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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 195 274
Rank change year-on-year -21 +79 +81
Contract jobs citing PMP 252 180 122
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.26% 1.35% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.50% 5.11% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 121 70
10th Percentile £415 £400 £399
25th Percentile £440 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £650 £713 £633
90th Percentile £739 £788 £733
England median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 £72.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +10.34% +7.41% +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 5,600 3,521 3,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.89% 26.33% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,021 2,377 2,699
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £439
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 £738 £748 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 83 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.83 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.09 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £73.19 £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 26 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 26 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 -2 47 £580 +10.48% 27
West London -6 13 £550 +7.32% 7
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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 6 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.98%) IIS
4 4 (1.59%) CMS
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 27 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.79%) Trello
7 1 (0.40%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.19%) Changepoint
2 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.79%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.40%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.40%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.40%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.06%) Azure
2 24 (9.52%) SaaS
3 22 (8.73%) AWS
4 16 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.16%) Smartsheet
7 10 (3.97%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.98%) Asana
9 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.98%) GCP
9 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.98%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.59%) GitHub
11 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.79%) AWS KMS
12 2 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.38%) Network Security
2 5 (1.98%) Firewall
2 5 (1.98%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.59%) LAN
3 4 (1.59%) WAN
4 3 (1.19%) 4G
4 3 (1.19%) 5G
4 3 (1.19%) Internet
4 3 (1.19%) VoLTE
5 2 (0.79%) MPLS
5 2 (0.79%) NAS
5 2 (0.79%) SAN
5 2 (0.79%) SSL
5 2 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.79%) VLAN
5 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.40%) BGP
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.40%) DNS
6 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.98%) Power BI
2 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.40%) Big Data
3 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.40%) GitLab
3 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 134 (53.17%) Finance
2 115 (45.63%) Social Skills
3 41 (16.27%) Banking
4 27 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.52%) Marketing
6 20 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (7.14%) Retail
8 13 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (5.16%) Legal
9 11 (4.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (3.97%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.57%) Financial Institution
12 8 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.78%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
15 4 (1.59%) Law
16 3 (1.19%) Electronics
16 3 (1.19%) Front Office
17 2 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 147 (58.33%) Project Manager
2 30 (11.90%) Senior
3 25 (9.92%) Senior Manager
4 23 (9.13%) IT Manager
4 23 (9.13%) Programme Manager
5 20 (7.94%) Senior Project Manager
5 20 (7.94%) Technical Manager
6 18 (7.14%) IT Project Manager
7 16 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
8 15 (5.95%) Lead
8 15 (5.95%) Technical Project Manager
9 14 (5.56%) Analyst
10 13 (5.16%) Infrastructure Manager
10 13 (5.16%) Transformation Manager
11 12 (4.76%) Business Analyst
12 11 (4.37%) Transformation Project Manager
13 10 (3.97%) Bid Manager
13 10 (3.97%) Infrastructure Project Manager
14 8 (3.17%) Business Manager
14 8 (3.17%) IAM Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.38%) REST
2 5 (1.98%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.40%) ADO
3 1 (0.40%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.14%) PMI
2 15 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.16%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.57%) Operational Technology
4 9 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.38%) Life Science
5 6 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.98%) FMCG
6 5 (1.98%) IoT
7 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.59%) CMDB
8 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.19%) CCTV
8 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (0.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (80.95%) PRINCE2
2 169 (67.06%) Project Management
3 165 (65.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 140 (55.56%) Agile
5 99 (39.29%) Project Delivery
6 69 (27.38%) Change Management
7 53 (21.03%) Decision-Making
7 53 (21.03%) Programme Management
8 50 (19.84%) Migration
9 45 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (17.46%) Roadmaps
10 44 (17.46%) Scrum
11 43 (17.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 38 (15.08%) Budget Management
13 33 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (13.10%) Waterfall
14 32 (12.70%) Risk Management
15 31 (12.30%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (11.11%) ITIL
17 27 (10.71%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.79%) COBOL
1 2 (0.79%) Python
1 2 (0.79%) RPG
1 2 (0.79%) SQL
2 1 (0.40%) Bash
2 1 (0.40%) C#
2 1 (0.40%) Korn
2 1 (0.40%) X++
Qualifications
1 199 (78.97%) PMI Certification
2 55 (21.83%) Degree
3 34 (13.49%) Security Cleared
4 26 (10.32%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.97%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 9 (3.57%) CISSP
8 8 (3.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.38%) CISM
11 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.59%) APMP
12 4 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.79%) CAPM
14 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.29%) PMO
2 16 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.56%) GDPR
4 12 (4.76%) QA
5 11 (4.37%) NIST
6 10 (3.97%) P3O
7 9 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (3.17%) Data Quality
9 7 (2.78%) GRC
10 5 (1.98%) GxP
10 5 (1.98%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.98%) PCI DSS
11 3 (1.19%) GMP
11 3 (1.19%) SLA
12 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 2 (0.79%) ITGC
12 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.59%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.94%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.17%) Oracle
4 7 (2.78%) CyberArk
4 7 (2.78%) Planview
4 7 (2.78%) SAP
5 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.98%) VMware
5 5 (1.98%) Zscaler
6 4 (1.59%) Google
7 3 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (1.19%) Murex
8 2 (0.79%) Cisco
8 2 (0.79%) IBM
8 2 (0.79%) NEC
8 2 (0.79%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.40%) Calypso
9 1 (0.40%) Dell
9 1 (0.40%) Juniper
9 1 (0.40%) Misys