%) PMO
2 18 (6.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 16 (5.71%) GDPR
4 15 (5.36%) QA
5 12 (4.29%) NIST
6 11 (3.93%) P3O
7 9 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.50%) GRC
9 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.79%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.79%) SLA
11 4 (1.43%) SOC 2
12 3 (1.07%) GMP
12 3 (1.07%) GxP
12 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
12 3 (1.07%) SEPA
12 3 (1.07%) TARGET2
13 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.71%) ITGC
System Software
1 17 (6.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.71%) RSA Archer
1 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.21%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.00%) Planview
4 10 (3.57%) SAP
5 9 (3.21%) Oracle
6 5 (1.79%) VMware
6 5 (1.79%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.43%) Cisco
7 4 (1.43%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.43%) Google
7 4 (1.43%) IBM
7 4 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.43%) UiPath
8 3 (1.07%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.07%) Murex
9 2 (0.71%) Databricks
9 2 (0.71%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.36%) Charles River
10 1 (0.36%) NEC
10 1 (0.36%) Remedy