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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 253 336
Rank change year-on-year +42 +83 +41
Contract jobs citing PMP 165 125 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.23% 0.78% 0.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.60% 3.10% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 74 75
10th Percentile £415 £416 £355
25th Percentile £500 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +3.29% +0.47%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £619
90th Percentile £803 £784 £778
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £73.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.47% +40.48% -1.41%

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 3,590 4,031 4,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.79% 25.20% 22.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,431 2,569 3,301
10th Percentile £358 £350 £355
25th Percentile £441 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 62 95
10th Percentile £18.93 £18.13 £19.10
25th Percentile - £27.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.25 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.92% -27.31% +13.68%
75th Percentile £37.68 £59.38 £65.05
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.13 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.58
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.02% +19.07%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 2025. 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 -2 23 £606 +7.06% 25
West London 0 5 £500 - 4
South London - 1 £425 - 2
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 (8.48%) Confluence
2 12 (7.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 31 (18.79%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (4.24%) Trello
5 2 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.42%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.82%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.82%) SAP IBP
3 3 (1.82%) Workfront
4 2 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.21%) ResourceLink
4 2 (1.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.61%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.61%) SAP R/3
5 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.52%) Azure
2 10 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.85%) AWS
5 7 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.64%) SaaS
6 6 (3.64%) Smartsheet
7 5 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.03%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.82%) Asana
8 3 (1.82%) GCP
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.21%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.21%) Google Drive
9 2 (1.21%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.61%) dbt
10 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) Firewall
2 3 (1.82%) Network Security
3 2 (1.21%) DNS
3 2 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.61%) 4G
4 1 (0.61%) 5G
4 1 (0.61%) DHCP
4 1 (0.61%) Intranet
4 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.61%) LTE
4 1 (0.61%) PPP
4 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.61%) TETRA
4 1 (0.61%) VPN
4 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) Power BI
2 5 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.21%) Tableau
5 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (21.21%) JIRA
General
1 99 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 91 (55.15%) Finance
3 36 (21.82%) Banking
4 24 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.70%) Legal
6 13 (7.88%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (7.27%) Investment Banking
8 11 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.85%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.24%) Marketing
10 7 (4.24%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (3.64%) Retail
12 4 (2.42%) Front Office
12 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.42%) Law
13 3 (1.82%) Back Office
13 3 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.82%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.21%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 96 (58.18%) Project Manager
2 17 (10.30%) Senior
3 15 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 13 (7.88%) Lead
5 12 (7.27%) IT Manager
6 10 (6.06%) Transformation Manager
7 9 (5.45%) Analyst
7 9 (5.45%) Senior Project Manager
7 9 (5.45%) Transformation Project Manager
8 8 (4.85%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (4.85%) Digital Project Manager
8 8 (4.85%) Programme Manager
8 8 (4.85%) SAP Manager
9 7 (4.24%) Banking Project Manager
9 7 (4.24%) IT Project Manager
9 7 (4.24%) SAP Project Manager
10 6 (3.64%) Digital Transformation
10 6 (3.64%) Digital Transformation Manager
10 6 (3.64%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (3.64%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.21%) Middleware
1 2 (1.21%) XML
2 1 (0.61%) .NET
2 1 (0.61%) ADO
2 1 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.61%) Kafka
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) PMI
2 6 (3.64%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.03%) Life Science
4 3 (1.82%) Derivative
4 3 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.82%) Reinsurance
4 3 (1.82%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.21%) DTCC
5 2 (1.21%) Equities
5 2 (1.21%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.21%) FMCG
5 2 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.21%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.21%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (1.21%) Linux
2 2 (1.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (76.97%) Project Management
2 116 (70.30%) PRINCE2
3 101 (61.21%) Agile
4 77 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 43 (26.06%) Project Delivery
7 42 (25.45%) Change Management
7 42 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (23.64%) Risk Management
9 37 (22.42%) Migration
10 35 (21.21%) Waterfall
11 32 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (18.79%) Programme Management
13 26 (15.76%) Scrum
14 23 (13.94%) Resource Allocation
15 22 (13.33%) Decision-Making
16 21 (12.73%) Budget Management
17 20 (12.12%) Matrix Organization
17 20 (12.12%) Project Governance
18 15 (9.09%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.42%) SQL
2 2 (1.21%) Korn
2 2 (1.21%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.21%) Python
3 1 (0.61%) C++
3 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 143 (86.67%) PMI Certification
2 74 (44.85%) Degree
3 14 (8.48%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.85%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.82%) CISM
7 3 (1.82%) CISSP
8 2 (1.21%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.21%) CAPM
8 2 (1.21%) CRISC
8 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.21%) IIBA
8 2 (1.21%) MBA
8 2 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.61%) APMG
9 1 (0.61%) CBAP
9 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.61%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.33%) PMO
2 12 (7.27%) QA
3 9 (5.45%) GDPR
4 6 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.42%) GMP
5 4 (2.42%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.42%) NIST
5 4 (2.42%) SLA
6 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.82%) MiFID
6 3 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.21%) Basel III
7 2 (1.21%) EMIR
8 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.61%) FINRA
8 1 (0.61%) P3O
8 1 (0.61%) PMBOK
System Software
1 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.91%) SAP
3 7 (4.24%) Oracle
3 7 (4.24%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.64%) Planview
5 4 (2.42%) Databricks
6 3 (1.82%) Adobe
6 3 (1.82%) Workday
7 2 (1.21%) Calypso
7 2 (1.21%) Google
7 2 (1.21%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.21%) Murex
7 2 (1.21%) UiPath
8 1 (0.61%) AlgoSec
8 1 (0.61%) Ariba
8 1 (0.61%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.61%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.61%) IFS
8 1 (0.61%) NEC