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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 206 266
Rank change year-on-year -6 +60 +83
Contract jobs citing PMP 276 175 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.36% 1.30% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.84% 4.92% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 120 73
10th Percentile £406 £399 £415
25th Percentile £440 £461 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £644 £713 £688
90th Percentile £732 £791 £748
England median daily rate £542 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.74% +4.55% +3.29%
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 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +33.33%

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 5,697 3,554 3,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.14% 26.41% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,102 2,391 2,592
10th Percentile £369 £356 £350
25th Percentile £456 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £763
England median daily rate £528 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 55
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £26.25 - £23.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -24.93% -37.09%
75th Percentile £78.75 £37.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £98.63 £65.00 £66.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -53.43% -

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 September 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 September 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 0 53 £535 -7.04% 34
West London -14 14 £680 +34.32% 8
East London - 1 - - 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 12 (4.35%) Confluence
2 9 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.17%) CMS
4 5 (1.81%) IIS
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 30 (10.87%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.81%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.36%) Trello
7 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.45%) Changepoint
3 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) DELMIA
4 1 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.36%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.36%) Maximo
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.36%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.67%) Azure
2 25 (9.06%) SaaS
3 21 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.52%) AWS
5 14 (5.07%) Entra ID
5 14 (5.07%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.99%) Smartsheet
7 10 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.90%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.17%) GCP
11 5 (1.81%) Asana
11 5 (1.81%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.45%) GitHub
13 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (0.72%) AWS KMS
14 2 (0.72%) Azure Key Vault
14 2 (0.72%) Google Workspace
14 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.62%) Firewall
2 8 (2.90%) Network Security
3 5 (1.81%) HTTPS
3 5 (1.81%) LAN
3 5 (1.81%) WAN
4 4 (1.45%) 4G
4 4 (1.45%) 5G
5 3 (1.09%) Internet
5 3 (1.09%) VoLTE
5 3 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.72%) BGP
6 2 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.72%) MPLS
6 2 (0.72%) NAS
6 2 (0.72%) SAN
6 2 (0.72%) SSL
6 2 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.72%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.26%) Power BI
2 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.72%) Metadata
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.36%) Big Data
4 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 29 (10.51%) JIRA
2 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (54.71%) Finance
2 133 (48.19%) Social Skills
3 49 (17.75%) Banking
4 33 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (7.97%) Marketing
7 18 (6.52%) Retail
8 17 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (5.80%) Legal
10 13 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (4.35%) Manufacturing
11 12 (4.35%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (2.54%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.54%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.81%) Front Office
14 5 (1.81%) Law
14 5 (1.81%) Public Sector
15 4 (1.45%) International Banking
16 3 (1.09%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 153 (55.43%) Project Manager
2 30 (10.87%) Senior
3 29 (10.51%) IT Manager
4 25 (9.06%) Programme Manager
4 25 (9.06%) Senior Manager
5 23 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
5 23 (8.33%) Lead
5 23 (8.33%) Technical Manager
6 19 (6.88%) Senior Project Manager
7 18 (6.52%) Delivery Manager
8 15 (5.43%) Analyst
9 14 (5.07%) Technical Project Manager
10 13 (4.71%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
12 11 (3.99%) Transformation Manager
13 10 (3.62%) Bid Manager
13 10 (3.62%) Transformation Project Manager
14 9 (3.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
15 8 (2.90%) Business Manager
15 8 (2.90%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.17%) REST
2 4 (1.45%) SailPoint
3 3 (1.09%) SOAP
3 3 (1.09%) Web Services
4 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) ADO
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.88%) Onboarding
2 18 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.43%) PMI
4 14 (5.07%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.71%) Operational Technology
6 10 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.90%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.17%) CMDB
8 6 (2.17%) IoT
8 6 (2.17%) Life Science
9 5 (1.81%) FMCG
10 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.09%) CCTV
11 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 2 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.62%) Windows
2 2 (0.72%) Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (79.35%) PRINCE2
2 188 (68.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 174 (63.04%) Project Management
4 157 (56.88%) Agile
5 98 (35.51%) Project Delivery
6 80 (28.99%) Change Management
7 57 (20.65%) Migration
7 57 (20.65%) Programme Management
8 56 (20.29%) Decision-Making
8 56 (20.29%) Roadmaps
9 54 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (19.57%) Scrum
10 50 (18.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 48 (17.39%) Budget Management
12 43 (15.58%) Waterfall
13 38 (13.77%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (13.77%) Risk Management
14 37 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (12.32%) ITIL
16 33 (11.96%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.17%) SQL
2 3 (1.09%) Python
3 2 (0.72%) COBOL
3 2 (0.72%) RPG
4 1 (0.36%) Bash
4 1 (0.36%) C#
4 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 224 (81.16%) PMI Certification
2 70 (25.36%) Degree
3 35 (12.68%) Security Cleared
4 26 (9.42%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.71%) CISSP
5 13 (4.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 12 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.62%) CISM
8 8 (2.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 7 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.81%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.45%) CAPM
11 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.45%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.09%) APMP
12 3 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.72%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.68%) PMO
2 18 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.80%) GDPR
4 15 (5.43%) Data Quality
5 14 (5.07%) QA
6 12 (4.35%) NIST
7 11 (3.99%) P3O
8 9 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (2.54%) GRC
10 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.81%) HIPAA
12 4 (1.45%) SLA
12 4 (1.45%) SOC 2
13 3 (1.09%) GMP
13 3 (1.09%) GxP
13 3 (1.09%) ISO 20022
13 3 (1.09%) SEPA
13 3 (1.09%) TARGET2
14 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.72%) ITGC
System Software
1 17 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.72%) RSA Archer
1 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.71%) Planview
4 10 (3.62%) SAP
5 9 (3.26%) Oracle
6 5 (1.81%) VMware
6 5 (1.81%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.45%) Cisco
7 4 (1.45%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.45%) Google
7 4 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.09%) IBM
8 3 (1.09%) Murex
8 3 (1.09%) UiPath
9 2 (0.72%) Databricks
9 2 (0.72%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.36%) Charles River
10 1 (0.36%) NEC
10 1 (0.36%) Remedy