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 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 208 284
Rank change year-on-year -7 +76 +82
Contract jobs citing PMP 199 146 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.18% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.93% 4.55% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 96 77
10th Percentile £410 £363 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £741 £643
90th Percentile £743 £825 £745
England median daily rate £534 £530 £544
% change year-on-year +0.81% -2.53% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £23.05
25th Percentile - - £23.75
Median hourly rate - - £25.75
75th Percentile - - £27.06
90th Percentile - - £27.25
England median hourly rate £81.25 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +188.46% -51.63%

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 5,062 3,209 4,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.12% 25.90% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,626 2,152 2,824
10th Percentile £363 £355 £325
25th Percentile £446 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.15% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £740 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 59 108
10th Percentile £22.48 £18.39 £14.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £23.47 £19.98
Median hourly rate £55.00 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.20% +16.28% -40.83%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.68 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.54 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.85% - -23.81%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -12 39 £675 +6.30% 9
West London -24 4 £615 +29.47% 3
South London - 3 £500 - 2
East London - 2 £495 -
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 (3.52%) Confluence
2 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.51%) IIS
4 2 (1.01%) CMS
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.01%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.50%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 20 (10.05%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.01%) Trello
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.50%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.51%) DELMIA
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.01%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.50%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.11%) Azure
2 25 (12.56%) AWS
3 21 (10.55%) SaaS
4 14 (7.04%) Smartsheet
5 10 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.52%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.51%) OCI
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.01%) Asana
10 2 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.01%) GCP
10 2 (1.01%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.01%) IaaS
10 2 (1.01%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.01%) PaaS
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) WAN
2 6 (3.02%) LAN
3 5 (2.51%) Network Security
4 4 (2.01%) VLAN
4 4 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.51%) Firewall
5 3 (1.51%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.50%) DNS
7 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (3.02%) Power BI
2 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.01%) Star Schema
3 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (10.05%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) GitLab
2 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
General
1 91 (45.73%) Social Skills
2 88 (44.22%) Finance
3 29 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.57%) Banking
4 23 (11.56%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (10.55%) Marketing
6 20 (10.05%) Legal
7 15 (7.54%) Retail
8 13 (6.53%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.52%) Financial Institution
10 8 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (4.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (3.52%) Investment Banking
11 7 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.01%) Front Office
14 3 (1.51%) Advertising
14 3 (1.51%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 134 (67.34%) Project Manager
2 25 (12.56%) Lead
3 22 (11.06%) Senior
4 19 (9.55%) IT Manager
4 19 (9.55%) IT Project Manager
4 19 (9.55%) Senior Manager
5 18 (9.05%) Senior Project Manager
6 17 (8.54%) Technical Manager
7 15 (7.54%) Technical Project Manager
8 14 (7.04%) Migration Manager
9 13 (6.53%) Infrastructure Manager
9 13 (6.53%) Migration Project Manager
10 11 (5.53%) Infrastructure Project Manager
11 10 (5.03%) Programme Manager
11 10 (5.03%) Transformation Manager
12 9 (4.52%) Transformation Project Manager
13 8 (4.02%) Analyst
13 8 (4.02%) Business Analyst
13 8 (4.02%) PMO Lead
13 8 (4.02%) Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.51%) REST
1 5 (2.51%) SailPoint
2 4 (2.01%) ADO
2 4 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.51%) Middleware
4 2 (1.01%) SOAP
4 2 (1.01%) XML
4 2 (1.01%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.50%) .NET
5 1 (0.50%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) PMI
2 9 (4.52%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.02%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.51%) Life Science
4 5 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.51%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.51%) CCTV
6 3 (1.51%) CMDB
6 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.51%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.01%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.01%) Derivative
8 1 (0.50%) CBDC
8 1 (0.50%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.50%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.01%) Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (73.87%) Project Management
2 146 (73.37%) PRINCE2
3 114 (57.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 113 (56.78%) Agile
5 79 (39.70%) Project Delivery
6 48 (24.12%) Migration
7 44 (22.11%) Decision-Making
8 43 (21.61%) Change Management
9 42 (21.11%) Programme Management
10 33 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (16.08%) Scrum
12 29 (14.57%) Project Governance
12 29 (14.57%) Risk Management
13 26 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (12.56%) Matrix Organization
15 24 (12.06%) Waterfall
16 23 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (10.55%) DevOps
17 21 (10.55%) Validation
18 19 (9.55%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.52%) SQL
2 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.50%) Java
3 1 (0.50%) Korn
3 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 157 (78.89%) PMI Certification
2 47 (23.62%) Degree
3 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 16 (8.04%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.03%) APMP
6 8 (4.02%) CISSP
7 7 (3.52%) CISM
7 7 (3.52%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.02%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.01%) CRISC
10 4 (2.01%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.51%) CCNA
11 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 2 (1.01%) Project+ Certification
12 2 (1.01%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.59%) PMO
2 27 (13.57%) GDPR
3 20 (10.05%) QA
4 19 (9.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (8.54%) NIST
6 10 (5.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.51%) GxP
8 4 (2.01%) Basel III
9 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.51%) GAAP
9 3 (1.51%) GRC
9 3 (1.51%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.51%) IFRS
9 3 (1.51%) IFRS 9
9 3 (1.51%) P3O
9 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.01%) GMP
10 2 (1.01%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.51%) RSA Archer
2 2 (1.01%) Control-M
2 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.54%) CyberArk
3 13 (6.53%) Oracle
3 13 (6.53%) SAP
3 13 (6.53%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.03%) Workday
5 6 (3.02%) Cisco
5 6 (3.02%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.01%) Okta
7 3 (1.51%) Informatica
8 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.01%) NEC
8 2 (1.01%) Remedy
8 2 (1.01%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.01%) Splunk
8 2 (1.01%) VMware
8 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.50%) FIS
9 1 (0.50%) Tenable