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 28 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 191 265
Rank change year-on-year -24 +74 +87
Contract jobs citing PMP 255 177 120
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.32% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.53% 5.03% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 118 69
10th Percentile £408 £397 £399
25th Percentile £440 £458 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -0.47%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £638
90th Percentile £749 £799 £733
England median daily rate £542 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -5.74% +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 £67.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +18.52% - +25.58%

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 5,626 3,521 3,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.92% 26.34% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 2,372 2,702
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £429 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £737 £740 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 83 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.83 £17.88
25th Percentile £26.00 £25.09 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.25 £46.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.70
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +108.75% -48.21% -11.71%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -5 47 £560 +3.23% 31
West London -10 14 £550 +7.32% 9
East London - 1 - - 5
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 (2.75%) Confluence
1 7 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.96%) IIS
3 4 (1.57%) CMS
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 28 (10.98%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.78%) Trello
7 1 (0.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.18%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.78%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.39%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
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 (17.25%) Azure
2 25 (9.80%) SaaS
3 22 (8.63%) AWS
4 17 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.49%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.10%) Smartsheet
7 10 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.35%) Asana
9 6 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.96%) GCP
10 5 (1.96%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.96%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.57%) GitHub
12 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.78%) AWS KMS
13 2 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.92%) Firewall
2 8 (3.14%) Network Security
3 5 (1.96%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.96%) LAN
3 5 (1.96%) WAN
4 4 (1.57%) 4G
4 4 (1.57%) 5G
5 3 (1.18%) Internet
5 3 (1.18%) VoLTE
5 3 (1.18%) 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 (1.96%) 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 24 (9.41%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 134 (52.55%) Finance
2 120 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 40 (15.69%) Banking
4 26 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.41%) Marketing
6 18 (7.06%) Retail
7 17 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (5.10%) Legal
9 11 (4.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (4.31%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.14%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.75%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.57%) Front Office
13 4 (1.57%) Law
13 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.18%) Electronics
15 2 (0.78%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (58.82%) Project Manager
2 29 (11.37%) Senior
3 24 (9.41%) IT Manager
3 24 (9.41%) Senior Manager
4 23 (9.02%) Programme Manager
5 20 (7.84%) Technical Manager
6 19 (7.45%) IT Project Manager
6 19 (7.45%) Senior Project Manager
7 16 (6.27%) Delivery Manager
8 15 (5.88%) Lead
8 15 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
9 14 (5.49%) Analyst
9 14 (5.49%) Infrastructure Manager
9 14 (5.49%) Transformation Manager
10 12 (4.71%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.71%) Transformation Project Manager
11 11 (4.31%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 10 (3.92%) Bid Manager
13 8 (3.14%) Business Manager
14 7 (2.75%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.35%) REST
2 4 (1.57%) 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 (7.06%) Onboarding
1 18 (7.06%) PMI
2 14 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.92%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.35%) Life Science
5 6 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.96%) FMCG
6 5 (1.96%) IoT
7 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.57%) CMDB
8 3 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.18%) CCTV
8 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.92%) Windows
2 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (81.57%) PRINCE2
2 170 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 167 (65.49%) Project Management
4 142 (55.69%) Agile
5 97 (38.04%) Project Delivery
6 72 (28.24%) Change Management
7 54 (21.18%) Programme Management
8 53 (20.78%) Decision-Making
8 53 (20.78%) Migration
9 45 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 44 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (17.25%) Roadmaps
11 42 (16.47%) Scrum
12 41 (16.08%) Budget Management
13 35 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (13.73%) Risk Management
14 34 (13.33%) Waterfall
15 33 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (11.76%) ITIL
17 27 (10.59%) Matrix Organization
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%) Korn
2 1 (0.39%) X++
Qualifications
1 204 (80.00%) PMI Certification
2 58 (22.75%) Degree
3 35 (13.73%) Security Cleared
4 27 (10.59%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 10 (3.92%) CISSP
8 8 (3.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.75%) CISM
9 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.57%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.18%) APMP
12 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.78%) MBA
13 2 (0.78%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.94%) PMO
2 16 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.10%) GDPR
4 11 (4.31%) NIST
4 11 (4.31%) QA
5 10 (3.92%) P3O
6 9 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (3.14%) Data Quality
8 7 (2.75%) GRC
9 6 (2.35%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.96%) GxP
10 5 (1.96%) HIPAA
11 3 (1.18%) GMP
11 3 (1.18%) SLA
12 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.78%) ITGC
12 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.18%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (18.43%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.06%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.14%) Oracle
4 7 (2.75%) Planview
4 7 (2.75%) SAP
5 6 (2.35%) CyberArk
6 5 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.96%) VMware
6 5 (1.96%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.57%) Cisco
7 4 (1.57%) Google
8 3 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.18%) 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