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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 205 263
Rank change year-on-year -2 +58 +71
Contract jobs citing PMP 260 170 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.29% 1.26% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.66% 4.82% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 113 64
10th Percentile £414 £384 £404
25th Percentile £443 £456 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -0.94%
75th Percentile £658 £713 £616
90th Percentile £745 £783 £736
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 £83.00 £75.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +10.67% +11.11% +14.89%

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 5,585 3,525 3,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.80% 26.18% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,027 2,368 2,683
10th Percentile £374 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 88 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.57 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.81 £25.12 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £40.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.60
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -47.05% -13.64%

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 18 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 18 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 +9 47 £625 +19.05% 23
West London -11 12 £550 +7.32% 4
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 8 (3.08%) Confluence
2 7 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.92%) IIS
4 4 (1.54%) CMS
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 28 (10.77%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.54%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.77%) Trello
7 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.15%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.77%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.38%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.38%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.38%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.38%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 48 (18.46%) Azure
2 24 (9.23%) AWS
2 24 (9.23%) SaaS
3 17 (6.54%) Entra ID
4 16 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.38%) Smartsheet
6 10 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.92%) Asana
8 5 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.92%) GCP
8 5 (1.92%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.92%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.15%) GitHub
9 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.77%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.77%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.08%) Network Security
2 5 (1.92%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.54%) Firewall
3 4 (1.54%) LAN
3 4 (1.54%) WAN
4 3 (1.15%) 4G
4 3 (1.15%) 5G
4 3 (1.15%) Internet
4 3 (1.15%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.77%) SSL
5 2 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.77%) VLAN
5 2 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) MPLS
6 1 (0.38%) NAS
6 1 (0.38%) SAN
6 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.92%) Power BI
2 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.38%) Big Data
3 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (9.62%) JIRA
2 2 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 138 (53.08%) Finance
2 114 (43.85%) Social Skills
3 43 (16.54%) Banking
4 28 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.62%) Marketing
6 22 (8.46%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (6.92%) Retail
8 16 (6.15%) Legal
9 11 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.46%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.46%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.31%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.92%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.54%) Front Office
15 3 (1.15%) Electronics
15 3 (1.15%) Law
16 2 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 158 (60.77%) Project Manager
2 33 (12.69%) Senior
3 28 (10.77%) Senior Manager
4 23 (8.85%) IT Manager
4 23 (8.85%) Programme Manager
4 23 (8.85%) Senior Project Manager
5 21 (8.08%) Technical Manager
6 19 (7.31%) IT Project Manager
7 16 (6.15%) Delivery Manager
7 16 (6.15%) Technical Project Manager
8 15 (5.77%) Lead
9 14 (5.38%) Analyst
9 14 (5.38%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (5.00%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.62%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.62%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 11 (4.23%) IAM Project Manager
12 11 (4.23%) Transformation Project Manager
13 10 (3.85%) Bid Manager
14 8 (3.08%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.46%) SailPoint
2 6 (2.31%) REST
3 1 (0.38%) ADO
3 1 (0.38%) Middleware
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.69%) PMI
2 15 (5.77%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.46%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.08%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.31%) Life Science
8 5 (1.92%) CMDB
8 5 (1.92%) FMCG
8 5 (1.92%) IoT
9 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.15%) CCTV
10 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.15%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
11 2 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.77%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (79.23%) PRINCE2
2 180 (69.23%) Project Management
3 166 (63.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 147 (56.54%) Agile
5 99 (38.08%) Project Delivery
6 68 (26.15%) Change Management
7 55 (21.15%) Decision-Making
8 53 (20.38%) Programme Management
9 52 (20.00%) Migration
10 48 (18.46%) Scrum
11 45 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 41 (15.77%) Roadmaps
14 38 (14.62%) Budget Management
15 37 (14.23%) Waterfall
16 33 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (12.69%) Risk Management
17 29 (11.15%) Matrix Organization
18 28 (10.77%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.77%) COBOL
1 2 (0.77%) RPG
1 2 (0.77%) SQL
2 1 (0.38%) C#
2 1 (0.38%) Korn
2 1 (0.38%) Python
2 1 (0.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 206 (79.23%) PMI Certification
2 57 (21.92%) Degree
3 34 (13.08%) Security Cleared
4 26 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.62%) CISSP
5 12 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 8 (3.08%) CISM
8 7 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.54%) APMP
10 4 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.77%) CAPM
12 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.62%) PMO
2 18 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.54%) GDPR
4 13 (5.00%) NIST
5 12 (4.62%) QA
6 10 (3.85%) P3O
6 10 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (3.08%) Data Quality
8 7 (2.69%) GRC
9 5 (1.92%) GxP
9 5 (1.92%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
10 4 (1.54%) SLA
11 3 (1.15%) GMP
11 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.77%) ITGC
13 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 19 (7.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.54%) RSA Archer
1 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.31%) ServiceNow
3 10 (3.85%) CyberArk
4 8 (3.08%) Oracle
5 7 (2.69%) Planview
5 7 (2.69%) SAP
6 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.92%) VMware
6 5 (1.92%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.54%) Cisco
7 4 (1.54%) Google
7 4 (1.54%) Okta
8 3 (1.15%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.15%) Murex
9 2 (0.77%) IBM
9 2 (0.77%) NEC
9 2 (0.77%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.77%) Splunk
10 1 (0.38%) Calypso
10 1 (0.38%) Misys