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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 205 288
Rank change year-on-year -15 +83 +77
Contract jobs citing PMP 212 154 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.12% 1.25% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.02% 4.84% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 104 74
10th Percentile £406 £402 £363
25th Percentile £440 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £661 £738 £637
90th Percentile £750 £814 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £531
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -0.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £51.98 - £23.05
25th Percentile £52.69 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.25 £70.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% +171.84% -
75th Percentile £57.69 - £27.06
90th Percentile £58.33 - £27.25
England median hourly rate £76.75 £75.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +2.33% +188.46% -58.40%

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 5,280 3,185 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.92% 25.75% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,788 2,139 2,855
10th Percentile £364 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £735 £750 £765
England median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.75% -2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 67 113
10th Percentile £19.19 £18.51 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.56 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.09% +10.00% -51.69%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.00 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.31 £41.27
% change year-on-year +73.24% -26.56% -24.97%

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 June 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 17 June 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 £700 +10.02% 8
West London -18 5 £680 +37.72% 3
South London -8 2 £500 +17.65% 2
East London - 2 £495 - 1
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 10 (4.72%) Confluence
2 8 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.36%) IIS
4 3 (1.42%) CMS
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.94%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 22 (10.38%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.94%) Trello
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.47%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.42%) DELMIA
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.94%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.47%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.47%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.23%) Azure
2 25 (11.79%) AWS
3 20 (9.43%) SaaS
4 14 (6.60%) Smartsheet
5 13 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.72%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.36%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.42%) Google Ads
10 3 (1.42%) OCI
11 2 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.94%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.94%) Asana
11 2 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.94%) GCP
11 2 (0.94%) IaaS
11 2 (0.94%) PaaS
11 2 (0.94%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.30%) LAN
1 7 (3.30%) WAN
2 5 (2.36%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.89%) Firewall
3 4 (1.89%) Network Security
3 4 (1.89%) VLAN
3 4 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.94%) 4G
4 2 (0.94%) 5G
4 2 (0.94%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.36%) Power BI
2 4 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (10.85%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) GitLab
2 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
General
1 101 (47.64%) Social Skills
2 98 (46.23%) Finance
3 29 (13.68%) Banking
4 27 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.85%) Marketing
5 23 (10.85%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (8.49%) Legal
7 16 (7.55%) Retail
8 13 (6.13%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (3.77%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (3.30%) Investment Banking
11 7 (3.30%) Manufacturing
11 7 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.89%) Front Office
12 4 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.42%) Advertising
13 3 (1.42%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 140 (66.04%) Project Manager
2 25 (11.79%) Lead
3 24 (11.32%) Senior
4 21 (9.91%) Senior Manager
5 18 (8.49%) Senior Project Manager
5 18 (8.49%) Technical Manager
6 17 (8.02%) Technical Project Manager
7 16 (7.55%) IT Manager
7 16 (7.55%) IT Project Manager
7 16 (7.55%) Programme Manager
8 12 (5.66%) Infrastructure Manager
8 12 (5.66%) Migration Manager
8 12 (5.66%) Migration Project Manager
9 11 (5.19%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (5.19%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 10 (4.72%) Transformation Manager
11 9 (4.25%) Transformation Project Manager
12 8 (3.77%) B2B Sales Manager
12 8 (3.77%) Banking Project Manager
12 8 (3.77%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.30%) REST
2 6 (2.83%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.89%) ADO
3 4 (1.89%) Middleware
3 4 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.94%) SOAP
4 2 (0.94%) XML
4 2 (0.94%) XML Messaging
5 1 (0.47%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.43%) PMI
2 12 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.36%) Life Science
4 5 (2.36%) Operational Technology
4 5 (2.36%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.89%) CMDB
6 3 (1.42%) CCTV
6 3 (1.42%) FMCG
6 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (0.94%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.94%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.94%) IoT
7 2 (0.94%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) CBDC
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.72%) Windows
2 2 (0.94%) Linux
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (74.06%) PRINCE2
2 150 (70.75%) Project Management
3 129 (60.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 117 (55.19%) Agile
5 90 (42.45%) Project Delivery
6 55 (25.94%) Change Management
7 49 (23.11%) Decision-Making
7 49 (23.11%) Migration
8 47 (22.17%) Programme Management
9 34 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (14.15%) Scrum
12 28 (13.21%) Matrix Organization
13 27 (12.74%) DevOps
13 27 (12.74%) Project Governance
13 27 (12.74%) Risk Management
13 27 (12.74%) Waterfall
14 23 (10.85%) Roadmaps
14 23 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (9.91%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (4.25%) SQL
2 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
3 1 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 168 (79.25%) PMI Certification
2 48 (22.64%) Degree
3 23 (10.85%) Security Cleared
4 17 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.66%) APMP
6 11 (5.19%) CISSP
7 8 (3.77%) CISM
8 7 (3.30%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.83%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.83%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (2.36%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.89%) CRISC
11 4 (1.89%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (1.42%) CAPM
12 3 (1.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.94%) Project+ Certification
13 2 (0.94%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.09%) PMO
2 26 (12.26%) GDPR
3 21 (9.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (8.49%) QA
5 17 (8.02%) NIST
6 11 (5.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (2.83%) GRC
8 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
8 5 (2.36%) GxP
8 5 (2.36%) HIPAA
8 5 (2.36%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.89%) Basel III
10 3 (1.42%) GAAP
10 3 (1.42%) IFRS
10 3 (1.42%) IFRS 9
10 3 (1.42%) P3O
11 2 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.94%) GMP
11 2 (0.94%) SLA
11 2 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.89%) RSA Archer
2 2 (0.94%) Control-M
2 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 15 (7.08%) SAP
4 12 (5.66%) CyberArk
4 12 (5.66%) Oracle
5 8 (3.77%) Workday
6 6 (2.83%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.36%) Cisco
8 4 (1.89%) Okta
9 3 (1.42%) Informatica
9 3 (1.42%) VMware
10 2 (0.94%) Murex
10 2 (0.94%) NEC
10 2 (0.94%) Remedy
10 2 (0.94%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.94%) Splunk
10 2 (0.94%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.47%) Adaptive Insights
11 1 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.47%) Wrike